1000937 The Bridge Tavern

I visited a number of pubs that get incredibly busy on matchdays due to their proximity to Croke Park - the next few posts will cover the lot of them. This was the only one that felt like it probably had a solid locals trade to cover the rest of the year.

Its relatively big for a pub in the area - the low building its in may make it look tiny, but there's a normal enough bar and a decent sized lounge out the back. The entire external wall area of the pub has been used as a canvas for a Dublin GAA mural and makes it one of the more frequently photographed pubs in the area - my attempt to show that the mural had been updated to add the Ladies team only managed to catch the different script and not the different design to the players heads though!

The lounge in particularly is decorated with memorabilia of local sporting achievements - I noticed more boxing than anything else. This is in stark contrast to some of the barely decorated pubs that will be written up in the next few days. There's comfortable enough seating (again, the others don't have this) and it all adds up to a proper community feeling (again...)

They've Dyson dryers in the toilets. Which is a bit of an oddity for a relatively rough and ready pub, and probably not worth mentioning - but it did stand out.