The "Hotel" in the name here is currently misleading - the hotel accommodation has been converted to a "Family Hub" for emergency accommodation. A number of smaller Dublin hotel have changed to this in recent years; but the Abberley is the only one that has retained its bar facilities.
These are still operating as before, although the nightclub section is gone, permanently, having been converted to more bedrooms.
The remaining pub is a fairly standard larger outer suburban pub; newer than most of the others of that scale that are relics of the old licencing structure but strikingly similar in how it operates. Large bar, uncountable number of TVs showing multiple sports channels at the same times and toilets big enough to let the entire pub in at half-time in a big game.
As an aside, I worked in or near Tallaght for a fairly long time a this was the usual planned location for planned "after work drinks" back then, but they rarely happened - or made if further than S1593 Cuckoos Nest (when in Airton) or S3757 Browns Bar (Citywest era) both of which have since closed! That a similar fate has also befallen the pub underneath the previous offices of that company (S4517 Bennigans in Parkwest) may be an omen of sorts, or just a direct consequence of pubs in/near business parks not really working anymore.
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