Rody Bolands is a huge pub, oddly large for an area with quite a decent number of places to go for a pint, and operates as one of two late bars in Rathmines village - the last proper "nightclub" at Tramco having closed some time ago and will be downsized to just a bar if the hotel it is in is ever redeveloped as proposed.
Their website *was* exactly what someone like me wants - it detailed every former name of the pub in a very obvious place that ensured I didn't have to do much more work when putting it on the map. But it doesn't anymore. It does, however, explain how the second shopfront (when you go through the front of the pub, you end up in the smoking area and not the front of the pub) and much of the interior were moved here in the 1990s for the last major refit of the pub; from the Boland family pub in Nenagh; where it had apparently lain unused since 1937. I don't know if the twin shopfronts thing was done in the 1990s with incredible foresight for the 2004 smoking ban, or if it was done later.
I had somehow built up an idea that this was a bit of a grab-a-granny (or grandad) place; however the crowd there when I visited didn't indicate that at all. Maybe on a different night it might be that; but I think that scene is mostly dead now.
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