S0269 The Beerkeeper

Until recently, this was one of the branches of the sub-chain "Gilbert & Wrights", which were either operated by, or a franchise of, the Wright Group who are better known for their food focused pubs and former giant nightclub in Swords. Two still exist, in Malahide (standalone) and Swords (adjacent to mainline Wrights); but there was also one in Clontarf which currently stands empty.

It then rebranded to be a branch of a Waterford pub, also called The Beerkeeper - but this seems to have since closed. Can we count this as one of the rare cases of a pub moving? Probably not.

What you get here is a small enough bar, with a small to middling tap list (all tracked through Untappd), but a larger range of bottle and can options. Dogs are allowed here, with two very well behaved pooches present on the evening I was there - you will hear the opposite of this when I write up an out-of-order visit to another pub shortly - and what seems to be a core regular base

There's live music here, which is rare in craft bars. At the same time as the musician was starting - and not due to it - we left to go see if S4428 The Bar around the corner was open. This has proven elusive for me on two previous occasions, once as The Bar and once as The Beer Traders, as it runs quite limited hours - and it was closed again today.

The musician had made a comment about us leaving and I said that we may be back - our return all of three minutes later led to a clearly deserved reply! All in good humour clearly. I'd go back again if in the area, and indeed as I don't have many pubs in Dun Laoghaire left to visit but do have relations living in the area, there may actually be reason to do so.