"The Best Pint in Oldtown" says a plaque behind the bar. This wouldn't be hard - there is only one pub in Oldtown! There's isn't much of anything else either, except for some housing estates - I believe the sole shop is shut. There was even one of the last ghost estates in the entirety of Dublin but this has been resolved now as far as I'm aware
What you get here is a relatively sizable pub which has clearly had some money put in to it recently - shiny new gents toilets off the entrance corridor - with the normal bar and lounge split. There was absolutely nobody in the lounge when we (I had a non-drinking driver with me, because these pubs were never going to be visited any other way) visited, but the bar was nearly full with people placing bets on the horses, with a small few watching the England - France game on the big screen.
There was some form of in-pub bookie here; with unbranded betting slips so it may have been the pub itself operating it. We would see this again and again during the day, so my previous running total of two pubs with in-pub bookies was smashed.
If you're in a small town/village in North County Dublin, you rarely have a choice of pubs - but you'd probably be happy enough with this as your local regardless.
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