I should have got food here. It looked decent, but Google suggested to me that some of the other pubs further along my intended route did food. Looking deeper in to those, one of those was a menu for the Artisan Parlour, which had been run by the late Martin Thomas (extremely influential club promoter) and has been closed for some time; so this info was uselessly out of date.
Anyway - this pub has an interesting recent history. It was the original John Clarkes, until significant financial issues forced its closure (despite a spirited attempt to save it, and controversy about its liquidation). Clarkes reopened in another pub (S0158 John Clarke and Son) in Ringsend shortly after.
It then ran as a Dublin outlet of the Cork bar Sober Lane, but has now been the Merry Cobbler for some years.
Like its predecessor, the food offering is important here. They also have a varied tap list, featuring many Irish craft breweries. The interior is nice, with a sort-of snug that I appropriated to read the paper. There is a modicum of humour to the decoration at times!
The layout is a little odd - to get to those toilets above you need to go between the back of one bar and the side of another, in an area that you'd assume is a staff corridor.
Quite an enjoyable pub, albeit I don't know when I'd have reason to be back.
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