Well, not very - but there was one very notable difference here.
All other Press Up venues I have visited have a nearly full Heineken Ireland taplist, plus usually Guinness. Thomas R Mahers has a mix of Diageo and Heineken Ireland taps, plus some Wicklow Wolf. Has the strangehold been broken?
The former Larry Murphys, this pub was bought by the ESB during the planning of the refit of their HQ, and then sold after it had been done - either surplus to requirements, or they felt it was better to have it closed during it; there's no real way to know for sure.
The name, that of a former owner as is usually the norm for Dublin pubs with a name above the door, had become a bit of a problem even when it was still open and was obviously something that Press Up would want to avoid using - even if they are willing to reuse the old name on a resurrected premises.
The pubs About page explains that Thomas R Maher was a former operator of the premises, and also gives a source of the reclaimed back bar which I have not obviously heard of and will need to investigate.
This is just another Press Up venue in everything but the tap list, and having a chicken restaurant rather than a burger counter; but it provides an actual normal pub to an area of the city that isn't actually abundant in them anymore.
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