1013257 Gibneys

My wallet cannae take it anymore - Gibney's gets within 5c of hitting the rarely breached 8 quid mark for a pint. Not a Guinness - that's something slightly saner - but its still a pint of a commonly available beer. 

Despite the initial daylight robbery at the bar, this is a decent pub - a warren of interconnected spaces of various sizes, where I was able to find a table to read the paper despite the pub being quite busy.

My second, different, pint was a bit cheaper and I would have gone for it had it been on the first bar - there are multiple serving areas here along the length of the pub.

The big size of the pub probably helped with the clientele mix - confused tourists, regulars who knew all the bar staff by name, locals who knew what seats were good to watch the racing and so on. 

Gibneys is a family run pub, something that isn't as common in Dublin anymore; and is part of a family of pubs as such - they have a branch in London, and also one just over the county border in Gormanston, Meath.