N0971 Roselawn Inn

Many of the 40s - 90s housing developments around Dublin centred on a shopping centre with a pub - usually at one end - and the Roselawn Shopping Centre is no different. Featuring Dublin's last 24 hour Tesco (last being in the past tense, as there's none now), and an assortment of other shop including an independent bookshop, this is on the larger side for an estate shopping centre.

The pub would also be on the larger side if upstairs was pub floor space - I am assuming it once was, but it is currently a Nepalese restaurant. This restaurant (Vayga) actually has very good reviews and I should probably drop back, as I've had good experiences with Dublin's other Nepalese restaurants.

What is on the downstairs is still a decent size, and had the oddity of a Veltins tap - a passable, and usually dirt cheap, independently brewed, German lager. This came in at a fiver a pint - rare for stout or Smithwicks and really unheard of for lager in Dublin outside of Wetherspoons in the past few years. This is a tad odd to pop up here, as its more often seen in craft beer heavy pubs that want a draught lager, but this pub isn't really that far from Grand Cru (the Irish distributor)'s base which might explain things. I forgot to look at the fridges to see if they had various Grand Cru cans or bottles.

The pub was relatively quiet - it was a Sunday with minimal sports on - and I was able to sit in the window area with natural light to read the paper for a bit. Something of limited interest except to pub, and possibly broadcasting, nerds was that the pub still has a functional CRT television, although it isn't the primary one by any means. It is located near the bar and I am assuming is a secondary TV for showing the news or similar on to the bar seating crowd.