This pub opened mostly under the radar, as I had somehow missed the 2019 planning permission application for it; and it did not have social media accounts pre-launch (nor does it have any yet either). It is part of the same group as S3712 Dakota / Rag Traders and S3454 Odeon, but there were no mentions to it on their accounts (that I noticed).
The main bar is a large box space, fitted out with reclaimed pub fittings that don't quite suit such a tall space, but it mostly works. As is often the case for a new pub, it was relatively quiet on the relatively busy day that I visited on - this new pub honeymoon period is often a good thing to look for if you want a quiet pint somewhere. There is a second bar upstairs but it wasn't open at the time.
At the time I visited, the pubs website wasn't up yet and I was going to have a paragraph wondering whether the name was a reference to the bar of the recently demolished Kielys complex in Donnybrook which bore the same name. Now that it has a website, this is confirmed - the name has followed the bar counter from Kerry to Drury Street via Donnybrook. That bar counter has a glass fronted section containing many old Irish rugby ticket stubs that would have been very hard to assemble now and gave me the idea it - the ticket collection at least if not the counter - had to have come from the former pub.
An interesting (but non unique) case of a reclaimed pub interior preserving some of its history - two sets of history at that; this is much more appealing to me than seeing a pub with random fittings from some other pub/shop/pharmacy that have been shorn of their history - such as you find in the major Irish chain pubs (Press Up, Fitzgerald) in Dublin all the time.
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