After the last pub being too busy for food, I headed up to the bar of a pub-licensed, reknowned steakhouse, thinking that I might get some food there.
It was too busy to even ask - maybe I should actually ask, and I might get fed. But anyway, there were clearly no tables downstairs.
It wasn't too busy, however, to get the last seat at the bar counter of the upstairs bar - Franks - and get a pint of their house ale, brewed by O'Haras in Carlow and delivered in a dimple mug.
In two decades of drinking, including frequently in the UK, I have never actually been given a dimple mug before, so I briefly lived my inner Bullseye winning dreams - I'll gamble the Commodore 64 and the set of matching luggage for the speedboat, Jim - and drank up.
The bars name, Franks, references the FX of FX Buckleys - Francis Xavier. There is also a Xaviers Bar in their Pembroke Street branch, but this does not have a pub licence.
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