Like the previous RetroReview, I have visited here due to my prior work in radio; but I had actually visited here for other reasons.
This was a semi-regular stopping point to grab dinner before going to see Harps games against UCD; but my most recent visits here didn't involve drinking, as they always related to getting breakfast at outside broadcasts arranged from outside the pub.
The ultimate hosts for those occasions, you'd never come away better fed from a broadcast than at The Goat; with four services of food delivered out to the broadcast vehicle during a full day. These would be slightly Hobbit like, with breakfast when the kitchens opened, Second Breakfast around the time of the show change at 10am; and lunch and dinner later on.
I can understand why, from an animal welfare perspective, the pub no longer has an actual goat in the carpark; but the website does reminisce about the days of Gertie and her kids that lived on-site prior to 1983. With The Clocks aviary having closed many years before the pub did; I'm not sure we have anything beyond a potential Pub Dog left as an animal mascot for a Dublin pub.
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