After finishing (well, I say finishing - I keep finding ones I've left out) my RetroReview series of pubs which I visited before 2016 and then the NecroReview series of places which had fully closed down by the time I got to do their RetroReview I'm left with a tiny handful of writeups to do that are pubs which were entirely off the register before 2016.
Pubs can be closed and remain on the register for years, indeed one of the places I've given a review on the basis that it's permanently closed still holds its licence (N2030 The Good Bits); and the mid/late 2010s financial recovery reopened a lot of closures from the crash, so very few pubs that I've been to have gone for good. I started drinking in Dublin's pubs in ~2003, and legally in 2005; and I'm actually surprised by how few were off the register within the first 13 years. At the moment I think there's only two.
So we're starting with the only one where I have a licence number on file - I was able to get six prior years of registers from Revenue's Statistics office.
The only Dublin branch of Captain Americas to have closed, that I'm aware of, this opened in 2007 in the never successful public plaza outside 1008408 Glashaus Hotel and seems to have shut down around 2011. I worked in the area from 2007 and would end up here occasionally for work lunches or events
If you've been to the Blanchardstown branch, it was quite like that.
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