Creches - not something you usually associate with a pub; except possibly as an insult for somewhere known to be a tad lax with age requirements...
However, in a previous incarnation, this pub had a creche for the children of its customers, opening in 1996, but not mentioned in reports of the significant fire in 2002 which gutted the pub - for the second time in ten years, it having previously been burnt out in 1992.
The reports on the €4m arson in 2002 do mention another continuing oddity - the pub had, and still has, its own newsagents - currently branded as an XL Stop and Shop.
While common in rural areas to this day, pubs with their own shop are extremely uncommon in Dublin, excluding the dwindling off-licence sections that some pubs still retain.
I'm aware of only one other conventional one (S3046 The Swallows in Deansrath features a Daybreak), plus the ability to buy some of the decorative hardware in S3271 Marys. Even the rural village pubs of North County Dublin don't retain shops at this stage - albeit there is one still intact at N0253 The Brock, it appears to be closed down by even the 2009 Streetview pass.
Despite this slight anachronism, the pub is modern and well presented, having been refit extensively in 2015. It's on the bigger side for older suburban pubs, so there's a few areas to pick from.
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