N0976 Priorswood Inn

This pub frequently turns up when people are nominating places as the "roughest pub" in Dublin. Lets see about that...

I have been told a number of times that I resemble an undercover Garda, and that added with the fact that I go to a lot of these pubs alone may be part of why I effectively never have trouble in these apparently terrible pubs. 

I suspect maturation of the areas they're in, the people causing problems being barred, and the growth in garden bars during the pandemic reducing the "need" for some people to get in to pubs have all had an impact; but this pub was fine. A bit smelly, but fine.

There were two doormen inside the pub, but sitting off to one side and not making entrance difficult. Beamish on tap at a reasonable price. 

I believe this was used as the filming location for outside shots of a pub in Love/Hate - the long closed Leonards on Watling Street/Victoria Quay being the indoor filming location; and I once had to clamber over the wall of the carpark outside to go do a service visit to the dentists in the same shopping complex due to said filming. I imagine it was a more threatening pub in the TV show than in reality!