N2723 The Hamlet

This pub is a rare enough beast in Dublin - it is a new build, ground floor pub in an apartment block that actually seems to be doing pretty well. 

Lots of apartment and/or retail developments in the 00s included a proposed pub, and often they never opened or have struggled significantly to take off. The closest one to me, just a bit outside of Dublin admittedly, eventually opened as a restaurant about ten years after construction; not holding a pub licence at all. It is possible that being the only pub outside of the town centre in Balbriggan may have helped, as some equivalents are near existing pubs; but there are still a litany of failures elsewhere.

The exterior is rather bland, being that mid 00s retail design of yellow brick and large aluminium windows; but the pub inside is fairly nice and well staffed, with my pint being dropped over after it had settled.