Friday, 26 September 2025

Revisit 20 years on: S0164 Horse Show House

I mentioned this in my RetroReview of this pub - my first, and until now, only visit here was a few weeks before my 18th birthday, when they served me while I was wearing my school uniform. 

During the Young Scientist which was being held across the road, so the area was *full* of teenagers.

That said, I've been the same (abnormally tall for Ireland) height since I was about 13, I've been able to grow a beard if I wanted to since about the same time; so the sum total of places that refused me service underage is one (Pravda, now the Grand Social)

There's two bits of context that are probably more important in why they didn't even think I was that young - with the jumper off, my secondary schools uniform looked like a bank clerk uniform; and AIB's HQ was next door to the pub at the time. And I'd ordered food.

So I'm letting them off for not checking my ID in 2005; and I'm pretty certain there's a statute of limitations on the offences!

Unlike the first of these long-term revisit writeups, this pub has changed quite a lot - internally and externally - with modern and well appointed outdoor areas (uncommon as early as 9 months after the smoking ban when I first visited) and a recent interior refit also.

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