East Wall hasn't got a lot of pubs - and never has. There's the Seabank House off to one side; and there used to be a good number of spirit grocers and beerhouses that may have let you drink on premises, but these are all gone.
I suspect this may be due to the history of East Wall's construction - heavily led by various religious "utility societies", a sort of equivalent to modern housing associations. These would have been less willing to provide sites for pubs than private developers; and as such, none ever really opened up.
But it now has a bar in a more central part of the community for the first time, and its quite a fancy one at that (albeit if you read the writeup of it, you'll the Seabank is also fitted out to an incredibly high standard - so that's clearly just the norm here!)
The other Moxy in Dublin has a very strange bar that is effectively also the reception desk, but this one is more like a conventional hotel lobby bar; albeit with an exceptionally limited tap selection. There are more bottled beers available, the prices weren't too huge, and the toilets were not locked - which is my bugbear in hotel lobby bars that are open to the public, but clearly don't actually want the public.
This might be a more useful addition to the area than first expected actually.
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