Every pub in... Clane

Clane is closer to me, but it made sense to go further first and do Clane on the way back.

There are three pubs and a hotel in Clane, and a golf course located not a long way outside the town, that I am going to pretend does not exist. 

 

I also believe the GAA club bar is quite popular, as it has been in a number of previously visited towns (Kilcock, and Leixlips two GAA clubs); indeed it even has a brand name of Tommy Coneffs. A number of GAA clubs in North Kildare have bars run by a single external management company called SMSC, this being one of them. But I never consider sports club bars to be pubs unless they have a pub licence, which is astoundingly rare.

There's only two pubs I haven't been to before, so I'll start with those. 

KDP0062 Breeze

The name and the paint job - its very, very, blue - of this pub imply rural nightclub in the 2000s, but it's a very normal pub; and only called Breeze since 2021 - it was ormerly The Parade Ring and The Corner House.

A normal, friendly outer-suburban or provincial town pub, I believe there's a lounge here that does food but I didn't cross over to that side.

 

The bar is very sports oriented, and had a large number of F1 fans in to watch the sprint race on that afternoon. 

KDP0067 Jones / Fagans

The front door of this pub has Jones above it. The side door has Fagans. Some older references to it will call it the Clane Inn.

 

Quite modern and food focused inside, and at least formerly having a "disco bar", this feels even more like a suburban pub than Breeze does. This pub, like those in Sallins, had quite a number of Leinster fans - but at this stage licking their wounds rather than still watching the match, which had finished,

Already visited:

KDP0180 Manzors Village Inn

Been here before. Don't particularly like it. It's big and its popular though, so I am clearly not in the majority with that viewpoint.

KDP0047 Westgrove Hotel

A slightly rambling, large hotel intertwined with a shopping centre complex. I have drunk here before. It is a conventional outer suburban hotel with nothing particularly notable about it, but also nothing wrong with it.

Ignored:

KDP0038 Millicent Golf Club is just about in Clane. I'm not doing golf clubs on these roundups, because these aren't licence completion attempts.

Long closed:

 

Clane has a closed pub, building still extant and which was still licenced in to the 2010s - but I believe closed in the 2000s if not 1990s. This is KDP0076 Royal Oak, at Mainham just outside the town.