N1132 & N1133 Lucan County & Lucan Spa Hotel

These two premises share a carpark, and an owner but are not connected together to allow sharing a licence. There's little to justify two posts, but I did actually visit both

The Lucan County only had its bar and off-licence open at the time I passed, but I believe it has an extensive lounge which often hosts music acts on weekend evenings. The bar is full of sports memorabilia - from League of Ireland jerseys to boxing gloves and Robbie Henshaw shirts personally inscribed to the owner. TVs have notices stating they are for racing only - however, TV3's afternoon content was on display for a bit! Prices are very reasonable for Dublin, even out in suburbia

The Lucan Spa Hotel is across the carpark. The bar is in the pretty Victorian bit of the hotel, rather than the more visible 1950s concrete block which was adorned with frequently faulty neon signage until recently. A standard quiet enough hotel bar with acceptable beer choices and decent bar food. Have passed this thousands of times without stopping before, may actually stop in future.

N2365 Arc Cafe Bar

Right beside the Clarion in the previous post, but much more obviously signed is Arc, which is part of a complex with a Lemongrass restaurant and some retail units. Food is the order of the day here much more than drink with huge signs showing the serving times for breakfast through to dinner and weekend carvery.

This was also very quiet - Tuesday afternoons are not known for being busy - and seemed a decent place to burn some time with a few pints.

N2503 Clarion Liffey Valley

This was meant to be my second stop today, but it turns out that the Hudson Rooms in Liffey Valley is actually a restaurant not a pub. I had lunch there, but assumed from branding that food was not required to be served - everyone else there was eating too, though.

This bar is entirely open to the public, but not very easy to find. To begin with, a hotel in a motor mall beside a shopping centre is not somewhere you would usually go without reason.

The area inside the entrance to the hotel with seats and some taps is actually a dining area and was closed for a private party today - the bar requires doubling back down a corridor to find. Decent but small selection of pints, fairly quiet as you'd imagine on a weekday afternoon. Doubt I will ever have reason to return.

February 2017 licence update

Tiny update this month

Addition:

N0102 The Goblet, Malahide Road

S3175 Mercantile Hotel

My first new bar in weeks - work night out. This is a sprawling enough complex of rooms in the hotel formerly called Adams Trinity Hotel and indeed still registered as such on the licence list, so it took me a while to get the licence number.

Its a bit dear, it got very crowded, but I've been in much worse venues for the size of group we had.

Residents Bars

I've only just noticed somehow that there are two categories of hotel licence on the register - public bars and residents bars. A premises with just the latter is not open to the public and hence isn't a pub; so I'm removing them from my list. Its not a huge reduction but improves any vague chance of completion as they would never have been possible - but it still leaves us with 1008 pubs!

The hotels were:

1001634 Maple Hotel, Gardiner Street
1006451 Phoenix Park Hotel, Parkgate Street
N0115 Dergvale Hotel, Gardiner Place
N1925 Hotel St. George, Parnell Square
N1986 Travelodge Castleknock
N2218 Lynams Hotel, O'Connell Street
N2241 Airport View, Coldwinters
N2600 Maldron Hotel, Smithfield
N2771 Metro Hotel, Ballymun
N3326 Ibis Hotel, Clondalkin
N3606 Roxford Lodge Hotel, Northumberland Road

January 2017 Licence Update

I didn't get to a single new pub in December, hence no updates. January's licence update has landed and continues to have many returnees from before the cutoff in November - of 74 additions, only 5 which weren't recent 'removals'

I realised that comparing a new month to my master list won't catch any which have actually been removed - as I'm not removing anything from November's expiration. So I'm now back-comparing with the previous month as well which is adding significantly to the time to do this. None were missed in December's update this way.

Additions:
S0040 MacTurcaills, Tara Street (currently closed)
S0270 O'Neills, Dun Laoghaire - I think I may have been here when it was Scotts
S0285 Ramblers Rest, Ballybrack
S4428 Beer Traders, Dun Laoghaire

Returns:
1010888 Shearys in Crumlin

Removals:
N0026 Jack Humphreys (Five Lamps) which has been closed for some time.