N0204 Eamonn Rea's

The pub is the last in the main row of buildings on Parkgate Street and is named after Limerick All-Ireland winning hurler and 2013 Limerick Person of the Year Eammon Rea who bought it in 1989

An unusually laid out pub, with what you would assume were lounge and bar doors going in to the same room, with a large, low bar in the middle of it; this pub offers pizza and pint deals as their food offering. 

It was even quieter than the others during a weekday afternoon, but as it offers live music on weekend evenings it is presumably busy during those periods.

N0206 Nancy Hands

This is another food focused pub on Parkgate Street, one which also does the music and dinner 'shows' more commonly associated with somewhere like S0366 Johnnie Foxes. As a result its a fairly touristy pub compared to the others on the street.

The pub interior is interesting and includes various salvaged items - a staircase from Trinity College is pointed out specifically on their website as one they want to draw attention to.

Was a quiet enough place for a pint on a weekday afternoon after the lunch crowd had subsided.

N0205 Ryans

Parkgate Street has a lot of pubs on it for a small enough street, particularly when you consider it only has buildings on one side. It has a lot less than it had before, though, with N0207 Liam Walsh and N0202 The Millennium both currently closed, and the Sadlers Inn turned in to an insurance office.

Its also an area I'd never gone for a pint in, despite passing it frequently on the bus. So an expedition was in order to rectify this

First up was this branch of the FXB Steakhouse chain, one of the three with pubs attached. FX Buckley started out as a chain of butchers that my mother always considered too expensive when she lived in the city centre - this pub is, however, not expensive at all for where it is.

Pints of lager for a fiver and a decent sized steak sandwich (containing three small steaks) with chips for 10.50 is pretty decent in the city centre.

Atmosphere in the pub is decent, although it maybe doesn't need quite as many signs reminding us its a Victorian pub - there are enough reminders like the striking plates for non-safety matches beside each table!

1013222 Hudson Rooms

This will probably be the longest time between a visit and a post on it, at nine months!

This premises first showed up on the register with a restaurant licence late last year and now makes an appearance with a conventional 7 day licence. At the time of my visit, only the restaurant licence was on the register so only it got recorded.

Specifically branded as a gastro pub, this is in a cluster of food outlets around the cinema entrance of Liffey Valley S/C and probably gets most of its trade from cinema goers. From memory, the food and drinks were fine and definitely superior to the other pub on the premises (1011234 TGI Fridays)

September 2017 Licence Update & Year-on-Year comparison

Two licence updates in two working days isn't the normal release rate - and this one is the big one as the final list for the licencing year.

Firstly I'm going to deal with the normal month on month comparisons:

Additions:
1012867 Temple Bar Inn, Fleet Street - new hotel
1013222 Hudson Rooms, Liffey Valley. Have already been, review upcoming.
1013229 Dollard & Co, Wellington Quay. New premises, food orientated but fully licenced.

Returns:
1004780 Fleet Street Hotel - obviously not a licence cleanup as I thought

Next to the year-on-year comparisons.

The following licences have not appeared at any stage during the past year, and as the premises is closed, I'm removing them from my master list and changing them to red pins on the map. They may re-open although some of them have planning permission in to demolish.

Premises which were explicitly removed during a given monthly updated rather than simply not appearing as renewed will have been been changed to red already; as will anywhere where the extinguishing of the licence is reported in the press.

I've excluded anywhere currently on the market for rent/sale as these are likely to reopen in the short term

1000996 Paidi Og's, Mulhuddart
1007880 Hilton Charlemont - had multiple licences so probably a cleanup
1010777 Kylemore House, Kylemore Road
S0271 Walters, Dun Laoghaire
S1429 Bridge House, Crumlin
S1590 The Enbankment, Saggart
S3900 Burn Beach Club, Stillorgan

"August" 2017 Licence Update

Revenue have silently updated the licence file at some point recently, with a date of the 31st of August on it. The update date on the actual website hasn't changed, but the files have.


There's a bigger list of changes than some months and most of them are pretty substantial.

The map has been updated

Added:
1011790 Nash's, Patrick Street. This closed many years ago and the old licence number (S4327) had been removed. It was recently sold.
1012980 Irish Whiskey Museum, new pub licence for this museum on Grafton Street
1013039 Robertas, new pub on Essex Street
1013114 Token, new pub on Queen Street
1013149 Urban Brewing, new pub in CHQ
1013164 Pearse Lyons Distillery, new visitors centre on James' Street
N0028 Cusacks, North Strand - had been missing previously. I've already been to this pub
S4458 Fleet Street Hotel - some form of cleanup of the licencing here seems to be underway (see removals)

Removed
1004780 Fleet Street Hotel
1010778 Fleet Street Hotel - duplicate licences cleaned up
S0255 Tuning Fork, Rathfarnham. Long closed and to be demolished
S1450 Barley Mow, Francis Street. Decades closed and recently for sale
S1511 Carrigans, Old Kilmainham. Long closed

Renumbered
1013026 The Dominick Inn from N0110

Historical photos now added to map

I have now added links to historical photos of nearly 100 pubs - mostly closed ones but also a few premises where the building has been fully replaced on-site.

This has been done using mutliple image libraries; primarily the Dublin City Libraries one, the Duchas Collection and the RTE Stills Library. Images run from the 1950s to almost the present day depending on the library. All contain vast amounts of content, well beyond pubs and you can lose days going through them if you have any interest in history.

I've also discovered that Dublin City Libraries has a database of some other collections which I will now be working my way through.