S4607 Mulligan & Haines

This recently opened pub replaces Sweeneys (the hotel on the upper floors is still called that) which had been here since the mid 2000s. The new setup is a vaguely Joyce-themed pub, the building being on the site of the Dublin Bread Company visited in Ulysses. It isn't a Joycean tourist trap, however.

The end result of a few months of a refurb is a fairly decent city centre pub with an acceptably priced food menu and range of drinks

S3217 River House Hotel

AKA The Hub and Mezz, this is a hotel with a huge bar/club complex on the ground and basement floors. Tripadvisor etc suggest that you would have to be interested in hearing music til the early hours to want to stay in the hotel!

The Mezz claims to be a dive bar. It isn't.

The Hub, or "Mezz Venue" as the hotel website now calls it, is one of the few larger dance venues left in the city - an ever decreasing thing, with some of those left (S2957 Tivoli and 1009202 Hangar - both visited many times pre-blog)  under imminent threat of redevelopment. There is apparently a second room here - it wasn't open so I didn't see it, but this would make it even larger than I thought.

N0906 The Gate Hotel (Fibber McGees)

Fibbers - probably the last of the pubs people were surprised I'd never been to. And now I have. And only a third of the way through!

Dublin's longest standing rock/metal bar at this stage, this is one of the three premises which open on to a shared smoking area and beer garden in a very unusual arrangement I haven't seen anywhere else. N2123 The Living Room and N1556 Murrays (first visited in time immemorial as Frazers, so not on the blog) are the other two of the three.

The downstairs club wasn't open yet when I visited, which is where most of the more interesting stuff happens, but upstairs was nicely busy and with a decent crowd. Smoking area was less sports-oriented than it would be earlier in the evening.

N0088 Bleecker Street

Passed this place many a time in a previous job that took me to the Mater Private many times and assumed it was just a cafe so was a bit surprised to see it listed with a standard pub licence when collating the list. Walk inside and it still mostly resembles a cafe, except for the full bar along one side.

A long-standing premises with a history of former names - the owner gave me some more than I had on the map, that I forgot to take down - it was most recently Jim Beams. That name still graces the tap heads in a rare case of an internal ghost sign.

Food is decent, range of drinks is decent, staff are great - Johnnie, Ciara and Elena if I remember the names correctly. Well worth a visit, even if its a Rovers pub near Bohs territory!

N0068 Glynns

A very traditional North Inner City locals pub on Dorset Street. There isn't much more to write about it.

March 2018 licence update

Pretty sizeable update this time

New
1013644 Stella Cinema, Rathmines
1013760 Savoy Cinema, O'Connell Street - this was licenced in the distant past but had stopped for a prolonged time
1013769 9 Below, Stephens Green

Renumbered
1013043 O'Donoghues was S0113 when last on the licence register. Has been open throughout.
1013580 Trinity City Hotel was S3651
1013727 Kavanaghs, Dorset Street was 1010077

Relisted (but still closed)
1000996 Paidi Ogs, Mulhuddart
1010777 Kylemore House, Kylemore Road
1013317 The Black Horse, Kimmage

N2114 TGI Fridays (Blanchardstown)

I would just say see previous reviews, but the food and staff in this branch were both better than the previous three I've been to (one, Blackrock, predated the blog and is long since closed).

These all have full, ordinary 7-day pub licences - there's no question about whether they count as pubs. There's still two more to do.