One Saturday night, a few of us walked into the City Bar years ago when the old owner had it. She took one look at us and just said No. The place was empty and it was our first port of call. I can’t remember if @Fat_Pox was in our company that night.
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I had a lovely early evening pint in there after a match two Saturdays ago.
Quiet enough, Racing on TV, plenty Hurling chat going on though.
What used that J R Mahons be called back in the day?
Messer maguires
An absolute fucking shit hole
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JW Sweetmans / Sweetnams?
Right beside Riverbar by O’Connell bridge
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That’s the one. Hated the place.
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Awful - still is. Tourist trap.
Two brothers with southside links (Crokes) own it and have a few bars in New York (pig and whistle I think). They have Kennedys on Westland row too.
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Actually smelt of shite the one time I was in there.
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Kennedys used to decent, not so much now
Messr Maguires and Q Bar. That’s what I remember them as. Christ that’s almost 20 years ago.
Messrs was the most ridiculously expensive non Temple Bar pub I can recall.
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Very popular during those mid noughties Celtic tiger years though. Handy meet up spot as was central and big enough to have a chance of a seat.
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An awful cunt of a spot from memory. A half way house where the IFSC crew would have a few before heading south to meet their south Dublin superiors.
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Where’s Tucker Reilly’s on Camden Street? @Spidey
I see Rake The Ashes are moving to there on Sunday nights. The Barge mustn’t have worked out at all.
It used to be The Camden Exchange
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Fair enough
Things would want to have been going very bad for me to ever end up in there.
Wouldn’t even make the top 10 in the POWER RANKINGS for pubs on Camden Street.
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Agree 100%
Don’t think I was ever in either version
I believe Cassidy’s is changing hands again @peddlerscross
Don’t think they ever recovered from losing Rake the Ashes
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Jack and the lads need to take it over and bring them back.
Any reason behind Rake the Ashes leaving The Barge?