I won't be able to drink to spread covid

[Fagan_ODowd]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

My auld lad used go there a bit. Yer man would only let you have three pints (or would it have been pint bottles back then?) and then out?

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2019/0909/1074767-tom-mahers-pub/

Your father mustn’t have been able for the drink. He’d serve you as long as he liked as long as you were compus mentis

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Will an early riser be able to buy a bottle of wine with his groceries at 8am? That was a recent change and not led by the Victorian’s.

[Malarkey]

@Fagan_ODowd

@Malarkey

@Fagan_ODowd

@Malarkey

Thomas Maher’s, Waterford.

Waterford Luna 1.1 is the chaser.

God be with the days when it was a men only pub. It opened 2-4, 5-7 and 8-10. Owl Tom and the missus wouldn’t serve you if you arrived in too late or were three sheets to the wind. Chuck, Powery and myself were regulars. Murphys was the pint here, washed down with a whiskey mac. The Roanmore fellas would come in and make apes of themselves and the missus would refuse to serve them to our general hilarity. At ten, for it closed religiously at 10, we three would make our way across the road to Donie McLoughlins (now Tullys). The fear an tí would be looking out the window and when we’d stagger over from Tom Maher’s he’d say you are only coming over here because he threw you out. To which we d say yes Donie, three bottles of barley wine and off we’d go again.

Sweet bird of youth…

Great times to remember.

What I most like about Maher’s is that it is a real earthy town pub as well as a monument.

Old Tom was a South Kilkenny man originally. The pub was also known as Moondarrig house.

A forebear was a Mooncoin native, I believe.

For the whisk(e)y afficionados, I can highly recommend those two Waterford expressions. Delicious, both of them.

[Pirlo]

Off early, quiet day + workmates nanny died.

[Malarkey]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

My auld lad used go there a bit. Yer man would only let you have three pints (or would it have been pint bottles back then?) and then out?

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2019/0909/1074767-tom-mahers-pub/

Tom was fortunate he did not live to have to deal with the trans picket that would almost undoubtedly have materialized.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Ah I’m mixing it up with another Waterford pub that wouldn’t serve women!

[Fagan_ODowd]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

Ah I’m mixing it up with another Waterford pub that wouldn’t serve women!

I’d say you have the right place. He only served in two hour bursts so most people wouldn’t burn through more than 3 pints in that time. And when he said he closed at ten, he closed at 10. Lights out and the door shut behind you. Chuck who had a big swallow used to get a rise out of the bean an ti ordering a pint at ten to ten. We close at ten o clock love she’d say. I know he’d reply and then he’d mug the pint in one swallow.

[FlakeAway]

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

By God. You’re in Ratoath early mate.

You swamped that one anyway.

[flattythehurdler]

View from the table last night. Peroni only on tap.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@flattythehurdler

Peroni only on tap.

Great for drinking. Bad for washing.

[flattythehurdler]

Well after the weird news headlines Im going to look again at washing

[Pirlo]

[ironmoth]

A gem of a pint in a gem of a pub. I don’t want to leave.

[Fagan_ODowd]

Flowing Tide, waiting for the bus.

[habanerocat]

You always time it well, don’t you?

[PhattPike]

[endakenny]

Best pubs in central London for a pint?

[Declan_Moffat]

Princess Louisa in Holborn

[Raylan]

The Toucan