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822

They took the soup

823

It’ll cost them in the long run. They are just another pub now. Prone to the fads. The likes of O’Donoghues are phoning it in and coining it

824

Yerra it’s still the go-to place for anyone who is anyone.

The Camden can take the nobody’s.

825

Not a shop I’m familar with but sounds like they got a sweetner from one of the big boys, Diageo or Heineken. ‘We’ll sort out your refurb but we now own your Soul’ Happened to a few ‘trend setting’ pubs last few year, O Connells in Galway a prime example

826

O Donohue just off grafton street? Nice cold pints of Heineken are lovely in that establishment.

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827

Lovely plug here for Ryan’s of Camden Street on the Late Late Show.

828

I presume the Palace Bar is fucked

829

If you own real estate like that you are never fucked

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830

Camden St on AI Final Day/night is some spot.

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831

Do they own it?

832

Are you the biggest roaster on TFK?

833

No idea but I would have thought that place is owner occupied. Why would you rent a lease on a goldmine

834

Vulture funds/Johnny Ronan types/ Banks etc, they own most real estate in Dublins City centre

835

It’s a weird one. I used to be a regular there and it would be quiet during the week and busy on weekends but busy in a way that you’d go in for a relatively quiet pint for Camden street on a Saturday.
Then about 5 or 6 years ago the UCD ag society decided it would be their bar and then during the week there would be a decent crowd but still manageable. I remember going in one Thursday and it was rammed and I said to the bar man who I half knew what was going on and he said he had no idea.
It snowballed from there to being a big student pub. And then with all the money they were making they gutted it and made it into a fancy bar. There’s queues around the corner to get in now, but that won’t last. They’ll move somewhere else. And what made it “cool” In the first place will be gone. That said they are coining it now

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836

I can mix it with anyone.

837

It’s essentially Tipperary in the heart of Dublin, with the Ag Science element thrown in.

There’s a fair share of wannabe Tipp people among the Ag Science cohort.

838

City Pubs go in and out of fashion. You have to maximize when the going is good and squeak your bum the rest of the time. Even if there are queues now I’d imagine they are paying twice the staff/security/Ins/VAT etc they used to. I’d agree and say they’d have been better off in the long run leaving it as it was but maybe their hand was forced

839

There’s no great upside to having a crowd like a college ag society either I’d imagine. They’ll arrive tanked up, probably with naggins and “own” the place .

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840

I don’t blame them, but I think they missed what was happening. It’s like coppers, fuck knows why the crowd is coming but don’t change a thing

841

Coppers crew got out at the right time. New crowd in their now