Mate, if youāre going to enjoy a bit of downtime in a nice hotel bar, with a good book, you only go on a monday - Thursday. Only a fucking weirdo would go when thereās a wedding on 
If your not staying in the hotel and you have a book to read in the bar then youāre a fucking weirdo full stop.
There is no where more peaceful than a quiet sitting room with a nice drink when the kids are all tucked in and quiet.
Donāt get me wrong, sometimes I head for a pint with The Phoenix or whatever under the arm when I think the head might explode but the local is different.
I wouldnāt switch me sitting room for the corner of a hotel for ādowntimeā until your cows come home.
Iām here in the Left Bank in Kilkenny and @Ambrose_McNulty is across the way reading a book on his own drinking a pint.
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Not me, but that man brims confidence. Heās old school with an actual book.
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I think I posted about it on here at the time, but the best I ever saw was outside the gingerman in Dublin one evening, one lad reading a book aloud to his three enraptured companions.
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@Ambrose_McNulty, I may have to spend an evening in Kilmallock in the next fortnight. Can you recommend somewhere to have a pint and read a book in comfort, or is it a complete shithole?
Iāve often heard that the nicest and safest place in Kilmallock is the halting site. You could chance there.
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My next question was if there was any place there to buy a wrought iron gate for the side of the house. Two birds, one stone. 
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Itās a bit blurred. Had you a few pints on you?
Iron Mikes for a pint. stay in Deebert house. You could both pint and stay in the Golden Spur and also find out from Mikey Fitz the team for the Clare match.
āI may have toā. You should be thrilled.
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Iāll send you a PM
Do you come down there to stay with the in laws often?
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They wouldnāt take too kindly to book reading types in Kilmallock.
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We have a library.
With books?
Oh look! A comedian.
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