What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
Publican Paul Clinton says the seating areas outside the pub are part of the legal licensed area, but are not beer gardens. “It’s furniture on the grounds.”
In 1850 there were 12 pubs but only about 2,500 people in the area, says local historian Eddie Bohan, a former lounge boy, bartender and publican.
“No shops, no pubs, no entertainment for the kids, we’ve to go on the bus to the bingo,” says Dinagh Neeson. “There’s nowhere to socialise.”
“We thought the idea of a running club with a craft-beer focus was incredible,” says Ross Carr.
Amy Coleman was unsure if others would turn up. “Is this something that people are going to like or am I going to be the weirdo knitting on her own in a pub?”
Several pubs across the city have rolled out these smaller glasses in the past few years, trying to match strength or price and quantity.
It looks like a pub is set to reappear on the Four Corners of Hell in the Liberties, and councillors at a recent meeting considered plans for development in Bluebell.
It all started about a decade ago, when a few regulars asked if they could eat some of their favourite cheeses inside, with a cold pint. By now, it’s become a tradition.
As part of the Designated Driver campaign, pubs and restaurants have for 12 years been offering sober drivers free soft drinks.
Like many buildings across the city, the historic pub has been left vacant and allowed to crumble. The developer says it’s no longer possible to preserve it.
Some residents in Churchtown say they’re being turned away from their newly opened local pub, but there’s not much they can do about it.
Inside the newly reopened Lincoln’s Inn, owners Ian Lacey and Shane McCloughlin have acknowledged its literary legacy without descending into garish excess.
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