(The lounge is The Merchant, Ned O’Shea’s is the bar). This newly renovated pub is now mainly a food hall with a massive menu. A few stools can still be found dotted around an idle but regal old island bar. Freshly frozen seafood and fried garlic wafts inside and out, not unpleasant, however gastritis prices on the pint leaves a bad taste on the tongue. Their beer garden is home to some of the old original seating salvaged from Croke Park before its redevelopment. Tourists seem very fond of this establishment and with a view to attracting more, the proprietors occasionally inflate an enormous pint o’ stout that bobs over the beer garden. Something for tourists to post on Instagram for instagratification. ‘Biggest pint in Dublin!’ - yes, but most certainly not the best.

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