According to the internet research I had done, the price of Guinness was about €4.20 a pint in Dublin with local variations.
Armed with this info and having the fortune of paying off (leaving) the ship in Dublin I decided to show my fellow off signers a few pubs and compare the prices as an excuse to drink in more than one establishment.
On leaving our hotel (Jury’s Inn on the Quay very nice which seemed to be staffed completely by non-Irish, there were a few lads in suits looking extremely not busy who could have been Irish though.) we proceeded in the rain towards an lár but had to take a treo eile because it started bucketing down with rain, our nearest refuge was “The Flowing Tide” on Lower Abbey Street, price of Guinness €4.10 quality very good, atmosphere good, we had the one there and headed for O’Connell Street, I spied an old pub that I had not been in for years “The Sackville Lounge” and it was our next spot for a pint, 4 Euros for top quality Guinness and friendly atmosphere we stayed for 2!
Then we headed over the Ha’penny Bridge to Crown Alley and Temple Bar, the price of beer jumped by over a Euro just by being on the other side of the Liffey, and the quality was poor in comparison to our first two stops. The barman laughed at me when I complained about the price difference, saying something along the lines of “drink in the other pub then…” arrogant bastard I thought, he was Irish. The pub was full of tourists and I even started a conversation with a Danish couple in my mixture of Swedish and Danish, who seemed to understand what I was saying, I suppose the Scandinavian language is no stranger to Dublin pubs. Still though Flannerys of the Temple Bar €5.25 for a pint of Guinness is too much when it is poured badly and you get lip form the barman into the deal, just what the customers want.
Back in Jury’s Inn the pints were €4.25 after a taxi tour back from town with a Polish driver and a radio show about how black taxi drivers are being victimized and or sexually harassing female passengers, some listening, New Ireland old problems.
Advice to tourists, Dublin is more than Temple Bar, have a look around, you could save a fortune.
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I hate Temple Bar and the arrogance of those who work in our captial city’s “Cultural Quarter”. Its funny the Danes keeps going back there. Underneath Temple Bar is Wood Quay where evidence of the original Danish settlers was excavated in the 1970s. There was talk of perserving it like they did at York. Shame they replaced with Temple Bar.
Welcome back to the ould sod, Captain!
So you didn’t go to Mulligans in Poolbeg Street then?
Missed Mulligans this time round Bock, my visiting friends wanted to see Temple bar, which goes to prove that marketing works, once, at any rate. There probably is a cultural pub crawl apart from Bloomsday, we had our “the tweleve pubs of Camden St.” when I studied in Dublin, there are more than 12 but it was around Christmas. I know more about pubs on Camden St. than what I learned in Kevin St. and I don’t know much about them pubs anymore, guess thats why I’m at sea…..
I remember the whole Wood Quay debacle from way back John, the city would have benefitted from a York style approach, you have to hand it to the Brits for that kind of thing. Dublin went for the money, Strumpet City indeed.
Another reason to Look West … I had a hard time around Sligo finding a pint over €4. Even had one very nice pint for €3.20 with a lovely view of the ocean at the Beach Bar on Aughris Head. Slainte!
It seems that there is a cartel operating across the whole of Irelands pubs- North and South. The price os Guiness, Bitter and Lager are completely different in the UK but the same price in Ireland. I feel the pub owners get together each year to set the prices. A rip off. I will avoid Ireland and stay out of the Euro Zone.