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Man your pumps, Wetherspoons are coming

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    #2222
    Lovely Bloke
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    That's good a spot alright, handy for heading between Busaras and the main part of the city centre. It's always been a bit lifeless down there too so hopefully it'll improve that.
    RasTa wrote: »
    Wonder if Brewdock will suffer

    Ha! I'll be more inclined to go to BD for a couple before heading further into town now, knowing I can stop into Spoons.


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    #2223
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    Ha! I'll be more inclined to go to BD for a couple before heading further into town now, knowing I can stop into Spoons.

    Brew dock, spoons, fat monk, black sheep, beer house, mulligans.

    Nice little northside crawl.


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    #2224
    cormacjones
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    Just a little Samba wrote: »
    Brew dock, spoons, fat monk, black sheep, beer house, mulligans.

    Nice little northside crawl.

    Where's the Fat Monk?


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    #2225
    Lovely Bloke
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    Just a little Samba wrote: »
    Porterhouse, WJK, Brew dock, spoons, fat monk, black sheep, beer house, mulligans.

    Nice little northside crawl.

    FYP


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    #2226
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    FYP

    I don't cross the canal, buddy. Wjk I'd forgotten about though.


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    #2227
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    cormacjones wrote: »
    Where's the Fat Monk?

    Lower abbey Street near the food Hall.


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    #2228
    cormacjones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭cormacjones


    Just a little Samba wrote: »
    Lower abbey Street near the food Hall.

    Thanks, must check it out. Never heard of it and can't seem to find anything online about it.


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    #2229
    lk67
    Registered Users Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    cormacjones wrote: »
    Thanks, must check it out. Never heard of it and can't seem to find anything online about it.

    Is it not The Jolly Monk?

    He might be fat too mind...


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    #2230
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    lk67 wrote: »
    Is it not The Jolly Monk?

    He might be fat too mind...

    That's the one


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    #2231
    donaghs
    Registered Users Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭donaghs


    Geuze wrote: »
    So to summarise:

    2014 = 2 open (Blackrock, SCD, and Dun-Laoighaire)
    2015 = 3 to open (Blanch, Swords, Cork city)

    plus confirmed site purchases:

    Waterford
    Douglas in Cork suburbs (added)
    Camden St in Dublin
    Carlow (confirmed this week)
    Abbey street, Dublin.

    Still no news on the Dublin Camden St one? The building is still untouched, no sign of any refurb taking place any time soon.


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    #2232
    BeerNut
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    donaghs wrote: »
    Still no news on the Dublin Camden St one?
    Won't be for a while, I'd say. I can see the planning process being a lengthy one here.

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    #2233
    L1011
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    Won't be for a while, I'd say. I can see the planning process being a lengthy one here.

    As it was a hotel in the mists of time (before it became a hostel), I suspect it shouldn't be too hard - obviously any drink licences etc are gone and would need a new one brought in but change of use back to a hotel should either be simple or not required.


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    #2234
    ceekay74
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    I wonder if Wetherspoons would be interested in The Cuckoos Nest in Tallaght? It's certainly big enough.

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/05/20/old-friends-are-best/

    Probably just wishful thinking on my part. :(


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    #2235
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    ceekay74 wrote: »
    I wonder if Wetherspoons would be interested in The Cuckoos Nest in Tallaght? It's certainly big enough.

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/05/20/old-friends-are-best/
    :eek:


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    #2236
    delahuntv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    ceekay74 wrote: »
    I wonder if Wetherspoons would be interested in The Cuckoos Nest in Tallaght? It's certainly big enough.

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/05/20/old-friends-are-best/

    Probably just wishful thinking on my part. :(

    Oh god NOOOOO - this was one of the best pubs in Dublin (I'm 40 miles wawy, so haven;t been in it for years)

    A REAL family run pub that cared about customers and the community - so sad to see it close and it must be very difficult times for the Lynch family that ran it.


    Hopefully someone will buy it and keep it going as a decent local family pub and not some bland boring place like wetherspoons operate it.


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    #2237
    Lovely Bloke
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    delahuntv wrote: »
    Hopefully someone will buy it and keep it going as a decent local family pub
    Which is obviously not a good idea, given the current owners need to cease trading
    delahuntv wrote: »
    and not some bland boring place like wetherspoons operate it.

    Which is a great model given Spoons are one of the few Publicans actually expanding in this country.

    What, exactly, is boring about the Tree Tun Tavern?

    They don't sell the usual boring array of Diageo & Heineken slop.
    They don't have boring Sky Sport News blasting out the same stories five times an hour.

    They do sell an innovative, non-boring, range of Irish and International beers.
    They do have specials to entice customers to enter the premises.

    how boring indeed.


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    #2238
    Lucena
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    I've never understood the need to have Sky Sport News on in pubs. The pub is somewhere I go to get away from things, not to have the same non-story about some dude in Australia getting attacked by a shark shoved into my face every ten minutes. Sport I could understand, by Sky bloody news?

    * Shakes fist in direction of The Old Oak in Brussels *

    Ah yes, the "traditional" "Irish" pub, showing traditional Irish Sky News. :rolleyes:


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    #2239
    ceekay74
    Registered Users Posts: 634 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    delahuntv wrote: »
    Oh god NOOOOO - this was one of the best pubs in Dublin (I'm 40 miles wawy, so haven;t been in it for years)

    A REAL family run pub that cared about customers and the community - so sad to see it close and it must be very difficult times for the Lynch family that ran it.


    Hopefully someone will buy it and keep it going as a decent local family pub and not some bland boring place like wetherspoons operate it.


    It's my local, and it's been getting emptier and shabbier over the last few years. But no problem to them continuing to charge inflated prices to their customers.

    If 'The Spoonys'© or whoever move in and slash prices, it'll take off again.


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    #2240
    listermint
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    ceekay74 wrote: »
    It's my local, and it's been getting emptier and shabbier over the last few years. But no problem to them continuing to charge inflated prices to their customers.

    If 'The Spoonys'© or whoever move in and slash prices, it'll take off again.

    tbh it was getting busier in the last 6 months I have not seen it as full in years. I was in it twice in the last 2 months to meet a friend and the place was packed.

    I think they had just got back on track


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    #2241
    ceekay74
    Registered Users Posts: 634 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    listermint wrote: »
    tbh it was getting busier in the last 6 months I have not seen it as full in years.

    True. I've been there twice in the last month to watch mid-week football and was surprised to see it was quite busy compared to the last few years.
    listermint wrote: »
    I think they had just got back on track

    It was starting to look that way. Hopefully it gets bought and reopens soon (with more affordable prices).


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    #2242
    ThisRegard
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    delahuntv wrote: »
    Oh god NOOOOO - this was one of the best pubs in Dublin (I'm 40 miles wawy, so haven;t been in it for years)


    Seriously ? You must not have visited many because it was an awful kip, it had nothing going for it whatsoever unless it was your local. Wall to wall TVs blaring Sky Sports as said above, the place was a horror.

    If it was so good it should have managed to stay operating.


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    #2243
    delahuntv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    If it was so good it should have managed to stay operating.

    Many very good businesses have closed due to outside issues.

    I always find it amazing how "expert" some people become when they have zero knowledge of the issues.

    At the end of the day, the people who ran the pub were very well regarded n the community and supported the community for many years.


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    #2244
    Ageyev
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    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    Which is obviously not a good idea, given the current owners need to cease trading


    Which is a great model given Spoons are one of the few Publicans actually expanding in this country.

    What, exactly, is boring about the Tree Tun Tavern?

    They don't sell the usual boring array of Diageo & Heineken slop.
    They don't have boring Sky Sport News blasting out the same stories five times an hour.

    They do sell an innovative, non-boring, range of Irish and International beers.
    They do have specials to entice customers to enter the premises.

    how boring indeed.

    Spoons in Blackrock don't have wall to wall Sky in TV screens but they don't have anything. There's very little fun to be had sitting at a restaurant table in a brightly lit place, no music etc. I didn't even see a sign for as much as a table quiz!


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    #2245
    Krusty_Clown
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    Ageyev wrote: »
    Spoons in Blackrock don't have wall to wall Sky in TV screens but they don't have anything. There's very little fun to be had sitting at a restaurant table in a brightly lit place, no music etc. I didn't even see a sign for as much as a table quiz!
    I guess folks define fun in different ways, but....

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    #2246
    Ageyev
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    Spoons is great for the selection and price - I got two measures of a Scottish whisky for the price of a Guinness elsewhere! But the whole layout of the place just ain't much fun. I spent most of the time outside in the smoking area but it rained and got cold so had to go in.


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    #2247
    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,152 ✭✭✭limnam


    ceekay74 wrote: »
    I wonder if Wetherspoons would be interested in The Cuckoos Nest in Tallaght? It's certainly big enough.

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/05/20/old-friends-are-best/

    Probably just wishful thinking on my part. :(

    Not sure Tallaght and surrounding areas have enough of the target market spoons chase to sustain one.


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    #2248
    BeerNut
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    limnam wrote: »
    Not sure Tallaght and surrounding areas have enough of the target market spoons chase to sustain one.
    I don't think Wetherspoon has a target market as such: they're aiming for everyone.

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    #2249
    ThisRegard
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    delahuntv wrote: »
    Many very good businesses have closed due to outside issues.

    I always find it amazing how "expert" some people become when they have zero knowledge of the issues.

    At the end of the day, the people who ran the pub were very well regarded n the community and supported the community for many years.

    I know it was a bad pub, that's enough for me.


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    #2250
    ThisRegard
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    limnam wrote: »
    Not sure Tallaght and surrounding areas have enough of the target market spoons chase to sustain one.

    And what target market is that?


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    #2251
    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,152 ✭✭✭limnam


    BeerNut wrote: »
    I don't think Wetherspoon has a target market as such: they're aiming for everyone.

    A pub that caters for everyone. I've yet to enter such a beast.

    A publicans wet dream.

    This doesn't really work in practice because what brings in one alienates the other normally. How diverse is the customer base in blackrock?

    You have to aim your pub at something. This is Tallaght suburbia in a place caught between tyom north kilimanah, greenhills and walkstown.

    Second thoughts, yes cheap booze cheap food. Tallaght is perfect.


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