taking yanks out for the day - Dublin . help

hughgrant · 22-06-2009 5:40pm #1

wed or thursday this week. meeting them at trinity. they pretty much done all te usual stuff.
my plan was to jump a dart to dun laiourighe 11am ish . for an hour or so . go for lunch in bewleys grafton st. then hit that small pub accross from the mansion house for a guinness. then the long hall. then accross the street the georges arcade. then im stuck for the evening time....

any help would be great.want to stay southside and pretty much localy.

RATM · 22-06-2009 8:46pm

Dun Laoghire sounds good, especially if the weather is nice though I reckon a trip to Howth is nicer, maybe walk along the path as far as Sutton- super views on a nice day. Alternatively a walk around the park in Kiliney always goes down well.
Seeing as you are going drinking for the rest of the afternoon why not bring them on a tour of Dublins classic/Victorian/Edwardian pubs. Start at Ryans in Parkgate St then get a Luas to the Cobblestone in Smithfield ( live music usually starts around 8ish) then a taxi to Doheny & Nesbitt on Baggot, walk to O'Donoghues down the road and then Cafe en Seine before finishing up somewhere like the Arlington Hotel on OConnell bridge which has live Irish dancing every night of the week.
That way you avoid the tourist pubs of Temple Bar but get to show then some cool watering holes. Long Haul is also a good one as is Mulligans on Poolbeg St.