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Irish bars abroad ..is it Mc Pub

  • 17-06-2011 02:50AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭


    I was in an Irish pub in Hamburg recently and the barman assured me diageo package and container these pub interiors worldwide, Could this be our best export yet?

    Gunther Murphys in Munich used to be a favourite of mine.. any others?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    I was in an Irish pub in Hamburg recently and the barman assured me diageo package and container these pub interiors worldwide, Could this be our best export yet?

    Gunther Murphys in Munich used to be a favourite of mine.. any others?

    Are they Irish ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭ardinn


    I was in an Irish pub in Hamburg recently and the barman assured me diageo package and container these pub interiors worldwide, Could this be our best export yet?

    I think you were, until you came back!

    Slow day for the Barman I would assume!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Oscar Wilde's in Berlin? Scheisse Hole.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭filthymcnasty


    bonerm wrote: »
    Oscar Wilde's in Berlin? Scheisse Hole.

    hehe Es ist.
    so many good spots in Berlin though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    A new Irish Pub opened near me here in Keene, NH in April this year. Waxy O' Connors it's called. According to their adverts, was made in Monaghan and they shipped the chippies out from there to fix it up. It is part of a chain and is in a Best Western.

    http://waxys.com/keene/contact.html


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    bonerm wrote: »
    Oscar Wilde's in Berlin? Scheisse Hole.

    I concur, although the bar woman was sound and nice to look at!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    Yeah, most of them nowadays are prefabricated. The saddest thing is that that ersatz notion of an Irish pub has caught on here too. You get genuine Irish pubs being refurbished into tourist traps.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why...

    Do irish people go to irish bars when there abroad whats the perpose ? i mean your in a different country and you they more or less head home.

    Lets flock to the nearest irish bar yay....

    drives me mad avoid those place like the lauge feck cominers and pesants.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭Hawk Wing 2


    bonerm wrote: »
    Oscar Wilde's in Berlin? Scheisse Hole.
    Nice rasher sandwiches though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why...

    Do irish people go to irish bars when there abroad whats the perpose ? i mean your in a different country and you they more or less head home.

    Lets flock to the nearest irish bar yay....

    drives me mad avoid those place like the lauge feck cominers and pesants.

    Watch the GAA?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Most of the Irish bars in Prague are rowdy joints, like the sort you'd find in Gran Canaria.

    The one decent one is JJ Murphy's on Tržiště. It has a nice traditional feel to it. I went there to watch a few Rugby Internationals. Stick to the local beer though, the stuff from back home is expensive by local standards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackdog2


    Was in Singapore last week, asked the taxi driver to bring us to a normal local club out in the suburbs, he replied:

    "So, an Irish bar, lets go there"

    I was mystified as to how he knew, as I have gotten an English/American drawl from my time out there.

    Also, sorry to derail the thread op, but has anyone noticed the amount of Irish bars abroad shooting up in the last 2 years? Maybe something to do with the rise of this prefab bar nonsense?

    I also heard(no idea as to how true this is) that there is an Irish guy in Thailand making a killing on old guinness clocks, road signs that say Cork 2,000 Miles -> etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why...

    Do irish people go to irish bars when there abroad whats the perpose ? i mean your in a different country and you they more or less head home.

    Lets flock to the nearest irish bar yay....

    drives me mad avoid those place like the lauge feck cominers and pesants.

    Why do Irish people go to Paddie's Day in NYC?

    Irish Pubs abroad are nothing like pubs here. They're big, over the top spots where someone will almost certainly buy you a pint 'cause you're Irish. Great place for the aul banter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    blackdog2 wrote: »
    Was in Singapore last week, asked the taxi driver to bring us to a normal local club out in the suburbs, he replied:

    "So, an Irish bar, lets go there"

    I get the impression that in some cities Irish bars/pubs are the only real funspots. The Irish part can't be extricated from the pub/bar bit for a lot of people, especially in cultures where they don't drink like Irish people do.
    It's basically the Irish prong of globalisation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I was in an Irish pub in Hamburg recently and the barman assured me diageo package and container these pub interiors worldwide, Could this be our best export yet?

    Oh no... sounds like you ended up in Finnegans. Luckily, there are a few thousand better bars in Hamburg. But yes, not sure if Diageo do this but there are companies specialised in this. Know a lad who set one up in Toulouse, same job as a McDonalds. Built, transported and clicked together with the €5 pints of Guinness to offer that authentic Paddy experience!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,475 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    I could never understand this when my mates and I went on hols and they all wanted to do is go to the Irish restaurants and irish bars...

    I mean..why the fúck would you go abroad to go to the same ripoff pubs /restaurants as back home?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Faolchu


    the barman assured me diageo package and container these pub interiors worldwide,

    going back 15 years ago when i lived abroad there use to be a company called "the Irish Pub Company" or something like that and this is exactly what they did all over mainland europe, you basically picked what you wanted from a catalogue and they installed it, kinda like the Ikea of irish pubs. they still exist http://www.irishpubcompany.com/, they're appointed by Guiness/Diageo to do the design work for pubs abroad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Faolchu


    Sc@recrow wrote: »
    I mean..why the fúck would you go abroad to go to the same ripoff pubs /restaurants as back home?

    coz their not adventurous and won’t eat all that foreign muck. i dont get it eather. I was in Germanay about 7 years ago and we ended up in this little small town after getting teh wrong train, so being hung over and starvin we decided grub was in order. so we head to a guesthaus and the lads all order what ever they could close to what tehy could at home. same in the pub. "What ya mean ya have no bud" so they go for the shorts had to practically force the german beer on them, course the olders ones with us went straight for the cheaper better tasting germen brew


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    jester77 wrote: »
    Oh no... sounds like you ended up in Finnegans. Luckily, there are a few thousand better bars in Hamburg. But yes, not sure if Diageo do this but there are companies specialised in this. Know a lad who set one up in Toulouse, same job as a McDonalds. Built, transported and clicked together with the €5 pints of Guinness to offer that authentic Paddy experience!

    Are they still doing that? I thought that fad came ( and went 10 years ago, thank God) at least in the US.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Are they still doing that? I thought that fad came ( and went 10 years ago, thank God) at least in the US.

    I don't know if they are still are. The lad I know that set up his pub did it about 7 or 8 years ago in France.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    The most authentic thing about Irish pubs abroad is the rip off nature of them. Any time I'm away and go to a load of pubs in a particular city, the irish one is always the most expensive one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,252 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    The most authentic thing about Irish pubs abroad is the rip off nature of them. Any time I'm away and go to a load of pubs in a particular city, the irish one is always the most expensive one

    And as a guide the most full.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    You can't even find Irish traditional pubs in Ireland any more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭el oh el


    Why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why...

    Do irish people go to irish bars when there abroad whats the perpose ? i mean your in a different country and you they more or less head home.

    It's different if you actually live abroad, the local irish pub is often one of the few places where you can meet other people who are english native speakers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why...

    Do irish people go to irish bars when there abroad whats the perpose ? i mean your in a different country and you they more or less head home.

    Lets flock to the nearest irish bar yay....

    drives me mad avoid those place like the lauge feck cominers and pesants.


    I travelled a lot a few years ago and would always head to an Irish bar, as said, you would meet English speakers who would give you the lay of the land, better then any tourist information office. More often then not, I would be looking for work and they were a great place to get hooked up for work. I never worked in a bar but got nearly all my desired work from "networking" amongst ex-pats.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    I spent three weeks in Thailand, the last week of which was up near the cambodian border.

    We headed to Bangkok for the last two nights and the Irish bar was a welcome site. Probably the nicest Dublin bay prawns I have ever had!

    Been to an Irish bar in Paris (near the nation metro station) and it was just a pub. No Irish people there at all and they served really crap Guinness. The only good thing about it was the toilets. one door with a woman on it, one with a man and in between them, the men's urinal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    There's one or two good ones around (was in a great one in Hanoi) but most of them are awful, overpriced, stereotypical ****holes that serve crap beer.

    Can't understand people going to Germany or Belgium home to some of the worlds greatest beers and then getting their nickers in a twist because nowhere sells horrible pissy budweiser.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,347 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Gunther Murphys in Munich used to be a favourite of mine.. any others?

    Sadly it closed in 2007 :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    el oh el wrote: »
    It's different if you actually live abroad, the local irish pub is often one of the few places where you can meet other people who are english native speakers

    I travelled a lot a few years ago and would always head to an Irish bar, as said, you would meet English speakers who would give you the lay of the land, better then any tourist information office. More often then not, I would be looking for work and they were a great place to get hooked up for work. I never worked in a bar but got nearly all my desired work from "networking" amongst ex-pats.


    I lived abroad for 2 years ... and there was no irish bars and i got jobs meet people and wait for a minite learned how to comunicate in their lingo....

    I agree in that case it can be usefull but when oyour on hoildays its like full of idiots sayin 2 b sure ahhh hardy hardy har. oh wait ise your waster sise tirty tree and a turd ? :rolleyes:

    Yeah its great to get layed but ****ing hell there so anoying its like beign abroad and walkign into your local in some case's :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I lived abroad for 2 years ... and there was no irish bars and i got jobs meet people and wait for a minite learned how to comunicate in their lingo....

    I agree in that case it can be usefull but when oyour on hoildays its like full of idiots sayin 2 b sure ahhh hardy hardy har. oh wait ise your waster sise tirty tree and a turd ? :rolleyes:

    Yeah its great to get layed but ****ing hell there so anoying its like beign abroad and walkign into your local in some case's :rolleyes:


    But you were living somewhere, I visited something like 22 countries in 3 years. Not exactly going to learn all the lingo's if I wanted to work somewhere for a month or two.

    And 33 and a 1/3 has got me laid more then trice :pac:


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