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Famous Dublin pubs that are no more

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    #1292
    PommieBast
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    Open the Pubs wrote: »
    Only surprise is more haven't went. Wet pubs have been forced closed in Dublin for 255 days and they aren't allowing them open for Christmas or January minimum now.
    Just a matter of time before the floodgates open. The end of the financial year when accounts need to be signed off might finally force the issue of mass insolvency.


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    #1293
    BonnieSituation
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    But think of all that student accommodation that can be built where these pubs are.


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    #1294
    L1011
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    CRSS will have given a fair few pubs a lifeline that may keep them going until reopening. But there's been fallers before that came in.


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    #1295
    odyssey06
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    The Globe closing down due to redevelopment
    https://www.thejournal.ie/ri-ra-and-globe-nightclub-dublin-city-council-5280070-Nov2020/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #1296
    Open the Pubs
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    The Globe closing down due to redevelopment
    https://www.thejournal.ie/ri-ra-and-globe-nightclub-dublin-city-council-5280070-Nov2020/

    Another hotel, just what is needed.


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    #1297
    L1011
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    Open the Pubs wrote: »
    Another hotel, just what is needed.

    Its already a hotel, just an extension.

    However, there's >90 hotels in the pipeline (anywhere from proposed to basically finished) in Dublin and about 3000 rooms scheduled to open between next week and May. Premier Inn have SIX new hotels in the city centre under way alone.


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    #1298
    IAMAMORON
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    In fairness the Globe was only a "cool " boozer if they liked you.

    There are 100's of other city centre pubs to go and have a drink in.

    I won't be losing too much sleep. The Dame always had a nicer pint anyways.


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    #1299
    Hector Savage
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    L1011 wrote: »
    Its already a hotel, just an extension.

    However, there's >90 hotels in the pipeline (anywhere from proposed to basically finished) in Dublin and about 3000 rooms scheduled to open between next week and May. Premier Inn have SIX new hotels in the city centre under way alone.

    Seriously ? they're expecting a big recovery in tourism then ?


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    #1300
    L1011
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    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Seriously ? they're expecting a big recovery in tourism then ?

    Depending on rather than expecting is probably more accurate!

    Most of the hotel deals would have been signed before March but at least one Premier Inn one is after that. There's been about 20 applications for new hotels, renovations or extensions *since* COVID though.

    There's a brand new application for one beside the Stags Head in today for instance.


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    #1301
    gmisk
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    Passenger wrote: »
    Dice Bar is no more. Link
    Given the owners comments on facebook....I don't really care like I would have tbh...


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    #1302
    Hotblack Desiato
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    In fairness the Globe was only a "cool " boozer if they liked you.

    There are 100's of other city centre pubs to go and have a drink in.

    I won't be losing too much sleep. The Dame always had a nicer pint anyways.

    I used to work nearby, we never went near the Globe but were habitués of the Dame Tavern aka "DTs", mad place!

    Once got dragged in off the street into the Central Hotel at lunchtime with a promise of free drink! Market research for Baileys The Whiskey and comparison taste tests with Jameson. The company doing the research on behalf of IDL was clearly instructed to get us all agreeing how smoooooth it was... otherwise totally unremarkable and it flopped in the marketplace.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #1303
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Covid is a handy scapegoat when you were having lease or other problems anyway...

    Dice Bar guy's comments were scummy but seems he's far from the only one in the trade completely blinded by a sense of entitlement.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #1304
    sabat
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    I heard that the Dice Bar, or at least the full interior, is being shipped to Cuba.


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    #1305
    easygoing39
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    sabat wrote: »
    I heard that the Dice Bar, or at least the full interior, is being shipped to Cuba.

    Im surprised to hear that,last time I was in the dice bar the interior looked as if it came from Cuba, as it was thread bare, sagging and worn out!


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    #1306
    Birneybau
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    L1011 wrote: »
    His rants were weeks after the lease had already expired. Which makes it make even less sense.

    Ah, I've heard a few things about that fella.


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    #1307
    Birneybau
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    sabat wrote: »
    I heard that the Dice Bar, or at least the full interior, is being shipped to Cuba.

    No. The owner is going to Cuba, the interior is in storage.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/publican-blames-covid-19-as-dublin-s-dice-bar-to-shut-for-good-1.4418950
    Mr Finnerty confirmed he will not reopen when the Covid-19 restrictions end and will instead look at finding somewhere new to ply his trade although not before he takes an extended visit to Cuba.

    “The closure is down to Covid,” he said. “But the lease also ran out out on March 31st, and in a way that lucky I suppose. I could have spent the last few months bleeding cash.”

    Mr Finnerty said his plan is “to open something again next year, and right now everything from the Dice Bar, all the fixtures and fittings, are in a shipment container down the country”.


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    #1308
    sabat
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    Birneybau wrote: »
    No. The owner is going to Cuba, the interior is in storage.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/publican-blames-covid-19-as-dublin-s-dice-bar-to-shut-for-good-1.4418950

    I heard this months ago. Shipment container?


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    #1309
    L1011
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    Shipping container is what they'd normally be called. Standard enough thing to store a pile of junk in - and that's really what the interior was.


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    #1310
    Tazz T
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Covid is a handy scapegoat when you were having lease or other problems anyway...

    Ah heyor, nine months without trade and no indication of when you'll be allowed to again is hardly a scapegoat. I'm amazed we're not seeing stacks of independent pubs go to the wall. Or maybe they have and we won't see the extent of the carnage until the country reopens.


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    #1311
    Hotblack Desiato
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    His lease expired on March 31. We can't assume the landlord was willing to renew it at all, never mind what the rent level was going to be. Any planning applications in for the site, I wonder...

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #1312
    retalivity
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    They had another place around the corner, the Mission bar on the north quays. Guessing that is gone as well.


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    #1313
    BeerNut
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    retalivity wrote: »
    They had another place around the corner, the Mission bar on the north quays. Guessing that is gone as well.
    Gone since well before Covid.

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    #1314
    retalivity
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    Gone since well before Covid.

    Didn't realise that, was only in it the once last year (2019) sometime, went past it a few times and thought it was still opened evenings at the weekend (pre-covid)


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    #1315
    partyguinness
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    The Dice Bar...feck it...that was a regular haunt of mine between 2002 and 2004.


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    #1316
    PommieBast
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    Tazz T wrote: »
    I'm amazed we're not seeing stacks of independent pubs go to the wall. Or maybe they have and we won't see the extent of the carnage until the country reopens.
    For the time being the government has landlords and banks on a leash. When they inevitably have to let go of it is when all hell will break loose.


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    #1317
    Hotblack Desiato
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    partyguinness wrote: »
    The Dice Bar...feck it...that was a regular haunt of mine between 2002 and 2004.

    The past is another country.
    One does not step into the same river twice.
    Etc. ;)

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #1318
    Hotblack Desiato
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    PommieBast wrote: »
    For the time being the government has landlords and banks on a leash. When they inevitably have to let go of it is when all hell will break loose.

    Unless they have plans to knock and redevelop, it's not in the landlord's interest to evict a commercial tenant - who are they going to let it to? That's going to be the case for quite a while even with a rapid and successful vaccine rollout.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #1319
    MOH
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    partyguinness wrote: »
    The Dice Bar...feck it...that was a regular haunt of mine between 2002 and 2004.

    Was a great spot the last couple of years for outdoor pints on a sunny day. One of the few spots with uninterrupted sun for long periods.


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    #1320
    partyguinness
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    The past is another country.
    One does not step into the same river twice.
    Etc. ;)


    Well that's true. TBH I don't think I was ever in there sober.


    There was another pub directly across the road..."Ryans" that it.


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    #1321
    Strumms
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    MOH wrote: »
    Was a great spot the last couple of years for outdoor pints on a sunny day. One of the few spots with uninterrupted sun for long periods.

    It was a nice spot... if I wasn’t driving and in town for a bit of shopping I’d get the Luas down. I have a friend who had Monday's off as I had too and what started off as 3 pints and a bit of craic after shopping would see us on the phones seeing if there were any gigs on in town, then end up back there later..

    That said... going by social media comments by the owner relating to covid , ones I saw on Facebook anyway.. I’d say a lot of people would have been rethinking giving further business to said establishment, actually a load of people on FB said they wouldn’t, grim reading quite frankly... headcase stuff..


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