Documentary on Irish Pubs RTE1

Bleating Lamb

Good documentary on Rte1 at mo...oul pubs on it that are still open.

The Backwards Man

Proper pubs. No bang bang music or Sky TV jagerbombs or youngwans shouting and roaring.

dodderangler

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Proper pubs. No bang bang music or Sky TV jagerbombs or youngwans shouting and roaring.

What about beors and feens shifting?

Ted_YNWA

dodderangler wrote: »

What about beors and feens shifting?

Head to the shnug if you want any of that carry on.

The Backwards Man

dodderangler wrote: »

What about beors and feens shifting?

Plenty of backroads and loose boxes for that carry on.

RikkFlair

"They'd climb up yer arse to find out who y'are"

JustTheOne

Brilliant.

Great to see Ireland still has some of its tradition left.

The Backwards Man

That header would be getting no free drink in a pub of mine.

smurfjed

My poor wife is having a hard time understanding half of them, gotta translate for her :)

LeinsterDub

smurfjed wrote: »

My poor wife is having a hard time understanding half of them, gotta translate for her :)

Sure they are all jarred

kneemos

Haven't seen a female customer yet ?

Banjoxed

God bless the Gravediggers, last place I got bladdered on pint bottles of Guinness

IamNotNumber

Can see where Dave McSavage got his material.

OldMrBrennan83

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Lady Chatterton

My father took my mother to John B Keane's Pub while they were on Honeymoon and a few years ago she asked to return to celebrate a big anniversary. We're blessed with some great pubs and characters in this country.

the evasion_kid

I know some of them from delivering the devils p!ss back in the day.good to see there still open

Nodin

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Proper pubs. No bang bang music or Sky TV jagerbombs or youngwans shouting and roaring.

Was in a pub off Grafton street a few years back. Big enough place, nice seats, seemed like an ok crowd. No concert level sound blasting, so "deadly" I think to meself. The thing was, I'd arrived in there about 6.30 having gone straight from work. At around 8-8.30 I discovered that (a) there was indeed "bang bang" music at levels that almost matched what I remembered from the SFX, and (b) that we were sitting about four foot from one of the speakers which were around the entire circumference of the place.

Nodin

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Good documentary on Rte1 at mo...oul pubs on it that are still open.

Did it have Toner's on it?

The Backwards Man

The session is very unrealistic. In real life, there's always a cnut with a melodeon making a balls of the whole thing.

HeidiHeidi

Nodin wrote: »

Did it have Toner's on it?

Not yet.

I've never heard of half the towns, never mind the pubs! Google maps has been busy on my laptop.

This has the makings of a list of places to be visited in coming years.....

castletownman

Must say this is a thoroughly enjoyable documentary. Something kind of sad seeing what is essentially old Ireland with it's characters and time capsule-esque pubs being lost to the wifi,craft beer, tv on every wall "bars" two for a penny today

Banjoxed

castletownman wrote: »

Must say this is a thoroughly enjoyable documentary. Something kind of sad seeing what is essentially old Ireland with it's characters and time capsule-esque pubs being lost to the wifi,craft beer, tv on every wall "bars" two for a penny today

Mercifully no pints of "Heino" or Bud in sight except maybe the aul fella in Athlone

Woodville56

Sadly, pubs and characters like those featured are disappearing fast , overwhelmed by the demand for Sky Sports and musak !!

strelok

what's sad about it? they're a relic of a time when you could get into a car after 12 pints, swerve on down the road home and then beat the **** out of your wife or children and not a word would be said

we're well shot of that ireland. give me your craft ales, your 50 inch plasmas and your barely legal teens.

HeidiHeidi

Was that pub/undertakers in Mayo on At Your Service in the last few years? Or some such programme?

Looks awfully familiar for some reason (and it was one of the places I had to google!)

Lovely programme, I'm delighted that there's a few really "old" places left. Must make the effort to seek them out more often!

razorhead

Is it being repeated?

Aongus Von Bismarck

I enjoy visiting a good Irish pub. They are wonderful places when all those little components come together to create somewhere you want to spend a few hours.

The reality is though is that many Irish pubs are closing because they don't offer a product that people want to pay for. The downfall of the Irish pub has been predicted for 60 years, and has been blamed on some of the following: rural electrification, the motorcar, television, the VCR, the smoking ban, the Internet. Yet many pubs are thriving.

I was in Galway over the weekend. Tigh Neachtains, Tig Cóilí and Taaffes Bar were full to the rafters. The Galway Bay Brewery pubs that we visited were hopping as well. Both appealing very successfully to their own respective ends of the market. The reason 'old man pubs' are closing in small Irish towns is because old men are dying, and the new old men don't consider sitting in a pub for 6 hours a good way to spend the last years of their lives.

wp_rathead

waaheeeyy! my local is in it - rather chuffed!

Spanish Eyes

razorhead wrote: »

Is it being repeated?

Try the RTE player.

I enjoyed the show immensely. I thought your man from Cavan was a right character, had me in stitches.

The place in Ballitore is amazing, the only one apart from the Palace I've been in. But as another poster said, I am putting the rest of them on the list.

The heritage and history attached to these places is something else, and they will become the must see places in due course.

I just don't know how some of them make any money at all.

Did you see yer man in Athlone doing the opera singing, and he got free beer for about twenty years.

Irish people are just so nice and tolerant, and of course great fun.

HeidiHeidi

This programme reminded me of Bewley's, and Clery's..... all of us love the idea (except maybe the earlier poster extolling the virtues of plasma screens :eek: - I'm hoping that one blew my ironometer), but how many of us have darkened the door of these establishments, and helped to keep them going?

I'm 100% guilty in the cases of Bewley's and Clery's, not so much for pubs (:D) - but the reality is, unless people support these places they will be gone soon. Especially the rural ones - The Palace (or the Long Hall or Ryan's) have some chance, but the bar in Athy or the other rural villages......

ohnonotgmail

I loved the sign behind one of the bars

I'm something of a bullsh*tter myself but occasionally i like to listen to an expert ... please carry on

I may take that and use it as my own.

JustTheOne

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I loved the sign behind one of the bars



I may take that and use it as my own.

Explain?

rubadub

this is it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3229518/?ref_=ttmd_md_nm

Paz-CCFC

castletownman wrote: »

Must say this is a thoroughly enjoyable documentary. Something kind of sad seeing what is essentially old Ireland with it's characters and time capsule-esque pubs being lost to the wifi,craft beer, tv on every wall "bars" two for a penny today

Feckin' Irish beer ruining the experience of proper Irish pubs that only Dutch and Danish lager can bring.

OldMrBrennan83

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JONJO THE MISER

Great show, proper pubs with no bull****.

Agricola

strelok wrote: »

we're well shot of that ireland. give me your craft ales, your 50 inch plasmas and your barely legal teens.

Well everyone's a fan of them dude!

hatrickpatrick

My admittedly unsympathetic view is that the Irish pubs have been persistently ripping people off for years, and it's only now that people - particularly young people thanks to things like Erasmus - are getting accustomed to the fact that a fiver a pint is utter eejitism in the context of how it goes in most European pubs, that they are finally making it clear that they're unwilling to keep putting up with that.

I don't know if it's the cost of licenses, the cost of music royalties, the cost of commercial TV subscriptions, being ripped off by the manufacturers, or paying themselves too much, but Irish pubs are clearly doing something most other European pubs are not, which drives their prices far higher than is considered reasonable throughout the rest of Europe.

The funny thing is that as so many people in here are complaining about sky and music ruining the experience, if those two expenses are what's driving the cost of a pint up to such absurd levels, couldn't the pubs just scrap them altogether?

Valetta

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I don't know if it's the cost of licenses, the cost of music royalties, the cost of commercial TV subscriptions, being ripped off by the manufacturers, or paying themselves too much, but Irish pubs are clearly doing something most other European pubs are not, which drives their prices far higher than is considered reasonable throughout the rest of Europe.

Been to London, Paris or Brussels recently?

ohnonotgmail

JustTheOne wrote: »

Explain?

what is there to explain?

munchkin_utd

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

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The funny thing is that as so many people in here are complaining about sky and music ruining the experience, if those two expenses are what's driving the cost of a pint up to such absurd levels, couldn't the pubs just scrap them altogether?

one word, Weatherspoons.

Reasonably priced drink. Reasonably priced food. Lots of cheap coffee.
No sky, no music.

mickydoomsux

Are all the posters in this thread from Dublin or something?

There are 3 pubs exactly like the ones in the doc within 15 minutes walk from my house

FloatingVoter

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Are all the posters in this thread from Dublin or something?

There are 3 pubs exactly like the ones in the doc within 15 minutes walk from my house

Being from Dublin doesn't mean you don't know the shops in question. Stags Head, Palace and Long Hall are all within 20 minutes of my front door. There's a thread over in Dublin City about the pubs we're wrecked (and some we've kept) down the years.
And as for country pubs, I've fallen out of my share. Ellens pub in the wilds of Sligo being a genuine shebeen at least up until the 90s. A wall served as a gents and the ladies had a field at the back if they were short taken. Looking for a craft beer would probably result in a pint and a ball of wool.

suicide_circus

The problem is that I don't feel I get value for money going to your average pub in Ireland and I will include crafty pubs in that. 5 - 8 euro for a beer is not reasonable, it's just not.

DEFTLEFTHAND

When I was born in 88 there were 32 pubs in my home town 'one for every county' as the saying went. In 2015 12 are left, amazing how many have gone by the wayside.

Kerrydude1981

Great programme last night,that would be a great tour,have a pint or 2 in each of the pubs that were on the show.

mrsoundie

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Great programme last night,that would be a great tour,have a pint or 2 in each of the pubs that were on the show.

I was thinking that myself.

lazybones32

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Great programme last night,that would be a great tour,have a pint or 2 in each of the pubs that were on the show.

The Cavan man's pub would be good (if you get him on a good day) but I can't abide that Billy Keane for some reason...wouldn't darken the door.

Sheldons Brain

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Great programme last night,that would be a great tour,have a pint or 2 in each of the pubs that were on the show.

Is there a convenient list of the pubs featured (with their Eircodes)?

ohnonotgmail

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

Is there a convenient list of the pubs featured (with their Eircodes)?

there was a list of the people featured shown at the end of the program along with the pub they were from. It s probably up on the RTE player.

colm_mcm

razorhead wrote: »

Is it being repeated?

It's on my prime on upc box, watched it last week. Dunno if that's an option for you.
It's also on rte player

http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10442728/