Documentary on Irish Pubs RTE1

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/

munchkin_utd

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

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.

its sortof predicable

Aparantly coming to the late 60s, when Ireland was poor and you had to have a bit of land or some sort of trade to have the means to raise a family, some bonkers figure like 70% of 45year old men were batchelors.
(source was a programme about the mental Asylums)

Seriously, if you have that amount of lads living with their parents or a spare room with their siblings, with little prospect of ever settling down, the pubs had a captive market - as did the mental asylums/hospitals.

I'd also say that husbands escaping a house with a dozen or more kids was another thing filling the pubs of an evening!

FloatingVoter

^ actually it wasn't a thing that could be figured out on a balance sheet. The pub was the place to be. No smoking ban. No closing hours to speak of down the country (I remember starting my night at 11.30 PM in Newcastle West c. 1988) - finish off in Teds (those who know, know) about time for the rising sun.
The drink driving was a custom and not a good one. No law brought that in - it was a change in culture somewhere around the late 80s / early 90s.
But it hasn't disappeared with the arrival of the hipster. The good guys stay home, the idiots still crash and kill (we always had one lad on board who drank fizz for free in return for staying off the beer - designated driver may have been the loser at pool or poker but I'm here to pay tribute to the lads and lassies who kept their word).

HalloweenJack

Found a link for it, just tucking into it now.

Kerrydude1981

Been in Currans in Dingle a good few times,was in Keane's a few times during the Listowel races,

Finucanes in Ballylongford will have to be paid a visit at some stage.

pappyodaniel

Outside of the price of the pint, what else in your opinion has been the death-knell of so many Irish pubs? People becoming more health conscious is a big reason but in my own opinion social media is a bigger reason for the lack of popularity in sitting in a pub mugging pints.
it used to be fellas (& the odd woman) heading to the pub to find out the local gossip, scandal or just plain news....that's all at the touch of a screen nowadays.

recylingbin

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Outside of the price of the pint, what else in your opinion has been the death-knell of so many Irish pubs? People becoming more health conscious is a big reason but in my own opinion social media is a bigger reason for the lack of popularity in sitting in a pub mugging pints.
it used to be fellas (& the odd woman) heading to the pub to find out the local gossip, scandal or just plain news....that's all at the touch of a screen nowadays.

I don't think either of these have had a significant impact.

When times were good, everyone was working. including the type of person who would sit in a pub all day and be out every night. Soon they came to realise that you can't work and do that. They started to stay home a few nights a week. Others started to do the same as there wasn't many out and so on and so on. then when the ars* fell out of everything, they hadn't the money to be out and when they did, there was no one out. Why would they bother.

IMO.

fergiesfolly

lazybones32 wrote: »

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.

Was thinkin the same thing about Keanes.
It was like he was doin the whole thing as PR, rather than just having a chat like the other publicans. "Here's a well known local musician/ singer that just happened to be in the pub. Here's a story or 13 about my famous father" Very off-putting.
Great tv other than that though.

Muckracker

My local recently starting selling craft beer and has become invaded by hipster thrash as a result. How can I get these sub-humans to leave and never come back?

Justice4Adolf

Any pub have a discount for alcoholics?

FloatingVoter

Muckracker wrote: »

My local recently starting selling craft beer and has become invaded by hipster thrash as a result. How can I get these sub-humans to leave and never come back?

Rescind the smoking ban, late night lock-ins, let the toilets devolve to their natural state.
Any remnants of hipsterdom can be erased by using the "Free Steak" special trick - the steak is free so long as nobody asks who it's made from.