Kennedy's Bar

elgicko

Hi all,

I was in here tonight https://www.kennedyspub.ie/

Lots of people, locals and tourists. Pint of beer = €6.50. Food on expensive side and very average.

Reason I am posting is the toilet. It was disgusting, p#ss everywhere. I asked the staff to give it a quick clean in a very nice way, which they said they would. It was never done, below is what it looked like after an hour of this request. By the way, there were loads of staff working.

A picture speaks a thousand words. Make up your own mind....

I for one am embarassed, as I can only imagine what the.m majority of tourists will be saying to all their family and friends,when they get back home.

I won't be back.

893bet

That really don’t look “that bad”

elgicko

If you consider standing in pi#s, not that bad, no problem. I can only imagine the establishments you frequent.

When punters are in any bar, especially a bar that charges a premium, is it too much to ask to have a clean toilet.

Jacob13

It's disgusting. I don't go out that much but when I do its always the same, having to tip toe around people's piss and sometimes some dirts shite on the floor in the jacks . It's all the alcohols fault.

macvin

what's this "think of the tourists" crap that some people come out with?

Is it the new "think of the children / elderly / vulnerable" (delete as appropriate) comment that is meant to mean something?

I been to many countries over the years and I've seen toilets in far worse condition even in such law abiding places like Frankfurt & Dusseldorf. I've never thought anything about it other than "yeuch". I certainly would not brandish an entire country or an entire holiday as ruined by a dirty toilet in a pub or restaurant.

Yes, it should be clean. But for all patrons - not just "tourists". So cut the "Think of the XXX" rubbish commentary as if its something on national importance. Dirty toilets are caused by dirty people

end_101

Post about any outlandish thing in Ireland, be it a shocking statistic or sub-standards in any area and there's always one to say "it's not that bad".

The thing is, it's not that bad, it's brutal, some people just cannot see the degenerative effects in all aspects of daily life if you haven't been attention to it over time.

deezell

I suppose a manky jax doesn't come under the heading 'rip-off'. Bog-off maybe. Here's a rip-off. A glass of house Cab Sauv to go with a nondescript bar meal (both bar and food) in the Johnstown Hotel in Enfield... €10!!! In the public bar. Not their restaurant. Their public bar. I had one pint instead, and Fekd-off.

whisky_galore

Was the locals or the tourists who haven't learned how to use a toilet properly?

My money's on the locals.

Geuze

Here is a receipt from a cafe in Alvor in the Algarve, sitting down:

Coffee with milk = 85c

Americano = 65

Small custard pastry = 0.60

Labour costs here are 2.5x the levels in Portugal.

Multiply by 2.5:

Coffee with milk = 2.13

Americano = 1.63

Small custard pastry = 1.50

How much is an Americano in Ireland? Maybe 2.50?

Gusser09

Tourists and locals are as bad as eachother. The onus is on the staff to clean though. Any toilet will end up that way in a public place of not cleaned regularly.

CuriosityKilledtheCat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119363076#Comment_119363076

Don't know the average for Americano to sit-in but I just paid €3 for black coffee to takeaway in a local pub

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119363076#Comment_119363076

2.50 at least sitting in.

Hmmm, I fancy a coffee now.

Thelonious Monk

If you ever go to Berlin it's like they try and outdo each other to see who can have the worst jacks. USA are infamous for terrible toilets too. Ireland generally is pretty good I find.

6.50 a pint just seems to be normal nowadays, it's 6 pounds 50 for a pint in my local pub here in East London ffs, although this is a trendy neck of the woods.

SuperBowserWorld

Got a pint of Guinness for 4.40 in Donegal recently.

Was a beautiful pint at a beautiful price in a beautiful location during some rare beautiful weather.

Geuze

GBP 2.90 for a pint in central Manchester

That's about 3.50.

https://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/two-fab-pubs.html

Thelonious Monk

Oh I did have a few pints in Swords not long ago, 2.40e a pint for some delicious English cream ale. It was a Wetherspoons of course.

Gusser09

1 latte

1 capoucino

1 americano

3.80

Lanzarote.

RayCon

Was in The John Barry pub in Wexford recently. Ordered a Guinness and Heineken. Handed the barman €20 - got €10 + change back. I was shocked. Two pints for under a tenner ! .... Man I'm too used to Dublin prices.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119363236#Comment_119363236

1 latte

3.55

Wicklow

😂

SuperBowserWorld

We really are been ridden hard in Ireland no matter what they tell us. 😂😂😂

SuperBowserWorld

Now that we're free to travel, I think we need a separate thread to post price comparisons on.

deezell

Did you see the Brennans' TV program the other night, they were helping a couple do up their Caravan camping park/9 hole golf course, and restaurant bar. They decided to franchise the food end, new guy put a coffee shop in it, €3.00 for a coffee. On a camp site.

Roxxers

try a jacks in paris , that isn't too bad aint clean though

Gusser09

Boil ur piss it would. Villa in lanzarote with private pool 5 beds 2 ensuites 3000 for 14 nights. You'd be hard pressed to get a bungalow in kerry or galway for that. Indeed a ride ireland is. 2 sambos 2 soups and chips in naas was 54 quid a few weeks back. I can get two of the best fillet steaks with trimmings and 4 beers here for that and leaving a tip.

We wanted a weekend away with herself in october. 450 euro for 2 nights in a hotel in tullamore. Lol.

The annoying bit is some will try and justify it and tell is its not gouging but a factor of other issues.

Bollix. Its pure gouging and robbery in my eyes.

deezell

You want ripoff? Check out this. I walked up to the clubhouse bar of the Carton hotel where I bought a couple of drinks. Its an expensive place, I was there on an invite, so I was expecting a dear pint Price of a pint and a half on the drinks menu, €6.90 and €3.95. What shocked when I checked my receipt later was the addition of 10% service charge, for serving myself. Absolute gouging. And note on the receipt, they have a space for a TIP ffs!

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120393203#Comment_120393203

Can you not ask for a refund on the service charge?

There is a trend now for adding it to the bill, but my understanding is you can have it refunded.

whomitconcerns

You can ask for it to be removed. But good luck with the 75% of staff that have no idea how to do so and will make you wait ages for a manager...

Montage of Feck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119363316#Comment_119363316

Call it clamping and get the suckers to pay a premium to piss outside.

deezell

I did on the next round, there was 4 drinks on it.

There's shocking gouging going on with the price of a glass of wine. Since the minimum retail price shenanigans, people are paying €8/bottle for what was cheap €4.99 plonk. Thing is, that price hike doesn't apply to restaurants, they still buy at the wholesale price, but are now changing €8 and €9 for a short measure of table wine, taking 5 or even 6 glasses from a 75cl bottle that costs them €5 or €6. €9 for 12.5cl of cheap wine.

Gusser09

€6.90 in Carton sounds about right for a pint of Larger. It's €6.50 everywhere else in Maynooth so I'm not shocked.

But yeh I'd have argued about the service charge. That's theft.

suave.4u

will anything change? I guess not.

Prices will only go up

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120393635#Comment_120393635

I would say the average pint of lager in Dublin is now over 7 euros.

but everywhere is hopping.

deezell

Must be all the hops they put in the beer, unless you mean hopping mad at the prices charged. The €10 pint can't be too far away. The €20 barfood burger and chips is already a reality.

tayto lover

I'll not be drinking in Dublin again. Was fleeced in several pubs at the weekend. 7.50 for a pint of lager when its only 5 euro in my local in Dundalk.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119363076#Comment_119363076

Compare the insurance costs, rates, electricity etc and then you will see why things are more expensive in Ireland.

monseiur

The punters/drinkers have to vote with their feet, after a few weekends with with bar stools, silent tills/tap tap, idle bar staff the rip off merchants will get the message. Hit them in their pockets, that where it really hurts.

josip

I was in Kennedys for the first time since my student days a couple of months ago. The Guinness was brutal, I don't ever remember it being that bad, even when it was mainly a student pub. Way better pints in the Lincoln Inn.

deezell

Small glass of wine is up 50%, though wine is as cheap wholesale as it ever was. They pulled this stunt by saying wine went up because of minimum pricing, the 4.99 bottleis now 8 minimum, but that only applies to retail. The cnuts will use any excuse to fleece customers. Its disgusting being asked €9 for a measly 15cl glass of house wine. I bought a full bottle of wine in Holland for 2.99 in their AH supermarkets, same wine that was 8.50 a glass here in a bar restaurant.

Tip; btw, you can bring liquids through Amsterdam airport security, they have the new intelligent scanners, so 4+ bottles in you cabin bag, no probs.

Tazz T

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120635381#Comment_120635381

Nine times out of ten the wine is horrific too.

Count Dracula

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119363191#Comment_119363191

I would say you are talking Rochdale or Stockport or similar toilet housing schemes. The Bulls Head or the Red Lion or say The Vultures Perch etc. Full of mild neo Nazi types you think that Enoch Powell was some sort of a British Patriot. I would rather get the train to Bradord, or Leeds, nicer pints in Yorkshire... and people.

Manchester is immensely overrated and quite bland. A bit like their cheap pints.

Geuze

It is the Hare and Hounds pub in Shudehill, Manchester, as you can read at the link.

This is within the inner ring road, so it is not in the suburbs.

£2.90 in July 2022, about 1km from main railway station.

Under 3.50 euro for a pint, compare that to Dublin.

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120649670#Comment_120649670

You prefer Bradford over Manchester?

You are the first :)

Count Dracula

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120653521#Comment_120653521

Still a kip I would say.

Full of Mancunian dole hounds, Altringham Fans and Bar Fly's with war stories about the Hacienda.

Does it have any Lowry prints signed by Status Quo?

Geuze

Tandleman does not visit "kips".

https://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/two-fab-pubs.html

waterwelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120635322#Comment_120635322

They do vote with their feet and that's why pubs are packed.

I'd say in reality the serial moaners are a tiny minority.

deezell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120656249#Comment_120656249

The 'serial moaners' are mostly working people who are puzzled why their income is almost entirely consumed paying day to day living expenses, and have so little left for amusement, and when they do venture out it's extortionate.

Even a bottle of wine at home has been inflated by double thanks to the nanny state minimum pricing. The hospitality industry are pretending they had to pay this massive hike on beer and wine, (they didn't) and used it to hoist beverage prices far beyond inflation. €6 to €8.50 for a glass of plonk is a fairly average hike over the last two years, thats a 41.5% increase.

There will always be young people who will blow their weeks pay in the pubs, they did in the 70s when the country hadn't an arse in its trousers, but the pubs were packed.

Btw, the Munster fans in Cape Town last week paid €2 a pint.

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120655193#Comment_120655193

What's your point though? Are there similar pubs in Ireland where the dole scroungers drink for 2 quid a pint? No.

Uk would have fairly similar costs of running a pub as there are in Ireland so it shows you the profits the publicans are raking in over here. I was never more happy to see them having their arses handed to them during covid. Fxxk them.

deezell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120661593#Comment_120661593

The minimum pricing farce had nothing to do with rehabilitating winos and ditch drinkers, rather it was a ploy to make it less attractive to drink at home (or in a field). It was a sop to the VFI and restaurants. They've now levered the high off license cost of wine/beer to restore the relativity to licensed premises cost, making it less obvious you're being fleeced. The consumer is now unaware how little 500ml of beer or a bottle of table wine actually costs, until you go abroad. The vintners still have huge influence, the VAT and duty take is enormous, so revenue are happy to conspire with them to empty your pockets for a few litres of what is 95% tap water.

Count Dracula

You think publicans are making money ?

Never been easier to get a licence.

Count Dracula

You will never gain a drop of respect by trying to politicise the price of booze.

Clowns.

waterwelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120662153#Comment_120662153

There are always pubs closing down and pubs for sale.

The serial moaners never want to acknowledge this though, always highlighting the most expensive places, while 200 metres down the road a pint could be €4.50 instead of €6.50.