Man your pumps, Wetherspoons are coming

No, they make a big thing of having Guinness and Jameson; and they've a rake of other EU drinks.

Ya I remember having a couple of cask ales in Salt House, I'd say a good 8 years ago at least. Not for me, feel like it was no longer there last time I went in, maybe 3 years ago.

Yeah, it's the place beside herbstreet. It's a large venue alright, it's been closed for quite a while now.

Big fan of the south strand, well laid out, reasonable prices, staff seem to have copped on early, gonna be my go to spot if we have a decent summer.

ah right thanks, I didnt know they dropped it for pubs and restaurants. Hopefully it gets dropped for everywhere at the end of Feb. I always thought it was pointless in supermarkets when the medical experts said you have to talk to someone for 15 minutes for the virus to be transmitted, Im in and out asap and talking to no-one

I think what beernut means is that pubs can make there own decisions regarding clothing. One example would be some places require you to wear a collared shirt for instance. There are certain things you cant refuse people entry such as race, religion, gay, gender etc but mask wearing as part of a dress code would not come under those laws.

They dont need a specific legal basis unless it breaches some other right with a legal basis.

Like dress code. Or table service only. Or no drinks on stairs or dance floor. It is their call. They are not enforcing a government rule but a 'house' rule within their own prerogative.

It's completely legal for a venue to enforce a dress code. If a mask is part of that dress code then that's their legal entitlement.

It's a private business and as I said earlier unless they break certain rules regarding discrimination It's no different to asking people to wear certain clothes.

There's a pub down my way. Where a woman had dinner with her family ate drank left and then phone the pub back later telling them they had to take down all related covid and health signage and the hand washers.

What sort of world and mentality do folks like this inhabit. She was probably angry and seething enough to give out to the youngwan who takes the bookings on the phone. Morons.

I saw something written on the wall about it when I was there last year, from their own website:

"The pub takes its name from the history of the local area, where Camden Street Upper and Camden Street Lower form part of an ancient highway into the city of Dublin.

The two streets were previously known as St Kevin’s Port.

In a series of old maps and records, the name is listed as Keavans Port (1673), St Kevan’s Port (1714), Keavan’s Port (1728), St Kevan’s Port (1756) and then St Kevin’s Port (1778) – renamed after the first Earl of Camden.

The name Keavan’s Port/St Kevin’s Port was derived from the church of St Kevin, in nearby Camden Row, said to have been founded by a follower of the sixth-century hermit.

St Kevin also features in the poem ‘St Kevin and the Blackbird’ (1996) by the Nobel prize-winner Seamus Heaney, in which he describes how the Irish saint held out a ‘turned-up palm’ for a blackbird to nest.

Until the 1940s, the property had been the convent of the Little Sisters of the Assumption, established in the 1890s.

The sisters nursed the ‘sick poor’ in their own homes, and their former chapel has been preserved and forms part of the new pub and hotel."

Or maybe it's because we turn on bright lights at closing time when we want people to f off out of the place!

"Closing time.. ugly lights... everybody's inspected" (Prince, U Got The Look)

Spoons in Cork isn’t too bright. I don’t get the obsession with pubs having to be dark.

I actually thought I was losing my sight when I first visited Frank Ryan’s.

It's not just Spoons it's most UK pubs whether they have food or not. Staff I managed in London though I was going loopy when I tried to explain to them that it's important to turn lights down not up in the evening. I found customers in London preferred the dark pubs too it's just they were so used to mediocrity they didn't realize the wanted it till you showed them.

I was in plenty in my almost 10 years over there and its not one or two. Lots of big clear windows and lights on full at night is very common. Most of the exceptions in my experience were in around Soho where there are a lot of pubs in the little pokey traditional style especially round Covent Garden and also the Sam Smiths chain which are all over that area.

No Punk and no Jaipur. How bad do you have to be to run out of the same beer twice 😀