How often do you go to the pub?

I was in the shops friday night after work and the bars & restaurants around grafton st were jammers.

Everywhere was overcrowded but great atmosphere in the sun alright.

Late 40's male. Living 15mins outside limerick city the last few years and have started stopping in to the 'local' 2 or 3 times a month. 2 or 3 pints max. Even stopped in on my own recently - and got chatting to 2 locals. Something kinda refreshing about shooting the breeze with people that aren't close family or friends. The conversation is light… current events, sports, shared interests… Stop for an hour or 2… Amazing to see so many men on their own - whomping pints - followed by a few small ones - then into the car, pie-eyed. Rural Ireland is rife with drink-driving.

Unlike when "the lads" get together - then it's a 12 pint session (in town) and dodging the ones that want to tell you all their marital/financial/other woes. CHRIST - I'm out for a drink and the craic. Leave the doom and gloom at home FFS.

I love going into pubs. Just not "going down the pub". It has become something I do when traveling or getting out and about.

If I go anywhere - be it Germany to meet old friends who live there - or down to sligo and cork where the gfs are from - or on the road for any reason I love going into a pub. Especially a pub with food - my sister lives in the countryside in the UK And going into pubs over there is GREAT. There is a pub in essex that does the best Lamb Shank I have ever had. And playing "dice" with old guys in UK pubs is great.

But here at home that love of "Going down the pub" has totally gone. The ritual and the local and the tradition of that has totally soured for me. There's a hundred things I'd prefer to do with my mates than drop near or over 2 figures on a pint of schlop the barmen don't even know how to pull any more.

Very rural Wicklow: every back-of-beyond pub is packed on Sunday afternoons and bank holiday afternoons- those kinds of pubs. Drinking and driving is rampant.

In my late 40s now and only go for pub pints a handful of times a year, and its usually forced. I used be a very regular pub goer in my 20s and 30s. My 40s saw it dwindle, but the pandemic broke habits and removed the want. I'm not counting once a month stopping off in some pub for grub randomly

Once or twice a week depending. Rarely more than 4 or 5 pints normally. Pubs are moving away from drink now it's food and wine.

I just don't bother with drinking these days! I'm not fully teetotal but I'd say 3 times a year max. Just doesn't float my boat anymore.

25 year old me would be very disappointed in me now 😆

Thats true to an extent but its still a capital city surely there should be plenty of others that didn't go forbidden fruit or down the country. In London you would never say Oh the pubs are empty because all the 20 somethings are at Glastonbury, that wouldn't make sense, Dublin is a big enough city itself now . Wasn't there the mini marathon in Dublin this weekend surely the pubs afterwards should be busy as people are celebrating finishing it or making a weekend out of it?

Sorry but I call bullshit on this. Name the bars? Few of my friends were out and, based on their feedback, the places they were in were rammed. They mentioned Kehoes and Ryans.

My own experience of Dublin bars is they are flying it any time I visit.

Forgot the CL final was on in Saturday, arranged to meet a friend in Bradys in Terenure. Hadn't been in a pub since February, thought it would be busy but we arrived in at half time in the match and there were loads of seats available and it emptied pretty quickly after the match. Couldn't believe how quiet it was tbh.

Late 40s and live in large provincial town.

There were 52 pubs here in 1996.Theres 18 now (although 2 new pubs have opened in the last year)

My local isnt your typical pub.Theres comedy nights,salsa dancing,board game nights,trad sessions,seperate function rooms,loads of interesting local beers on tap,Pizza truck,lots of other good stuff.

The Clientele is 30s to 50s so it basically the same faces id see on a night out 30 years ago.Some people might see that as a negative but i think its great.Everybody is on the same buzz,there no young lads doing sneachta in the jacks.I kinda feel old in other pubs watching and listening to that sh1te.

Big selection of NA beers so i still go there when im off the sauce,working early etc.

I probably go twice a week,i had my 40th there,day two of my wedding,its more like a community centre.I love it and its a big part of my life.