Documentary on Irish Pubs RTE1

Bleating Lamb · 13-07-2015 09:58PM #1

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

The Backwards Man · 13-07-2015 10:02PM

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

dodderangler · 13-07-2015 10:03PM

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 · 13-07-2015 10:05PM

dodderangler wrote: »

What about beors and feens shifting?

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

The Backwards Man · 13-07-2015 10:05PM

dodderangler wrote: »

What about beors and feens shifting?

Plenty of backroads and loose boxes for that carry on.

RikkFlair · 13-07-2015 10:08PM

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

JustTheOne · 13-07-2015 10:10PM

Brilliant.

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

The Backwards Man · 13-07-2015 10:18PM

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

smurfjed · 13-07-2015 10:22PM

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

:)

LeinsterDub · 13-07-2015 10:25PM

smurfjed wrote: »

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

Sure they are all jarred

kneemos · 13-07-2015 10:25PM

Haven't seen a female customer yet ?

Banjoxed · 13-07-2015 10:27PM

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

IamNotNumber · 13-07-2015 10:28PM

Can see where Dave McSavage got his material.

OldMrBrennan83 · 13-07-2015 10:30PM

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Lady Chatterton · 13-07-2015 10:32PM

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 · 13-07-2015 10:34PM

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

Nodin · 13-07-2015 10:35PM

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 · 13-07-2015 10:35PM

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 · 13-07-2015 10:36PM

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

HeidiHeidi · 13-07-2015 10:39PM

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 · 13-07-2015 10:46PM

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 · 13-07-2015 10:48PM

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 · 13-07-2015 10:51PM

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

strelok · 13-07-2015 10:54PM

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 · 13-07-2015 10:59PM

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 · 13-07-2015 11:11PM

Is it being repeated?

Aongus Von Bismarck · 13-07-2015 11:15PM

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 · 13-07-2015 11:17PM

waaheeeyy! my local is in it - rather chuffed!

Spanish Eyes · 13-07-2015 11:18PM

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 · 13-07-2015 11:31PM

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 · 13-07-2015 11:48PM

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.

Documentary on Irish Pubs RTE1

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