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O'Donoghue's

Description: 15 Merrion Row / Fon: 01 / 6614303.

Newest Review: ... if this is what you're after you can now visit the newish extension that has recently been opened at the rear of the building. (But if it's a luxury lounge bar you're after, you'd be better served visiting the "Horseshoe Bar" in the Shelbourne Hotel in Stephen's Green, which is only about a 100 yards up the road) But it's the public bar in O'Donoghue's that the tourists come to see ... more

... and which the locals love, with its worn linoleum floors, walls stained brown by the smoke from millions of cigarettes, and wooden bar counters worn down by the passing of countless millions of pints of the black stuff. Mind you, the walls won't be g...more

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O'Donoghue's: How You Doing Prime Minister? (787 words)
by - written on 10/02/08 (Very useful, 106 readings)
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O'Donoghue's bar, located just off St. Stephen's Green in Merrion Row, is quite simply a Dublin institution, and a legend in its own lifetime. To most tourists visiting the city, O'Donoghues is the epitome of everything that an Irish bar should be, and no self-respecting visitor would consider their visit complete without having visited this most famous watering hole at least once. I'm constantly dropping tourists of all nationalities at O'Donoghue's. Over the years its name has spread worldwide (by word of mouth) to the extent that it's probably one of the best known Irish bars on the planet. And a typical old fashioned Irish bar it most ... Read the complete review