Based on my experiences, when I think of an Irish Pub abroad, I usually picture them full of lots of English lads watching sports on a Saturday, so the description is not far off really.
bisted
….a fair description of ‘sports bars’ at home, in fairness.
Joe the Lion
completely agree.
Custo
No no no. The food is irish but the sport is British.
Mé Féin
Yum. British food.
Neilo
If it’s a pub in Ireland, it’s an Irish bar. If it’s a pub abroad that’s run by Irish people or that has a truckload of Irish customers, it’s an Irish bar. If it’s in a tourist area in foreign climes and is festooned with dopey diddlaye sh1te and has some dopey bint from Yorkshire behind the counter who won’t change the channel to the All-Ireland, then an Irish bar it ain’t.
Kolmo
Like a lot of ‘Irish’ Pubs on the continent, no Irish person is involved in the ownership, or setting up of them, they may have a surly, functioning-alcoholic manager who may be Irish but has stayed too long ‘in country’ and who’s sense of humour has dwindled like the novelty of being a paddy plying booze to 8 students sipping out of 1 pint for 5 hours….or brainless stag parties
Any correlation between the above story and real events are purely coincidental, but likely.
Al
Indeed, I visited the Irish Cat pub in Budapest in 1997, one friend asked if they had any irish music (as opposed to the german techno that was banging on) the bar man didnt know, he had to ask the manager who put on a U2 CD as it was the only irish music they had
Oh dear.
‘Reckless’……we all partied.
Based on my experiences, when I think of an Irish Pub abroad, I usually picture them full of lots of English lads watching sports on a Saturday, so the description is not far off really.
….a fair description of ‘sports bars’ at home, in fairness.
completely agree.
No no no. The food is irish but the sport is British.
Yum. British food.
If it’s a pub in Ireland, it’s an Irish bar. If it’s a pub abroad that’s run by Irish people or that has a truckload of Irish customers, it’s an Irish bar. If it’s in a tourist area in foreign climes and is festooned with dopey diddlaye sh1te and has some dopey bint from Yorkshire behind the counter who won’t change the channel to the All-Ireland, then an Irish bar it ain’t.
Like a lot of ‘Irish’ Pubs on the continent, no Irish person is involved in the ownership, or setting up of them, they may have a surly, functioning-alcoholic manager who may be Irish but has stayed too long ‘in country’ and who’s sense of humour has dwindled like the novelty of being a paddy plying booze to 8 students sipping out of 1 pint for 5 hours….or brainless stag parties
Any correlation between the above story and real events are purely coincidental, but likely.
Indeed, I visited the Irish Cat pub in Budapest in 1997, one friend asked if they had any irish music (as opposed to the german techno that was banging on) the bar man didnt know, he had to ask the manager who put on a U2 CD as it was the only irish music they had
http://www.irishcat.hu/?lang=en
from banging German techno to U2. I don’t even
Ireland pop : 4m
UK pop: 60m
pick one
Seriously. How f*****in hard is it?