Above, from left: Jamie Heaslip; Sean O’Brien, Dave Kearney and Rob Kearney
Lemon & Duke
Formerly The Grafton Lounge and, during the boom, Cocoon, petrolhead playboy Eddie “The Swerve’ Irvine’s personal fleshpot.
Lemon Street and Duke Lane Upper, Dublin 2
Sasko writes:
Lemon & Duke. Dublin’s newest bar opens today. Good food, tank beer, a unique draught range and a stylish but welcoming vibe, the all new Lemon & Duke is the latest venture by
formerrugby pros Rob and Dave Kearney, Sean O’Brien and Jamie Heaslip with business partner Noel Anderson, follows their recently extended Ballsbridge [Dublin 4] bar The Bridge 1859.
WEDGIE!
*snaps wet towel*
Chinese Burn!
Etc.
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Former rugby pros?
Does Sasko know something we don’t?
Sorry Rotide, fixed now. Thank you.
Irish rugby players love opening a bar don’t they?
more so than palying rugby it seems. theyre mad for other jobs. maybe that’s why theses particular ones arent much at rugby any more.
looks nice.
Jamie Heaslip will look exactly the same when he’s 70.
Did the Kearney brothers borrow their sisters jeans?
bootcut or nothing, its the bogger way
Not one of those guys suit what they are wearing. Skinny jeans are called skinny for a reason. They are meant for young fellas that you couldn’t make a good soup out of. They are definitely not meant to be sprayed onto rugby players.
https://theidleman.com/manual/advice/the-best-jeans-for-your-shape-men/
They’re not bootcut.
Hated the Grafton Lounge, always full of knobs, though the staff were sound.
Looks like a decent facelift. What’s tank beer?
It still will be, don’t worry.
why is it called lemon & Duke I wonder?
you have access from Duke St so maybe that’s half of it
Lemon Street and Duke Lane Upper
ah, didn’t know there was a lemon St
yeah, the grafton lounge was pox. I was never able to get over the fact that when it opened, yer woman Louise from Fade St was the hostess. Spoke volumes.
No they’re not. Asked for cash back one night. Yer wan was at machine came back and said, sorry it’s broke. I didn’t trust her so I checked on the Monday and €100 had been withdrawn. She thought I was drinker than I was obviously. Gave manager an earful
WTF is Tank Beer?
Beer served from a big metal tank.
Thought that was called a keg? Deffo have to go there when it’s three deep at the bar and have people lift me up lineout style to shout for a beer.
Kegs are small. The tank is a great big thing.
Beer that doesn’t “go off” as quick.
Can be stored up to 3 months instead of (up to) 1 week.
Served from a tank, I think to avoid paying excise (think that’s only paid once it’s out of the processing containers. Although I’m probably wrong).
When you get served you say “dat’s grate tanks’.
Then they bar you.
I thought this was very good Bertie.
Can we please call time on quaint Edwardian shop fronts with an &
what’s wrong with an ampersand?
LOL, the head on Seanie!
Yah like totes.
I love the fact that you’re on top of any working class jibes like a cobra with an offended sense of justice, but first in the queue to generalise when it comes to anything else.
A hypocrite SJW? You don’t say…
And the connection between booze and sports is strengthened once again.
“Roysh lads lets ditch the Heino, its kinda loike being drunk now by middle claw-se sorta fola ya know, lets do some sort of those loike craft beers, haw haw, Robbo what say you”
I wont be near it…
Thank God! I’ll definitely go now.
lol.. I really did lol at that reply Dave :)
Have you heard any of those lads speaking?
Cheap shot was a bit off target…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lksY4CoLUFI
boozhwah. just what ye jackeens don’t have enough of.
I presume Sean o brien won’t mind if you piss in the bins.
Eddie Irvine might have. Ah Cocoon…
Heaslip can’t keep away from side projects .. although running restaurants, bars etc. is a big task so not really side projects. WHich might explain his complacency on the field the last few years. Not fully focused on rugby. Rob Kearney is right to get into this, as his career should be dwindling down now, hasn’t been good in a long time, very wooden in movement and very predictable. Dave is still alright, not as good as before, he should probably concentrate on rugby for now, but he’s in this so that’ll be quite a block to him gettin back on top. O’Brien hasn’t been anywhere near his old form in a while, and with one eye on this venture i doubt he’ll get back to it either. Surprised Healy isn’t involved, he’s another one who likes to drift away from his profession and try his hand at being a celebrity. Will be a good 6 nations for the other 5 nations next year.
As for the bar itself .. yaaaaaaaawwwwwwn .. theyre everywhere now, and all look identical. Nothing unique goin on here, other than tagging on to a dying trend.
If it helps take some of the rugby hangers on out of Kehoes then good.
Ah, Bill from Kehoes. Made you move up the bench to let more people in.
didn’t Eddie Irvine have that place one time?
what ever happened fast Eddie?
Building property in London & NY. Hit the real big leagues financially.
He used to park his car illegally outside and it was always getting clamped.
Totally cool.
That shop front looks terrible. Why go to the bother of putting in new Windows and a new sign if they’re going to leave the big dirty grey facade. Looks a bit half arsed.
yeah the grey makes it look like a Travelodge on a wet day.
“Okay guys, let’s see how unimaginative you really are, hit me!”