Category: Toner’s

Pubs: Let’s hope the really great ones survive and return. I’m aching for a pint in Toner’s!

by paddytm

My friend and colleague Roy Curtis wrote a wonderful piece about pubs in the Sunday World at the weekend. It was quite an emotional piece. Roy, like me and many others, enjoys a good pub and not just because the pint might be magnificent, but because the company might also be magnificent.  And if you … Continue reading Pubs: Let’s hope the really great ones survive and return. I’m aching for a pint in Toner’s!

The George Bernard Shaw wasn’t another Wood Quay. But the Manhattan was close…

by paddytm

There’s been something of an outcry over the news that the George Bernard Shaw, that distinctive pub on South Richmond Street in Dublin, is to close. Sadly, I’ve never been in it – I don’t have any tattoos and I can’t grow a beard. But it’s a place that certainly seemed to be lively any … Continue reading The George Bernard Shaw wasn’t another Wood Quay. But the Manhattan was close…