I suppose I still don't fit the criteria to go in here but I did anyway and I wasn't expelled. It's been around for all my lifetime too - a bit like a credit union in that I thought one had to be a member, Catholic, a man and a worker as with credit unions here one has to be a member and meet the geographical criteria to be so. I think one of the biggest credit unions in the world is the American navy for which one has to be in Uncle Sam's navy. However I digress. I can tell you that this august establishment isn't a throwback to the 1960's as they couldn't now care less if you are agnostic, a Jain or Zoroastrian. Nor do they mind if you've never worked and as for men, well don't get me started, but again it matters not a tinkers curse if you are a man, woman, pan, bi or any other sexual or like me assuredly agnostic in all such matters. It is a comfortable place, it is friendly and I guess what matters most is darn good cheap alcohol. What's not to like. Local hotels here will rip you off but here you can get the same alcohol at about half hotel prices and usually they make you feel welcome, unlike bar staff in the nearby canal court hotel who seem not to fully grasp that customers make paydays. As we are Irish it's important that they deliver great craic (not to be confused with the other sort of crack) banter, frivolity, self deprecating humour or, if the mood takes you, to discuss how you'd change the world so long as the beer is cold and the welcome warm. They had two guys on singing which was a nod to normality and I can think of worse places to be on a cold, damp Saturday night. read more