65) Cassidy's of Lower Camden Street, D2

A Victorian pub established in 1856 with a lengthy dark interior and an elevated window seat that gives a fine daytime view of Camden Street [1]. On entry one is met with three unique ancient glass cabinets. This is a wooden delight with intricate wooden carvings, rich gas lamps at the bar and an ornate ceiling and skylight. On sun kissed days the light can bounce off the mirrors relighting the darker corners, on darker days the rooms remain doubly so.

The Guinness here is very fine indeed and much celebrated worldwide. In fact, it was once visited by non other than bloody Bill Clinton. A pint in August 2023 will set you back a fat €6.20. A small smoking area outback is available for fags, and the bar can boast a fine whiskey collection.

Long time barman Jamesie O'Donnell retired in 2022 after 40 years in the business. Nigel, one of the barmen of Corrigan's also claims to have worked here sometime in the nineties. A trad session can be found at weekends when it becomes unbearably stuffed with crowds of drunken loafers many of whom roll out onto the streets.

A ratty little mean-faced gobshite dressed up to meet bloody Bill, The President

FOOTNOTE:

[1] The reader should be relieved to know that we have here listed a pile of pubs further down on Camden street worth pooh-poohing: Anseo (small, dark and dingy), Camden Exchange (entrées, craft beers & cocktails with a big fucking truck parked inside), Camden Bites and Brews (the name is enough!), Huck’s (DJs, dumplings, dickheads and daiquiris, with a wooden crocodile and a flamboyance of flamingos on the roof), Flannery’s Bar & Vintage (cavernous and packed with nightclubbers tripping balls - incidentally, Peter Conlon was witness to an incident that took place outside this very pub which involved some absolute legend, who after having his phone robbed by a nasty junkie skank, managed to retrieve the phone whilst delivering a roundhouse kick to the mouth of said skank, then making a smart dart - he was gone, like a thief in the night).

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