235) Fagan's of Lower Drumcondra Road, D9

Famed for being the local supping stop of the foul former Taosieach Bertie Ahern (who was known to have said after the first sip of every pint: ‘ahhh- that’s Guinness!’). It's been riding on the coattails of this petty fact ever since – the walls lined with other luminaries who have visited over the years, such as Bono and Bill Clinton. Pretty revolting in its blandness and increasingly gastritis feel, stinking top to bottom of what their website proudly hails as 'bespoke cocktails'.

The Tee Shot Taoiseach, the world’s only Minister for Finance without a bank account - Mr. Bertie ‘Brown-envelope’ Ahern, as bent as a butcher’s hook

The front room may have been a modest and harmless public house once upon a time, but the elephantine interior is testament to obnoxious gigantism, expanding like a malignant growth to cater for the swamp of suits and shitehawks, fattened by bacon and cabbage and cabinet talks, noisily discussing deals done and to be done to death. Their ostentatious wealth sickened us and we were soon gone.

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