36) O'Reilly's of Luke Street, D2

Located just under Tara Street Station and built between three 170 year old candlelit arches. It has a gothic and shadowy underground feel. Once popular with students owing to various cheap drink deals – for instance, their 'Cheap Ass Mondays' are proudly advertised on Facebook and offer an array of 2 euro cocktails and head-blowing shots. At its best in the earlier hours, especially when the reflected sunlight, hitting the glassy financial buildings opposite, cascades down on one in brilliant fragments, illumining the drab exterior as a body squats by a barrel. Though one of the first pubs we visited, it was one of the last to be added to this list, memory being fallible and the pub itself forgettable.

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