Reply To: ruining pubs

…..to add is’nt it ridiculous to see the original interiors gutted to be replaced with mock Tudor beams,makeshift tables and chairs deliberately aged, fake copper kettles and pots, fake stuffed grouse, fake old prints and photos, distressed woodwork and paintwork, mawkish and badly painted murals …etc….etc….What a sham! what a shame! It was okay when there was only the odd pub here and there with this sort of treatment,it was kind of a novelity, but it seems to be everywhere now. Check out the Bodhran Bar in the Forte Crest Hotel at Dublin Airport…. what a contradiction….a rather horrible plain red brick modern building containing an old world sham of a bar….but the tourists love it. As I always mention here, now and again, anyone remember the Irish House Pub which once stood at Wood Quay..now that was a theme pub.