For those not going to Poland, are pubs the places to watch the games??

[legendz]

Just wondering what's the general view on pubs for games. Many have tvs in the worst possible positions. They offer atmosphere but no view! I don't get many having an obsession with other tv stations from across the water either. We'll criticise RTE but I'd still prefer to be watching their coverage.

[BonnieShels]

There is no better channel than RTÉ to watch a tournament.
There are some great pubs to watch the games in Dublin but that may be a bit of a trek for ya.

[Stuttgart88]

I have a bee in my bonnet about this - don't go to Doheny & Nesbitts. Pictures of Ireland's great sporting heroes adorn the walls: rugger players, GAA legends, racehorses, golfers, the works. Not a single footballer. No Giles, Brady or McGrath. It really bugs me. Same as the new arrivals walkways in Terminal 2 in Dublin airport. Sportsmen and women of all codes, actors, politicians, playwrights etc. Any footballers? Not one. The queen's visit...? We're not all in this together. We're in this amongst ourselves so go watch it amongst ourselves.

Rant over.

[BonnieShels]

Nesbitts is a crap bar anyway.
Only place to watch a match is from a barstool I've been told.

[tetsujin1979]

I have a bee in my bonnet about this - don't go to Doheny & Nesbitts. Pictures of Ireland's great sporting heroes adorn the walls: rugger players, GAA legends, racehorses, golfers, the works. Not a single footballer. No Giles, Brady or McGrath. It really bugs me. Same as the new arrivals walkways in Terminal 2 in Dublin airport. Sportsmen and women of all codes, actors, politicians, playwrights etc. Any footballers? Not one. The queen's visit...? We're not all in this together. We're in this amongst ourselves so go watch it amongst ourselves.

Rant over.
D&N is a massive rugby pub, and always has been so I'm not surprised. I worked in a bank many, many moons ago and it was a favourite haunt of the senior management.

The Wool Shed and Sinnott's are great bars for sport (although neither is a "sport" bar).

[Charlie Darwin]

I've just received delivery of my barstool from IKEA so I'll have the best view of all the games on my premium Sky Sports package.

[the bear]

the living room on cathal brugha street

[nigel-harps1954]

Meh, I'm getting a brand new TV this week, nice sofa a couple of metres from the TV itself. Nice fridge is only a reach away from the sofa. I don't see why I'd want to go anywhere else to watch it.

[BonnieShels]

My two favourite bars in Dublin to watch matches are The Lotts snug and MacTurcaills.
There's two seats in each of those that are incredible spots once you get in on time.

[seanfhear]

Pubs are supermarkets of sin.

If you are looking for sin they are the place to go.

Seriously though I prefer to watch the Irish matchs at home. I do a better class of suffering at home,

[SkStu]

its very much an individual thing. I usually watch on tv or laptop at home (depending) with a couple of friends, some wings and beer...

That said, planning on a trip to the local Irish pub for the Irish games. The first will be me in my irish jersey and my 7 or 8 checkers-clad, picnic-blanket looking Croatian in-laws... no matter what, its going to be drunken afternoon fun for 90 minutes (and hopefully longer) :)

[Yard of Pace]

I find it impossible to watch a match properly in a pub. You can see the action but I find I tend to miss out on the small details that allows one analyse a game as much as is possible to do it watching on a telly. That said, the atmosphere should be great and I think a lot of pubs will let you reserve a table, so it'd be worth getting on that and sorting something out so you've a guaranteed decent view. It'll be a long, enjoyable day with Italy Spain beforehand, looking forward to it. As to which pub, probably somewhere out in leafy south Dublin.Don't think I could handle the crowds in the pubs in town.

[theworm2345]

Seriously though I prefer to watch the Irish matchs at home. I do a better class of suffering at home,
I'll be holed up in my room hunched over the computer watching an RTE stream (if my proxy works), muttering curses while my foot doesn't stop tapping for two hours.

I've gone to a pub twice to watch Ireland in Chicago, away to Germany in 2006 and then away to Cyprus a month later...needless to say I'm in no rush to get back.

[ArdeeBhoy]

Nothing has changed in 6 years ?

[elroy]

Dont mind watching games in pubs but only games that I just interested in as opposed to passionate about.

Hence why Ireland games, I watch at home, literally on the edge of my seat for the 90+ mins.

[The Legend]

anyone watching this in San Francisco? trying to decide which pub to watch it in.

[IsMiseSean]

The last time I watched an Ireland game in the pub was the 2nd leg playoff against France. I have never returned....

[BonnieShels]

The last time I watched an Ireland game in the pub was the 2nd leg playoff against France. I have never returned....

That was the greatest pub watching ever. Until 'it' happened. Then I went and got skulled in Whelans.

Watched the game v Estonia in Tallin in Cassidy's in my normal barstool. Great night.

[gastric]

I am praying that we make the quarter final as I will be back in Ireland and the opportunity to watch us play in an Irish pub and experience the atmosphere would be brilliant. C'mon the boys in green!

[nigel-harps1954]

The last time I watched an Ireland game in the pub was the 2nd leg playoff against France. I have never returned....

Watched that in the college bar in Athlone I.T. Also the last Ireland match I watched in a pub. Absolutely amazing until that unfortunate incident. Great banter with about 50 French folks in the bar too.

[legendz]

Meh, I'm getting a brand new TV this week, nice sofa a couple of metres from the TV itself. Nice fridge is only a reach away from the sofa. I don't see why I'd want to go anywhere else to watch it.

Dead right to. Most pubs have tvs in the worst positions. Football fans should expect more.

[legendz]

My two favourite bars in Dublin to watch matches are The Lotts snug and MacTurcaills.
There's two seats in each of those that are incredible spots once you get in on time.
Having to be there on time, this is it like, are any pubs capable of a screen without the hassle?


Pubs are supermarkets of sin.

If you are looking for sin they are the place to go.

Seriously though I prefer to watch the Irish matchs at home. I do a better class of suffering at home,

Home is to place to be. Ideal if we get the weather are house parties/BBQs etc before and after the game.


I find it impossible to watch a match properly in a pub. You can see the action but I find I tend to miss out on the small details that allows one analyse a game as much as is possible to do it watching on a telly. That said, the atmosphere should be great and I think a lot of pubs will let you reserve a table, so it'd be worth getting on that and sorting something out so you've a guaranteed decent view. It'll be a long, enjoyable day with Italy Spain beforehand, looking forward to it. As to which pub, probably somewhere out in leafy south Dublin.Don't think I could handle the crowds in the pubs in town.
This is it again, having to book etc. more hassle. Pubs are all looking to get business in etc. for the games but the deliver little. Still though, hope to take them in for after match celebrations!

[boysingreen]

I hate the trade off between the atmosphere of pubs and comfort/view of home. Nonetheless, I'm wired to go to a local pub for any big games, provided I have the opportunity to watch them live.

For me, that's The Heritage in the Woodlawn section of the Bronx. Watched our WCQ win over Holland there, which was my first big Irish team moment, so feel I have to be in that spot for big games.

Will be there Sun. As for the other two games, will be watching at home since my brother won't be able to watch them live/work. So will wait and fire up the DVR with him, to watch "as live" and cheer like maniacs despite the rest of the world already knowing the outcome.

[Dodge]

I can't watch any game I care about on TV. Pubs are usually full of clueless idiots and I get more annoyed listening to idiots talk about football than pretty much anything else.

Select few mates who have a clue and cans is the only way to watch a game if you can't be there

[PartySaint]

Pubs are usually full of clueless idiots and I get more annoyed listening to idiots talk about football than pretty much anything else.


Sounds like the Camac

[Dodge]

Sounds like the Camac

Not the bit I stand. Knowledgable fellows all round

[paul_oshea]

I can't watch any game I care about on TV. Pubs are usually full of clueless idiots and I get more annoyed listening to idiots talk about football than pretty much anything else.

Select few mates who have a clue and cans is the only way to watch a game if you can't be there

Thats because of your superior intellect and vast knowledge.

I don't believe its just with "soccer" you have that problem.

Actually, in my experience a lot of St Pats fans have this same disease, it must be something inhaled or consumed from the water out that way. :D

[Murfinator]

Bars are great for watching soccer games you don't really care about because you can fill in the boredom with chatter/drinking/pool/. For a serious game I hate being in bars because of the noise and difficulty to get a view, let alone the nonsense from bandwagoners who don't really care at all. I'd actually ideally love to watch big games on my own, no distractions.
Though usually I'll settle for friends/family in a living room. I only drink if its in celebration, I get pretty ****ed off if my team lost an important game, social drinking I can do without. Will head out if we win, cry in a pillow if we lose. :D

[Dodge]

Thats because of your superior intellect and vast knowledge.

I don't believe its just with "soccer" you have that problem.

Actually, in my experience a lot of St Pats fans have this same disease, it must be something inhaled or consumed from the water out that way. :D
See calling it soccer would have you classed with the idiots immediately....

[Lionel Ritchie]

Watched Euro 88 games in the living room at home (aged 15).

Watched Italia 90 in Buddies, Foxes Bow, Limerick. Quality Atmosphere. Tiny pub, no natural light, huge screen. Like watching a game in home cinema that happens to have sawdust on the floor and lots of stoned bikers.

Watched USA 94 in Quins, Ellen Street, Limerick. Utterly inadequate TV but no-one seemed to mind, they borrowed my old bands PA so we could at least hear the commentary. Great vibe.

Watched 2002 at an early morning house party with a fry and cocktails (cameroon), at home sober (Germany) and in Mickey Martins, Augustinian Lane, Limerick. Another excellent atmosphere ...soured only by Saudi Arabias inability to conjure a single poxy goal against us. (I'd a tenner on us to beat the Saudis 3-1 with Gary Breen scoring -36/1)

I'll watch this one through my fingers while cowaring behind the couch. :o

[ArdeeBhoy]

anyone watching this in San Francisco? trying to decide which pub to watch it in.

http://foot.ie/threads/167447-Euro-2012-Watching-from-abroad

[CraftyToePoke]

Watched Italia 90 in Buddies, Foxes Bow, Limerick. Quality Atmosphere. Tiny pub, no natural light, huge screen. Like watching a game in home cinema that happens to have sawdust on the floor and lots of stoned bikers.

Ha ha, memories there, was that the place with the big Phil Lynott mural up the gable end of it? Gone I think now.?

[Noelys Guitar]

At Euro 88. Watched 1990 mostly in the Spinning Wheel West London. Watched 1994 in Ned Kelly's Den Haag, Holland. 2002 Slattery's Rathmines. Will be in Mulligans Hoboken, New Jersey on Sunday. Great football pub just across from Manhattan. A lot of fans who used to travel to the games and a lot of league of Ireland fans hang out in this pub.

[SolitudeRed]

Going to be in Madrid for the group stages :( should be interesting when we play spain! Have to scope the place out for somewhere to watch the Ireland games!!

[paul_oshea]

i was at home watching Ireland in the 1990 world cup, bar the romania game, i was about 8, i think it was the burlington, and this man put me on his shoulders so i could see the game, he kept me there for a good half an hour, i was obviously very happy but im sure he must have got tired, was a very nice gesture cos i would have seen nothing. I remember he had a curly bob of hair and when he was jumping and i was jumping i was holding on for dear life by his curly hair. Weird the things you remember.

1994 we were in chateaux (or chiteau as i liked to call them) in france, i know my brother was wishing he was back in ireland in a pub. My father scoured the place for a tv so we could watch the matches, the place was very boring, like most of brittany/normandy and the Italy game must have been on about 2 in the morning, Cantona tipped us to win 1-0 on French TV, but we still had a great time watching it, even if it was just me and my brother.

2002 I was in boston, watched cameroon after we had a house party about 4 in the morning, ringing my mates who were in a pub at home getting sandwiches and drinking beer about 8 or 9 in the morning, germany game watched at home before work, was quite late for work but they were ok about it even though the "soccer" world cup meant nothing to them, in the now defunct Irish embassy for the Spain game, I've never been so down in the aftermath of a game, and for so long, and p1ssing me off these stupid dubs south siders - friends of friends - no real interest in soccer laughing and having the craic an hour later.

2012 - Ill be watching in Poland :) As you all should :)

[Lionel Ritchie]

Ha ha, memories there, was that the place with the big Phil Lynott mural up the gable end of it? Gone I think now.?

Gone 20 years if a day. :(

[Stuttgart88]

a lot of league of Ireland fans hang out in this pub.There's a deliberate mistake in there, surely?

[Stuttgart88]

1988 I was in the middle of my UCD second year economics repeats. Fail, and I was out of college!
1990 I was in Italy
1994 I was in USA but went home after Norway game. I ***ing hated Orlando and wasn't going back.
2002 I was in Japan but not Korea.
2012 Poland (and London for last game)

[Dalymountrower]

Special match night deal in the Home of Irish Football, 4 pints a Burdocks snack box and a choice of three bars and 5 TV`s- Dalymount Park, 15 Euro a pop or 40 Euro for all three group matches

[nigel-harps1954]

I have suddenly half changed my mind. Bar up the road from me, Voodoo Lounge, has 1 euro pints of Heineken for the tournament. Yes. €1. Every other pint is also €3 which is handy.

[bennocelt]

I have suddenly half changed my mind. Bar up the road from me, Voodoo Lounge, has 1 euro pints of Heineken for the tournament. Yes. €1. Every other pint is also €3 which is handy.

Jeez now thats an offer too good to miss

[nigel-harps1954]

Jeez now thats an offer too good to miss

See it's a massive toss up between my new tv, few mates, and cheap cans..or a loud bar, €1 pints, and lots of big screens.

[BonnieShels]

Special match night deal in the Home of Irish Football, 4 pints a Burdocks snack box and a choice of three bars and 5 TV`s- Dalymount Park, 15 Euro a pop or 40 Euro for all three group matches

Am I the only one who read that with initial excitement only to realise it wasn't Termonbarry he was on about. :(

[Charlie Darwin]

It's Tarmonbarry!

[BonnieShels]

It's Tarmonbarry!

Jaysus Charlie. You need to be re-indoctrinated... BULLIT!!!

[mark12345]

Seriously though I prefer to watch the Irish matchs at home. I do a better class of suffering at home,

A quote for the ages. I think I'll put it on me wall.

[Nailor]

Special match night deal in the Home of Irish Football, 4 pints a Burdocks snack box and a choice of three bars and 5 TV`s- Dalymount Park, 15 Euro a pop or 40 Euro for all three group matches

And a stomach pump to expunge yourself of the canal water they serve behind the bar in there.