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Stillhuntinghenry 
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I think that it's a fella from Derry that is CEO/founder of wetherspoons. Useless
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Clonbhoy
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Posted: 18 Sep 2013 at 4:10pm |
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It is a food led,English country pub, situated in London. And yeah, Tim Martin is from smewhere in the 6
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irishmufc
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Posted: 18 Sep 2013 at 4:23pm |
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Would the independent English pubs be struggling due to the chain pubs over there? I was in a couple of nice independent bars in Edinburgh but feck were they expensive for a pint!Even so Id rather drink in a pub with atmosphere regardless of the price.
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Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.
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Clonbhoy
Roy Keane
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Posted: 18 Sep 2013 at 4:27pm |
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we are a brewery owned tenancy. Yeah a lot are struggling, but if pubs cannot decide o their market and clientele base, they always will and always have.
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irishmufc
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Posted: 18 Sep 2013 at 4:49pm |
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The pub you'd work in.What's your clientele demographic.40+ middle class or a mixture between young and old, families etc?
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Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.
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Clonbhoy
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Posted: 18 Sep 2013 at 4:51pm |
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30 to 70 odd but wealthy
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colemanY2K
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Posted: 18 Sep 2013 at 5:44pm |
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I live in Earlsfield Clonbhoy and there must be at least 5 Youngs pubs within a 10 minute walk. They seem to have south west London wrapped.
Definitely a better standard of pub to wetherspoon but no atmosphere in any of them at night. |
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Stillhuntinghenry
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Posted: 18 Sep 2013 at 5:59pm |
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We should thank our stars that Yates' isn't coming here. It makes wetherspoons look upmarket
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UCDFAN
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Posted: 18 Sep 2013 at 6:24pm |
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Clonbhoy
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Posted: 20 Sep 2013 at 1:37am |
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agreed, Young's have really followed in Martin's fotsteps. Used to work for them, soulless kips. The Sergeant is a great boozer, that is tenanted, not managed though
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Cabra Hoop
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Wetherspoons cheap as chips - was in Liverpool one January and had a January beer sale......pints of Boddingtons 90p and 3 bottles of bud for £2. Very happy to sacrifice "ambience" for prices like these. Also free entertainment having the craic with of the some of the dregs that frequent, both men and women. The key is to get in have your fill and get out before the messing starts. Good spots to start the night off in. On a serious note, it might force other publicans to reduce their prices. The last time they tried to open here the VFI successfully lobbied the govt to stop it.
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colemanY2K
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irishmufc
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Posted: 20 Sep 2013 at 2:50pm |
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Unless Im a student again,Id have atmosphere any day of the week over 90p pints tbh
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Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.
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Posted: 20 Sep 2013 at 2:52pm |
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Exactly sure otherwise you can drink at home for feck all. Saying that nobody wants to be ripped off either.
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colemanY2K
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Posted: 20 Sep 2013 at 5:42pm |
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Unless a pub is full of complete knackers, you'd enjoy yourself anywhere if you're with your mates. Couldn't give a sh*t about the atmosphere, it's the people you're with that will determine whether you enjoy somewhere or not.
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Posted: 20 Sep 2013 at 5:48pm |
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Publicans only have themselves to blame (Dublin ones anyway). If they weren't such theiving bastards Wetherspoons mightn't have been as interested. Anytime I go out I rarely pay less than a fiver for a bottle of Heineken. town or elsewhere.
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Posted: 20 Sep 2013 at 10:19pm |
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Wetherspoons is f**king sh*te. No atmosphere, sh*te beer but it's cheap.
The problem I have with this is the anglicisation of Ireland continues unabated. It seems like everytime I am home it is more and more English. English shops, English newspapers, English TV channels, People in English football teams gear and the first item on the sports news is invariably about the epl. I think it is sad. I see it as an erosion of our culturally identity. We as a nation seem to lap up the crap that the English ship over to us. Wetherspoons make it difficult for independent pubs to survive. A bit of cheaper drink would be nice but is it worth it if it hastens the demise of the uniquely Irish feel of a local Irish pub?
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