Our travel group stopped by to see this wonderful place. It's one of the few thatched roof pubs…read moreleft in Ireland not too far from Dublin. The owner Sean actually was asked by Guinness to help train bartenders to pour the beer correctly. He does on the spot training and you might even get a certificate of a correct Guinness poor. He has lots of stories to tell and maybe one about a ghostly visit. They have an outside area to enjoy the good weather. They provide food and have connections for food trucks.

Perhaps the most beautiful pub in Ireland, certainly the most welcoming. If you are anywhere near…read moreLaois you must visit the friendly thatched bar. Seán is the most informed an entertaining host.

The best pub in the whole of kildare brilliant times brilliant staff and the beer flows like waterread more

Great pub! Great craic, friendly staff and most of all a great pint any day of the week! Five…read morestars!!!!

As I consider getting out of bed for, oh a good three hours... I ponder Paddy's Day. Is it one of…read morethose holidays that lets you down as badly as a much-anticipated New Year's Eve? However, I have come to the conclusion that, unlike New Year's Eve, which is all about planning months in advance, dressing up in something you're probably not comfortable in, paying astronomical entrance fees, and the pressure of having to have someone to kiss at midnight, Paddy's Day is more casual and spontaneous. Yes, the pubs are crammed, but if the day is fine, people spill out onto the streets and drink cans in parks (hiding them from the cops at regular intervals). Parades, concerts and fireworks wake up the normally sleepy towns of Ireland. The mood is merry, people play trad music and dance, girls wear flats and the tricolour flashes itself at every chance. So, donning a green scarf and earrings to mark the occasion, I set off down Newbridge town to drink some cider, soak up the good ol' Irish craic and not care if I've someone to kiss at midnight... Rubber & friends play guitar and bodhrán and sing their hearts out in The Granary as young girls "Irish-dance" in front of the band, looks of serious concentration on their faces, a seven-and-a-half-year-old stopping occasionally to pull up her boob-tube. Only in Ireland...

I first met Mr Fullam around about 1983 whilst on a barge holiday from Scotland. No, we didn't take…read moreit across the Irish Sea, we only came as far as Tullamore! Suffice to say, most certainly from my point of view and also my pal Archie we met a kindred spirit - wife Mairead in the background big time keeping order and what a bloody hard task that was/is! Returned with gangs of people over the years on Dublin weekends and I hope we didn't upset too many people - the most disturbed were our internal organs but then again that was self induced. If you happen to be within a radius of the locus go for it - however mile's you'll have travelled will be more than worth it! Angus MacCuish Aberdeen Scotland angusmaccuish@btinternet.co 07770 366539

The Core appeared to be the only nightclub open in Tullamore on a Thursday, so it isn't surprising…read morethat The Core is where we ended up. When you go in, a man frisks you, paying particular attention to your hips and ankles but not really the rest of you, so you could have two shoulders in your back pockets and not necessarily get caught. It was a tenner in (on account of their monopoly, I daresay), and once inside the door, the place was not dissimilar to the upstairs of that pub on Parnell St, the closest one to O'Connell St where they have all the gigs, you know the one I'm talking about. Anyhow, this left us the teeniest bit disappointed, as we were in the humour for a proper nightclub rather than a live music venue (though the band that were playing were a very serviceable covers band). We stood around for a couple of minutes until one my friends discovered a the nightclub proper, which the owners had for some reason contrived to hide away in the back. Maybe so you'll be pleasantly surprised to stumble across it as we were, who knows? The nightclub was contained on one level, but was really big for that. I have no recollection of what the music was like, but i do remember that there was one really aggressive short guy, and that the bouncers were all enormous men in tuxedos. And the women: who'd have thought that the Co. Offaly was home to so many fine young ladies? So, all in all, The Core made for an offaly good night (couldn't resist, sorry). The Boom Boom Room, that's the place on Parnell St that I was trying to think of. So yeah, just inside the entrance of The Core is like the Boom Boom Room, though that seems like somewhat of a moot point now.

Great little boozer with great staff. Great for parties and all other occasions. Show all the big…read moregames on the big screen so you'll never miss a game