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Temple Bar


The epitome of Temple Bar's commitment to a kind of loud and wonderfully unsophisticated nightlife is this sprawling hotel bar (four bars on five floors), which serves booze, sports and cheesy music to a crowd of pumped revellers. At weekends it gets so busy the bouncers don't even try to keep the crowd from spilling out onto the cobbled streets.


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