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Temple Bar


This super-pub is decorated in two completely different styles – one really gaudy, the other a recreation of LA c 1930 – and is one of the oddest and most interesting in Temple Bar. It pulsates nightly with a young pumped-up crowd of mainly tourists, out to boogie to chart hits. Be mindful of hidden steps all over the place.


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