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The dice have been rolled one last time for the Dice Bar, and the popular Dublin 7 pub, which has filled with locals and been entertained by the international media for over 20 years, has had its last pint.
Pub operator Kieran Finnerty confirmed the change to The Irish Times on Wednesday.
He has run the bar on Benburb Street since 2000, but said a confluence of events that caused his lease to run out just as the closing began in March and the impact of Covid-19 on the pub’s commerce forced him to quit. another option than to close forever.
Dice Bar has been acclaimed in the international press in recent years and The Guardian described it as a “fun and playful bar” in 2016 in a piece that referred to Stoneybatter and its surroundings as a “little Williamsburg by Liffey”, a reference. to the super trendy neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
And two years later, the New York Times painted the picture of a “lively corner joint with worn leather booths and a homey atmosphere.”
Finnerty confirmed that he will not reopen when the Covid-19 restrictions end and will instead look for a new place to practice his trade, though not before making an extended visit to Cuba.
“The closure is up to Covid,” he said. “But the lease also ran out on March 31, and in a way I guess that’s lucky. I could have spent the last few months bleeding money. “
Finnerty said his plan is to “open something again next year, and right now everything from the dice bar, all the accessories and accessories, are in a shipping container in the country.”
He said he had no idea where the new company might be, but suggested he would have no problem finding a location.
“I think the harsh reality is that in the new year, unfortunately, there will be an avalanche of closed places. I mean, just look at Dublin today – it’s as dead as Good Friday, and it’s been that way for months. I don’t think it’s until next summer [a new venue], and I would like to see us open maybe somewhere close to where we are now. “
Finnerty said he had missed the regulars who have been walking through the doors since the bar opened.
“But what happens is that the regulars of that time have aged and maybe they are no longer so habitual. They may only come to the inn once or twice a year, but they still come and we’ve always been good at bringing in younger people. “
He said that what had been happening throughout the pub sector since the crisis began in March was “terminal and will be terminal for so many pubs. It is not just us, it will be all the pubs that suffer ”.
“One of the people I regularly meet on the street outside the pub told me at the beginning of the confinement that it takes 30 days to make a habit and 90 days to break it, and with so many pubs closed for more than 90 days, I would have than wondering how much the habit has been broken now. “
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