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( 01-670 1700; 28 Dame St; all city centre) A big, sprawling bar spread across three floors, the
Mercantile's stock-in-trade has been tourists, mostly of the stag-and-hen type, who fill the
place at weekends and lend it a party atmosphere, which then attracts local lads and lasses
looking for a bit of 'fun'. The music is as loud as the atmosphere is boisterous - you know
what to expect!
MARKET BAR
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(Fade St) An architectural beauty, this giant redbrick-and-iron-girder room that was once a
Victorian sausage factory is now a large, breezy bar that stands as a far more preferable al-
ternative to many of the city's superbars. Unlike virtually every other new pub in town,
there's no music. It also does a roaring trade in Spanish- influenced pub grub.
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GEORGE
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( www.thegeorge.ie ; 89 South Great George's St) The purple mother of Dublin's gay bars is a long-
standing institution, having lived through the years when it was the only place in town
where the gay crowd could, well, be gay. There are other places to go, but the George re-
mains the best, if only for tradition's sake. Shirley's legendary Sunday night bingo is as
popular as ever.
GAY BAR
GLOBE
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( 01-671 1220; www.globe.ie ; 11 South Great George's St; all city centre) The granddaddy of the
city's hipster bars, the Globe has held on to its groover status by virtue of tradition and the
fact that the formula is brilliantly simple: wooden floors, plain brick walls and a no-atti-
tude atmosphere that you just can't fake.
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BERNARD SHAW
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( www.bodytonicmusic.com ; 11-12 South Richmond St) This deliberately ramshackle boozer is probably
the coolest bar in town for its marvellous mix of music - courtesy of its owners, the Bo-
dytonic production crew, that also runs Twisted Pepper ( Click here ) - and diverse menu of
events such as afternoon car-boot sales, storytelling nights and fun competitions, includ-
ing having a 'tag-off' between a bunch of graffiti artists. This place looks like a dump, but
it works because it is the effortless embodiment of the DIY, low-cost fun that is very much
the city's contemporary zeitgeist.
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