Experience Cork

08/07/2021

Real cork experience

20/09/2019

We are delighted here at Cork Heritage Pubs to once again be involved in this year’s Cork Oyster & Seafood festival celebrating some of the world’s finest ingredients right here on our door step! As part of the festival a number of the Cork Heritage Pubs will be shucking shells and digging in! R...

29/12/2018

WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN

*** 80S NIGHT | NEW YEARS EVE | THE BODEGA | FREE ENTRY | 9PM ***

Win a booth and a round of 80s cocktails for 5 people to celebrate Electric Dreams being back in the Bodega for New Years Eve. To enter just say "Happy Christmas" and we will pick a winner tomorrow (Christmas Day). Easy!!!!

Happy Christmas everyone

11/12/2018

Party like it’s 1918!

Our resident currency expert has been doing the numbers and we finally have a pint for the 1918 equivalent! from 19:18 on 18/12 we will be serving pints of Beamish for 7c while stocks last

24/10/2018

Times were a-changin', and the beer industry a-changed with 'em. But if you find yourself at a bar with a beer man from the '80s, order a drink, sit back, and let the war stories flow. You'll be glad you did. 😉

23/10/2018

Now here's a story that you could tell your grandchildren!!

The Boys who ran away to New York.

In 1985 two boys from Darndale in Dublin, Keith Byrne (10) and Noel Murray (13), both made headlines around the world when they hopped on a Dart and ended up in New York escaping authorities in three countries.

Keith Byrne said that he and his friend went to the United States because he wanted to see his favourite television star, B A Baracus, of The A-Team.

Their adventure started when they went out to play before dinner time, Keith said in an RTÉ Radio documentary broadcast last month: “My mum said: ‘don’t go far, your dinner’s nearly ready,’ ”he recalled. “I said: ‘I won’t.”

But they did. They took the Dart to Dún Laoghaire and snuck on to a ferry to Holyhead. Emboldened by their success, they avoided the ticket checkers and got on a train to London. Eventually they wound up at Heathrow airport with nothing but a few coins they’d nicked from a charity fountain.

Once there they asked a random passenger where his plane was going and he told them New York. They told the ticket checker and security their parents were behind them, and boarded an Air India plane.

“The plane was only half full so no one came near us,” he said. Their ease at slipping past the authorities was even more surprising given the fact that, two months earlier, an Air India jet had blown up off the southwest of Ireland, killing 329 people.

Byrne recalled being unable to eat a very hot Indian curry and watching the James Bond film A View To A Kill.

Their journey came to an end when they left JFK airport and asked a policeman for the way “into town”. They were taken to a police station where they immediately became the centre of attention. Authorities were taking no chances and they were put in a hotel suite with five security guards. “There was BLTs, chips, everything, fed us like lords. We loved it,” Keith said.

Their exploits made the front page of the New York newspapers.

Keith Byrne is now 43 and Noel Murray is 46. Both live in Darndale.

PHOTO: Keith Byrne with his mother, Theresa, at Coolock Garda Station, 1985.

Photographer: Dermot O'Shea

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23/10/2018

22/10/2018

17/10/2018

Yes, these whiskeys are available on the Experience Cork Tour!!!!

Powers John’s Lane 12 Years Old Crowned Best Irish Whiskey

Irish Distillers, maker of the world’s most well-known and successful Irish whiskeys, has scooped a remarkable 24 Gold or above medals at the recent International Spirits Challenge and San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Top honours were awarded to Powers John’s Lane 12 Years Old, scooping Best Single Pot Still Whiskey and Best Irish Whiskey at the annual tasting in San Francisco.

In addition, Redbreast 12 Year Old Cask Strength claimed its fourth Double Gold medal in a row at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition – a testament to the consistency in quality of single pot still Irish whiskey craftsmanship at the Midleton Distillery, County Cork. With four Gold or above medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, Redbreast has once again cemented its place as the most decorated single pot still Irish whiskey in the world.

24/09/2018

On this day in 1977 "The Love Boat" was aired for the first time!

TV Opening

21/09/2018

Have a great Culture Evening/Night everybody. Here are just a few tasters for what is on offer......

The Sin E: Lee Sessions Trad Session from 18:30.

Crane Lane Theatre: Latin night event playing the best in Reggaeton, Salsa, Merengue, Bachata & Samba from 21:00.

Old Town Whiskey Bar at Bodega: 5pm - 6pm: RSVP (Red
Sandstone Varied Productions) film and A Night on the
Town; musical theatre performance. 6pm - 8pm: Traditional
music on the terrace. 8pm - 9pm: RSVP film and A Night on the Town; musical theatre performance.

Rising Sons Brewery: A guided tour of a city center micro-brewery, with a history of beer, the process involved, and a short tasting. Brewery tours at 6pm, 7pm and 8pm. All last
45 mins.