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Now ye're talking - to a country barman

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  • Boards.ie Employee Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Community Manager


    I've deleted a few off-topic posts. If you don't have a question for our guest, please don't post.

    If you'd like an AMA of your own, apply to do one! You just need to drop me a PM. Or you can be a sub for this guy ion case he doesn't show up ;)

    Hopefully he'll be along this evening to answer your questions. Thanks everyone.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭Reputable Rog


    I've deleted a few off-topic posts. If you don't have a question for our guest, please don't post.

    If you'd like an AMA of your own, apply to do one! You just need to drop me a PM. Or you can be a sub for this guy ion case he doesn't show up ;)

    Hopefully he'll be along this evening to answer your questions. Thanks everyone.

    The pub will have been long closed and the licence sold for an off licence in a petrol station by the time he answers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 993 ✭✭✭ballyargus


    He might be on a split shift


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭degsie


    What's the longest you have ignored posts?


  • Registered Users Posts: 801 ✭✭✭lucast2007us


    Mod should just delete this it's looking like a epic fail

    Whole point of AMA is to have someone available to answer questions straight through for at least an hour


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭johnayo


    Jaysus lads..... This is the best yet:D:D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    Woeful AMA


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    What shifts do you rather Mr barman....?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,327 ✭✭✭Trampas


    Must be regulars only in this thread and I get the barman isn’t one


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭slavetothegrind


    Ah here, you could wait to announce until you knew AMA person was available!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Does the bar open weekdays?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,695 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Still trying to figure out how to plug his typewriter into the telly?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,878 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    drink every time someone asks a question and he doesn't answer


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭archer22


    Wouldn't like to be waiting to get served in his pub :eek:.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Do you always take the Wednesday off?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Here Niamh - could you ask your barman mate a question for me?! :pac:


    This is already running the prostitute AMA close for best AMA. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,758 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Maybe he's in the Kerry Gaeltacht and he can't understand us.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Fann Linn wrote:
    Maybe he's in the Kerry Gaeltacht and he can't understand us.


    Ca raibh tu? An bhfuil tu ag obair?


  • Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭SimpleDimples


    Do you still serve G&T in a straight glass or have ye converted to ridicilous fishbowl glasses too?

    Do you ever feel bad serving local alcoholics?

    Do drunk customers hit on you often?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭Jennehy


    Did you ever bang a sneaky pink or brown on the pool table while no customers were around?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,574 ✭✭✭✭josip


    LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TIME PLEASE!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭archer22


    Do you still serve G&T in a straight glass or have ye converted to ridicilous fishbowl glasses too?

    Do you ever feel bad serving local alcoholics?

    Do drunk customers hit on you often?
    I doubt the alcoholics go there...they would be gone into delirium tremens if his serving time is anything like his response time here ha ha.


  • Company Representative Posts: 128 Verified rep I'm a country barman, AMA


    dinorebel wrote: »
    Did I leave my glasses on the bar?
    Did you not see the ebay listing 😂


  • Company Representative Posts: 128 Verified rep I'm a country barman, AMA


    myshirt wrote: »
    If a man asked for blackcurrant in his Guinness, how would you (as a proud country barman) feel inside?

    Potentially I am way off the mark, but I'll ask anyway.

    There is actually a polish body builder that rarely calls to the bar. He drinks Guinness with black currant. It's blasphemy


  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ Ada Inexpensive Sunburn


    He drinks Guinness with black currant. It's blasphemy

    Well I’d drink it after I had to wait this length on getting served :P


  • Company Representative Posts: 128 Verified rep I'm a country barman, AMA


    Have you ever taken the keys off someone?

    Have you ever had to refuse to serve?

    Any fights?

    Do you sometimes feel like a councillor?
    Yes a few times and then drove them home
    It would be rare that I would refuse someone. Most people in the bar only have a few pints. There is another bar in the village where the drunk people get served .
    No fights in this bar luckily enough. Although I have seeing my fair share in a city bar I worked in Limerick.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,940 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Are the urinals in the men's, the ones that hang from the walls or the stinky gully one in the floor that should have been outlawed in 1920?

    To thine own self be true



  • Company Representative Posts: 128 Verified rep I'm a country barman, AMA


    on behalf of patrons of small country pubs everywhere I salut you


    what do you see the future of the country pub being
    At the heart of the community but the customers relying on the publican or bar staff to drive them home at night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭bobwilliams


    No offence u seem lovely if a little boring.
    Have you tried cocaine or any other Class A drugs??


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  • Company Representative Posts: 128 Verified rep I'm a country barman, AMA


    miamee wrote: »
    What kind of a shop is it, is it one of those ones you see where people are sitting up at the bar which also doubles as the shop counter or is it a separate shop? I find the other ones fascinating being from a very urban upbringing. You'd see all sorts on the shelves in them, wellies, rat poison, rope, a hammer, lol. Maybe it's not that kind of shop.

    More serious question...have drink driving laws had much of an effect on business there or on how some people, particularly the older generation make use of the bar?
    Would they come less often now or are they more likely to come in groups (i.e. with a designated driver) rather than alone? The Healy-raes would have us believe that the newest drink driving limits will kill off the bar business altogether, would you agree with that or do you think it will have any effect at all?
    The shop and post office are separate to the bar. More like a regular shop, no wellies or rope.

    The drink driving laws have had a huge effect on the rural bars. The older generation still drive to the pub and drive home. They may have 2 pints in 2 hours and was pass the breathlyser. A lot of the younger generation drink at home.

    I do think the new drink driving limits will cause a lot of bars to close.


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