After competing in the 4 peaks challenge, four of us were making our way back home to the west. Stopped in this well known pub in the centre of kinnegad ( Not Harry's ) for some dinner. Bought the dinner, cost €40. When looking for some uisce, we were told there was no tap water available, and to go to the bar. We were shocked when we learned we had to fork out €8.80 for 4 glasses of water, taking into account the dehydration levels were low enough. Still, we tucked into our dinners, water drank in no time. We had a 2 litre bottle in the car, this was brought in. One of us went up to get some ice, the bar man said no way ! We said what do you mean, we have paid €48.80 in food and drink already, and you wont give us some ice. He didn't like the fact we brought in our own water. After much embarrassing by us to the bar man, he eventually reluctantly handed over the precious ice ! We ate the rest of our dinner, drink our lovely cold water, and left, never to return again. This kind of mean attitude is whats killing the country of all that use to be good. We are a greedy ignorant country, who feel obligated to choke the euro or dollar out of the visitors pocket ! Gone are the days when you would walk into a resturant or pub and feel welcome, we like your company not your money ! Rip off Ireland at your very best, the black pub on your left hand side after Harry's on your way to Dublin side of the road, take a bow, you are the chokers of all chokers ! The EuroChokers !

I used to own a house down in Gorey, up until late last year.
I got a standard Sweet 'n' Sour chicken balls takeaway from them.... the sauce tasted exactly like the tomato sauce you'd get in a tin of kids spaggetti hoops....

Admittedly, I never got that dish again... but their chicken satay was great. Just that sweet 'n' sour sauce I would complain about.

Be very careful if you intend to visit this nitespot, while the staff are certainly friendly the same cannot be said for many of the patrons who seem to regard the word "stranger" as a synonym for "target"

If ever you go to the aran islands be sure to NEVER go with Island ferries. I went with them with my family a few weeks ago and had the most unfriendly service I have ever come across. Staff ran past us on the boat almost knocking over my 5 year old daughter. My wife was feeling sick and I asked the staff if there was anything she could do to feel better and they just shrugged. I have never come across such a rude group of young people in my life and I hope I never will again. As for when I went to buy my ticket. They meade a mistake and instead of apologising they got defensive and I left feeling like I had done something wrong. never again will I go with them.

On the same trip, I was in the restaurant Zuni on Patrick street.

Lovely bar out front, and a stylish restaurant.

Though I almost fell off my chair when I saw their prices. €10 for started and €21-22 for a main course. €7-9 for desert. And €33 for a bottle of Sancerre....

The food was nice, the service efficient, and it was a great evening....

But still.....that's a hell of a lot of money.....

Just back from a few days in Dingle, its a great place to visit and a beautiful part of the country.

May I recommend a restaurant called the Beginish on Green Street, near Dick Mac's Pub and the Church. Great sea food restaurant in very pleasant surrounds, the staff and management make you feel very welcome and make sure that all is OK for you. Well worth the money and value.

On the other side of the coin I also went to Paidi O Se pub in ventry for a bit of lunch one day and ordered a "Roast Ham Sandwich" for €3.50 and this is what I got for it.

2 slices of normal white bread
2 slices of normal ham (nothing special at all)
and only 1 slice of bread was buttered.

No salad, no dressing, no mayo, no chips, nothing.

I feel that this place is taking the p--s of people both Irish and
visitors because of the name of the place, its a disgraceful that people can serve up this crap and thing they can get away with it.

Stayed her last Sept for a hen night. 3 people per room & we were charged €80 per person. That's a rip off!!!

First things first - €8.50, full price, for a Saturday afternoon ticket. Bloody ripoff of the highest order...

And then, €2.65 for a kids sized coke, which was about 10% concentrate, and 90% clear white liquid or whatever it is that they use. The thing tasted like brown soda water.

Disgraceful. And no, I didn't complain. I just won't be going back.

what a joke this is €152 for what? the esb is charging you for the electricity, sky is charging you for its service (where i live i can not n2 without watching it on sky!!!), you bought your own tv. so what is you €152 going on? the salaries of over rated montrose morons.

TP Smiths on Jervis Street, across from rear entrance to Jervis Street Centre.

Was here last Friday having some quiet pints after work. Was sitting at the bar, and my mate noticed something that really disturbed him.

They were serving back slops and/or overflow from other pints back to customers.

They had a reserve of half full (empty ) pints of lager on the tray below the taps.

Whomever had the pleasure of ordering that particular lager would get the half full pint topped up from the tap.

Disgraceful behaviour!!!!!!

€26.50 for 2 adult & 2 child tickets via credit card booking - family ticket not available which I think is unfair needless to say it would have been cheaper but wait for it..... 4 x medium popcorn/coke, 1 small tub Magnum ice cream and 1 bag of Minstrals €29.15!!!
Cost more than the tickets and typical of this bloody country, popcorn has to be one of the cheapest things you can make and the coke was watered/iced to the hilt!!

If visiting the Farmers Kitchen Wexford, don't order the sea food Tagliatelle as I did expecting a big plate of Tagliatelle lavished with a white wine sauce and big chunks of seafood ?. Instead I got a plate with two scoops of potatoes and two veg, with a tiny bowl of Tagliatelle with two very small chunks of fish and 3 prawns......... what a joke

Lunch in Galway city is ridiculously expensive, but Ó Riadas/The Front Door have been a favourite, until recently. I ordered a tuna melt one week and got a large melt with fairly substantial side salad. Went the following week and ordered the same thing, only to get a dish half the side, and one piece of lettuce and a slice of tomato as an excuse for a side salad. They charged me the same price....I have been boycotting since.
Same thing happened in Busker Brownes, their Caesar Salad used to be good value, fairly large, but I got one a few weeks ago and it had shrunk half the size!
THE LUNCHES ARE TOO EXPENSIVE NOT TO BE CONSISTENT AT LEAST!!!

had the total unfortunate experience of eating in what can only be descirbed as one of the bigest rip-off restaurants ever.

the service is appalling, i was left sitting for five minutes before i s could get some water so that i didn't burn my self trying to eat what they call "ocean madness", and which was quite mad....

why do restaurants try and hide the **** they are serving with cheese.

all i can say is really really really don't eat here. food is worse than crap, the service is appalling and the bill, as per usual in totally unjustified...

made me feel sick, and my girlfriend actually got sick.!!
stay away.

I just moved into Lucan last week ( 21/06/04 )
Shopping around for furniture, I browsed around "Jim Langdons" in Liffey Valley.

There was a chunky chocolate brown suede suite, big bulky armrests, that caught my eye.
It cost around €1800 for a 3 seater and a 2 seater package. The shocker was also that it would take 14 WEEKS to deliver... claiming it was custom made.

Argos had, I swear, the exact same suite.
About €650 for the 3 seater, €500 for the 2 seater.
They throw in 6 furry cushions, and said they'd deliver in 35 days.....

I swear it's the exact same sofa, down to the pine coloured wooden legs....

On the positive side, I was very impressed with Powercity. I walked in and ordered a fridge, washer, dryer, dishwasher, TV & DVD.... I expected them to say, well might be able to deliver in a couple of days.
Instead they said, "Ok... when do you want it?", and they automatically text my mobile to confirm delivery time the day before they delivered.

Carvery Lunch

Went there today for lunch and asked for the smoked salmon seafood Penne pasta dish.What I received was a pink sauce with no salmon just some organism's tentacles (squid or octopus I presume) - absolutely vile.The sauce was absolutely covered with these tiny tentacled tubes.Handed it back and settled for the Turkey instead and even that was'nt great.Was actually physically sickened after my visit and I do'nt mean I felt done out of money or anything - will not be going back there ever again !>D

At the back of the Powerscourt Centre.

Was there for Sunday brunch there a week ago. The place is pretty cool, and the service is not bad - nice and relaxed actually, which was good for a Sunday.

 Would probably be considered slow on any other day, or if you were in a bit of a rush.

Only disappointment really was the selection of food. Not great really in my opinion.

Value for money!! Overall I'd say yes, though where can you get any food anywhere these days for less than either €10 or €12.95?

Why would you go to bank of ireland to set up an account these days?

You're just saying to them "here I am, rip me off please"....

Try permanentTSB. Have always had excellent service, and you can work it that you pay no fees at all.