My husband and I are taking my 14 year old daughter to Ireland, we plan to go to pubs, and I have heard that if they serve food in a pub you can take children in with you. Is this true?
Posted by
Atlanta
1358 posts
Most pubs will let kids in there up until a certain time, usually when the live entertainment starts for the night. We recently took a trip with my sister's family, and had her kids, ages 12-17, with us in the pub until about 10pm. Each pub will have slightly different rules and different attitudes about enforcing them.
During the day, we had no problem with having the kids in the pub, even my 7-year-old.
Posted by
Tresana, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
23345 posts
We found it to be hit or miss. When we had our two sons with us in the range of 10 to 15 most places didn't say anything but about every fourth or fifth one would deny us entry because of the kids. Never could understand why some would and some wouldn't.
Posted by
Florida, USA
12172 posts
Like Frank said, every pub seems to allow kids during lunch, most pubs allow kids for dinner but all pubs have a time when kids must leave. The time and ages of kids that must leave seems to be widely variable (I would guess 9pm is the most common but only a guess) it may be based on when they stop serving food.
I've been in an IRA pub in Limmerick where it had lots of kids all night (all part of "the family") and a pub in Killarney where I conversed with a Canadian couple and their two teenage daughters until at least ten or eleven.