Tigh Neachtain
Corner pub with original snugs and art-lined walls, run by one family since the eighteen-nineties.
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This guide to Tigh Neachtain in Galway follows Richard Martin, the landlord, MP and notorious duellist whose old townhouse the pub's keepers say this once was. It moves from his Hairtrigger Dick years to the animal-cruelty law of eighteen twenty-two, a donkey in a courtroom, and the king who gave him a gentler nickname. Best heard on the corner of Quay Street and Cross Street before you step inside.
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