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Ha, I love this so much. You'd be quite thirsty after a walk like that - good thing there are plenty of pubs on Baggot Street :)

So you're saying the only way to walk across Dublin without passing a pub is to walk past the Guinness brewery? :)

You can't walk in there and have a pint! So it's OK IMO :)

You can at the Gravity Bar [0] but with this route you don't pass the entrance so it's all good :)

[0] http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/Index.aspx

Great piece of work. Four years later and many pubs must have closed...in the UK at least it has been that around 30-50 pubs closing every week.

Perhaps there would be more alternative routes across Dublin today?

Probably not. In Ireland pub licences are very restricted, and there are only so many. When a pub closes, a new one will buy the licence and move it elsewhere. Rural pubs do close in Ireland, but this route goes through central Dublin. If anything there aren't enough pubs there for the demand.