Barfly: The Harbour Bar, Bray, Co Wicklow

A fantastic hodgepodge of experience: scruffy, wild and elegant

Barfly: The Snug, Skerries, Co. Dublin

The retro style of the Snug will cast you back into your own imagination – it’s a calm and elegant place, with a great fire at its centre

Barfly: Bang Bang bar, Teeling Whiskey Distillery

Bang Bang doesn’t shy away from the fact that it’s a working distillery

Ten great Irish whiskeys you’ll want to keep for yourself

Irish whiskey has never been hotter, but discovering what you like takes time. Here, Gary Quinn reveals two of his favourites and those of four other whiskey fans

Barfly: Clarke’s Bar, Drogheda

A bar that loves its place in the world and revels in its own accent

Barfly: the Hanged Man’s pub, Milltown, Co Kildare

An oasis of calm on the banks of the Grand Canal

Barfly: J O’Connells, Skryne, Co Meath

Entire lifetimes have been consumed keeping a fire blazing at the heart of this incredible pub

Making the grade at Dingle whiskey school

This cover story from the Irish Times in 2013 joins a three-day trip to Dingle Distillery that proves the future is bright for Irish whiskey