Where I Watch Things

Liam O’Rourke

@latebusliam

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If I’m not in the library pretending to write my thesis, I’m in one of these places pretending to know what ‘expected goals’ actually means. This is my very unscientific map of where I drift between rugby at the Aviva, GAA epics, and whatever random Tuesday-night Serie A the Woolshed has on. Heavy on big screens, reliable pints, and the kind of people-watching you only get when a table of lads is screaming at a bet they definitely shouldn’t have put on.

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Name	Address	City	Sport/Scene	Best time	My take
1Aviva Stadium	Lansdowne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, D04 K5F9	Dublin	International rugby, Ireland football, big cup nights	Evening kick-offs when the lights are on and everyone’s sprinting from work	Feels like half the country shows up, half of them late because they ‘misjudged’ pints in town. Great for spotting dads in old jerseys loudly coaching from row Z.
2Croke Park	Jones Road, Dublin 3, D03 P6K7	Dublin	GAA headquarters, All-Ireland finals, concerts on the side	Summer Sundays when everyone in the ground seems related to someone on the pitch	Peak anthropology: counties screaming at each other, children wielding flags like weapons, and you trying to remember the last time you successfully soloed a ball.
3The Back Page	199 Phibsborough Road, Phibsborough, Dublin 7, D07 A0X2	Dublin	Football-mad pub with pizza, quizzes, arcade bits	Champions League nights or a Saturday when the 3pm games all overlap	Like someone turned a five-a-side WhatsApp group into a building. Everyone has an opinion, nobody has defending, and there’s always one lad revising between matches. Sometimes that’s me.