‘Kneecap were in six days in one week and Barry Keoghan was in on a date’ – meet the expats running Irish pubs abroad

Expat pub owners tell of everything from having Ryan Tubridy as a local, to essential business trips home for sausages

Archie Dolan, from Darndale, and Conor Myers, from Dundalk, at Bartley Dunne's in New York

Amy Donohoe

What’s the first place many Irish people look for when they’re abroad? It’s the local Irish pub, of which there are around 7,000 globally, with 4,000 in the US alone, according to Forbes.

So whether it’s sunny Spain or across the Atlantic, plenty of us still like to don our GAA jerseys and check out if the Guinness is the same as it is at home.