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McSwiggins on Eyre Street Galway is a warren of dark-wood rooms and gas fires that feeds a lunchtime crowd then stays loud with live music until midnight.
Signature drink: Pint of Stout and a toasted sandwich at the bar
Food: Bar food: toasties and soups until 17:00
Traditional pub and music venuelatin-quarter
The Quays on Quay Street Galway is a three-floor Victorian bar with stained-glass from a French church; trad sessions run seven nights a week.
Signature drink: Pint of Guinness in the converted medieval church interior
Food: Bar food and pub classics daily until 21:00
Traditional pub with chipper and seafood barlatin-quarter
McDonalds Bar on Quay Street Galway is the after-fish-and-chips local drawing both visitors and families in a relaxed pub beside the famous chipper.
Signature drink: Pint of Guinness at the bar while waiting for your fish order
Food: Full fish and chip restaurant and bar menu
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The Dail Bar on Middle Street Galway is the political-cartoon-lined pub famous for the cheapest pint in the city centre since the 1990s with long hours.
Signature drink: A pint and a chaser at the long bar before the trad session starts
Food: No food service
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The Cellar Bar on Eglinton Street Galway is an 18th-century landmark basement; DJ nights and acoustic sets in the granite-vaulted room Thursday to Saturday.
Signature drink: Connemara Negroni: Connemara whiskey, sweet vermouth, Campari
Food: No food service
Hotel bar and cocktail loungespanish-arch
The Harbour Hotel Bar on New Dock Road Galway is the pre-theatre cocktail lounge for the Town Hall with refined bar snacks and Atlantic oysters nightly.
Signature drink: Galway Bay cocktail: Connemara gin, elderflower, tonic
Food: Light bar menu and charcuterie boards until 23:00