Beresford Hotel

You're not coming here for craft cocktails or artisanal nibbles, but sometimes that's exactly the point. This hotel bar on Store Street does what it says on the tin – pours decent pints and keeps the lights on when the rest of Dublin has called it a night. The location near the IFSC means you'll get a mixed crowd of hotel guests, shift workers, and the occasional night owl who's discovered that 24-hour drinking spots are rarer than hen's teeth in this city. The setting is standard hotel bar fare – nothing that'll have you reaching for your phone to snap photos, but comfortable enough for a proper chat over a few drinks. It's the kind of place that serves a purpose rather than makes a statement, and there's something refreshingly honest about that approach.