You don't have to be trying too hard to hate this place...
Don't go to FitzSimons, even ironically, even in jest. Yes, it's perfectly central in the foul wheezing heart of Temple Bar, yes it has one of the few open-air drinking areas in that part of the city, yes it's bleedin' enormous, but your dignity and the dignity of your friends is worth more than that.
I'm from Dublin and naturally resentful of the filthy tourist traps that infest the cultural quarter, but you don't have to be a snob to find FitzSimon's disgusting. The place is a foul hole full of drunken hen- and stag-nights, disappointed to find that there is nowhere to go in Dublin but Temple Bar and nothing to do in Temple Bar but drink. Let them alone, there's no redemption for them. The English football blares out from screens roughly the size of tennis courts and if that's what you want to do with your Sunday morning hangover, please please seek professional help.
Ugh.
