Oldest Irish pub in Valencia shuts down
Saturday, May 30, 2015 @ 7:07 PM
VALENCIA'S first-ever Irish pub, Finnegan's has pulled its last pint of Guinness after 20 years trading in the heart of the city and closed down for good.
Set up by Irish expat Peter Finnegan, the bar was practically a clone of the one his family runs in the Emerald Isle and which goes by the same name in the town of Dalkey, south of Dublin.
The décor was brought over from Ireland to Peter's premises in the Plaza de la Reina, close to the famous Micalet bell-tower next to the cathedral, and popular with locals in the city as well as tourists.
Since 1995, Finnegan's of Dublin was one of the few pubs in Valencia where customers could watch the Rugby Six Nations or the British Premier League matches - and fans from all over Spain and Europe used it as their 'watering hole' when Valencia FC or Levante UD played major matches.
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