Back to Bowe's for the pre
A local blog for Mayo football fans is reviving a tradition of meeting at Bowe's pub in Dublin the night before major matches. The event aims to bring supporters together for a social gathering ahead of the upcoming All-Ireland final.
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--> 3 Comments It was fifteen years ago that an eve of match meet-up for the blog’s readers and contributors at Bowe’s pub on Dublin’s Fleet Street was first arranged.
In the years that followed it became a bit of a tradition – with the one held the night before the 2013 All-Ireland final a particularly memorable highlight as the small, charming Victorian pub was packed to the gills – but the last such event happened the night before the 2017 final, which was, of course, also the most recent time that Mayo contested a Sam Maguire decider before a full house at Croke Park.
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