Hale and hearty at L Mulligan Grocer

L Mulligan Grocer, 18 Stoneybatter, Dublin 7;

Exactly what you’d expect of an old Stoneybatter classic, all worn wood, snug partitions and beery musk. Picture: Maura Hickey

AN Irish pub that doesn’t do Guinness? An old-school boozer serving French press coffee with egg timers? Or delivering bills inside the kind of Oxford Instruments maths sets in which we kept our protractors, set squares and compasses as schoolchildren?