Restaurant review: Flanagans, 61 O’Connell St, Dublin 1

For some reason the great streets of famous cities are almost always a depressing experience. 

The Champs Élysées is full of fast food outlets and chain stores, Oxford Street and Fifth Avenue are similar, but hey they could be a lot worse – look at O’Connell Street!

The Irish Republic was declared on this street just over a century ago, the street is wide, elegant and long with fine tall Georgian buildings and contains statues of some of our greatest citizens from Larkin to Parnell to O’Connell himself.