Baggot Inn’s doors re-open with fanfare after eight-year break

FAMED by a certain generation of Dubliners as one of the city’s great live music venues, a new version of the Baggot Inn opened to a different fanfare last night.

The legendary watering hole on Dublin’s Baggot Street formally re-opened its doors for the first time in eight years with a glitzy launch party.

However, the new version of the pub will deliberately avoid trying to recapture its heydays of the ’70s and ’80s asthe epicentre of Dublin’s music scene.