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Ten ranked Dublin game day bars, from Europe's biggest indoor screen to a rugby pub by the Aviva, picked for screens, sound, and a match day crowd.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
A good Dublin game day bar earns it three ways. The screens face the seats, not the staff. The sound goes to the game the room cares about, whether that is a Six Nations Saturday, a GAA championship Sunday, or a Premier League kickoff. And the room keeps the pints and the kitchen moving.
This is the shortlist of ten that get all three right, from a bar with Europe's biggest indoor screen to a rugby room by the Aviva and a GAA pub near Croke Park. We ranked them on the match day experience, not the gastropub menu.
Dublin keeps its deepest screen counts in a few rooms built to turn a match into an event.
How we picked
We ranked these on the things that decide a match day: screen count and sightlines, whether the room turns the sound on for the games that matter, and a bar and kitchen that hold up through every code. We checked each pick against its own current listing and independent Dublin guides, including Visit Dublin and the Clayton Hotels sports bar roundup, before publishing. For the full year of viewing, start with our Dublin sports bars guide, the sports bars category, or the sports bars near me hub. The method behind this series lives in our watching the game pillar, and sport specific picks live in our Six Nations, rugby, and Premier League guides.
Last reviewed 2026-06-09 · The editors recheck hours and closures against current local coverage.