............a great place for drink and craic in Ireland, or a pub with live English football if you're abroad (and since I support Sunderland, also known these days as SundIreland in honour of ownership/management, that seems fitting)

That's one answer. Another, from a man I used to meet for a drink on trips to Belfast, would be:
    the place in Donegal he fell in love with on his first visit. The publican took so much time pulling and scraping his pint of stout that he paused at one point, reached behind him for a bottled version of Guinness and said: "So would you care for to be taking a glass while you wait?"