My dear fellow, Frankly, I have seldom found a village without a number of pubs, now back in Dingle, there were music pubs, teen pool playing pubs, old fisherman pubs, here in New York, there are singing session pubs, Ceili tune sessions pubs, and generaly that works fairly well. Chating away merrily is great ... fine, but loud yelling over singers, well, I frankly remember a time in England when loud political dissucussions would get one tossed out of many pubs, it is all a matter of being polite!
Cheers, Larry (tossed out of a number of pubs!)