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4650 W Tropicana Ave.
Las Vegas, NV 89103
Tel. (702) 247-7000
Fax. (702) 247-4350
info@mcmullansirishpub.com
"I've been to a lot of so-called Irish bars in America and they're not really Irish," says Neil Burns, manager of McMullan's Irish Pub, just a couple of miles west of the Strip on Tropicana Avenue. Burns, who grew up in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, says most of them lack the layout, the décor and the conviviality to truly be called Irish.
The pub's owner, Brian McMullan, knows a thing or two about real Irish pubs. His grandfather, Thomas McMullan, bought his first bar 100 years ago in Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
"We serve mainly locals," McMullan says. But, he adds, a good chunk of them are expats who moved to Las Vegas from Ireland and Britain.
"The food's good, the craic's good," says Eamonn Cooke, a regular whose roots are in Inishmore, County Galway. Even though McMullan's promotes itself as "Purveyors of the perfect pint" (of Guinness, of course), Cooke's drink of choice isn't even from Ireland. He prefers Miller Lite Draft.
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