Sadness as iconic Dublin pub that featured in Love/Hate is set to be demolished
100 apartments to be built on site of landmark Morton's pub in South Dublin suburb of Firhouse
A historic and landmark Dublin pub, which featured in the season one finale of RTE’s hit crime drama Love/Hate, is set for demolition.
Morton’s pub in Firhouse, South Dublin, has been closed since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 but had been in business for nearly 60 years previously until sold to a developer.
Offaly-based firm Bluemont Developments have planning permission to build 100 apartments and some retail units on the one acre site and pre-demolition work has already begun with the erection of hoardings.
Morton’s The Firhouse Inn was established in 1963 but there’s thought to have been a tavern on the site stretching back to the turn of the 1800’s.
The pub became famous in 2010 when the gripping closing scene of the Season One finale of hit RTE crime drama Love/Hate was shot outside the bar.
In a tense exchange Darren (played by Robert Sheehan) meets with John Boy (Aidan Gillen) to shake hands and to put an end to their problems.
Darren is then the victim of a drive-by shooting that was filmed 100 metres away at the M50 flyover and for many years afterwards they were regularly visited by fans of the show.
News of the iconic pub’s imminent demolition was posted on the Firhouse Community News Facebook page, with the site saying: “The demolition of Morton's has finally started. The beginning of the end of a huge piece of social history of Firhouse. Many a pound and a euro crossed that bar!”
It sparked over one hundred comments with many expressing sadness at the end of an era for the locality.
One comment said: “So sad …every Sunday my Mam and Dad would come over for their tea after that my husband, me and my Dad would go to Morton’s bar for a jar and a sing song he loved it.”
Another added: “Sad to see it knocked. It was a well known landmark,” while one man commented: “Used to go there to watch Match of the Day in colour. Had late closing but you had to have chicken and chips. Early 1970’s if I remember rightly.”
A second pub in Firhouse is also likely to face the wrecking ball soon with plans submitted to replace The Speaker Connolly pub with a development of 55 residential units.
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