Comments on: KC Visitors Choose Irish Pub as Best KC Nightlife Spot - Huh?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:42:16 +0000

A gallon?! An imperial gallon?!

I don’t see as how I’ve done you that much harm - nobody pays attention to my rantings, anyhow.

All the same, I’ll cheerfully buy you 8 pints some night when we can find a seat at O’Dowd’s . . .

By: eolai

eolai — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:17:08 +0000

Just to note that Dan misread my post, which is easy to do as I am being somewhat facetious in it.

Still though, he reckons he owes me a round. I’ll take a gallon please Dan. An imperial gallon.

By: Jason Walker

Jason Walker — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:57:20 +0000

It’s the guy who does the band bookings fault. Other than Bob Reeder, Eddie Delahunt, and Flannigin’s Right Hook, who are all great, there is no other Irish music. An Irish pub with hardly and Irish music (even this past St. Pat’s day) so sad. I was there three times and that was enough for me. It’s worth the drive to O’Malley’s in Weston or Marfield’s in Leavenworth.

By: eolai

eolai — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:56:55 +0000

Dan, I like O’Dowds. That’s why I go there on average twice a week. I go to listen to live music, and I know that they have it on the other nights also.

Maybe I do go to bed too early - and you are the first to ever suggest that to me - but if I do it’s still way after when O’Dowd’s closes. I am often the last person to leave O’Dowd’s.

Sadly on some nights that I’ve been to O’Dowds in the last year there have been only a handful of people there. On the assumption that they really would all prefer stout to anything else (they wouldn’t - I’ve been there a lot and I know) that’s a horribly cheap round for an entire pub!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:36:35 +0000

You owe O’Dowd’s a big apology, and I’d suggest a round of Ireland’s finest stout to everyone who is there. They do, in fact, have music every night. Perhaps you’re going to bed too early!

By: Medbh

Medbh — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:54:56 +0000

Maybe O’Dowd’s had name recognition points with voters? I have a hard time with the word “Kansas” without pulling my shoulders up, although I know you’re on the more reasonable Missouri side.
It was a culture mired in religiously authorized small-mindedness and it rewarded mediocrity.
My three lasting memories:
jeebus, brow-beating about me not having children, and dealing with dolts who thought they were academics.
4 unpleasant years.

By: eolai

eolai — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:59:37 +0000

You ain’t from ’round these parts, are ya Medbh?

It was by a public vote, but then it was also the public that voted A Nation Once Again by the Wolfe Tones as the greatest song ever, ever, anywhere in that major BBC poll, and your neighbour Ronnie O’Brien who would have been the Person of the Century in the Time poll but for interference.

I may criticize KC from time to time, and I do have good times in O’Dowd’s, but the city can - and does - do much much better.

By: Medbh

Medbh — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:46:52 +0000

“Highlight” Irish events in KC, Eolai?
More like inform, promote, and celebrate.
Those lists always seem off to me as if there’s a pay-off or collusion involved.