Everyone falling for popular Galway pub’s ’easy’ trick ‘too good to be true’

One of Galway’s most popular pubs has issued a new challenge to punters and not a single one has figured out how to win yet.

Barr an Chalaidh on Woodquay Street has a new trick that would have a Cavan man foaming at the mouth. The pub was featured in a Tiktok video showing customers walking in and spotting a €2 coin on the floor.

Naturally, they all smile at their apparent good luck and bend down to pick up the coin but plot twist, they can’t.

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The “First to get the €2 wins €2″ has left customers stumped because the coin is stuck to the floor. The video zooms in on the wooden floorboards and the coin is either embedded into an indent in the wood or covered in glue or resin. Perhaps both.

We aren’t sure if the coin can actually be won but best of luck. In other pub news, everyone knows there’s nothing like a pint in the sun – especially outside one of our city’s iconic pubs.

But of course for us locals, we know that here in Galway we share the al fresco experience with the seagulls and pigeons – as one group of seshers discovered this week.

Most of the time the gulls and pigeons will leave you be to enjoy your pints in peace but the other week, a photo summed up what happens when they don’t.

The photo was shared on social media as it showed the pubgoers’ table of pints spattered with some impressive work from the birds overhead.

Taken at iconic Shop Street pub Tig Choili, the pub gamely shared the photo on Instagram as they speculated the birds must have ‘stolen a bad burger’.

The post read: “S*** happens I suppose! Pigeons must’ve stolen a bad burger!”

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