Sneak peek at the O'Connell Pub

A sneak peek at the O'Connell Pub on September 7, 2023, ahead of the reopening.

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00:00 Welcome to the O'Connell Hotel.

00:04 Come in.

00:07 We've decided to take the original pool room and claim it again.

00:11 This used to be a dining room under the previous public and prior to that it always was a pool room.

00:17 So we've returned it to its former glory.

00:19 There's a jukebox behind us here.

00:22 So, you know, this will be a really fun room.

00:26 Return to its former glory.

00:30 Yeah, the good old days basically.

00:37 So there's still a lot of work going on here obviously, but the biggest change has been to the bath.

00:41 It's completely been renovated with all the new shelving, all the new cabinetry.

00:48 We no longer have B-taps running through the ground with the step.

00:51 They've been re-routed from the pool room down here into the taps.

00:56 Probably the most significant thing if you come around the corner here is this is now an additional service area.

01:04 So there's four new taps there.

01:05 So there's 10 taps in total up from what we previously had.

01:11 This room used to be full of perky machines and it's now a lovely little lounge room, lovely sitting room.

01:17 Still in progress, we've got another lounge coming and a couple more chairs, but it'll be a nice cosy room.

01:24 The pavers, they were really bucky and hazardous.

01:29 So we've redone that and sourced the old concrete bricks and redid the bricks around for the tree.

01:35 We've put in all new headstood.

01:40 So this never used to have any heating or some horrible fluoro lights.

01:44 So we just sort of fancied it up a little bit.

01:49 So this used to be the old pool table room, Gaeb's room, but it didn't really get used very much for dining.

01:56 So we've got this beautiful room and it's nice and light.

01:59 So the veranda room has come out of that.

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