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Old-style pub, family-friendly, does decent bar food and may have rooms. But McHale's place in lore is that it's nowadays the only pub in the known universe to still serve Guinness by the meejum, an obscure measure short of a pint. The term means "medium" and was first documented in southwest Ireland circa 1890. It appeared in those days to indicate a drink sold by price not volume — a pennyworth, say — so its volume varied by pub and content. It was probably a widespread custom but only officially noticed after the 1878 Weights and Measures Act, which standardised volumes and required officially-calibrated beer glasses. Court actions arose from customers reckoning themselves short-changed, or from police or trading inspectors, and publicans using glasses marked as "medium" also fell foul of the law. The practice died out in the 20th century, although the term "medium" was used for servings in other ways. So raise a glass in McHale's, containing a volume which remains undefined but is somewhat less than the SI-derived unit pint of 568.261 ml. It's a quantum uncertainty thing, if you could state its exact volume then you couldn't state how quickly you drank it or who's round it is.

Clean friendly place near town centre.

Smart friendly guesthouse.

Neat guesthouse by the hospital.

Comfy hotel convenient for hospital and town centre with its own theatre.

Slick modern hotel.