First off, you're going to meet up in the pub. You'll have a beer. Somebody you know will come in. Or, if there are two of you to begin with, that's cause for a second round in any case. You start talking, and by the time the film starts....

And it's more fun you're having, too, than sitting and watching something.

I went to the movies, Irish style, with my Dutch friend K_ when I'd just met her. We'd come from Kerry, where we had both been vacationing, back to Kilkenny where I was living.

One evening we were leaving the house to go see a movie, when I got a text message from a friend about going to Brennan's pub. Brennan's is across the street from the cinema....