Irish Pub, Kabul

The Irish Pub of Kabul was a pub in Kabul, Afghanistan; it opened on Saint Patrick's Day, 2003.[1]

Owner Sean Martin McQuade received approval of a local mullah by promising to repair the road adjacent to the club and assist in relocating a nearby school to a larger site.[2] The pub is licensed by the Afghan government, with the caveat that it not sell alcohol to Afghans.[2] When interviewed a staff member of the bar commented, "Our families know what we do, but we tell other people we just work in a restaurant or a guesthouse selling food and soft drinks."[3] Within 2 months of opening it received warnings of a possible attack and temporarily closed.[4] By September of the next year the bar had moved into a Kabul hotel.[5]

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