Myself and my sister stopped at O'Donoghue's after a hike, hoping to have coffee and cake. Given O'Donoghue's is both a pub and restaurant, we assumed this would be fairly standard and didn't mind where we were seated.
Instead we were told we couldn't have...coffee and could only have food. It wasn't lunchtime, so we bought a coffee in the shop across the road and sat on one of the three empty picnic benches outside O'Donoghue's for 5 minutes.
At that point we were told by the staff that we had to move because the tables were only for customers - even though there was nobody there, and we had tried to order from O'Donoghue's.
We understand with COVID the need to be careful, but as the picnic table would need to be cleaned before anyone sat down to eat, our presence did not constitute a risk. The incident left a bad taste in our mouth and we won't be visiting O'Donoghue's again.More