Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s best drinking venues

1. The Berkeley Court (Dublin)
The manic Berkeley Court swill – prematch and post game – was the maddest and most riotous rugby session I have experienced with a thousand or more of Ireland’s most hardened drinkers crammed into the hotel lobby and sidebars all determined to break their own PBs for alcohol consumption. It was like a scene from a Hunter Thompson book.
The old Berkeley – it was knocked down in 2015 to make way for luxury apartments – was a mere two-...