1 Million Pints

We’re celebrating 25 years of business with a chance to win a trip for two to Ireland!

We’ve been celebrating our 25th Anniversary all year and as the year comes to a close, the pub is organising a 3 day celebration from 28th – 30th October, culminating in one of our lucky locals winning a fabulous trip for two to Ireland!

General Manager Des Whelan explains “Rí Rá is as close to an authentic Irish Pub & Restaurant experience as you can get anywhere in the United States. All of the pub interiors were salvaged and restored in Ireland and shipped to Portland, so you are literally sitting in a bar that once was in Ireland! Our menu contains all the classic Irish dishes you’d expect, with original recipes we’ve had for more than a quarter of a century. Being an Irish Pub, we are especially proud of the quality of our pint of Guinness – such an integral part of the Irish Identity”. 

Indeed, the pint of Guinness is playing a central role in the 25th Anniversary celebrations. Whelan continues, “When we were organising the 25th Anniversary, we realized that we were most likely going to surpass an incredible milestone of the pouring of the 1,000,000th pint of Guinness since we opened here. So we thought, why not mark that incredible achievement by giving away a Trip for 2 to the person lucky enough to have the 1,000,000th pint poured from them. Based on our average sales data, we know that this will happen in or around the last week of October, so we built a celebration around that”.

While they don’t exactly know when that 1,000,000th pint will be poured – that will be down to how much Guinness is served between now and the 30th October.

25th Anniversary Celebrations Schedule

Wednesday 28th : Traditional Irish Music – ‘Trad Session’ in the pub, starting at 7pm

Thursday 29th : Guinness Glass Engraving and Live Music from 6pm-9pm

Friday 30th : Live Music and Meet & Greet with the Founders from 6pm

The original founders, still own the pub and will be on hand to present the prize. Dubliners Ciarán Sheehan and David Kelly are well known faces to all the Rí Rá locals and are excited to take part in the celebrations. According to David Kelly “While we’ve seen a lot of change in Portland since we first set up Rí Rá, we are very proud to have been the original and authentic Irish home from home for so many locals, tourists and indeed ex-pats for over 25 years. They come here to meet, eat and drink just as the Irish do themselves in thousands of pubs across the country in Ireland. It felt only right that we should give a lucky Portland local a chance to experience that back home in Ireland!”

Come down to the pub and help us to celebrate 25 fantastic years in Portland and who knows, you may be lucky enough to win that Trip for two to Ireland!