What this site is

The events layer for every Irish pub. Bonded one-to-one to pubhub.ie's 6,842-pub spine. Recurring trad sessions, pub quizzes, live music, GAA screenings, late bars, festival fringe — by county, by night, by venue.

The trinity architecture

Three sister sites share one Irish-pub spine:

  • pubhub.ie — the pub itself: places, hours, photos, folklore, closures, ratings.
  • sesh.ie — what's on at the pub: events, sessions, gigs, sport, quizzes.
  • The chats (with pubhub Phase 2) — per-pub anonymous wall.

One source of truth for pubs. Three lenses on the same data.

What this site isn't

Not a ticket platform. Not a venue. Not a club promoter. We don't book anything. We list, we structure, we cross-link. When you find a sesh you fancy, you walk in or buy a ticket from whoever sells it.

How the data engine works

Every event we publish came from one of these sources:

  1. Editorial — we visited or verified directly.
  2. Pub Facebook pages — the largest unindexed source. We scrape allow-listed pages and structure the posts.
  3. Eventbrite-IE — daily pull, filtered for pub-tier events.
  4. The Session (thesession.org) — recurring trad-session listings, official feed.
  5. Local-paper "what's on" columns — RSS pull from regional papers.
  6. Publican submissions — once a pub claims its listing on pubhub.ie, the publican posts directly.
  7. Punter submissions — the submit form, with a 48-hour editorial review.

Recurring slots are first-class

Most events platforms force a "Tuesday 9pm trad at McGanns" into a separate event-per-week. We model recurring slots (Pub × DayOfWeek × StartTime × Type) as the primary data structure. One row, queryable as "where's trad on a Sunday in Galway?".

Vibe tags

Every slot and event carries vibe tags — feet-tapping-trad, regulars-not-tourists, gaa-match-crowd, cash-only-at-bar, kids-welcome-til-9 — that filter for the kind of night you're actually after, not just the genre of music in the room.

How we make money

  • Publican subscriptions (€10–€20/month) for direct event-management on their own pub's listing.
  • Paid event pinning (€5–€20) to pin a Saturday gig to the top of the relevant county or city page.
  • County newsletter sponsorship — Thursday-morning email, sponsored sections clearly disclosed.
  • Affiliate ticket sales via Eventbrite-IE / Ticketmaster where applicable.

Punters never pay. Publicans never pay to be listed.

Spotted something wrong?

Email hello@sesh.ie. Updates roll on the next deploy.