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The Dead Rabbit tops list of world's best bars

The Dead Rabbit in New York
The Dead Rabbit in New York The Dead Rabbit in New York

ONE of New York’s hippest Irish bars has been voted best in the world.

The Dead Rabbit, which is owned by north Belfast men Jack McGarry and Sean Muldoon, topped the World's 50 Best Bars list for 2016.

The table was compiled by almost 500 experts.

The Dead Rabbit, located close to Battery Park in Manhattan, is named after the Irish-American street gang which controlled much of Lower Manhattan during the 1850s.

The pub features a picture of the Sacred Heart as well as a holy water font, a copy of the Good Friday Agreement signed by former Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam as well as numerous pictures of John Hume, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams.

"The Dead Rabbit is more than the sum of its liquid parts, fusing as it does colourful historical references to the city’s 19th-century Water Street rough-neck pub set and Lower Broadway's genteel cocktail imbibers in an atmosphere of Irish-American hospitality," according to Worlds 50 Best Bars.