‘There has to be a winner’: Unbridled joy in Czech fans’ favourite Dublin pub

The Lundy Foot in Temple Bar was formerly known as the Czech Inn and it was the unofficial home for Dublin’s Czech population for many years. It showed Czech league football and ice hockey, the country’s twin sporting obsessions. The Czech immigrant population was never as numerous as those from Eastern European countries, according to Richard Velech who settled in early on Thursday for the crunch World Cup qualifying match against Ireland in his blue and red Czech shirt. Many left Ireland as economic conditions at home improved, but he...