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Marita Moloney & Catherine Wylie

Irish pub welcomes Prince Harry as owner hails royal as 'really nice guy' who offered shots to bar-goers

Prince Harry has been described as "a really nice guy" who enjoys a pint of Guinness after visiting one of the world's top Irish pubs.

The British Royal spent more than three hours at the popular boozer where he impressed pub-goers and management alike.

Harry enjoyed a quiet drink with friends on Thursday night at O'Casey's Irish Pub in The Hague in the Netherlands.

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The Duke of Sussex met with King Willem-Alexander at the Invictus Games the following day where the pair laughed and chatted with the rest of the packed crowd in the build-up to the wheelchair basketball match.

The owner of O'Casey's was full of praise for the royal who he said "loves" Guinness.

Pub owner John Gulay, 51, said Harry had a single pint of the black stuff before switching to lemonade.

"He loves Guinness," Mr Gulay told the PA news agency, adding: "He loves the Guinness, of course, who doesn't?"

According to Mr Gulay, Harry said "One pint, that's it" and "I stick to one pint and then I'll move to lemonade".

Mr Gulay said Harry was offered tequila shots but turned them down, and suggested they instead be given to other people in the pub.

O'Casey's Irish Pub in The Hague. (Esther Máire/O'Casey's Irish Pub Facebook)

Harry was in the pub for about an hour-and-a-half before leaving to go for dinner elsewhere, he said.

Mr Gulay said he did not send a bill to Harry's table.

"I said 'Do you know what? This bar bill is mine. I'm so honoured to have you over'," he said.

"They offered to pay, but I said I'm really happy that you guys were here and the Invictus Games were so good for the pub this week," he said.

Harry, who was part of a group of about a dozen sitting in the pub's beer garden, was a "really nice guy", Mr Gulay said.

O'Casey's was named "the best Irish pub in the world" in 2019, according to its website.

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