If you’ve had your fill of Irish bars, rest assured: NE Alberta’s T. C. O’Leary’s is less an “Irish bar” and more a bar you might actually find in Ireland. Kelly-green décor and an audio onslaught of Irish jigs are out; genuine warmth, a decent pint, and conversational service, in. Helmed by soap star turned publican Tom O’Leary (he really did play a dashing doctor in his home country’s longest-running soap opera), this convivial neighborhood spot boasts paper-wrapped fish and chips, a full Irish breakfast (complete with black and white pudding made on the premises), house-baked blaas (a soft white bun from the southern county of Waterford), and some of the best Guinness in the state. The space, complete with a wall populated by photos of family members and the ancestors of some of O’Leary’s regulars, includes its very own snug: a walled-off portion of the bar traditionally set aside for priests and other private tipplers, and an essential element of any Irish pub worth its froth.