Geaney's was his pub before he became Taoiseach in 1966, and it remained his pub whenever he was in Cork.
When he was Taoiseach the State Merc would pull up outside the pub and wait while Jack had a drink with the lads. He often went into the kitchen with Nan Geaney, whom he had known for many years, and chat about politics and hurling.
Geaney's is a Glen Rovers pub and as a Glen Rovers and Cork hurler, Jack Lynch was revered in Blackpool. The people of Blackpool who lit bonfires upon his accession to the Fianna Fail throne regarded him as their own Taoiseach.
He still conducted clinics with them in the pubs and he could remember little things that meant so much to the community in which he had grown up - like neighbours who wanted to remain together and who were looking for local authority housing close to one another. Jack Lynch got it done and that's why he was always known in his native Blackpool as the real Taoiseach.
If ever a seat at the cabinet table meant something to the real lives of people, Jack Lynch's seat did. And whatever he did for people, he did it quietly and in that characteristically unassuming manner which marked his sportsmanship and his life as a politician.
Kitty Healy, a neighbour of Jack Lynch, was reduced almost to tears this week as she recalled his life and times near her own home, close to the famous Shandon steeple.
"He was a great man. We will never see his likes again. I think with what we are reading in the papers today about life in Irish politics, Jack Lynch would have been sick. He was a saint and a gentleman and a sincere one who told the truth, pulled no punches and did not dig into the pockets of the old people."
Another neighbour, Mrs Barry, also knew him well. "I saw him in short pants - I was seven when he was only a nipper."
This week throughout Cork almost every local radio programme carried messages from callers who wanted to pay tribute to a great Corkman and a sporting hero.
In Geaney's there was a subdued atmosphere yesterday as people discussed a politician who had transcended politics and become a true friend.
One local said: "Everyone here is talking about him, it's not often that a Taoiseach's car pulls up outside and he comes in for a drink as if he were one of the boys. He really was very special and he never ever forgot his roots."
Two years ago, when he was too ill to attend the ceremony, a plaque was erected to Jack Lynch as the most popular politician in modern Ireland. The plaque marked his 80th birthday and was placed on the gable wall of the house in which he lived and where he played street hurling before going on to become a sporting legend.
On the day of the unveiling, the former Taoiseach sent a message by telephone to about 200 people who had gathered at a local hotel to pay tribute to him.
Then, last summer, the Cork tunnel under the Lee bearing his name was officially opened and on that occasion he transmitted another taped message to the people of Cork.
He thanked the city for its gesture in naming the tunnel after him - and that was the last time one of Cork's most loved sons made a public utterance.