Bloody' ell, the Murenger has been there for years!
Your shoes would literally stick to the carpet walking about within that pub, hopefully they have changed the flooring since.
They also had a lot of premium strength beers on tap in there (late 70s/80s).
I worked at Whiteheads steelworks site for many years. We'd often have our Christmas piss-up starting from the West Of England pub (by the transporter bridge) and work our way towards the centre, via Gilligan's Island.
From a personal point of view, I always found the Newport folk easy to get along with.