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Just thought i'd post this up to get an idea of where people like to socialise in Dublin these days. Unfortunately my own mates tend to find a new spot and latch on to it until it has been well and truely run dry. Grown up places only. No student haunts allowed - I've got that well out of my system (plus the Tramco thread was one of the worst ever created on this site). Well, any suggestions?
Pubs or Clubs or Bars or whatever....
For a few quite pints The Headline, SCR. After a match The Portobello. Solas is a good spot for a late one. If in town area Bruxells or Stags Head, tend to go home to Donegal most weekends as drink too bloody expensive in Dublin :mad:
lot of my mates tend to be the same with going the same place for about a month, but;
Whelan's
Market Bar (gets v.crowded and no music)
D2 (great beer garden with bbq!!!)
The Odeon (Its alright)
AKA (ok, lot of posers though)
The bar in Tolka :D (Cheap pint :p )
That's a student joint though? Actually Magoo, ask your bro whether he remembers Chomp? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dublinharp
Getting rarer and rarer I'm out in Dublin anymore, so not sure I can really recommend anywhere (as when I am out I mainly just give out about the prices!).
I like the beer garden in D2 alright.
Odeon is good on a Friday night, except the bar is grossly understaffed and inefficient.
Ri-Ra has been good of late - as has the whole south william street/george's street area.
Havent been to Solas yet but i hear good reports.
I've never liked Whelan's - an awful lot of pretentious knobs in there.
If you get the Metropolitan on a good night, some really good dj's play in there.
Boomerang used to be good for a night of losing the plot but i haven't been in a good while.
4 Dame Lane has its moments but i think it's more to do with the crowd you're with
What was Chomp Macy? That's probably going back to the Camden Street in Dublin and the HQ in Longford days. Few of which are remembered by many including yourself and me bro
It's who was chomp.... Defo more of those nights forgotten than remembered - great days :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Magoo
Ive heard very good things about Solas, have not been in myself yet thou.
AKA is full of toss pots, the Odeon is an ok spot, Down Under is great for pickn up aussie chicks :D Judge Roy Beans is ok to start a night off but gets fairly full.
Doyle's and McGowans in Phibsboro for me - not a big fan of going into the city
O' Donoghues Suffock street after work.
Any good nightclubs in the city these days cos it went through a bit of a s**t buzz for a good while?
Always liked whelans
True enough - it was disaster around a year ago with places like Reds being the pick of the bunch. Think there's been a general improvement. Prices have stalled in many places (even though they are still quite high).Quote:
Originally Posted by Cosmo
Really???? The one that used to be sosume? the wife or the "wife"????? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
a lads suprised there has been no mention of coppers :eek: :D
bar mizu is a good spot, as is the sugar club depends on who is playing there i suppose , searsons or legs if your felling snobby and want a trophy girlfriend :D
forgot hogans is also a firm favourite
Sshshshshshhhhh!Quote:
Originally Posted by exile
been meaning to go to the Sugar Club alright. Its supposed to be decent. What size is it roughly? The building itself is big but i assume its only the downstairs or whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by exile
Trophy girlfriends in Leggs? Really? My one and only time in there was a couple of weekends ago. I don't even remember it but i'm told i 'relieved' a table of a bottle of wine and stood in the smoking section swigging out of it hissing at anyone who invaded my space. Good lord, if thats the type of guy trophy girlfriends want to hang out with ...
That's the lads fav at the moment. It's grand every now and again - but every weekend is a bit much. Hate staying there for the nightQuote:
Originally Posted by exile
:D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Magoo
sugar club is a good spot its a theatre set up basicaly
legs is good spot for late night drinks after falling out of coppers and trying to impress nuala from mayo who is up in the big shmoke for weekend :D
Did you not spot the ginormous rainbow flag outside? It's there for that very reason - to stop gobshoites walking in by mistake. Or so somebody told me....Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
BTW I'm not listing any of my favourite haunts on here, in case they're invaded by hordes of replica shirt-wearing culchies. ;)
KOH
ya very hard to pull in there unless your an artiste of some kind :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Magoo
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Originally Posted by Conor74
Which is why I asked if it was your wife or your "wife"
In Dublin :
Whelans is my primary location for nightclub.
Apart from that, Thomas Reads downstairs plays great music. I go to the International, The Foggy Dew, Fibbers (if I am waiting to go to a gig in the Ambassador), The Neptune, and then any of the small pubs along the way from Reads to Whelans, like the Swan, Ryans, JJ's :) for the quick scoop to kill the walk :)
Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner in foot.ie's oxymoron of the year competition. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
Desireless - Voyage, Voyage? Of course they only play it in gay clubs. :rolleyes:
On a related note I'd highly recommend the 12"/80s box set. 3 CDs of top class 80's 12" remixes for a measly €23. You'd love it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=music
KOH
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Originally Posted by Gareth
Shocked!!! :eek: Gar says Whelans!!!
All these pints you have en route, you must be on an all day bender (Gareth is a very slow drinker)
What are you doing online, you not meant to be on the way to Galway???
Why don't you all go gothic and join me to the goth club on Saturdays ? You can borrow my eyeliner while waiting for time to go shopping at Boots...
Eh, no!
bank holiday weekend, match day sunday, quinns a la flannerys then onto slappers, cant be beaten, really and truly out of anywhere i have been in the world, this ( as long as its the good aul crew with ye) cannot and will not be beaten.
great aul sing song with all fans, just getting tanked when reaching flannerys.
quality. :)
100% Culchie then yeah? Are you a guard or nurse to complete the stereotype. The "crawl" you describe ranks probably as my living hell!!Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Which Goth club?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerrit
And I thought that flag was up because Carlow were playing in Croke Park :pQuote:
Originally Posted by WeAreRovers
Dominion ! http://dominion.gothic.ieQuote:
Originally Posted by Gareth
And when I'm in Belfast I tend to combine it with a visit to local goth club Cornucopia : http://cornucopia.gothic.ie
Looks like Fibbers but more space on the dance floor. Actually ha, one of my mates are in one of the photos on the site :) Small world
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Originally Posted by Gareth
i can assure you, i have a better job than you. im a cultured culchie :p
You don't know where I work to make that judgement? :) and cultured culchie sir is an oxymoron :)Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
no i dont but i am going to make a stupid stereotype and say because you are a shels fan you must have an inner city job. i dont know what you do, i dont care either, you dont have to be a culchie to enjoy that night, just the kinda person who doesnt take themselves too seriouslly and is able to let their hair down. not standing at the side saying, "jees do ye see them there, fooken eejits dancing and singing to that", thats the point i was making. :cool:
Go Paul! :D Paul's a fine singer anyway...... :D
Seen that walking past today...Tis big flag alright. I'd say the owners saw more profit in the pink euro than half empty Sosume.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeAreRovers
Awh but dont you know paul that it is widely known for many years now that the very trio of pubs you mentioned are the shrines to country visitors to the city. Quinns for the pre and post GAA with a quick taxi past the inner city danger zones and off to the south side to Flannerys were it is well known to house the post-Copper's warm up and then when the time comes to maul up your lady friend you met in Quinns and nodded at in Flannerys, you scoot off to Coppers :)Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
As for your south side accent and suggesting I dont dance like a fool and that I take it all a little too seriously, I just like to dance like a spa to good music :) I just happen to dislike your venue of choice :)
And yes you were right, that is a stupid stereotype.
You got gothic friends ? Interesting, maybe -if he's often visiting Dominion- I've already talked to him :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gareth
There's more than enough people on the dancefloor, though most just come in after midnight. Suits gothic folks now, doesn't it ? ;) I'm not much of a dancer, I just socialise and listen to the music. Probably won't be on the pics therefor...
God I hated Sosume. How pretentious could one bar be....Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
you seem to know that sorta night better than me :) that has never happened me. maybe you.Quote:
Awh but dont you know paul that it is widely known for many years now that the very trio of pubs you mentioned are the shrines to country visitors to the city. Quinns for the pre and post GAA with a quick taxi past the inner city danger zones and off to the south side to Flannerys were it is well known to house the post-Copper's warm up and then when the time comes to maul up your lady friend you met in Quinns and nodded at in Flannerys, you scoot off to Coppers
btw i never mentioned anything about southside accents. :o :confused:
ya it might well be a country persons treck, but i mix it with the best of them :)
when I was in Dublin I drank in the following places:
McGowans in Phibsboro, full of out of town randy nurses... good scoring rate :p
Flames: right auld spot.
Fame: 80s disco every Friday & Saturday night.
Boomerang: useful if you want to get shacked up with a typical Dublin skank.
Fitzsimons in Temple Bar: full of dumb yanks