What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

faceman · 11-08-2009 1:47pm #1

So where and what circumstances found you in a dodgy pub? I dont mean stories like "turns out it was a gay bar and Im not gay", i mean real dodgy. Something similar to perhaps the "Slaughtered Lamb" in American Werewolf in London or the bar "Double Deuce" in Roadhouse.

The dodgiest I can come up with was when I was touring Uganda, stayed in a hotel called the Sky Blue. (The finest in minus 1 star accommodation!) It was Easter Sunday and a fight broke out in the adjoining niteclub. The bouncer, who looked more like Hopper in Predator, broke up the fight by shooting his shotgun up in the bar only a few feet away from me. Nice.

What about you?

donster79 · 11-08-2009 1:49pm

The Cavern in Salou, Spain. Anyone who's been there will know what I mean.

yupyup7up · 11-08-2009 1:50pm

Either The Steering Wheel, O'Riadas or the Olympic Arms in Limerick. and Im from Limerick so I can say it

xzanti · 11-08-2009 1:51pm

The Peacock on Cathal Brugha Street, it's gone now afaik.. That was some dive. :eek:

MagicMarker · 11-08-2009 1:56pm

Don't remember the name of the pub, but it was a complete hole in Coventry, I was 17 and with my uncle, the pub was full of skinheads, one of which asked me why I looked at his girlfriend:eek:

Think Romper Stomper.

PrivateEye · 11-08-2009 1:56pm

Deep in enemy territory, Belfast :pac:

Israeli flag behind the bar and all at the time, epic. Literally looked like they'd decorated the pub by going 'What are the other crowd interested in at the minute? Alright. Whats the exact opposite of that? Brilliant we'll have two of them!'

Didn't have a pint anyway.

Foxhound38 · 11-08-2009 1:57pm

The Baggot Inn years ago. The place was a hole but it had cracking music nights

My name is URL · 11-08-2009 1:58pm

Some Wetherspoons pub in Brixton, I forget the name of it

Didn't really know too much about Brixton then, and to top it off me and a few mates were after taking magic mushrooms (legal at that time) and were completely oblivious to reputation the place had

PrivateEye · 11-08-2009 2:00pm

Foxhound38 wrote: »

The Baggot Inn years ago. The place was a hole but it had cracking music nights

My parents used to booze in the Baggott Inn, O' Donoghues, Brazen Head , Meeting Place and all them kips. Mainly lovely pubs now, but they were mad nights by all accounts.

LadyJ · 11-08-2009 2:01pm

Popped into some pub opposite Connelly Station a few months back just to kill 20 mins before I had to be somewhere and everyone in the place just stared me out of it the whole time. I took out an a4 pad and a pen just to write something down and people started pointing at me and whispering to each other.

Very scary.

Raze_them_all · 11-08-2009 2:01pm

The worlds end in kk.....what a kip

Foxhound38 · 11-08-2009 2:03pm

PrivateEye wrote: »

My parents used to booze in the Baggott Inn, O' Donoghues, Brazen Head , Meeting Place and all them kips. Mainly lovely pubs now, but they were mad nights by all accounts.

I believe the Baggott is looking very well these days. An improvement on my time there no doubt. Back then we used to call it "the maggot bin"

Karl Hungus · 11-08-2009 2:05pm

My local, Sally Longs. It's a biker bar for those who aren't familiar with it. It's a wonderful place, but the amount of fights I've seen in there is something unreal, and it's not the biker types who start the fights though.

You see, there's a particularly awful nightclub just up the street, knacker central we'll call it. All the skangers who attend this club like to come into Sally's beforehand and get well drunk and start fights. It's a great place, nothing like it, playing pool and listening to some AC/DC while having a pint and a chat with your mates, the staff are absolute champs, but add some knackers into the mix and it gets ugly.

Long Onion · 11-08-2009 2:06pm

Raze_them_all wrote: »

The worlds end in kk.....what a kip

I remeber it when it was the Perch - that was worse:eek:

Jonniealan · 11-08-2009 2:06pm

The old Chinaman in town somewhere some say it never actually existed, that it was an urban myth. But no i was in it about 17 at the time. Does anyone remember the Dublin Punk band paranoid visions well the lead singer was in there at the time and he decided to throw a shoe at me.

The most bizzare pub/place i have ever been too. Almost put me off booze if im honest.

keano_afc · 11-08-2009 2:08pm

The Headline Bar in Dublin, scary place. Went to a quiz there and won, we were lucky to get out alive when we didnt hand the prize money back to the organizers. Few of the locals were very vocally calling for us to be "sorted out".

Gary ITR · 11-08-2009 2:14pm

Myself and another boards poster about 7 years ago ended up in a gay brothel/tranvestite bar. It was in Dublin... Very dodgey place. When we got out of it we went for a lapdance. Just to reaffirm ourselves

DamoDLK · 11-08-2009 2:18pm

Danny Boys on the Quay in EL Paso..

Sizzler · 11-08-2009 2:19pm

Cafe en Seine . What a scary experience! Full of tangoed ladies in designer dresses and guys in chinos,leinster jerseys and boating shoes all pretending to be minted and from the Dublin 4 area :eek::rolleyes:

Degsy · 11-08-2009 2:20pm

Keatinge's in mary's Abbey..its gone now but the blokes getting TR from mountjoy would head straight there and by 12 pm it was like a scene from dante's Inferno.

Burkatron · 11-08-2009 2:20pm

The hoops bar by the Oval cricket ground in kennington London! It was old firm Derby day & my plastic Paddy mate decided that was the place to watch the game!Didnt last the 1st half in there!Never seen such out & out scum in my life,they were turning on eachother within 10 minutes of kickoff!Scary scary Celic bar full of scum!

PinkTulips · 11-08-2009 2:28pm

There was a morning bar in Cork... i forget the name of it but it was a seriously nasty place to find yourself off yer tits on a tuesday morning being leered at by aul drunks who've been on the beer since 1962 without a day off since. Worst thing was the mirrors in the toilets.... something about them always emphasised how utterly ****ed you looked

faigs · 11-08-2009 2:32pm

Some bar a friend brought a group of us to when we visited him in Heathrow. I think the bar was out near Twickenham somewhere, can't remember the name of it. There was a Robin Reliant outside it, and it had a stage with a pole where chavy girls used to get their whole kit off and pole dance. Then they'd come around the crowd with a cigar tin for you to put some change in for them! :eek: Apparently some people used to put stones in instead too!

When we entered the bar there were some chavs playing pool and they shouted in our faces "allrite boyz d'ye wan us to get ye a couple of cokes then yeaaaaaeees!" We decided to ignore the intimidation and stay for a look.

Ollie's bar in Drogheda too, had to get off the bus there was I was dying to pee all the way from Dublin. Some of the locals really looked inbred and had wounds from fighting, I was pushed on my way out the door. And I'm a big enough guy!

shenanigans1982 · 11-08-2009 2:40pm

In this country the Oasis in Cabra....f*cking sh*thole.

johnny_knoxvile · 11-08-2009 2:44pm

The Queen Vic, very unhappy place!

Love2love · 11-08-2009 2:48pm

I went to this bar in Manchester and I should have known it was dodgy when I seen the 2 police vans parked outside. Had to go through 2 metal detectors and get frisked before you can get in. We were the only white people there and we got some looks of the locals.

Executive Steve · 11-08-2009 2:52pm

The Limelight on Thomas Street...

Ended up in there on day two of a bit of a bender, and no sooner had I set foot in the place when a one legged junkie who was passed out on a pool table cocked his head up and asked me was i after any yokes...

There were a few old lads with big yellow beards openly skinning up and there was a heavily pregnant girl who didn't look a day over 14 buying a bottle of vodka at the bar

DenMan · 11-08-2009 3:00pm

Keeping it local this time I worked in Lowe's Bar in Rialto. What a fcuking dump. It was awful. The amount of all sorts it attracted was unreal. One day I went into work and was told by my boss that he didn't have any work for me because there was a riot the night before. The place was in bits, windows smashed and boarded up, smell of piss and **** everywhere, cum all over the walls!!! :eek: I was supposed to go home to Sligo that weekend for a get together and instead had my time wasted.

One night when I was working one fcuker pissed into an empty pint glass and gave it to his pal to drink. He drank the whole pint and puked all over the bar. I was quick and dodged the debris but a lot of other people where not so lucky. One pig ignorent old timer just laughed as he was covered in puke. Said it hasn't happened to him in a good while and then sipped his pint. wtf!!! :eek:

That's just a few horror stories.

Doctor Rob · 11-08-2009 3:01pm

Bruxelles just off Grafton St. Dublin. The downstairs area was full of smelly, long-haired homosexuals with hearing problems.

(Not that there's anything wrong with that, just not my scene!)

JONJO THE MISER · 11-08-2009 3:05pm

The scariest bar i was in was in Inuvik In the Northwest teritorty in Artic Canda, Inuvik is really a wild west town, this particular bar was called Barts, full of really drunk and violent natives but i actually got talking to a few of them and when they heard i was Irish they kinnda took it easy on me, they though i was just another white cannuck:D, who by the way they usually kick the **** out off and rob as the barmaid told me, think of people using crack in the bathroom and 2 guys covered in blood asleep in on a bench outside and you will get the picture. I was constantly hassled for drink as you would expect but me being Irish some of the guys loved it and actually brought me a drink:D.

Banter Joe · 11-08-2009 3:06pm

faigs wrote: »

Some bar a friend brought a group of us to when we visited him in Heathrow. I think the bar was out near Twickenham somewhere, can't remember the name of it. There was a Robin Reliant outside it, and it had a stage with a pole where chavy girls used to get their whole kit off and pole dance. Then they'd come around the crowd with a cigar tin for you to put some change in for them! :eek: Apparently some people used to put stones in instead too!

When we entered the bar there were some chavs playing pool and they shouted in our faces "allrite boyz d'ye wan us to get ye a couple of cokes then yeaaaaaeees!" We decided to ignore the intimidation and stay for a look.

Ollie's bar in Drogheda too, had to get off the bus there was I was dying to pee all the way from Dublin. Some of the locals really looked inbred and had wounds from fighting, I was pushed on my way out the door. And I'm a big enough guy!

It was nice of them at the same time to offer to buy ye drinks.

Sizzler · 11-08-2009 3:12pm

Theres supposed to be this savage members only bar just off Kildare Street, pints are dirt cheap, you can expense them as well and you can basically drink till all hours without worried about getting thrown out. Some of the lads that drink there as well have drivers waiting for them outside.

I think you need to get the public to vote for you though before you can drink in it!

markesmith · 11-08-2009 3:21pm

Route 66 in La Paz, Bolivia. Barman asked me what I wanted to drink, then asked how many grammes I wanted. Looked around, everyone was openly taking the marching powder. Didn't leave until about 10.30 next morning.

JONJO THE MISER · 11-08-2009 3:21pm

Ye guys want to know one town where nearly everyone of the bars is as rough as another?

White_Feather · 11-08-2009 3:22pm

LadyJ wrote: »

Popped into some pub opposite Connelly Station a few months back just to kill 20 mins before I had to be somewhere and everyone in the place just stared me out of it the whole time. I took out an a4 pad and a pen just to write something down and people started pointing at me and whispering to each other.

Very scary.

wasnt called the north star by any chance? I had to go in there before and my god i was never as scared in my life. Sounds exactly like what you were talking about, people staring at you because your not a local. And, a well known criminal, who is always in the papers and on the news was one of those doing the staring! :eek: I quickly left.

orourkeda · 11-08-2009 3:28pm

I had the misfortune of ending up in a pub called the Prince of Wales near Upton Park in London. I was only about 18 at the time and am not a West Ham supporter so didnt know the area particularly. I learned subsequently that it was one of the toughest pubs in east London and there were several well known hooligans present at the time. I actually ended up going there again about 3 years later by complete coincidence with a group of "locals" and had one of the best nights ever.

donkey balls · 11-08-2009 3:44pm

finches in clondalkin bouncers on the door during the day place does be packed at 1 o clock in the day also doyles in phisboro mad kip bouncers have metal detecters on the door. last time i was inn there with my mates we kept looking over our shoulders as you had every mad yoke from finglas cabra& inner city drinking in the place

3qsmavrod5twfe · 11-08-2009 3:48pm

The Lantern in Ballybane, Galway. Closed now. No Loss.

fippy · 11-08-2009 3:58pm

Cant believe "The Jobstown house" in tallaght hasn't been mentioned.

:eek:

g5fd6ow0hseima · 11-08-2009 4:00pm

[cm]tyranny wrote: »

The Limelight on Thomas Street...

Ended up in there on day two of a bit of a bender, and no sooner had I set foot in the place when a one legged junkie who was passed out on a pool table cocked his head up and asked me was i after any yokes...

There were a few old lads with big yellow beards openly skinning up and there was a heavily pregnant girl who didn't look a day over 14 buying a bottle of vodka at the bar

that honestly made me laugh...

Quint · 11-08-2009 4:15pm

LadyJ wrote: »

Popped into some pub opposite Connelly Station a few months back just to kill 20 mins before I had to be somewhere and everyone in the place just stared me out of it the whole time. I took out an a4 pad and a pen just to write something down and people started pointing at me and whispering to each other.

Very scary.

It that was Clearys (red front, under the railway bridge) they probably looked at you cos you were the first girl to go in there in 30 years. Great pub though. Like Moes

PrivateEye wrote: »

Deep in enemy territory, Belfast :pac:

Israeli flag behind the bar and all at the time, epic. Literally looked like they'd decorated the pub by going 'What are the other crowd interested in at the minute? Alright. Whats the exact opposite of that? Brilliant we'll have two of them!'

Didn't have a pint anyway.

You should have ordered a Guinness with a Jameson chaser

DenMan wrote: »

One night when I was working one fcuker pissed into an empty pint glass and gave it to his pal to drink. He drank the whole pint and puked all over the bar. I was quick and dodged the debris but a lot of other people where not so lucky. One pig ignorent old timer just laughed as he was covered in puke. Said it hasn't happened to him in a good while and then sipped his pint. wtf!!! :eek:

Quality!

dylano_k · 11-08-2009 4:25pm

Parnell Mooney, hands down !!! We all got started on by coked up knackers in there for no reason at all...biggest hole in dublin

neil_hosey · 11-08-2009 4:32pm

The Cappagh House, The Cardiff, and the bottom of the hill, all in Finglas......

iregk · 11-08-2009 4:37pm

Right maybe showing my age here but two places for me in dublin. Both these are gone now.

The Ski Club aka McGraths on O'Connel street. Man that was some kip. Last time I was in there 4 lads were setting fire to the dance floor with a can of lighter fluid. All 4 had silver bubble jackets and the latest in the air max classic range.

The Waterfront Nightclub (sir john rogersons quay). Back in the good aul days of Club FM & the Mix 106 dance nights. I felt embarrassed drinking a pint. At the bar you could buy a party pack which consisted of a can of bulmers with two ecstacy tabs selotaped to the bottom.

brayblue24 · 11-08-2009 4:43pm

Two spring to mind, both in Manchester. The first was called "The Nag's Head" but there were no cheerful cockneys in this version, just a load of malnourished Mancunians who looked like extras from a Michael Jackson video.

The other is directly opposite Eastlands (Man. City for the uninitiated), Mary D's I think it's called and apparently it's a United pub the rest of the week. Went in there for the first ever match at Eastlands about 6 years ago. Should have known what type of place I was in when, at midday, I got my pint in a McDonald's type carton, not even your regular plastic one. They uesd to charge a pound just to go upstairs. One of the lads got mugged at the cigarette machine INSIDE the pub. Thankfully there were police everywhere outside but they disappeared about 6 o'clock. I asked a local why so many of them and he replied it was because someone had been murdered there the night before-exit stage left.

(should have taken the cue earlier when the landlord told us taxis didn't even go there).

ronbyrne2005 · 11-08-2009 4:47pm

Penthouse and Towers in Ballymun.Bottom of Hill in Finglas.
A pub in a rough part of Manchester where a guy had been shot the previous week(We were staying upstairs as it was also a B&B and only found out when we arrived how mad it was, Landlady was dealing coke and grass)

A pub in Tijuana in mexico which we later found out was a favored drinking location of the local gangs who are currently in American news stories for their killing of many people both sides of the US/Mexico border.

admiralofthefleet · 11-08-2009 4:52pm

either the lough inn in loughlinstown or the bridge house in dolphins barn, the latter being an absolute dive.
madisson in rathmines was catching up with the bridge house but its shut now thank god

Salvelinus · 11-08-2009 4:54pm

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

either the lough inn in loughlinstown or the bridge house in dolphins barn, the latter being an absolute dive.
madisson in rathmines was catching up with the bridge house but its shut now thank god

Really, always thought (from looking from the outside) Graces was the kip in Rathmines.

Cookie_Monster · 11-08-2009 4:55pm

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

either the lough inn in loughlinstown or

I've never braved that despite the temptation to see how truly awful it is

admiralofthefleet · 11-08-2009 4:56pm

Salvelinus wrote: »

Really, always thought (from looking from the outside) Graces was the kip in Rathmines.

fat freddie was a regular in there...

graces is grand

skelliser · 11-08-2009 4:56pm

iv heard the sunset dawn is dodgy, never had any problems in there tho

What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

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