Your 3 most hated pubs in Limerick and why

Inge Binge

1st prize: Nancy's - absolutely unbearable on fri/sat nights. total overcrowded and music totaly to noisy. shouting and standing like a sardine in a tin makes a good night?
2nd prize: costelloes - a dirty sh*thole upstairs. wont be there if there is a fire...
3rd prize: clohessys - 25 TV screens making communication impossible. people staring to a screen with soccer and calling this "socialising"

in memoriam: highstool - weird people. nothing to add.

IB

ricey

The davin arms! cuz i hate it so so f00ken much.

Inge Binge

gimme a hint - where is davin arms? heard about it. is it in somewhere ennis road?

IB

billy the squid

three worst pubs

Tom and Gerrys. last time I was there the pints tasted like metal

Punches - No music anymore and they demolished the nice roomy lounge. the bar is a sardine can

Smyths - the bouncers are ****, and the music they have is muck.

hobie

gimme a hint - where is davin arms? heard about it. is it in somewhere ennis road?

Just across the road from Dunnes at the Jetland ..... yep, right on the Ennis road

Inge Binge

Been once there. i remember. and we changed to SuperMacs...

Amazotheamazing

Not a massive fan of Smyths, just something not right about it.

Chong

I no this sounds crazy but Mollys wrecks my head.

bazz26

Checked out Harris' Bar the other night for a pint and didn't like it at all. Very small especially on the ground floor. Noticed alot of posers wearing blazers ording wine. It actually felt more like a posh wine bar than a pub.

Definately not my cup of tea anyway.

radioman

billy the squid wrote:

three worst pubs

Tom and Gerrys. last time I was there the pints tasted like metal

Punches - No music anymore and they demolished the nice roomy lounge. the bar is a sardine can

Smyths - the bouncers are ****, and the music they have is muck.

Agreed on all 3 counts. I was in T & G's lately (don't ask why), but the barman was actually sipping away on a pint himself behind the bar. Always a bad sign.

Anybody remember Patrick's? It's now the Polish bar but when it was Patrick's it was the biggest dive in the country

irishguy

bazz26 wrote:

Checked out Harris' Bar the other night for a pint and didn't like it at all. Very small especially on the ground floor. Noticed alot of posers wearing blazers ording wine. It actually felt more like a posh wine bar than a pub.

Definately not my cup of tea anyway.

i quite liked it actually the upstairs is very nice, the crowd is a bit old its just like the bank. The balcony would be cool in the summer looking out over the river

sioda

1. The Steering Wheel in The roxboro shopping centre scariest place I've ever been.

2. O Riardas was a hole when it was 2 pubs is an even bigger hole now

3. The bank had better atmosphere and probably better drink when it was a bank.

Special mention to souths for completely F#@!ing the place up I mean Frank and Angela on the jacks need we say more

Amazotheamazing

Yeah Souths used to be great, now it's just..... bad, can't really explain it. It isn't that the new place is awful, it just seems awful when you think of how it used to be.

panda100

am loving the new ladies toilets in souths though-there gorge!

I just cant stand aubars!!i really do!

s8n

Weird vibe in "stanleys - the stab inn". Bit too local for my liking.

Amazotheamazing

Admit it, even as you wrote that you knew it was painfully unfunny.

billy the squid

s8n wrote:

Weird vibe in "stanleys - the stab inn". Bit too local for my liking.

I have warned you before about this bull****. permenent ban.

BobTheBeat

Agree with every place said so far. I have a special place in the pits of my mind for mollys on Catherine St (is that what its called?). Full of absolute scumbags. Mate of mine tried to run a rock/metal lounge downstairs there, and had to close it up after a week or two, from the aggression and trouble shown by the clientele.

Also, Magregors... full of all sorts of colourful nicky nack noo's. They tried to run a rock night there, out in their beer garden about two years ago, but it failed miserably, once again, because the ordinary gig going public, weren't too partial to being threatened on a night out. Lovely!

gaf1983

Inge Binge wrote:

3rd prize: clohessys - 25 TV screens making communication impossible. people staring to a screen with soccer and calling this "socialising"

in memoriam: highstool - weird people. nothing to add.

IB

I'd definately agree with you on Clohessy's. Michael Noonan was on the Ryan Tubridy radio show a few weeks back giving out about the very same thing - they have a section were they ask some public figure what phenomenon they would like to consign to history and he said pubs that have TV on 24/7 but play music completely out of sync with the events on the screen with the result being a completely disoriented clientele who can't hold a conversation. Actually I was only ever in the Sin Bin once - I stayed there for only about 2 minutes, dunno just didn't like the place, queued up to put my jacket in and then when I queued up to take it out again some of the people who were behind me in the queue the first time were in front the second time round.

Last time I was in the High Stool one of those weird people stole my mobile, so that kind of clouded my view of that place.

Can't stand Smyths/The Icon - place just feels so overcrowded and the low ceilings make it feel like a carpark. Oh the music's crap too by the way.

I'd agree with the person who included McGregor's, just found it a tad too intimidating. Also the last time I went there I was underage, and the bouncer took the complete piss out of me - he had every right too, I was underage - he even asked my friends why they hung around with someone with such a crap ID. Still let me in though.

Amazotheamazing

Presumably MacGregors is going to join that great brewery in the sky soon, when they build the new shopping centre there? I know they intend to re-open Quinns as a bar/restaurant thing, though I've a feeling they'll look for a different crowd. Back when I was 17 or so, Quinns was a great bar, it seemed to fall apart though, the crowd just left. It's a pity, really, it was a cool place, I went back a few times about 2 years ago, it was a ghost-town on a Saturday night.

cee_jay

Went to the new Cornmarket Bar last Sunday night - did not like it at all - don't know what it was bout the place though!!
Hate Molly's on Ellen Street too - way too many underage kids there for my liking and always too packed and its dark and dreary

bluedolphin

I think it's different for weekends than during the week. some pubs are more suited to a full environment (like on a friday/saturday) while others are nicer if they're quiet and practically empty.

1. MacDaid's - never any atmosphere whatsoever in there whether it's full or empty. absolutely pitiful pub.

2. Charlie's - eehhh....it's full of underage, full of....whatever. nothing nice about it except the cocktails.

3. Molly's - like a cattlemart when it's full, absolutely awful. plus they have the same soundtrack on every time in there - you know what song to next expect. and it's the same people in there the whole time.

and i'm also going to add the Stables in UL because its a total cattlemart when it's full; you spill half your drink and that's before you even get your change.

on a positive note, my top 3 pubs are:
1. Molly's - i do like it when it's completely empty say on a sunday night or something over the summer - it's a nice place to go for a few drinks when you want to go out but nothing too fancy, but THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD.

2. Mojo's - nice pub that you can sit down in and have a conversation without being drowned out by music or stampeded by other people. this is at weekends, mind

3. I'll get back to you on this one...

Limerick's night life needs a renovation. Trinity Rooms/Market/Icon/Sin Bin all serve a specific clientele and are all shíte. Molly's is the only other after-pub alternative, perhaps with the new addition of the Cornmarket. Hmmmmphhhh is all i say.

mimix

Steering wheel - never been i am afraid
Russels - seats at the back Remind me of burgerland
Clohessys - Dont fancy a pint in a place where Ronan O'Gara pissed all over the floor.

billy the squid

steering wheel can be dodgey at times. although I hear that it has been renovated in recent times. last time I was there it was manky.

sioda

Was in the cornmarket on Saturday nite is as real nice spot except in my opinion if the music is shaking the furniture and you need a megaphone to have a conversation its too loud.

Or maybe i'm getting old :-(

Lucious Sweet

1. MacGregors - Crowd of tracksuit wearing ****.
2. Mickey Martins - Crowd of **** (various states of dress).
3. Sin Bin - Crowd of pretentious, hilfigger wearing ****.

My least favourite used to be Bill Clintons until the closed it down. Man that place was crazy.

moz.

Amazotheamazing

Bill Clintons, only there once or twice but it was a strange, strange place.

sioda

1. MacGregors - Crowd of tracksuit wearing ****.
2. Mickey Martins - Crowd of **** (various states of dress).
3. Sin Bin - Crowd of pretentious, hilfigger wearing ****.

Ok cant disagree with 1 or 3 but Mickeys is one of Limericks forgotten treasures and the arthurs in there stands up against any in town

kyp_durron

moz wrote:

My least favourite used to be Bill Clintons until the closed it down. Man that place was crazy.

Yeah, hated that place, only in there once when I was about 18 and got the **** kicked out of me, I wouldn't have minded but for once it wasn't my fault.

My most hated pubs.

1. Clohessys
2. Russels
3. Smiths/Icon

I dislike all of the above for the same reason, pretentious idiots and bad music.

Btw I'm not saying everyone who goes to these pubs are pretentious idiots, most of my friends do and sometimes myself, but there is a few thats for sure.

bobbly

sioda wrote:

Was in the cornmarket on Saturday nite is as real nice spot except in my opinion if the music is shaking the furniture and you need a megaphone to have a conversation its too loud.

Or maybe i'm getting old :-(

nothing but a bunch of oldies in the cornmarket if u ask me. mollys is the pub for me, although ur right about the same tracks being on all the time.

Anon2006

limerick's a craphoel

kyp_durron

Anon2006 wrote:

limerick's a craphoel

What are you 12?

hobie

I know it's gone now but does anyone rem 'Frazers'? ... or was it 'Frasers'? .... just up the hill from the Treaty Stone ....

We took a Canadian in there years ago ...he was related to the Frasers of Limerick, so we thought we would give him a sneak preview .... now I know some would call it rough and tough but we had a few fun times in the bar ...

anyway ... he had a couple of pints ...went out to the Loo with the stream running thru it (well that's what it looked like) and came back and announced ....

I'm going to let Sleeping Dogs lie!!!!

...and that was the end of his 'Ancestor' investigations ...

billy the squid

hobie wrote:

I know it's gone now but does anyone rem 'Frazers'? ... or was it 'Frasers'? .... just up the hill from the Treaty Stone ....

We took a Canadian in there years ago ...he was related to the Frasers of Limerick, so we thought we would give him a sneak preview .... now I know some would call it rough and tough but we had a few fun times in the bar ...

anyway ... he had a couple of pints ...went out to the Loo with the stream running thru it (well that's what it looked like) and came back and announced ....



...and that was the end of his 'Ancestor' investigations ...

I remember being barred from frasiers, can't remember why though, I think i went with the wrong crowd that night though.

bazz26

Anon2006 wrote:

limerick's a craphoel

Go back to your PS2 or X-box please and learn to spell.

billy the squid

Anon2006 wrote:

limerick's a craphoel

Anon2006 has 24 hours to back up his claim or else ...

actually make that 15 hours.

sioda

You know I hate getting my town insulted but when the stupid dope can't even spell really galls me

Henry Ford III

I dislike Mickey Martins. Dirty horrible smelly place.

Never been in any of the "tough" pubs so can't comment. Actually that's not entirely true. I have been in The Cauldren on Nicholas St. Really local parish pub. Friendly people. It was fine.

We have some great bars though. Myles Breens, Dolan's, Sexton's, Souths, The Locke.

Teds sucks though. My issue there is with the owners and their lack of morals in business.

gaf1983

Henry Ford III wrote:

Teds sucks though. My issue there is with the owners and their lack of morals in business.

Since when have morals had a place in business?

bazz26

I don't like South's anymore since it was renovated, especially the back. It looks terrible imo.

Airblazer

1. Mickey Martin's: What the attraction with this place is beyond me..**** drink..dirty glasses and basically an all around kip

2.Clohessy's: Big TV's/Bad music plus one of the worst pubs for atmosphere

3.Smyth's: Dickhead bouncers plus crap drink..only for the good meals they serve during the day they'd be closed otherwise.

ninty9er

Hav 2 say it depends on the night of the week. But charlies has to be the worst pub ever, They'll let any underage girls wit nice t88s in, i'm 19 and feel like i'm babysittin when i go there, but if your an underage fella or even just overage theres a particular wanker of a bouncer there who uses any escuse not to let you in, ye all know who i mean. Then when you get inside you can't move for all the ppol and they wor thinkin of puttin another cocktail bar in. Where?????? in the jacks.

Hate it, but it's grand on a quiet nite to meet up before goin elsewhere.

CarewParkAFC

Worst Pub 1: Russell's Bar, Father Russell Road. My local, an absolute
sh!thole.

Worst Pub 2: Bunker 4, Thomas Street: Worst niteclub ever! Bouncers there are a spanners.

Worst Pub 3: The Bank. OK at first until u realise its a rugby pub.

CarewParkAFC

Worst Pub 1: Russell's Bar, Father Russell Road. My local, an absolute
sh!thole. Did you know that of all drink drive stoppages in Co. Limerick, Russell's is the only place where that happens. Sunday afternoons up there is f**king mayhem. Not only with dickhead idiots drinkdriving but the amount of kids running round Russells have opened an unofficial creche up there.

Worst Pub 2: Bunker 4, Thomas Street: Worst niteclub ever! Bouncers there are spanners. Not only that u cant f**king move around in the place without banging ur head off the wall. A Sh!thouse!!

Worst Pub 3: The Bank. Total bo!!ox of a place. Thinks itself of a classy joint, it's terrible there. Really is. Regulars are stupid fat head assholes who do sweet f**k all, day & night. Have to be sorted out.

newsmedia

Nice to see somewhere that folk are giving forthright appraisals but doubt that those running the more seedily managed premises in Limerick will pay much heed - and that is a sure problem in the city bars.

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Mr E

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