Best and Worst Doormen in Town

nikolaitr

I would have to say the Best is either Eamonn Doran's or Messrs Maguires...The old lad in Doran's is especially nice


he Worst I think is The Q Bar bouncers.....it always seems to be "too full" when I come to the door.

ferdi

nikolaitr wrote:

the Worst I think is The Q Bar bouncers.....it always seems to be "too full" when I come to the door.

thats cause your a scruffy lookin bollox

Dub13

Q loads of posts...


What town...?Westport,Cork,Kerry...?

fade2black

Exactly...when did this become BoardsDublin.ie?

Post it in the Dublin forum ffs.

theTinker

ferdi wrote:

thats cause your a scruffy lookin bollox

that was completely unexpected.worth a chuckle.

Im not a fan of any but i once was going in to Q bar and said hey to the bouncer, he nodded back.. then 3 steps later he called me back and change his mind...the really **** part was he completely grinned the whole time so i vote that ONE douche my worst.

nikolaitr

Wherever, doesn't matter......its the stories that matter

ferdi

sorry nikolaitr, thought i knew you

Adam

fade2black wrote:

Exactly...when did this become BoardsDublin.ie?

Post it in the Dublin forum ffs.

Despite your dislike of the fact that most of the people on boards are from the greater Dublin area, there is still no rule that states he can't post in AH. Hell, if all the Dublin related threads were in the Dublin forum AH would be dead!

nikolaitr

ferdi wrote:

sorry nikolaitr, thought i knew you

Oh my last comment wasn't in reply to you. Don't worry I'm new to boards but I'm used to it's dark humour

ferdi

well tell us about the good and bad doormen in your town then....name and shame all over the country

Chakar

Greater Dublin Area interesting.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Dublin_Area

[Jackass]

Is this another one of those "I read a thread, now I'm making a spin off thread" after hours specials??:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

In fairness, the OP never said anything about Dublin, he was talking about the best and worst in his town.

I like the Flannerys door men, they're a good laugh even when they're throwing you out..Don't have a major problem with any door men...oh wait, maybe diceys?? :eek:

Nightwish

Kilkenny - The bouncers at the Venue.

Adam

Chakar wrote:

Greater Dublin Area interesting.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Dublin_Area

Why?

fade2black

DubGuy wrote:

In fairness, the OP never said anything about Dublin, he was talking about the best and worst in his town.

I like the Flannerys door men, they're a good laugh even when they're throwing you out..Don't have a major problem with any door men...oh wait, maybe diceys?? :eek:

He said in town and then went on to talk about Dublin.:rolleyes:

Adam

fade2black wrote:

He said in town and then went on to talk about Dublin.:rolleyes:

And his location is Dublin

Some people eh? :rolleyes:

fuzzywiggle

Time in Naas, Co. Kildare has alot of bouncers on power trips

nikolaitr

fade2black wrote:

He said in town and then went on to talk about Dublin.:rolleyes:

Where else was I ment to talk about. My place of experience is Dublin....really

Tar.Aldarion

Doran's ones are nice all right, I find most places suck. The one's in the GPO are particular bastards...

Sizzler

Well if we're talking about Dublin Id say the clowns at AKA or Cocoon, if they think you dont have a pretentious D4 type air then you're fooked.

Ive actually always found the majority of doormen outside dublin fairly sound.

fade2black

nikolaitr wrote:

Where else was I ment to talk about. My place of experience is Dublin....really

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=474

here you go buddy

PeadarofAodh

Jesus fade2black! He was asking people to talk about doormen and what they thought and then spoke of his experiences...in Dublin where he obviously frequents! Now you can talk about wherever you come from, hows that?

I've never had any trouble with the Q bar bouncers but tbh I've never liked the look of them, very threatening and ridiculously macho.

secret_squirrel

Doran's gets my vote - they once let me it with blood gushing from a cut under my eye. Niiiice.

Messers Good too.

Swords - Bouncers in the harp were great.

1 stops me.

Him:Have you been drinking?
Me : No
Him: Well get in and get one then!

Q Bar are pretty random.

Cocoon ****e

Ph3n0m

I dont like any doorman that stops me with a pathetic reason

I'm 30, I dont cause **** were I go - I should be allowed drink where I want to - so to every bouncer/doorman/gorilla that has ever stopped me - **** you, I got in somewhere else

Tar.Aldarion

Oh I forgot, the ones in bazaar in galway, great guys. One stopped me going in after reading my id, said my name and said there was a lovely blonde girl not wearing much upstairs by the dj box, dancing, that had been looking for me. Then he said, go for it. In I go anyway, and sure enough one was there. Heh.

InFront

I dont know any nice doormen to be honest. Some are alright, Doyles on College Green, Redz, Club 92 etc. Im sure of I talked to them for long enough theyd irritate me

Edit:How could I forget. Theres a guy on the Door of Dandelion who helped to dress my head after I tripped whilst walking off the Luas one night (yes sober). Hes not very tall hes got a short haircut, brown hair. Hes the dude. Plus he has a sense of humour.

But the worst...

• Sin in temple Bar, Ive never had any trouble with them but one night I saw two bouncers standing outside making fun of some homeless woman. Scum or what
• Tram Co - one of them is always ona power trip. He tried kicking me out for being pissed a few months ago, and I dont drink! The Estonian guy is cool though
• Maximus down in Nenagh in Tipperarry. Have very dodgy bouncers
• D2 - over 21s only, them and their Unbendable age limits!

Brian Capture

I was at a wedding in a hotel in Athlone (yes I know - that place!) last month.

Myself and a friend I hadn't seen for a few years were chatting while standing to one side of a fire exit with double doors (approximately eight feet wide). Our pints were on a shelf against the wall.

Two bouncers came along and told us to move.
'You're blocking the fire exit, lads'.

There was a two foot gap between the wall and the door and we were standing in that gap. We were not blocking it.

'We're not blocking it but we'll move if you insist. Anyway there's not going to be a fire'.

The bouncers scowled at us and said
'Lads. I'm not going to tell you again. Get the f*ck out of there'.

Fast forward four hours.

It's 2 am.
There was no fire.

Myself and my friend approached one of the bouncers and said

'Hey! There wasn't a fire. We could have stayed where we were.'

He just walked off in disgust, didn't even have the manners to reply.

Still - it's great to see them being proved wrong.

youcancallmeal

Worst: McGowan's in Churchtown

Best: The Palace

Have had bad experiences in a good few places but it was generally justified(Me being too drunk etc)

Zapp Brannigan

Brian Capture wrote:

Two bouncers came along and told us to move.
'You're blocking the fire exit, lads'.

This is why people should listen to Mitch Hedberg!
You had the perfect opportunity to use one of his jokes.
'If I have legs and am flammable, I am not blocking a Fire Exit'

As for Doormen: Messrs ones are grand, never had any problem. Had trouble one time at Qbar when me and a mate accidently skipped the entire queue and tried to get in. Was all sorted though and a good night was had by all. Redz guys aren't too bad really, but I'd hardly call em friendly.

Anyone been to The Vault? I hate all their security guys they're such power-tripping muppets!!

biko

As soon as I read the title "Best and Worst Doormen in Town" I knew this was gonna be a Dub thread.

This was my reply to a "sure most people are Dubs" guy then and it is now too

On topic, I usually am not too drunk to get in but have been asked to go for a walk and then get in after half an hour. In town.

Flex

Never had a problem with doormen at Redz. Q-Bar and Barcode are ok most the time but have their moments. Doormen at Heavan at the Blanchardstown shopping centre are assholes

Redz. I barely ever go out in town at all, went once for a friend's birthday. Walked in there, took the coat off, was sitting having a grand time with my friends. Just before we were about to leave I headed to the toilet with my coat as I hadn't a bag with me, and my, ahem, sanitary products were in the pocket. The bouncer stopped me and said I couldn't go in the loo without checking my coat. I told him I'd been there for 3 hours and was about to leave, and was just going to the loo, thinking surely there was a misunderstanding. He kept insisting that I paid the 2 euro and checked the coat, to which I said I wasn't paying when I was about to leave, and I told him I needed stuff in the pocket of the coat to go to the toilet (I really did). He totally mocked me and said there was no reason I needed anything (typical man), I laughed so, not wanting to say it was Tampax and he suddenly starts yelling at me, saying I was laughing at him, and asked me to leave. He mocked my "posh" accent (I'm from Tyrone) and called me a posh spoiled bitch or something. So I got thrown out onto the street alone and had ring my friends inside. Total f**king asshole.

Nightwish

In Dublin, I've found that the worst were in the POD and Zanzibar and the best were The Palace (in the day), The Temple and Quinns.

L31mr0d

secret_squirrel wrote:

Doran's gets my vote - they once let me it with blood gushing from a cut under my eye. Niiiice.

Messers Good too.

Swords - Bouncers in the harp were great.

1 stops me.

Him:Have you been drinking?
Me : No
Him: Well get in and get one then!

Q Bar are pretty random.

Cocoon ****e

seconded

pretty much my experience, I live in Swords, and of any of the 15+ pubs here i'd go to the Harp, it was good before they rebuilt it, now its great. I actually worked on the rebuild of it *random fact*

I hate bouncers tbh, they are usually thugs or monkeys in leather jackets who get given an unbelieveable amount of power to ruin someones night. Now I say usually because I have met a few sound ones, people I used to go to the gym with and a guy from college. I find i'll usually get into anywhere in town, as long as I let my other half go in infront of me, if i'm infront they seem to always stop me and take pleasure in making me look like a child by asking "are you really 23?".

Bars I like also, Pravda in Dublin, has pretty good bouncers, I think they have 2 african guys at the moment that are sound as a pound. If i'm waiting for friends i'll usually get a pint and chat to them for a bit. Also the Turks head is alright and The Porter House on Nassau St.

nando

Worst I've come across are in Blazers in Longford. Following an argument with some guy about the poorly organised queue for the cloakroom during the pre-Christmas rush one particular bouncer decided to thump said guy but instead hit me instead! And when I complained I was promptly told to f*ck off! :mad:

nesf

fade_to_grey wrote:

Despite your dislike of the fact that most of the people on boards are from the greater Dublin area, there is still no rule that states he can't post in AH. Hell, if all the Dublin related threads were in the Dublin forum AH would be dead!

Right, here's the deal. You are completely and totally wrong. Post in the right forum, read the charter and the stickies. This is AH not the Dublin forum.

This was pointed out to all of you weeks ago. Deal with it. People have been banned for this because I'm sick of having to waste time moving threads because people are too lazy to find the correct forum.

Thread moved.

Giblet

I ****ing love nesf

Sizzler

L31mr0d wrote:

seconded

pretty much my experience, I live in Swords, and of any of the 15+ pubs here i'd go to the Harp, it was good before they rebuilt it, now its great. I actually worked on the rebuild of it *random fact*

I hate bouncers tbh, they are usually thugs or monkeys in leather jackets who get given an unbelieveable amount of power to ruin someones night. Now I say usually because I have met a few sound ones, people I used to go to the gym with and a guy from college. I find i'll usually get into anywhere in town, as long as I let my other half go in infront of me, if i'm infront they seem to always stop me and take pleasure in making me look like a child by asking "are you really 23?".

Bars I like also, Pravda in Dublin, has pretty good bouncers, I think they have 2 african guys at the moment that are sound as a pound. If i'm waiting for friends i'll usually get a pint and chat to them for a bit. Also the Turks head is alright and The Porter House on Nassau St.

Ahh the harp in swords, me aul mate Chuck Norris does the door there ! Legend

skywalker

The nicest Ive ever encountered are one or two of the lads on the door at barcode, always a smile and friendly chat, and looked after a mate of mine when he was in a bad way.

Another vote for the oldschool palace too.

Degsy

Check this out..
www.dublinpubscene.com

stovelid

I must say that these lads sound like excellent bouncers to me....

Sizzler wrote:

f they think you dont have a pretentious D4 type air then you're fooked.

secret_squirrel

Sizzler wrote:

Ahh the harp in swords, me aul mate Chuck Norris does the door there ! Legend

Thats him!

nikolaitr

Just to query the Mods moving this thread? Why is it being moved to Dublin...The title of it was "Best and Worst Doormen in Town "...it said in TOWN, not Galway,not Dublin but town,anytown.

I wonder if I wrote about pubs in Galway city would it have been moved?


There seems to be a strong anti-Dublin bias here

tom-thebox

I am always hearing of people having problems for no reason in venues in templebar, pitty really bar owners do notting but complain about being less busy and margins going down

Amazing how much unprofessional "bouncers" I wouldnt even call them doormen, can cost a club money, probally the least paid people in the business

[Jackass]

nesf wrote:

Right, here's the deal. You are completely and totally wrong. Post in the right forum, read the charter and the stickies. This is AH not the Dublin forum.

This was pointed out to all of you weeks ago. Deal with it. People have been banned for this because I'm sick of having to waste time moving threads because people are too lazy to find the correct forum.

Thread moved.

With all due respect, I think you are the wrong one there, as the thread reads "best and worst doormen in town" ... There are posts here about Galway, Kilkenny, Kildare and at no point does it say specifically in Dublin..But a lot of people are from Dublin on boards....that's just the way it is, so of course the majority of replies will be from a Dublin perspective...

If afterhours is so anti-Dublin, why don't you make it the country forum or everywhere outside of dublin afterhours and this forum can be the Dublin afterhours, because that seems to be what you want...but it's ridiculos, what's the point in splitting it?

In the music forum, do threads about Dublin gigs, dublin bands, dublin radio get moved? Cause there's a lot of them...

lostexpectation

move this thread back to after hours please or atleast out of dublin

nesf

nikolaitr wrote:

Just to query the Mods moving this thread? Why is it being moved to Dublin...The title of it was "Best and Worst Doormen in Town "...it said in TOWN, not Galway,not Dublin but town,anytown.

I wonder if I wrote about pubs in Galway city would it have been moved?


There seems to be a strong anti-Dublin bias here

The thread is about Dublin bouncers, the OP admitted as much earlier in this thread and any region specific threads would be moved if I (or other mods) see them. There isn't a strong anti-Dublin bias it's just that Cork/Limerick/Galway/etc specific threads don't turn up in AH very often so you don't tend to see them.

Plus, tbh, how can we discuss specific bouncers at specific clubs in any way but from a regional perspective?

nesf

DubGuy wrote:

If afterhours is so anti-Dublin, why don't you make it the country forum or everywhere outside of dublin afterhours and this forum can be the Dublin afterhours, because that seems to be what you want...but it's ridiculos, what's the point in splitting it?

I've an issue with region specific threads in AH, that is all. If we are discussing the upcoming taxi strike and there is a lot of discussion from posters from a Dublin perspective that's cool, but if people want to discuss the Dart being messed up last Thursday it's not. One is national, the other is region specific.

DubGuy wrote:

In the music forum, do threads about Dublin gigs, dublin bands, dublin radio get moved? Cause there's a lot of them...

Your point? Politics is moderated very differently to AH, for example. Different forums have different rules and usually different thinking behind them. I'm curious as to why people have such an allergic reaction to threads being moved to this forum. It doesn't make any sense to me, surely you can see the point of all this?

sunnyjim

skywalker wrote:

The nicest Ive ever encountered are one or two of the lads on the door at barcode, always a smile and friendly chat, and looked after a mate of mine when he was in a bad way.

Another vote for the oldschool palace too.

You must work for the 'code then man. Thats the only reason you could hold that opinion!

Favourite Bouncers - the guy who used to work The Big Tree but now does The Grand Central. What a guy. One time I had a friend from the North down for the afternoon. We tried to go in for a drink, and told us it was 21s (I was 19, she was 18), and I asked for a bit of leeway, and then he goes "Ah sure, as long as your not here all night" with a smile! Saved my ass on front of the girl!!!! THANK YOU!!!

Hated bouncers - The Turks Head. Some of those guys are pricks. One night me and 10 of the lads (I know, but we are really just pseudo-lads, we don't go picking fights or other partake in other ladish behaviour) were in the bar part. But to get into the club, we had to leave and take the side door. When we left they only let 5 of us into the club, and the other 5 weren't let back into the bar part :eek:

^CwAzY^

Flex wrote:

Never had a problem with doormen at Redz. Q-Bar and Barcode are ok most the time but have their moments. Doormen at Heavan at the Blanchardstown shopping centre are assholes

They r alright they just check EVERYONES id.. hav 2 say the bouncers in barcode are dead sound.. worst 1s imo r in break for the border, arghhh such pricks!

secret_squirrel

nesf wrote:

we discuss specific bouncers at specific clubs in any way but from a regional perspective?

Quite easily since a decent amount of people have travelled and been to clubs outside of Dublin.

Im sure I saw 2-3 non-Dublin posts on this thread before you moved it.

The fact is the only person who made this a Dublin thread was you.

Everyone was quite happily listing their good/bad clubs regardless of location, of course the majority are going to be Dublin - that doesnt mean they all were or were going to be.