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Serious lack of nightclubs in limerick...

  • 25-07-2006 1:20pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭


    Hey,
    i've been nightclubbing in limerick now for a long time just because i live nearby, but have always reckoned there is a serious lack of variety in terms of pubs and clubs here. theres a few old reliables, i.e. trinners, icon, mollies nancies, smyths, but for a city of its size thats nothin compared to what cork and galway have!!!
    whats your experience of limerick compared to other places?? ever lived here or even just visited?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 5 Times


    Limerick is shocking for nightclubs.

    Trooms is still basically the same as it was when it was docs.

    Club icon is basically a late bar. Dark, dirty mangy kip.

    Thats it basically.

    If you are into a more mundane, pretentious venue then you have the Sin Bin.

    If you are a weirdo or have social problems there is costellos.

    If you are a naive, beer guzzling, unhygenic student you have The Lodge.

    In all of these places there is not much craic. Limerick people are very serious and the law of the scumbag is very evident. Nancys is about as sophisticated as it gets. There are knackers and wannabe's everywhere and the bouncers will invariably give you grief or be viloent for no reason. Virtually all of them are criminals or ex-criminals.

    The pub scene is crap. The pubs only have a good atmosphere on saturday nights. Friday nights are crap as there isn't that many people out. I was in Smyths recently on a Friday night and there was less than 10 people in there and it was after half ten. The social scene is dead. There is hardly one traditional Irish pub in the city.

    I always knew it was bad but it was only when I moved to Dublin a couple of years back that I realised Limerick is completely dead. Just leave - your life will get better. There is very little craic in Limerick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭youthacademy


    ha, my thoughts exactly to the T, wanted to see what an smaller town person thought of it though..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭Burning Eclipse


    A friend of mine is gay and a few of us went to the globe one saturday. Had a great night, no stuck up guys and girls thinking they were gods gift to the world (trinity rooms anyone), just a good laugh with some chart/80's music. Also, absolutely no smell of BO, I can't stress that enough as it's quite rare to find a pub but especially club without it these days :)

    Worth looking at :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭rorymagory


    5 Times wrote:
    Limerick is shocking for nightclubs.

    Trooms is still basically the same as it was when it was docs.

    Club icon is basically a late bar. Dark, dirty mangy kip.

    Thats it basically.

    If you are into a more mundane, pretentious venue then you have the Sin Bin.

    If you are a weirdo or have social problems there is costellos.

    If you are a naive, beer guzzling, unhygenic student you have The Lodge.

    In all of these places there is not much craic. Limerick people are very serious and the law of the scumbag is very evident. Nancys is about as sophisticated as it gets. There are knackers and wannabe's everywhere and the bouncers will invariably give you grief or be viloent for no reason. Virtually all of them are criminals or ex-criminals.

    The pub scene is crap. The pubs only have a good atmosphere on saturday nights. Friday nights are crap as there isn't that many people out. I was in Smyths recently on a Friday night and there was less than 10 people in there and it was after half ten. The social scene is dead. There is hardly one traditional Irish pub in the city.

    I always knew it was bad but it was only when I moved to Dublin a couple of years back that I realised Limerick is completely dead. Just leave - your life will get better. There is very little craic in Limerick.

    Then make your own fun and stop whining.
    I'm wondering do you go to nightclubs to have fun with friends or to be seen? It doesn't matter a ****e where you'd go, with that attitude it sounds like you're gonna have a terrible time.

    I love your comment on Costelloes. It's completely untrue and it made me laugh. You're spot on about bouncers/scumbags in general though (except for Costelloes....you'll know who that 'bouncer' is). Still, like anywhere, if you look for trouble you'll find it easy enough. I've never had any trouble and I don't see what the fuss is about. Limerick's as much fun as you make it yourself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Well this is a rubbish thread.

    Is everyone on this board a manic depressive or something?

    There's plenty of good spots to go out in Limerick, especially at the weekend. Midweek in the summer Limerick is nothing great but it's great fun at the weekend.

    Is anyone surprised that Dublin a city 10 times the size of Limerick has a better nightlife?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    5 Times wrote:
    Limerick is shocking for nightclubs.

    Trooms is still basically the same as it was when it was docs.

    Club icon is basically a late bar. Dark, dirty mangy kip.

    Thats it basically.

    If you are into a more mundane, pretentious venue then you have the Sin Bin.

    If you are a weirdo or have social problems there is costellos.

    If you are a naive, beer guzzling, unhygenic student you have The Lodge.

    In all of these places there is not much craic. Limerick people are very serious and the law of the scumbag is very evident. Nancys is about as sophisticated as it gets. There are knackers and wannabe's everywhere and the bouncers will invariably give you grief or be viloent for no reason. Virtually all of them are criminals or ex-criminals.

    The pub scene is crap. The pubs only have a good atmosphere on saturday nights. Friday nights are crap as there isn't that many people out. I was in Smyths recently on a Friday night and there was less than 10 people in there and it was after half ten. The social scene is dead. There is hardly one traditional Irish pub in the city.

    I always knew it was bad but it was only when I moved to Dublin a couple of years back that I realised Limerick is completely dead. Just leave - your life will get better. There is very little craic in Limerick.

    Pretty accurate. Except regarding Costellos, IMO, there's good craic to be had if you're not a tool who assumes everyone there is a 'weirdo' :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Nah, Trinity Rooms is a good club, the Icon isn't my thing but it's no worse than most clubs in this country, same as the SinBin.

    I don't get the Limerick is serious, knacker vibe crap. walk down Shop street and Temple Bar at half 2 and it's the same vibe, it's called drunkeness.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Btw, there is a new club opening opposite the Icon in a few months.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭kyp_durron


    Btw, there is a new club opening opposite the Icon in a few months.

    Yeah? Whats the deal with it music wise? Anymore details?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Not a clue, originally it was going to be superpub type place but I reckon the Cornmarket kinda stole their thunder on that so it's going to be a nightclub now. I imagine it will be fairly mainstream, try and catch the Nancies crowd.

    All in all, the Cornmarket area has improved in recent years (I know the usual "I want my MTV2" whiners will disagree), with a few decent restaurants there too. I wonder what the Market Nightclub will be like when it's redone?

    Any more on the club beneath the Wicked Chicken?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    If someone bought the Jesuits and turned it into a Super Club that would be so class! only problem is the location! I thought the Franciscans was closing down? that would eb a perfect location! Its name should be called something with reference to a church.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    If someone bought the Jesuits and turned it into a Super Club that would be so class! only problem is the location! I thought the Franciscans was closing down? that would eb a perfect location! Its name should be called something with reference to a church.

    Jesus, that would be f**king mad, leave as much as the inside as is. You could turn the altar into the DJ box!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭ellenmelon


    clubs here a pretty shocking really, especially since you have to pay a **** load to get in and what do you really get for it? gross sticky floors, drunk eejits falling on you or stepping on your feet and stuck up people. im surprised they dont do a the deal a lot of places do that if you're in before a certain time its cheaper..
    i avoid clubs in limerick purely because you have to pay to get in and head to places like the wicked chicken which is a class wee venue and the music is actually decent. not this "dance music" crap which anyone could do with a half decent computer program.

    i think club owners have to realise that they cant expect people to pay what theyre paying to get into a dingy room with a few lights and some music.they need to get their act together and stop thinking about their pockets and more about the punters..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    ellenmelon wrote:
    clubs here a pretty shocking really, especially since you have to pay a **** load to get in and what do you really get for it? gross sticky floors, drunk eejits falling on you or stepping on your feet and stuck up people. im surprised they dont do a the deal a lot of places do that if you're in before a certain time its cheaper..
    i avoid clubs in limerick purely because you have to pay to get in and head to places like the wicked chicken which is a class wee venue and the music is actually decent. not this "dance music" crap which anyone could do with a half decent computer program.

    i think club owners have to realise that they cant expect people to pay what theyre paying to get into a dingy room with a few lights and some music.they need to get their act together and stop thinking about their pockets and more about the punters..

    You've just described clubs all over the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭irishguy


    I agree its a joke having to pay €12 to get into a club (and then €4.60 for a pint), but these clubs wont change until they stop loosing customers. Trinity rooms or Icon are packed any Saturday night. I have nearly stopped going to clubs now, its just way too expensive (unless i am totally hammered :D) normally just go to a late bar or Costello's (which is great craic and only €5, but a bit of a ****hole). Also whats going on with the price of a pint these days its like €4.40 in most city center pubs (which is more than it costs in the center of London) Nestor's is only €3 and its a nice bar (some scumbags though). What happened to wetherspoons opening in Limerick, I heard they were opening ages ago?. They would really shake up the bars and clubs if they had a late license


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭vkid


    I heard that place beside nancys is a small live venue type thing. Hope they get some good stuff in there and not the usual cover band/cheesy dj malarky that dominates the rest of the city.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    vkid wrote:
    I heard that place beside nancys is a small live venue type thing. Hope they get some good stuff in there and not the usual cover band/cheesy dj malarky that dominates the rest of the city.

    Thats the most annoying thing about Dolans Warehouse, it's one of the best venues in the country (well outside Dublin) but it rarely tries anything else.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭vkid


    I'd agree as well. Usually wouldn;t bother with clubs in Limerick anymore.
    Costelloes though is a **** hole and that smoking area is a death trap(how are they getting away with it?). Wouldn;t give them 5Eu to get in. At least other places give themselves a lick of paint. Costelloes is dirty run down and drink is pricey and they must making a fortune. The security staff is interesting as well..
    Wicked chicken is nice except for Saturdays there are too packed and that bar next door is a bit dodgey.



    irishguy wrote:
    I agree its a joke having to pay €12 to get into a club (and then €4.60 for a pint), but these clubs wont change until they stop loosing customers. Trinity rooms or Icon are packed any Saturday night. I have nearly stopped going to clubs now, its just way too expensive (unless i am totally hammered :D) normally just go to a late bar or Costello's (which is great craic and only €5, but a bit of a ****hole).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭ellenmelon


    You've just described clubs all over the world.

    you're wrong actually. ive been to clubs in france,scotland, england and in new zealand.in a city of 400,000 where i lived there was one club that was pretty dodgy but it was one of about 12 or 13. its only since ive been in ireland that ive seen dives which some people like to call "clubs".scummy pieces of crap that they are. if i was a limerick club owner i would ashamed..99 percent of them have no redeeming features. no way are they going to get my patronage! €10? for what?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Really, I've been in clubs in England, Scoland, France, Wales, America and Spain and generally they're no better than Irish ones, seriously. Sure you get great ones all over but by and large they are messy dirty places.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭ellenmelon


    Really, I've been in clubs in England, Scoland, France, Wales, America and Spain and generally they're no better than Irish ones, seriously. Sure you get great ones all over but by and large they are messy dirty places.

    you must have fabulous taste in clubs then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭vkid


    Thats the most annoying thing about Dolans Warehouse, it's one of the best venues in the country (well outside Dublin) but it rarely tries anything else.


    Agreed. Way too many cover bands and the same groups over and over again.
    Aslan anyone?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭ellenmelon


    vkid wrote:
    Agreed. Way too many cover bands and the same groups over and over again.
    Aslan anyone?

    ive seen them 2 time more than id want to (the boyfriend liked them back in the day) they're grand like, but its exactly the same everytime. they know the place will fill up and they cash in on peoples nostalgia..
    nothing wrong with it like, just gets a small bit boring.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    T-rooms had 2 killer Dj's playing house/Techno in the smoking area one Thursday, anyone know where they went? The one good night I had in a Limerick nightclub, i've been here 4 months. Somebody sort this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭youthacademy


    Surrender wrote:
    T-rooms had 2 killer Dj's playing house/Techno in the smoking area one Thursday, anyone know where they went? The one good night I had in a Limerick nightclub, i've been here 4 months. Somebody sort this.
    yeah saw them alright, a lad on the drums and the other a dj?? :cool:



    yeah i heard something was going up next to nancies alright, although the cornmarket was the great white hope when it opened and wasn't too impressed to be honest. kinda reminded me of charlies , which is a creche.
    yeah costelloes is a hole alright but at least they dont have bouncers that'll kick the sh1t outa ya for farting


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,534 ✭✭✭sioda


    Costellos is not a hole its a museum for twenty somethings like myself who want to review their childhood through something that hasn't changed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    sioda wrote:
    Costellos is not a hole its a museum for twenty somethings like myself who want to review their childhood through something that hasn't changed

    Those are exactly the words I was looking for! I don't give a toss about sticky carpets, mouldy wallpaper or concentration camp-esque smoking area. The craic is great, there are never any pretentious knobs in Costellos. Plus, going to Costellos is less shameful than going to Termights


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    ellenmelon wrote:
    you must have fabulous taste in clubs then.

    No, just regular clubs. You seem determined to knock something just becuase it's Irish. God, when I recall the clubs in France or Boston, some Irish places seem almost cutting edge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭bucks73


    Btw, there is a new club opening opposite the Icon in a few months.

    I think thats probably the pub being built by the two brothers who owned Finns. They had the plans up in Finns before they closed and it didnt include a club but it could have changed since then.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Yep, same guys, Flannery's as far as I know. Originally it was a supposed to be a bigpub but apparently that's been changed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭gaf1983


    Any word on a club/late bar opening in the basement of Player's on Thomas St?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    gaf1983 wrote:
    Any word on a club/late bar opening in the basement of Player's on Thomas St?

    First I heard, tell me everything you know, everything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭Arathorn


    So what do people consider makes a good niteclub? The supposed best niteclubs in the likes of ibiza etc are just as bad, overcrowded, expensive, full of tossers, unless your really into your dance music I dont see the point. If I had to pick it would prob be Costellos personally because I like the music but mostly because there are usually seats where you can get a large group of mates sitting around together and have a laugh. By the way termites which used to be free in (alrite for an extra few drinks if you didnt fancy a proper club) is now charging €5 in on sat. Fock that!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13 Lululady


    jaysus there is a lot of manic depressives about Limerick here............

    I think Limerick is as good as anywhere else for clubbing in ireland...

    After all a nightclub is a nightclub a lot of people every pretentious about are going out...if u wanna have fun and enjoy urself u will no matter where u go


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,858 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    I haven't been in a nightclub in some time :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭youthacademy


    Lululady wrote:
    jaysus there is a lot of manic depressives about Limerick here............

    I think Limerick is as good as anywhere else for clubbing in ireland...

    After all a nightclub is a nightclub a lot of people every pretentious about are going out...if u wanna have fun and enjoy urself u will no matter where u go

    well fair enough, you'l make your own craic no matter where you go, but your a twenty something on a sat night in limerick, you'd have to agree the choice is V limited...
    trooms is actually a good layout of a night club but its often wedged cause its kinda small for limericks premier club, and not to be stereotyping but it always filled with pretenious L4 heads( L4= Limericks answer to d4), which is why i like a bit of costellos for the craic. you could count on one hand the nightclubs in limerick, and no i'm not a minic depressive, just would like a bit of variety for the city. Galway for example.....
    Tribes
    The Radisson
    Angels
    Black Box
    Boo Radleys
    Central Park
    Cuba
    GPO
    Halo
    Karma Nightclub
    Queen Street Club
    The Vic Nightclub
    Venue Nightclub


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Tribes is a gay club, Angels is a strip club, Black Box is a large music venue but not often used as clubs (was one once a week for a while but I think that's over now?), Venue is clsed down, think Queen street and the Vic are the same place (may be wrong though).

    Like anything, Limerick's nightlife could be improved, but that doesn't make it crap. If you're going to include things like the Black Box you may as well include UCH or Millenium threatre in Limerick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭irishguy


    I think Galway may have more places to go out in the center of town because its so compact. Limerick is allot more spread out if UL was in the city center then there would be allot more studenty clubs/pubs around. Some people go to UL for 4 years and never go to the city center. Trinity rooms is a good club by any standards, but it gets way too busy on the weekends and is expensive. During the week its class, they have just the back part of it open and its free to get in (they hand out comps everywhere). We need another few clubs/late bars especially with outdoor spaces (courtyard in trinity rooms or outside the locke is great). Allot of clubs/pubs that are being built arent very imaginative its just a room with speakers and a bar. Look at some other clubs around the world for inspiration, hire some dancers/performers, have more live music (like Dolans) and for gods sake will someone open a comedy club (i miss Thursdays in Dolans)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Comedy Club in Nestors Basement every Wednesday, or there was during the college year.

    I agree that UL is too far out of town to have the same influence as NUIG has in Galway, but things are changing with free buses etc. Remember Galway has been a college city for over 150 years, UL is only a University for the last 18 years or so? It takes time for a culture to become part of the town.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭irishguy


    Comedy Club in Nestors Basement every Wednesday, or there was during the college year. QUOTE]

    Really pity they didn't advertise the dam thing, I have been in nestors a few times and they didn't even have a poster up for it.

    True UL has only been around about 17 years as a University, but in fairness how long does it take for business people to figure out that students drink ALOT and open up some more bars/clubs in Limerick. During the college year all the clubs are packed all week long, they only get quite during the week in the Summer. If CIE ran a night bus service on the main bus roots allot more students/general public would come into town at night (for the life of me i cant understand why they dont do night buses to some areas, there is defiantly the demand there for it)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Incompetence? In Limerick? Never.

    I agree completely, but I guess it takes time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭vkid


    trooms is actually a good layout of a night club but its often wedged cause its kinda small for limericks premier club, and not to be stereotyping but it always filled with pretenious L4 heads( L4= Limericks answer to d4),

    :D L4 heads...love it. great description!! Thats what I don't like about trooms is the crowd but its a wicked place. Always was though even in the Docs years which it hasn't changed much from.

    Lets be realistic here though,most of the clubs in Galway are even ****tier than Limericks. They just have a few more but most of Galways nightlife is about the pubs which they have many many good ones and none of the attitude you getn from pubs here. There is not one really really nice bar in Limerick with a laid back vibe and good music. They're either dumps with good enough tunesor nice places with cheesy dj's and/or a load of attitude
    Of the ones I;ve been to in the last 3 months in Galway
    GPO is a dump and full of more scobes than you'd see in any Limerick club. Cuba's live/comedyvenue is ok but the bar and club are crapola.
    Black Box is not a club
    Central Park - seriously , thats laughable
    Ditto for Halo and Karma
    The Vic is also not a night club. Its a bar with a makeshift DJ box and is terrible.
    Roisin Dubhs is ok but is also not a club. Nice new beer garden though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭ellenmelon


    No, just regular clubs. You seem determined to knock something just becuase it's Irish. God, when I recall the clubs in France or Boston, some Irish places seem almost cutting edge.

    yeah, so i spent loads of money getting my irish passport and birth certificate..moved over here from new zealand at the age of 18 and have lived here and you say " i seem determinded to knock something because its irish"? you have to be bloody kidding me.how the heck did you take my comments on limerick to be my opinions on the whole of ireland?i wouldnt bloody be here if i wanted to knock things that are irish and i wouldnt have an irish boyfriend would i? i wouldnt be fairly proud of being an irish woman that happened to be born in new zealand?

    you say i seem determined to knock "anything irish", maybe you seem to be determined to see limerick through rose tinted glasses and deny that it has its problems.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    ellenmelon wrote:
    yeah, so i spent loads of money getting my irish passport and birth certificate..moved over here from new zealand at the age of 18 and have lived here and you say " i seem determinded to knock something because its irish"? you have to be bloody kidding me.how the heck did you take my comments on limerick to be my opinions on the whole of ireland?i wouldnt bloody be here if i wanted to knock things that are irish and i wouldnt have an irish boyfriend would i? i wouldnt be fairly proud of being an irish woman that happened to be born in new zealand?

    you say i seem determined to knock "anything irish", maybe you seem to be determined to see limerick through rose tinted glasses and deny that it has its problems.

    You're comments were about all Irish clubs, last week you said Ireland was a good place to visit but thats about it etc, in fairness Ellen, you're hardly radically positive. You've posted several times how you want to get out of Ireland and back to New Zealand asap.
    I mean, that's fair enough, if you're not happy you should leave but no need to bring everyone else down too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭ellenmelon


    You're comments were about all Irish clubs, last week you said Ireland was a good place to visit but thats about it etc, in fairness Ellen, you're hardly radically positive. You've posted several times how you want to get out of Ireland and back to New Zealand asap.
    I mean, that's fair enough, if you're not happy you should leave but no need to bring everyone else down too.

    when i said
    "clubs here a pretty shocking really, especially since you have to pay a **** load to get in and what do you really get for it? gross sticky floors, drunk eejits falling on you or stepping on your feet and stuck up people. im surprised they dont do a the deal a lot of places do that if you're in before a certain time its cheaper..
    i avoid clubs in limerick purely because you have to pay to get in and head to places like the wicked chicken which is a class wee venue and the music is actually decent. not this "dance music" crap which anyone could do with a half decent computer program"..
    did you not realise i was specifically talking about limerick clubs? i would love for you to point out where abouts i said "all clubs in ireland suck". cause i didnt. so dont put words in my mouth please..stuff like that really annoys me.

    and to futher prove my point that i wasnt knocking the whole of ireland (how can i? i havent lived in every town and city), did you not notice that anything that was said in the other thread that you were referring to was in a limerick city forum so i still dont see how or why you thought that i "seem determined to knock something just becuase it's Irish". because i wasnt.if i wanted to knock ireland i would've posted in a general irish forum wouldnt i?

    im not radically positive? how do you figure this?you dont know me so dont make assumptions about my personality please.

    and could you please provide some further information as to how i am bringing "everyone else down too"? ive not had any other comments from people saying that i was making them feel depressed like you say.you are again assuming things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭youthacademy


    irishguy wrote:
    Comedy Club in Nestors Basement every Wednesday, or there was during the college year. QUOTE]

    Really pity they didn't advertise the dam thing, I have been in nestors a few times and they didn't even have a poster up for it.

    True UL has only been around about 17 years as a University, but in fairness how long does it take for business people to figure out that students drink ALOT and open up some more bars/clubs in Limerick. During the college year all the clubs are packed all week long, they only get quite during the week in the Summer. If CIE ran a night bus service on the main bus roots allot more students/general public would come into town at night (for the life of me i cant understand why they dont do night buses to some areas, there is defiantly the demand there for it)

    very true, i'm a student out in ul(one of those beerguzzling lodge goers as someone at the start very nicely put it). limerick during the weeek does tend to be packed, and a nitelink runs for about half an hour tuesdays and thursday to ul for a small fee small sometimes. if cie ran a few buses untill half two or three like they do in dublin, they'd make a fortune. but its location is v far from the city alright. which is why groody opened, and isn't doing as well on the student front as people thought it would.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭ellenmelon


    irishguy wrote:

    very true, i'm a student out in ul(one of those beerguzzling lodge goers as someone at the start very nicely put it). limerick during the weeek does tend to be packed, and a nitelink runs for about half an hour tuesdays and thursday to ul for a small fee small sometimes. if cie ran a few buses untill half two or three like they do in dublin, they'd make a fortune. but its location is v far from the city alright. which is why groody opened, and isn't doing as well on the student front as people thought it would.

    its a pain eh? unless they're are a load of you to all chip in on a cab you dont really have much of a way getting home (walking=not fun!). i lived in the castletroy and annacotty area's for about a year and a half and it was such a pain trying to get into town and back home..they need to sort the bus service out there asap. bus eireann know there is a problem but they're just taking their sweet time about it.

    edit did you hear about those bus drivers up in dublin?(i think it was there)..they wont drive in certain areas after 7pm at night..and i know there's a difference between dublin and limerick but cant you just imagine the bus drivers here saying "we wont drive buses full of drunk students" blah blah blah..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭youthacademy


    ul are having major problems with drunkun students and the family houses in the location, maybe this is one of the reasons, people with no way home only to walk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭ellenmelon


    ul are having major problems with drunkun students and the family houses in the location, maybe this is one of the reasons, people with no way home only to walk

    its the same at the uni back home..its in a residential area and every year (usually the first couple of weeks of semester) people complain about students..it usually dies down after a while and people get used to it after a while.its not as bad as there though because uni students live all over the city (theres a bus that does a circuit of the city so you dont have to live right near the uni)i think UL needs to liase with the families around the area, even if its to make them feel like theyre being listened too (they could already be doing this but since my mum left UL im not up on whats happening out that way).

    if their was a shuttle service id say theyre would be less complaints because drunk people walking home wouldnt be walking past peoples houses and vandalising or whatever..(as you said..)

    :)


  • Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well this is a rubbish thread.

    Is everyone on this board a manic depressive or something?

    There's plenty of good spots to go out in Limerick, especially at the weekend. Midweek in the summer Limerick is nothing great but it's great fun at the weekend.

    Is anyone surprised that Dublin a city 10 times the size of Limerick has a better nightlife?
    tsh!!!;) The best nightlife is in galway and its is half the size of limerick!:p


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