best nightclub on the southside? (out of town)

snorlax

tram co is it or that place in ranelagh?

Rb

snorlax wrote:

tram co is it or that place in ranelagh?

Ranelagh?Il Mondo?!

Haven't been to TramCo in months, has always been a good night out though.

monkeyfudge

Neither of them are in South County Dublin though are they?

The North County Dublin forum only deals with areas outside Dublin City on the North side, shouldn't the South County Dublin forum be the same?

Agent Smith

Well, 92 in Leperstown can be a Good Night,
Bondi Can be Good as Long as The Kids arent there, so Avoid Friday and Satarday like the Plauge, Wedensdays does Be Packed Due to the €2 drinks deal.
Paps in Dun Laoghaire is to be avoided Like The Plague also, unless you fancy getting the sh*t kicked out of you Afterwards, Men and Women Alike.

Rb

92 is good craic, despite how packed it can get.
Haven't been into Bondi in a long time, heard its just packed with the kiddies and some nights are sausage partys.

copacetic

monkeyfudge wrote:

Neither of them are in South County Dublin though are they?

The North County Dublin forum only deals with areas outside Dublin City on the North side, shouldn't the South County Dublin forum be the same?

wouldn't ranelagh and rathmines count as being outside the city?


edit: see what you mean about north country dublin, but it is different as there is green belts/seperate towns and it is much larger.
there are no real southside equivalents to rush, skerries etc as it is one big housing estate all the way to wicklow on the southside.

maybe when we see a charter it will all make sense.

monkeyfudge

Anything south of Stilorgan would be outside the city of Dublin. So I would have imagined this forum would deal with Dun Laoghaire and other such places in South County Dublin.

copacetic

monkeyfudge wrote:

Anything south of Stilorgan would be outside the city of Dublin. So I would have imagined this forum would deal with Dun Laoghaire and other such places in South County Dublin.

how are you defining south county dublin?

Dun laoghaire/rathdown county council or south dublin county council area?
or both?

You don't have to hit Stillorgan if so, aren't Milltown and Booterstown outside of Dublin city too?

eclectichoney

eh anywhere with south county dublin as a postcode perhaps? (this is, no number e.g. Dublin 6, Dublin 8 etc.) milltown is dublin 6 btw! Sandycove, Dalkey, Killiney are all south co. dublin anyway.

copacetic

eclectichoney wrote:

eh anywhere with south county dublin as a postcode perhaps? (this is, no number e.g. Dublin 6, Dublin 8 etc.) milltown is dublin 6 btw! Sandycove, Dalkey, Killiney are all south co. dublin anyway.

that wouldn't make much sense since that is an arbitrary system. that would leave out carrickmines, foxrock, stillorgan, sandyford, dundrum etc etc but include everywhere east of N11, so booterstown but not milltown, blackrock but not stillorgan, deansgrange but not cabinteely.

for instance neither bondi or club 92 are in south county dublin by that definition.

grimloch

To the best of my knowledge, bondi has been closed for refurbishment for the foreseeable future.

ANXIOUS

grimloch wrote:

To the best of my knowledge, bondi has been closed for refurbishment for the foreseeable future.

I was there last week, it was open even if it was a div as always

jesus_thats_gre

Yeah am a bit of a fan of 92 myself. Tis a kip but always have a dope night!!

admiralofthefleet

i quite like nemo's in dun laoghaire, havent been there in ages though. 92 is a good nite out as well

monkeyfudge

admiralofthefleet wrote:

i quite like nemo's in dun laoghaire, havent been there in ages though. 92 is a good nite out as well

Ah Nemos... Don't think I ever stayed there late... but I used to eat their Spanish omlettes all the time on my lunch breaks... They even gave me a discount after a while.

delta_bravo

grimloch wrote:

To the best of my knowledge, bondi has been closed for refurbishment for the foreseeable future.

Actually, I believe that the Gardai went in one night and hardly anyone had I.D. so they shut it down temporarily

Pythia

Has anyone been to Parker Brownes in Dundrum? Despite living in Dundrum, I've never been.

copacetic

i've been in a couple of times, it's alright, a bit of an older crowd when I was in, didn't feel like a perv the way I did the one time I was in bondi!

melekalikimaka

92 is good craic, they finally tore up that damn carpet so the smell is almost gone. pity they've gotten so lax on the door policy, used the be real unique crowd, ya could go in a know most, now all sorts are coming in...couldbe i'm just getting old tho...sigh...to sachs for me so

Agent Smith

lol, i could just see you in sachs melekalikimaka!

i'd class the southside as South County Dublin, As mentioned before, there is no huge green belts, it does appear to be one large collection of houseing estates!

Nemos, having passed it today, looks closed town, there is to let signs outside.

copacetic

hmmm, maybe you could change the forum name to just south dublin or something?

Agent Smith

One would have to suggest it in Either the feedback forum or Pm an Admin

copacetic

agent smith wrote:

One would have to suggest it in Either the feedback forum or Pm an Admin

not that pushed! but just seems like there will be a lot of confusion about what area is supposed to be covered...

Haven't been to McGowans in Churchtown for some time but I do like it.

copacetic

Myth wrote:

Haven't been to McGowans in Churchtown for some time but I do like it.

it's up for sale at the moment, so get a visit in soon!

daveym

daveym wrote:

it's up for sale at the moment, so get a visit in soon!

For sale as a nightclub or will it be knocked down and apartments built there?

copacetic

Myth wrote:

For sale as a nightclub or will it be knocked down and apartments built there?

it's being sold as a site I think, so buyer I'd imagine would build apts with pub below/no pub at all..

Pythia

Myth wrote:

Haven't been to McGowans in Churchtown for some time but I do like it.

I like McGowans too. Haven't been in ages though. Pity it's up for sale.

Makaveli

daveym wrote:

that wouldn't make much sense since that is an arbitrary system. that would leave out carrickmines, foxrock, stillorgan, sandyford, dundrum etc etc but include everywhere east of N11, so booterstown but not milltown, blackrock but not stillorgan, deansgrange but not cabinteely.

for instance neither bondi or club 92 are in south county dublin by that definition.

Stillorgan is County Dublin, there's no number here. For some reason there is a slight ambiguity about Kilmacud though which seems to go by Dublin 14 at times (that may be down to the Upper Kilmacud Road though considering it goes as far as Dundrum). I dunno, I've lived here my entire life and I can't tell you the difference between Stillorgan and Kilmacud.

copacetic

Makaveli wrote:

Stillorgan is County Dublin, there's no number here. For some reason there is a slight ambiguity about Kilmacud though which seems to go by Dublin 14 at times (that may be down to the Upper Kilmacud Road though considering it goes as far as Dundrum). I dunno, I've lived here my entire life and I can't tell you the difference between Stillorgan and Kilmacud.

I do know some people in stillorgan who call themselves county and some who call themselves D14. I thought that the N11 was the division line and west of it was a numbered postcode and east Co. Dublin?

I always assumed people who said Co. Dublin were trying to be posh! Maybe it was just there is a dividing line somewhere in Stillorgan/Kilmacud area.

I know where I am up past lambs cross half the people are putting down stepaside co. dublin and the other half sandyford D18 as their address.

I guess it'll all be sorted next year when everyone gets a proper postcode...

Rb

Myth wrote:

Haven't been to McGowans in Churchtown for some time but I do like it.

Its a good spot alright, the crowd can be a bit touch and go at times though.

daveym wrote:

it's being sold as a site I think, so buyer I'd imagine would build apts with pub below/no pub at all..

Yeah, its being sold as development property so its the end of the club/pub there I'd imagine. Bit of a pity though, there's been a pub/club there for as long as I can remember and its never really brought any trouble to the area.

Makaveli

daveym wrote:

I do know some people in stillorgan who call themselves county and some who call themselves D14. I thought that the N11 was the division line and west of it was a numbered postcode and east Co. Dublin?

I always assumed people who said Co. Dublin were trying to be posh! Maybe it was just there is a dividing line somewhere in Stillorgan/Kilmacud area.

I know where I am up past lambs cross half the people are putting down stepaside co. dublin and the other half sandyford D18 as their address.

I guess it'll all be sorted next year when everyone gets a proper postcode...

Your post was the first time I've ever heard anybody mention Stillorgan as anything other than County Dublin. I had to look up a map to make sure it was Dublin 14 I meant, and I've only seen a Kilmacud address listed as Dublin 14 once but I just looked it up in the phone book and it's now listed as Stillorgan Co. Dublin. Stillorgan is on both sides of the N11 anyway, Patrician Villas is in Stillorgan (unfortunately) and I'd say Orpen Green would be considered Stillorgan too although quite a few people would probably try and say it's Blackrock (but then again I know people living in my estate who use Blackrock as their address).

It also seems the Sandyford Industrial Estate has swallowed what used to be the Stillorgan Industrial Estate/Park (whatever) and it's all now known as Sandyford. Although Atlantic Homecare still claims it's Stillorgan where as the Beacon and all the car showrooms beside it seem to be Sandyford.

Anyway this is all way off topic. Best nightclub certainly isn't Bondi. That place is a kip. 92 is decent if you don't go for a good a while and then occasionally head up. If you go frequently is quickly loses its appeal. It can also be annoying that if you live near it you know every second person in there.

monkeyfudge

Here's a map.



Dublin City is in the lighter green. If you don't live in that light green area then you don't live in Dublin City.

South County Dublin is broken into Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown South Council and South Dublin County Council, so again, if one of these two is your county council then you are not in Dublin City.

copacetic

yeah I understand that but you are just defining it by the council area, which is just a line seperating one street from the next. Also, it may be that it is useful for defining the 'Dublin City' forum, but I don't think it defines a 'South County Dublin' forum? Or are you saying that anywhere in south dublin county council area or DLRSC area is covered by the forum because they aren't part of the Dublin corporation area?

monkeyfudge

I'm just saying that Dublin City is a specific area that is maintained by the Dublin City Council. The North county Dublin forum deals with areas on the Northside of Liffey that don't fall within the city limits, so I don't see why the South County Dublin forum feels the need to lay claim to half of City of Dublin when it seems to me it should be for areas South of the Liffey that don't fall within the city limits.

Won't say much more on this as it's off topic... but if this is the way of thinking that people want to go with, then we might as well do away with Dublin City forum and just have North and South Dublin forums... although I'm not entirely sure if that level of segregation is necessary.

copacetic

monkeyfudge wrote:

I'm just saying that Dublin City is a specific area that is maintained by the Dublin City Council. The North county Dublin forum deals with areas on the Northside of Liffey that don't fall within the city limits, so I don't see why the South County Dublin forum feels the need to lay claim to half of City of Dublin when it seems to me it should be for areas South of the Liffey that don't fall within the city limits.

Won't say much more on this as it's off topic... but if this is the way of thinking that people want to go with, then we might as well do away with Dublin City forum and just have North and South Dublin forums... although I'm not entirely sure if that level of segregation is necessary.

hmm, I know what you mean. I guess I'd think that a City Centre, South Dublin and North Dublin would make sense tbh. So am probably looking at it from that viewpoint. Again I think the North County forum is different because of the Airport and green belt that forces a seperation that doesn't appear on the Southside, also the corporation area extends further out on DNS too, it nearly encompasses everwhere within the M50..

melekalikimaka

Makaveli wrote:

Anyway this is all way off topic. Best nightclub certainly isn't Bondi. That place is a kip. 92 is decent if you don't go for a good a while and then occasionally head up. If you go frequently is quickly loses its appeal. It can also be annoying that if you live near it you know every second person in there.

summed up perfectly, was there on sat, don't want to rub anyone up the wrong way here but tbh the place is littling in all sorts of knacks these days, i remember there wouldnt be a single fat or ugly lass in there (bar the ol regulars, but sure they need one or two for ya to compare against), my friend(drunk) mentioned it to the bouncers and they agreed...a dark cloud is hanging over the club...

Agent Smith

melekalikimaka wrote:

summed up perfectly, was there on sat, don't want to rub anyone up the wrong way here but tbh the place is littling in all sorts of knacks these days, i remember there wouldnt be a single fat or ugly lass in there (bar the ol regulars, but sure they need one or two for ya to compare against), my friend(drunk) mentioned it to the bouncers and they agreed...a dark cloud is hanging over the club...

I miss the good old day of 92....

was there a few weeks ago and the dress code seemed to have been thrown out the window.

markk06

melekalikimaka didnt seem too bothered about whether the girls were fat.... or so i heard.

<i'm not banning you, just a gentle reminder that beauty is on the inside mark>

And regarding the fact that bondi is closed for "renovations"... How come there is no sign of work going on, no vans no skips no nothing... hmmmmm

melekalikimaka

markk06 wrote:

melekalikimaka didnt seem too bothered about whether the girls were fat.... or so i heard.

And regarding the fact that bondi is closed for "renovations"... How come there is no sign of work going on, no vans no skips no nothing... hmmmmm

slander SLANDER siteban siteban him smith

Agent Smith

its hardly slander if its true....



altho in fairness, Personal swipes at posters, will not be tolorated, even if i know the two of you's.... Behave!

copacetic

agent smith wrote:

its hardly slander if its true....

agreed, if he likes them big he likes them big, no shame in that.

melekalikimaka

...ffs:mad:

Agent Smith

all right... Back on topic..

Does anyone know what the real story with bondi is?

melekalikimaka

my friends cousin is the manager, i could check mr smith...but whats in it for me...?

copacetic

melekalikimaka wrote:

my friends cousin is the manager, i could check mr smith...but whats in it for me...?

oh the temptation!

Agent Smith

not an awful lot tbh....

melekalikimaka

agent smith wrote:

not an awful lot tbh....

tease

Chucky the tree

melekalikimaka wrote:

summed up perfectly, was there on sat, don't want to rub anyone up the wrong way here but tbh the place is littling in all sorts of knacks these days, i remember there wouldnt be a single fat or ugly lass in there (bar the ol regulars, but sure they need one or two for ya to compare against), my friend(drunk) mentioned it to the bouncers and they agreed...a dark cloud is hanging over the club...

If the bouncer agree the place is full of knackers what the hell are they letting them in for?

melekalikimaka

Chucky the tree wrote:

If the bouncer agree the place is full of knackers what the hell are they letting them in for?

he claimed it was a 'odd night'

Rb

melekalikimaka wrote:

a 'odd night'

Thats proper bouncer speak alright, don't doubt you for a second.

Regarding Bondi, have heard little or nothing about the place. Its been months since I stepped foot in it anyway, far too full of really, really young teenagers and knackers. Maybe its a crowd renovation? However, they tried that in the past by introducing a new Sunday night event to attempt to compete with 92's, it flopped afaik. Have no idea how its doing overall though, could just be shutting down at this point and selling up as prime development property.