Slate closed?

Steve_H · 15-08-2007 9:20am #1

Anyone hear anything about the Slate pub being closed? I've heard it's for good due to the usual reason - lack of business. One of the few bars in Cork I enjoyed going to!

radiospan · 15-08-2007 11:28am

I was never there, but I heard it was just like the Quad?

dahamsta · 15-08-2007 11:31am

Dammit, that was one of our locals!

Steve_H · 15-08-2007 11:35am

plazzTT wrote:

I was never there, but I heard it was just like the Quad?

I wouldn't say 'just like' - I suppose it's similar in that it's more casual than Reardons or the Bailey *shudder* - but it's a bit more mainstream at the same time. I've ended up there now since none of my mates want to go to the Quad.

Blitzkrieger · 15-08-2007 11:42am

Not enought business? Anytime I was in there, there was a good crowd.

Steve_H · 15-08-2007 11:44am

Blitzkrieger wrote:

Not enought business? Anytime I was in there, there was a good crowd.

Were you ever in there before 11.30pm though? Almost a guarantee that before then you'd only have 10-15 people in there. Good few nights we'd head in there around half 9 and it would be empty.

Heisenberg. · 15-08-2007 11:58am

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Steve_H · 15-08-2007 12:01pm

The Scientist wrote:

Pubs are a dying breed...
Nancy spains closed too and that seemed to be doing a roaring trade...

3 pubs in my hometown have closed the past year...
We'll have to drink at home i tells ya!

Nancys is open again though isn't it? Behind the new off-licence?

Fysh · 15-08-2007 12:01pm

Yeah, was one of the weird things with the Slate. Fantastic pub but it became one of the BBC locals because we knew that if we got in the door before 11:30 we'd most likely be able to get a table for however many of us were there. Thought they'd managed to keep the business ticking over with the late-night takings, it always seemed to be jammers after 11:30 on a friday and saturday.

Bugger! It was one of the only late bars in town that didn't completely suck ass. *sigh*

(And no, this does not mean the veto of the Bróg is lifted...)

Steve_H · 15-08-2007 12:08pm

Fysh wrote:

Yeah, was one of the weird things with the Slate. Fantastic pub but it became one of the BBC locals because we knew that if we got in the door before 11:30 we'd most likely be able to get a table for however many of us were there. Thought they'd managed to keep the business ticking over with the late-night takings, it always seemed to be jammers after 11:30 on a friday and saturday.

Bugger! It was one of the only late bars in town that didn't completely suck ass. *sigh*

(And no, this does not mean the veto of the Bróg is lifted...)

Ha, yeah I'm very rarely in the brog these days too - showing my age. Just once in the last year for a gig. Same struggle here as well with the late bars - I don't mind the Crane Lane during the week - but far too busy at the weekends...

The BBC used to go to the Slate?? God I hope Graham Norton wasn't with ye.

shnaek · 15-08-2007 12:29pm

I liked the place myself. Headed in there a bit. It looks like drinking at home is taking over alright.

Fysh · 15-08-2007 1:51pm

Steve_H wrote:

The BBC used to go to the Slate?? God I hope Graham Norton wasn't with ye.

Heh, when I say BBC I mean Boards Beers Cork i.e. when dahamsta, JohnK, Blitzkrieger, myself and a few others get together and go out for pints. And, on many occasions (such as the last succesful one) end up drunk enough that one or more of us is politely asked to vacate the premises.

(which reminds me, if the Slate is gone then that would mean that I got chucked out last time I was there. And then JohnK, who was even more drunk than me, tried - or rather, tried and repeatedly failed - to explain to the manager that the rest of the gang were leaving because I wasn't being allowed back in. Heh, good times....)

JohnK · 15-08-2007 1:53pm

... and now they close due to lack of business. Do you smell that people? Thats the smell of Victory!

gimmick · 15-08-2007 2:52pm

Sucks if true. They had the old Gateway staff, who were the best around. Good music and nice crowd in there. Big loss if it is gone.

Fysh · 15-08-2007 2:58pm

The Gateway's another loss, used to be a great pub but gone to the dogs now. *sigh*

JohnK · 15-08-2007 2:59pm

are there any good pubs left in Cork?

gimmick · 15-08-2007 3:02pm

Isn't The Gateway gone altogether now though? Last time I was in there, some old f**ker pissed himself at the bar on a barstool. Someone pointed it out to the barman while aul fella went to the toilet (a few minutes late I might add), he said its alright and served him again a few minutes later. Never darkened its doorstep since.

JohnK wrote:

are there any good pubs left in Cork?

Tom Barrys and The Oval are about the only two for me now, even though they are always jammed. Ziggys isnt too bad - it has a jukebox.

dudara · 16-08-2007 7:27pm

Another good one bites the dust. What the hell is happening people? Why are the cattlemart people winning?

dahamsta · 16-08-2007 7:49pm

Same reason Big Brother is still on TV. Collective stupidity.

JohnK · 18-08-2007 12:12pm

The Slates not closed people, we were in there last night

Fysh · 18-08-2007 2:47pm

Yeah, they have a sign up at the door saying it's shut on Mondays & Tuesdays but you can hardly blame them for that, they're not exactly huge nights out for the majority of people anyway.

Jack B. Badd · 19-08-2007 8:53pm

There is a theory doing the rounds that we only imagined we were in the Slate the other night...

JohnK · 19-08-2007 9:23pm

Could be. We did have a bit to drink...

Fysh · 19-08-2007 10:16pm

Heh. I guess that's true, adam isn't usually an eager volunteer to be spanked unless he's on the outside of a few pints...

JohnK · 19-08-2007 10:18pm

I'd completely forgotten about that. Now that I think of it, I think I have photos :eek:
I'm afraid to check...

dahamsta · 20-08-2007 12:28am

I was reminded about that today. And about A's peculiar grooming habits. And H having never seen a particular part of the female anatomy. It all came back in a gruesome rush. Except the last one, that's still lost to me.

I remember S molesting the drunk bint though, that was funny.

adam

azi · 20-08-2007 1:28am

dahamsta wrote:

I remember S molesting the drunk bint though, that was funny.

If that refers to me, I met her tonight. Wouldn't give me the time of day. *****, the lot of them...

S.

Fysh · 20-08-2007 6:25am

dahamsta wrote:

H having never seen a particular part of the female anatomy. It all came back in a gruesome rush. Except the last one, that's still lost to me.

I'm still trying to work out how I managed to use the phrase "Biological Shotgun" in conversation, though I suspect it had something to do with H's description of her choice of partner...

JohnK · 20-08-2007 8:21am

dahamsta wrote:

I remember S molesting the drunk bint though, that was funny.

I think I missed that bit, do tell!

dahamsta · 20-08-2007 10:37am

azi wrote:

If that refers to me, I met her tonight. Wouldn't give me the time of day. *****, the lot of them...

Jays tis himself!

Errah she was out of her mind on more than drink and she went for the longhairs, so probably a lesbian. You know me and lesbians; as someone said on the night, that's why I'm in such a rush to get married, lock her in.

adam

Fysh · 20-08-2007 10:53am

dahamsta wrote:

You know me and lesbians

All I know for sure about you and lesbians is that you copied your current hairdo off one...

Blitzkrieger · 20-08-2007 11:51am

*Tries to think who S could be

It couldn't be.........

Fysh · 20-08-2007 1:34pm

Blitzkrieger wrote:

*Tries to think who S could be

It couldn't be.........

It bloody well is and all. Check the profile and have a quick search for the only individual info entered there, you'll see the relevant name turning up.

I didn't realise the cranky fecker actually read boards at all, I though adam just liked dragging him along because it made him look nice by comparison

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