Whats your least Favourite pub in Ireland?

Degsy

No small amount of competition,especially in Dublin.
I'd say 4 Dame Lane..pretentious,overpriced kip with sullen,incompetent barstaff.

RedXIV

Wax in dublin. Most unfriendly place in the world, 3 hours in there and only one person would talk to me. Place was full of pricks

Collie D

Dicey Reilly's in Dublin. Nice spot, great beer garden but ignorant ***** working behind the bar.

taidghbaby

q-bar

dr.bollocko

It always seems to me that the worst bar I have encountered is always the place where all my mates want to go.

IronMan

Ron Blacks (version 2, not the original).
Dandelion
Doyles
Cocoon
City Bar
McTurkels
4, Dame Lane

Overpriced, pretentious kips the lot of them. Any place that decides to raise the price of drink as the night goes on. Any place with bouncers in wool coats and gloves, even in the middle of summer. Any place that charges you e5.50 for a pint, and the bar person doesn't even give you a smile. Any place that hands you out a pint, and then closes up and asks you to leave 10 minutes later (Sin é). Any place with a black in the jacks.

It would make you want to stay at home.

biko

Pretty much anywhere shirts and skirts congregate, Living Room, Front Door, ...
Tea towel shirts ftl

Terry

The Middle Shop in Leixlip.
Full of menopausal men.

Feelgood

Oliver St. Gogarty's wrecks me. There are actually very few bars in Dublin that are spectacular at this stage.

Feelgood

Terry wrote: »

The Middle Shop in Leixlip.
Full of menopausal men.

Isn't that your regular??

CPT. SURF

The Bodega in Cork. So gay

Terry

Feelgood wrote: »

Isn't that your regular??

No.
My local is the Riverforest Hotel.
Also lotsof menopausal men, but it has a wide range of people, I sometimes get job offers there, the staff are great and so are the pints.

Eoin

IronMan wrote: »

Ron Blacks (version 2, not the original).
Dandelion
Doyles
Cocoon
City Bar
McTurkels
4, Dame Lane

How did Cafe en Seine not make that list?

I agree with most of them, but I thought McTurcaills was more of a normal pub type place.

Degsy

Actually there's some kip in Maynooth where yer man beghind the bar through an absolute micky fit because i told him he left me 50 pence short(this was a while ago).

Degsy

eoin_s wrote: »

How did Cafe en Seine not make that list?

I agree with most of them, but I thought McTurcaills was more of a normal pub type place.

To be fair McTurcails isnt the worst in the world but it IS expensive.Plus they have an absolute dickhead of a black in the jacks,always roaring on his phone with his feet almost up on the taps.

PrivateEye

Anywhere full of pretentious scenester ****.

SoupyNorman

The Concorde, The Donameade Inn, The Manor Inn.

3 in a row...

Degsy

bravestarr082 wrote: »

The Concorde, The Donameade Inn, The Manor Inn.

3 in a row...

Donaghmede in is Glassing Central.Kip.

Kiera

bravestarr082 wrote: »

The Concorde, The Donaghmede Inn

Oh good choice!! Also the Old Boro in Swords, hate that kip.

Didn't like 4 Dame Lane when I was there once but, eh, I didn't actually know that's where I was since there was no signs or anything up outside telling people that that was the name of the place. So I dunno.

k99_64

CPT. SURF wrote: »

The Bodega in Cork. So gay

Isn't that a restaurant?

Dinter

Dicey Rileys.

A cool pub let down by surly staff and serious overcrowding.

Here_Young_Wan

Grogans.....such a bunch of posers and has beens....also we get it. You like art.

kowloon

Anywhere the "important" people congregate.
Reminds me of the heckling Bill Bailey got once for saying he was in a pub called Lillys Bordello (is that how it's spelt?). Classic.

COH

'The Bank' on Dame St.

Sgt Hartman

taidghbaby wrote: »

q-bar

I was in that place in Dublin once. Sterile atmosphere and overpriced mainstream booze.

One of the worst pubs I was ever in was a place called McHugh's in Sligo. Barman was a right ignorant p***k in there. Would have walked out of there only for I was with a group of friends watching the Ireland-France soccer match.

Phlann

Any place where accountants and their ilk hang out.

Most of them have been named already (mostly by IronMan).

TirEoghain

Can't believe Coppers never got a mention!

flanum

Any pub that resembles a niteclub during the day
Any pub that serves food

hussey

The George ... I can never find a chick in there

... well, maybe once, but I am not going to go through that again

Xavi6

+1 to Cafe Insane. Horrible place.

Also the Pav and Kiely's. Full of protentious D4/Trinners ****.

bealbocht

Flannerys.. could well be added,

what is wierd it that, if people move around a lot, how come , pubs still have the same kind of people in them every time you go there.. , mmm but they do..

used to like Bruxelles, never really the same after the smoking ban, and got charged 5.50 for a guinness tonight.. nngh.. f that..

and hate to say it.. well on this thread , but , its not where you are but who you are with.. ( as long as they are not charging over a fiver for a guinness, and the bar staff are good, and it isnt full of pushy rude c**ts , slim pickings these days.. oh why oh why oh why)

Jesus Wept

Yore Ma's

Not really of course! I'll be in for a drink soon. .

Popinjay

Used to know a girl who worked in 4 Dame Lane.

Warned me that if I was ever in there ordering spirits & a mixer to specify my brand of spirit too because as the night wears on some of the staff may or may not (disclaimer ) have poured the expensive vodkas etc. instead of your smirnoff or what have you, basically doubling the price of your drink if you looked drunk enough to not notice.

Fortunately, it was never my kind of place anyway.

Blisterman

Popinjay wrote: »

Used to know a girl who worked in 4 Dame Lane.

Warned me that if I was ever in there ordering spirits & a mixer to specify my brand of spirit too because as the night wears on some of the staff may or may not (disclaimer ) have poured the expensive vodkas etc. instead of your smirnoff or what have you, basically doubling the price of your drink if you looked drunk enough to not notice.

Fortunately, it was never my kind of place anyway.

That's good practice anywhere.

A lot of bars fill the bottles with the optic measures, which say "Smirnoff, Gordons etc, with generic spirits, so whereas, when you order a "Vodka and Coke", you think you're getting Smirnoff and Coke, whereas, it's actually Tesco vodka.

And they're not, I believe technically breaking any laws, unless you ask for "Smirnoff and Coke".

arybvtcw0eolkf

Right today I'm going to start my boards posting on a positive note.

The best in Dublin is my local - Campions on the Malahide Rd (Balgriffin), but apart from maybe Degsy I doubt any boardies have ventured in.

They've local (ie - Dublin) bar staff, no doorstaff to fvck up your night. And they serve everyone from locals, to farm labourers, to travellers and all in one big happy mix.

Worse, well for me (I'm keeping away from the city centre since its pretty much covered) goes to The Beaumont House (surly barstaff but the pint is grand). Next is 'The Golf Links' in Portmarnock for the same reason as The Beaumonth house.

An absolutely woeful pint, most pretentious shower of **** stains has to go to Gibneys of Malahide.

Worse pubs I've ever seen for trouble has been almost anywhere in Leixlip, but that was a long time ago, when the garda station was closed from something like 10pm.

Xavi6

Mairt wrote: »

The best in Dublin is my local - Campions on the Malahide Rd (Balgriffin), but apart from maybe Degsy I doubt any boardies have ventured in.

Been there a good ten times, all after funerals.

Seemed nice but I can't help associate it with bad experiences.

Krsnik87

"RedXIV
Wax in dublin. Most unfriendly place in the world, 3 hours in there and only one person would talk to me. Place was full of pricks"

Used to love that place on wednesdays, went a little downhill with the croud it attracted changed. Haven't been there in months. Very reliable for great music though!

Can't really think of any pubs/clubs I don't like tbh... Once theres beer, some sort of music and a few mates a good night can be had.

Aspiration

CPT. SURF wrote: »

The Bodega in Cork. So gay

k99_64 wrote: »

Isn't that a restaurant?

Nope, the Bodega is also a bar. I liked the place before it closed and re-opened recently. Apparently the "clientele" is gone to sh*t and it's €10 to get in the front door now!! :eek:

My most recent least favourite pub is Murray's in Lusk. Went there last week with 2 Italian friends I hadn't seen in a while and we got the dirtiest looks I've ever had in my life. It was like we weren't welcome as we weren't locals or something...

John Mason

Jim Doyles in Bray

i would rather chop my leg off then step over the threshold of that hovel

eoinmaclove

the Bailey is a fairly horrendous spot.

Grogans would be grand if not for the clientele.

More out of town, the Bell in Blanchardstown isn't very nice at all. either is the Barbican in Castleknock.

There are probably 000's of crap bars in Ireland, but we're blessed with some great ones as well.

Aspiration

irishbird, is that the place next to the Porterhouse on the seafront?

Steve_o

"Ten" in Waterford City, Sh*te Music, sh*te beer, ignorant bar staff and its full of scumbags!!!

captainzapp

citi bar easily.

they entice you in with their 2 euro drinks but charge you a tenner at the door. which means you have to but at least 6 drinks to just break even. and you have to buy beer or shots all night. i mean youd think a vodka and lime would be 2 euro but they charge 2 euro for the dash as well. its evil.

you might not mind all that if it was a decent bar, but its not. its awful.

John Mason

Aspiration wrote: »

irishbird, is that the place next to the Porterhouse on the seafront?

it is indeed

John Mason

Mairt wrote: »

The best in Dublin is my local - Campions on the Malahide Rd (Balgriffin), but apart from maybe Degsy I doubt any boardies have ventured in.

i am going to answer for Des "no F" seeing as he is banned.

He goes to Campions too

Aspiration

irishbird wrote: »

it is indeed

Myself and MIN and a bunch of her friends were there last Sunday and had a glorious time! ...I can see what you mean though but we spent our time in the beer garden and I think I only liked it because of all the food stalls around

arybvtcw0eolkf

irishbird wrote: »

i am going to answer for Des "no F" seeing as he is banned.

He goes to Campions too

He told me that before, but I drink there all the time and I've never seen him.

He's banned?.

Krsnik87

Ah yes citi bar I remember that place, definately a crap spot. Ok so 1 pub in the world I hate!

rowlandbrowner

fibbers.... bloody elitist metalers and any club frequented by next brand shirt wearing middle management types.

JaneyMc

Q bar, Citi bar, Reds, Break for the Border, Barcode, Panama....