Irish Nightlife Is ****

Hola_Bola

I consider myself well traveled and even some of the third world countries I've been to have a far greater nightly entertainment scene than any of our cities, especially for an area the size of Dublin along with the population, surely better clubs, theatres and general night time activities are in demand in the capital?

In Amsterdam for example, one can go to a bar at 11pm, then go to a night club at 2am, followed by a show at 4am and then a casino at 6am, not to mention the endless other activities people do throughout the day...

Dublin is such a boring ****hole in the day too. There's very little events going on, no free concerts or parties in the park like London has, there's no underground scene to speak of and the few clubs that play a specific genre are well off the beaten track. Instead you've got mainstream pop blaring from a less than average sound system in a poorly decorated club surrounded by teenagers and young adults, not to mention the last drink is at 1.55am in most places.

Any thoughts?

Local-womanizer

So basiclally Dublin nightlife is sh1te?

CHD

No shít Sherlock

chopperbyrne

I always manage to enjoy myself on nights out in Ireland. Maybe the problem is either the company you keep or yourself.

tallus

Maybe if there was more of a demand for that type of nightlife, but don't our bars close at 2am ? I'm not that mad about going out clubbing anyways, and we have big enough problems with alcohol related crap happening on the streets without adding to the problem.
My 2 Cents.

stovelid

Hola_Bola wrote: »

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jape

There's a few clubs around Dublin that stay open til 4am, and we have casinos too!

Sir Molle

Coppers is fantastic.

JONJO THE MISER

Why would you go to a nighclub and pay 10 to 20 euro to get in and then pay for rip off drinks all the while listening to loud music and watching slappers dancing like Idiots. God bless this recession maybe people will have a bit more sense now and just go to the pub or stay at home.

Fringe

It's all because of the stupid laws. I don't know how they got passed.

minidazzler

I blame Mary Harney or Biffo or some other politician even though they have little control over the Nightlife.

Borneo Fnctn

minidazzler wrote: »

I blame Mary Harney or Biffo or some other politician even though they have little control over the Nightlife.

O RLY? You serious?

Sierra Oscar

Go to live in Amsterdam then.

Sir Molle

Sir Molle wrote: »

Coppers is fantastic.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Your average club goer!

TheZohanS

Hola_Bola wrote: »

I consider myself well traveled and even some of the third world countries I've been to have a far greater nightly entertainment scene than any of our cities, especially for an area the size of Dublin along with the population, surely better clubs, theatres and general night time activities are in demand in the capital?

In Amsterdam for example, one can go to a bar at 11pm, then go to a night club at 2am, followed by a show at 4am and then a casino at 6am, not to mention the endless other activities people do throughout the day...

Dublin is such a boring ****hole in the day too. There's very little events going on, no free concerts or parties in the park like London has, there's no underground scene to speak of and the few clubs that play a specific genre are well off the beaten track. Instead you've got mainstream pop blaring from a less than average sound system in a poorly decorated club surrounded by teenagers and young adults, not to mention the last drink is at 1.55am in most places.

Any thoughts?

tl;dr version: Clubs close too early in Ireland.

Hola_Bola

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Go to live in Amsterdam then.

I did. For 2 years I lived and worked in Holland.

minidazzler wrote: »

I blame Mary Harney or Biffo or some other politician even though they have little control over the Nightlife.

Care to explain?

Fringe wrote: »

It's all because of the stupid laws. I don't know how they got passed.

MOAR!

chopperbyrne wrote: »

I always manage to enjoy myself on nights out in Ireland. Maybe the problem is either the company you keep or yourself.

No, I have pretty outgoing friends and they're mature about things. It just seems that there are so much laws in place regarding having fun in Ireland. People will complain about the noise or use the alcohol problem as an excuse but that's bull****. Other countries have the exact same problems, perhaps they're more mature than us and they drink far more than us too so why do we have that bogus name?

Perhaps your expectations of a night out are bland and too low. If you experience some of the Euro cities you will have a different opinion on it all.

Riamfada

Dublin people dont care as long as they get drunk. Its all in the class you see. Foreign people can drink more and hold it. Irish people get sick and call it fun. sad

Lia_lia

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Your average club goer!

I think he was being sarcastic. Or, eh, was he?


Anyway. Yeah Irish nightlife is pretty sh*t. But sure we all knew that!

Hola_Bola

This was on djmag.com and these are the top 50 clubs voted by top djs around the world. Not one of them are located in Ireland...for goodness sake, Newcastle is even represented and Dublin is bigger than that!

1. Space (Ibiza)
2. Fabric (London)
3. Pacha (Ibiza)
4. The End (London)
5. Warung (Itajai)
6 Panorama Bar (Berlin)
7 DC10 (Ibiza)
8 Amnesia (Ibiza)
9 Pawn Shop Lounge (Miami)
10 Zouk (Singapore)
11 Stereo (Montreal)
12 The Arches (Glasgow)
13 Turnmills (London)
14 Space (Miami)
15 Digital (Newcastle)
16 Ministry Of Sound (London)
17 Womb (Tokyo)
18 Guvernment (Toronto)
19 Cocoon (Frankfurt)
20 Pacha (New York)
21 D-Edge (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
22 Cavo Paradisco (Mykonos, Greece)
23 Sirena (Maresias, Brazil)
24 Crobar (Chicago)
25 Fuse (Brussels, Belgium)
26 Pacha (Buenos Aires)
27 Basics (Leeds)
28 Club Kristal (Bucharest)
29 Coco Rico (Riccione, Italy)
30 Cielo (New York)
31 Rex Club (Paris)
32 Robert Johnson (Frankfurt)
33 Yellow (Tokyo)
34 Tenax (Florence, Italy)
35 Weekend (Berlin)
36 Privelege (Ibiza)
37 The Cross (London)
38 Sankeys (Manchester)
39 Home (Sydney, Australia)
40 Pacha (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
41 The Key (London)
42 Babyface (Shanghai, China)
43 Honey Club (Brighton)
44 Se One (London)
45 Alter Ego (Verona, Italy)
46 Spundaue (Los Angeles)
47 Trilogy (Dubai)
48 Venue (Athens, Greece)
49 T Bar (London)
50 Ageha (Tokyo)

Grimes wrote: »

Dublin people dont care as long as they get drunk. Its all in the class you see. Foreign people can drink more and hold it. Irish people get sick and call it fun. sad

Valid point.

stovelid

Hola_Bola wrote: »

Perhaps your expectations of a night out are bland and too low. If you experience some of the Euro cities you will have a different opinion on it all.

I also packed tulips myself for a summer.

If you catch your friends eyes glazing over when you're expounding on the cultural relativity of European cities, it's best to change the subject.

chopperbyrne

Hola_Bola wrote: »

No, I have pretty outgoing friends and they're mature about things. It just seems that there are so much laws in place regarding having fun in Ireland. People will complain about the noise or use the alcohol problem as an excuse but that's bull****. Other countries have the exact same problems, perhaps they're more mature than us and they drink far more than us too so why do we have that bogus name?

Perhaps your expectations of a night out are bland and too low. If you experience some of the Euro cities you will have a different opinion on it all.

This is possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I expect to have fun with good company on a night out. I get this quite regularly in Ireland. I have experienced several European cities. Some are as good or better than Dublin, like Berlin, while others are horribly unfriendly, like Paris.

dar83

stovelid wrote: »

I also packed tulips myself for a summer.

Is that a euphemism for something? :pac:

Executive Steve

Hola_Bola wrote: »

I consider myself well traveled and even some of the third world countries I've been to have a far greater nightly entertainment scene than any of our cities, especially for an area the size of Dublin along with the population, surely better clubs, theatres and general night time activities are in demand in the capital?

In Amsterdam for example, one can go to a bar at 11pm, then go to a night club at 2am, followed by a show at 4am and then a casino at 6am, not to mention the endless other activities people do throughout the day...

Dublin is such a boring ****hole in the day too. There's very little events going on, no free concerts or parties in the park like London has, there's no underground scene to speak of and the few clubs that play a specific genre are well off the beaten track. Instead you've got mainstream pop blaring from a less than average sound system in a poorly decorated club surrounded by teenagers and young adults, not to mention the last drink is at 1.55am in most places.

Any thoughts?

There's plenty of stuff if you know where to look - I'd hardly call the clubs that do play specific genres "off the beaten track" either; The Twisted Pepper has two floors of full Void Acoustics sound systems and books some pretty cutting edge acts too; that's on Abbey Street - up around South William Street there's Wax, Spy and Pygmailion as well as that place that used to be called Viva, there's all sorts of stuff going on up there, there's the Underground under Kennedy's that has some of the finest names in Techno in it on a regular basis... If bands are your thing there's truckloads of places to hear that sort of stuff...

Free daytime stuff outdoors we really don't have the weather for, the Second Square to None crowd do amazing Sunday afternoon experimental / improv / noise / electronica gigs, and have just moved from the Joy Gallery to the larger and better equipped Twisted Pepper... There's a good few collectives like them doing art music stuff in non-traditional spaces...

The George Bernhard Shaw has regular make-and-do nights, charity art shows, table quizzes, flea markets, swap meets, record fairs, barbecues etc.

The Dun Laoighre festival of World Cultures is on at the end of the month and is one of the highlights of the year, and most of that is 100% free...

The Dublin Electronic Arts festival is on again this year and is looking like being the biggest one yet, with workshops, lectures, gigs, events, exhibitions...

The Irish Museum of Modern Art is free in and has amazing facilities and a regularly updated collection, likewise the National Gallery and the Hugh Lane Municipal gallery - and that's just the big institutional ones...




Dublin isn't nearly as bad as you'd think you know...

AnonoBoy

Hola_Bola wrote: »

This was on djmag.com and these are the top 50 clubs voted by top djs around the world:

Yeah but they're all dance clubs. I don't care about dance clubs or nightclubs in general really so I'm happy enough.

That reminds me - must go for a few in Kennedy's tonight.

Lovely.

Executive Steve

tallus wrote: »

Maybe if there was more of a demand for that type of nightlife, but don't our bars close at 2am ? I'm not that mad about going out clubbing anyways, and we have big enough problems with alcohol related crap happening on the streets without adding to the problem.
My 2 Cents.

The main problem is that the "nightclub" does not exist as an actual entity in Irish law, so trying to do anything culturally exciting in them meets with either incomprehension or apathy from the vast amount of people who just expect to get ****faced and cop a feel of a nurse in the "slow set"


I'll give you three guesses as to which sorts of venues attract the anti-social behaviour...

SteveDon

What are you talking about there is no underground scene in dublin, its thriving more than ever, just go to the clubs that are off the beaten track, your obviously just not going to the right places, there is plenty of fun to be had in dublin

Executive Steve

chopperbyrne wrote: »

This is possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I expect to have fun with good company on a night out. I get this quite regularly in Ireland. I have experienced several European cities. Some are as good or better than Dublin, like Berlin, while others are horribly unfriendly, like Paris.

I've always had mad craic in Paris, but it's very definitely a place where you're well advised to know locals and speak the language reasonably well...

markok84

You obviously have never been out in Ballyclough OP

read this: (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055510822)

ArmaniJeanss

Hola_Bola wrote: »

This was on djmag.com and these are the top 50 clubs voted by top djs around the world. Not one of them are located in Ireland...for goodness sake, Newcastle is even represented and Dublin is bigger than that!

What relevance is a list voted by DJs?
A better survey would be one done by punters.

List looks dodgy anyway, its UK bias leads me to think that the only DJs surveyed were those from the UK. So they voted for UK clubs and places they'd been on holidays.
I can't see otherwise how a club in Brighton would be on the list if DJs in say Seattle or Lima were polled.

Executive Steve

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Yeah but they're all dance clubs. I don't care about dance clubs or nightclubs in general really so I'm happy enough.

They're also gigantic soulless "superclub" type places... I'd much rather go to a dingy cellar than go to the Rex in Paris or Fabric in London to be honest...

Switch was being called one of the best clubs in Europe at one stage and that was a fecking dungeon sweatbox full of raving degenerates that got the basics right; no airs and graces; proper sound.

Hazys

The biggest problem with Irish nightlife is people's number one goal on a night out is to get sh1tfaced...while having fun is way down on the list.

I tend not to get hammered but happily tipsy but it wrecks my head when my buddies would come back from the bar with a load of shots and expects me to drink them and get him back later in the night. Im at happy stage of tipsy why do i need to cross the line to drunken mess?

Now that i live in the US, its the same story. My irish friends dont fit into the nightlife culture all that well, it usually ends up as a load of irish people in a dark corner of a pub getting sh1tfaced on their own and not interacting with the other people at the bar.

renraw

I have to say the nitelife is after changing - I go between Waterford and Dublin and out of two the I'd pick Dublin, hands down Its the same faces every week in Waterford, same type of music and rip off prices. There are no pubs in Waterford that have cheap beer because you're subsiding for late bars.

It'd be brilliant if there was a place with moderately cheap beer and not full of 18-20yo's falling round the place twisted because they're not able for their beer. Seems most pubs n clubs just play teeny bopper tunes and no decent dance music that you can actually throw shapes to.

Methinks its time for a revolution and overhaul of the Irish nitelife. Because it is crap lately

Sir Molle

Lia_lia wrote: »

I think he was being sarcastic. Or, eh, was he?


Anyway. Yeah Irish nightlife is pretty sh*t. But sure we all knew that!

No, I wasn't being sarcastic. Coppers is great. I've come out of that place at 4 in the morning and there's still people queuing to get in.

Coppers is awesome.

Tripod is pretty good too, and so is Cuba in Galway.

kraggy

Hola_Bola wrote: »

This was on djmag.com and these are the top 50 clubs voted by top djs around the world. Not one of them are located in Ireland...for goodness sake, Newcastle is even represented and Dublin is bigger than that!

1. Space (Ibiza)
2. Fabric (London)
3. Pacha (Ibiza)
4. The End (London)
5. Warung (Itajai)
6 Panorama Bar (Berlin)
7 DC10 (Ibiza)
8 Amnesia (Ibiza)
9 Pawn Shop Lounge (Miami)
10 Zouk (Singapore)
11 Stereo (Montreal)
12 The Arches (Glasgow)
13 Turnmills (London)
14 Space (Miami)
15 Digital (Newcastle)
16 Ministry Of Sound (London)
17 Womb (Tokyo)
18 Guvernment (Toronto)
19 Cocoon (Frankfurt)
20 Pacha (New York)
21 D-Edge (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
22 Cavo Paradisco (Mykonos, Greece)
23 Sirena (Maresias, Brazil)
24 Crobar (Chicago)
25 Fuse (Brussels, Belgium)
26 Pacha (Buenos Aires)
27 Basics (Leeds)
28 Club Kristal (Bucharest)
29 Coco Rico (Riccione, Italy)
30 Cielo (New York)
31 Rex Club (Paris)
32 Robert Johnson (Frankfurt)
33 Yellow (Tokyo)
34 Tenax (Florence, Italy)
35 Weekend (Berlin)
36 Privelege (Ibiza)
37 The Cross (London)
38 Sankeys (Manchester)
39 Home (Sydney, Australia)
40 Pacha (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
41 The Key (London)
42 Babyface (Shanghai, China)
43 Honey Club (Brighton)
44 Se One (London)
45 Alter Ego (Verona, Italy)
46 Spundaue (Los Angeles)
47 Trilogy (Dubai)
48 Venue (Athens, Greece)
49 T Bar (London)
50 Ageha (Tokyo)




Valid point.

You see Op, I agree with you. Our nightlife in this country is absolutely lame. I'd even go so far as to call it pathetic. But there is a reason for this.

I was in no.6 on your list last November. And 2 other times before. Panorama Bar over Berghein in Berlin. It's out of this world. Opens at Midnight on Saturday night and closes Midnight Sunday night. Truly special experience.

I went out that night and was able to leave it til midnight to make a move. Got to my first club about 1.30a.m (Watergate, another great club) and stayed there til 7 in the morning. Then, I casually hopped into a taxi and headed to Berghein/Panorama Bar. There were still droves of people heading in. Some were heading home also. It's that kind of place, people in and out all night and day long. Some folk even arrive on their bicycles after breakfast on a sunday morning for a couple of drinks and a dance. Brilliant!

But the 2 problems that would make this impossible in this country are:

1. There isn't enough a demand in Ireland for a place like this because nobody would make money out a place where the emphasis is on dancing and people have to leave by 3am or whatever stupid time the laws deem it necessary for us to go home.

2. Even if the laws were changed, and clubs were allowed to open all night or an extra few hours or whatever, can you imagine the amount of scumbags that would be frequenting these places? We have an extraordinary amount of out and out scumbags in this country and keeping them out of an all night club would prove very difficult. Panorama Bar is an all night dance with techno music blaring, but everyone is civilised, just there to dance and there's not an ounce of trouble in sight.

So, in summary, I'd love it if we could be as serious about having fun as the continentals but we're just not civilised enough to do it. Go to Berlin and you'll see that even their scobes have manners and don't feel the need to dress in an Addidas tracksuit and wear a Burberry baseball cap.

I'm actually so fed up with this country I can't see myself here in 2 or 3 years. It's getting more knackery by the week. Partially fuelled by the welfare society but that's another discussion.

stovelid

dar83 wrote: »

Is that a euphemism for something? :pac:

Not at all.

My stint in the fudge-packing factory was the summer before that.

@OP.

Serious point.

Why not try and get a night going yourself?

If you feel that there is a gap for what you like, others might feel the same way. Why not be proactive?

Executive Steve

tallus wrote: »

Maybe if there was more of a demand for that type of nightlife, but don't our bars close at 2am ? I'm not that mad about going out clubbing anyways, and we have big enough problems with alcohol related crap happening on the streets without adding to the problem.
My 2 Cents.

If we were really serious about tackling alcohol related anti social behaviour we would extend the opening hours to 4.30am and not allow alcohol to be sold for the last hour or so.

People would leave gradually, instead of everyone spewing out onto the street to hang around town for another two hours trying to get a taxi home in the cold, congregating outside of fast food shops and getting into scraps... This would also reduce the enormous pressure on the (pathetic) nightlink service by ensuring the queues are evenly spread out over the course of the period they run for...


The whole idea that Irish people are somehow inferior to their continental cousins when it comes to holding drink is a complete myth; I personally blame it on the fact that pub licences can't be transferred out of police districts, so any time you buy a licence (which has to be from an existing licence holder) you have to find a bigger building, gut it and renovate it and turn what was probably a small pub with a regular clientele of all ages into a gigantic shed where they use every trick in the book to maximise alcohol sales per square inch of floor space...

Plasma screens on the walls, Music turned up just above the volume of comfortable conversation, very few seats... People just give up and start drinking to get drunk, which is pretty much what the VFI want them to do... This in turn leads to reduced expectations of social interaction in people's experience of nightlife in general, and contributes to a feeling of drunken solitude which easily flips into aggression when people step outside at the end of the night, which causes fights to erupt. (i'm talking about pubs her, not nightclubs, nightclubs at least have the possibility for sublimating that energy into dancing).

Also, our media know we all love a story about a good drink-fuelled fight on the streets, and are only too delighted to print stories that make Dublin on a Saturday night look like Johannesburg gone wrong; in my experience Dublin is one of the safest friendliest cities I've ever been to, and I say that as somebody who drove rickshaws and bicycle taxis around the inner city at night for three years and who also worked on several hot dog stands... I've seen more violence in one weekend in country towns like Carlow than I saw in half a decade of working at night on the streets of Dublin carrying a very large sum of money in my pockets at all times...


*edit*


we need to deregulate the licensed trade as a matter of extreme urgency to safeguard the future heritage of the irish pub.

good luck getting that through a dáil made up of publicans though...

Stercus Accidit

Everywhere kicks the living shyte out of Dublins Shytelife.

Out at 12, home at 3, 2 hours actual socialising time, and most of that spent quaffing alcohol asap.

Then, maybe, you could go out at 10 and start in a pub, rip off prices, no-one loosened up yet, most heads drinking at home before going straight to the club for the 2 hours, so not even out yet.


I've been out in other European cities, and this town is pure shyte.

Twee.

Hola_Bola wrote: »

This was on djmag.com and these are the top 50 clubs voted by top djs around the world. Not one of them are located in Ireland...for goodness sake, Newcastle is even represented and Dublin is bigger than that!


2. Fabric (London)

Woo been to one on the list. Was expensive in but the place was fcuking HUGE! Drinks were fairly priced and best part....open until 6am! Loads of different rooms with quality music in every section.

The earliest I usually head out is 12, due to myself and the pals working, so at best we're getting two and a half hours out. It does create a need for after parties and late night gaffs though

Executive Steve

Twee. wrote: »

It does create a need for after parties and late night gaffs though

Which causes even more hassle to long suffering neighbours, sleeplessness and anti-social behaviour that closing licensed premises at half two only exacerbates...

Micky Dolenz

Hola_Bola wrote: »

I consider myself well traveled and even some of the third world countries I've been to have a far greater nightly entertainment scene than any of our cities,

What third world countries do you refer too?

I kinda agree with you, I lived in London for years and you could go out on a Friday evening and stay out until Sunday,(probably longer.(call me light weight if you must )

There were nights when we decided to go out at 3am. Great clubs that stay open all night and when they shut at 8am the crowd goes to an after party at another club down the road, and the circle never ends.

To be fair, Dublin should be on a par with other European cities in this respect.

HouseHippo

Its not that there is nothing to go to its that nobody is going so places are closing down, I used to work in a Dub venue, really nice place, brilliantv sound system(Midas Legend 3000 and D&B speakers, for any soundies)
but it was always empty so we closed the doors.

[cm]tyranny

[cm]tyranny wrote: »

If we were really serious about tackling alcohol related anti social behaviour we would extend the opening hours to 4.30am and not allow alcohol to be sold for the last hour or so.

They can open as long as they want afaik, but just choose to kick people out as close to last orders as possible because they won't be spending any more money.

Truth is, I normally have alot more fun pre-drinking in someones gaf than I do for the rest of the night in the club/pub.

Hola_Bola

Awesome thoughts guys. I'm so happy to see that there are other people out there that feel the same way. The thing is, I know several groups of people who journey into the city centre and feel like this is the best thing since slice bread. The fact that these people haven't attended other cities around the world and tasted what else is out there lowers their expectations of their nights out.

Recently, town has lost it's bite. Many people are traveling out to the suburbs for their nights entertainment. Personal thought of mine that I'd appreciate any opinions on, why can't we invest money back into the nightlife scene in Dublin city centre? It would no doubt decrease the level of intoxicated individuals wondering around neighbourhood areas during the night and bring the sole back into town with the added incentive of putting Dublin on the map with regards to being a top weekend destination for the continent? Fianna Fail could definitely use the money :rolleyes:

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

What relevance is a list voted by DJs?
A better survey would be one done by punters.

List looks dodgy anyway, its UK bias leads me to think that the only DJs surveyed were those from the UK. So they voted for UK clubs and places they'd been on holidays.
I can't see otherwise how a club in Brighton would be on the list if DJs in say Seattle or Lima were polled.

What are you talking about? London is considered the "dog's bollox" when it comes to nightlife in Europe. Along with Ibiza, no other city oozes variety like London. Regardless of what your views are, top renowned DJ's and bands frequent London. It is one of the worlds best concerning the nightlife scene. Not only have they Fabric, London boasts Ministry of Sound and the infamous Pacha - I'm not saying these places are your cup of tea but they are world famous.

ChocolateSauce

There is an underground scene OP, it's just not as visible as it is in cooler cities like London. Granted it isn't very big though...

But I've settled this problem by deciding to move to London in 2012.

But I agree with most of the rest of your points.

tman

stovelid wrote: »

http://www.aerlingus.com/
http://www.ryanair.com/
http://www.cheapflights.ie/


http://www.emigrantadvice.ie/

A little late for me now, but that's a damn handy site!

I wholeheartedly agree with the OP anyway... Ireland's licensing laws are so backwards it beggars belief sometimes!
While I do plan on moving back to Ireland when I'm ready to settle down, I just couldn't live without my 12 hour clubbing sprees right now:P

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

But I've settled this problem by deciding to move to London in 2012.

Go for it! Best decision I ever made:)

Twee.

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

There is an underground scene OP, it's just not as visible as it is in cooler cities like London. Granted it isn't very big though...

It wouldn't be very underground if it was big and visible!

poisonated

I think whether we like it or not we are seen by many as a country which main asset is the drunken banter one would be able to have in the pubs.I don't know why we are fighting this.In our current economic climate,we need to bring as many tourists in as possible.If our pubs close when it is still fecking bright out,how are we supposed to do this?!We will soon be known as the boring Irish who go to bed at 8 o'clock!
That being said I really like Dublin and Galway.Great spots!

Hola_Bola

Twee. wrote: »

It wouldn't be very underground if it was big and visible!

I assume he is speaking about the genre of music playing in the clubs. For example, in London, you would have the Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada etc etc, while in Ireland, the fear of becoming too distant with it's mainstream teenage costumers, forbids the Irish club management to set aside changing their playlist and regulars.

The Irish club scene has, in a way, become a slightly more flamboyant pub.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I have the thought of hanging myself...

abouttobebanned

It all comes down to the government again. We live in a nanny state...they're not intelligent enough to come up with new policies for new times - for god's sake, we're still working off a night clubs act that dates back to the 30s

JDizz

I have become really bored with town and wouldnt be still going in if I wasnt single, but I have been going there for nearly 10 years!! But I'm sure theres more to do then you think, everyone has 4 or 5 places they go and thats it