School Discos/Clubs/Pubs/Venues you remember from your 'Heyday'

Cheap Thrills!

I grew up in North Dublin, so these are all Dublin ones;

The Source
Bartley Dunnes
The Flowing tide
Brussels
Upstairs in The Plough (forget the name)
McGonagles
Judge Roy Beans
The Rock Garden
The Clarenden

My favourite of all The Grove (Raheny the one and only!)

LimerickDan

Freemount in North Cork.

The place to be when I grew up. Good Music, Trashy birds and full of knackers fighting ha ha ha,#

All fun tho!!

cordub

the star roller disco , peekers in dun laoire , jaggers in fleet street, mangens in cork. elroys and sidetrax in cork .:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

cordub

LimerickDan wrote: »

Freemount in North Cork.

The place to be when I grew up. Good Music, Trashy birds and full of knackers fighting ha ha ha,#

All fun tho!!

WHAT ABOUT CLEOS in bandon full of farmers in their wellies :D:D

humberklog

The Ivy Rooms (and La Mirage downstairs). Celebrated my 15th birthday in there and don't think I left for 3 years.

Suffolk Lounge...clebrated my 18th in there and didn't leave for about 2years:pac:.

Then I went to Grogan's and still haven't left.

Cheap Thrills!

humberklog wrote: »

The Ivy Rooms (and La Mirage downstairs). Celebrated my 15th birthday in there and don't think I left for 3 years.

Suffolk Lounge...clebrated my 18th in there and didn't leave for about 2years:pac:.

Then I went to Grogan's and still haven't left.

Oh good Jaysus! I had my first alcoholic drink in the Ivy Rooms!! I was 15 legal age to drink:cool:. West Coast Cooler !!!

And a Ritz.

Cheap thrills! :pac:

humberklog

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

Oh good Jaysus! I had my first alcoholic drink in the Ivy Rooms!! I was 15 legal age to drink:cool:. West Coast Cooler !!!

! :pac:

And while I called it La Mirage downstairs it was Smurfland back then. Odd place covered in murals of Smurfs.

Orion

St. Mary's disco in Templeville Rd. and the 'bouncers' smelling your breath on the way in. Like any of us were sober.

Terenure Rugby Club disco. Legally drinking then but not experienced enough to pace ourselves. Many a pukefest.

slavetothegrind

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

My favourite of all The Grove (Raheny the one and only!)

explains your user name!

yeah misspent yewth in bruxelles and mc gonagles afterwards!!!

the star roller disco, was that in the top hat?

was one in bray too can't remember the name of it now.....

ger vallely

Ah Bartley Dunnes, loved the place even the tiny ladies toilets. Good job was a slim little thing back then. Afterwards it would be up to the Olympic Ballroom for some serious dancing!Then there was sides DC and the madness that was the Assylum. Oh the joys,my knees hurt now just thinking of it!

Cheap Thrills!

My God !

I'd forgotten the Top Hat and the Olympic !!

:pac:

byhookorbycrook

Pony Club discos in the Central in Mallow. The Majestic in Mallow.

slavetothegrind

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

My God !

I'd forgotten the Top Hat and the Olympic !!

:pac:

post traumatic stress disorder;)

foxinsox

slavetothegrind wrote: »

the star roller disco, was that in the top hat?
was one in bray too can't remember the name of it now.....

Top Hat Roller Disco
Laurel Park (the one in Bray) Roller Disco
Bective

The Harp
The Baggot Inn
Bruxelles
Rainbows (somewhere on Wicklow Street maybe?)
Judge Roy Beans - can't remember what it used to be called?

Peekers

cordub

foxinsox wrote: »

Top Hat Roller Disco
Laurel Park (the one in Bray) Roller Disco
Bective

The Harp
The Baggot Inn
Bruxelles
Rainbows (somewhere on Wicklow Street maybe?)
Judge Roy Beans - can't remember what it used to be called?

Peekers

thought i was the only one who would remember PEEKERS always think back now and wonder if there was a fire there was no way out!!! what was the disco in the kilternan called anyone remember that????

Cheap Thrills!

All Dublin and Cork so far!

Calling the rest of the Country?

Cicero

Sorry Cheap Thrills...it's Dublin again for me I'm fraid..:)

William Tell Tavern - spent most Saturday nights there in the late 80's ...

Cheap Thrills!

Cicero wrote: »

Sorry Cheap Thrills...it's Dublin again for me I'm fraid..:)

William Tell Tavern - spent most Saturday nights there in the late 80's ...

Jaysus I remember it! Right opposite Bartleys it was ! Pool tables! Later became The Hairy Lemon !!! :pac:

Shield

The Apartment... anyone?

Beruthiel

Down the boonies, we didn't have such flashy venues.

We had a dance hall where a different band would play each week.
Such greats as:

Rock Stewart and the Plattermen (think he came out of a coffin on stage?)
Big Tom and the Mainliners
Johnny Logan
The Miami Band
Joe Dolan and the Drifters

*Shudder*

cordub

psni wrote: »

The Apartment... anyone?

yes did a stint there and then you graduated to JAGGERS lol

bubbaloo

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

Jaysus I remember it! Right opposite Bartleys it was ! Pool tables! Later became The Hairy Lemon !!! :pac:

Aah - the William Tell!
Bottles of Ritz - where it all began!

Grew up in South Dublin so here we go:
Top Hat Roller Disco
Rainbow Rapids ( haha )
The International
Wesley (obviously!)
Bective
Stradbrook

Latchy

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

I'd forgotten the Top Hat

:pac:

Dun Laoghaire ? went to see the Stranglers play there

The watering holes and clubs around Dublin would include

The Harp Bar
The Auld Dubliner
The Fleet
The Baggot inn
Bruxelles
Keoghs
Morans hotel
Bartley Dunnes
Bernie Inn ..and quite a few more around the city

Nightclubs

Tiffanys
Apartment
Napoleons
Sloopys .
Apartment
Mcgonagles

anewme

The Apartment.....year or so later then moved to
The Oval
Apple Annies.....then moved to
Blooms Hotel (actually went there when it was called Bogie's)
Rainbows (Exchequer St)

Nite Clubs we used to go to
Coco's - Tallaght
La Mirage
Abraxis
Tin Pan Alley
The Mont Clare
Spa Well
Gresham on Wednesday nights cause it was free for ladies, but god it was rough as bejaysus

Those were the days.....fantastic times - sometimes you dont appreciate them till they are only a memory

Bearhunter

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

All Dublin and Cork so far!

Calling the rest of the Country?

Grew up in Enniscorthy, so for me it was the Castle Ballroom (for a quiet fight) and further afield the Unyoke (stealing pints off teeth-sucking farmers while they "boogied" on down) and the Hydro. Sometimes the Ocean room at the Strand Hotel in Curracloe. Simple times. A few large bottles of Harp and 20 Carroll's in mo phoca and I was set.

foxinsox

^ Aw.. many a good night was had in The Hydro

Cicero

Can't believe how many venues I've forgotten about...:o

Bearhunter

foxinsox wrote: »

^ Aw.. many a good night was had in The Hydro

Me too. Surprisingly fight-free, I found, compared to d'Unyoke and any of the dances in Enniscorthy (especially the Castle, the Rugby Club and the IFA).

chucken1

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

All Dublin and Cork so far!

Calling the rest of the Country?

Right..Theee place to go if you were living in North Tipp-Clare-Limerick etc..

Love storys were made in KATY DALY'S.. in Ballina (lust maybe?)

Payton

anewme wrote: »

The Apartment.....year or so later then moved to
The Oval
Apple Annies.....then moved to
Blooms Hotel (actually went there when it was called Bogie's)
Rainbows (Exchequer St)

Nite Clubs we used to go to
Coco's - Tallaght
La Mirage
Abraxis
Tin Pan Alley
The Mont Clare
Spa Well
Gresham on Wednesday nights cause it was free for ladies, but god it was rough as bejaysus
Those were the days.....fantastic times - sometimes you dont appreciate them till they are only a memory

Was that the women or the atomsphere :D
Being from the Tallaght area, CoCo's was the place, It was City Limits before that. There was a nightclub in The Embankment Pub in the 80's I think it was called Safari Nights (Oh the shame )
One of the most great thing were the guys and me included with the little "5-a-side ronnie" moustache and the girls with their older sisters jackets and blouses all with "shoulder pads".
And then there was Blinkers in Leopardstown, Right I'll do the walk of shame now.

anewme

Rumours in the Gresham was rough as bejaysus.....both men and women. Im talking about the women (being one myself) they always looked like they would tear your hair out.

We are obviously the same vintage, but you might be just that bit older. We always fancied the guys with the little ronnies, a la Kevin in Coronation Street at the time (early 80's). I remember Safari Nights, but was too young to go. Remember when Coco's was City Limits and we always wanted to go to The End in Phoenix Park, but were never let in as looked too young. Remember crying outside when we were not let in, I think Spider Simpson was on there!

Also, did Blinkers become Hollywood Nights? Went to Vixens in Tallaght, and where would you leave The Blue Bannana in Clondalkin.