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.

Payton

I also went to Vixens, and buying pints of "Molloys Ale" for £1.10 total muck And the girls were drinking bottles of Ritz and if I had enough out of my wages Id be drinking Furztenberg (forgive my spelling). I just about remember the one time I did go to Rumours holy christ your right totally freeked out at the people there.
I think Blinkers became Club91 but I stand to be corrected. As for the Blue Banana..............Rough wasnt the word anytime we were there, there was a row. I recall the long walk back to Tallaght as the taxi's wont go there.
The Spawell in Templeouge? what was that nightclub called? very strange memories of a very bad meal, If you remember the meals? that we got there, jesus I can still taste it :eek:

anewme

Ha ha remember the Furstenburg!

And I was a Ritz woman myself!

Remember the food in the Spa Well. I think I recall getting sausages and chips. The other choice was curry and rice if I remember correctly. We ate it anyway - we were well on so did not taste it and probably sick after it , but down the hatch mixed with the Ritz.

I am not sure if the nightclub in the Spawell had a name, we always just called it the Spa Well.

Ah memories.........

Payton

The nightclub was called Cloud 9, And your right about the sausage and chips dreadful. I was chatting to a friend today about "Bobs Van" in Bolbrook Tallaght which was the only shop in the local area....happy days. Pop rock, fizzle sticks, and those happy days of Green Sheild Stamps. :rolleyes:

timbel

one of the first pubs in Dublin I went to was the South William, close to the William Tell. I think its a Cafe Moka (Sp) now, or was recently.

£1 bottles of Classic cider - Bolton Street "ID".
I'd say there was nobody over 16 in the place besides the staff.

Beruthiel

anewme wrote: »

And I was a Ritz woman myself!

Ah yes, Ritz. I was never bothered about drinking until someone handed me a Ritz.
T'was all down hill from there.

Zaph

on the verge wrote: »

I think Blinkers became Club91 but I stand to be corrected.

Close, it became Club92. Spent many nights there, a mate's parents owned the bar and catering franchises. We used to get in for nothing and then get a few free drinks and a feed (because clubs had to provide a meal then) sneaked to us. I never particularly liked the place, but you couldn't pass up freebies like that when you were 18 or 19. The other place we'd go to sometimes was Racy Nights, above the Leopardstown Inn. Later became Cleos and had an Egyptian theme, iirc. Then it burnt down.

I also remember Peekers, complete and utter pit of a place. My old work crowd used to go there when we wanted a late drink after the pub closed. We'd end up in a fleet of taxis down to the place.

Hollywood Nights in Stillorgan used to be split into three parts at one stage, Flamingos, Peppermint Garden and Coconut Grove. Flamingos was the nightclub part, can't remember what the other two were supposed to be. One might have been a cocktail bar or something.

Rubecula

Tis sad indeed ... first visit to Dublin was when I was 30. The excitement of getting there was only matched by the excitement I felt when the Gardai had me up against a wall.:eek:

But I was so happy to be there in the first place it didn't matter that they had some kind of sub machine gun in me ear.:eek:

And when it was time to go home all kinds of decent friendly people made sure I was back on the ferry.... and ensured I didn't sneak back off it again

But the Nightclub I remember from my wild youth days (wild????) anyway the big club back then was the Top Rank in Liverpool city centre, I soon managed to start going to Dino's a small dark place where sweaty bodies were crushed together;)

Then there was and still is the Grafton Rooms and the old "Grab a Granny" nights. (Odd it was almost always the grannies grabbing me, and I only wanted a dance and a beer.):o

Then there was the Flying Club in a converted house (not really converted very well to be honest) I went there thinking it was all about aircraft.. Hellfire and buckets of blood.... it was for Pigeon Fanciers. But it became just about the only place I ever went drinking with me dad. I was so proud the first time I drank him off his stool. Must be a man thing:)

There were other clubs in other towns but they were secondary.

Clareboy

In Ennis, the New Hall Ballroom or ' Paddy Con's ' as it was known locally was the best place. There was the main ballroom for the showbands and a smaller hall upstairs for the ceili. In the 1980s, it was renamed the Jet Club. There was also a cinema nearby - The Burren Cinema. There were always chip vans parked along Station Road on the nights of dances. One could go and see a film and then go to the dance and finish up with a bag of chips! Those were the days!

chucken1

Clareboy wrote: »

In Ennis, the New Hall Ballroom or ' Paddy Con's ' as it was known locally was the best place. There was the main ballroom for the showbands and a smaller hall upstairs for the ceili. In the 1980s, it was renamed the Jet Club. There was also a cinema nearby - The Burren Cinema. There were always chip vans parked along Station Road on the nights of dances. One could go and see a film and then go to the dance and finish up with a bag of chips! Those were the days!

Id forgotten about the Jet Club . Great times!

Payton

Zaph wrote: »

Close, it became Club92.

Yea thats it. I remember the name of the the other club Racy Nights but sadly I never frequented the place. I do remember a door man "Selling" black socks for a fiver to you if you had white sock on which was always a no no, in the Belgard.

up for anything

Started off with the Freshford hop, went on to GAA Club discos, Rugby Club discos, dance halls all round Ireland (loved Tweed and The Memories and even Dickie Rock), then hotel nightclubs like The Clonmel Arms and Hayes Hotel (Thurles). We could only afford the money to pay in, never had enough to buy a real drink let alone a Coke and I can remember dancing around white handbags in white stilettos. Grease was the thing! I had electric blue satin drainpipes and none of my jeans would do up while I was on my feet - had to lie down and stick a clothes hanger into the zip to pull them up. Before that, walking home from Barrowland in New Ross in the pouring rain and my flares wet up to the thighs from the pouring rain. Heading out to dances in dance halls at the middle of nowhere crossroads and hoping to god you'd get a lift home and wouldn't have to walk the three miles or back to town in the dark.

not yet

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.

Ah........La mirage,what a ****hole but then again at 18 we thought it was paradise, bubbles graduated to the apartments then tara club then the big step up to rumours....and if you were good looking that gaf just off georges st that never sold guiness.

Gaspode

Started out with the Grove, graduated on to the Rugby Clubs (Clontarf, Suttonians, Wesley, etc) then to the excellent Bruxelles. After that things are a little vague!

p1akuw47h5r3it

Man I'm 19 and i shudder at the day I'm naming the clubs I visited in my "Heyday"...I dont wanna get old ha!!

up for anything

DanDan6592 wrote: »

Man I'm 19 and i shudder at the day I'm naming the clubs I visited in my "Heyday"...I dont wanna get old ha!!

I have a magic potion... it's expensive but worth it. Can I interest you in purchasing some.

OldGoat

DanDan6592 wrote: »

Man I'm 19 and i shudder at the day I'm naming the clubs I visited in my "Heyday"...I dont wanna get old ha!!

Talk to anyone under the age of 16 and you'll find that you already ARE old. Old is subjective. I'm willing to bet that you occasionally reminise about things you did with your friends when you were younger, games you played, your first consol, your first mobile phone, your first year in secondary school.


Meanwhile, kinda back on topic - do ye remember being timid when passing the bouncers doormen incase they would knock you back? Or the really crappy food the clubs would produce just to get their late drink license.

up for anything

OldGoat wrote: »

Or the really crappy food the clubs would produce just to get their late drink license.

Chicken and chips in a plastic basket. Nobody ever ate it that I can remember.

Bearhunter

up for anything wrote: »

Chicken and chips in a plastic basket. Nobody ever ate it that I can remember.

Wasn't only the basket that was plastic. I can still taste the chicken they used to serve at the Unyoke after 25 years.

OldGoat

I dread to think how many of us were turned off curry forever after having our first taste of it in those clubs.

Whynotme

The 'Court, Killiney Court, Jesters, Porter House in Dun Laoghaire.... Blinkers. First time I was refused in the Porter House was on my 18th birthday, my sis, 16 got served and they wouldn't serve me cos I was underage.

Rumours, spent the last part of my wedding night there....sad. Maybe it was foretelling of years to come! Lol.

Remember Peekers well, well remember bits....