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

Daisy M

The dungeon in Beleek castle in Ballina co mayo was a ledgend place.
Hothouse, pearls, tingles, knights, the enterance, cocktails, mollys, longnecks, fond memories!!

Poutbutton

The Oval
The Fleet
Sides
The Apartment
The Hitchin Post, Leixlip *
The Spa Hotel, Lucan
The Garda Boat Club, Island Bridge

*I remember those meals they used to hand out, I used to run in horror as the lads ate what looked like week old bacon, cabbage & potatoes swimming in water served regularly in the Hitchin Post, I don't think they ever served chips it was all carvery style dinners drowned in gravy or parsley sauce. Yuck! The club stank once they opened the kitchen doors up. Getting everyone in the gang past the bouncers was part of the excitement. Great times for 17 year olds

policarp

I remember ending up in "Tophers" a few times,
when we used to go to Brittas Bay for a week-ends camping.
I think it was just a cottage converted into a night club of sorts.

The Princess Bride

The Garda Club- like a big culchie barn dance.
Club Nassau.....ah the memories
RIOs, Bucks, Leggs on Lesson St followed by food in Manhattans
Went to The Nurses Dance once.....too many nurses though ()

The End in Phoenix Park.......:D:D;)

Floppybits

Ah the memories. As a Dublin northside lad I started going to the nightclub at the summit in Howth I forget the name now, then moved onto Goodtime Charlies, what a great venue that was, then from there I tried my luck in Tamango's but it was hit and miss so never developed a love for the place, then into town to the The Harp bar, maybe it was because I was young but I loved that place and then the odd trip up O'Connell street to McGraths. Good times.

mrsbyrne

up for anything wrote: »

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.

1981 my first time in the door of hayes disco in thurles i was 16 it was brilliant the bar was more or less large bottles only and the lights came on every 20 minutes or so for the bouncers to settle a fight on the dancefloor. leaving in your coat to the cloakroom and trying to mind your cloakroom ticket for the rest of the night. supper-time a door would open at the back of the hall and the chicken baked beans and mashed potatoes would be dolled out. by the following summer they had an ice machine and a video disco. it was like feckin las vegas. 5 song slow sets trying not to get pregnant. fellas asking you "do ya wanta stay on?"out at 2am and messing around the Square. into joey kavanaghs for a sausage and chips "do you want it coated?!?! great days....

borderlinemeath

OldGoat wrote: »

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.

I remember going arse over tit on a shepherds pie that somebody left on the floor in a nightclub, and I was wearing a beige skirt so it looked like I either fell in or sat on shiite. Morto.

merlie

I used to go disco dancing at Rumours with some friends. I had a love/hate thing with the place. It was great for the music but we used to go in on a Wednesday, which was Ladies night, so we could have a night out for free ( money was tight then too ) but the guys had to pay to get in. I hated the way the dance floor was designed, it reminded me nothing more than a cattle ring and all the lads eyeing up the girls. It was always like the lads wanted to make it worth their while for paying in. I seen some goings on in the place lol!

A pub on Eden Quay back in the 80's. It was then part of a hotel, I think.

Then there was Bubbles Disco in a Lane way off Fleet Street. Also Sloopy's Disco!

Where the QBar is now in D'Olier Street., there used to be a disco pub there back in the 80's. Went there once but the dance floor was really tiny. Any one recall the name of the place?

up for anything

mrsbyrne wrote: »

1981 my first time in the door of hayes disco in thurles i was 16

Ha! You may well have known my younger sister. I used to take her there in the early 80's. Were you a Presentation girl?

mrsbyrne

up for anything wrote: »

Ha! You may well have known my younger sister. I used to take her there in the early 80's. Were you a Presentation girl?

absolutely presentation How did you guess?

HellsAngel

cordub wrote: »

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

Roller disco's - Jayus, that takes me back !!!!!!! What we did for entertainment back in the early 80's !!!!

Judes

Another one from Cork here: 80's

CLUBS:
Spiders
Coco's
Zowies
Squires
Sables

MUSIC VENUE:
Sir. Henry's

PUBS:
The Pitz
The Gay Future
Redz
Slicks

And on occasional trips to the Big Smoke aka Dublin - The Pink Elephant and whatever dens you'd fall into on Leeson Street.

Aaahhhhhh memories..................

stovelid

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

Bartley Dunnes
McGonagles

I love you.

The song Atomic by Blondie always makes me think of Bartleys for some reason. Do you remember the doorman - Dicey (?). I loved that pub and also the William Tell across the road.

For those who don't know, Break for the Border is on the site of Bartleys now; The Hairy Lemon on the site of William Tell.

I loved McGonagales too. There were a few great clubs there at the end of the 80s: Soul On Ice and Club Voodoo.

Also Sides on Dame Street and the Olympic Ballroom.

psni wrote: »

The Apartment... anyone?

Jaysus. Haven't thought of there for years.

stargazer 68

Went to Saints in Howth on a much too regular basis!! It turned into Good Time Charlies then but never went there then.

Went to the Grove once but why would I go to a place with no booze when Saints and Tamangos let me in?? :D

Germag

Mid 50's
morrisini Whelans on Henry St to learn to dance
The Green Lounge to jive
cyms Fairview !st one to R & R
Royella ( CIE Club ) on Saturdays ( my 1st date with my now wife )
Oulten Rd Tennis club
Clontarf rugby club

Jumbo156

Started of with a few in the Tudor Rooms and then to "The Tube"
Promoted then to:
Belvo rugby club
The End
Bad Bobs
Leggs

Those were the Days

mrsbyrne

Jumbo156 wrote: »

Started of with a few in the Tudor Rooms and then to "The Tube"
Promoted then to:
Belvo rugby club
The End
Bad Bobs
Leggs

Those were the Days

i worked one time in the pub/restaurant that eventually became bad bobs backstage . phil lynott died and the space shuttle disaster happened while i was there, that era. it was owned by two ex Ireland international rugby players. brothers. i cant remember their names. scuzzbags just closed up one day, no notice no prsi or tax paid, nothing...

carolmon

anewme wrote: »

where would you leave The Blue Bannana in Clondalkin.

The biggest dive ever!!
Swear to God I had my hair searched one night going in there i mean what exactly did they think they were going to find there?

OldGoat wrote: »

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

Don't knock it........ when I first moved out of home it fed me and the girls on many a night, esp the ladies free nights in Club Nassau when we would get all the chicken curry vouchers off the lads and fill our faces

Loved Bruxelles Bartleys and then onto McGonagles on a Saturday night,those were the days.

stovelid

carolmon wrote: »

Loved Bruxelles Bartleys and then onto McGonagles on a Saturday night,those were the days.

Spending your money on more crap wine or Ritz or walking all the way home to Tallaght. The eternal McGonagles dilemma...

nesbitt

Older sister went to the Grove and Rosminnie (spelling), the school dances held no appeal for me so I headed straight into town on the bus to Baggot Inn (Maggot Bin as we called it). The live gigs were in a dungeon like room at the back and you had to queue in an alley to enter that area and pay the cover charge. It was a mouldy dive but to me the live bands were a whole new world. I thought I was an alternative rocker/punkette so did not do the disco scene until I was in my 20's. I lived in Dublin & UK during that time in my life so lots of venues and the memories meld at this stage.

ToxicPaddy

Waterford here.. all went to small village Kill to the teenage disco there in the local community centre, a very apt name as the place was like Beruit, running battles, buses being stoned etc.. ahh I miss my youth!!

No1J

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

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!)

All of the above except the Grove, heard it was great.
The Flowing tide down stairs in the Neptune.
Upstairs in the Plough in the late 80's turned in to a restaurant called Jammet's then Smiley Bolger (Thin Lizzy) had live bands there.
Judge Roy beans when it was The Bernie Inn and Max down the back later on the night. Remember everyone finish your drinks, move outside, form a line to get back in after 10pm, thats £3 please to get back in.
Then down to the Lincoln or the Ginger Man.
Bubbles
Lord Johns
TV Club
Sides
William tell
The Long Hall
Blacks

No1J

merlie wrote: »

I used to go disco dancing at Rumours with some friends. I had a love/hate thing with the place. It was great for the music but we used to go in on a Wednesday, which was Ladies night, so we could have a night out for free ( money was tight then too ) but the guys had to pay to get in. I hated the way the dance floor was designed, it reminded me nothing more than a cattle ring and all the lads eyeing up the girls. It was always like the lads wanted to make it worth their while for paying in. I seen some goings on in the place lol!

A pub on Eden Quay back in the 80's. It was then part of a hotel, I think.

Then there was Bubbles Disco in a Lane way off Fleet Street. Also Sloopy's Disco!

Where the QBar is now in D'Olier Street., there used to be a disco pub there back in the 80's. Went there once but the dance floor was really tiny. Any one recall the name of the place?

Eden Quay Daly's with Stingfellows Nite club downstairs or next door the Clifton Court.
Q Bar was The Harp.

Jumbo156

nesbitt wrote: »

Older sister went to the Grove and Rosminnie (spelling), the school dances held no appeal for me so I headed straight into town on the bus to Baggot Inn (Maggot Bin as we called it). The live gigs were in a dungeon like room at the back and you had to queue in an alley to enter that area and pay the cover charge. It was a mouldy dive but to me the live bands were a whole new world. I thought I was an alternative rocker/punkette so did not do the disco scene until I was in my 20's. I lived in Dublin & UK during that time in my life so lots of venues and the memories meld at this stage.

Full Circle in Baggott every Saturday Night was the dog's twitcher!!!

Sandra.c

Upstairs in the plough was just the plough I thought? The Grove was my second home. There's a Grove FB page if you're interested.

Sid 1984

Horse & Tram Eden Quay
Cardy Marina Balbriggan
Coast Inn Skerries (still there I think?)

maude6868

Brewsters in Lahinch, disco bar downstairs nightclub upstairs. Heaving upstairs and just one exit down the stairs. Health and safety didn't bother us. Hair, the bigger the better, full of mousse under the hand drier upside down for a minute and good to go. Nice stroll down the prom if you met a lad or needed to puke lol. Fab Vinnie and other Radio 2 DJ's doing discos in the ballroom in Lahinch for the youngsters. Gorgeous long Summer nights, best years of my life

iamstop

Me and the lads used to go to Harold's Cross and get booze, then drink them in Kenilworth Sq.

Then we'd hop on a but to Donnybrook and try to get in to Bective or St. Mary's.

When we got a bit older we'd go to Club Sarah

z80CPU

Lanigans pub on the quay, Dublin.

The Station in rathmines - didn't matter how old or young you were or woke lgbtq etc

Oscar_Madison

Downstairs in the Plough was a kip - a complete drinking den of inequity - god I loved it 🤪

In fact it may well have been a den of iniquity now that I think of it 😀

Iggy Pop

Good times indeed

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