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Remembering Old Bars and Clubs

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    #332
    flended12
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭flended12


    Cocos Nightclub Tallaght, massive lidl there now and belgard pub (kip) long gone.

    Peg woffingtons at bottom of kildare Street.

    What was the nightclub on parnell St that took over after Stringfellows strip club closed down back in the day, think its a eurosaver shop now.

    Itchyfeet in terenure

    Parnell Mooneys, way back. Interesting night in there.



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    #333
    angel eyes 2012
    Registered Users Posts: 903 ✭✭✭angel eyes 2012


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121180094#Comment_121180094

    Ah the Palace was great fun, I had a birthday there around 1999/2000. I think they had dance music upstairs and 70s/80s downstairs or other way around. Used to go to Howl at the Moon with the work crowd most Fridays.



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    #334
    beertons
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121201993#Comment_121201993

    The Ambassador Hotel. Great spot. Shortened name for the disco was the Ambo.



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    #335
    beertons
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261243#Comment_121261243

    I still have a concession for it in the front of my car.



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    #336
    andyd12
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭andyd12


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121323742#Comment_121323742

    Got love it.

    The Inn is still called the Ranch locally.

    These the cards?

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    #337
    beertons
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    Ah there she is.



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    #338
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,208 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Late 90s went (from Dublin) to a biker rally in Banna Beach resort in Kerry. A resort/bars/pool building with about 3 dozen holiday homes and a grassy area we (paid) to set up tents on.

    There were 3 separate rooms/bars in the main buliding - rock/metal, darnce, and trad! The few older locals piling into no.3, the numerous younger ones into no.2 with it seemed much chemical assistance, and us lot in no.1 with strong cider and such like. There was little interaction between the 3 but what there was was all very friendly! Maybe they were scared of us 🤣

    In 2012 I went back in a car with wife and two kids, very different vibe 😁 cost a feckin' fortune but no E'd up teenagers, saw a lot of past reminders though, interesting all the same.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #339
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,182 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121263404#Comment_121263404

    Same here ,I was there at that time too! I was the only one into Fibbers music , but my mates were all baby faced , so after getting turned down for two or three other clubs , we'd end up in Fibbers (since they'd basically let anyone in) which suited me .

    We went to some terrible clubs , usually as it was the only place we could get in .. Club Sarah in Rathfarnham (where if you had any kind of ID they'd let you in , even if it was obviously someone else's), Mungo Jerrys (beside the Harp , feckin awful place, like a wish.com version of Coppers but one of my friends would always score with some of the older ladies there , so he'd drag us in ) Fitzsimons off Temple Bar (where when we were slightly older , and could get in to proper clubs, one mate was always to pissed /dishevelled/"casual" to get in , except for Fitzers , as the head bouncer liked him , so we'd always be able to blag in ).There was a rough as guts bar (Kellys? I cant remember the name? ) around the corner from Fibbers that was full of Eeed up jungfellas ,and coked up arseholes , first time I ever saw someone bottled was on a dancefloor there , fella was so out of it he barely noticed , one of the floors played good SKa/Two tone though , so that was nice

    Turns out Dublin was going through a "Berlin" phase of all these amazing clubs apparently , but I missed most of that as my friends just wanted to try and pull ,but there was the Pod/Kitchen and a few other decent places , also Velure in the Gaiety had a few dance floors and played cult movies , which was nice.



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    #340
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,182 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121180906#Comment_121180906

    My parents local from about 1980 until 2010 , they pretty much knew everyone there .



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    #341
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    My fav venues from back in the day:

    The Funnel down on the quays

    Mean Fiddler on Wexford St.

    The Temple Bar Music Center (Before it was The Button Factory)


    Was not a place I went more than once or twice but it was a well known land mark, The Tuning Fork in Rathfarnham. Sure isn't it a funeral home now!

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #342
    gameoverdude
    Registered Users Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭gameoverdude


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121392413#Comment_121392413

    I was only occasionally there. Liked it.

    It's now the pines or halfway house when I'm up home. Very decent spots(although the pines has notions).



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    #343
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,557 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121392490#Comment_121392490

    Jaysus the Mean Fiddler there's a blast from the past. Anyone remember Cocoon just of Grafton street, was owned the Eddie Irvine at the time. Think its the Lemon and Duke now.



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    #344
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,194 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121392571#Comment_121392571

    I think you’ll love this 😛- classic beerguts and receding hairline humour


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/54719620#Comment_54719620



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    #345
    Seve OB
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121392403#Comment_121392403

    The “rough bar”. Possibly McGraths/13th floor on O’Connell street. Was only in it the once. No carry on in there in fairness but it was genuinely the only time I’ve ever been in a pub/bar that I feared for my life. Didn’t help one of my mates (who since went on to be a star of gogglebox, though you might get him mixed up with his brother 😝) just sat on his chair and fell asleep 🤣. We stuck to the Back Gate after that



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    #346
    Seve OB
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121392490#Comment_121392490

    My mate lives beside the Tuner. Went there a good few times. Was a grand aul local.

    Rumour has it that the Sub is in the process of renovating and will reopen soon



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    #347
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,182 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121393090#Comment_121393090

    Yup McGraths it was



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    #348
    BlueSkyDreams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121393115#Comment_121393115

    What is the Sub?



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    #349
    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121392571#Comment_121392571

    Was in Lemon and Puke a few weeks ago for a pre dinner drink. Similar layout to when it was Cocoon but I do recall it was better before the change. They were always a bit stuck up their own arse on letting people in there though… that was a good laugh that thread. Had a drink with Chwis Eubanks in there one night around about 2000. He was good craic in fairness



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    #350
    beertons
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    Anyone mention McGruders yet? Went in there one paddy's weekend, think it was around 2pm on a Saturday. A day dance thing. Straight into a taxi after, to Laurent Garnier in the Harcourt area. Didn't get home till Tuesday I think.



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    #351
    flended12
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭flended12


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121398711#Comment_121398711

    1200 seated bar from Celtic Tiger Where walkinstown meets crumlin. Next to Ashleaf shopping centre. Great decor, full kitchen, stage for live music etc.

    It never took off after renovations in early 2000s.

    It's still there though. A quick Google search mentions there was talk of it turning into a gym etc.

    Was in it once, no thanks.



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    #352
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,922 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    There being a pub of that size on that site goes back to the 50s or maybe 40s, that's just the latest building for it



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    #353
    flended12
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭flended12


    Very true.



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    #354
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,557 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121398777#Comment_121398777

    I liked Cocoon, it was always a bit more chilled than other pubs and it was one of the only places where I never got refused. The amount of times I was refused from Coppers or Howl at the moon for being drunk, the funny thing was I was the one that doesn't drink, my mates would be let in 3 sheets to the wind but not me.



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    #355
    BlueSkyDreams
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121398912#Comment_121398912

    Ah Submarine Bar. :)

    It is reopening then?



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    #356
    flended12
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭flended12


    No idea but if it couldn't survive during celtic tiger I'd day it will lie idle for a while or be repurposed.



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    #357
    Seve OB
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    Bar is deffo reopening. Pal of mine was in it last week having a nose with the builder. He thinks the big lounge is being done also. Something about being hit with a derelict property tax



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    #358
    Captain_Crash
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    Have read every page of this thread and a pub or bar I’ve had many a pint in has been mentioned in all of them, don’t know what that says about me lol. The mad thing is the mentions of Manhattan on the previous page… I was out with colleagues last night and we were talking about that place, no joke haha!

    I’ll add a place to the list that I didn’t see mentioned, any one remember Lilys Bordello? Think it’s part of the Porterhouse now but awful s**t. Although it was s**t when it was Lilys too!



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    #359
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭Allinall


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121401057#Comment_121401057

    Used to be The Bernie Inn back in the day.



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    #360
    AndrewJRenko
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121401060#Comment_121401060

    Ah here - the Berni Inn. They'd be spinning in their graves.



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    #361
    Turquoise Hexagon Sun
    Registered Users Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Turquoise Hexagon Sun


    **Double Post** Sorry - Mod, please hide/delete this one. Thanks

    Thanks fo the reply. It is the same bar, correct, but it had a different name before it was called The Exchequor. Anyone remember the name of what The Exchequer on Dame Court, Dublin 2 used to be called? Well, technically it's on Exchequer St. but we used to go in a side door from Dame Court.



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