Rough pubs of Cork

Ubbquittious

Just seen the Dublin thread and got me thinking Cork must also have a few rough pubs of its own. A lad told me one time 'The constellation' across from the Heineken brewery is very rough but I was in there several times and didn't see anything unusual.

Be right back

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Just seen the Dublin thread and got me thinking Cork must also have a few rough pubs of its own. A lad told me one time 'The constellation' across from the Heineken brewery is very rough but I was in there several times and didn't see anything unusual.

I don't know what it is like really but the Fob and Gill in Mayfield has a good nickname.

JMNolan

The flying bottle (when it existed) was supposed to be rough but me and the good wife drank in there about 20-30 times and never saw anything dodgy.

LockedBoy

The Rochestown Inn could be well dodgy before she went up in flames

opus

When I was in college, the Roundy used to have a bouncer in the middle of the day! People used to worry about the old biker bar Mojos but it was actually fine, I lived close by so had the occasional pint in there with one of my classmates who was into his motorbikes. Of course if you didn't walk in with a bike helmet on your arm you were ignored by most of the clientele

horgan_p

The Screaming Monkey, used to be on McCurtain St.

Rough as a badgers behind

Dempo1

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Just seen the Dublin thread and got me thinking Cork must also have a few rough pubs of its own. A lad told me one time 'The constellation' across from the Heineken brewery is very rough but I was in there several times and didn't see anything unusual.

Kind of ironic these rough pub threads when most if not all of them are closed right now

Ubbquittious

Dempo1 wrote: »

Kind of ironic these rough pub threads when most if not all of them are closed right now

We need these threads now more than ever to contemplate and reflect on the pub scene

Sonics2k

Kat (cat maybe) Club off Oliver Plunkett Street. Constantly fights going on inside and outside that place.

Be right back

Side trax night club. Also just off Oliver Plunkett Street.

opus

Just remembered the Three Ones on Barrack St, as a friend of mine from Cork said around that time, that pub is not for you!

gifted

Be right back wrote: »

Side trax night club. Also just off Oliver Plunkett Street.

The bouncers were more dangerous than the people who went in there

Danzy

opus wrote: »

Just remembered the Three Ones on Barrack St, as a friend of mine from Cork said around that time, that pub is not for you!

Renamed several times, closed for years and now reopened under new management as a wine bar. Very nice.

A real piece of shi7 was killed at its door years ago.

Stark

Be right back wrote: »

I don't know what it is like really but the Fob and Gill in Mayfield has a good nickname.

Any time I've walked past it's always had really dodgy looking characters hanging around outside. It's changed its name in recent times.

Level 42

Soho full of norrys

blindsider

IIRC there was a very interesting spot on Barracka years ago...The Widow Quinn's...? Left hand side heading out of town...2/3rds of the way up the hill...?

Didn't spend much on the aul' decor, and and had a few 'great characters' amongst the clientele....

6541

Not really any rough pubs in Cork.

MrFrisp

Ahh jaesus lads... Ma Dulleas on Tower st.

In there last year with my Wife not long after it was taken over. It was recommended by a friend of ours who said there was huge money spent on refurbishment.

Never in my life have I ever come across anything like it.

I won't name anywhere specific, but a good few heads from a local area already in there., only to be joined by a few more later on.
Off their heads, and not just from drink. One guy comes in, never orders a drink, up on a table, starts dancing, stripping off, and not an eyelid batted in the place.
This was only 7.30pm.
First time in my life, I never finished the drink I had, and we legged it out of there.

Never ever to return.
.

Can't remember the name of it, but ended up in a pub just off Shandon Street once after playing a match. There were bullet holes above the fire place and I was told someone was murdered in there a few years previously. The place was a dump and we got out of there fairly quickly.

whisky_galore

Level 42 wrote: »

Soho full of norrys

Was nice when it first opened, then like Crane Lane drew every two pot screamer like moths to a flame.

No real rough spots of late, just places with lax admission policies that attract messy drinkers.

corks finest

Be right back wrote: »

I don't know what it is like really but the Fob and Gill in Mayfield has a good nickname.

Rob n kill

thomas anderson.

Level 42 wrote: »

Soho full of norrys

You spelt ethnic minority incorrectly

Herb Powell

I've been in to a good few rough looking spots or spots that I've heard were rough, but never properly felt out of place or had any hassle..........maybe that says more about me though

corks finest

thomas anderson. wrote: »

You spelt ethnic minority incorrectly

Sorry norrie

Seamai

I remember about 25 years ago ending up in a tiny pub on Kyle Street on a Christmas night out, it was no bigger than a small sitting room with 4 very suspicious looking customers all staring us out of it. We felt like we'd walked in on something. Even though it was still quite early in the evening a very tough looking barman stepped out from behind the counter telling us that under normal circumstances he'd be only too happy to serve us but they were just about to close so we'd have to leave. God only knows what was going on but it closed down not long after.

Seamai

Level 42 wrote: »

Soho full of norrys

And some very tough and desperate mutton of both sexes masquerading as spring lamb.

Padraig Mor

Danzy wrote: »

Renamed several times, closed for years and now reopened under new management as a wine bar. Very nice.

A real piece of shi7 was killed at its door years ago.

Maybe I'm wrong (God knows, I often am) but is the Three Ones not Tom Barry's now?

discostu1

I go back to the 70s 80s , The Roundy House, was in town one night and met a lad coming out of there .......via the Window, The old Raven before it was gentrified. The Sextant grand if you knew the lads if not it could get messy.
The Original Bodega in Oliver Plunkett street bottles flying a plenty. Not a pub per se but the Door man in the Arcadia, Morgan was one tough hombre .
The Manhattan and at various stages the Harp and Noels in the Hane

corkgsxr

The red cove?

the beer revolu

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Maybe I'm wrong (God knows, I often am) but is the Three Ones not Tom Barry's now?

No, pretty sure the 111s and Tom's coexisted.

Pigalle is where the 111s was afaik.

The Catwalk was pretty interesting!
As mentioned, The roundy and The Raven were legendary.

the beer revolu

Seamai wrote: »

I remember about 25 years ago ending up in a tiny pub on Kyle Street on a Christmas night out, it was no bigger than a small sitting room with 4 very suspicious looking customers all staring us out of it. We felt like we'd walked in on something. Even though it was still quite early in the evening a very tough looking barman stepped out from behind the counter telling us that under normal circumstances he'd be only too happy to serve us but they were just about to close so we'd have to leave. God only knows what was going on but it closed down not long after.

I remember that pub but I only remember it being open for about a year.
Ended up there on a Christmas night out, too. Twas grand that night.

Gamb!t

Th Unicorn had a name for itself back in the day I heard.

Danzy

Danzy wrote: »

Renamed several times, closed for years and now reopened under new management as a wine bar. Very nice.

A real piece of shi7 was killed at its door years ago.

Ireland's first gangland hit.....

davidglanza

Sir henrys back in the day

the beer revolu

davidglanza wrote: »

Sir henrys back in the day

Hardly.
Also there was in reality 2 Sir Henry's.
You had the Indie disco and gigs Sir Henry's (the real Henry's!) and you had the dance music Sir Henry's.
The dance nights could be a bit scummy, alright but I still wouldn't consider Henry's "rough".

ltd440

the beer revolu wrote: »

No, pretty sure the 111s and Tom's coexisted.

Pigalle is where the 111s was afaik.

The Catwalk was pretty interesting!
As mentioned, The roundy and The Raven were legendary.

Correct, Pigale is the new name for the the 111.
So called because its address is 111 barrack St.
I remember being convinced to go for an early morning pint after coming off night shift in the late 90s, the catwalk was suggested.
First of all a bouncer on the door at 8:30 am should have put us, but in we went anyway..
Blinds down, disco lights blazing, dance music blasting and everyone buzzing off they're faces
😂😂.
What a crazy experience

Acosta

the beer revolu wrote: »

Hardly.
Also there was in reality 2 Sir Henry's.
You had the Indie disco and gigs Sir Henry's (the real Henry's!) and you had the dance music Sir Henry's.
The dance nights could be a bit scummy, alright but I still wouldn't consider Henry's "rough".

Yeah. I only went to the indie nights in there and gigs. The bouncers were probably the most dodgy in attendance 90% of the time. They handed out a few hidings in their time.

The place down stairs when they turned it into a late bar was very dodgy. The Bakery.
I never liked The Goat Broke Loose either. Way too many scrotes in there that would regularly go looking for trouble afterwards and often found it.

Seamai

Many moons ago a friend living in Sunday's Well suggested visiting the Joshua Tree on Blarney Street, my one abiding memory was that it was full of very drunk and very rough middle aged women all being very raucous.

the beer revolu

Acosta wrote: »

The place down stairs when they turned it into a late bar was very dodgy. t.

I don't recall that.
You had the village downstairs.
And the klondyke bar towards the front.
Part of the village was turned into The Far Side and, subsequently, Jack Plug's.

Don't remember the bakery, though.
Did you enter from s. main street or through the hotel?

Acosta

Acosta wrote: »

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I never liked The Goat Broke Loose either. Way too many scrotes in there that would regularly go looking for trouble afterwards and often found it.

Goat Broke loose was never rough.

My idea of a rough bar would be Noel Murphy's / Quirkies..... Decent % of the patrons would have served time.... Plenty dealers in there. Not a place for randomers to call into really.

Acosta

the beer revolu wrote: »

I don't recall that.
You had the village downstairs.
And the klondyke bar towards the front.
Part of the village was turned into The Far Side and, subsequently, Jack Plug's.

Don't remember the bakery, though.
Did you enter from s. main street or through the hotel?

The Bakery came along not too long before the whole place shut down. It was only there for about a couple of years. Would have been where The Village and Jack Plugs was. The entrance was on South Main St between Henry's main entry and the cab base. ABC was it? That's also long gone.

Acosta

Augeo wrote: »

Goat Broke loose was never rough.

My idea of a rough bar would be Noel Murphy's / Quirkies..... Decent % of the patrons would have served time.... Plenty dealers in there. Not a place for randomers to call into really.

That's fair enough. It wasn't rough in there, but it was a different story when they spilled out onto the street at closing time, as I had the misfortune of witnessing a few times.

Noel Murphy's is the place by Barties right? Can't say I've ever been tempted

Hangdogroad

JMNolan wrote: »

The flying bottle (when it existed) was supposed to be rough but me and the good wife drank in there about 20-30 times and never saw anything dodgy.

My other half is from the area so I was in there a couple of times. Never saw any trouble there, just one of those typical dull suburban pubs.

Hangdogroad

Acosta wrote: »

Yeah. I only went to the indie nights in there and gigs. The bouncers were probably the most dodgy in attendance 90% of the time. They handed out a few hidings in their time.

The place down stairs when they turned it into a late bar was very dodgy. The Bakery.
I never liked The Goat Broke Loose either. Way too many scrotes in there that would regularly go looking for trouble afterwards and often found it.

There was a reggae night in the Bakery for a while in the late 90s, went there once. Dodgy enough clientele.

krissovo

I can confidently say you can walk into any pub in Cork and not feel unsafe unless you act the bollox. I don’t think there is a rough pub.

There is one pub which might be a bit of a shocker to some that I have witnessed the most punch ups and that is the An Spailpín Fánach. I must been there 30 times and 5 or 6 of them times have had a scrap. Mostly harmless though and 4 of them were between different brothers on a stag night.

byronbay2

Augeo wrote: »

My idea of a rough bar would be Noel Murphy's / Quirkies..... Decent % of the patrons would have served time.... Plenty dealers in there. Not a place for randomers to call into really.

Noel Murphy's was never a dodgy pub, I would have been a pretty regular there in the 80's and early 90's. Working class, drinking man's pub like so many in Cork at the time. Likewise The Raven, before it was gentrified.

The only Cork pub I ever felt a frisson of fear in was The Quinryan on Barrack Street, long since gone now. Definitely had an element of criminal clientele and you DEFINITELY did not want to say anything negative about the IRA! Still, I enjoyed many a quiet afternoon in there during my college years, while studiously (geddit?) ensuring I was long gone well before closing time.

Surreptitious

The Bakery was a brilliant spot.

mean gene

The thomond rough as a badgers arse

Thespoofer

I think in general the standard of behaviour, safety, general experience in alot of pubs has dropped over the years, or maybe I'm just getting old!

I do think though alot of pubs that were well run, clean, trouble free back in the day have inevitably fallen by the wayside.

yenom

The Anglers is very rough since the HollyHill Inn closed.

gifted

Any pub north of the river......
















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