Hens/Stags

Nightwish

anyone alse sick of the hens and stags, although its mainly the hens, coming down here every weekend. i do realise that they are an integral part of some peoples pre-nuptual celebrations, and somehow people, mainly dubs, think kilkenny is the "temple bar" of the south east. I think with the sheer amount of them out around town every sat night, it has reached saturation point.

dawballz

I think wimmin love kilkenny cos it's a serious sausage fest. I dont know what they see in the place to be honest. Good few pubs alright, but really, langtons is the only half decent club( and it's not great either) and its what...eur12.00 to get in there on a sat. night these days? come on...
Do they all go to Langtons or what?

brettmirl

I am from John St in KK (live in cork now but get home about 2 weekends a month). I see them all coming in off the train station on Fri night/Sat afternoon...usually after a good few bottles of warm bud on the train...the wheels on their supervalu tokens suitcases clicking behind them as they search for the kilford.

I don't normally generalise, but most of them are skangers. I was in Lannigans on Rose Inn Street at the beginning of March and I counted 5 seperate hen parties that passed the window (prob on their way to queue for Langtons or "de coo").

Tis getting annoying alright. You'd think they'd feck off to Galway instead.

There was a period when a lot of the bars in KK has "no hen/stag parties" signs on the doors but I haven't seen any of them in ages.

Nightwish

i travel home every weekend from dublin and they are all on the train getting pi$$ed, and yes they are skangers.they smoke on the train, and are loud and rude. The sheer amount of them around town at the weekend has put me off going out at weekends entirely.They are all attracted to Lanigans as soon as they come off the train, and they also love paris texas.i would just love if they could just fu<k off and haunt some other town for a while...no forever.
god i sound bitter!

brettmirl

They next day you are around town on a sat afternoon count the amount of Dublin Gaa jerseys you see. you know the blue ones with Arnotts plastered across the front. You normally see a few lads with them on with a few skanger-ettes traipsing behind laiden down with Penny's bags. They are normally called Jacintaaaaa, Nah-ha-leeeeee, etc and for some reason they always seem to be laughing and out of breath at the same time.

Nightwish

"Anto waih oop oim troyin' loih me faag" as Nahalee tries to run after him laden down with her bags of cheap clothes (which can be bought in Dublin anyway), wearing penneys high heels trousers at least three sizes too small, a big belly haging out with the obligatory ever-stylish stretch marks, and a too tight t-shirt, big hoopy earrings...i could go on forever. They seem very attracted to Boots on a saturday afternoon.

Dont ya just hate the devil horns, matching tshirts and bunny tail uniforms they all wear? Before xmas a crowd of about 25 were on the train and they all had matching tshirts which said "kilkenny beware Dubs on the tear"

brettmirl

Yeah you are right about Boots. And they normally pick up an Argos catalogue or two...probably to "read" on the train ride home.

Nightwish

oh i know-they come into my workplace on a saturday, even though theres branches of it in dublin. what eejits

robbie1876

I'm sick of going to Kilkenny for stags. For the price of a stag weekend in Kilkenny you could easily get 4 or 5 days in Prague, including flights, hotels etc. Maybe Kilkenny doesn't like being called the Temple Bar of the South East, but it has no problem charging Temple Bar prices.

Nightwish

ive no idea how much it costs to stay here, but id say it is expensive, and the pubs are very overpriced, especially the nightclubs. When Carrigans (formerly the Caislean) opened they announced they would have the cheapest pints in town-whether that still holds true, Ive no idea. I would say the pubs charge through the roof, cos the Dubs expect those kind of prices.

Hmm_Messiah

very funny
should be in the humour section
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brettmirl

robbie1876 wrote:

For the price of a stag weekend in Kilkenny you could easily get 4 or 5 days in Prague, including flights, hotels etc. Maybe Kilkenny doesn't like being called the Temple Bar of the South East, but it has no problem charging Temple Bar prices.

That's fan-bloody-tastic news - Robbie please tell as many people as you can this news about Prague.

In fact, let's start a campaign!

Who's with me?

brettmirl

Nightwish wrote:

ive no idea how much it costs to stay here, but id say it is expensive, and the pubs are very overpriced, especially the nightclubs. When Carrigans (formerly the Caislean) opened they announced they would have the cheapest pints in town-whether that still holds true, Ive no idea. I would say the pubs charge through the roof, cos the Dubs expect those kind of prices.

No it wasn't Carrigans (Eamon Langton is after all cleaning up from selling over priced lager and smirnoff ices to the jackeens)...it was when the Mondrian (sp?) on Rose Inn Street changed its name to whatever its called now they tried to start a price war.

It made front page of the KK People and all...so shocking was the news that a pub was going to sell cheap booze.

It didn't last and the place is still a kip.

Nightwish

sorry, i thought it was carrigans. Mondrian changed to morrisons cos people didnt know what the fu<k was in the place. i suppose what kind of name is mondrian? its full of people that i didnt like in school so i avoid the place, so the "cheap" drink wasnt of any benefit to me.

brettmirl

Nightwish wrote:

its full of people that i didnt like in school so i avoid the place, so the "cheap" drink wasnt of any benefit to me.

DO you know what...I was in there once and I thought the exact same thing. It was full of tossers from Kieran's who were a year ahead of me...well they should have been a year ahead of me...but they had to repeat.

Mondrian...it always sounded like a chinese take-away to me.

Nightwish

i thought it was a classy chinese restaurant when it opened first, just from the name.
if lanigans, paris texas, langtons, morrisons etc are out of bounds, where does one socialise in kilkenny, where u wont be overrun by drunk middle aged jackeens dressed like tarty 16 yr olds

Nightwish

2 gaggles of em hanging around outside paris texas smoking, while making ar$es of themselves trying to drunkenly chat up the bouncers and anything with a c0ck that walked past-one group wearing devil horns the other with pink fluffy things hanging off their heads. the state of them!

brettmirl

Nightwish wrote:

if lanigans, paris texas, langtons, morrisons etc are out of bounds, where does one socialise in kilkenny, where u wont be overrun by drunk middle aged jackeens dressed like tarty 16 yr olds

Tis a tough one Nightwish!

Depends on what you are after really.

If I am going for a quiet pint (without crossing the bridge) I head to Lawlor's or Dempseys (used to be Shems) on John Street. I was in Tynan's on the Bridge for the first time ever lately and it was a rather cool little bar...would def go back.

McCourts can be ok...but if there is a DJ, you can't hear yourself think. I used to go to Maggie's but haven't been there since it was done up (see previous post about the bouncers on the door).

Apparently the Marble City Bar is pretty quiet at night, even on the weekends. Cleere's ain't a bad option either.

Basically avoid: Kilford, O'Faolains, Breathneachs, Langertons, Biddy Earlys, Lannigans, Rafter Dempseys, Matt The Millers, Paris Texas (i HATE that place), Morrissons (at the Ormonde), Morrisseys (used to be the Mondrian). Anything else and you should be fine.

Oh and avoid the Harp Bar/Hendersons...but for totally different reasons!

Nightwish

i can never go back to hendersons either...there was an incident and im not supposed to talk about it!!!
i usually stick to the widows and maggies-if i can get past the bouncers

brettmirl

Ok... you are not supposed to tell us, but i think you should anyway.

There are only 6 of us here anyway.

We won't tell anyone...promise!

Nightwish

i put someones head thru the window by accident...it was a drunken blur...i cant really remember!!!

solice

Where do people from KK go when they are going on a hen and stag?

brettmirl

solice wrote:

Where do people from KK go when they are going on a hen and stag?

Out foreign...somewhere like Leitrim.

wheres me jumpa

im from carlow and its the same s***e at the weekends. a mate of mine cos his shirt ripped off and his trousers pulled down by a bunch of hens one night. it was so funny...but anyway back to my point.having seen the look of the lads that come down on stags its no wonder the hens come down for the "sausage fest"!

brettmirl

This makes for interesting reading:

http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/%7Epeoplesr/forums/showthread.php?t=43221

Stephen

Wrt the people asking "wtf does Mondrian mean?", I think it was named after the Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian, famous for painting a bunch of straight lines and the like.

up for anything

Seven and I'm dying to know too.

up for anything

Edited to say: forget I said anything, hadn't read the second page.:)

comeraghs

Is it still that bad?

Do you think it seems worse than it is because KK is so small?

In bigger cities like Galway or Limerick it doesn't seem as bad because the city centre is a more spread out area.

Captain Havoc

Wow, it's like unearthing a time capsule. Thread locked