Worst Pub In Drogheda

~Leanne~

Oh yes i think i know it alright!! God id never be down there, urgh id say the place reaks!!

hushm0nk3y

What about the Sunshine bar (ah the mind jogs back)

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hushm0nk3y wrote:

What about the Sunshine bar (ah the mind jogs back)

There was also a sunshine bar in dundalk before , That was a rough spot that star open until all hours. No surprise's that the sunshine bar was in bridge street and it didnt stay open very long.

andrew1977

ah the sunshine bar in drogheda...many a mispent weekend night drinking cheap lager and watching the river flow by .
Manys a night ,me and my buddies then stumbling up the town ,
i think they have fenced off the sunshine bar if i am right ,pretty dangerous when i think of it .
i hope i am writing about the correct sunshine bar in drogheda..the home of underage drinking in drogheda in the 1990's , then when we got over ..into the Linen Hall on Dyer St for more underage drinking
Its now demolished but what a haven for illicit drinking..

~Leanne~

The Linen Hall - ah the days!!! Started drinking there at the sweet age of 16 - not a question of ID ever asked!!

andrew1977

i think most of us 20 somethings in drogheda lived in the linen hall when we were underage .
Denis if i remember rightly was the owners name,never once asked for any i.d
i remember us getting out junior cert results (many moons ago ) and heading straight down to the linen hall for pints
The back place of the linen hall used to be heaving with underage drinkers,great days .
Off to Lucianos in the boyne valley for more underage drinking, no i.d asked there either . Then it turned into a rave ,closed down eventually when Boyne valley opened the leisure centre

Anyone remember Tassles (Abbey Tavern ), now Solas Bar,another safe haven for underage drinking, the most vivid memory from tassles was the smell of damp in the place but when you were 16 and looking for a drink,the smell of damp was easily put to the back of your mind
Then up to the Hot Pot for chips...nicest chipper ever..shame it closed

hushm0nk3y

Sunshine by the Boyne. That's the one! Beatboxes a plenty And then the Linen hall and li'l Dennis who was afraid of everyone, even us 15 (long time ago) year olds...what great days.

ff101

seen as there is all this talk about pubs in drogheda, perhaps we should start taliking bout the staff. some of the staff are sooo rude, the likes of which u usually only get in dublin. o'sheas have to have the rudest staff

~Leanne~

Yea the girls in osheas tend not to be the friendliest at times! Many i run in i had with them just because the couldnt hear me they got so mad!!

MaryJane213

mchuges is great now that they've done it up. the venue is excellent and they have some great bands playin at the weekends...and if you flirt with the guys at the door inside you get in for free...perfect place to be if you ask me!

CharlieAsh

Carburys...........used to be a real irish pub run by the very old and very eccentric Mrs.Carbury who wouldn't serve Irish people if they didn't attempt to speak Irish while ordering drink.If you were foreign then you were excused.Lol.When she died she was laid out in the pub in an open casket and traditional irish musicians came from all over to pay their respects.Not the same venue at all anymore.

Linen Hall..........someone further up described Dennis as the most timid man and it's a very accurate description.Mind you he was held at gun point one night so that can be excused.Was the biggest drug den in Drogheda but the front bar had the older crowd in it from it's hey day and they were all characters.A lot of them in Chicago now.

Sunshine Bar..........nuff said about that one.

Moores............not fair to call it a kip as it's not trying to BE anything else.It's an old style watering hole where the locals all stop what they are doing when you walk in and watch you until you order a drink.Formica bar top from its last attempt at redecoration in the late 70s' and a nice cold stone wall to urinate against in the gents.Locals can be seen eating blocks of cheese at the bar counter (don't ask why.....i don't know)

Stags Head..........was a very well run place if a little rough when a chap by the name of Ged ran/leased it but he moved on after the smoking ban.The comments made by an earlier poster about it would be fairly accurate now.

Gleesons...........Probably the best real pub in Drogheda.Excellent draft.Never any hassle.The most unusual and diverse clientele.Not a happening place.....it's just a......well it's a pub.Always packed.

O'Sheas..........Young.3 euro a drink most nights.Dance music.

Redz................Renovating right now into a food hall with only a token bar remaining.Used to be great.Ahh the memories.

McPhails.............Alternately hated or loved by every second person in Drogheda.Live music 4 nights at least.Probably the only one of the so called super pubs to come out reasonably unscathed by the smoking ban.

Barocco............formerly Bridie Macs.Trendy but small and difficult to get around when full.Still it has decent crowds and always has an atmosphere because it is small and fills up fast.Mixed age groups.

McHughs...........Great job on back bar.Live music.Should have done up the front bar too.

Bru..................Looks great but just isn't working.You need to walk through all the diners on the ground floor to get to the bar on the second floor.Really comfortable and good looking place though.

Earth...............Around about 10 years now and still getting the crowds.Young though.Closing soon to revamp.Free b4 12.

Storm...............Older crowd.Small club.Alternative to Earth.Seems to be the best option on Fridays.

Fusion..............They revamp this one about every 3 to 4 years but nothing ever really changes.Place to go when you couldn't be arsed getting scrubbed up and just want to chill with like minded folk.

Star and Crescent...........Huge pub/club/late bar thingy.Live music in one room and D.Js in main room plus big internal beer garden.Mixed age groups and free in.

Mariner...............Good food and good drink.Does a bar need to do more?

Nolans.................Formerly Gardiners but a step up.Small but well run with a busy trade.

Black Bull..............Busy food and drink venue on the Dublin road with no competitors near by.Its enough to warm the heart of any businessman.

TipTopToe

MaryJane213 wrote:

mchuges is great now that they've done it up. the venue is excellent and they have some great bands playin at the weekends...and if you flirt with the guys at the door inside you get in for free...perfect place to be if you ask me!

So all I need to do to get in for free is wax my legs and grow boobies... excellent...

sudzs

What about The Boxing Club?????

And Gisty the bouncer!!!

Loads of great gigs there, Something Happens, An Emotional Fish, The Golden Horde...... And of course not forgetting the local band Dorian Mood.... Where are they now????

Anyone???

NADA

Does anybody here ever drink in Macs(McDonalds) on the chord road. What a stange place. The barmen can be a bit strange. Brian is worthy of a zoo project. He is the closest thing to Basil Fawlty I have ever seen. It's liek a comedy show just watching him. And don't go in here if you are an itinerant!

sudzs

What's an "itinerant"?

eth0_

Not a pub but remember the nightclub that was in the ross (rosnaree hotel on the Dublin road)?

What a dodgy dump of a place! Me and my friend got weekend jobs there when we were 15 collecting classes and making the food that nightclubs had to serve to get their late licence...you don't want to know about the food, let's just say they're lucky they never had a health inspection.

Remember on a lot of occasions one of the staff running in to the bar to tell us the cops were after driving in, and we had to shut the bar because they'd been selling booze after their licence allowed.

Sooo much open drug dealing going on too...

I hear that hotel is now owned by knackers and there's often traveller weddings held there, with the accompanying bloody brawls in the car park. Anyone else hear this? I'm only in Drogheda now when I visit the parents so i'm a bit outta touch

Squaddy

sudzs wrote:

What's an "itinerant"?

Its a nacker, gypsy, scumbags, whatever you want to call it. The guys that live in caravans.

andrew1977

i dont think anybody yet has mentioned "the central" on peter street in drogheda
no need to explain in depth but this should suffice ...."scumhole"
stick your head in the door the next time in the area and you will come to the same conclusion

~Leanne~

eth0_ wrote:

Not a pub but remember the nightclub that was in the ross (rosnaree hotel on the Dublin road)?

What a dodgy dump of a place! Me and my friend got weekend jobs there when we were 15 collecting classes and making the food that nightclubs had to serve to get their late licence...you don't want to know about the food, let's just say they're lucky they never had a health inspection.

Remember on a lot of occasions one of the staff running in to the bar to tell us the cops were after driving in, and we had to shut the bar because they'd been selling booze after their licence allowed.

Sooo much open drug dealing going on too...

I hear that hotel is now owned by knackers and there's often traveller weddings held there, with the accompanying bloody brawls in the car park. Anyone else hear this? I'm only in Drogheda now when I visit the parents so i'm a bit outta touch

Ahhhh those were the days! I remember the ross well! The concrete floors, plastic glasses and tins. Great music all the same - and yes, drug dealing was very open! Garda Brian Morrissey always done his rounds on a Sat night, and the bar would close then re-open as soon as he went. I was there the night the IRA shot the head bouncer too! Scary stuff! :eek: Still, ive good memories from the place.
Not too sure who owns it now, never really go near it anymore.

andrew1977

good old brian morrisey, now there is a name and a face i havnt seen in a long time ...what a lunatic he was around the town, he held no prisoners, Flying brian morrisey will never be forgotten by people on the go in the 90's , he scared the life out of people, rambo didnt have a look in compared to him

looking back at it now, he done some job for one man to try and clean up the town
every time he came into lucianos night club...a mass scatter by all the clubbers ...DJ dave ..anyone remember him in Lucianos ??

~Leanne~

Hehe yea DJ Dave - i had a TAPE of his!
yea Morrissey was like robocop alright - fair play to him all the same! think he is guarda in dundalk now or something.

andrew1977

thats so funny leanne, i will own up too, i also had a couple of his tapes a,he wasnt a great DJ but certainly brought Lucianos to live in the early rave days .
Often wondered where mr morrisey disapeared to, manys a run in i had with him years ago, all behind me now ,you could be walking down the town for shopping and he would pounce on you .His normal route was Linen Hall, weavers ,lucianos, what a legend

~Leanne~

Yea some of his stuff was **** alright but back then i though it was the bees knees! Im sure i could recover a tape of his at home *cringe*. Nearly sure he played in Kiss aswell for couple months.
Now that you mention it - Morrissey reminded me of the school teacher outta Feris Buelers Day Off. Spit of him!

andrew1977

anyone remeber GOODFELLOWS nightclub ??, down stockwell street, its where Storm is now, it was open 7 nights a week, great place on a monday night to recover from a hectic weekend on the tear ,Tuesday night was the night for the mothers out on the childrens allowance money,packed to the rafters most nights ,all full of lunatics ,Jaysus i am beginning to feel so old !!

~Leanne~

Yup yup remember it alright. Used to serve food during the day - you could enter it through the shopping centre where the old toilets were. I remember going there for my Junior Cert dinner Then it was called No.4 afterwards. That didnt last long.
After all these years the layout has never changed in the place, although i suppose not much you can do with a place so small.

royskeane

DJ DAVE he must have been the oldest DJ in any nightclub at the time!
Friday the 13th 1995 I went to Luciano's and that f*cker called out over the PA system "You had that top on last week, tell me when it's your birthday and I'll buy you another" To a 16 year old that's the WORST thing that could ever happen!
As for the LINEN HALLl we used to go there on Fridays in our school uniform and get served! Poor Denis he was a strange colour from not seeing daylight!
BRIAN MORRISSEY how could I forget him, I was smoking a joint in my mates bedroom when I came downstairs to get a drink he was in the kitchen looking for his younger brother I nearly sh*t myself!!! I have never gotten up stairs as fast as I did that day!

GrumPy

bopper wrote:

That sounds like every pub in Drogheda

Theres plenty of good pubs in drogheda, have you ever been?

~Leanne~

Anyone been to the newly refurbished Redz yet?

Jreg

Fusion's been getting a lot of bad reviews here, but they are old posts. Fusion had a make over this uyear and its great. A lot better then it was :LTwo seperate area's now, not including the front bar.

Well if your from drogheda you all ready now what its like now.

ps: all the door taff are sound too;)

Darksaga87

I wonder if any oppinions have changed since back in the day when this thread was started, many of the pubs have been revamped or shut down (thank jaysus)

andrew1977 wrote: »

i dont think anybody yet has mentioned "the central" on peter street in drogheda
no need to explain in depth but this should suffice ...."scumhole"
stick your head in the door the next time in the area and you will come to the same conclusion

I can not belive that it took 6 pages before the BIGGEST dive/shíthole/scumbag house/toilet, in Drogheda got mentioned.

central and dolans are like warzones filled with the living dead.