What's the roughest pub in Dublin city?

Brock Turnpike · 22-10-2019 01:32PM

Anus Von Skidmark wrote: »

You'd swear craft beer was some kind of bad thing. It's the best thing that's happened to the Irish pub scene in a long time - we now have options to drink something with a bit of flavour, and aren't forced to consume Diageo's industrial horse piss by the pint!

Have to agree with AVS here. Some great pubs in the area and some great good and beer selections available. The change in the area from when I moved overseas in 2008 to now is significant, and a very welcome one imo.

GBX · 22-10-2019 01:34PM

The Traders quietened down into the 90s. Wasnt as bad as the reputation it was supposed to have had.

ibarelycare · 22-10-2019 01:38PM

Geuze wrote: »

Thanks for all the posts.

I plan to visit several of these in November.

Based in D8, near SCR, so there should be enough nearby to keep me going.

I may return with more queries as I assemble a list

Can I come?

tdf7187 · 22-10-2019 02:12PM

So apparently fado fado there were two pubs called The Man of Aran in Dublin, one in Harold's Cross and one on the quays which has gone through numerous refreshes and name changes over the years, recently re-opened by the owners of Dice bar. I was in the latter when it was The Croppy's Acre, was fine.

https://www.dailyedge.ie/new-bar-opening-in-ellis-quay-2777959-May2016/

Geuze · 22-10-2019 02:27PM

Scoundrel wrote: »

I can't stand stoneybatter now full of poncey holes selling beer that tastes like soap for 6 quid a pint.

Within the last year or two I paid 4.10 I think, maybe 4.30 in Kavanagh's of Aughrim/Manor street.

Good pub.

Also the Glimmerman, good pub.

Carpentry · 22-10-2019 02:32PM

Geuze wrote: »

Within the last year or two I paid 4.10 I think, maybe 4.30 in Kavanagh's of Aughrim/Manor street.

Good pub.

Also the Glimmerman, good pub.

both are great spot

Dublin Spur · 22-10-2019 03:23PM

The Harp Bar in the 90s was a serious no go
Rumours on O'Connell was another dangerous kip

miamee · 22-10-2019 03:28PM

Dublin Spur wrote: »

The Harp Bar in the 90s was a serious no go
Rumours on O'Connell was another dangerous kip

God I used to go to both as well as McGraths on O'Connell Street and one not yet mentioned, The Back Gate on Cathal Brugha Street. I was only in Rumours once or twice to be fair, it was fairly rough. The Back Gate was more late bar/club than pub. It was just a bit rough around the edges but not that bad as far as I remember.

Dublin Spur · 22-10-2019 03:41PM

great thread by the way

The Nal · 22-10-2019 03:58PM

miamee wrote: »

God I used to go to both as well as McGraths on O'Connell Street and one not yet mentioned, The Back Gate on Cathal Brugha Street. I was only in Rumours once or twice to be fair, it was fairly rough. The Back Gate was more late bar/club than pub. It was just a bit rough around the edges but not that bad as far as I remember.

Mentioned McGraths a few pages ago. The bouncers were the most dangerous people in the place.

Well and the people who mugged at knife point after obviously.

tdf7187 · 22-10-2019 04:05PM

Scoundrel wrote: »

I can't stand stoneybatter now full of poncey holes selling beer that tastes like soap for 6 quid a pint.

Try Ryans on Parkgate Street. A proper pub that serves proper Guinness. Only a short walk from Stoneybatter. Only downside is it does tend to be busy. Victim of its own success.

Duke O Smiley · 22-10-2019 04:07PM

Someone mentioned Lloyds on Amiens street a few pages back, Mulletts next door is far worse imo. The Clonliffe House too.

hankless · 22-10-2019 04:26PM

Scoundrel wrote: »

... but they've turned the Richmond into one of these craft beer dumps as well.

Have you been? They sell old-fashioned beers too. The Richmond was neither a quintessential good boozer nor a rough pub with character. It was awful. So awful they couldn't even keep the doors open. It's a vast, vast improvement now.

Jizique · 22-10-2019 04:28PM

The Nal wrote: »

There are/were a right few kips from Harolds X Bridge all the way down Clanbrassil St to Patricks Catherdral.

Harold House, Man of Achill, Francis McKennas, Scholars on Donovan Lane, Kavanaghs, Peader Browns.

3 of those are closed a long time - McK is MVP for a good 8 years

Carpentry · 22-10-2019 04:54PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Someone mentioned Lloyds on Amiens street a few pages back, Mulletts next door is far worse imo. The Clonliffe House too.

I did mention Mullets too, been there to play darts once or twice, really intimidating.

Carpentry · 22-10-2019 04:58PM

tdf7187 wrote: »

Try Ryans on Parkgate Street. A proper pub that serves proper Guinness. Only a short walk from Stoneybatter. Only downside is it does tend to be busy. Victim of its own success.

Nancy Hands next door is great for guinness too, Eamonn Rea's now named P. Duggan's is nice as well.

Carpentry · 22-10-2019 05:00PM

hankless wrote: »

Have you been? They sell old-fashioned beers too. The Richmond was neither a quintessential good boozer nor a rough pub with character. It was awful. So awful they couldn't even keep the doors open. It's a vast, vast improvement now.

Bull****, Richmond was great of a pub. They closed it, cause they got like 5 mln for it.
Bonobo that opened there now its a hipster pizza joint.

hankless · 22-10-2019 05:02PM

ok, I'm sure people would rather get back to the topic at hand than opinions on new pubs.

dd973 · 22-10-2019 05:27PM

The way these places, and areas, get lionised as 'rough' makes me laugh, isn't 's**t pub frequented by idiots' a better way of putting it?

tdf7187 · 22-10-2019 05:27PM

Carpentry wrote: »

Nancy Hands next door is great for guinness too, Eamonn Rea's now named P. Duggan's is nice as well.

Yeah both of the above are grand pubs too. When I lived in that neck of the woods, If Ryans was too busy, we used to head to either of those.

kfallon · 22-10-2019 05:36PM

ibarelycare wrote: »

It's not rough like the other pubs listed here, it's definitely an after-work, charlie-in-the-jacks type place, but since Noctors closed there's definitely been some of that crowd drifting in as well. Surprised they don't try and put a stop to it with bouncers on the door. It's a crap soulless pub anyway but I'd be even less inclined to go now than I used to be.

Noctors isn't closed

Gavin "shels" · 22-10-2019 06:39PM

L1011 wrote: »

It was Peadar Browns social media claiming it was closed - could be some inter pub rivalry stuff!

Kavanagh's was closed for a couple of weeks recently, the lease changed hands. It's now run by the same lad who runs The Malt House on James St I believe.

dohboy wrote: »

Harold House is a fine boozer. Its technicolor paint job in recent years has only added to its charm.

Nothing wrong with the Harold at all... would be my local and my parents (if you're ever in there on a Sunday night and some header is roaring out the weekly raffle ticket numbers that's the aul lad)!

ShyMets wrote: »

I seem to recall a pub called Nash's around there too. It was across from Fallons. I was in it a few times back in the late 90's. I wouldn't have called it rough. But the custom was a little on the weird side

Nash's was were the Fourth Corner pub is now on the junction (Four Corners of Hell it was called when there was a pub on each corner). Nash's was leveled and the new offices/pub was built, Nashs reopened in the new building for a while but there was plumbing problems or something similar so shut - Fourth Corner only opened up within the past 2 years. Nash's was at the top of Meath St for a time but renamed to Bakers and is still that now - not sure if it was the same Nash who ran it.

ibarelycare · 22-10-2019 06:46PM

I used to live beside the Harolder. Rock n Roll Bingo every Thursday was the pinnacle of my social calendar. Although as a “blow in” my friend’s and I would get grumbles and dirty looks off the locals any time we dared win anything.

Bozo Skeleton · 22-10-2019 08:25PM

dk1982 wrote: »

Two of my old locals when I lived in beside Francis street and the coombe. When I say locals, I mean they were in the locality, I never frequented them!! The Green Lizard is long gone, think Grumpy jacks might be still open? Two absolute kips anyway

https://www.herald.ie/news/courts/grumpy-jacks-assassin-smirks-as-hes-convicted-27985105.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/man-convicted-of-dublin-pub-murder-in-2005-1.787801

Grumpy Jacks has recently reopened, it's called Spitalfields now. I haven't been in it, but it has a rather swanky food menu displayed in the window. That would have been madness a few years ago, but there's a pile of hotels built or being built in the area. That and the sheer (ridiculous) amount of student accommodation going up boils my blood, but that's a rant for another thread.
I was in Grumpy's a few times. It was always eerily quiet. There was a fella shot dead in it a few years ago, that may have had something to do with it. They started opening at 4 or 5 in the evening, apparently that killed the local trade.
I was in it a couple of years ago. Ireland were playing Poland in a crucial qualifier. Every bar around was rammed. I popped my head in there and there was literally 4 people there. I sat down in front a big screen tv I had all to myself and had a few pints watching us lose the game.
I've lived in the north and south inner city for nearly 30 years, I know an awful lot of the pubs mentioned in this thread

L1011 · 22-10-2019 08:29PM

Gavin shels wrote: »

Kavanagh's was closed for a couple of weeks recently, the lease changed hands. It's now run by the same lad who runs The Malt House on James St I believe.

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The Malthouse is pretty awful so that doesn't bode well

Bozo Skeleton · 22-10-2019 08:45PM

True story about the Sunset House in Summerhill. I shared a house with a guy. This was about 2002. He was a chef, and would have a pint anywhere. He might be in the Four Seasons one night and in some dodgy kip the next.
He was in the Sunset House one evening. Having a pint and reading the paper at the bar. A fella comes in the door, goes up to the bar and points a gun at the barman, demanding the cash from the till. The barman stands there looking at him and says, "that's not a real gun". In the meantime a couple of the locals have bolted the front door shut. Them and the barman then proceed to give the would be robber a proper hiding, then threw him out on the street. My housemate is sitting at the bar watching this unfold, thinking, what the fuk is happening?

Drifter50 · 22-10-2019 08:47PM

Dublin Spur wrote: »

The Harp Bar in the 90s was a serious no go
Rumours on O'Connell was another dangerous kip

Ha, the memories of those 2 places, never had an issue there so long as you kept stum. Lots of women in each back in the day.............

Craft pubs are slowly eating away at the traditional Dublin pub. Can`t be having that, listening to D4 and Dort accents

Smiths in Thorncastle Street Ringsend was an interesting place, very dodge crowd. Not sure if its still there

brick tamland · 22-10-2019 09:10PM

Dublin Spur wrote: »

The Harp Bar in the 90s was a serious no go
Rumours on O'Connell was another dangerous kip

Wasnt rumours the trendy nightclub of its day. Venue of choice for the Irish team under Jack Charlton by sll accounts.

mrmorgan · 22-10-2019 10:13PM

Bozo Skeleton wrote: »

True story about the Sunset House in Summerhill. I shared a house with a guy. This was about 2002. He was a chef, and would have a pint anywhere. He might be in the Four Seasons one night and in some dodgy kip the next.
He was in the Sunset House one evening. Having a pint and reading the paper at the bar. A fella comes in the door, goes up to the bar and points a gun at the barman, demanding the cash from the till. The barman stands there looking at him and says, "that's not a real gun". In the meantime a couple of the locals have bolted the front door shut. Them and the barman then proceed to give the would be robber a proper hiding, then threw him out on the street. My housemate is sitting at the bar watching this unfold, thinking, what the fuk is happening?

this is one of the greatest story ever

Scoundrel · 23-10-2019 09:17AM

hankless wrote: »

Have you been? They sell old-fashioned beers too. The Richmond was neither a quintessential good boozer nor a rough pub with character. It was awful. So awful they couldn't even keep the doors open. It's a vast, vast improvement now.

Yes I have its awful the Richmond was a great pub proper locals boozer always good crowd in it nice pints racing on tv

What's the roughest pub in Dublin city?

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