Old nightclubs and pubs in Limerick

adaminho · 14-12-2020 06:14PM

phill106 wrote: »

Ah yes, had a red door didnt it?

It actually did later on. It was before my time. Mickey Martin bought it 87. One of my favourites was the old Jack Rea's on Catherine street next to Ma Hogans.

source · 14-12-2020 06:59PM

Odelay wrote: »

I suppose Daffy's on Catherine street is gone? It had a nice selection of pints before it became fashionable.

It's now the commercial, daffy's is gone since late 90s? Early 00s?

Granadino · 14-12-2020 07:01PM

A mate of mine was taken to lapellos instead of a nightclub on a date. The lady knew the doormen.

bazz26 · 14-12-2020 07:09PM

She sounds more like a hooker than a keeper.....

Parabellum9 · 14-12-2020 08:06PM

I blew 350e in ****ing Lapellos once on a payday, woke up the next morning half smiling from what I could remember of it, half crying from the hangover and mourning my bank balance

Sacramentum · 14-12-2020 09:52PM

YFlyer wrote: »

The DJ from Bromley part of this chapter?

According to the flyer the DJ from London was called Michael and his counterpart from Chicago Kayman. In fairness to both they played everything I asked them to play that night from Cypress Hill to Pearl Jam. One of my BA friends used the occasion to launch his campaign for the presidency of the Mary I Student's Union the same night. Suffice to say we didn't go thirsty. Great memories and the best of times.

LimerickCity · 15-12-2020 08:09AM

Deleted User wrote: »

In fairness though a lot of those places you mentioned didn't close down in the usual sense. I mean they didn't just go out business / go bust, they were just owned by elderly men who retired when the time was right but didn't have family who were inclined to take over and stay in the same line as work as their dad.

Anyway, was the place on Little Catherine St The Pink Flamingo by any chance? Not to be confused with The Pink Elephant on Bedford Row.

Yeah I agree with the above. They put a lot of work into refurbishing Paddy Sullivan's and on the night they reopened Mrs O'Sullivan passed away. That pub especially was a big loss to a lot of older people in the area.

The bar on Little Catherin Street was named PJ's

Cookiemunster · 15-12-2020 10:21AM

LimerickCity wrote: »

Yeah I agree with the above. They put a lot of work into refurbishing Paddy Sullivan's and on the night they reopened Mrs O'Sullivan passed away. That pub especially was a big loss to a lot of older people in the area.

I don't think you're correct there. I pretty sure Paddys wife Teresa didn't die on the night of the reopening. His son Des took over the bar and redeveloped it in the late 90s. She died later than that. The pub closed around 2006 and Paddy himself died in 2012.

The locals moved on to Helen Noonans, Slatterys and Austins

LimerickCity · 15-12-2020 10:59AM

Cookiemunster wrote: »

I don't think you're correct there. I pretty sure Paddys wife Teresa didn't die on the night of the reopening. His son Des took over the bar and redeveloped it in the late 90s. She died later than that. The pub closed around 2006 and Paddy himself died in 2012.

The locals moved on to Helen Noonans, Slatterys and Austins

I lived in the area mate. I actually worked on the refurb. The lady died on the night of the official re opening or very shortly thereafter. November 2006. Paddy died a day or two before Christmas in 2012.

They made a fine job of the refurb. Des tried his best in fairness but to be honest and this is just a personal opinion, I don't think his heart was in it. He was there pretty much all of the time, one or two lads did cover for him occasionally and he tried the food rout but unfortunately it never took off.

Funny enough the owner of The Haven which closed on Davis Street took over Slattery's and it now being run by the former barman from The Haven. I was in there for a pint back in February and he runs a tight ship in there. A nice local pub for a quiet pint.

Cookiemunster · 15-12-2020 11:42AM

LimerickCity wrote: »

I lived in the area mate. I actually worked on the refurb. The lady died on the night of the official re opening or very shortly thereafter. November 2006. Paddy died a day or two before Christmas in 2012.

They made a fine job of the refurb. Des tried his best in fairness but to be honest and this is just a personal opinion, I don't think his heart was in it. He was there pretty much all of the time, one or two lads did cover for him occasionally and he tried the food rout but unfortunately it never took off.

I'm a relative. Mate. I know what I'm taking about. November 2006 is around the time the bar closed for good. Not when it reopened. The refurbishment was in the late 90s.

Odelay · 15-12-2020 11:46AM

The Sarsfield Bar. I went in there once.

overthebridge · 15-12-2020 11:58AM

Anyone remember the techno nights in the Theatre Royal in the mid 90's. Had some cracking nights there. I think it was call The Station at the time.
I remember a DJ called Billy Nasty played there around 1996, he was a pretty big name. Tickets were like gold dust, 1500+ attended the gig.
We used to go to Strictly Rhythm in the Savoy some nights, Buddy was the resident DJ and then the Parkway turned into a House club called
The Cairo around the same time. Pippy was resident iirc.
We were spoiled for choice for sure.

mitresize5 · 15-12-2020 02:00PM

Laurent Garnier in the Royal was one of the best nights of my life

every patron searched on the way in by the bouncers with the drug squad looking on

It closed shortly afterwards when a kids passed away down an alley close by after taking dodgy E's.

Pippy was a great DJ on the scene as well

overthebridge · 15-12-2020 02:42PM

mitresize5 wrote: »

Laurent Garnier in the Royal was one of the best nights of my life

every patron searched on the way in by the bouncers with the drug squad looking on

It closed shortly afterwards when a kids passed away down an alley close by after taking dodgy E's.

Pippy was a great DJ on the scene as well

I had forgotten about that Garnier gig. I had the flyer of it on my wall for a few years afterwards. I remember the youngfella that died. Very tragic at the time. The place never really recovered after it. My parents barred me from going there afterwards. So we just went to Strictly instead.

Do you remember the weekenders they used to put on in the Royal. You could buy a ticket for 1 or 2 nights, depending on who was playing. Great times.

mitresize5 · 15-12-2020 02:58PM

yes I remember them well.

Maybe its nostalgia kicking in but it really was a golden era for music and nightlife.

A whole cohort of Limerick heads making the transition from Stone Rose, Happy Mondays, Baker Place, Quinns and termights to house music, super star DJ's, Strictly, The Cairo, The Royal, weekends away to Sir Henrys and the POD.

Now that I think of it Costellos has transcended all those genres and era's :-) Im going to have to get back in there soon!!

OfTheMarsWongs · 15-12-2020 03:18PM

Late 90s here but Leaving Cert night the queue for Docs was out to the road. It was early though so the library was still open & so side door to the Granary was open. Went round and skipped the queue. Good times.

Berty · 15-12-2020 03:22PM

OfTheMarsWongs wrote: »

Late 90s here but Leaving Cert night the queue for Docs was out to the road. It was early though so the library was still open & so side door to the Granary was open. Went round and skipped the queue. Good times.

Used to always do that "but my friends are in the courtyard/bar" and then walk right up to the front of the queue inside

overthebridge · 15-12-2020 03:23PM

mitresize5 wrote: »

yes I remember them well.

Maybe its nostalgia kicking in but it really was a golden era for music and nightlife.

A whole cohort of Limerick heads making the transition from Stone Rose, Happy Mondays, Baker Place, Quinns and termights to house music, super star DJ's, Strictly, The Cairo, The Royal, weekends away to Sir Henrys and the POD.

Now that I think of it Costellos has transcended all those genres and era's :-) Im going to have to get back in there soon!!

We did Sir Henrys a few times alright. Them Cork boys knew how to take yokes I'll tell you !
We spinned up The Sex Kitchen in Salthill a few nights as well. Class spot. Pure sweat box!

We'll never see days like them again.

Ash.J.Williams · 15-12-2020 03:31PM

Feathery burkes had some of the maddest nights in my life in the short time it was open

mitresize5 · 15-12-2020 03:32PM

thank god there was no camera phones or social media back in those days!!!

OfTheMarsWongs · 15-12-2020 07:28PM

mitresize5 wrote: »

thank god there was no camera phones or social media back in those days!!!

Just had to wait for the film to be developed. 22 out of the 24 being too blurry to recognise anything :-)

adaminho · 15-12-2020 08:02PM

Here's John The man Frawley reading out interpub results from the 80's.

15-12-2020 08:28PM

No one who ever entered the infamous black double doors of The Navigator on Wickham Street with the "ZZ Top" logo painted across them would never forget it.

I think even Today Tonight had a feature on the place back in the 80's. The RTE cameras were outside but they wouldn't go in to the place, which to be fair they probably weren't given permission. Must have made the mistake of telling them what they were trying record. I vaguely remember them trying to point a camera in the door while remaining a safe and legal distance away across the street, but all they had inside the pub was a single light bulb over the pool table illuminating the whole place.

Does anyone remember hearing the expression The Bermuda Triangle in Limerick? You draw a line in the map joining The Dew Drop Inn, The Olympic Arms, and The Navigator to make a triangle.

oleras · 15-12-2020 10:45PM

I remember doing the rounds with my father on a Saturday, mother would do the shopping while he drank pints, she would meet up and he would drive home:D

Ollie Naughtons top of william st, then down to Patsy in the Nicholas Bros, and across the lane to The Noel Edward, he was never a Rashers man for some reason.

Many a night was spent in Riddlers, was never a fan of martins across the road, we worked in Dunnes in the early 90s so wages were practically spent there.

As said the live music scene back then was so much better, between docs and the perry, fri sat and sun night were covered.

adaminho · 15-12-2020 11:00PM

oleras wrote: »

As said the live music scene back then was so much better, between docs and the perry, fri sat and sun night were covered.

You literally had a choice of music 7 nights a week! Weekends were mental as you could go hop from the George, Doc's, The Pery, Bakers, Preachers or Schooners on a Thurs/Fri/Saturday night! On a Sunday you'd find Joe Browne in the brazen head from 12-2 then head out to the Ark to Shantytown till 6, back into Schooners for Alvin Purple till 9 and up town to pick from 2/3 others!

Sacramentum · 16-12-2020 12:33AM

Does anyone know if there was another hotel out near the Two Mile Inn? I have a vague recollection of attending a Victory Dance Ball in some hotel out the Ennis Road in March of 1996 but can't recall if it was the Two Mile Inn or the Limerick Inn. We also had the afters of our Graduation in the same location.

Berty · 16-12-2020 07:44AM

Sacramentum wrote: »

Does anyone know if there was another hotel out near the Two Mile Inn? I have a vague recollection of attending a Victory Dance Ball in some hotel out the Ennis Road in March of 1996 but can't recall if it was the Two Mile Inn or the Limerick Inn. We also had the afters of our Graduation in the same location.

The only other I can think of would be the Limerick Ryan but obviously not as far out. The Two mile Inn was a place for events, there was often stuff on there.

LimerickCity · 16-12-2020 09:20AM

Cookiemunster wrote: »

I'm a relative. Mate. I know what I'm taking about. November 2006 is around the time the bar closed for good. Not when it reopened. The refurbishment was in the late 90s.

You are 100% correct. I checked with my dad last night. Teresa actually died the night they closed the bar for good or very shortly thereafter.

phill106 · 16-12-2020 10:06AM

Sacramentum wrote: »

Does anyone know if there was another hotel out near the Two Mile Inn? I have a vague recollection of attending a Victory Dance Ball in some hotel out the Ennis Road in March of 1996 but can't recall if it was the Two Mile Inn or the Limerick Inn. We also had the afters of our Graduation in the same location.

Limerick inn became the radisson if thats helps you place it, would be further out on the right then the two mile.
Greenhills would be closer to town, before the coonagh roundabout.

Sacramentum · 16-12-2020 10:26AM

phill106 wrote: »

Limerick inn became the radisson if thats helps you place it, would be further out on the right then the two mile.
Greenhills would be closer to town, before the coonagh roundabout.

I'm fairly sure the hotel in question was on the left as you're travelling out of Limerick so must've been the Two Mile Inn. Thanks for that.

Old nightclubs and pubs in Limerick

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