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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.

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titan18

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A lad I used to work with worked there years ago as a dj. When asked about it he used to say those people have to drink somewhere.

First time I ever went out when I was 18 was to there and then on to mangans. No wonder I hate going out

Cork Trucker

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A lad I used to work with worked there years ago as a dj. When asked about it he used to say those people have to drink somewhere.

He’s right unfortunately

Cork Trucker

Dunfyy wrote: »

I used to go into the rough pubs around the country and never had a problem

Sidetrax?

Surreptitious

The Friar's Walk Tavern was grand back in the day, was in there a good bit and no hassle. Could be different now.

Dunfyy

I used to go into the rough pubs around the country and never had a problem

[Deleted User]

Cork Trucker wrote: »

Cat walk AKA rat walk

A lad I used to work with worked there years ago as a dj. When asked about it he used to say those people have to drink somewhere.

Surreptitious

Cork Trucker wrote: »

Cat walk AKA rat walk

I walked in there once and straight back out again. Nightmare of a place.

Cork Trucker

Sonics2k wrote: »

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

Cat walk AKA rat walk

[Deleted User]

titan18 wrote: »

I wouldn't say it's rough tbh. I live close to there and out of some of the other pubs in the area (Ma dulleas or The Manhattan in particular), it's not bad. The Gallows is another that whilst I've never been in there, I never get a great vibe off there when you drive or walk past.

The Manhattan is derelict for a decade now.
The Gallows is full of wannabes... Being around the corner from a drugs supermarket some of the lads in there think they are the lads.
To be fair a few of them battered someone who threw a punch at the owners son.

[Deleted User]

byronbay2 wrote: »

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.

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Rival drug gangs rattling the window bars with machetes isn't at all rough. Nor the pub being the den of a local family who were involved in a feud. Yeah, not at all rough....

[Deleted User]

titan18 wrote: »

I wouldn't say it's rough tbh. I live close to there and out of some of the other pubs in the area (Ma dulleas or The Manhattan in particular), it's not bad. The Gallows is another that whilst I've never been in there, I never get a great vibe off there when you drive or walk past.

I've lived near all those pubs and they are/were worse than the friars walk tavern for sure. In fairness it's been a long time since the guards have been up to the tavern but it's still a kip.

titan18

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I wouldn't call it rough exactly, but the friars walk tavern attracts a certain type of crowd whenever there's a big celtic game on and around easter sunday.

I wouldn't say it's rough tbh. I live close to there and out of some of the other pubs in the area (Ma dulleas or The Manhattan in particular), it's not bad. The Gallows is another that whilst I've never been in there, I never get a great vibe off there when you drive or walk past.

Surreptitious

Seamai wrote: »

I remember when is was "The Pitz", in it's heyday you were no one in Cork until you had made it past the bouncers there.

I remember my older sister bringing me in there during the day while she drank cider. I must have been about 13.

Seamai

mean gene wrote: »

The thomond rough as a badgers arse

I remember when is was "The Pitz", in it's heyday you were no one in Cork until you had made it past the bouncers there.

Morries Wigs

ltd440 wrote: »

The Rob Roy

sure is

Gamb!t

ltd440 wrote: »

The Rob Roy

That used to be such a nice bar early 2000.

corks finest

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I wouldn't call it rough exactly, but the friars walk tavern attracts a certain type of crowd whenever there's a big celtic game on and around easter sunday.

Oh boo hoo

[Deleted User]

I wouldn't call it rough exactly, but the friars walk tavern attracts a certain type of crowd whenever there's a big celtic game on and around easter sunday.

ltd440

The Rob Roy

ofcork

horgan_p wrote: »

The Screaming Monkey, used to be on McCurtain St.

Rough as a badgers behind

Actually made primetime about drug dealing was owned by a former basketball player.

6541

Sinn é - Only messing, that is one of my favorite pubs !

gifted

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

I'll get me coat....lol lol

yenom

The Anglers is very rough since the HollyHill Inn closed.

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.

mean gene

The thomond rough as a badgers arse

Surreptitious

The Bakery was a brilliant spot.

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.

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.

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.

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.