Old nightclubs and pubs in Limerick

Cookiemunster · 17-12-2020 08:50PM

breezy1985 wrote: »

The clothes thing has changed but despite me being too old to have to worry its sad how many pubs are now over 23. Thats 5 years of your drinking life that you are barred from half the pubs in town

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

un5byh7sqpd2x0 · 17-12-2020 09:02PM

Cookiemunster wrote: »

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

More bollócks on boards as usual. It was made illegal 20 years ago alright under the Equal Status Act 2000, but made perfectly legal again in 2003 as part of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003

breezy1985 · 17-12-2020 09:16PM

Cookiemunster wrote: »

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

Illegal or not it's on all the pub doors

adaminho · 17-12-2020 09:40PM

Cookiemunster wrote: »

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

It's perfectly legal as long as you apply it across the board.

http://vfipubs.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Right-to-Refuse.pdf

Cookiemunster · 17-12-2020 10:00PM

Amaya Dry Skyjacker wrote: »

More bollócks on boards as usual. It was made illegal 20 years ago alright under the Equal Status Act 2000, but made perfectly legal again in 2003 as part of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003

Chillax. You could simply have posted the second part and still made your point you know.

adaminho · 17-12-2020 10:11PM

Cookiemunster wrote: »

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

Sorry to quote you again but this reminded me of a story!
My dad always wondered how ladies night was legal and always asked me to challenge it! A few years ago someone actually did sue Smyths over it and won. He went in with a load of girls from work and was the only one charged entrance. He sued under sexual discrimination and because he only asked for his €10 back he won something like two free nights for 25 of his friends and a complimentary bottle of champagne on both nights!

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ladies-in-free-nights-not-fair-on-men-watchdog-rules-26020134.html

BobMc · 18-12-2020 10:09AM

did you really grow up in limerick if you've not drank cans from Buddies lane while being well underage, ahh the good olde days

peter4918 · 18-12-2020 11:51AM

BobMc wrote: »

did you really grow up in limerick if you've not drank cans from Buddies lane while being well underage, ahh the good olde days

Buddies was great spot, just rock up with your cans and hang around in the alley taking it all in.

Used to love Sunday afternoons, When the lane and foxes bow would be packed with all sorts of motorbikes and then they’d all take off together, it was an impressive sight to my younger self!

adaminho · 18-12-2020 12:39PM

peter4918 wrote: »

Buddies was great spot, just rock up with your cans and hang around in the alley taking it all in.

Used to love Sunday afternoons, When the lane and foxes bow would be packed with all sorts of motorbikes and then they’d all take off together, it was an impressive sight to my younger self!

Holman's on Foxes bow as well, later became one the first gay pubs in Limerick.

banie01 · 18-12-2020 12:41PM

McKnight's on a Sunday evening and not getting served until there was an ad break in the Simpsons!

moby2101 · 18-12-2020 01:00PM

Betty Blues was the nightclub downstairs in Mc Knights as far as I remember. There was a HUGE nightclub scene back then.
That was a great club downstairs, spent many a Saturday night there.
Didn't they open up a pub called McDaids as well??

The_Dave · 18-12-2020 01:46PM

moby2101 wrote: »

Betty Blues was the nightclub downstairs in Mc Knights as far as I remember. There was a HUGE nightclub scene back then.
That was a great club downstairs, spent many a Saturday night there.
Didn't they open up a pub called McDaids as well??

There was a McDaids on Denmark Street, which became Whelan's and Clohessy's (and some other name I can't recall), which I think was part of the Willie Sexton ownership

adaminho · 18-12-2020 01:54PM

The_Dave wrote: »

There was a McDaids on Denmark Street, which became Whelan's and Clohessy's (and some other name I can't recall), which I think was part of the Willie Sexton ownership

The Cuckoo box and the crafty fox were the other names. Joe Malone's on the corner was called McDays before it closed.

moby2101 · 18-12-2020 03:46PM

That's the one, Mc Days ...

19-12-2020 12:17PM

adaminho wrote: »

Holman's on Foxes bow as well, later became one the first gay pubs in Limerick.

Very short lived unfortunately

Some tool walked in off the street and vandalised the place with a tin of paint. Apparently he thought our immortal Christian souls would be saved if the word "fa*got" was painted on a wall.

Humiliating and encouraging all in the same breath to think how far we've come in what's basically a very short space of time though.

Sittingpretty · 20-12-2020 12:00AM

MarkR wrote: »

I remember drinking in a bar on Catherine Street. Molly Malone's, often when I should have been in college. This was before the change to Ellen Street, if it's the same owner. I also remember drinking in Quinn's, probably towards the end of when they were there.

Then the nightclubs, Tropics after the Junior cert. Docs. Phase 2. I even got lost in Smyths one time. Could not find my way out. Wound up doing laps of the place. An extraordinary amount of Jack Daniels may have been the cause there. I eventually washed up in the smoking area.

Quinn’s, Jesus that takes me back!

I wonder how many of us probably would recognise each other’s faces from being out and about back in the day?!?

adaminho · 21-12-2020 12:31PM

https://twitter.com/DublinInquirer/status/1340968480712093697

21-12-2020 03:17PM

Sittingpretty wrote: »

I wonder how many of us probably would recognise each other’s faces from being out and about back in the day?!?

Unless your face resembles a close-up puddle of vomit I definitely wouldn't.

:D

katiek102010 · 21-12-2020 03:34PM

Granadino wrote: »

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

I took a bloke on a date there once too 🤣🤣🤣🤣

banie01 · 21-12-2020 03:36PM

katiek102010 wrote: »

I took a bloke on a date there once too ðŸ€£ðŸ€£ðŸ€£ðŸ€£

Did you know the doorman?
One way to get a lad revved up before you take him home

katiek102010 · 21-12-2020 03:39PM

Sittingpretty wrote: »

Quinn’s, Jesus that takes me back!

I wonder how many of us probably would recognise each other’s faces from being out and about back in the day?!?

I miss Quinns. Lived overhead Mollys for a while in uni

katiek102010 · 21-12-2020 03:40PM

banie01 wrote: »

Did you know the doorman?
One way to get a lad revved up before you take him home

Nah didn't realise it was a lapdancing club. It had just changed at the time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. He married me 🤣🤣🤣

mitresize5 · 21-12-2020 07:02PM

surprised Baker Place and the Wicked Chicken haven't had a mention.

That side of town was a busy spot for a while.

Is the mural of the girl with the affro hair still on the dance floor of Costellos?

Popoutman · 03-03-2021 02:45PM

mitresize5 wrote: »

surprised Baker Place and the Wicked Chicken haven't had a mention.

That side of town was a busy spot for a while.

Is the mural of the girl with the affro hair still on the dance floor of Costellos?

So that's what that is?

I used work in Cairo's (the Park) collecting glasses. Good workmates, scary owner. The crew that ran it used also run Sir Henry's in Cork, completely unsurprising! Two pounds an hour for "four hours" of work, often ending up working six. Minimum wage was a dream at that point!

When was it when the upstairs part of Baker Place was the local swinger's club until that migrated to the industrial unit out towards the Tipperary road?

breezy1985 · 03-03-2021 03:09PM

mitresize5 wrote: »

surprised Baker Place and the Wicked Chicken haven't had a mention.

That side of town was a busy spot for a while.

Is the mural of the girl with the affro hair still on the dance floor of Costellos?

Wicked chicken/Bakers was good but didn't last very long. 4/5 years at the most I would say and I doubt many but the usual crowd going there would remember it

Ash.J.Williams · 03-03-2021 03:11PM

breezy1985 wrote: »

Wicked chicken/Bakers was good but didn't last very long. 4/5 years at the most I would say and I doubt many but the usual crowd going there would remember it

bakers was class or breaker face as it was known

YFlyer · 03-03-2021 03:18PM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

bakers was class or breaker face as it was known

We used to live in Little Catherine Street. One of us would pay into Baker Place and then open the fire door to leave everyone else in.

Insect Overlord · 03-03-2021 03:19PM

The Wicked Chicken was my favourite place in town around 2008-2011 (IIRC). The music, the pictures/paintings, the candles, the first few craft/foreign beers, it was unreal. Live music next door in Bakers most nights too, and then a short stroll to Costello's for the late night. Stupid recession ruined everything.

YFlyer · 03-03-2021 03:21PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

The Wicked Chicken was my favourite place in town around 2008-2011 (IIRC). The music, the pictures/paintings, the candles, the first few craft/foreign beers, it was unreal. Live music next door in Bakers most nights too, and then a short stroll to Costello's for the late night. Stupid recession ruined everything.

And Daffys after Costellos.

Cookiemunster · 03-03-2021 03:36PM

breezy1985 wrote: »

Wicked chicken/Bakers was good but didn't last very long. 4/5 years at the most I would say and I doubt many but the usual crowd going there would remember it

4 or 5 years? I was going to Baker Place in the mid 90s. The Wicked Chicken lasted 15 years. Trust me there are plenty of us who have great memories of the place.

Old nightclubs and pubs in Limerick

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