What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

27-11-2022 07:59AM

Any of the pubs on the strip in Puerta Banus. Drug riddled dives. I was there with friends about 20 yrs ago when one of them bumped into a guy and spilled some of his drink. The guy pulled out a knife in the bar and told us he would stab every one of us. A regular in the bar, think it was Sinatras, told us the guy was a well known English drug dealer.

Still stihl waters 3 · 27-11-2022 08:22AM

The Ritz in Lisdoonvarna, was a great pub years ago but anytime I go into it now its full of 30 somethings openly selling and taking coke, I was in one night in September and the local scumbags have cosied up with a few Ukrainian scumbags being given shelter and safety in one of the local hotels to form a sort of drug gang, you can now get your beer, drugs and a hooker all in one, it was a solid place one time but lax management has turned it into a serious sh1thole

Brendan Bendar · 27-11-2022 03:53PM

J’Daves in Lake City

Count Dracula · 27-11-2022 04:05PM

The World's End in Kilkenny was definitely an eye opener. Some terrifying locals, from the moment I entered I never felt all that comfortable. In saying that nothing negative materialised, but every sentence and piece of conversation was laced with lingering tenacity, it felt like I was a competitor in a survivor competition.

Some locals suffer from their own inability to generate a healthy atmosphere, Irish people are constantly skeptical and hate having their routines unsettled, that can be as simple as staring at a Vampire Lord they have never seen before.

Andrea B. · 27-11-2022 05:26PM

If The Harbour Bar of old in Galway hasn't been mentioned.....there ya go.

10-10-20 · 28-11-2022 09:59AM

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I've been in every one of those bars and every ludicrous story that you hear like this is completely and utterly true. PB has fallen down in the world and is a pox-ridden slime-hole now.

ancapailldorcha · 28-11-2022 10:43AM

The Diamond Jubilee on the Shankill Road.

yourdeadwright · 28-11-2022 12:20PM

Jim Byrnes wee pub in Queen's NYC ,

Long story how i ended up there once ,still not sure if it was dangerous or just full of odd balls,

Strumms · 29-11-2022 01:53AM

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My Dad was a childhood friend of Terry Killeen / Killion The owner of The Castle… he eventually sold up because of the hassle involved running it. Made a pretty penny I believe but the effort involved and apparently he was targeted by gangsters looking for protection and in the end he just got out… man had a wife and 3 young kids.

silliussoddius · 29-11-2022 05:27PM

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Do they serve the divils buttermilk?

cheese sandwich · 29-11-2022 05:30PM

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My friends got mugged with a knife by an Irish guy who had ‘befriended’ us in one of those pubs. Dodgy place, dodgy people

ancapailldorcha · 29-11-2022 05:31PM

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Eh?

dirtyden · 29-11-2022 09:27PM

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Guinness, it was Ian Paisleys description of it.

gameoverdude · 29-11-2022 09:47PM

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I had no hearing problems.

ancapailldorcha · 29-11-2022 10:40PM

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Fair enough.

To be honest, it was a very tense affair. I'd to order the drinks as I was with two lads - one from Ballymun and the other from Cork - since I'd a Donegal accent. We got three pints of lager, necked them and got the f*ck out. There was a shop just behind the bar and it very much seemed like the sort of place where non-locals got made very, very quickly.

There was a parade of some sort on outside, plenty of police officers with MP5's and posters of murdered soldiers on every lamp post. Dodgy seems a bit redundant.

Michealog · 01-05-2023 02:17AM

Pssssst

that sounds like Holy hour in Ti Padraicins in the late 70’s

without the sun

coolshannagh28 · 01-05-2023 11:42AM

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Dubarrys on Princes st ,long closed, in Belfast docklands for a bet, went to buy a drink and the uncle Andy character at the end of the bar opened his jacket to reveal a revolver and told us to "sling your hook before ye get into trouble""

Lionel Fusco · 01-05-2023 12:12PM

The Capel Inn.

corks finest · 01-05-2023 05:27PM

Was in the tower's,an experience

Gatling · 01-05-2023 05:55PM

There was a pub that opened on benburb St pre luas I happened to fall into many years ago, must have been the only person who either wasn't dealing or on the game, literally every girl in the place was a Hooker, I remember the manager saying come here and sit and the bar and have one drink and I'll organize a taxi, don't talk to anyone they all either think your a guard or a tourist and won't last 5 mins if it kicks off

Beechwoodspark · 14-08-2024 04:33PM

There’s a bar right in the middle of Courtown in Wexford, sort of a prefab style “Ambrose Mcgintys” ?! or something like that -

Gets fairly tasty in there on summer weekends when it is packed with sunburned, thirsty “ah jaysis howyas” from conflicting parts of Dublin !

Thelonious Monk · 14-08-2024 04:49PM

Noctor's of Sheriff St probably. The Blacker pub/nightclub in the 2000s was an absolute sh*thole full of scumbags too, it's a gym now.

castletownman · 14-08-2024 07:59PM

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Ambrose Moloneys, a good spot for traveller funerals as well.

Strumms · 15-08-2024 12:47AM

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I was in the blacker once about 15 years ago….renamed Liz Delaney’s by then. Still referred to as the blacker though. Lad I worked with had his 40th there.

It was his local and we were told by him that if anything untoward should happen just say “ look I’m here with JF’s gang at the 40th.” Don’t think he was a ‘head’ or connected just he was a regular regular so us blow ins were left alone. Pub was quite run of the mill , drink was dirt cheap, the beer tasted rank, remembering going on the bottle’s because I couldn’t stomach the warm piss being served as draught…..upstairs, lots of hard looking cases, obviously coke had just became a big thing, proper auld auldfellas in the jacks taking it…

Straight Talker · 15-08-2024 07:27PM

The Lantern Inn in Ballybane in Galway. It's closed about five or six years now i'd say, but it was a very lively enough spot back in the day. It had a how shall i put it very cultural clientele let's say.😉 I'd say the guards lost count of the amount of times they were called out to the place!

PTH2009 · 15-08-2024 07:33PM

will some of the D4/Ringsend pubs be rough around the Engerland match next month ?

Planning on revisiting The Yacht Tavern in Ringsend. Its not a rough pub but id imagine if you go in acting the bollocks youd find out quickly

thebronze14 · 15-08-2024 07:38PM

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The Swiss was my local for two years 2008-10😂 we used to have great craic in it, some odd fish around!

Danzy · 15-08-2024 07:39PM

Hells angel bar in Canada.

The following night walking past it two of them came over asked if I was coming in that night, real friendly, greeted me by name,seems I rocked the place hard night before and made lots of friends.

No idea that I had been there. Off the trolley in whiskey and a yoke.

PTH2009 · 15-08-2024 07:44PM

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yeah quiet like it and not overly expensive either

great spot before a gig in the 3Arena

Archeron · 15-08-2024 07:53PM

I have fond memories of the Black Sheep (BaaBaas) at Northside shopping centre. After the black sheep i think it became Liz Delaneys with a nightclub upstairs.

There seemed to be a fashion in pubs then that they had no windows, but on the inside there would be large mirrors with curtains where the windows should be. Very strange.

Last time i saw it, it was a gym.

What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

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