cordub wrote: » the star roller disco , peekers in dun laoire , jaggers in fleet street, mangens in cork. elroys and sidetrax in cork .:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Cheap Thrills! wrote: » Bartley Dunnes McGonagles
psni wrote: » The Apartment... anyone?
Jumbo156 wrote: » Started of with a few in the Tudor Rooms and then to "The Tube" Promoted then to: Belvo rugby club The End Bad Bobs Leggs Those were the Days
anewme wrote: » where would you leave The Blue Bannana in Clondalkin.
OldGoat wrote: » the really crappy food the clubs would produce just to get their late drink license.
carolmon wrote: » Loved Bruxelles Bartleys and then onto McGonagles on a Saturday night,those were the days.
Cheap Thrills! wrote: » I grew up in North Dublin, so these are all Dublin ones; The Source Bartley Dunnes The Flowing tide Brussels Upstairs in The Plough (forget the name) McGonagles Judge Roy Beans The Rock Garden The Clarenden My favourite of all The Grove (Raheny the one and only!)
merlie wrote: » I used to go disco dancing at Rumours with some friends. I had a love/hate thing with the place. It was great for the music but we used to go in on a Wednesday, which was Ladies night, so we could have a night out for free ( money was tight then too ) but the guys had to pay to get in. I hated the way the dance floor was designed, it reminded me nothing more than a cattle ring and all the lads eyeing up the girls. It was always like the lads wanted to make it worth their while for paying in. I seen some goings on in the place lol! A pub on Eden Quay back in the 80's. It was then part of a hotel, I think. Then there was Bubbles Disco in a Lane way off Fleet Street. Also Sloopy's Disco! Where the QBar is now in D'Olier Street., there used to be a disco pub there back in the 80's. Went there once but the dance floor was really tiny. Any one recall the name of the place?
nesbitt wrote: » Older sister went to the Grove and Rosminnie (spelling), the school dances held no appeal for me so I headed straight into town on the bus to Baggot Inn (Maggot Bin as we called it). The live gigs were in a dungeon like room at the back and you had to queue in an alley to enter that area and pay the cover charge. It was a mouldy dive but to me the live bands were a whole new world. I thought I was an alternative rocker/punkette so did not do the disco scene until I was in my 20's. I lived in Dublin & UK during that time in my life so lots of venues and the memories meld at this stage.
Upstairs in the plough was just the plough I thought? The Grove was my second home. There's a Grove FB page if you're interested.
Horse & Tram Eden Quay Cardy Marina Balbriggan Coast Inn Skerries (still there I think?)
Brewsters in Lahinch, disco bar downstairs nightclub upstairs. Heaving upstairs and just one exit down the stairs. Health and safety didn't bother us. Hair, the bigger the better, full of mousse under the hand drier upside down for a minute and good to go. Nice stroll down the prom if you met a lad or needed to puke lol. Fab Vinnie and other Radio 2 DJ's doing discos in the ballroom in Lahinch for the youngsters. Gorgeous long Summer nights, best years of my life
Me and the lads used to go to Harold's Cross and get booze, then drink them in Kenilworth Sq.
Then we'd hop on a but to Donnybrook and try to get in to Bective or St. Mary's.
When we got a bit older we'd go to Club Sarah
Lanigans pub on the quay, Dublin.
The Station in rathmines - didn't matter how old or young you were or woke lgbtq etc
Downstairs in the Plough was a kip - a complete drinking den of inequity - god I loved it 🤪
In fact it may well have been a den of iniquity now that I think of it 😀
Good times indeed
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