Worst Pub In Drogheda

Oh yes i think i know it alright!! God id never be down there, urgh id say the place reaks!!

The Linen Hall - ah the days!!! Started drinking there at the sweet age of 16 - not a question of ID ever asked!!

Sunshine by the Boyne. That's the one! Beatboxes a plenty And then the Linen hall and li'l Dennis who was afraid of everyone, even us 15 (long time ago) year olds...what great days.

Yea the girls in osheas tend not to be the friendliest at times! Many i run in i had with them just because the couldnt hear me they got so mad!!

Carburys...........used to be a real irish pub run by the very old and very eccentric Mrs.Carbury who wouldn't serve Irish people if they didn't attempt to speak Irish while ordering drink.If you were foreign then you were excused.Lol.When she died she was laid out in the pub in an open casket and traditional irish musicians came from all over to pay their respects.Not the same venue at all anymore.

Linen Hall..........someone further up described Dennis as the most timid man and it's a very accurate description.Mind you he was held at gun point one night so that can be excused.Was the biggest drug den in Drogheda but the front bar had the older crowd in it from it's hey day and they were all characters.A lot of them in Chicago now.

Sunshine Bar..........nuff said about that one.

Moores............not fair to call it a kip as it's not trying to BE anything else.It's an old style watering hole where the locals all stop what they are doing when you walk in and watch you until you order a drink.Formica bar top from its last attempt at redecoration in the late 70s' and a nice cold stone wall to urinate against in the gents.Locals can be seen eating blocks of cheese at the bar counter (don't ask why.....i don't know)

Stags Head..........was a very well run place if a little rough when a chap by the name of Ged ran/leased it but he moved on after the smoking ban.The comments made by an earlier poster about it would be fairly accurate now.

Gleesons...........Probably the best real pub in Drogheda.Excellent draft.Never any hassle.The most unusual and diverse clientele.Not a happening place.....it's just a......well it's a pub.Always packed.

O'Sheas..........Young.3 euro a drink most nights.Dance music.

Redz................Renovating right now into a food hall with only a token bar remaining.Used to be great.Ahh the memories.

McPhails.............Alternately hated or loved by every second person in Drogheda.Live music 4 nights at least.Probably the only one of the so called super pubs to come out reasonably unscathed by the smoking ban.

Barocco............formerly Bridie Macs.Trendy but small and difficult to get around when full.Still it has decent crowds and always has an atmosphere because it is small and fills up fast.Mixed age groups.

McHughs...........Great job on back bar.Live music.Should have done up the front bar too.

Bru..................Looks great but just isn't working.You need to walk through all the diners on the ground floor to get to the bar on the second floor.Really comfortable and good looking place though.

Earth...............Around about 10 years now and still getting the crowds.Young though.Closing soon to revamp.Free b4 12.

Storm...............Older crowd.Small club.Alternative to Earth.Seems to be the best option on Fridays.

Fusion..............They revamp this one about every 3 to 4 years but nothing ever really changes.Place to go when you couldn't be arsed getting scrubbed up and just want to chill with like minded folk.

Star and Crescent...........Huge pub/club/late bar thingy.Live music in one room and D.Js in main room plus big internal beer garden.Mixed age groups and free in.

Mariner...............Good food and good drink.Does a bar need to do more?

Nolans.................Formerly Gardiners but a step up.Small but well run with a busy trade.

Black Bull..............Busy food and drink venue on the Dublin road with no competitors near by.Its enough to warm the heart of any businessman.

sudzs wrote:

What's an "itinerant"?

Its a nacker, gypsy, scumbags, whatever you want to call it. The guys that live in caravans.

eth0_ wrote:

Not a pub but remember the nightclub that was in the ross (rosnaree hotel on the Dublin road)?

What a dodgy dump of a place! Me and my friend got weekend jobs there when we were 15 collecting classes and making the food that nightclubs had to serve to get their late licence...you don't want to know about the food, let's just say they're lucky they never had a health inspection.

Remember on a lot of occasions one of the staff running in to the bar to tell us the cops were after driving in, and we had to shut the bar because they'd been selling booze after their licence allowed.

Sooo much open drug dealing going on too...

I hear that hotel is now owned by knackers and there's often traveller weddings held there, with the accompanying bloody brawls in the car park. Anyone else hear this? I'm only in Drogheda now when I visit the parents so i'm a bit outta touch

Ahhhh those were the days! I remember the ross well! The concrete floors, plastic glasses and tins. Great music all the same - and yes, drug dealing was very open! Garda Brian Morrissey always done his rounds on a Sat night, and the bar would close then re-open as soon as he went. I was there the night the IRA shot the head bouncer too! Scary stuff! :eek: Still, ive good memories from the place.
Not too sure who owns it now, never really go near it anymore.

Hehe yea DJ Dave - i had a TAPE of his!
yea Morrissey was like robocop alright - fair play to him all the same! think he is guarda in dundalk now or something.

Yea some of his stuff was **** alright but back then i though it was the bees knees! Im sure i could recover a tape of his at home *cringe*. Nearly sure he played in Kiss aswell for couple months.
Now that you mention it - Morrissey reminded me of the school teacher outta Feris Buelers Day Off. Spit of him!

Yup yup remember it alright. Used to serve food during the day - you could enter it through the shopping centre where the old toilets were. I remember going there for my Junior Cert dinner Then it was called No.4 afterwards. That didnt last long.
After all these years the layout has never changed in the place, although i suppose not much you can do with a place so small.