Whats your least Favourite pub in Ireland?

Degsy · 24-07-2008 06:25PM #1

No small amount of competition,especially in Dublin.
I'd say 4 Dame Lane..pretentious,overpriced kip with sullen,incompetent barstaff.

RedXIV · 24-07-2008 06:29PM

Wax in dublin. Most unfriendly place in the world, 3 hours in there and only one person would talk to me. Place was full of pricks

Collie D · 24-07-2008 06:40PM

Dicey Reilly's in Dublin. Nice spot, great beer garden but ignorant ***** working behind the bar.

taidghbaby · 24-07-2008 06:41PM

q-bar

dr.bollocko · 24-07-2008 06:43PM

It always seems to me that the worst bar I have encountered is always the place where all my mates want to go.

IronMan · 24-07-2008 06:44PM

Ron Blacks (version 2, not the original).
Dandelion
Doyles
Cocoon
City Bar
McTurkels
4, Dame Lane

Overpriced, pretentious kips the lot of them. Any place that decides to raise the price of drink as the night goes on. Any place with bouncers in wool coats and gloves, even in the middle of summer. Any place that charges you e5.50 for a pint, and the bar person doesn't even give you a smile. Any place that hands you out a pint, and then closes up and asks you to leave 10 minutes later (Sin é). Any place with a black in the jacks.

It would make you want to stay at home.

biko · 24-07-2008 06:45PM

Pretty much anywhere shirts and skirts congregate, Living Room, Front Door, ...
Tea towel shirts ftl

Terry · 24-07-2008 06:49PM

The Middle Shop in Leixlip.
Full of menopausal men.

Feelgood · 24-07-2008 06:50PM

Oliver St. Gogarty's wrecks me. There are actually very few bars in Dublin that are spectacular at this stage.

Feelgood · 24-07-2008 06:51PM

Terry wrote: »

The Middle Shop in Leixlip.
Full of menopausal men.

Isn't that your regular??

CPT. SURF · 24-07-2008 06:51PM

The Bodega in Cork. So gay

Terry · 24-07-2008 06:53PM

Feelgood wrote: »

Isn't that your regular??

No.
My local is the Riverforest Hotel.
Also lotsof menopausal men, but it has a wide range of people, I sometimes get job offers there, the staff are great and so are the pints.

Eoin · 24-07-2008 06:53PM

IronMan wrote: »

Ron Blacks (version 2, not the original).
Dandelion
Doyles
Cocoon
City Bar
McTurkels
4, Dame Lane

How did Cafe en Seine not make that list?

I agree with most of them, but I thought McTurcaills was more of a normal pub type place.

Degsy · 24-07-2008 06:54PM

Actually there's some kip in Maynooth where yer man beghind the bar through an absolute micky fit because i told him he left me 50 pence short(this was a while ago).

Degsy · 24-07-2008 06:56PM

eoin_s wrote: »

How did Cafe en Seine not make that list?

I agree with most of them, but I thought McTurcaills was more of a normal pub type place.

To be fair McTurcails isnt the worst in the world but it IS expensive.Plus they have an absolute dickhead of a black in the jacks,always roaring on his phone with his feet almost up on the taps.

PrivateEye · 24-07-2008 06:58PM

Anywhere full of pretentious scenester ****.

SoupyNorman · 24-07-2008 06:58PM

The Concorde, The Donameade Inn, The Manor Inn.

3 in a row...

Degsy · 24-07-2008 06:59PM

bravestarr082 wrote: »

The Concorde, The Donameade Inn, The Manor Inn.

3 in a row...

Donaghmede in is Glassing Central.Kip.

Kiera · 24-07-2008 07:02PM

bravestarr082 wrote: »

The Concorde, The Donaghmede Inn

Oh good choice!! Also the Old Boro in Swords, hate that kip.

24-07-2008 07:02PM

Didn't like 4 Dame Lane when I was there once but, eh, I didn't actually know that's where I was since there was no signs or anything up outside telling people that that was the name of the place. So I dunno.

k99_64 · 24-07-2008 07:30PM

CPT. SURF wrote: »

The Bodega in Cork. So gay

Isn't that a restaurant?

Dinter · 24-07-2008 07:40PM

Dicey Rileys.

A cool pub let down by surly staff and serious overcrowding.

Here_Young_Wan · 24-07-2008 07:47PM

Grogans.....such a bunch of posers and has beens....also we get it. You like art.

kowloon · 24-07-2008 07:48PM

Anywhere the "important" people congregate.
Reminds me of the heckling Bill Bailey got once for saying he was in a pub called Lillys Bordello (is that how it's spelt?). Classic.

COH · 24-07-2008 08:26PM

'The Bank' on Dame St.

Sgt Hartman · 24-07-2008 08:29PM

taidghbaby wrote: »

q-bar

I was in that place in Dublin once. Sterile atmosphere and overpriced mainstream booze.

One of the worst pubs I was ever in was a place called McHugh's in Sligo. Barman was a right ignorant p***k in there. Would have walked out of there only for I was with a group of friends watching the Ireland-France soccer match.