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Barcode ; Closed

  • 01-11-2010 05:47PM
    #1
    msg11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭


    Yes folks of boards, I bring the news.

    It is now officially closed...

    One of Dublin's/Ireland's first Super-clubs down the ****ter ..


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  • #2
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    well thank god for that.


  • #3
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Was never there, so no skin off my nose


  • #4
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    What a ****hole... Glad to see it gone. I was glad to see Redz gone too tbh.


  • #5
    Dancor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Dancor


    This must be the 10th time its ''closed''


  • #6
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    Is that just the bar/club thats closed, or does that include the Bram Stoker part too?


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  • #7
    karlog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    That club has always been in the sh*tter. Someone has finally flushed the toilet.


  • #8
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    First the football pitches, then the parks, now Barcode?

    What the hell are the 15-16 year olds of Dublin supposed to do for run now?


  • #9
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Was it even a night club?

    Wouldn't class it as one, was more like a really large pub than a night club.

    Doesn't bother me if it's closed, I had my fun. :p


  • #10
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    OisinT wrote: »
    What a ****hole... Glad to see it gone. I was glad to see Redz gone too tbh.

    I loved Redz :(


  • #11
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    It was good until the point were it started letting in kids but other than that im sure it'll be open again


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  • #12
    daveyboy_1ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭daveyboy_1ie


    Never been, never wanted to go either.

    Its a shame on people who work there, never nice to see that happen to people.


  • #13
    msg11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    Max Power1 wrote: »
    Is that just the bar/club thats closed, or does that include the Bram Stoker part too?

    I say the Bram Stoker thing will be left open. On another site one of the DJ's said it is the end. The license was for a members only bar (GAA license) and that the nightclub was not ment to be .

    Ahhh, it might have been a **** hole and full of under ages people. Go down with 10 of your mates, the space to move and you can actually get a drink in a reasonable amount of time.

    Is that Dusk nightclub any good I ain't travelling out to swords too the wrong venue.

    And for those interested last song on the night;

    Vitiamn C - Friends Forever


  • #14
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    well thank god for that.
    OisinT wrote: »
    What a ****hole... Glad to see it gone. I was glad to see Redz gone too tbh.
    karlog wrote: »
    That club has always been in the sh*tter. Someone has finally flushed the toilet.

    People taking swipes at a Barcode.


  • #15
    dcr22B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭dcr22B


    msg11 wrote: »
    Is that Dusk nightclub any good I ain't travelling out to swords too the wrong venue.
    The Blacker, are you mad?


  • #16
    Tallaght Saint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭Tallaght Saint


    Next to close club XXI


  • #17
    msg11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    bonerm wrote: »
    People taking swipes at a Barcode.

    Drop the a on that and your onto a winner. :D


  • #18
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    bonerm wrote: »
    People taking swipes at a Barcode.

    Well spotted


  • #19
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Now where will I go to be able to drink a pint while watching some fat lass in skin tight lycra wobbling up a climbing wall while looking very nervous?

    WHERE????


  • #20
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »
    It was good until the point were it started letting in kids but other than that im sure it'll be open again


    Must have been a great first opening 5 minutes then.


  • #21
    msg11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    dcr22B wrote: »
    The Blacker, are you mad?

    I though it had changed since the revamp and the flashing lights on the building :)


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I read about this a few months ago. Apparently it's closed because they never got planning permission to build it in the first place. The gym is to remain but with a strict condition that they can't serve alcohol on the premesis. The Bram Stoker Museum is also meant to be going too.


  • #23
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    pity it wasn't 'Tram Co' in Rathmines, a melting pot of scumbags indeed...


  • #24
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    marcsignal wrote: »
    pity it wasn't 'Tram Co' in Rathmines, a melting pot of scumbags indeed...
    I went there once when I was doing my undergrad, place was full of idiots.


  • #25
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    OisinT wrote: »
    I went there once when I was doing my undergrad, place was full of idiots.

    +1

    what can i say, if you play 'coolio' you get slack jawed proles :pac:


  • #26
    Echospace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭Echospace


    The clientele will just go somewhere else on a saturday night, I for one welcome the teenagers of clontarf, coolock, santry and howth to our dublin city nightclubs.


  • #27
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Source? A quick google show mostly old Dublin threads and other links with no link to actual news.


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    General Zod wrote: »
    Must have been a great first opening 5 minutes then.

    It first opened its doors for the 2002 World Cup. They filled the tennis courts with tables and chairs and there were 300+ people going mental, dancing on tables, singing "put 'em under pressure" when Robbie Keane scored against Germany. It was one of the best days of my life (was my birthday as well ;) )

    In the following weeks/months, word got around that it was a pretty good place with the pool tables, cheap gargle, bowling machines etc. so all sorts from East Wall and surrounding areas started going there. This made them make their door policy really strict, up to the point of ridiculousness. They'd let people in on a saturday afternoon to watch the match, then throw out anybody wearing a football jersey after 7pm.


    People got a pain in their hole getting taxis there, getting refused, then having to get a taxi into town 'cos there aren't any similar places around locally, so most decided to just go into town in the first instance. Numbers dropped, takings were down, they loosened the door policy, a higher % of scumbags started going, then it just went downhill pretty fast.

    Ironically, the clontarf/swords/malahide crowd who originally frequented the place didn't use to hang around for long afterwards. It was only when more locals started taking over that the fights/broken glass/pissing in peoples' gardens started happening, which is indirectly responsible for getting them shut down.

    Nobody knew they never had permission for a bar, it was only when all the vandalism took hold that the residents looked into it.


  • #29
    Mr. Manager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    No one can argue that when Barcode first opened it was amazing.

    €3 a drink all night every night.

    Thems were the days...

    GL to all staffing, sorry for your troubles.


  • #30
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Sgt. Bilko 09 wrote: »
    It was good until the point were it started letting in kids but other than that im sure it'll be open again

    True, haven't went their in about 3 years because the place started to gradually become like redz. It was a great spot if you were on the pull as it had two big seating areas as well as the smoking area meaning it was easy to chat women up in the place and it was always free in, the last time I was in their I was 25 and felt like an old man though!


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    biko wrote: »
    Source? A quick google show mostly old Dublin threads and other links with no link to actual news.

    I know this was in 2008, but its only been enforced recently...
    it appears to the Board that the proposed development relates to a site, the use of which is unauthorised for use as a licensed premises, Bar Code, for the sale and consumption of alcoholic liquor.

    http://www.pleanala.ie/documents/orders/228/D228142.pdf


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