What's the roughest pub in Dublin city?

Collie D · 18-10-2019 8:03pm

retalivity wrote: »

The sign outside makes me laugh though

I pass by it every day and never even noticed the sign, never mind the addition

Only been in it the once and didn’t think it was rough, not a very pretty place but no sign of hassle. Probably does have potential for it though.

odyssey06 · 18-10-2019 8:28pm

Collie D wrote: »

I pass by it every day and never even noticed the sign, never mind the addition...Only been in it the once and didn’t think it was rough, not a very pretty place but no sign of hassle. Probably does have potential for it though.

That's why there's no windows! No pub spy has returned yet from that mission

Drifter50 · 18-10-2019 8:35pm

The Furry Bog in Whitechurch is rough as a bears arxx. Hooligans boozing here

Also the Wharf on the East Wall Road, called something else now

the_syco · 18-10-2019 8:59pm

The Admiral in Dublin is meant to be rough, if you're not Russian.

Finches in Neilstown is also meant to be fairly rough, even if you're from the area!

tdf7187 · 18-10-2019 9:02pm

StolenKrone wrote: »

The Sunset house

Barring one notorious murder, was it truly rough though? I said earlier in the thread I drank there a few times and saw no trouble, didn't even sense a dodgy vibe off anyone.

tdf7187 · 18-10-2019 9:09pm

AVFC.Stephen wrote: »

Knew a few lads that drank in a bar in dun laoghaire... close to York road.. 2 lads on a pool table started arguing over a bet (maybe 1 punt bet per game) . It ended up with a guys ear been bitten off and spat out onto the table.

A mate went in a week after and asked why did they change the cloth on the table to red instead of green.

The owner said do you realise how much a cloth costs? This way if it happens again I won't have to change it

Some of the nightclubs in and around Dun Laoghaire used to be very dodgy. I remember a guy was stabbed to death outside a ravey-type nightclub in Deansgrange in the early 1990s.

Big Nasty · 18-10-2019 9:58pm

tdf7187 wrote: »

Some of the nightclubs in and around Dun Laoghaire used to be very dodgy. I remember a guy was stabbed to death outside a ravey-type nightclub in Deansgrange in the early 1990s.

The Roxy?

L1011 · 18-10-2019 9:58pm

BDI wrote: »

As far as I remember it never had a license. It took all them years for anybody to realise. Was in the papers at the time.

Not only did it have a licence, it still has a licence despite being closed for nearly 10 years!

redarmyblues wrote: »

Mother Kelly's (was it) on Amiens St/Store St corner was a ripe spot, buggy's all over at 8 bells in the morning and the owners haggling over there price of take outs, the way people used to do at kicking out in certain clubs. I used to meet an ahem associate there early doors, the regulars would sometimes address me as Officer ( I wasn't undercover but looked the part). I get drinking with two lads one morning and nothing would convince them U wasn't until it turned out on his arrival we were waiting for the same man, good times.

It's a brew pub now, dear too.

No, Mother Kellys was on Talbot Street. That Store Street/Amiens Street corner (that is now Brew Dock) was The Master Mariner and some other names.

Was an early house and often full of pished Irish Press journos before it went pop.

Uncle Charlie · 18-10-2019 10:42pm

Q Bar which is closed now could get very rough some of the bouncers use to even wear stab proof vests.

Almost every weekend you would have people fighting outside Q bar.

Hotblack Desiato · 18-10-2019 11:18pm

the_syco wrote: »

Finches in Clondalkin is also meant to be fairly rough, even if you're from the area!

Neilstown. Not Clondalkin.

Hotblack Desiato · 18-10-2019 11:20pm

Uncle Charlie wrote: »

Q Bar which is closed now could get very rough some of the bouncers use to even wear stab proof vests.

Almost every weekend you would have people fighting outside Q bar.

You can't really hold a venue responsible for what people who haven't been let in do outside of it. I thought though this thread was about the inside of pubs, not the outside

It was way rougher inside and out when it was still called the Harp Bar

Uncle Charlie · 18-10-2019 11:22pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

You can't really hold a venue responsible for what people who haven't been let in do. I though this thread was about the inside of pubs, not the outside

It was way rougher inside and out when it was still called the Harp Bar

But it shows that it attracted scumbags.

Hotblack Desiato · 18-10-2019 11:24pm

Yeah, the venue was obviously the thing that attracted the scumbags to the O'Connell Bridge area, wouldn't be a scumbag in sight there otherwise

Big Nasty · 18-10-2019 11:30pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Yeah, the venue was obviously the thing that attracted the scumbags to the O'Connell Bridge area, wouldn't be a scumbag in sight there otherwise

Would ya gowan befooked. Were you ever outside the Blue Banana in your beloved Clondalkin. Was it just its location that attracted the scroates or did the nature of the business have anything to do with it?

tdf7187 · 18-10-2019 11:52pm

Big Nasty wrote: »

The Roxy?

Could be, can't remember. I think the nightclub was part of a hotel. I think the hotel is since gone, I don't know what's there now.

iamtony · 18-10-2019 11:57pm

Personally I don't think any pubs in Dublin are truly rough. If you go in with the wrong attitude to any of the pubs mentioned you will find trouble but if you go in with the right attitude you'll find some of the funniest and most friendly people Dublin has to offer. Some assholes aswell but everyone knows they are assholes and keeps them in their place.
Maybe there is one or 2 exceptions but I used to regularly drink in the blue lion and the oasis in cabra and never had a problem. In fact I remember my car was lifted away by the corpo across from the blue lion as it was a clear way after 4 or something and Gerry hutch himself wanted to pay to get it released. I kindly declined but you get my drift.

joeguevara · 19-10-2019 12:07am

I used to have a regular taxi driver who was one of the toughest guys I know. He was telling me one day that the only pub he wouldn't drink in is the chancery. He was there one day and a guy came in to use the Jacks and there was guys at the bar discussing whose turn it was to mug him. He said it was like the scene in trainspotting where the tourist gets robbed.

I was doing data protection training in neilstown and I got a lift in a taxi. He asked me where I was to be dropped off and I said I didnt know but I'd go in to finches and ask. He wouldnt let me out of the car saying I would be robbed from head to toe and you needed exact change or the barman would Rob me. Also pointed out lack of windows.

DiffeRent taxi driver cracked me up with a story of a christening he was at in finches. Said a guy in his 70s shouted over at a group of young lads asking for a bag. Bloody 70 year old.

ibarelycare · 19-10-2019 12:11am

Uncle Charlie wrote: »

Q Bar which is closed now could get very rough some of the bouncers use to even wear stab proof vests.

Almost every weekend you would have people fighting outside Q bar.

Yeah students fighting over a taxi or a mot or who bought the last round. Doesn’t even warrant a mention in this thread.

ibarelycare · 19-10-2019 12:18am

joeguevara wrote: »

I used to have a regular taxi driver who was one of the toughest guys I know. He was telling me one day that the only pub he wouldn't drink in is the chancery. He was there one day and a guy came in to use the Jacks and there was guys at the bar discussing whose turn it was to mug him. He said it was like the scene in trainspotting where the tourist gets robbed.

I was doing data protection training in neilstown and I got a lift in a taxi. He asked me where I was to be dropped off and I said I didnt know but I'd go in to finches and ask. He wouldnt let me out of the car saying I would be robbed from head to toe and you needed exact change or the barman would Rob me. Also pointed out lack of windows.

DiffeRent taxi driver cracked me up with a story of a christening he was at in finches. Said a guy in his 70s shouted over at a group of young lads asking for a bag. Bloody 70 year old.

When I was in Clerys in Inchicore on a Wednesday night there was an oul lad in his 60s, completed respectable looking, sitting at the bar ordering a bag on his phone!

The time I went to Finches on a Sunday afternoon (early...about 2), tried walking into the bar, and the bouncer moved in front of the door as if to say “you don’t belong in here”. Went into the lounge instead and watched people getting carvery from a hatch the size of my en suite window, a plastic jug of communal gravy sitting on the ledge.

joeguevara · 19-10-2019 12:21am

Just remembered another story. I was at a meeting with a board of directors in Townsend street. Most of them had flown in from Italy.

After the meeting we were outside before going tO lunch. One director was smoking a cigar so we were just hanging around. All of a sudden a group spilled out of beds and had a full on brawl. One guy picked up a pole from a nearby building site and smacked one guy in the head. A keg was thrown through nedS wIndow before police came.

Moved office shortly after.

L1011 · 19-10-2019 12:53am

joeguevara wrote: »

I used to have a regular taxi driver who was one of the toughest guys I know. He was telling me one day that the only pub he wouldn't drink in is the chancery. He was there one day and a guy came in to use the Jacks and there was guys at the bar discussing whose turn it was to mug him. He said it was like the scene in trainspotting where the tourist gets robbed.

This reminded me - The Chancery has maglocks on the toilet cubicles so they can only let people in who actually need a dump and aren't using it for other reasons!

joeguevara · 19-10-2019 12:54am

You instantly no the type of pub it is if they have UV lights in the toilets.

Uncle Charlie · 19-10-2019 1:19am

joeguevara wrote: »

You instantly no the type of pub it is if they have UV lights in the toilets.

O'Neill's pub on Suffolk Street has UV lights in the jacks.

tdf7187 · 19-10-2019 1:38am

Uncle Charlie wrote: »

O'Neill's pub on Suffolk Street has UV lights in the jacks.

I don't get the significance of UV lights in the jacks, I assume it's something to do with drugs? I'd say most city centre pubs do if so.

joeguevara · 19-10-2019 1:41am

tdf7187 wrote: »

I don't get the significance of UV lights in the jacks, I assume it's something to do with drugs? I'd say most city centre pubs do if so.

Makes it hard if not impossible to find veins due to lack of red in light. Not common at all in pubs. But are in trouble spots..even have them in four courts.

Uncle Charlie · 19-10-2019 1:42am

tdf7187 wrote: »

I don't get the significance of UV lights in the jacks, I assume it's something to do with drugs? I'd say most city centre pubs do if so.

Yeah its to stop people injecting.

tdf7187 · 19-10-2019 3:07am

joeguevara wrote: »

Makes it hard if not impossible to find veins due to lack of red in light. Not common at all in pubs. But are in trouble spots..even have them in four courts.

Ah ok got you.

joeguevara · 19-10-2019 3:22am

There is a pub I drink the odd time that is best described as the pub from shameless. If I tell people I was there they are visibly shocked. But they have never been. I have never seen a fight or trouble.

But have seen mass brawls in pubs that have a good reputation.

mikemac2 · 19-10-2019 6:40am

Don’t be vague, tell us the pub

AndrewJRenko · 19-10-2019 7:08am

tdf7187 wrote: »

Could be, can't remember. I think the nightclub was part of a hotel. I think the hotel is since gone, I don't know what's there now.

Ziggys nightclub at the Zeigfield Hotel - now a block of apartments

https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/man-cleared-of-stabbing-female-garda-outside-club-26030736.html

AndrewJRenko · 19-10-2019 7:26am

joeguevara wrote: »

Makes it hard if not impossible to find veins due to lack of red in light. Not common at all in pubs. But are in trouble spots..even have them in four courts.

I understand that if you paint your veins with Tippex beforehand, they stand out beautifully in the blue light.

PowerToWait · 19-10-2019 8:29am

ibarelycare wrote: »

Yeah students fighting over a taxi or a mot or who bought the last round. Doesn’t even warrant a mention in this thread.

Dunno about that but when it was the Harp Bar back 30 years ago it was simply a dangerous place to be, even walking past it could be dodgy depending on how you looked. I saw more than one person getting chased out of it by a gang of hoodies as they were then known.

AVFC.Stephen · 19-10-2019 8:56am

tdf7187 wrote: »

Some of the nightclubs in and around Dun Laoghaire used to be very dodgy. I remember a guy was stabbed to death outside a ravey-type nightclub in Deansgrange in the early 1990s.

I remember standing at the 111 bus stop outside dun laoghaire shopping centre and the night club in the basement was promoting mud wrestling lol

Ziggys is the name of the nightclub you are thinking of. The door men had a law of there own with batons to beat up lads they didnt like or wore runners...

Sadly a friend of my brothers was walking home from that club in 92. A joy rider ran him over on the foot path.

It's now an apartment block

glenfieldman · 19-10-2019 9:50am

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Neilstown. Not Clondalkin.

Same place

Hotblack Desiato · 19-10-2019 11:16am

glenfieldman wrote: »

Same place

Funny how people here are happy to accept that one side of the Long Mile Road is Walkinstown, across the road is Drimnagh, the other side of the junction is Crumlin, but let on that Clondalkin has no boundaries and it seems to encompass basically anywhere between the Square and Liffey Valley especially in relation to a bad news report...

I knew plenty of w@nkers growing up in Crumlin who let on they lived in Kimmage or even Terenure. Weren't fooling anybody.

AndrewJRenko · 19-10-2019 12:33pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

I knew plenty of w@nkers growing up in Crumlin who let on they lived in Kimmage or even Terenure. Weren't fooling anybody.

De Mammy used to say 'Just put down Dublin 12, that's all they need to know'.

glenfieldman · 19-10-2019 12:37pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Funny how people here are happy to accept that one side of the Long Mile Road is Walkinstown, across the road is Drimnagh, the other side of the junction is Crumlin, but let on that Clondalkin has no boundaries and it seems to encompass basically anywhere between the Square and Liffey Valley especially in relation to a bad news report...

I knew plenty of w@nkers growing up in Crumlin who let on they lived in Kimmage or even Terenure. Weren't fooling anybody.

If you google Neilstown it’s in Clondalkin you muppet

glenfieldman · 19-10-2019 12:40pm

Liffey Valley is Clondalkin, Newlands Cross is Clondalkin, Neilstown is right in the middle.
And if you want to be pedantic, Neilstown is a housing estate. Finches would be closer to Harelawn

L1011 · 19-10-2019 12:52pm

Is that area not called Rowlagh?

glenfieldman · 19-10-2019 12:56pm

L1011 wrote: »

Is that area not called Rowlagh?

No, again that’s a housing estate

One More Toy · 19-10-2019 1:01pm

Can we get back on topic, I want to hear about places where a knife might get pulled on me not about arguing about housing estate locations

Marty Bird · 19-10-2019 1:04pm

Noctors on Sheriff St.

funkey_monkey · 19-10-2019 1:16pm

Not sure which it was but a number of years ago we went down to Dublin for the weekend. Arrived in Connolly and crossed the road and went into a nearby pub for a quick one to get the weekend going.
Smallish place, for to the side and I think a bar the full length of it at opposite side to windows.
Anyone some young d fellas come in and start taking an interest in us.
After a while of uncomfortable chat they toddle off to another part and bar man comes over and advises us to leave.
No idea what was in the offing for us.

jake frost · 19-10-2019 2:22pm

A few kips ive been over the years, not sure if they are still around or if they have changed.

1. The Auld Triangle, on upper Gardiner st/ Dorset st junction..Dog rough..
2. The Jolly Topper Finglas Village, Used to be known as the Village Inn.
3. The Bottom of the Hill Finglas.
4. A place on the corner of Halston Street and Green st, used to be called the Claddagh House I think its called the Caple Inn now (early house).
5. Another early house the Chancery Inn.. on the QUays just arounf from the Courts.
6 Bo Derros in Smithfield ,early house but I think its long gone now..

AhhHere · 19-10-2019 2:41pm

Can't belive some people saying Liberty Belle is rough. Been in loads at all times of the day. Lovely bar staff. Good music when on. Chatty patrons who love their sport. Never any trouble. Working class but never rough. Lark Inn on Meath street was fine. A bit bland if anything. That's the only reason I wouldn't go back.

I got started on in the Sunset House once. Another time, I asked for 2 Guinness and a Heineken.
-No Henieken bar mans says.
-Alright Carlsberg.
-No Carslberg.
-Okay, what do you have?
-Bud.
-Right, give us a budwieser. He serves it in a heineken glass. :rolleyes:

Clonliffe House is a kip. Only been in on match days though. Lamplighter is another sh1thole

Uncle Charlie · 19-10-2019 3:23pm

Briodys on Marlborough Street is another kip of a pub.

Sebastian Dangerfield · 19-10-2019 3:35pm

jake frost wrote: »

A few kips ive been over the years, not sure if they are still around or if they have changed.

1. The Auld Triangle, on upper Gardiner st/ Dorset st junction..Dog rough..
2. The Jolly Topper Finglas Village, Used to be known as the Village Inn.
3. The Bottom of the Hill Finglas.
4. A place on the corner of Halston Street and Green st, used to be called the Claddagh House I think its called the Caple Inn now (early house).
5. Another early house the Chancery Inn.. on the QUays just arounf from the Courts.
6 Bo Derros in Smithfield ,early house but I think its long gone now..

Auld Triangle has its uses. If youre in want or need of a drink at 9am on a sunday morning give a knock and theyll let you in. Ive no memory of many GAA matches thanks to their hospitality

tdf7187 · 19-10-2019 4:11pm

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Ziggys nightclub at the Zeigfield Hotel - now a block of apartments

https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/man-cleared-of-stabbing-female-garda-outside-club-26030736.html

AVFC.Stephen wrote: »

I remember standing at the 111 bus stop outside dun laoghaire shopping centre and the night club in the basement was promoting mud wrestling lol

Ziggys is the name of the nightclub you are thinking of. The door men had a law of there own with batons to beat up lads they didnt like or wore runners...

Sadly a friend of my brothers was walking home from that club in 92. A joy rider ran him over on the foot path.

It's now an apartment block

Thanks.

tdf7187 · 19-10-2019 5:02pm

Uncle Charlie wrote: »

Briodys on Marlborough Street is another kip of a pub.

Come off it man. Briodys unless it has changed since I drank there is like one of those pubs referred to earlier in the thread frequented by retired civil servants and guards.

yabadabado · 19-10-2019 5:04pm

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Not sure which it was but a number of years ago we went down to Dublin for the weekend. Arrived in Connolly and crossed the road and went into a nearby pub for a quick one to get the weekend going.
Smallish place, for to the side and I think a bar the full length of it at opposite side to windows.
Anyone some young d fellas come in and start taking an interest in us.
After a while of uncomfortable chat they toddle off to another part and bar man comes over and advises us to leave.
No idea what was in the offing for us.

Mother Kelly's would be my guess.

What's the roughest pub in Dublin city?

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