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Campions, now The Balgriffin Inn: The continuing saga thereof...

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    #212
    Strumms
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    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Sniffing and dealing were going on in that pub long before Belmayne was even thought of. Plenty of big time dealers used to frequent the place.


    Been a good number of years since I’ve been in there and it was mostly in the hours of daylight after visiting the cemetery but shît, never would have had it down as a proper waánkers hangout. Coke heads have to be just about the biggest twats going in terms of substance usage I find, that shît just turns people into arrogant self absorbed aggressive twats.


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    #213
    Sleeper12
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    Strumms wrote:
    Been a good number of years since I’ve been in there and it was mostly in the hours of daylight after visiting the cemetery but shît, never would have had it down as a proper waánkers hangout. Coke heads have to be just about the biggest twats going in terms of substance usage I find, that shît just turns people into arrogant self absorbed aggressive twats.


    Sunday mornings the heavy dealers would gather there. Many dead now. Others fled the country


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    #214
    Strumms
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    There aren't many pubs in Dublin where people aren't doing coke in the jacks in fairness these days


    True, but if there is dealing going on and dealers and all that comes with them hanging around like a bad smell it’s not somewhere I’d be inclined to want to head in for a few pints and a bit of lunch with the girlfriend and family. Pity, to have a great investment and all that work done and to turn into scrotesville.


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    #215
    Pawwed Rig
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    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Many dead now. Others fled the country

    You reap what you sow.


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    #216
    Sleeper12
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    You reap what you sow.


    It used to amaze me to see headlines saying that a particular guy was the biggest drug dealer in Dublin, Cork etc. They'd be in their 20s & 30s. They didn't get out when they made money & most were dead before their 40th birthday.Big money to be made in a short period of time but few live to enjoy the money.


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    #217
    Duke O Smiley
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    I heard last night that it’s due to re-open soon.


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    #218
    Bird123
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    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    I heard last night that it’s due to re-open soon.

    Well let’s hope they put some more money into it to make it nicer... and develop a door policy this time!


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    #219
    w/s/p/c/
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    I drove by it on Friday evening and could have sworn the lights were on and people were inside drinking?


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    #220
    Bird123
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    w/s/p/c/ wrote: »
    I drove by it on Friday evening and could have sworn the lights were on and people were inside drinking?

    I saw people in it on Friday afternoon. Looked like they were sitting down having a meeting of some sorts.


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    #221
    s3rtvdbwfj81ch
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    Have heard a few bits here and there.

    Same crowd had the Golden Ball pub out near Kiltiernan, and left it in the same circumstances. Golden Ball was then taken over by a crowd called Farmer Browns - they put their livery all over it, it's very tacky.

    They wanted Campions too, but I've heard that some other crowd have actually gotten their hands on - totally unrelated to the shysters who had it between December and May. As far as I can make out, they are local-ish to the area and run at least one other pub, possibly somewhere closer to, or actually in, the city centre.

    I think work is starting on the inside this week, another re-model of the front bar anyway, potentially work on the rest of it later - it should be re-opening in about a month.

    Supposedly a turf accountants going in beside it also.


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    #222
    lawred2
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    So was it money laundering or what?


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    #223
    s3rtvdbwfj81ch
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    lawred2 wrote: »
    So was it money laundering or what?

    no clue pal


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    #224
    lawred2
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    I don't want to be all prudish and nanny statish but is it not about time that there were regulations about bookies being co-located beside pubs?


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    #225
    Colonel Claptrap
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    The fuzzy luminous green Heineken sign looks surprisingly similar to the green traffic light at that junction - particularly when sleep deprived.

    Had to jam on the other night. Felt like a right wally for confusing the two.


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    #226
    lawred2
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    Colonel Claptrap wrote: »
    The fuzzy luminous green Heineken sign looks surprisingly similar to the green traffic light at that junction - particularly when sleep deprived.

    Had to jam on the other night. Felt like a right wally for confusing the two.

    Exact same happened to me driving through there Saturday night.

    It's definitely a hazard


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    #227
    Duke O Smiley
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    Vincent Square Stockyard wrote: »
    Have heard a few bits here and there.

    Same crowd had the Golden Ball pub out near Kiltiernan, and left it in the same circumstances. Golden Ball was then taken over by a crowd called Farmer Browns - they put their livery all over it, it's very tacky.

    They wanted Campions too, but I've heard that some other crowd have actually gotten their hands on - totally unrelated to the shysters who had it between December and May. As far as I can make out, they are local-ish to the area and run at least one other pub, possibly somewhere closer to, or actually in, the city centre.

    I think work is starting on the inside this week, another re-model of the front bar anyway, potentially work on the rest of it later - it should be re-opening in about a month.

    Supposedly a turf accountants going in beside it also.

    A bookies will be handy there


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    #228
    Pawwed Rig
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    Do people still goto bookies? I would have thought it was all online now.


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    #229
    s3rtvdbwfj81ch
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Do people still goto bookies? I would have thought it was all online now.

    I thought the same, but they still maintain a pretty heavy bricks and mortar presence.

    Many, many aul lads wouldn't be au fait with smart phones or apps, and maybe even prefer using those tiny little pens and yellow sheets.


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    #230
    imme
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    Vincent Square Stockyard wrote: »

    Supposedly a turf accountants going in beside it also.

    Bookies are closing more often than opening these days, who would be opening a bookies these days.

    Where is the space beside the pub, are they using part of the pub building.


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    #231
    Duke O Smiley
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    imme wrote: »
    Bookies are closing more often than opening these days, who would be opening a bookies these days.

    Where is the space beside the pub, are they using part of the pub building.

    Bookies at the Newtown house does very good business, as does the one beside the Goblet etc. I’d say it’d do well at Campions, it was the one thing I thought was missing! I’d imagine it’s going in where the green/yellow headstone shop is maybe?


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    #232
    imme
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    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Bookies at the Newtown house does very good business, as does the one beside the Goblet etc. I’d say it’d do well at Campions, it was the one thing I thought was missing! I’d imagine it’s going in where the green/yellow headstone shop is maybe?

    There is nowhere I looked and thought "what's missing here is a bookies".

    Not trying to be smart.


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    #233
    neris
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    Will there be enough space to add "now reopen again" to the thread title


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    #234
    Duke O Smiley
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    imme wrote: »
    There is nowhere I looked and thought "what's missing here is a bookies".

    Not trying to be smart.

    Right, but they seemingly do well beside other pubs in the area so I can see why they might put one in here.

    I'm only in my 20s, but I've no interest in paddy power apps or anything like that, so for as long as its there (if it goes in at all) I'll be delighted. I liked Campions and will like it more now if all of this is true


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    #235
    pmadden1991
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    Has anyone heard any news when or if the new pub is opening?


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    #236
    Bird123
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    pmadden1991 wrote: »
    Has anyone heard any news when or if the new pub is opening?

    Haven’t heard anything but they’ve given it a new exterior paint job. Looks far better now


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    #237
    Greentree_uk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭Greentree_uk


    Bird123 wrote: »
    Haven’t heard anything but they’ve given it a new exterior paint job. Looks far better now

    I thought it had changed to colour when I saw it the other day..


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    #238
    TheBlock
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    Bird123 wrote: »
    Haven’t heard anything but they’ve given it a new exterior paint job. Looks far better now

    Outside again this morning at 8.00am painting. Must be due to re-open soon. I'll be sticking with the Ploughman.


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    #239
    Thelonious Monk
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    Stop trying to make Campions happen


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    #240
    markyH
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    Looks like they are working on the inside. Hopefully it's a decent new local and it's going to open very soon.


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    #241
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Have gone past it in recent days.

    The exterior paint job does indeed look much better.


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