Suggested locals ...

dafunk

.... I like locals, perhaps I'm showing my age but I like getting a seat, being able to hear people chat and not having to queue too long for a drink ... I'm living in knocknacarra, I like Sheridans, it's pretty nice and I've been to the cottage and PJ's in Salthill, any other suggested haunts around my area?

leninbenjamin

dafunk wrote: »

.... I like locals, perhaps I'm showing my age but I like getting a seat, being able to hear people chat and not having to queue too long for a drink ... I'm living in knocknacarra, I like Sheridans, it's pretty nice and I've been to the cottage and PJ's in Salthill, any other suggested haunts around my area?

Spinnaker isn't bad. I go there a bit to watch the 'oul soccer. It can be a bit dead though.

DRakE

clybaun hotels not bad for matches..

Sherifu

Hanley Oaks.

tristanc

Cottage is class. The Office in salthill wasn't a bad pub either. If you're in city center, I swear by Central Bar (near the goalpost and McSwiggans) as a place you're always able to get a pint

Malice

DRakE wrote: »

clybaun hotels not bad for matches..

I went in there last year to catch a Liverpool game and they told me they didn't have Setanta. Has that changed? I accept that they may have told me that just to get rid of me .

s_carnage

I know it's the otherside of the city but becketts is a great place for a match. Nice guinness too!!!

cornbb

Ward's Hotel (just up the street from the Cottage) has a proper old-man local-bar-for-local-people bar.

dafunk

cornbb wrote: »

Ward's Hotel (just up the street from the Cottage) has a proper old-man local-bar-for-local-people bar.

Well I'm neither old nor a man but that's the sort of place I was looking for!

cornbb

dafunk wrote: »

Well I'm neither old nor a man but that's the sort of place I was looking for!

Give it a shot so! The place is all sepia coloured, smells funny and has faded photos of GAA teams everywhere. Not for everyone but there's a friendly barman and great pints. Worth checking out anyway.

galah

The Cottage has a really nice beer garden, too! Perfect spot for nice weather ;-)

Also, 'The Thatch Cottage' (I think that's what it's called) on Cooke's corner is quite local-y.

big b

Or you could go in the other direction to O'Donnelly's in Barna.

used to be a nice friendly pub to have a chat in, although to be honest I haven't used it much since all the yuppie development started in barna. Hopefully, though, that lot are using the Twelve!

I lived in Woodfield for a while & used to walk home from O'Donnellys. (fiver in a taxi if I felt a stagger coming on though!)

sgthighway

Sherifu wrote: »

Hanley Oaks.

Is it still called Hanley Oaks?

inisboffin

sgthighway wrote: »

Is it still called Hanley Oaks?

Yup, though we lovingly refer to it as "Scary Pines"..comparable to a b and b too if you have folks visiting and can't fit them (and they want to drink 'quite late'). Crowd can be a bit mixed and rough around the edges, but I always had good craic there, the few times I have been in.

Bad news is I heard they are tearing it soon, to build apartments

Sherifu

inisboffin wrote: »

Bad news is I heard they are tearing it soon, to build apartments

Ah shite. There are enough apartments there already.

Toto Wolfcastle

inisboffin wrote: »

Yup, though we lovingly refer to it as "Scary Pines"..comparable to a b and b too if you have folks visiting and can't fit them (and they want to drink 'quite late'). Crowd can be a bit mixed and rough around the edges, but I always had good craic there, the few times I have been in.

Bad news is I heard they are tearing it soon, to build apartments

Visit Hanley Oaks for skangers and then come visit me! I live next to it!

Sherifu wrote: »

Ah shite. There are enough apartments there already.

As long as they wait until I have left my apartment they can do what they like!

Aurora Borealis

Good God, Hanley's Oaks v v scary..

Wards, PJ's and Cottage my favs!

kevmy

Well this probably won't help OP but for one in town try Cullinanes on the corner of Eglinton Street across from Eddie Rockets

inisboffin

Aurora Borealis wrote: »

Good God, Hanley's Oaks v v scary..

Ah ye have no sense of adventure

Cottage was lovely when I was there recently, adding nice tapas even improves it from back in the days when we loved it only for the booze

Wards was mentioned. While I agree it is normally lovely and quiet, I was at the MADDEST session ever there once... Just think of a famous trad musician and they were probably there! My musician friend was in heaven!

What is McGuires like these days, next to the Weigh Inn?

Also, there's a new 'old' place up on Dominic St, Brún I think is the name of it, looks pleasant enough.


Bring back the Harbour Bar!;)

Twin Lance

Oh god, the Hanley Oaks. Lived next to it last year and it wasnt really welcoming to the college crowd! Always used to go there after nights out in the hope the porter would get us take out! Never did, but bless him, he always got us smokes

Redhairedguy

Do it the proper way!

"Knacker Drinking"

Bottle of Buckfast - Comfy Tree stump/rock

tristanc

kevmy wrote: »

Well this probably won't help OP but for one in town try Cullinanes on the corner of Eglinton Street across from Eddie Rockets

Def a good choice - nice, giant, always near empty.

tristanc

Redhairedguy wrote: »

Do it the proper way!

"Knacker Drinking"

Bottle of Buckfast - Comfy Tree stump/rock

That was my Monday eve, but I was around the spanish arch, so I don't think that counts at all. In fact, I think I'm the height of Galway fashion