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Can it be true... Are they actually doing Ridleys up!

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  • 22-07-2009 10:23am
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    MacAttack84
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭


    Alrighty everyone, just heard today that they are starting to do work in ridleys - does anyone know if its true seeing as there have been rumours for years now that they were going to do something with it!


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    petes
    Registered Users Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    I was walking by it on the way to work this morning and you could hear them working away inside it.


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    MacAttack84
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭MacAttack84


    its about time! hopefully its the entire place they are doing and not just the bar!


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    anti chris-t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭anti chris-t


    its about time they did something to the place. Its the only half respectable club in the town and im sure they'd make their money back no problem if they do it up.


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    Aikon2009
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭Aikon2009


    ya they are and bringing the place next door into it! so i heard!


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    DundalkDuffman
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭DundalkDuffman


    I hope they keep the carpet at least :D


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    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    So that's what became of the fane:eek:


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    MariMel
    Registered Users Posts: 323 ✭✭MariMel


    heard last week from someone who works for them that it'd be closed for a while. Apparently redoing the whole place.....about time though.....that carpet was unreal not to mention those stairs.....never a pleasant experience if someone didnt want to let you pass.


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    petes
    Registered Users Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Toales bar just got a few of the seats that were in Ridleys.


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    hellboy99
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    Heard this morning that the place has had an extension built out back and that it will be opened back up in 6 weeks.


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    neacy69
    Registered Users Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭neacy69


    About fookin time the smell of the place was horrid!


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    Kalashnikov_Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Kalashnikov_Kid


    anti chris-t wrote: »
    its about time they did something to the place. Its the only half respectable club in the town and im sure they'd make their money back no problem if they do it up.

    <snip>

    Anyway, they bought the Tara a while back, and when I worked there (2006) there was talk of turning that into a bar/late bar ala Parkes I suppose, but there was no plans to exend the floorspace of the club.

    Of course, plans probably have changed a bit since, but as already mentioned, something like this has been on the cards for years. Im just surprised they have any money left to do anything with it after paying that €1million odd bill to the revenue last year!


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    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Kalashnikov_Kid wrote: »
    <snip>

    Doesn't detract from the fact that it is probably the best run and only decent club in Dundalk though, does it?


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    petes
    Registered Users Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    I prefer it to the likes of Amber and Silence. Saying that it's rare that I'm in any of them!


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    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Aikon2009 wrote: »
    bringing the place next door into it! so i heard!
    I was told that plan is a no go and that the only work been carried out is the club is going to be redone and extending out into the new extension built out back.

    Fairways nightclub (Studio 8) is re-opening too August Bank Holiday weekend :D


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    Mr Magnolia
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,433 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr Magnolia


    Kalashnikov_Kid, I've removed a comment that could cause boards.ie some hassle. Please consider what you post here in future.


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    Kalashnikov_Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Kalashnikov_Kid


    Mr Magnolia wrote: »
    Kalashnikov_Kid, I've removed a comment that could cause boards.ie some hassle. Please consider what you post here in future.

    Fair enough, though I still contend that said comment is fairly accurate, but understand your reasons for deleting too.

    If Studio 8 is reopening, Dundalk has officially returned to the 80s!


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    not14talk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭not14talk


    Kalashnikov_Kid wrote: »
    Fair enough, though I still contend that said comment is fairly accurate, but understand your reasons for deleting too.

    If Studio 8 is reopening, Dundalk has officially returned to the 80s!

    It is, http://www.bebo.com/studio8club

    Just looked at the photos doesn't look like they have done a hole lot to the place.

    Went there twice for New Years and it was like stepping back 10 years in time.

    Also was like a smaller version of Laceys.


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    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    not14talk wrote: »
    Just looked at the photos doesn't look like they have done a hole lot to the place
    New lights, lasers, but the new sound system is suppose to be brilliant.


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    Kalashnikov_Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Kalashnikov_Kid


    hellboy99 wrote: »
    New lights, lasers, but the new sound system is suppose to be brilliant.

    So its the new Laceys then, 1980s style :D


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    pixie10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭pixie10


    Studio 8 a great spot in it's time.
    As for rids, they would need to do something with it.
    You stick to the carpet.


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    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    But by doing up Rids are they not kinda killing the appeal of the place ?

    The appeal being that it was honest. It didnt hype itself up to be an amazing all singing all dancing night club. It was just a place with a carpet and a stairs for some pervy viewing that smelled bad but was full of good decent people.

    The place looked like a kip but it was honest !?

    I am going to miss it ! :( I hate when they take away places charms like that :/ I can see it becoming pretentious like a lot of other places locally.


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    DamoDLK
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭DamoDLK


    MugMugs wrote: »
    The place looked like a kip but it was honest !?

    Na, it was a sh*thole..

    We need at least one good niteclub in Dundalk, I hope they don't fcuk this one up, Amber was a savage place, then it became crappy.. Danes was too, but the last I heard its now a Shop?


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    Snoddy
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭Snoddy


    Bring back the Arc. :P:P


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    not14talk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭not14talk


    Drove past it today, they are actually knocking it down and starting from scratch. The hole front is now gone, they where working on it today (Sunday) which I found a bit odd.


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    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    not14talk wrote: »
    Drove past it today, they are actually knocking it down and starting from scratch. The hole front is now gone, they where working on it today (Sunday) which I found a bit odd.

    Saw that myself..thought some enterprising individual had set a bomb off in the place overnight...
    No such luck.
    MugMugs wrote:
    I can see it becoming pretentious...
    :pac:
    the ironing...


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    Kalashnikov_Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Kalashnikov_Kid


    not14talk wrote: »
    Drove past it today, they are actually knocking it down and starting from scratch. The hole front is now gone, they where working on it today (Sunday) which I found a bit odd.

    Maybe it was one of those unfortunate accidents that tend to happen on sundays or bank holidays...


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    event
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    MugMugs wrote: »
    I can see it becoming pretentious like a lot of other places locally.

    :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

    are you for real?

    its already the most pretentious place in dundalk


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    #29
    up the town
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭up the town


    Good to see ridleys closed for a while, Lets just hope they do it up proper, and when it does reopen please let them have new staff on the door. ust say tho I was in Studio 8 at the weekend and it was like stepping back in time, nothing has changed. the carpet is still the same, lick of paint here and there and bobs your Uncle. had a fantastic night, no hassle from bouncers, for pulling shapes on the dancefloor. Then just a short walk home.

    Hope it stays open with a decent crowd, Potential is Massive.


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    Mike28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Mike28


    I reckon when they lifted the carpet, the floor came with it. Then the base of the wall came up with the floor...

    Last time I was in there, the pervs under the stairs got a twofer, had to go back down to get my shoe that stayed on the 3rd step as I carried on up them...


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