What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

Pighead · 10-01-2011 9:52pm

Millicent wrote: »

Pighead, once again you deliver. Thank you.

No probs Millicent. If you ever have any more Talbot Street pub related questions you know where Pighead is.

ibFoxer · 10-01-2011 9:54pm

I'm sort of surprised nobody has mentioned the lizard or the liquid up to now.....??

yabadabado · 10-01-2011 9:57pm

foxerv1 wrote: »

I'm sort of surprised nobody has mentioned the lizard or the liquid up to now.....??

is that the place around meath st.? it's called the Bay or something like that now was in it a few months back,

ibFoxer · 10-01-2011 10:00pm

yabadabado wrote: »

is that the place around meath st.?

The very same. Used to work in one, and wouldn't have gone in to the other then for any amount of money.

iPlop · 10-01-2011 10:02pm

foxerv1 wrote: »

The very same. Used to work in one, and wouldn't have gone in to the other then for any amount of money.

Some bloke was executed in there a few years back?? The green Lizard??

ibFoxer · 10-01-2011 10:04pm

Sink The Banana wrote: »

Some bloke was executed in there a few years back?? The green Lizard??

Ya that was the lizard. Other people might differ but in my opinion they were both the most rough-as-f**k pubs i have ever been in or near.

yabadabado · 10-01-2011 10:07pm

I was in it a few months back and it didn't seem too bad ,there was another pub up the street, can't think of it's name but it was brutal every sort of scumbag was in it.

ibFoxer · 10-01-2011 10:11pm

yabadabado wrote: »

I was in it a few months back and it didn't seem too bad ,there was another pub up the street, can't think of it's name but it was brutal every sort of scumbag was in it.

Which one were ya in? AFAIK they are both closed? (or were the last i heard)

ArtSmart · 10-01-2011 10:14pm

Wolfe Tone Inn on Wexford St. worked their for a night as a student. the night when the Wolfe Tones themselves were playing. I still get flashbacks. think i left without getting paid for the night. (might have been called the Wexford inn, or that pub might have been near by, not sure)

some_dose · 10-01-2011 10:18pm

ArtSmart wrote: »

Wolfe Tone Inn on Wexford St. worked their for a night as a student. the night when the Wolfe Tones themselves were playing. I still get flashbacks. think i left without getting paid for the night. (might have been called the Wexford inn, or that pub might have been near by, not sure)

May I inquire as to why?

ArtSmart · 10-01-2011 10:26pm

some_dose wrote: »

May I inquire as to why?

em, the em, music, was em, too loud.

:eek:

yabadabado · 10-01-2011 10:33pm

foxerv1 wrote: »

Which one were ya in? AFAIK they are both closed? (or were the last i heard)

the pub that was the lizard and i reckon its about 6 months ago.the other pub was on Thomas st.

yizorselves · 10-01-2011 10:33pm

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i was in that nightclub in september when i was in the darnley, i found the staff more trouble than the regulars tbh

Yeah it'd be local youngsters working there now. It used to be a very popular place when it opened first, thats about 1994/5. It was even half decent about 10 years ago. Now its the same faces standing in the same places staring at each other, and maybe the odd slap outside the chinese afterwards.

I'd go there about twice a year now, but not to the nightclub.

ibFoxer · 10-01-2011 10:35pm

yabadabado wrote: »

the pub that was the lizard and i reckon its about 6 months ago.the other pub was on Thomas st.

To be honest i wasn't very good at the names of the streets. I just remember working in a pub owned by the same family on Ardee st. and being asked to work in the other a few times, stopping into the lamplighter for a few sociable ones on the way down and on the auld break :P

Ulysses Gaze · 10-01-2011 10:37pm

The Donaghmede Inn (Dusty Bin)

The Harp on O'Connell Street

John Mulletts off Talbot Street.

tony 2 tone · 10-01-2011 11:04pm

The Green Lizard was on Francis street, not sure if there is appartments on the site now or a pub. There is one called the Iveagh beside the market, closed though.
The pub called the Bayno is where the Silken Thomas used to be, bit of a kip but keeps the ****ers out of the other bars.

thebaz · 11-01-2011 1:47pm

BickNarry wrote: »

Paranoid visions...Decko I think yer mans name is.....how they got to support Steve Ig recently i'll never know.They were on the Podge and Rodge show too.Embarrasing band.

Decko from my book

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/5090167864/

mikemac · 11-01-2011 1:50pm

Steering Wheel in Limerick

Was doing a course in the "old Krups factory" in Roxboro and was often sent over for a bag of ice or went with some locals from St Mary's Park in the evenings
Dodgy as hell

blaze1 · 11-01-2011 1:54pm

the crusader, (southampton)

its gone now, but once went in there waiting for some mates after a footy match and the place was empty barr a table of 4 proper skin heads... bomber jackets and bovver boots..

scary

Madigans in kilbarrack, 4/5 tvs all showing differnt soaps mainly, and the radio blarring as well.. plus the place has no windows

thebaz · 11-01-2011 2:02pm

from the many pubs i have drank in, got drunk in, photographed in , got barred from , my top 3

Noctors, Sheriff street,

Olympic, Limerick

The Jetfoil, Dublin quays (long gone - anything went )

Nodster · 11-01-2011 2:43pm

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

either molloys or graingers, must have been shooting a movie

Recognised it from 'Educating Rita' but the inside scene was filmed in Dobbins!

Degsy · 11-01-2011 2:44pm

BickNarry wrote: »

Paranoid visions...Decko I think yer mans name is.....how they got to support Steve Ig recently i'll never know.They were on the Podge and Rodge show too.Embarrasing band.

They've been going 30 years and are still playing gigs and releasing records.
Was at one of thier gigs a few weeks back and they have a loyal fanbase of "older" punks including guys in thier 50's.

Yer man Deko is not to be messed with..he may be older than time itself but he can still fight!

11-01-2011 4:12pm

Jonniealan wrote: »

The old Chinaman in town somewhere some say it never actually existed, that it was an urban myth.

The Chinaman, Golden Lane (1976)

Pictorial proof!

Timothy Bryce · 11-01-2011 4:16pm

The Bermingham pub after a 6N match in croker a couple of years back. Pikie fight broke out....bar stools thrown, pub destroyed, people hiding out in the toilets until it died down. Eventually it spilled outside and we could escape. The only mode of transport available to get out of there was the fcuking aircoach. Cue impromptu drunken bus ride to the airport.

AnonoBoy · 11-01-2011 4:36pm

thebaz wrote: »

Decko from my book

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/5090167864/

Looks like he's thrown his far share of shoes alright.

Daroxtar · 11-01-2011 9:13pm

The Canal Bar, kind of behind the Guinness brewry and across from a halting site has to be about the worst I've been in in Ireland, got brought there a few times by a guy who I used to work with who was from Oliver Bond flats and had served 8 years for armed robbery. I think he was trying to freak out the culchie.
"Skin up on the bar no problems but dont do lines....because the barman will mooch over and harass you for some" he said the minute I walked in. Saw a guy walk in there with a screwdriver, straight over to the pool table and bust the coinbox off it, take the money and walk back out. No one really batted an eyelid. My workmate just shrugged and said it happened often enough and there was no point gettin in the way of a strung out junkie witha screwdriver. He brought me to the Limelight aswell and tbh that place was like Krystle compared to the Canal.

When I lived in The Hague i was chatting up a Dutch/irish girl one night and she said "Hej you want to come to a cool place? " so I said ya and she brought me to a bar called Bebe, an illegal squat bar full of dutch skinheads listening to gabber and hardcore punk. As soon as i walked in the door i thought uh-oh, Everyone was just staring me out of it. Anyway, when the girl went to the toilet this monster skin sat down beside me and told me she was his ex and things were a bit complicated. I wasnt long telling him there was nothing happening and I was only there as a friend of hers. No problems he says and pats me on the back and I nearly shat myself in the process.

Anyway, a few minutes later when she came back she had words with the big lad and realised I was having no more to do with her so she sits beside some other guy giving him the "come on" and within seconds the ex leapt the table with an ashtray and started smashing the head of the new chap. then half a dozen from each side joined in and the place decended into pure mayhem. I don't know how but I managed to stay kind of hidden in the corner until it died down.

I have never, ever, left a place as fast.