Old nightclubs and pubs in Limerick

The_Dave

Schooners - there's a bar I'd forgotten about, don't think I was ever in there as they were a bit picky on the door (I looked young)

Insect Overlord

The_Dave wrote: »

Schooners - there's a bar I'd forgotten about, don't think I was ever in there as they were a bit picky on the door (I looked young)

If that was the bar on Steamboat Quay, it was a handy spot for young folks to get served towards the end. My friends used to go there early in a night out and get a table before the door staff started their shift! That would have been around 2006/2007 though. The Schooners branding on the windows was only removed a year or two ago.

sioda

Insect Overlord wrote: »

If that was the bar on Steamboat Quay, it was a handy spot for young folks to get served towards the end. My friends used to go there early in a night out and get a table before the door staff started their shift! That would have been around 2006/2007 though. The Schooners branding on the windows was only removed a year or two ago.

Spent a few years working there, manager was a wagon but other than that great bar to work in good food and decent breakfast

source

Insect Overlord wrote: »

If that was the bar on Steamboat Quay, it was a handy spot for young folks to get served towards the end. My friends used to go there early in a night out and get a table before the door staff started their shift! That would have been around 2006/2007 though. The Schooners branding on the windows was only removed a year or two ago.

I thought schooners closed I the early 00s?

breezy1985

The_Dave wrote: »

Back in the early noughties, post the lapdancing joint, the Globe had different bars, you had a cigar bar and a pool area on separate floors and shark was their red bull

Lapdancing club was there till the very end. It was the only thing that stayed after the old nightclub closed and Termights and Bubblicious moved over from The Savoy.

Cigar bar was a gay bar for a bit but was moved to the ground floor because everyone was complaining about 3 flights of stairs for a smoke and just became a storage room for the bands.

Insect Overlord

source wrote: »

I thought schooners closed I the early 00s?

I'd guess 2006. I was definitely old enough to order a pint in there, but most of my friends were still a few months south of 18. :pac:

Granadino

Feathery Bourkes anyone?
Jack Reas
The Shakespeare

Cherrycoke

Granadino wrote: »

Feathery Bourkes anyone?
Jack Reas
The Shakespeare

I loved Jack Rea's. We'd have a few there on the weekends with older relatives, before setting off to our own younger bars. Usually old Mollys on Catherine Street, the Dog house (The Cornstore is in there now) or Doc's bar.

banie01

Thread needs Kess73!
He's got some war stories, and is a missed head.

Started boozing in town late '94.
Did the usual spots but was very much a Quin's and termites regular.

Ash.J.Williams

Granadino wrote: »

Feathery Bourkes anyone?
Jack Reas
The Shakespeare

i'm a veteran of feathery bourkes, pound a shot pound a bottle, SU presidents getting beaten up, magic mushrooms in the niteclub absolute carnage before they shut it down

adaminho

Granadino wrote: »

Feathery Bourkes anyone?
Jack Reas
The Shakespeare

I loved the old Jack Rea's in Catherine street. Tiny pub but rammed every Saturday with a lot of the Fairview crowd. Pint and a toastie then around the corner to Nestors for the 3pm kick off and back to Rea's.

Sunday was a match at 10.30 over to the Triple Crown straight after. Stayed there during the holy hour into Mickeys for 4. Then around to the Central for a game of Killers downstairs. Up to the Chicken for a game of fussball and downstairs to the club!

The_Dave

I recall having to go to Supermacs during the Holy Hour as the pub closed, listening to the death notices and then back to the pub

Ash.J.Williams

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

i'm a veteran of feathery bourkes, pound a shot pound a bottle, SU presidents getting beaten up, magic mushrooms in the niteclub absolute carnage before they shut it down

There was a live gig in that place one night. Now for the life of me I can't recall the name of the band, but it's not important at the moment. Basically the thing was being broadcast live on the radio (when that was a thing, giving my age away here but however...) and a massive fist fight boke out on the floor. The crowd leathered the absolute shyte out of each other for 20 minutes, but the radio station didn't have anything to cut out to, producers never expected it or thought that far ahead I suppose, so they just carried on.

I can't even remember the station at this point, not after 30 years, it might have been the student station Mary I had, honestly I can't say.

There was a friend of mine in the middle of it phoned my house from the coin box. Pre mobile days I should add but you'll probably guess that bit. Says to me do you have the radio by you, can you turn it on? So I tune in and it sounds like a fully fledged riot being broadcast while your man gives me a running commentary over the phone.

The_Dave

Deleted User wrote: »

There was a live gig in that place one night. Now for the life of me I can't recall the name of the band, but it's not important at the moment. Basically the thing was being broadcast live on the radio (when that was a thing, giving my age away here but however...) and a massive fist fight boke out on the floor. The crowd leathered the absolute shyte out of each other for 20 minutes, but the radio station didn't have anything to cut out to, producers never expected it or thought that far ahead I suppose, so they just carried on.

I can't even remember the station at this point, not after 30 years, it might have been the student station Mary I had, honestly I can't say.

There was a friend of mine in the middle of it phoned my house from the coin box. Pre mobile days I should add but you'll probably guess that bit. Says to me do you have the radio by you, can you turn it on? So I tune in and it sounds like a fully fledged riot being broadcast while your man gives me a running commentary over the phone.

I wonder was it Live 95fm, as Feathery Bourke's used to sponsor the Top 7 at 7

oleras

Deleted User wrote: »

There was a live gig in that place one night. Now for the life of me I can't recall the name of the band, but it's not important at the moment. Basically the thing was being broadcast live on the radio (when that was a thing, giving my age away here but however...) and a massive fist fight boke out on the floor. The crowd leathered the absolute shyte out of each other for 20 minutes, but the radio station didn't have anything to cut out to, producers never expected it or thought that far ahead I suppose, so they just carried on.

I can't even remember the station at this point, not after 30 years, it might have been the student station Mary I had, honestly I can't say.

There was a friend of mine in the middle of it phoned my house from the coin box. Pre mobile days I should add but you'll probably guess that bit. Says to me do you have the radio by you, can you turn it on? So I tune in and it sounds like a fully fledged riot being broadcast while your man gives me a running commentary over the phone.

I was thinking it couldn't have been 30 years, shannon arms still back then, quick google gave me this. RLO was the station.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/nightclub-loses-licence-following-disco-violence-1.93353

Granadino

There was a pub on little Catherine st as well, where the cafe and Christian bookshop is. Owned by the Conways. Can't recall name. Was grand for a pint as well.

Berty

Granadino wrote: »

There was a pub on little Catherine st as well, where the cafe and Christian bookshop is. Owned by the Conways. Can't recall name. Was grand for a pint as well.

PJs, the earliest version had saw dust on the floor before the HSE(or WHB) considered it a fire risk. The newer version was a whole lot different.

Ash.J.Williams

[Deleted User] wrote: »

There was a live gig in that place one night. Now for the life of me I can't recall the name of the band, but it's not important at the moment. Basically the thing was being broadcast live on the radio (when that was a thing, giving my age away here but however...) and a massive fist fight boke out on the floor. The crowd leathered the absolute shyte out of each other for 20 minutes, but the radio station didn't have anything to cut out to, producers never expected it or thought that far ahead I suppose, so they just carried on.

I can't even remember the station at this point, not after 30 years, it might have been the student station Mary I had, honestly I can't say.

There was a friend of mine in the middle of it phoned my house from the coin box. Pre mobile days I should add but you'll probably guess that bit. Says to me do you have the radio by you, can you turn it on? So I tune in and it sounds like a fully fledged riot being broadcast while your man gives me a running commentary over the phone.

That’s so featherys I think it’s common in college towns that locals and students unite for cheap beer and the war breaks out

oleras

oleras wrote: »

I was thinking it couldn't have been 30 years, shannon arms still back then, quick google gave me this. RLO was the station.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/nightclub-loses-licence-following-disco-violence-1.93353

Ah OK, that could possibly have been the one. Like I said after that many years the details get a bit sketchy. I won't argue with anyone who wants to correct me, let's be honest there was an awful lot of pints thrown back between then and now.

Plus the thing about Limerick is it takes decades for anyone to catch on with name changes, Shannon Arms and Feathery Burke's were always interchangeable, ****d if I could tell you what the difference between them was ever supposed to be anyway.

adaminho

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

That’s so featherys I think it’s common in college towns that locals and students unite for cheap beer and the war breaks out

The problem with Featherys was the bouncers were fairly strict but they opened the beer garden and you could hop the back wall and bypass them so it got very rough.

oleras

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah OK, that could possibly have been the one. Like I said after that many years the details get a bit sketchy. I won't argue with anyone who wants to correct me, let's be honest there was an awful lot of pints thrown back between then and now.

Plus the thing about Limerick is it takes decades for anyone to catch on with name changes, Shannon Arms and Feathery Burke's were always interchangeable, ****d if I could tell you what the difference between them was ever supposed to be anyway.

Im not too sure if they changed the layout, but i seem to remember Shannon arms was one of only two 360 degree square bar(if that makes sense) bars in limerick...the other being Punches, thats why it stands out to me.

adaminho

adaminho wrote: »

The problem with Featherys was the bouncers were fairly strict but they opened the beer garden and you could hop the back wall and bypass them so it got very rough.

The bouncers used to try that whole "no jeans, no trainers" thing in the old Garryowen rugby club discos. You'd swear they were guarding the red carpet at The Oscars or something with the attitude!

Six or seven lads would turn up with one pair of regular trousers between them. First guy goes in by himself, straight into the toilets, changes into his jeans, and passes the trousers out the jacks window to his mate. The mate gets changed in the car park, goes in the front door, and passes the same pair of pants back out the jacks window to the next guy.

Did it myself more than once. Six of us got into a Fatima Mansions gig down in Cork one night with one ticket between the lot of us.

Cookiemunster

oleras wrote: »

Im not too sure if they changed the layout, but i seem to remember Shannon arms was one of only two 360 degree square bar(if that makes sense) bars in limerick...the other being Punches, thats why it stands out to me.

The Davin had a bar like that too. As did Kennedy O'Briens.

adaminho

Cookiemunster wrote: »

The Davin had a bar like that too. As did Kennedy O'Briens.

KOB's did I think the one in the Davin had Walls to seperate the bar and the lounge. The Windmill had an Island Bar as well.

adaminho

Deleted User wrote: »

The bouncers used to try that whole "no jeans, no trainers" thing in the old Garryowen rugby club discos. You'd swear they were guarding the red carpet at The Oscars or something with the attitude!

Six or seven lads would turn up with one pair of regular trousers between them. First guy goes in by himself, straight into the toilets, changes into his jeans, and passes the trousers out the jacks window to his mate. The mate gets changed in the car park, goes in the front door, and passes the same pair of pants back out the jacks window to the next guy.

Did it myself more than once. Six of us got into a Fatima Mansions gig down in Cork one night with one ticket between the lot of us.

That was every Pub in town! Used to throw our shoe's out the top window of the Henry Cecil!
Anyone remember Moby Dick's on the Dock Road? Became Ciarain Careys then Clem Smiths and then The Kasbah? Used to be famous because they had a Mast Head of a Mermaid as a bar pillar that kept on getting the nipples robbed off it. Ended up making national news! Between that and the Wounded King statue in the peoples park getting his mickey robbed we were either prudes or pervs!
https://images.app.goo.gl/9KLfjpT7V8rU5emV8

Granadino

That was one crap thing about Limerick in the 90s , early 00s. The bouncers. The "sorry bud, no tackies" was bullsh*t, the guys on the Icon the worst offenders but that's what I deserve for going there in the first place. (I remember when it was cool to be dating a bouncer. They always had a dolly bird hanging off their arm) :rolleyes: :pac:
Luckily you can get pretty much anywhere now in whatever you want to dress in which is proper order.

MarkR

I remember drinking in a bar on Catherine Street. Molly Malone's, often when I should have been in college. This was before the change to Ellen Street, if it's the same owner. I also remember drinking in Quinn's, probably towards the end of when they were there.

Then the nightclubs, Tropics after the Junior cert. Docs. Phase 2. I even got lost in Smyths one time. Could not find my way out. Wound up doing laps of the place. An extraordinary amount of Jack Daniels may have been the cause there. I eventually washed up in the smoking area.

Cookiemunster

Granadino wrote: »

That was one crap thing about Limerick in the 90s , early 00s. The bouncers. The "sorry bud, no tackies" was bullsh*t, the guys on the Icon the worst offenders but that's what I deserve for going there in the first place. (I remember when it was cool to be dating a bouncer. They always had a dolly bird hanging off their arm) :rolleyes: :pac:
Luckily you can get pretty much anywhere now in whatever you want to dress in which is proper order.

From what I've been told (way too old for the place these days), they haven't changed one bit.

Granadino

Cookiemunster wrote: »

From what I've been told (way too old for the place these days), they haven't changed one bit.

Ok then. They are still thick meat heads then.

breezy1985

Cookiemunster wrote: »

From what I've been told (way too old for the place these days), they haven't changed one bit.

The clothes thing has changed but despite me being too old to have to worry its sad how many pubs are now over 23. Thats 5 years of your drinking life that you are barred from half the pubs in town

Cookiemunster

breezy1985 wrote: »

The clothes thing has changed but despite me being too old to have to worry its sad how many pubs are now over 23. Thats 5 years of your drinking life that you are barred from half the pubs in town

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

un5byh7sqpd2x0

Cookiemunster wrote: »

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

More bollócks on boards as usual. It was made illegal 20 years ago alright under the Equal Status Act 2000, but made perfectly legal again in 2003 as part of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003

breezy1985

Cookiemunster wrote: »

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

Illegal or not it's on all the pub doors

adaminho

Cookiemunster wrote: »

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

It's perfectly legal as long as you apply it across the board.

http://vfipubs.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Right-to-Refuse.pdf

Cookiemunster

Amaya Dry Skyjacker wrote: »

More bollócks on boards as usual. It was made illegal 20 years ago alright under the Equal Status Act 2000, but made perfectly legal again in 2003 as part of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003

Chillax. You could simply have posted the second part and still made your point you know.

adaminho

Cookiemunster wrote: »

That's been illegal for the last 20 years. If you're over 18, you can't be refused service in a pub because of your age.

I don't know what it is now, but when brought in you could get compensation of up to £5000 if refused service on age grounds.

Sorry to quote you again but this reminded me of a story!
My dad always wondered how ladies night was legal and always asked me to challenge it! A few years ago someone actually did sue Smyths over it and won. He went in with a load of girls from work and was the only one charged entrance. He sued under sexual discrimination and because he only asked for his €10 back he won something like two free nights for 25 of his friends and a complimentary bottle of champagne on both nights!

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ladies-in-free-nights-not-fair-on-men-watchdog-rules-26020134.html

BobMc

did you really grow up in limerick if you've not drank cans from Buddies lane while being well underage, ahh the good olde days

peter4918

BobMc wrote: »

did you really grow up in limerick if you've not drank cans from Buddies lane while being well underage, ahh the good olde days

Buddies was great spot, just rock up with your cans and hang around in the alley taking it all in.

Used to love Sunday afternoons, When the lane and foxes bow would be packed with all sorts of motorbikes and then they’d all take off together, it was an impressive sight to my younger self!

adaminho

peter4918 wrote: »

Buddies was great spot, just rock up with your cans and hang around in the alley taking it all in.

Used to love Sunday afternoons, When the lane and foxes bow would be packed with all sorts of motorbikes and then they’d all take off together, it was an impressive sight to my younger self!

Holman's on Foxes bow as well, later became one the first gay pubs in Limerick.

banie01

McKnight's on a Sunday evening and not getting served until there was an ad break in the Simpsons!

moby2101

Betty Blues was the nightclub downstairs in Mc Knights as far as I remember. There was a HUGE nightclub scene back then.
That was a great club downstairs, spent many a Saturday night there.
Didn't they open up a pub called McDaids as well??

The_Dave

moby2101 wrote: »

Betty Blues was the nightclub downstairs in Mc Knights as far as I remember. There was a HUGE nightclub scene back then.
That was a great club downstairs, spent many a Saturday night there.
Didn't they open up a pub called McDaids as well??

There was a McDaids on Denmark Street, which became Whelan's and Clohessy's (and some other name I can't recall), which I think was part of the Willie Sexton ownership

adaminho

The_Dave wrote: »

There was a McDaids on Denmark Street, which became Whelan's and Clohessy's (and some other name I can't recall), which I think was part of the Willie Sexton ownership

The Cuckoo box and the crafty fox were the other names. Joe Malone's on the corner was called McDays before it closed.

moby2101

That's the one, Mc Days ...

adaminho

adaminho wrote: »

Holman's on Foxes bow as well, later became one the first gay pubs in Limerick.

Very short lived unfortunately Some tool walked in off the street and vandalised the place with a tin of paint. Apparently he thought our immortal Christian souls would be saved if the word "fa*got" was painted on a wall.

Humiliating and encouraging all in the same breath to think how far we've come in what's basically a very short space of time though.

Sittingpretty

MarkR wrote: »

I remember drinking in a bar on Catherine Street. Molly Malone's, often when I should have been in college. This was before the change to Ellen Street, if it's the same owner. I also remember drinking in Quinn's, probably towards the end of when they were there.

Then the nightclubs, Tropics after the Junior cert. Docs. Phase 2. I even got lost in Smyths one time. Could not find my way out. Wound up doing laps of the place. An extraordinary amount of Jack Daniels may have been the cause there. I eventually washed up in the smoking area.

Quinn’s, Jesus that takes me back!

I wonder how many of us probably would recognise each other’s faces from being out and about back in the day?!?

adaminho

https://twitter.com/DublinInquirer/status/1340968480712093697

Sittingpretty

Sittingpretty wrote: »

I wonder how many of us probably would recognise each other’s faces from being out and about back in the day?!?

Unless your face resembles a close-up puddle of vomit I definitely wouldn't. :D

katiek102010

Granadino wrote: »

A mate of mine was taken to lapellos instead of a nightclub on a date. The lady knew the doormen.

I took a bloke on a date there once too 🤣🤣🤣🤣

banie01

katiek102010 wrote: »

I took a bloke on a date there once too 🀣🀣🀣🀣

Did you know the doorman?
One way to get a lad revved up before you take him home