Old nightclubs and pubs in Limerick

overthebridge · 03-03-2021 4:03pm

Popoutman wrote: »

So that's what that is?

I used work in Cairo's (the Park) collecting glasses. Good workmates, scary owner. The crew that ran it used also run Sir Henry's in Cork, completely unsurprising! Two pounds an hour for "four hours" of work, often ending up working six. Minimum wage was a dream at that point!

When was it when the upstairs part of Baker Place was the local swinger's club until that migrated to the industrial unit out towards the Tipperary road?

I was a regular in The Cairo back in the day. I was at the first night that they put on waaaaay back when. It was a cracking spot for a time then the usual dodgy heads
kinda ruined it and all the normal folk moved back into Strictly.

breezy1985 · 03-03-2021 4:26pm

Cookiemunster wrote: »

4 or 5 years? I was going to Baker Place in the mid 90s. The Wicked Chicken lasted 15 years. Trust me there are plenty of us who have great memories of the place.

I didn't realize it had been called Wicked Chicken for that long. It had been Bakers for years but it opened and closed a few times. The version I used go to didn't open till after the Termights/Globe and the Stool closed and I think was closed before the Blind Pig opened but can't fully remember

YFlyer · 03-03-2021 4:57pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

I didn't realize it had been called Wicked Chicken for that long. It had been Bakers for years but it opened and closed a few times. The version I used go to didn't open till after the Termights/Globe and the Stool closed and I think was closed before the Blind Pig opened but can't fully remember

There was a period where the Baker Place upstairs bar was ran by some guy that had New York Fire Department photos. Post 911 I believe.

breezy1985 · 03-03-2021 5:01pm

YFlyer wrote: »

There was a period where the Baker Place upstairs bar was ran by some guy that had New York Fire Officers photos. Post 911 I believe.

I think he was the first to reopen it during the 00s and it became the music venue after that. I think the 00s Wicked Chicken just slowly started to take over more and more of the building as it got popular

source · 03-03-2021 5:13pm

YFlyer wrote: »

There was a period where the Baker Place upstairs bar was ran by some guy that had New York Fire Department photos. Post 911 I believe.

The Precinct, he was ex NYPD I believe , lots of police memorabilia and patches in there.

YFlyer · 03-03-2021 5:16pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

I think he was the first to reopen it during the 00s and it became the music venue after that. I think the 00s Wicked Chicken just slowly started to take over more and more of the building as it got popular

Think the lads of 8 ball magazine were involved, to some degree at least, with Wicked Chicken.

YFlyer · 03-03-2021 5:35pm

source wrote: »

The Precinct, he was ex NYPD I believe , lots of police memorabilia and patches in there.

That's him.

breezy1985 · 03-03-2021 6:00pm

source wrote: »

The Precinct, he was ex NYPD I believe , lots of police memorabilia and patches in there.

That's the one. I don't think it ever got off the ground really. Felt too much like a fake Irish bar in America for me to ever warm to it

source · 03-03-2021 6:40pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

That's the one. I don't think it ever got off the ground really. Felt too much like a fake Irish bar in America for me to ever warm to it

It was successful enough in its own way, I was up there regularly, it was more a place for a quiet drink than a roaring night out.

breezy1985 · 03-03-2021 7:56pm

source wrote: »

It was successful enough in its own way, I was up there regularly, it was more a place for a quiet drink than a roaring night out.

It's those quiet drink spots I miss most these days

Ray Donovan · 03-03-2021 8:07pm

adaminho wrote: »

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

I was regular in Moby Dicks/Ciaran’s/Clems for years. Just lived around the corner on Alphonsus St. Also used to frequent O’Dwyers a lot which was formerly Larry Murphy’s. (No harm there was a name change!!)

Ray Donovan · 03-03-2021 8:08pm

source wrote: »

It was successful enough in its own way, I was up there regularly, it was more a place for a quiet drink than a roaring night out.

Where was The Precinct again? It rings a bell.

breezy1985 · 03-03-2021 8:10pm

Ray Donovan wrote: »

I was regular in Moby Dicks/Ciaran’s/Clems for years. Just lived around the corner on Alphonsus St. Also used to frequent O’Dwyers a lot which was formerly Larry Murphy’s. (No harm there was a name change!!)

Went there a few times very early in the morning after shifts in nightclubs when it was Ciarans/Clems

source · 03-03-2021 8:34pm

Ray Donovan wrote: »

Where was The Precinct again? It rings a bell.

Baker Place.

manna452121 · 03-03-2021 8:50pm

Ray Donovan wrote: »

I was regular in Moby Dicks/Ciaran’s/Clems for years. Just lived around the corner on Alphonsus St. Also used to frequent O’Dwyers a lot which was formerly Larry Murphy’s. (No harm there was a name change!!)

Some good times in Larry Murphy’s

MarkR · 04-03-2021 10:56am

manna452121 wrote: »

Some good times in Larry Murphy’s

That's an unfortunate name for a pub. :eek:

Granadino · 08-03-2021 12:06pm

Popoutman wrote: »

So that's what that is?

When was it when the upstairs part of Baker Place was the local swinger's club until that migrated to the industrial unit out towards the Tipperary road?

The wha! Brave folk going to a swingers joint in Limk. "Do I know you from somewhere?" You could bump into your boss or cousin there....

adaminho · 08-03-2021 12:39pm

Granadino wrote: »

The wha! Brave folk going to a swingers joint in Limk. "Do I know you from somewhere?" You could bump into your boss or cousin there....

Reminds me about going to Bubilicious for a gay workmates birthday one night and meeting my Girlfriends mates at the bar! Cue a twenty minute giving out to about leading her on! The slagging when I got back to them and told them "I just got the Ball's chewed off me at the bar!

irishproduce · 14-03-2021 2:27am

What was the place on Ellen st. Was a gay bar I think and used to be great for a night out

Cookiemunster · 14-03-2021 3:03am

irishproduce wrote: »

What was the place on Ellen st. Was a gay bar I think and used to be great for a night out

Quinns. Part gay bar, part student bar, part biker bar.

phill106 · 15-03-2021 4:30pm

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Quinns. Part gay bar, part student bar, part biker bar.

Ymca karaoke must have been epic

Ash.J.Williams · 15-03-2021 4:43pm

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Quinns. Part gay bar, part student bar, part biker bar.

Best pub in Limerick back in the day

It was the 90s we called it queer Quinns because that was fine back then, had my 21st there and we bailed in around 7pm, we didn’t know it opened at 7pm so basically the owner opened the latch as we piled in the door and frightened the crap out of him

breezy1985 · 15-03-2021 5:01pm

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Quinns. Part gay bar, part student bar, part biker bar.

And a decent priced roast during the day with deep fried ice cream on the dessert menu

orm0nd · 15-03-2021 10:50pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

And a decent priced roast during the day with deep fried ice cream on the dessert menu

used to call in if in town, trying to remember the man's name kinda running the show , serving tables , I think it was Christy.

for us culchies he was a kinda llaison officer pre mobile phones.

Jmccoy1 · 16-03-2021 1:38am

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orm0nd wrote: »

used to call in if in town, trying to remember the man's name kinda running the show , serving tables , I think it was Christy.

for us culchies he was a kinda llaison officer pre mobile phones.

Christy was a legend.

godfrey · 25-03-2021 8:54pm

sioda wrote: »

Featherys Shannon Arms Henry Street now apartments
Cheers 35 - 37 Catherine Street now derelict after being a few different watering holes
Glory Hole no clue
Costello's still open Dominic street Limerick

The Glory Hole was a basement bar under The George Hotel, and part of the hotel. In later years it was also a live music venue.

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Ash.J.Williams · 25-03-2021 8:58pm

Costelloes was amazing
Jaysus it was 26 years ago now for me

Roots bloody roots would come one and then switched to something lighter every time due to the carnage

bazz26 · 25-03-2021 9:05pm

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Costelloes was amazing
Jaysus it was 26 years ago now for me :)

Roots bloody roots would come one and then switched to something lighter every time due to the carnage

If it's any comfort, the carpet is still the same 26 years later.

sioda · 25-03-2021 10:15pm

bazz26 wrote: »

If it's any comfort, the carpet is still the same 26 years later.

Its not they changed it a few years ago

https://www.dailyedge.ie/limerick-pub-2280238-Aug2015/

Ash.J.Williams · 25-03-2021 11:12pm

bazz26 wrote: »

If it's any comfort, the carpet is still the same 26 years later.

It was rough then

could do with a shake an vac

Old nightclubs and pubs in Limerick

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