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Sweeney Dame Street previous name?

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  • 28-07-2013 7:48pm
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    ceebee1981
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭


    Can anyone settle an argument for me and tell me what Sweeneys on Dame Street was called before it was Le Cirk?


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    doughef
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭doughef


    I think it was Huba???

    or something like that?


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    ceebee1981
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭ceebee1981


    Oh thats not the name I was thinking of at all, maybe I'm older than I think and it was a previous name again?!


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    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Yep, it was & the hotel attached to Sweeneys is still called Le Cirk

    http://www.lecirk.ie/


    le-cirk-hotel-dublin_041120090712334698.jpg


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    doughef
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭doughef


    Am I right?

    was it Huba before le Cirk?


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    snowey07
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭snowey07


    Huba was where Paddy Kearneys is now - on the other side of Dame st


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    doughef
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭doughef


    snowey07 wrote: »
    Huba was where Paddy Kearneys is now - on the other side of Dame st


    huba was where le cirk / paddy kearneys is now?? same building.. no?


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    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    doughef wrote: »
    huba was where le cirk / paddy kearneys is now?? same building.. no?

    Nope, Paddy Kearneys/Huba is on the same side of the road as the Olympia and Le Cirk/Sweeneys is on the same side of the road as the Mercantile


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    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    Peader Kearneys used to be called Rogue


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    AsianDub
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭AsianDub


    Has anyone got the answer to this?! It's wrecking my head!


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    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    Was it not a restaurant in the past? Get a copy of thoms directory in your library if its really killing you


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    MemEmee
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭MemEmee


    It used to be Spar. 1997 Thoms confirms this. Can't remember what it became then though?


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,216 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    The nice people upstairs in Pearse Street library - Dublin City Archive and Library might do a quick look-up in Thom's for you if you give them the address, the year you want and they're not too busy.


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    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,927 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    MemEmee wrote: »
    It used to be Spar. 1997 Thoms confirms this. Can't remember what it became then though?
    It was a Spar as I used to work on Dame St and I would grab some lunch from there.


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    power pants
    Registered Users Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭power pants


    yeah I remember this, think it changed around 2007ish. I remember seeing them digging up the floor to make room for the kegs etc when converting to a bar


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    A Disgrace
    Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭A Disgrace


    Good to see a Spar becoming a pub, rather than the other way around


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    doughef
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭doughef


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    Nope, Paddy Kearneys/Huba is on the same side of the road as the Olympia and Le Cirk/Sweeneys is on the same side of the road as the Mercantile


    Ah yes!! my mistake.

    Thanks


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