Nightclubs and Gigs..

They were practically dead in Dublin due to property speculation anyway. Basically every single suburban club had closed in the previous 20 years, and the city centre was reduced to a few effectively late bars with small dance floors masquerading as clubs.

We might get something back if we get 4-6am closing.

Apart from Red Cow, there are suburban nightclubs in Sandyford, Tallaght and Swords. Unless restrictions have killed them?

Until recently many posters were claiming pubs were on their last legs, people don't go to pubs etc.

Plenty of night clubs were busy before March 2020 and could be again.

Night clubs died here in the early 00's ,

Every local night club and night in Dublin City was out there door packed every Friday & Saturday nights,

Sunday back then was like a Saturday now in terms of numbers out,

On a bank Holiday all 3 nights where chaos ,now a bank holiday you get a smaller number spread out over the 3 nights and Dublin does be dead,

Honestly i don't think we will ever see anything like the nightclub seen of the late 90's early 00's again in this country,

The crash killed them & a lot of the generation headed off to Oz & Canada , It never seemed to fully recover,

Probably for the better the youth of today are more interested in there health & no when to call it a night early on,

Sandyford - where? Burn in Stillorgan closed a decade ago

All four in Tallaght are gone, pre-COVID. Abberley is emergency accommodation, Cocos is a Lidl, the one at The Square is now a gastropub with zero intent of ever reusing the dancefloor and the one in The Plaza has been shut for years.

Sword - Wright Venue / Jampark is not reopening, and realistically not due to COVID either. Everything else is a late bar.

Madison/Blu

Where was Fables? Well before my time I suspect.

Raheny and Artane/Clonshaugh can be added to suburbs that had clubs going well back also come to think of it; plus Coolock more recently.

its hard to know the situation. Some people on here that are kind of dancing on the graves of nightclubs i would recognise from my youth, they were the type who usually didnt enjoy dance music or cheesey euro pop etc, which i would have liked from 18-28. they were usually more into indie and rock and gigs , for some reaon i never got that type of music til i was around 27/28 and never really enjoyed gigs the same way i loved clubbing I never even took drugs just drank, danced and shifted and loved ever minute of it. really up until lockdown i would be out 48 weekends on average out of 52 and always had a decent sat night, like out from 9-3 am, the nighclub was replaced by late bar but I would always hit the nightclub with friends after a GAA game on a sunday maybe a couple f times a year, I find them great fun every so often really miss them, just happy times listening to cheese and having a few drinks.

Now I never really went to really busy city nightclubs where you had trouble from doormen or had to que in so never had any of those negatives. I know among my friends in 00s that the local nightclub was treated the same as a local pub, you went in had a few pints and in and out to the smoking area and had a bit of a dance to a cheesy tune then maybe pull a bird along the way, it was a very relaxed experience. so I am thinking its a bit of a difference to some nightclubs in more city locations. But really is there much difference between say Flannerys or somewhere like that and a nightclub? I wouldnt say there is. I still find the right type of nightclub great fun, coppers is always fun. I find it not bad for door staff, drugs or any hassle , very relaxed. Am i right in saying coppers wouldnt be the typical nightclub experience most have had?

I found it embarrassing when entertaining visitors from abroad, expecting a long night of this legendary 'craic' they had heard of, going home when a night out elsewhere in the world would be only half over.

There's really no proper late night entertainment options here, be it clubs or anything else.

Whatever.

I agree that tens of thousands frequented niteclubs in the cities before the covid closure but there has been little clamour by anyone (aside from owners) for their return. It's that what I find surprising. Pubs, restaurants, gyms cinemas had the Twitter army fighting their case, but no one really seems to care about what happens to clubs

Now, I'm a bit long in the tooth to care about clubbing now but up till my late twenties it was a big part of my life. That said I never really liked them (and I believe Iwas no way unique in that), you went because the crowd went and it was really the only place to get a late drink.

I think the lack of caring about them points to the existential crisis that the industry is in. Now that there is a choice in late venues, people are not choosing clubs, and once the crowd abandons a club there is no way back.

Night clubs in Ireland are generally an appalling scene. The likes of Sir Henry's was fantastic but the dance scene in general always attracted an unsavoury element in Ireland. So you ended up in mundane middle of the road dives. Clubbing here just wasn't really a thing.

The licensing hours have a lot to answer for. Night clubs were given about an hour of opening time after pubs closed. Simply killed their selling point.

Night clubs should be allowed open until 6 am in my opinion..

Had many a great night in the Viper Rooms until 5 am. Think all those theater licenses dried up. Is there anything like that any longer?

This is a nightclub

So is this

...and this

We do not have nightclubs in Ireland. Nothing even close. Belfast might have one or two, but certainly down south we have nothing that can be classed as a "nightclub". They really are just late bars with a small dance space.

Good documentary about the early days to what some here are alluding to as the heyday. My slightly older and wilder friends would tell me tales of going to The Asylum. My favourite place of the lot was The Funnel. I pretty much stopped when it closed.

OK then as someone who ould have thought i spent all my time from 18-30 in nightclubs i must have been not in a proper one at all. i actually love the cheesy pop and wandering around checking out the talent. i guess a nightclub shouldnt be an extension of your local where you can actually go in and out to smoking area without ever even taking off your jacket, wouldnt really be a nightclub? i hear a lot of people on here saying im in my 30s so wouldnt go to one, i still love to head every month or two just for the craic with mates, but like i say its probably not a proper hardcore nightclub.

were not nightclubs kind of laidback type places in late 70s and 80s, like loads of tables , you could sit and chat to people, go and dance or just mingle. has anyine seen forest gump moviee? im thinking of the nightclub where the girl jenny and friends are taking drugs and later in scene she attempts suicide off a building? would that be classed as a club?

Where's the nightclub in sandyford?

I thought someone was going to tell me there's a back room to the sandyford house or something...

Was that in the racecourse?

Lush! was a great spot.