What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

ShatterProof · 22-12-2018 10:18am

corks finest wrote: »

Known as the fob and kill

... the rob and kill

Beasty · 22-12-2018 10:26am

Tommy Ducks in Manchester was "dodgy" for one specific reason

It was knocked down getting on for 30 years ago, and I only entered the place one. Basically though the walls were plastered with items of ladies lingerie, and any "new" woman entering was expected to contribute to the collection (there and then!)

MarkHenderson · 22-12-2018 11:08am

The Goat Pub in Goatstown. Full of FF'ers

bob mcbob · 22-12-2018 3:15pm

How about this one, a pub in Leith (Edinburgh) that kept a puma as a pet behind the bar. One night it escaped....

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/the-night-a-puma-went-on-rampage-in-a-leith-bar-1-3616322

The whole of Leith used to be rough as f***.
That was where Trainspotting was from.

bnt · 22-12-2018 3:42pm

bob mcbob wrote: »

The whole of Leith used to be rough as f***.
That was where Trainspotting was from.

It's gotten all gentrified in recent years, though. A friend of mine bought a new build flat there a decade ago, buy-to-let, so he's naturally hoping the trend continues.

fleet_admiral · 26-12-2018 2:35am

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Agree with all of the above. Morton’s was a grand spot the last time I was in there. The Penny Black in Tymon North was another place with a reputation that wasn’t deserved.

The Welcome Inn was a great pub, and the owner was a friendly man once you understood his eccentricities.

I never said Snortons was rough, I said it was a kip. I work in the Penny Black it's a grand shop

Joe Don Dante · 14-10-2021 2:51pm

The Latern in Galway

Feisar · 14-10-2021 3:36pm

I may have said it before here, there was a pub in Mullingar ran by travellers. It was called The porter House one time but when the travellers had it there was no name above the door. The locals aptly nicknamed it The Slaughter House!

I went in one time for a bit of social tourism. One of the few times in my life where the ould alarm bells went off and I thought "uh oh". People say I've the head of a Garda on me and I'd say that's all that saved me, they thought I was in for a snoop.

Sgt Hartman · 14-10-2021 5:32pm

I went on a pub crawl along Meath Street in Dublin 8 on a Tuesday eve four years ago and ended up in a few dodgy kips. The Guinness in all of them was fantastic though. I finished the night in The Lamplighter in The Coombe. The place was utterly hopping for a Tuesday night, there was even a DJ in there. I was thinking it must have been dole payment day :D

I remember passing Stepper Flanagan's (Formerly Norbert's) in Limerick on an eary Monday afternoon and the place was buzzing. I popped in for a pint with the brother and nephew before lockdown and the decor looked like it hadn't changed since the 70's :D Across from Norbert's is Gerry Power's bar which is a bit dodgy but has cracking karaoke nights with John and Monica as well as amusing antics from the resident drunk Teddy :D

cj maxx · 14-10-2021 9:13pm

A pub in Manchester. Near where Maine Rd used to be. Went to see a mate ,who 1/ bolloxed me out of it for walking there on my own 2/ made me change all my notes into change.

People openly smoked joints at the bar and scallywags would come in to buy drugs . Had one half pint then my mate 'suggested ' we leave.

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Happydays2020 · 14-10-2021 9:22pm

McSorleys in Ranelagh. Rough crowd there.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/how-johnny-s-jaunt-came-back-to-haunt-him-1.637391

14-10-2021 9:23pm

The Swiss Cottage. Gone now to make way for apartments.

Gloomtastic! · 14-10-2021 9:30pm

I reckon Conor McArsehole’s pub is a magnet for Class A Nutters these days………

14-10-2021 9:39pm

Sally Longs in Galway was the best “rough” bar. Not been there in years but it was just rough enough that the place wasn’t full of dickheads, but no so rough that you could spend the night drinking there with a reasonable expectation of not finding bother, if you kept your wits about you and didn’t act the dickhead.

bodhrandude · 14-10-2021 9:54pm

The Dalriada Hotel and Bar in Cranhill, East End of Glasgow, it was a right dump. I remember folk going to score hash there and folk at the bar sending them over to the local Drug Squad trying to fit in at the bar.

happyoutscan · 14-10-2021 10:14pm

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Nonsense.

Pretty much lived in the place from 1995-2010 and while there was the odd skirmish, that was about it. Galway's roughest pubs were the Lantern out in Ballybane and Branski's in Westside.

Across the road from it was Mixers (Laffy's before that) which was a definite rough house. Not sure what's there now.

bodhrandude · 14-10-2021 10:54pm

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Don't forget The Harbour Bar and The Hibernian too.

Motivator · 14-10-2021 11:23pm

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Jesus I remember that place. I stopped off in a pub in Roxbury one evening. Huge commotion outside, “fuckîn shotsbury” some fella shouted and the barmaid rang a bell. Fella got shot about 30 yards from the front door. Police came and cordoned off the street and didn’t leave anybody out. Then a brawl broke out and they cleared the bar but had to siphon drunk headbangers down a side alley so they wouldn’t interrupt the crime scene. It was absolute mayhem.

wotzgoingon · 14-10-2021 11:28pm

The worst pub I was ever in was in the Tallaght hills. It was done up with all stone so an old pub vibe in the place. It wasn't a very big bar just one room and I was getting strange feelings in the place. So I was drinking my pint and it was a bad point. Horrible it was. But said I wouldn't bother complaining as it was a shady place. Next thing this guy comes in and the smell off his breath was something foul. Anyway he walks up beside me and I was getting severe mixed feelings off him, bad vibes. So I took a swig of my pint and was placing it down on the counter and looked at the counter as I was doing it and the corner of my eye looked towards the ground and the guy had two hooves as feet. I'm not sure what happened next as I blacked out and woke up to a empty old ruin of a hell fire club. I still think of that encounter to this day.

Joe Don Dante · 14-10-2021 11:39pm

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The Buddah Bar. Thai place. the opposite of rough!

beachhead · 15-10-2021 12:41am

A bar in the arse end of Georgia,USA.The native went in the door first,I was literally on his heels.He turned around so quickly saying get out I was nearly trampled.The smell of guns and incest was strong.Must ask about the name,it's a few yrs ago.Had been stopped by a patrol car a few mins earlier for faulty tail light(true).Had a good look at all of us in the car and bye bye - whiteys.Maybe watching the place/area

15-10-2021 6:33am

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I think you will find that’s what I wrote. A pub with a reputation sufficiently “rough” to keep a lot of the quay street crowd away, but not actually rough.

The lantern was about the worst. Branski’s was ok

Danzy · 15-10-2021 6:49am

Bar in the Hague. Fellow with a syringe in his arm out cold in the bathroom, people stepping over, no notice.

Lads snorting coke off the counter and some mad drunk trying to beat the barman with a cooking pot. Really trying to break his head in.

greenspurs · 15-10-2021 8:28am

A pub on the corner of the Nth Circular rd and the Ballybough rd. Called The Rising Sun ??? or something similar?

We walked in , and everyone turned around staring! They never see 4 out of towners wearing KK jerseys ?

Kip.

15-10-2021 8:33am

The Swordfish in Newlyn, Cornwall. Was fine, there was even a postcard of my hometown there.

I arrived home and was watching 'Top 10 Most Dodgiest Pubs in Britain' on Sky 1 one day and there it was.

Apparently it would have been a different experience if I had been French.

yabadabado · 15-10-2021 12:37pm

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The Sunset House?

I drank in it a few times before very much a locals pub but I'd no hassle in it.

A fella was shot in it a few years ago.I think it's no longer a pub ,been a while since I was in the area.

castletownman · 15-10-2021 12:49pm

A few years ago I was in some spot on a side street leading from the city centre towards Connolly (although it could have been Tara St. dart). Tiny pub with barely any floor space and essentially a hole in the floor to piss in that constituted the jacks. Stopped for one in it one afternoon during a mini-pub crawl as my mate was making his way back to the train.

I would love if someone could identify the establishment as I remember the clientelé being of the "howiya" variety and being wary of going near it at night-time.

CaboRoig · 15-10-2021 1:10pm

Don't know it's name but many, many years ago I was in a place on the Andersonstown Road roughly opposite Casement Park in Belfast. Whether it was a pub or a shebeen I can't say but it was in a basement and had only opened that day after a number of years being closed down by the RUC. Plenty of evidence of Republican leanings! Have to say that although it was dodgy as hell, I felt pretty safe there but that was probably the drink talking!

Geuze · 15-10-2021 1:20pm

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I have never been in Sally Long's, Branski's or the Red Lantern, although I am aware of where they are.

I'd well believe that Sally Long's is the least rough of them.

I think Branski's is closed?

Geuze · 15-10-2021 1:26pm

I'd say the Lark Inn on Meath street, D8 was the dodgiest??

I sat at bar.

Empty seat beside me.

Then another customer.

Time passes, my friend arrives, goes to sit in the empty seat.

Yer man gets up and frisks my friend, to check is he a Garda.

Turns out he is related to both the Hutchs and the Kinahans (is that possible?).

He had been in prison.

What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

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