Why do people keep going on about Coppers?

Country folk and some GAA “heads” go there. Have been there, myself, a couple of times. Not great.

Best to head over to Krystle or D2 for an enjoyable night with less hassle.

I ended up there as part of a works leaving doo... years ago.... all the hype, all the ‘headlines’ and then you get there at least intrigued to a point and then.... blandsville...

I've never quite got it, other venues such as Lilly Bordellos was the place to be seen ( for ghastly irish celebs and band members) for years, seemed like there was an article in the Sunday Indo gossip column by the equally ghastly Barry Egan, sharing the latest mind numbing celebrity news from utterly mundane celebrities seen in Lillys. Nowadays, the Sunday Indo just shamelessly plugs the latest hair brained business concept by a has been former model of irish celeb and call it an article.

Coppers seems to only have two claim to fame, Everyone talks about it but no one quite knows why and the unbelievable and extraordinary profits it generates.

Obviously with the excitement of Night Clubs reopening, anywhere that a Queue formed outside was going to get attention and Twitter didn't dissapoint with pointless and predictable videos being shared with a bemused and bored nation.

I was there once, hardly ground breaking and anyone I know that's been there is as bewildered as I am about the attention it gets.

They should have their licence removed for that 😁

I have been to it twice. But I think it is the cheesiness factor that has people going back. The other nightclubs are full of pretentious crap and people standing around trying to pose with their iPhone in one hand and their gunpowder and cucumber in the other. Not most peoples type of people.. But that's what they're going for.

In the past 4 years, nowhere. But the likes of Krystle and House were often after a meal and I hated it. Every single time. Standing waiting for people to come back from their coke break to talk sh!t for another half an hour. Or the nights the occasional mad bast4rd would come and "doesn't care" so stands there doing it off a key or a little metal tube...

No problem with the drugs.. By all means do them if you need them or want them, but the persona the people (in those particular places) think that they are getting from them.. They aren't.

If you want to do them, do them without the fanfare or the craptalk after doing. I found it less bullsh!tty in Coppers. Not non existent though.

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Of course coppers isn't as pretentious of Krystle, Krystle is just Notions Coppers. Both are shite, as is House, and don't give a decent nightclub experience. The irony of calling it House....

It's a kip, crap music and people bumping into you everywhere you go. If you were to ask any of the clowns in the queue they would also admit the place is a kip, some people like going to a kip.

I remember one night in coppers some skinny guy following me around, insulting me and trying to start a fight. It took a lot of ignoring before he gave up. On my way out he was sat on the footpath covered in blood with his face in bits.

Other than that, an enjoyable place to go to.

Ah don’t diss Dolly.

Top of my head it has turned into an ironic cultural meme. It was initially a culchie embassy. Then the Dubs decided they like the atmosphere and it had a reputation for been ‘looser’ if you can’t pull in coppers etc.

So it had that ‘mystic’ and is/was the bridge between the urban/rural divide. It caught the cultural zeitgeist at the right time decades ago. Pints in flannerys are part of the ritual now still. First place my country cousin found when moved to Dublin. Flannery’s like a country pub - she was all excited. Then ‘graduated’ to coppers.

These days Coopers just a brand - watery pints, too many in and a fire hazard waiting to happen.

I remember being in the toilets and some lads were having a discussion about the Irish players who won a premier league title. One of them asked me to have a go, really sound guys in fairness, I like places like that where people chat to anyone, pity about the awful music. I remember another time being approached by a lady who asked me if I was a guard, im not but get told I look like one a lot, whatever that means. I probably should have pretended I was lol she was a ride. I stupidly said no and walked away.

I assume people go to nightclubs to drink after the pubs are closed maybe to have casual sex. No one go's to nightclubs to listen to music also its in a posh area where journalists live so that helps with publicity

You must be as old as me.

Haven’t been to Coppers for ages, but always have a laugh there. As others have said, it’s unpretentious and stays open later than other places. It’s always good craic to head in with a bunch of mates, get hammered, and throw a few shapes on the dance floor. In my late teens and early 20s, I had the obligatory shift with nurses a couple of times. Thankfully, I eschewed the bean Garda experience though!

Some of the other night clubs named checked on this thread bring back memories. ‘Spirit’ on middle abbey street was a fantastic club. I also loved ‘Tripod’ and ‘Crawdaddy’. There must have been 15-20 decent sized nightclubs in Dublin back in the early 00’s. Does anybody know why they all disappeared? Is it just due to changing tastes?

Is the Palace nightclub still running. I had many a student night out their aswell as blooms hotel in temple bar.

What exactly does surprise surprise its you mean? Everyone knows the reason Coppers got popular was because it was full of culchies. A home from home. As in my example with flannery’s and my country cousin. Then some Dubs attended ironically to Coppers/Flannery’s at first and gradually realised the relaxed vibe was different to most in Dublin. Same sort of thing as Barry’s Hotel decades previous which served as a culchie embassy in Dublin.

Because shock horror it's usually a fun night and won't cost an arm and a leg