What's the roughest pub in Dublin city?

A local shop pub, for local people.

I don't think the IFSC crowd would be all that put out though!

The off license next to it was unusual too! Just a generally mad spot.

Having been in many of these and after reading the entire thread, my vote goes to the old Claddagh Ring on Little Britain St / Green St (the place that is now the fancy 1661)

It had a big mix in the clientele, early morning manglers and right scaldy scummy f*ckers looking for a fight or a way to rip you off.

In it one Monday morning myself and it had all sorts! But I thought it was great! Added to the excitement!

My late Da always told a good yarn about there from when he was driving the Guinness lorries.

It would have always been one of their last stops on a run as, when they were off-loading the kegs from one side, a few of the locals were on the other side doing the same with whatever they could get their hands on.

Funny that the Capel became such a fancy bar; and the Kings Inn is quite decent now too.

Its had another closure and uplift in quality since.

The plough on abbey street used to be full of some characters ,

Can anyone remember back when the Legal eagle was an early house, another place you'd find some interesting characters ,

What was the boozer down at the junction of O'Connell street & Parnell street used to be a rough kip but great crack ,Only dress code was no caps , can't remember the name,

Was Neary's on Parnell st ever a pub? Next door to finners. I see it was a hotel and guesthouse in the past, before being occupied by a crowd of anarchists and called the barricade inn. Was reading an article about it earlier, the owner died in 2002 with no living relatives, and a will that left the place to a parish in scotland was never executed, been lying abandoned for 20 years now.

EDIT: Probably should have put this in the pubs no more thread

This is funny

Lived off Clonliffe Road back in College/early work days and, in our infinite wisdom, we decided to do a 12 pubs into town along Ballybough Rd:

• Clonliffe House
• Blind Ref
• Lowrys
• The Bridge
• Sunset House
• The Strand
• Lloyds
• Mullets
• Cleary's

Can't remember where we went for the last 3 (or indeed if we could still stand) but probably wherever was happening back in 2012 (Everleigh?). The 3 that stick out above are the Blind Ref which was hosting a going away party for a lad who had to hand himself into Mountjoy the following morning, the Sunset which was too small for us to hide and felt generally uneasy to be in (not surprising yer man got shot in there 4 years after) and Mullets which kind of resembled the bar in Shameless but was great craic. Not the smartest thing for 4 early 20s country lads to do but I still remember it and we still talk about it!

Sounds like great craic, there are some quality pubs in that bunch though. The Sunset is probably the most terrifying pub I've been in, some of the most dodgy looking characters. The Blind Ref story is great btw!