What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

only one bar in the country where all the heads of the organisations gather and plot their criminality

The bar in the Dail.

Thats it ! 👍️

The Crossroads Tavern - Shannon, Co. Clare. The building looks like someone said "ah sure, that'll do" mid-construction, packed their tools into the van & never came back to finish the job. Once inside you are met by all sorts of characters. No problem sorting a sniff of coke either. That said, most of the clientele were grand on the odd few nights I was there (the fact that I was with a local probably helped) though I did get the feeling that something could kick off any minute. I wouldn't have gone there on my own. Even from the outside I could get the vibe that it's *that* sort of pub which doesn't take kindly to outsiders, blow-ins or passing traffic.

Shannon Nights - Shannon, Co. Clare. We used to call it the Shannon Fights. One of the lads I worked with remarked that the night club attached to it (Evolution) was proof that evolution could in fact go in reverse also, if you had been there you would have agreed. It was grand for a couple of pints after work on a Friday but it was always a good idea to get out of there before the troublemakers came out to play - that meant all the dodgy characters who couldn't get in anywhere in Limerick or Ennis & descended on the place. Throw in a few individuals with shallow gene pools & about the same number of full-time mad ba5tards from Clarecastle, Newmarket-on-Fergus & Sixmilebridge into the mix for good measure. As soon as their night out was in full-swing anything could happen. The car park in the early hours of a Sunday morning was top-notch entertainment for those who enjoyed the sight of funny-looking inbreds pucking the heads off each other (viewing from a safe distance was preferable, obviously). Closed down now.

The Furry Bog - Whitechurch, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Don't know what it's like now but about a decade ago it had a particularly menacing vibe about it & was indeed frequented by some shady characters. I heard the rumor at the time that the owner installed a shipping container in the car park which he modified into a garage for his car so nobody could damage it but don't know if that was true or not. Is it still going?

Castle Inn - Rathfarnham Village, Dublin 14. Now closed. Google it.

The Sarah Curran, also in Rathfarnham (long gone now) wasn't so much a dodgy pub as an absolute kip of a joint managed by some right to55ers.

The Sunset House pub ;) i think it's closed down now though. I passed it one Sunday afternoon and had a peek in the window to see some fella giving it loads dancing to some dance track on the juke box. I thought it was pretty amusing.

Talking of the sunset House....Many years ago I was working summer job and had to paint outside windows of the pub

I was up a 40 ft ladder painting top window,

I noticed a couple of young lads running around the corner laughing

Looked down and saw guinness delivery truck about to drive off

Had a rope tied from its back to the bottom rung of my ladder

i Scuppered down and had to jump the last ^ feet

The Old Mill, Tallaght.

I can tell you this is one rough pub.

Ive never seen so many rough looking people, loads of security staff.

The Launch in Limerick city...oh boy.

A city centre bar in Sheffield, lovely city, nice people, except this place....no one said anything bad to me but I knew to get the f##k out of there !

I probably said it before, The Slaughterhouse in Mullingar.

I used to pass on the 75 bus it in it's previous incarnation of "Burke's" back in 1995.

The lack of windows was the giveaway!

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Used to go for a pint on a Sunday afternoon in it occasionally... just for the ambience.

The tube for the wet t shirts contests was still there from the night before.

If you were a doorman there part of you job description was to be regularly shot at.

Charlie Bowden was a bar man there , before he into the witness protection program.He did his own security at the bar.

Me and my BF accidentally walked into a brothel type bar recently. We thought it was just a normal bar. It was empty, poorly lit and no music (not in Ireland)

We wandered in and sat down and noticed there was just like 5/6 skanky dressed up looking women standing around. They all one by one came over to say hello and shake both of our hands! We were like WTF..... the type of skanky women with barely any teeth yet cheap looking heels and clothes on.

Then the girls kept coming back over and actually started lingering at our table just standing there like they were waiting for instruction. I didn't cop on and asked her was she okay and told her to feck off basically. She looked a bit shocked and then went back to their table and they were all just standing looking over for ages.

We quickly paid and left! Turns out it is a brothel type hotel where you can get full service for probably about a tenner, proper disgusting, that's the last time I go into a place that 'looks like a bar but doesn't have any signs' :V