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What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

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    #1712
    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,439 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Any of the pubs on the strip in Puerta Banus. Drug riddled dives. I was there with friends about 20 yrs ago when one of them bumped into a guy and spilled some of his drink. The guy pulled out a knife in the bar and told us he would stab every one of us. A regular in the bar, think it was Sinatras, told us the guy was a well known English drug dealer.



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    #1713
    Still stihl waters 3
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    The Ritz in Lisdoonvarna, was a great pub years ago but anytime I go into it now its full of 30 somethings openly selling and taking coke, I was in one night in September and the local scumbags have cosied up with a few Ukrainian scumbags being given shelter and safety in one of the local hotels to form a sort of drug gang, you can now get your beer, drugs and a hooker all in one, it was a solid place one time but lax management has turned it into a serious sh1thole



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    #1714
    Brendan Bendar
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    J’Daves in Lake City



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    #1715
    Count Dracula
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Count Dracula


    The World's End in Kilkenny was definitely an eye opener. Some terrifying locals, from the moment I entered I never felt all that comfortable. In saying that nothing negative materialised, but every sentence and piece of conversation was laced with lingering tenacity, it felt like I was a competitor in a survivor competition.

    Some locals suffer from their own inability to generate a healthy atmosphere, Irish people are constantly skeptical and hate having their routines unsettled, that can be as simple as staring at a Vampire Lord they have never seen before.



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    #1716
    Andrea B.
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    If The Harbour Bar of old in Galway hasn't been mentioned.....there ya go.



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    #1717
    10-10-20
    Registered Users Posts: 7,023 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119926758#Comment_119926758

    I've been in every one of those bars and every ludicrous story that you hear like this is completely and utterly true. PB has fallen down in the world and is a pox-ridden slime-hole now.



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    #1718
    ancapailldorcha
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    The Diamond Jubilee on the Shankill Road.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #1719
    yourdeadwright
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    Jim Byrnes wee pub in Queen's NYC ,

    Long story how i ended up there once ,still not sure if it was dangerous or just full of odd balls,



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    #1720
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 25,278 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119787803#Comment_119787803

    My Dad was a childhood friend of Terry Killeen / Killion The owner of The Castle… he eventually sold up because of the hassle involved running it. Made a pretty penny I believe but the effort involved and apparently he was targeted by gangsters looking for protection and in the end he just got out… man had a wife and 3 young kids.



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    #1721
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,021 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119930341#Comment_119930341

    Do they serve the divils buttermilk?



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    #1722
    cheese sandwich
    Registered Users Posts: 589 ✭✭✭cheese sandwich


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119926758#Comment_119926758

    My friends got mugged with a knife by an Irish guy who had ‘befriended’ us in one of those pubs. Dodgy place, dodgy people



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    #1723
    ancapailldorcha
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119936232#Comment_119936232

    Eh?

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #1724
    dirtyden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,734 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119936247#Comment_119936247

    Guinness, it was Ian Paisleys description of it.



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    #1725
    gameoverdude
    Registered Users Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭gameoverdude


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119785787#Comment_119785787

    I had no hearing problems.



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    #1726
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,442 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119937312#Comment_119937312

    Fair enough.

    To be honest, it was a very tense affair. I'd to order the drinks as I was with two lads - one from Ballymun and the other from Cork - since I'd a Donegal accent. We got three pints of lager, necked them and got the f*ck out. There was a shop just behind the bar and it very much seemed like the sort of place where non-locals got made very, very quickly.

    There was a parade of some sort on outside, plenty of police officers with MP5's and posters of murdered soldiers on every lamp post. Dodgy seems a bit redundant.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #1727
    Michealog
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Michealog


    Pssssst


    that sounds like Holy hour in Ti Padraicins in the late 70’s


    without the sun



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    #1728
    coolshannagh28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119930341#Comment_119930341

    Dubarrys on Princes st ,long closed, in Belfast docklands for a bet, went to buy a drink and the uncle Andy character at the end of the bar opened his jacket to reveal a revolver and told us to "sling your hook before ye get into trouble""



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    #1729
    Lionel Fusco
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭Lionel Fusco


    The Capel Inn.



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    #1730
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Was in the tower's,an experience



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    #1731
    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    There was a pub that opened on benburb St pre luas I happened to fall into many years ago, must have been the only person who either wasn't dealing or on the game, literally every girl in the place was a Hooker, I remember the manager saying come here and sit and the bar and have one drink and I'll organize a taxi, don't talk to anyone they all either think your a guard or a tourist and won't last 5 mins if it kicks off

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