What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

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

J’Daves in Lake City

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

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.

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

Was in the tower's,an experience

There’s a bar right in the middle of Courtown in Wexford, sort of a prefab style “Ambrose Mcgintys” ?! or something like that -

Gets fairly tasty in there on summer weekends when it is packed with sunburned, thirsty “ah jaysis howyas” from conflicting parts of Dublin !

Ambrose Moloneys, a good spot for traveller funerals as well.

I was in the blacker once about 15 years ago….renamed Liz Delaney’s by then. Still referred to as the blacker though. Lad I worked with had his 40th there.

It was his local and we were told by him that if anything untoward should happen just say “ look I’m here with JF’s gang at the 40th.” Don’t think he was a ‘head’ or connected just he was a regular regular so us blow ins were left alone. Pub was quite run of the mill , drink was dirt cheap, the beer tasted rank, remembering going on the bottle’s because I couldn’t stomach the warm piss being served as draught…..upstairs, lots of hard looking cases, obviously coke had just became a big thing, proper auld auldfellas in the jacks taking it…

will some of the D4/Ringsend pubs be rough around the Engerland match next month ?

Planning on revisiting The Yacht Tavern in Ringsend. Its not a rough pub but id imagine if you go in acting the bollocks youd find out quickly

The Yacht is a lovely pub.

yeah quiet like it and not overly expensive either

great spot before a gig in the 3Arena

This is the place that came into my head when I saw this thread, used drink in it regularly a long time ago, I remember a Saturday night years ago the cops had to run from the place but it used be grand for a pint in the evenings on way home from work

Pretty decent food in there. Was very surprised.

Day drinking was once the cheapest day out but now €50 could only last till about half 11 in the night