Any good ones out there? (not made up)
Personally reckon "The Dogs Bollix" complete with various sets of dogs gonads (plastic) on the wall is, er, the dogs bollix.
"Muddy Farmer"
"Bog" (with resident 2 man traditional band "Dodgy and the Bastard" ....did'nt seem fair to ask which one was the bastard)
"Father Teds"
"The Stagger Inn" in Castlerea.
There is one in Gran Canaria called The Randy Leprechaun.Absolute shithole but funny name.
Hairy Neds in crosskeys co cavan
Quote from: parttimeexile on September 25, 2007, 08:32:35 AM
There is one in Gran Canaria called The Randy Leprechaun.Absolute shithole but funny name.
There's one in Annascaul as well...hard to miss going through the village.
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"Stoop your Head" in Skerries is a good one, I found out why its named so the hard way! :-[
The Derryhirk inn in antrim was formerly known as the I Go Inn.
Quote from: his holiness nb on September 25, 2007, 09:22:24 AM
"Stoop your Head" in Skerries is a good one, I found out why its named so the hard way! :-[
You'll get a quare feed of Crab in there.
Filthy McNasty's in London is a good one
I used to like "The Dew Drop Inn" in Galway, both as a name and as a watering hole. Think it's fallen to progress since though. :(
there is a bar in inisowhen in Donegal thats called " the rusty nail" allways thought it was a good name and they serve a great pint of plain
The Camán Inn in Cloghan, Co. Offaly is a clever name I think, and also the Pull Inn in Pullough, Co. Offaly as well, bandit country out there though :D
Quote from: AZOffaly on September 25, 2007, 11:46:07 AM
The Camán Inn in Cloghan, Co. Offaly is a clever name I think, and also the Pull Inn in Pullough, Co. Offaly as well, bandit country out there though :D
I was in a pub in Ferbane I think it was , the seats were ripped out of an aul mini bus , it had Harp calendars circa 1977 still on the walls , the barman was about 90 and he wiped the overflow of stout off the glasses with the dirtiest rag you ever seen . Jaysus the pints were lovely .
When was that downredandblack? I'd say that was a good while ago, or else it wasn't Ferbane. (I'm from Ferbane).
I'd say it was in and around 15yrs ago , I'll not tell ya what I was at down there .
Fair enough :) 15 years ago. Hmmm. Might have been Higgins maybe? Or Gleesons?
Bursted Sofa in Clones for services to the Border County Vernacular. Best Australian Outback I've heard tell of-Sexy Rexy's Piss Parlour
Tipplers in omagh - though an absolute shithole in its day, great name.
Quote from: Puckoon on September 25, 2007, 04:10:55 PM
Tipplers in omagh - though an absolute shithole in its day, great name.
Was it in a few times on a Saturday night and I was the only one in it. A kip of a place. I heard why, but I'm saying nothing ;)
The Top Bar and the the Bottom Bar near Dungannon is enuff said.
Speaking of kips....does anybody remember "The Wander Inn" in Newry and just over the 'bridge you had Joe Magees...affectionately known as "The Swingin Diddy". :D
Its not a bar, but the Dun Roamin nursing home in omagh is a cracker.
Quote from: rrhf on September 25, 2007, 04:15:08 PM
The Top Bar and the the Bottom Bar near Dungannon is enuff said.
The Bottom Bar? aye that'd be right - full of drunken West Dungannon bums no doubt....nuff said
On the subject of shitholes - Can't be many worse than Frankie O'Neills in Bunboran (gone now) - some characters about though.
Anyone ever been to "the Drake" near Mullingar? i half expected livestock to wander through
Quote from: THE MIGHTY QUINN on September 25, 2007, 12:23:18 PM
Pub in Killough Co Down the Anne Boal Inn, named after its owner at the time
I knew the people that owned it. Poor Anne died in a terrible depression shortly after her fiance was shot dead in the bar. The whole community was shocked. I new her brother and he went to work the day after the killing. They thought he was in shock but when asked was he OK he said "ah sure these things happen!"
The Penny Hill,Lucan
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The Deadmans Inn ,Lucan
The Nore Nets Durrow,Laois
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All in Kilkenny some great names for Pubs
The Pumphouse
Anaconda
Rafter Dempseys
Paris Texas
Matt The Millers
Tynans on the Bridge
Little Andy's
Jaysus nobody has mentioned the one percenters club ;)
The Wounded Knee...Lyreacrompane, Co. Kerry
The Farmer's Home (or Hole)...Strabane, Co. Tyrone
Had a friend that used to frequent "The Dieing Cow" ... somewhere in the mountains of Wicklow or Carlow. If the other customers were anything like him it would have been some spot.
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Quote from: 5 Sams on September 25, 2007, 04:20:58 PM
Speaking of kips....does anybody remember "The Wander Inn" in Newry and just over the 'bridge you had Joe Magees...affectionately known as "The Swingin Diddy". :D
Was Joe Magees not frequented by ladies of questionable repute?
Sure was Mighty...where do you think it got the nickname???
There's one on Cork's Northside affectionately (though not officially) known as "The Flying Bottle".
Quote from: Hardy on September 26, 2007, 10:05:25 AM
There's one on Cork's Northside affectionately (though not officially) known as "The Flying Bottle".
em i think i'll give that one a miss when i'm down in cork hardy
Akabusi'sWhere everybody knows your naaame
I know it's Irish Bar's, but I seen a Cafe in Paris once called....
Café Fuckem. :D
Apparently theres a pizza takeaway in Crete called PizzaWorst.
Well if we are going off topic slightly, there used to be an ad for a Chinese in Monasterevin, the Chinese was called 'Soon Fat'. I kid you not.
Years ago in one of the rougher parts of Inner City Dublin, there was a pub known (unofficially) as The Glasgow Inn. The local window repairer got a lot of business there.
on the road from thurles to limerick via newport "mary the peelers" " the congo bar" "the Rising Sun"
Monaghan Town " The Squeling pig" , theres a few more with the same name around the place but the one in Monaghan got there first.
Quote from: AZOffaly on September 26, 2007, 12:10:58 PM
Well if we are going off topic slightly, there used to be an ad for a Chinese in Monasterevin, the Chinese was called 'Soon Fat'. I kid you not.
Yup, still there is Soon Fat. Just up from The Nags Head.
Other ones I know of;
The Green Kiwi (no longer called that) - Portarlington
The Vatican - Kildare Town
The Wrens Nest - Portlaoise
Quote from: The Subbie on September 26, 2007, 01:31:26 PM
Monaghan Town " The Squeling pig" , theres a few more with the same name around the place but the one in Monaghan got there first.
There's a band in Derry called the Squealing Pig.
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Quote from: The Subbie on September 26, 2007, 01:31:26 PM
Monaghan Town " The Squeling pig" , theres a few more with the same name around the place but the one in Monaghan got there first.
There's a band in Derry called the Squealing Pig.
There's a woman in my house called...........
Mrs. Hardstation?
Not Irish but 'different' all the same! Been there and it is real :o
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"Into the West" Frenchpark
"The Elf Inn" Elphin
Little Glancy's - Carrick (on Shannon)
And for lack of imagination - how about "The Croghan Bar" in Croghan ?
One of the pubs in Boyle -Clarkes ??- used to be known by the Townies as "The Cowshite Inn"
QuoteI tell her a friend of mine once drank in an Irish-Cuban bar in the Czech republic called O'Shea Guevara.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cuba/story/0,11983,711297,00.html
A journo in an interview with Che Guevara's daughter, apparently the pub was called O'Shea Guevara to highlight the revolutionaries Irish roots.
Quote from: aontroim on September 26, 2007, 07:18:24 PM
Not Irish but 'different' all the same! Been there and it is real :o
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An Intel worker maybe??
eaterie in crete is actually called pride park but it served pizzaworst and curryworst,
Quote from: kinghen on September 28, 2007, 11:26:02 AM
eaterie in crete is actually called pride park but it served pizzaworst and curryworst,
should that not be pizzaWURST and curryWURST, as in german for sausage. currywurst are fantastic, a huge german roast sausage in curry flavoured sauce. yumyum
Quote from: Rossfan on September 26, 2007, 08:01:06 PM
"Into the West" Frenchpark
Original name of "Into the West" was The Sheepwalk Inn - until they sold the rights of the name about ten years ago.
The Filthy Hoare in Blackross
When I lived in Dublin many years ago, there was a pub near the South Circular Road called "The Bleeding Horse". It could be there still for all I know.
A friend of Mine from Westport has a Pub called "The Paddy Field" in Guangzhou, China!
I heard of a Cuban Irish bar somewhere called "o'che guevara's"
that it was a bit of raw wit from some genius