You surely bought him a pint since
It’s meant to be a decent spot for hen nights too. Although I heard a story about a girl I used to work with pulling a 70-something year old retired Garda in the niteclub there a few years back.
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Was on a Stag up in Galway the Saturday/Sunday of the Galway races, 2004.
- the Stag was at the gg’s with a bunch of the lads on the Saturday, they plied him with whiskey and he wasn’t seen until Sunday at noon, missed half his own stag.
- knew the stag from college, he played rugby so had some of the gouys down from the ‘Hide. One of the lads walked out of the Corrib Houses gaff with a cracking bird on the Sunday morning, walk of shame jibes, bantz off the hook - he showed up at the wedding with an even more cracking wife
- another rugger bugger pulled another bird. We were in the pub later looking at KK v WD semi and he was banging on about smashing in her back door. He ended up marrying her
- two of the lads on that stag have since passed and the stag has remarried after his first wife cheated on him
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Which one of the characters here is actually you
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Not one of the lads who died
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The one who got their back door smashed in
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that’s the one
I don’t think it’s open at all anymore is it?
I can’t stand stags and weddings tbh.
I don’t really attend birthday parties , christenings and any sort of organised events like that.
I’m amazed how badly people take it as well.
The Protestant Class really know how to do a stag
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Yeah, whyever would they feel slighted by that.
Half day the Friday, out of town and on the bus/ train by 1pm is key. Slow start, get to know a few of the “newbies” or “outsiders” i.e. who to avoid or will be a bit of craic outside of the usual protagonists. You’ll be all checked in and sitting in the boozer before 5pm, pace picks up, first night will take care of itself and allegiances are made.
Up early the Saturday, a few cans for the early risers before the early house/ local boozer which you’ll have agreed the early knock in from the night before. Would then have a pub arranged up for the half 12 kick off/ racing which will be beside a bookies/ attached. Half the others will start to surface by this stage throughout the next two hours (dying or never drinking again). You’ll be well set up for a bit of soakage now for the day in this pub, all ready to go for the 3pm accumulators. By this stage the other (dying or never drinking again) crowd will be going off paintballing/ fishing/ bubble football or something else wacky - so you’ll be back to the early risers and the day two’ers who are only landing in (tell them fuck all about the night before). Pints and winners galore and you’ll be ready for the vodka’s by the time the rest of the entourage return. Time to move on and get the base for the evening before falling into whatever nightclub is sorted.
Sunday wake up, source breakfast roll, cans for bus/ train home and into town for a few. Might get a good afternoon kick off and then a few tunes in Cassidys for the dogged few who have stuck it out
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Apart from wasting time in and out of the bookies that sounds like a grand weekend.
I’d say they’d be fairly happy Dr Doom and Gloom isn’t coming tbf.
@Malarkey top three pubs in Kilkenny for Guinness. This stag is so organised I’ll hardly have 5 minutes to make my own decisions, but if I get a chance to breakaway where will I head?
O’Riadas should be hit anyway. You can drop into Cleeres while you are down that neck of the woods.
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No problem.
1a Ó Riada’s (Parliament Street): all but unique interior and atmosphere, with excellent Guinness.
1b Cleere’s (Parliament Street): another singular place, with a fine pint of Guinness.
2a Lenehan’s (Barrack Street): perhaps the best pint of Guinness in town and a really lovely spot.
2b Tynan’s (John’s Bridge): Guinness not as good as days of yore but still an experience if you like beautiful pubs.
If you have a couple of hours away from the madding crowd, I would start in Lenehan’s and end up in Cleere’s/Ó Riada’s. Or vice versa. Tynan’s is about equidistant. But you are talking about scarcely a 5m walk in its entirety.
Another spot worth seeing, if you are in Kilkenny, is the Hole in the Wall, which is unique. Just off High Street. If coming from the Castle end, take the left hand side of High Street and keep an eye to your left as you walk on past The Book Centre. The passageway is a few seconds further.
Other reliable pints of Guinness:
Bollard’s (Kieran Street – improved a lot in recent months, due to new proprietors, and right in centre of town).
JB Burke’s (top of John Street, opposite end to John’s Bridge – near Lenehan’s and across the road from O’Gorman’s).
Pat Carroll’s (Ballybought Street – across the road from Lenehan’s).
Doherty’s (Friary Street – just up off High Street, with turn immediately after The Book Centre).
O’Gorman’s (top of John Street, opposite end to John’s Bridge – near Lenehan’s and across the road from JB Burke’s).
The Harp Bar (High Street – right hand side, coming from Castle end).
The Nore Bar (Greensbridge – terrific pint altogether and same owner as Lenehan’s).
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Top man
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The @Limericks should take note,that’s how you give a pub guide.
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Don’t make me bump my Limerick pubs post
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