Pubs reopening June 29th

[SoundMan]

It was at the end of browns hill.

That was The Left Bank as I knew it - underneath Nosey Keefe's with the door on the quay.

 

[SoundMan]

Was Robert the gay guy running in then?

Running where? The 'Tav was run by Kay Sylvester, Terry O'Brien (RIP) and John Sylvester in those days. Don't remember it ever having been run by a Robert, gay or straight tbh.

 

[SoundMan]

The hill from popes quay to the bottom of Shandon street, the spa inn later called the fountain was directly over head.

The one with red brick frontage? I thought that was called The Rocket?

 

[SoundMan]

Shelias in Sunday's well was a great pub,at the corner of the hill going up to Jaila.

Used to stop there or The Village Inn when hitch-hiking back from Limerick and the driver would turn off to visit someone in The Regional Hospital as it was then. Amazing the number of times I'd be left in Sunday's Well by people wanting to avoid city centre, and I'd quaff a quart while waiting for a lift home

 

[SoundMan]

It was a great pub for rings,left bank

I remember it as always being underlit. Played a few games of Don in there with John behind the bar against some other pair, one of whom unusually for the game of Don at the time, was an ol doll

 

[SoundMan]

He was just before them. He drove an E type jag

Vaguely remember a guy in his 40/50s with wavy ginge hair in the late 1970s - was that him?

 

[jimmym]

Welcome to mastermind, our first contestant tonight is soundman and his chosen sublect
is the pubs of Cork city,

 

[Sham Corkman]

There were so many name changes in pubs, It's hard to keep track

The one with the most name changes surely must be Nestors, after it being Nestors it was Nosey Parkers, Georgia Brownes, Grass Hoppers, The Bailey, Grand Central, and soon to be Brewdog. I’m sure I got the order wrong and missed a name.

I remember a fella I knew was going to buy a car from me and was involved in the Bailey remodel. He got a call at the time to say the building needed to be pretty much knocked and rebuilt and that was the end of buying the car! I think it cost them a fortune.

I think in the Grasshopper era is when it had the snakes in tanks. Wasn’t fond of the snakes being there, imagine the outrage now if that was still happening?

I think when it was Nestors was my favourite set up. I think Kieran Nestor was the guy running it, I wonder what he’s up to now?

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Yeah Nestors was a good spot for a pint.

Got a few lock ins there.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

I was chatting to a Benny employee over brunch earlier and got a few updates on Ziggy's.

According to my source, they are changing the name to "The Park", and it will be serving both cocktails and food. I'm personally sceptical about the food bit as I don't think Ziggy's had a kitchen, so they'll have to build one?

She also said that Benny didn't know that they were going to paint over the murals and wasn't happy that it was done. Not sure how true that is but I hope it is. It doesn't seem like Benny's style to go around erasing parts of Cork's heritage.