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Pubs, bars and clubs are what Dublin does best. Dedicated venues around the city offer live traditional music and dancing, jazz nights, salsa nights, country nights, quiz nights, sports nights and just plain drinking nights. Café-bars provide snacks and sophistication, while old-fashioned pubs still ooze that inimitable Dublin character that so many visitors come here to experience.
Tourists flock to Temple Bar, where you can choose to party well into the early hours on any night of the week. Elsewhere, the area that really breaks the craic barrier is South Great George’s Street and Camden Street, which from Thursday to Sunday seem to turn into a huge street party. This is where young Dubliners come to kick-start their weekends, beginning at The Globe, Hogan’s or the Bleeding Horse, moving on when the mood takes them to a club on Harcourt Street – depending on the entrance charge, the DJ or the price of Bacardi breezers – before finally slipping home to sleep it off as the street cleaners arrive to clear up the night’s excesses.
Dublin clubs go in and out of fashion faster than Superman can change his lycra, so probably the best way of spotting the city’s latest happening place is to follow the crowds. Otherwise check out the listings in the Event Guide or In Dublin and watch the pub notice boards. A Dub club may be little more than the upstairs or basement room of one of the city’s many bars, or it may be a huge, over-designed nightlife venue catering for a specific type of music, or age group or sexual orientation on different nights.
Pubs and bars are open until 2330 during the week, with many having extended opening hours until 0100 or later at the weekend. Clubs stay open later still and charge admission, although some are free early in the evening in order to tempt the punters inside. Admission charges vary according to the day, time, the DJ and the overall popularity of the venue, ranging from around E3 midweek upstairs in The International to E25 in Spirit on a Saturday night.
Note that pubs that serve particularly good food are listed in the Eating and drinking chapter, while those that are renowned for music, dance or comedy are listed in the Arts and entertainment chapter .
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