BOUNCERS
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Forum Name: Memory Lane
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Topic: BOUNCERS
Posted By: Hogo
Subject: BOUNCERS
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:01
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Who were those guys ? bACK DURING '76 - '79 No one has talked about the vetting procedure carried out by these mini hitlers in order to get a membeship card. It was as bad as trying to get out of the USSR. |
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Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:02
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Denny was one, Sean McGuinness is another that I know of... I asked a friend of mine if he was going to any of the reunions and he said the only people he would be able to have a reunion with was the bouncers as he was never able to get past the door!! ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:04
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Ah T, I know John McGuiness, he's still running around the roads of Raheny. Barry was the blonde one in the sheepskin coat, and Aidan was another............80 - 85 ish. Rolo. |
Posted By: Hogo
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:04
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Mick Diggin was another - not a bad guy. Who was the one with the beard - wore a brown duffle.
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:08
Aidan is my cousin actually  ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Hogo
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:10
| Lucky you B. No months of being refused like some people !! |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:13
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You're joking Mel. See him regularly, our office is close to where he lives and I see him going in and out of the shop next door. Also met him at a few parties over the years, think his wife is related some way to a friend of mine or something. Rolo. |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:13
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First night we went down we were refused but got my friends Dad to bring us back down and got the membership that night.. done and dusted... I think some of those guys were x police men - I know Sean McGuinness is - see him all the time when I go home - nice guy. ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:15
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..............and to what Station was he attached, Teresa ? Your friend's Dad, not John McGuiness. Rolo. |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:16
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ehhhhhh don't know - perhaps Raheny No just a regular lad! ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 14:46
Yeah! Aidan was sound, used to say "He's ok" to the guys at the cash desk on occasion and I got in free - happy days  ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: fairy queen
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 15:01
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who was the guy who used to run the cloakroom? ------------- I wanted to be loved but just got laughed at instead |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 15:07
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The first night we went to the grove we also got refused and we had travelled all the way over from the Navan Road...it was a long journey home on the bus....but then we pleaded our case with the bouncers and after about 4 weeks of giving them big doe eyes....they gave us a membership. Myself and 3 friends felt like queens for the night. ------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Hogo
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 15:12
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See what I mean - what was the procedure anyway - It took me about 6 visits to get in. |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 15:16
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I seem to remember there being certain bouncers that were better than others for letting ya in... I remember yer man Barry okay..in the sheepskin... think I remember praying I wouldn't get him before I got my membership cos he always refused me.... Also remember them raiding the girls toilets quite a lot... and coming out with loads of empty vodka naggins...hehe!!..no area was safe from their investigations...cept maybe the very far corner of the stage area...  ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: RoundaboutToo!
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 15:37
Welcome Hayseed, Welcome Hogo Yes it took a few visits before you got in, then you had to sign a book for a while before you got your grovecard! Well worth it though! Didn't take long before bringing a bottle or 2 to St Annes, and a packet of mints! I only remember being refused 2 or 3 times, and had no drink taken! CP |
Posted By: Hogo
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 15:45
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It was the company you kept !!
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Posted By: RoundaboutToo!
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 16:11
Think you're right! remember we used to go in 1 or 2 at a time? and if we'd had a sip or 2 beforehand, we'd meet in the loo and have a giddy giggling session at having gotten past the bouncers! CP.
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Posted By: ARD 257 DJ
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 17:01
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I think the bouncer you are talking about was not attached to raheny stn. He was in the minesterial pool of drivers. I still see one of the other bouncers (retired garda) walking the roads a lot. I suspect he has had a nervous problem judging by his appearence. I think he was the one wearing the brown duffle. They were always fair and took no sh*t from anyone. I now have an 18 year old daughter and wish the places she goes to have as good doormen as the grove had. ------------- I never kissed anything that could lick it's own balls. |
Posted By: Breda
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 17:15
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One of the bouncers works in a cafe off Talbot Street (well he used to up to a few years ago). He always reminded me about the time I got sick over some poor bloke in the compound And he believed me when I told him it was cos I wasn't used to smoking major! Ha ha, nothing to do with the cans of Ritz consumed before hand (does anyone actually drink that stuff anymore) |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 17:27
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We used to head into the flowin tide before hand for our vodka and lime - yuck... gives me the willies now to think of it.... ah a few vodka's and the night began..... wish I had it all back again... hated standing in that line outside waiting to get in - downing the polo mints before you hit the door - praying hard to get past the bouncers.... ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 19:29
Treasa we must know each other to see....cos we went to the grove
around the same time and we also drank in the Flowing Tide....yep you
guessed it vodka and lime too....and for Rob it was a pint of harp. .. the flowing tide was such a small place we must of knowing some of the same people
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 20:06
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Yeah, the 'Nep', what a great place to drink..think that was the first pub (in town) I got into....dont really count the sheds on the seafront or horse & hound in harmonstown. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 20:18
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ah you'll have to email me a pic - I'll pm you with the address! ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Bluebell wrote:Posted By: crusty
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 20:43
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How do you do that "Breda wrote" copy thing, i'm just copy and pasting, it's not as cool as the other way. anyway - Breda wrote: One of the bouncers works in a cafe off Talbot Street (well he used to up to a few years ago). He always reminded me about the time I got sick over some poor bloke in the compound And he believed me when I told him it was cos I wasn't used to smoking major! Ha ha, nothing to do with the cans of Ritz consumed before hand (does anyone actually drink that stuff anymore) So Crusty replies: Yeah, it's The Pantry on Talbot St. I was in there this morning with Cecil and aparantly one of the bouncers still owns the place, can't remember his name. Anyway, Cecil was telling me that the all the exGrove staff are having their own reunion this Saturday night in Clontarf, so some of them might even brave The Hallowe'en Reunion while they're at it! |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 20:51
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Type [ Quote = Crussty ] at the start and [ / Quote ] to finish... don't use the spaces as I had to do it that way in order to show you... of couse quote= will be the person your quoteing ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Hogo
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 22:04
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"Post Reply" Classes now eh!! Keep it simple folks and relevant to the original post. Who were those guys. Any more stories of Fear and Loathing in the Grove c/o The Bouncers !! |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 22:25
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Ok Hubby said after years of going to the grove he arrived one night to Denny who said "ya know it's about time you stop coming here - your either drunk or stoned so go on it and let this be your last night" - and there it was the end of his grove era..... ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: ExArtanehead
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 00:41
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Eejit91, He did the same to me, but I went back the next night, I think he felt sorry for me... ------------- Remember when you were young? |
Posted By: RoundaboutToo!
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 01:07
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Likewise at some stage, but about 10 years later, I was in the Neptune, a few heads came in from a Neil Young concert and we all headed off to the Grove. What a welcome we got! from the bouncers, and from Cecil. CP |
Posted By: crusty
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 13:09
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Thanks for that eejit! Much appreciated! |
Posted By: star
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 13:16
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The other way I do the quote thingy is I highlight the bit I want quoted and then just click on the quote sign on the right of the page. ------------- Never Again on a school night! Famous last words |
Posted By: IanL
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 15:11
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The name "Barry" seems to stick in my mind as
the name of one of the bouncers. All the lads seemed to know his name. I always seem to remember the first time I went to the Grove I had brought my birth cert or suchlike and I was a touch nervous and overwhelmed by the sense of it being my "first Grove". The bouncers pointed to a desk for registration and I misheard them and turned towards the pay desk at which stage I remember some melodramatic swooping on me by the resident security lads as if I had broken the airport security barrier in Heathrow or something :) .. then one of the nicer bouncers put me straight as to where I was supposed to go for registration.. and bingo.. 5 minutes later I could smell patchouli , see long hair swirling all over the place and I was initiated into some of the best music I'd ever heard. --Ian |
Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 15:42
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Star cant believe it have wanted to know how to do that for ages ------------- Blondie I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ! |
Posted By: ARD 257 DJ
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 18:56
Just like this ------------- I never kissed anything that could lick it's own balls. |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 19:03
Yep Ian..Barry of the sheepskin coat..he's discussed elsewhere in this forum. I'm pretty sure I saw him at the Halloween Re-Union last year...looked the same ..without the coat..and a little older.... ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: crusty
Date Posted: 24-September-2006 at 13:57
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That's much easier! Thanks Star. |
Posted By: xgrovehead
Date Posted: 25-September-2006 at 13:14
Oh to have been a fly on the wall at that gathering!! Have you heard are they going to brave the 29th? ------------- We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. -Ancient Proverb. |
Posted By: IanL
Date Posted: 27-September-2006 at 15:31
Here is a sneak preview 
 ------------- Ian - Grover '81-'84 Exiled to Mayo since 2005 |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 27-September-2006 at 15:48
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Hey...where's the sheepskin coat??? hehehe!! ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: IanL
Date Posted: 27-September-2006 at 15:50
Possibly here 
 ------------- Ian - Grover '81-'84 Exiled to Mayo since 2005 |
Posted By: Potus
Date Posted: 05-October-2006 at 12:34
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There is only one bouncer that still remains to be a legend ( well maybe two)
Charlie stewart and finbar. I belive charlie is in teh fashion business in town and finbar is teh top cop.
all hail the legends ------------- Facts are Facts! |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 05-October-2006 at 14:37
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Hi Potus.. Don't know either of those two..by name at least.. then again..rarely ever knew any of their names...cept for Barry... Usually I was going through the door with my head down sucking on my polo mints trying to hide the smell of vodka and whatever concoction of minerals I'd mixed with it...  ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |