Fibber Magees

Yes, it does exist, not just a line your parents told you when you were a child.

This is a great place to grab a pint and listen to some great music. There are pool tables downstairs and it seems to be a happening local spot!

Loved it!!! Great place for live music, friendly chats and snooker! Met some great folks!!

Wow this bar was huge! And totally came through when we were looking for a place to go after 1am on on last night in Dublin. The drink selection was great and the service was friendly! There were all kinds of rooms with different activities so you could take a whole group here and everyone would have fun. There's even dancing on the back patio, which also had a very large seating space. Games inside and more quiet lounging at the front. Would love to come back here again!

This place has a grouse (that's ocker for great) beer garden, plays sweet rock tunes and serves great beers via the friendly banter of happy bar staff. Also has a band room downstairs! Even someone from the land of beer and beer gardens (Australia in layman's terms) like me was thoroughly impressed by the layout.

5/5 would drink at again (or even a third time today!)

Backs onto Murray's and another bar for the beer garden. Murray's does a wider variety of food but alas no metal and the other bar has some groovy craft beers. So all together it's a killer combo.

Whelans. Button Factory. The Academy.

While these places may play rock music over the course of an evening, they aren't really rock music places. Whelans may have the slightest of rocker elements, but it is mainly for cool indie kids, while The Academy caters to indie kids and (God help us) emos.

For a real, proper, dyed in the wool moper-experience in a nightclub, Fibbers on Parnell St is the only place to head.

Fibbers play heavy metal, and not just one Metallica song slotted in over the course of the night like Whelans might do, but for pretty much the entire night. And they don't do it in a sort of Spinal Tap, ironic way like "Wow, those guys are in such an adolescent state of arrested development, so much so that it's cool". No Fibbers, and their patrons, actually listen to heavy metal under the delusion that it is aurally a pleasant experience. Nutters.

For the men folk at Fibbers, long hair and beards is the order of the day. For the women... Well, as everyone knows, most girls will have outgrown the ridiculous metal affectation by the time they are eighteen or so, so there are very few women. And why would they want to go and mosh with a load of unwashed men with weird organisms growing in their unkempt beards?

All this being said, Fibbers isn't the worst spot in the world. The drink is cheap (€2 on Mondays), and the music certainly makes a change from anywhere else in town. Just don't go if you want to pull, as the place is a complete sausage-fest (although if you go showered and well groomed, you will have a leg up on most of the competition).

So, if you want something completely different for a night out, head to Fibbers, particularly if it's a Monday. Better yet, wear your Britney t-shirt there.

Looking for a bar with good music? Fan of rock/metal? Then head on over!!

I was taken here by a friend for a couple "quiet" pints (after many that I had already necked) and fell in love instantly.

The place itself is massive both inside and in the beer garden. The rocking staff are friendly, chatty and helpful. The pints cold and varied and the music is excellent. All over the walls are posters of bands and gigs, there's pool tables should you wish to beat your friends or strangers for some drinking money and there are plenty of TVs to catch the sport on.

Take a walk on the wild side, get your devil horns in the air and head bang your on over for a rocking good time! \m/

Metal up your @$$ !

Nothing feels better than getting your ears infested with dirty sounding music, your brain drenched in putrid smell and your eyes bursting tears of cyanide from...okay, it's not really like that...

But...

If you're looking for a rock bar with authentic garage feel this is the place. Occasionally you may be surprised by bands starting to play. I know I was several times. Cheap, has a beer garage...garden..thing outside for smokers and sometimes gets a bit too crowded.

Bring it on!

Fibbers is the one stronghold of old-school metal and no-frills rock in Dublin, and keeps going for I don't know how many years now. Besides serving as a live venue with shows on Fridays and Saturdays, it also has a late bar license that keeps it open even on Sundays until 3 in the morning. Plus the occasional drinking promotion. On Thursdays it's 3 € per pint, with a 5 € cover charge at the door after 8 PM.


Disclaimer: this one is about tattoos, long hairs, drinking shots and rocking out loud. It stinks. It is full of bearded people and the odd tourist group looking for action on a Sunday night. Don't expect a) food, b) good manners or c) clean toilets. But do expect to meet some famous rock musicians (Korn, Machine Head and Down amongst others) for their aftershowparty here.

I went there with classmates, it was their place of choice. As soon as I went in I felt like in a class b movie. The place is a dark, dingy loud run down bar, with just a few tables, the loudest heavy metal music ever, and the hottest beer I've drank in Ireland so far.
Not going back there again.

Ah Fibbers. I look back on the teenage years I spent in its dark depths headbanging my little heart out and smile. They were good times. As a poor student their €3 euro drinks promotion was perfect me for me. I could go out for an entire night on thirty quid and still be able to afford a bag of chips afterwards.

Fast forward to that same fresh-faced youngster now in his mid twenties. My hairline isnt exactly where it was in those days either. I decided to start frequenting Fibbers once again for the hell of it. Someone once said to me that if you don't go to Fibbers before you're 19 it's probably best not to bother at all. This is partly true.

A pervasive odour of sweat and stale beer greets you as you enter and the heat of the place would knock you out if you were slightly dehydrated at the time. I find myself standing in the smoking area most nights as the weather gets slightly better. The cheap drinks is a great crowd-pleaser still and there is some fun to be had here but maybe I've just outgrown the place.

A solid boozer with great tunes even if it is a little rough around the edges.