O’Faolain’s Club 51

The first night that I was in Kilkenny, we walked past Club 51 and thought that it probably wasn’t up to much, as it didn’t seem very loud and there wasn’t many people outside. So we went to Langton’s instead, and began to wonder if there were any architects in Kilkenny with a clue as to how to lay out a nightclub with a view to making it conducive to an evening’s libation.
Well, there are competent nightclub designers, but they all seem to have been stolen away from under Langton’s noses to go and work at Club 51. Whereas Langton’s is a big barn of a place, Club 51 is nicely divided along the middle by the bar. There was a fair few in when we were there, but even if it was fairly empty you wouldn’t notice it as much as in Langton’s. There are loads of arches from churches decorating the place, which were imported over from France, apparently (this little tit-​bit of information was given to us by a nice fella from Swords who had been living in Kilkenny for so long that he had gone native and was beginning to talk like a culchie. Hello Kelvin).
There was only piped music when we there, and the nightclub itself wasn’t opened mid-​week (we were just in the bar section, it seems) but the place was definitely better than Langton’s.
Highly recommended.