The Core Nightclub

The Core appeared to be the only nightclub open in Tullamore on a Thursday, so it isn’t surprising that The Core is where we ended up.
When you go in, a man frisks you, paying particular attention to your hips and ankles but not really the rest of you, so you could have two shoulders in your back pockets and not necessarily get caught.
It was a tenner in (on account of their monopoly, I daresay), and once inside the door, the place was not dissimilar to the upstairs of that pub on Parnell St, the closest one to O’Connell St where they have all the gigs, you know the one I’m talking about.
Anyhow, this left us the teeniest bit disappointed, as we were in the humour for a proper nightclub rather than a live music venue (though the band that were playing were a very serviceable covers band). We stood around for a couple of minutes until one my friends discovered a the nightclub proper, which the owners had for some reason contrived to hide away in the back. Maybe so you’ll be pleasantly surprised to stumble across it as we were, who knows?
The nightclub was contained on one level, but was really big for that. I have no recollection of what the music was like, but i do remember that there was one really aggressive short guy, and that the bouncers were all enormous men in tuxedos. And the women: who’d have thought that the Co. Offaly was home to so many fine young ladies?
So, all in all, The Core made for an offaly good night (couldn’t resist, sorry).
The Boom Boom Room, that’s the place on Parnell St that I was trying to think of. So yeah, just inside the entrance of The Core is like the Boom Boom Room, though that seems like somewhat of a moot point now.