UCD Student Bar

So first things first, this bar is really ugly – particularly from the outside. It really is just a giant concrete box. However, it’s a bar, and it’s cheap, so that bit of aesthetic downfall is easy to overlook. The UCD Student Bar was no more than a three minute walk from where I lived on campus. It was beautiful. While it’s not the nicest, fanciest, or most captivating of bars, there isn’t anything wrong with it. It was always nice to stop by for a couple drinks on a weeknight when my friends and I didn’t feel like going too far. They had decent drink specials from time to time, and a couple times a week, they’d usually have some sort of event going on or band playing. This is a fine place to go if you’re studying at UCD, but I wouldn’t really recommend for anyone to make a trip to UCD just to check out the student bar.

Students like to drink. An ice-​cold beer after class is as vital part of student’s life as attending lectures, and as can be expected, the UCD bar is a popular drinking-​destination among students who arrive in herds to blow off some steam after a long day.
It’s a spacious place with pool tables, TVs, food and drink, usually offering cheap draft, but as it is always Fosters that’s on special offer (yuk!), it doesn’t make much difference to the wallet. The bar lacks all charm and I wouldn’t go there unless I was in the area, but it has served as a great venue to discuss group-​assignments (ideas somehow flow more easily when you have a pint in hand).
The bar occasionally hosts live concerts as well. I had a great time watching Digitalism over a year ago, well, it was a horrible venue for that kind of a gig and the sound was awful, but the crazyness on the dance floor and all the young students making out in every corner of the place was a hilarious experience. I also remember that the tickets were way cheaper than you can expect in town.