Until recently, the Button Factory was the famed Temple Bar Music Centre, one of the foremost music venues in the city. After a pricey revamp, the Button Factory is decidedly...

Since it's in the centre of Temple Bar, Fitzsimons is popular with tourists and plays chart hits. The large basement club gets very crowded at weekends, and most of the crowd...

The Gaiety is a spacious, old-time concert hall whose main trade is opera and theatre, but it has given space to rock performers like the Divine Comedy and Lambchop. A few...

One of the city's oldest and largest theatres by day and a mega club by night, this big, Victorian place has several spaces for bands, DJs and films. There are lots of bars,...

This is the gayest gay club in Dublin, but it's still straight-friendly: on a good night the George is as much fun as any straight club will be. If you're in town on a Sunday...

Pumping out the housed-up chart hits for the past five years now, courtesy of DJ Fluffy, Glitz also has a great line in campy B-list PAs - think X Factor runner-ups and...

Populated with students taking advantage of the free Wi-Fi, fashion victims in vintage Dior tank tops and the odd celebrity (Robbie Williams comes here, apparently, when he's...

This basement club and live music spot is the least tourist-oriented venue in Temple Bar. In fact, the average tourist would probably find the Hub a little unnerving. It hosts...

You have to be 'somebody' to get in, and once inside, there are lots of reserved areas to negotiate. It looks to us like the crowd is just a bunch of hairdressers who think...

Three floors of fun make this a destination for half of the beautiful gay guys and all the beautiful gay girls in Dublin. Good house music fills the top floor with DJ Paddy...

The most popular one-nighter in Dublin only comes around every second month making sure the anticipation builds and builds. Recently, it abandoned its Temple Bar Music Centre...

This place is a safe bet all week. Mondays are particularly busy with Strictly Handbag (soul and '80s dancefloor fillers), while man-about-town Ollie Cole rustles up an...

Very quickly after it opened its doors in 2007, Southwilliam - or Swilly as its pressed for time clientele have been known to call it - became a favourite with Dublin's...

Southwilliam is growing in popularity by the day, thanks to a host of diverse club events. Run largely by local music industry figures, bloggers, stylists, musicians and DJs,...