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Inside Information in Portrush, Antrim*

Portrush, Antrim Hookup Spots and Stuff Only Locals Know

Hook-up Spots (That hallowed spot where everyone hangs around with their mates dreaming of the time when they can get into the pubs or clubs - a bench, a corner: you name it.)

• the doss house in kerr street , just flash your lights cheap cheap
• Look guys! I know that the scene died for awhile, and I know the shops have stopped selling boards, BUT HAS ANYONE SEEN THE PLACE RECENTLY? ITS A FUCKIN BUILDING SITE! heres a fourty foot long, waist high, grindy ass wall just across the road fro the amphi, there building a massive triple kinked ledge at antrim gardens, and theres ply wood everywhere. COME BACK! THE TOWN IS GOOD AGAIN!
• the car park out after whitepark before they put the stupid curds!!!! jus to spoil our fun
• We have been known to meet in the PSNI Community Centre at Metropole Corner
• Fryer Tucks new to the town try it out
• the potty house
• O.K... The Amphitheatre is still the main hook up spot, problems is all the hardcore skaters have retired to the home of The Perpetual Drug Haze, leaving four or five of us, you might find us at the weekends during winter if its not too windy or wet
• -----BLANK----- you dont need to no were i hang out!!
• Some chums and I likes to meet up at the amphitheater (more commonly known as the "big circle") in Portrush, usually bringing a cheap football with us which is often lost on the last "have-it" blast at the end of each exhibitionary session - its good for some random kids and it saves us carrying it around.
• the area outside Barrys
• down the backs every nite when tiny noel max big eggy and the boys showed the young innocent holidaymakers the REAL portrush
• When i lived in portrush it was kellys i have recently moved to barcelona and will miss kelly´s especially on a wednesday night it is cool
• nobbys corner
• nobbys corner
• Having been here for many a year have not found any yet.
• West Strand,Bitchen Waves
• The big old bus.
• No where any more, towns dead! georges house is good sh*t though if u want to chong the bit out
• The Station...
• The Port hotel is a great spot to hook up with someone , its great when your able to slide off the seats under the table !!! god knows what you slide off but its possibly something a little child has left at 3.00am after doing kareoke with krazy davy!!!!!!!!!! but had a good night
• THe Crud
• Berties Bistro
• The Coleraine Rd forget the number but worth a visit.
• normally down round the harbour where everyone is just about to go!!
• traks sorry soi is the place for weedin and poppin!!! then after the partys over hit the egg for an expensive nite/morn!
• oK about to sound like a real scally here but juring the summer love to hang out at the sand dunes. Bit a drink and a pile of friends all acting like idiots and of course the fire starter who is so going to get u caught. ah well if I do sound scally its cause portrushs started to were of on me.
• traks
• Harbour Bar if you are posh if not ramore head shelters.
• Arcadia, great to hang about on a sunny summers afternoon to escape from the jamesy's. Harbour Hill with 8 cans of wife beaters in the winter.
• Everywhere! I love this town!
• Sand Dunes
• TRAKS IS A SCALLY HOLE GO TE CHAINES PORTSTEWART
• The cop shop
• Town Hall .
• All hookers are behind the grapevine charge BIG bucks with big BUTTS
• want hooked up??? visit the atlantic bar great craic but the men are a bit OLD!
• Ramore Head Shelters with a nice bottle of cider and Bucky beside you.
• the shelters.
• Did you say Hook-Er spot?? Try the back of the Springhill about 3am on a Sunday- might be lucky to find a half eaten Traks reject getting pounded by RJ.
• Morellis Corner
• The Harbour Hill with your Babe in one hand and a fish supper in the other .
• Plenty of them it all depends how much u want to spend , some take credit card as well as cash they are all very clean these days .
• Right just outside the train station as you wait for your mates from Belfast/Derry/Goodness knows where else to turn up.
• Whiterocks carpark .
• ***THE WAR MEMORIAL*** THE PLACE TO BE ON A FRIDAY OR SATURDAY NIGHT!! BRING YOUR CARRY OUT LARGE OR SMALL, 12 TINS OF HARP AND DRINK THEM ALL; GET CONFRONTED BY KINCAID,GET LIFTED CHARGED THEN OUT ON BAIL!! ~CONNS 2001~
• The amphitheatre on a summer night with a bottle of buckfast
• skateboarders have finally found a home at the youth centre on sats and suns......great vibe!also campaigning for dunluce centre to be turned into state of the art skatepark!...get writin to the chronicle folks!!
• The Central Bar good for a good night out free entermainment ?
• The Blue Shelters great on a dry night.
• The Town Hall.
• the white rocks car park.
• For those weiry travelers,be they tradesmen or girl bikers who long to drink from the furry cup, there will always be a welcome for you at the Pink Pallace pub/bar at the bottom of Kerr Street.Wonderful views over the harbour on a summer evening will,if you are lucky,afford you the specticle of the clam men empting their holds all up and down the quayside after a hard day.
• The Fire Station. The Train Station. Everywhere a real cool place , only leave it to the locals.
• Martha,s Vinyard great place.
• Kerr St Boggs
• The Amphitheatre, what a load of shite. It has potential, but due to the nature of the councils' planners, it was constructed to be non-skate friendly. plus they're too many pretentious people who mess about there acting cool. Most skaters in portrush are crap, except of course Stewarty, Trevor, Mike and a few others who know who they are. But the distractions from skateboarding can be too great cause there's no skatepark
• Ampitheatre all the way! As well as the beach beside Barry's, right under the signs! Black rocks....BLACK ROCKS CREW 99'!!!
• The War Memorial
• Oh - let's not forget the monument outside the townhall which collects a selection of Portrush's 'wans' fully kitted with sheenies, gold earings and with those accents that seem at times quite difficult to comprehend.
• Shafesbury Park or any carparks that u can get your hands on!
• The Ampitheatre in the centre of town. Usally about 20 hardcore skaters knockin about

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