Nightclub Saturdays at Hayes Hotel, Thurles

Hayes Hotel on Liberty Square in Thurles runs two nightclubs, The Factory and The Icon, every Saturday night and on Sunday bank holidays, with the hotel’s own listing promising some of the biggest DJs and performers working in Ireland. Cusack’s Bar, also inside the hotel, runs live music from 10:30pm the same nights, so the building offers a live band and two club rooms under one roof for a Saturday out in Thurles.

What to expect

The Factory and The Icon give Hayes Hotel two distinct club spaces rather than one room, which in practice means a choice of sound and crowd without leaving the building, useful on a night when a group wants to split between a dancefloor and a quieter bar. Cusack’s Bar runs its live music from 10:30pm, positioning it as the earlier, band-led part of the night before the clubs fill up later on. Hayes Hotel is Thurles’s best-known hotel, and its Saturday night offering draws from the town and the surrounding county rather than just local trade, so expect it to be busy, particularly on bank holiday weekends when both the Saturday and Sunday nights run. The hotel also runs occasional themed nights alongside the weekly Saturday programme, including an over-30s club night with a throwback music policy and periodic student nights aimed at the town’s TUS Thurles campus, though those extras run on their own separate schedule rather than every week and are best confirmed on the hotel’s own listings before travelling for one specifically.

Getting there

Hayes Hotel is on Liberty Square in the centre of Thurles, within walking distance of Thurles railway station on the Dublin to Cork and Limerick lines. Bus Éireann services connect the town to Nenagh, Clonmel and beyond, and there are car parks around Liberty Square itself.

While you’re in Thurles

Hayes Hotel has its own claim to fame beyond nightlife: the GAA was founded in the hotel in 1884, a fact marked in the town it helped put on the map. There is more to see in Thurles and across Co. Tipperary.

Good to know

• Nights: every Saturday, plus Sunday on bank holiday weekends
• Venue: Hayes Hotel, Liberty Square, Thurles, comprising The Factory, The Icon and Cusack’s Bar
• Live music: Cusack’s Bar from 10:30pm
• Recurrence: weekly nightclub nights, year-round
• More info: hayeshotel.ie for cover charge and age policy on the night