South is closed as far as I know. The Forum isn't a bad venue but as it's reasonably big(It's otherwise used as a bingo hall/function room) you need a near enough full house to get a good atmosphere going, their lineups have been very unimaginative of late too. There's a place I was pleasantly surprised by a few months back called "Preachers", was a Friday night and the people there were well into it. The guys running it told me last week though that the owner is selling up, so the chances of it being turned back into a disco bar type thing seem very likely :(

There are some good techno nights in Ireland, they are generally confined to smaller venues as the big venues don't really support techno like they should. Bastardo Electrico in Cork and Perpetual in Belfast are good, there's a fair amount going on in Dublin too-some are one offs but the regular nights in places like Switch,Bodkins and Metropolitan can be great. D1 also do their weekly thing at Traffic if you like it a bit deeper. Creation are having their first party of the summer on May 17th, if there's anyone here from Ireland looking for info on it mail me closer the date and i'll let you know the details...

Cheers,

Sunil