A random waffle thread

Clareman · 10-07-2014 8:11pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/teenager-gets-driving-ban-for-parking-in-disabled-spaces-1.1861070

Judge Durcan has the ban stick out again for ignorant parking

I was going to feel sorry for the lad, in fairness when you are going to the cinema parking can be a nightmare, I also reckon that Parnell Street has to have 1 of the highest ratio of disabled parking spaces in Ireland. But then I noticed that he took 2 spaces, thought that it's ok to park there at night AND he decided to leave Limerick to go to the cinema in Ennis, the cinemas in Limerick are far nicer that the one in Ennis, we do have better pop-corn though.

colm_mcm · 10-07-2014 9:01pm

Do they still do butter in the ennis popcorn?

marie12 · 10-07-2014 9:14pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

Do they still do butter in the ennis popcorn?

Hmmm not sure.
Was wondering peoples memories of ennis in the 80s/early 90s.
Wasn't knoxes a general store? I vaguely rem being in it.
Im from ennis but have not lived there in about a decade. There's nothing like going back, Clare obviously my favourite county, something about Clare people.

colm_mcm · 10-07-2014 9:28pm

I remember knoxs as being a small supermarket with miniature shopping trolleys for some reason

marie12 · 10-07-2014 9:35pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

I remember knoxs as being a small supermarket with miniature shopping trolleys for some reason

What year did it become knoxes as we now know it?
anyone remember the 2 sweet shops on carmody street near pj Kellys? Used love buying my smarties in there

Clareman · 10-07-2014 9:40pm

Knox's turned into a pub around 1990 I think. The Market used to be the spot at the weekend, Henry J's, Dillengers/Porter Stall, Gracies, El Paso, they'd all be heaving from Thursday till Tuesday.

crazyguy01 · 11-07-2014 12:29am

Clareman wrote: »

Knox's turned into a pub around 1990 I think. The Market used to be the spot at the weekend, Henry J's, Dillengers/Porter Stall, Gracies, El Paso, they'd all be heaving from Thursday till Tuesday.

Don't forget the Banner too, great place before Tom Cruise invented cocktails;)

Clareman · 11-07-2014 7:19am

crazyguy01 wrote: »

Don't forget the Banner too, great place before Tom Cruise invented cocktails;)

The Banner was Henry's

Henry's Black Russian's, no ice, staple of a Saturday night

I think they changed it because of the murder at the time in there.

Radio5 · 31-07-2014 10:19am

Does anyone know what's going in to the former Lynch Hotel HQ in Clareabbey? Vision House, I think it was called.

I remember it as a restaurant in the 90's.

colm_mcm · 31-07-2014 8:58pm

Radio5 wrote: »

I remember it as a restaurant in the 90's.

I think it was an interiors shop? Inhouse or something?

small town girl · 01-08-2014 12:03am

I think it used to be a restaurant called Halpinos? I heard few months ago that it was going to be a medical centre, one of the practices from town was moving out and maybe dentist opening there too

colm_mcm · 01-08-2014 7:06am

Halpinos was in high street in town over O'Hallorans, and out in Woodstock hotel for a while IIRC.

Clareman · 01-08-2014 9:03am

Yeah, Halpino's was above O'Halloran's and out near Woodstock the time O'Halloran's got caught selling water down drink. I think it was called Garvello's. I heard 1 of the medical places were going out there as well

small town girl · 03-08-2014 12:24am

Sorry, I got names mixed up. I think the same guy (Derek Halpin) ran both Halpinos and Garvellos.
I would've never remembered Garvellos, thanks

Mr. G · 08-08-2014 1:52pm

Does anyone know exactly where the main Eircom exchange is in Ennis and Ennistymon? Thanks

colm_mcm · 08-08-2014 7:18pm

I might be wrong here but I think the ennistymon one is on station road near the art gallery And main ennis one is on drumbiggle road across from Simms lane?

Clareman · 09-08-2014 9:20pm

FFS, what is the world coming to, not only do the mods use iPads now, but Bing, ffs, is there no hope.

colm_mcm · 10-08-2014 9:11am

Clareman wrote: »

FFS, what is the world coming to, not only do the mods use iPads now, but Bing, ffs, is there no hope.

Google maps doesn't work on iPad
All the motors mods got free iPads so we can mod while driving.

Clareman · 10-08-2014 10:29am

colm_mcm wrote: »

Google maps doesn't work on iPad
All the motors mods got free iPads so we can mod while driving.

Trying to justify your lifestyle choices makes it worse, once you and your life partner are happy that's all that matters

colm_mcm · 10-08-2014 2:15pm

Trust me, I'd never use Bing under any other circumstances

Mr. G · 10-08-2014 8:58pm

Clareman wrote: »

FFS, what is the world coming to, not only do the mods use iPads now, but Bing, ffs, is there no hope.

What search engine do you use?

Clareman · 10-08-2014 9:16pm

Mr. G wrote: »

What search engine do you use?

infoseek

Johnboy1951 · 10-08-2014 9:33pm

I had to go look that one up .......

Infoseek was a popular search engine founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch.
Infoseek was originally operated by the Infoseek Corporation, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.[1] Infoseek was bought by The Walt Disney Company in 1998, and the technology was merged with that of the Disney-acquired Starwave to form the Go.com network. Since then it has been replaced with Yahoo! search and is no longer in use.

Clareman · 10-08-2014 9:37pm

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

I had to go look that one up .......

Fair play to you for looking it up. I used to like infoseek cause it allowed you search within your search results. I had a complete distain for yahoo and MSN search, so I developed my own little search engine and stored it on a geocities site, also used to back my bookmarks to a html geocities site.

Yes, yes I am old

Johnboy1951 · 10-08-2014 9:40pm

I use Startpage exclusively here ..... even on Chrome/Chromium

Mr. G · 10-08-2014 11:11pm

I use Dogpile

fryup · 26-09-2014 9:23am

terrible incident in parteen last night

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0926/648123-clare-crash/

Clareman · 03-11-2014 6:30pm

A Clare man ref'ed the FAI cup final yesterday, Padraig Sutton, I think his parents own Sutton's lighting in Ennis.

DuMorph · 03-11-2014 9:01pm

Anyone hear about a secondary school in Clare where the students union reps. elected by the students were replaced by ones chosen by the school head?

vkid · 30-11-2014 1:56pm

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

The Clare Herald dont even bother paraphrasing the airport's press releases at this stage, they seem happy to be a free PR mouthpiece for whatever spin Shannon wants to put on anything.

Just e-mail it over and they'll copy, paste and print whatever they're asked to. It reads as though the paper themselves are looking forward to celebrating with AA. Embarrassing stuff.

Is the Clare Herald even a newspaper? Can't recall ever seeing a copy for sale, or anywhere for that matter.
Clare Champion and Clare People would be the 2 main "newspapers" in Clare I would have thought. Don't know anyone who would quote the Clare Herald as a source for anything really.

highlydebased · 30-11-2014 3:17pm

vkid wrote: »

Is the Clare Herald even a newspaper? Can't recall ever seeing a copy for sale, or anywhere for that matter.
Clare Champion and Clare People would be the 2 main "newspapers" in Clare I would have thought. Don't know anyone who would quote the Clare Herald as a source for anything really.

Think it's just an online news site

Clareman · 30-11-2014 3:26pm

vkid wrote: »

Is the Clare Herald even a newspaper? Can't recall ever seeing a copy for sale, or anywhere for that matter.
Clare Champion and Clare People would be the 2 main "newspapers" in Clare I would have thought. Don't know anyone who would quote the Clare Herald as a source for anything really.

I think it's just a "news source" site, it just gets news from other sites and republishes it, bit like Google used to do on their homepages.

Brennans Row · 30-11-2014 4:20pm

I have found the Clare Herald to be a very good and factual source of daily news on Shannon Airport.

I'm surprised to read that some people have an issue with it.

Their “about-us” page, simply says it deals with breaking news for Clare people at home & abroad.

Clareman · 30-11-2014 7:43pm

Brennans Row wrote: »

I have found the Clare Herald to be a very good and factual source of daily news on Shannon Airport.

I'm surprised to read that some people have an issue with it.

Their “about-us” page, simply says it deals with breaking news for Clare people at home & abroad.

The problem is that it isn't the source, they simply get the information from other sites and repeat it, very rarely will they do any of their own pieces.

The about us page kind of sums up the site as a whole for me, 4 email addresses (all of them free addresses) and a problem link for their Chief Reporter's picture. The about us does say "online news outlet", which shows that they don't make on to be a news source.

Clareman · 30-11-2014 7:46pm

I've moved a few posts from the Shannon Airport thread here as they were discussing the Clare Herald website, thought this would be a good place as any for them.

Brennans Row · 30-11-2014 9:20pm

Clareman wrote: »

The problem is that it isn't the source, they simply get the information from other sites and repeat it, very rarely will they do any of their own pieces.

That's not true, Pat Flynn (Clare Herald) writes a lot stuff for the Dublin press too.

Stobart Air to cease operations at Shannon Airport in new year (Irish Times)

Water meter installers reportedly threatened with rifle (Irish Times)

Man dies after his car hits a ditch in Co Clare (Irish Times)

Airliner lands on one engine after problems over Atlantic (Irish Times)

Schoolgirl shot in face with pellet gun outside school (Irish Times)

Clareman · 30-11-2014 9:55pm

Brennans Row wrote: »

That's not true, Pat Flynn (Clare Herald) writes a lot stuff for the Dublin press too.

Stobart Air to cease operations at Shannon Airport in new year (Irish Times)

Water meter installers reportedly threatened with rifle (Irish Times)

Man dies after his car hits a ditch in Co Clare (Irish Times)

Airliner lands on one engine after problems over Atlantic (Irish Times)

Schoolgirl shot in face with pellet gun outside school (Irish Times)

What I meant was the Clare Herald don't do their own pieces more they take pieces from oter placed. Pat is a fine journalist and has done some good pieces down through the years.

Mr. G · 01-12-2014 12:16am

Clareman wrote: »

What I meant was the Clare Herald don't do their own pieces more they take pieces from oter placed. Pat is a fine journalist and has done some good pieces down through the years.

Same Pat Flynn as on Clare FM? I didn't know that..

Clareman · 01-12-2014 12:37am

Mr. G wrote: »

Same Pat Flynn as on Clare FM? I didn't know that..

I think so, the guy who setup the site used to head up their News section, I think his big break was setting up the radio big brother thing, it was a caravan in O'Sullivan Hansbury's car park.

fryup · 20-02-2015 10:45am

sheep kill in broadford, 8 dogs shot dead

http://www.clarechampion.ie/eight-dogs-shot-in-broadford-sheep-attack/

Clareman · 27-03-2021 8:24pm

Just bumping this in case there's some random stuff people want to talk about

fryup · 29-03-2021 10:52am

anyone know a good auto-electrician in the east-clare region?

thanks,

callaway92 · 14-04-2021 1:01pm

Any Clarecastle people worried about the disruption to the village with this?

http://www.clare.fm/news/current_affairs/roche-granted-planning-permission-clarecastle-site-clearance-works/

http://www.clare.fm/news/current_affairs/roche-formally-granted-permission-clearance-clarecastle-site/

I'd imagine the Patrick St. area etc will be ruined now with the noise/volume of traffic etc. I suppose you could say Roche is an eyesore, but you'd hardly notice it tbh.

Deagol · 16-04-2021 3:50pm

callaway92 wrote: »

Any Clarecastle people worried about the disruption to the village with this?

http://www.clare.fm/news/current_affairs/roche-granted-planning-permission-clarecastle-site-clearance-works/

http://www.clare.fm/news/current_affairs/roche-formally-granted-permission-clearance-clarecastle-site/

I'd imagine the Patrick St. area etc will be ruined now with the noise/volume of traffic etc. I suppose you could say Roche is an eyesore, but you'd hardly notice it tbh.

In comparison to the traffic that went through the village for years before the bypass?

Got to say 'tis strange to me the things that people will worry about - building stuff is a worry, having stuff near them is a worry and now removing a chemical plant that many people complained about being so close to a village is a worry.

A few truck loads of scrap and rubble and some landscaping machines and it'll be gone and it'll soon only exist in the memories of all the people who had livelihoods from it.

Even though I don't live in Clarecastle anymore, when I did I was always a bit concerned about the place tbh - the smell around the village could be pretty cloying at times. I always wondered what exactly it was.

Johnboy1951 · 16-04-2021 5:09pm

A few truck loads of scrap and rubble and some landscaping machines

It seems to be a bit more than a few

According to the links above an average of 15 per hour for five and a half days per week, over a period of a few years, is a little more than a few.

... or did I misread it? ...

Deagol · 16-04-2021 6:00pm

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

It seems to be a bit more than a few

According to the links above an average of 15 per hour for five and a half days per week, over a period of a few years, is a little more than a few.

... or did I misread it? ...

One truck every 4 minutes? Doesn’t sound like much to me considering there used to be at least 10 times that many I’d say trucks alone before the bypass.

Clareman · 16-04-2021 6:10pm

I assume they'll be heading out the "old road" rather than through the village and out the motorway, just as well the bridge was fixed

jackboy · 18-04-2021 12:56pm

Deagol wrote: »

Got to say 'tis strange to me the things that people will worry about - building stuff is a worry, having stuff near them is a worry and now removing a chemical plant that many people complained about being so close to a village is a worry.

Also this is a once off chance to clean up the site. If not done now the site will be left as it is for decades to come. Where else will the hundreds of millions come from for such a project.

callaway92 · 19-04-2021 10:39am

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

It seems to be a bit more than a few

According to the links above an average of 15 per hour for five and a half days per week, over a period of a few years, is a little more than a few.

... or did I misread it? ...

Yeh it'll be fairly hectic in all fairness

fryup · 11-05-2021 11:58pm

a Púca statue for ennistymon?? not going down too well with the locals

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/council-backs-down-in-unholy-row-over-plans-for-controversial-puca-sculpture-in-ennistymon-40408936.html

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