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A random waffle thread

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  • #102
    The Dagda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭The Dagda


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Dressco is smaller or the same size as their current shop, they must be extending in some direction

    They're keeping their existing adjacent book/card shop and combining the two units into one larger unit.


  • #103
    cuana
    Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭cuana


    Hi All

    Just thought I'd post to say due my position/career I've been moved to another location thus I shall be leaving this beautiful county sniff sniff! My intention is to move abroad at some point in the next year or so but I'd always assume I'd be here until then so I'm a tad bit saddened its sooner rather then later!

    I am the type of person that is always seeking the next challenge & actively seeks change when I first moved to Clare it was for the purpose of my career but overtime I can honestly say that Ennis, Clare became what I considered home. I have met & made some wonderful friends here & love all of what this county has to offer! Its beauty, its people.

    Clare will truly always hold a very special place in my heart!

    Happy New Year All! :D


  • #104
    dohboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dohboy


    Anyone remember the fire siren in the Fair Green that used to go off in the 80s like a bomb raid was happening? Can someone explain what exactly that was about? Just a random memory that popped into my head...


  • #105
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    dohboy wrote: »
    Anyone remember the fire siren in the Fair Green that used to go off in the 80s like a bomb raid was happening? Can someone explain what exactly that was about? Just a random memory that popped into my head...

    That was before mobile phones/pagers and all firemen had to live within earshot of that, as soon as they heard it they had to go to the station on a call out.


  • #106
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Anyone remember the adverts for minicall pagers? 'Get a life, get a mini-call' :pac::pac::pac::pac:

    minicall_141293a.jpg


  • #107
    Shapey Fiend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭Shapey Fiend


    Not really. My dad got the blue one from work that he'd no use for so he gave it to me. None of the kids in school seemed impressed I had a beeper so I stopped carrying it about fairly shortly after.


  • #108
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    I went through an awful amount of those pagers down through the years being on call and stuff, pain in the h0le but it was a great way too massage your wages each month by generating a few false pages which meant some additional OT. That all changed when mobiles came in (anyone remember 088?) and you were rang.


  • #109
    dohboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dohboy


    Clareman wrote: »
    That was before mobile phones/pagers and all firemen had to live within earshot of that, as soon as they heard it they had to go to the station on a call out.

    All the firemen had to live in earshot? That's mad. Tbf you could hear it a good bit away. Was it there for years?


  • #110
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    It could be heard all over town so they wouldn't have had any issues getting housing. I think fire tenders still need to live within a certain distance of the fire station.


  • #111
    Clareman
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    MrsD007 wrote: »
    It could be heard all over town so they wouldn't have had any issues getting housing. I think fire tenders still need to live within a certain distance of the fire station.

    Most on-call contracts would have a maximum response time written into them now, so you could live wherever you want you'd just have to get to the station at a certain time.


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  • #112
    dohboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dohboy


    Any old hobos live up the Tracks anymore? What happened Blackjack, that old degenerate in a donkey jacket who used to scare kids back in the day?


  • #113
    Carazy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭Carazy


    dohboy wrote: »
    Any old hobos live up the Tracks anymore? What happened Blackjack, that old degenerate in a donkey jacket who used to scare kids back in the day?

    The only hobos I see around Ennis these days are the two Eastern European lads that go around togeter, there is a third lad hanging around with them now too.


  • #114
    MyKeyG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭MyKeyG


    wiger toods wrote: »
    well fair play to yee!:)
    im in salthill looking out my window across the ocean at yee all there in the banner county! yee seem delighted with yourselves!:D
    I know this is from last year but it reminded me of something a friend of mine said when we were visiting a another friend who lived in West Galway. 'Sure if you can't live in the best county in Ireland you might as well be able to look out at it'! He's no longer with us unfortunately so that was a nice little piece of nostalgia aroused.


  • #115
    CptSternn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭CptSternn


    Carazy wrote: »
    The only hobos I see around Ennis these days are the two Eastern European lads that go around togeter, there is a third lad hanging around with them now too.

    You mean these two -

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055791214

    Yeah, they have appeared to have gained a third member to their group now.


  • #116
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    I want to do a hike up the Clare Hills in the next week. Any info on where the start of the trail is?

    Anyone on boards who have done it?


  • #117
    MyKeyG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭MyKeyG


    pappyodaniel wrote: »
    I want to do a hike up the Clare Hills in the next week. Any info on where the start of the trail is?
    The bottom:p


  • #118
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    MyKeyG wrote: »
    The bottom:p
    <Mod snip> bottom? Well I suppose its a start? (Come on)Any better suggestions?


  • #119
    toughtofind
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭toughtofind


    pappyodaniel wrote: »
    <Mod snip>bottom? Well I suppose its a start? (Come on)Any better suggestions?


    http://www.irishtrails.ie/trails.aspx?c=Clare


  • #120
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Okay, I know this is really random but I was having a bad day today until I saw this clip and it really cheered me up. I think I'll have to watch the sports news more often from now on :D

    Lennon is so funny and good humoured throughout :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:




    http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/video-watch-celtic-boss-neil-1549349


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  • #121
    roroliam
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭roroliam


    Was in Ennis for the weekend and came across Jimmey Brohans hardware, what a great shop and to listen to Jimmey and Kevin (new owener I'm told) was a pure pleasure . The people of Ennis are lucky to have such a good shop.


  • #122
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Does anyone know if students in the Coláiste still say a 'Hail Mary' at the start of every lesson (every 40 minutes) ?.


  • #123
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Just asked the wife there (she thought it was a very strange question btw), when she was there they used to only do it when it was a nun teacher, I suppose that's still the way.


  • #124
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Is Mrs. Clareman slagging me off? lol :D

    It's a weird question alright :D There was an item on the Pat Kenny Show yesterday about the Minister for Education's plan to remove a large number of schools out of Catholic patronage and giving parents greater choice when choosing schools for their children - Educate Together, Gael Schools etc.

    Anyway, it got me thinking about my own school days and I wondered if the practice of praying every 40 minutes was still going on.


  • #125
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    I didn't tell her that someone from the internet was asking, she thinks I'm odd enough as it is :)

    I went to Flannan's in the 90s and I can't say that there was much of an over-bearing religious doctrine, there was a Religion class up to 3rd year and you could go to mass at lunch time during Lent if you wanted, that was about it, I think...........


  • #126
    ger664
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,402 ✭✭✭ger664


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    Does anyone know if students in the Coláiste still say a 'Hail Mary' at the start of every lesson (every 40 minutes) ?.

    My daughter goes there and she looked at me funny and said no


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  • #127
    emer_b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭emer_b


    Random question for a random thread: where I can buy large (ish) quantities of Indian spices in Ennis? I get through those Schwarz bottles pretty quickly, has to be a cheaper option out there!
    I know there are a few ethnic shops around but can anyone direct me to a good one for spices, haven't got time to check them all out.


  • #128
    Carazy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭Carazy


    emer_b wrote: »
    Random question for a random thread: where I can buy large (ish) quantities of Indian spices in Ennis? I get through those Schwarz bottles pretty quickly, has to be a cheaper option out there!

    I know there are a few ethnic shops around but can anyone direct me to a good one for spices, haven't got time to check them all out.
    Baraka on the Mill Road


  • #129
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    My sister in law wanted to get some proper spices and ended up going for dinner at the Indian on Carmody St. for dinner and got talking to the owner and asked where to get spices, he ended up getting them for her, you could try that, cost you a nice dinner at worst :D


  • #130
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Serious tailbacks on the N18. If you're coming from Limerick heading Northbound i.e Shannon, Ennis, Galway direction use back roads.
    Link


  • #131
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    pappyodaniel wrote: »
    Serious tailbacks on the N18. If you're coming from Limerick heading Northbound i.e Shannon, Ennis, Galway direction use back roads.
    Link

    Took me 1 hour 10 to get from coonagh to SMB.


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  • #132
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    RTE's Nationwide carried a report this evening on 'Seol Sionna', they're a volunteer boat building group who recently constructed a replica of an old 'turf boat' in Querrin, West Clare.

    Here is a link to the report on the RTE Player

    http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10108480/


    The report starts at 16:08


  • #133
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    The Wedding dress shop in Killaloe is featured on "Dont tell the Bride" tonight at 9.30 on RTE 2. I'll presume its a locals wedding.

    http://www.amoremio.ie/index.php/


  • #134
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Thanks for the heads up Chucken! The couple appear to be Galway based.

    it's nice that Amore Mio got a plug, it's a beautiful store. Poppy Bridal in Ennis is also featured.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83102762&postcount=2124


  • #135
    Cushla
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭Cushla


    I finished there in 95 & have no memory of that..except for 1 sow of a nun who has to be retired by now!! I'm open to correction tho.
    I'm on about the Colaiste/prayer comment..


  • #136
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    Do you ever look at old photographs of yourself & at the time you thought they were best left in your memory lane. You look back on them now..and you think.. God I wasint half bad back then!


  • #137
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    poppyvally wrote: »
    Do you ever look at old photographs of yourself & at the time you thought they were best left in your memory lane. You look back on them now..and you think.. God I wasint half bad back then!

    I always look better in hindsight :D


  • #138
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    It is almost Valentine's Day and Clare FM still have Santa hats on their website :confused::confused::confused:

    Edit: Nice to see some prompt action, they've updated the website now :)


  • #139
    Keano
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭Keano


    They must have read your post :D


  • #140
    Carazy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭Carazy


    They use some info they get from here from time to time I have noticed.


  • #141
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    I'd be shocked if all Irish media outlets don't use boards for information, it is by far the largest discussion site in Ireland


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  • #142
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    I visit the Clare FM website every morning, I find it very handy for looking up obituaries. If you're a townie, the Ennis Parish website is very good too.


  • #143
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Rip.ie is very handy for funeral notices as well.
    I've about 4 or 5 sites I visit first thing in the morning, Irish Times, Examiner, BBC, Linkedin and Boards, boards used to be the first on the list, but being a mod means you can be brought straight into something so I tend to try to ease into my day.


  • #144
    Keano
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭Keano


    Twitter, Boards and The Journal are what I check first in the morning. All my mail tends to be spam so don't check that until I'm bored!


  • #145
    Radio5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭Radio5


    Passing Govt offices on the Kilrush Rd late the other nite and noticed there were 3 outside lights left switched on, on one of the buildings. Not the Social Welfare one , the one on your right if you turned off the Kilrush Rd and were driving in towards the Driving Test Centre. I couldn't see lights on inside the building. Just wondering why ? If its security could they not have sensor lights ? Is there need to have them on all night? Seems like a waste.


  • #146
    Johnboy1951
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    Possibly to help the 'wild life' find their way about :D


  • #147
    emer_b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭emer_b


    Anyone know where I can find out what pharmacy will be open in Ennis tomorrow? The pharmacies do some kind of rotation for Sundays and bank holidays don't they?


  • #148
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Boots in O'Connell Street will be open tomorrow from midday.


  • #149
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Forgot to mention did you hear about the dolphins in the river outside Durty Nelly's in Bunratty. I didn't believe it until I saw them with my own eyes.


  • #150
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    pappyodaniel wrote: »
    Forgot to mention did you hear about the dolphins in the river outside Durty Nelly's in Bunratty. I didn't believe it until I saw them with my own eyes.
    Have you any pictures for us? I'd love to see them if you have :)


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  • #151
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    Must admit I thought it was an April Fools thing when I first heard it ...

    http://www.meteotimes.net/2013/04/fears-for-dolphins-in-ratty-river-co.html


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