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A random waffle thread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 682 ✭✭✭small town girl


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,358 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


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


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 682 ✭✭✭small town girl


    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


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 73,358 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    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?


    myYgxc.jpg


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,358 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    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.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,358 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


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


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  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    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?


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Mr. G wrote: »
    What search engine do you use?

    infoseek


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,979 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    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.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,979 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    :)

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


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    I use Dogpile :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    terrible incident in parteen last night

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


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DuMorph


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭vkid


    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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    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


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Brennans Row


    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.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    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.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Brennans Row


    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)


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    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.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    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..


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup




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