Limerick City: Munster Match

limerick_man

Hey,

Limerick is looking mad, every second car has munster flags, the shops are all red or "Munstered" in some way, O'Connell Street has 200 Munster flags flying pride above the street and Parnell St also has flags (up on all the lamposts).

I know next weekend the city is getting europes largest screen and blocking off O'Connell Street to cars but other then the screen i heard they are having entertainment, I remember the last game in Thomond Park where the city had a festival the day before and day of the match, just wondering what are the plans to entertainment the expected 10,000 fans? I heard street entertainment, but is that all? Someone was saying a small firework display was gonna be happening, but i would have thought i'd have heard more by now.

Any information?

istep

limerick_man wrote:

Hey,

Limerick is looking mad, every second car has munster flags, the shops are all red or "Munstered" in some way, O'Connell Street has 200 Munster flags flying pride above the street and Parnell St also has flags (up on all the lamposts).

I know next weekend the city is getting europes largest screen and blocking off O'Connell Street to cars but other then the screen i heard they are having entertainment, I remember the last game in Thomond Park where the city had a festival the day before and day of the match, just wondering what are the plans to entertainment the expected 10,000 fans? I heard street entertainment, but is that all? Someone was saying a small firework display was gonna be happening, but i would have thought i'd have heard more by now.

Any information?

I heard it was a knife throwing competition !!

Oh yeah and since when is munster a verb ?? :rolleyes:

Amazotheamazing

istep wrote:

I heard it was a knife throwing competition !!

Oh yeah and since when is munster a verb ?? :rolleyes:

Hi Mods, I just want to say I find this post offensive, the joke is clearly 10 years old and long out of date. Really knives you say, istep, how do you keep your material so fresh? Have you ever considered a job as a comedian? Please, quit the day job now, your talent is too precious to waste a minute longer.

spanner

I am going to stay at home to watch the game, I need to have all my concentration on the game.

istep

Amazotheamazing wrote:

Hi Mods, I just want to say I find this post offensive, the joke is clearly 10 years old and long out of date. Really knives you say, istep, how do you keep your material so fresh? Have you ever considered a job as a comedian? Please, quit the day job now, your talent is too precious to waste a minute longer.

Think I hit a nerve there amazo.... !

Aren't we a LITTLE over sensitive? ( Not to mention tooled up !!! )

connundrum

LIMERICK CITY BIG SCREEN


Limerick Co-ordination Office have released plans to bring the big Munster match to thousands of Limerick families free-of-charge on a big screen in the city centre next Saturday week. The Heineken Cup final will be shown on a giant 45sq metre television screen which will be situated on the junction of

Shannon Street
and
O'Connell Street
, facing down in the direction of
Patrick Street
, and it will be mounted on the back of an enormous 60ft American MAC truck. Two blocks from
Shannon Street
to
Patrick Street
will be closed off to traffic all day on May 20th.

Why oh why isn't there a big ass screen in Dublin?! I've to go to Bon Jovi in Croker later on that day and it woulda been great to have a few pints whilst watching the match outside (providing el no raino) and then head on to see Jon Bon and the lads play a few tunes

Where's a good place in Dublin to watch it then? Fraizers?

Crash

Istep anymore like that and i'll give you a short term ban.

Amazotheamazing: use the report function.

istep

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Istep anymore like that and i'll give you a short term ban.

Amazotheamazing: use the report function.

* walks slowly to the corner *

Seriousley enjoy the match all ( I'll be in Cardiff ... hopefully it's gonna be a great weekend.

um7y1h83ge06nx

istep wrote:

I heard it was a knife throwing competition !!

Hell, no. Due to technological advances that has been up-graded to a shooting competition. *inject some humour into things*

All in all, it should be great craic in town to-morrow, and a great opportunity to highlight all the great things Limerick has to offer. Fingers crossed for third time lucky!!

Crash

I'd love to see the atmosphere down that way actually - if I didn't have exams a roadtrip would almost be necessary

Hermione*

According to my parents, it's electric ... the next best thing to being in Cardiff would be to go home imo. For Munster-Perpignon (last time I was home), there were red flags flying all over the streets in town and apparently it got even worse for Munster-Leinster.




I miss home now

billy the squid

They even dressed up the happy butcher

http://thelimerick.blogspot.com/2006/05/munster-v-biarritz-countdown-1-day-to.html
More pictures from Liemrick for Hermione

http://thelimerick.blogspot.com/2006/05/more-photos.html
http://thelimerick.blogspot.com/2006/05/limerick-gets-ready.html

http://newswire99.blogspot.com has more pictures from O'Connell Street.

Font22

looks like it was brilliant down in Limerick!!! well done Munster! great game, stringer is a little gem!

RVN10

Stringer = Legend Lil Diamond

KELTICKNIGHTT

LONG TIME COMMING
its mad here in limerick

Hermione*

billy the squid wrote:

They even dressed up the happy butcher

http://thelimerick.blogspot.com/2006/05/munster-v-biarritz-countdown-1-day-to.html
More pictures from Liemrick for Hermione

http://thelimerick.blogspot.com/2006/05/more-photos.html
http://thelimerick.blogspot.com/2006/05/limerick-gets-ready.html

http://newswire99.blogspot.com has more pictures from O'Connell Street.

LMAO ... the happy butcher's a rugby fan!

Thank you so much for that! Further to my missing cool events at home, I now have the parents videoing all footage available of the homecoming ...
my dad's response: 'I didn't know you were so fond of Limerick, you spent all of secondary school complaining about it :rolleyes:'. Well, we never had anything quite like this before