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Drive-By in Portarlington....

  • 04-07-2007 9:20am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭


    It sounds like something from a "Hood" movie but its not, its Portarlington of all places....just goes to show the way the town is heading. Someone could have so easily been hit at that hour of the night when a crowd is gathering outside the door and 2 shots are fired at random from a moving car. Madness!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 203 ✭✭2funki4wheelz


    The rumour (and I say rumour, cos every time I hear something I hear another different story from someone else) is that it was some young guy was refused entry to the nightclub, then went home and came back to intimidate the bouncers.

    Port's been in the news for a few bad things lately, a stabbing and a hit & run and now this :(


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭kikel


    And feck. I'm moving their at the end of the month. I think it will be a short stay in Port. Wouldn't like to piss someone off :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭ChuckProphet


    The rumour (and I say rumour, cos every time I hear something I hear another different story from someone else) is that it was some young guy was refused entry to the nightclub, then went home and came back to intimidate the bouncers.

    Port's been in the news for a few bad things lately, a stabbing and a hit & run and now this :(

    think it's a bit more sinister than that :eek:

    Drug dealers link to Port' drive-by
    THE DRIVE-BY shooting in Portarlington last weekend may be linked to Dublin drug dealers.
    A Garda investigation has been launched into the incident at Main Street at 11.25pm on Saturday night last, June 30. Gardai confirmed that as a car drove past the East End Hotel at least two shots were fired in the direction of the hotel.
    No patrons were on their way into the hotel at the time of the incident but three security men were on duty. It is not clear if the shots were aimed at the doormen. While no one was injured Gardai said the security men were very lucky to escape the the shots which hit a wall. At least two men were in the car which sped off in the direction of Monasterevin.
    Shortly afterwards a blue Audi A3, registration 05 D 61158 was discovered in flames on a back road on the outskirts of town near the SIAC plant. This car had been stolen on May 22 in Maynooth, Co. Kildare.
    It has not been confirmed if this was used in the shooting but Gardaí want to hear from anybody who might know about its movements since being stolen and, in particular, on the day of the shooting. The hotel vicinity and car were preserved for technical examination and the investigation is on-going.
    No motive has emerged for the attack but it is understood that the town has become home to an element which has links to the Dublin drug trade. A recent seizure of €1million worth of heroin in the capital has been linked to individuals resident in Portarlingon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 203 ✭✭2funki4wheelz


    Ah yeah, blame the blow-in Dubs* :D:D

    kikel, don't worry, I still love Port, don't forget absolutely everywhere has its fair share of troubles, most of the estates are lovely.




    *I'm one of them. A blow-in. Not a link to the Dublin drug trade!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭Ryo Hazuki


    Its all going down in port tonight


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 nightcaller101


    In fairness guys port has become a bad area as of late, i've lived there for 31 years and been going to the hotel since i was 14 and the crowd that are there now are getting more and more rowdy...... its only a matter of time before someone gets killed in there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Dev 17


    Port has for a long time been a rough place and these shootings are nothing new. If you look back you will see a history of big drug dealing coupled with the odd shooting peppered in it's history for the past 15 years. There are great people who live there but stilil the area could do with some sorting out.

    As the town slowly developed into a commuter belt town to Dublin I thought it would change as it would bring people with decent jobs and families.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ILTS


    I too grew up near Portarlington. I now work in Dublin but am down home most weekends. I avoid Portarlington though because of the violent element that now lives/socialises there. I have a friend who is a taxi driver and he says that the fighting on the streets every Saturday night is frightening.

    I heard a story of how one guard was beaten up near the Railway bar. The guards are afraid to confront the mobs cos they know they're outnumbered and out-weaponed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 Baby-sauce


    i like portarlington. Thank god nothin happened when i was in pub and east end hotel club,i even will go this weekend haha oh does anyone know the bouncers or security in there what they called lol in east end hotel club? uuu hahaha well yea this security stranger i met in east end hotel club and i don't know his name and that..help.haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Baby-sauce wrote: »
    i like portarlington. Thank god nothin happened when i was in pub and east end hotel club,i even will go this weekend haha oh does anyone know the bouncers or security in there what they called lol in east end hotel club? uuu hahaha well yea this security stranger i met in east end hotel club and i don't know his name and that..help.haha

    Ok then :confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    :confused:baby sauce you on something????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 Baby-sauce


    no i'm not on nothin lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    are you originally from portarlington baby sauce


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    Baby-sauce wrote: »
    no i'm not on nothin lol


    R u sure lol ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 Baby-sauce


    no i'm not from port.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    and i take it you like the east end hotel then


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Baby-sauce wrote: »
    no i'm not from port.

    'Location: Ireland,a place not far from port but i won't tell'

    Its a sekkrit! Probably Bracknagh, I wouldn't tell anyone if I was from Bracknagh either ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    connundrum wrote: »
    'Location: Ireland,a place not far from port but i won't tell'

    Its a sekkrit! Probably Bracknagh, I wouldn't tell anyone if I was from Bracknagh either ;)

    it could ne mountmisery (i mean mellick) either?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    lol i wudnt tell either lads, or she could be from a place very very very far away


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 Baby-sauce


    i'm from monasterevin! what is the secret hahaha and i do love club hotel. and i will be going there this sat and sun and monday i will be freakin dying hahahaha


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 beemer330


    stevoman wrote: »
    it could ne mountmisery (i mean mellick) either?

    Ah Stevoman no need to be like that now..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    beemer330 wrote: »
    Ah Stevoman no need to be like that now..

    LOL - so i take it you hail from there then!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 beemer330


    stevoman wrote: »
    LOL - so i take it you hail from there then!

    We all have our burdens to carry. LOL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    Baby-sauce wrote: »
    club hotel.

    lol, this makes it sound a tiny bit classy, which i find funny considering..... well you know....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    Steve_o wrote: »
    lol, this makes it sound a tiny bit classy, which i find funny considering..... well you know....


    LOL the place is a bloody dump, although it is portarlington effort at a night club! I have to say the blue moon that i go to the rugby club isnt that bad although im usually pissed which helps!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    to be honest lads im sick of goin to both clubs in port, so if im goin out now id head to lougherys in tullamore, thats a much better night club, all port needs is one good club and they would clean up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    ports best wrote: »
    to be honest lads im sick of goin to both clubs in port, so if im goin out now id head to lougherys in tullamore, thats a much better night club, all port needs is one good club and they would clean up


    Iv never been out in tullamore ever before. Is it good? I think they should do away with the hotel of bring back Double L :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    stevoman wrote: »
    Iv never been out in tullamore ever before. Is it good? I think they should do away with the hotel of bring back Double L :p

    Tullamore is a good spot alright, Loughreys and De Bruns are my favourite watering holes there....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    yeah or the wolftrap is good to.. lol to double L jaysus they were legends, seriously though how **** is the hotel


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    Truely Truely awful, and the funny thing is, there are people who go to the hotel, exist from the hrs of 12 - 2am, then seem to completely vanish from the town only to re-appear the following saturday at 12am, some sort of scum fuelled time warp....:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭Kingdom


    Lads and lassies, you might be able to help me here on a couple of scores.

    1) A few of you socialise in Tullamore, do ye drive back to Port or is there a late bus service? I'm out for a meal in Tullamore in a few weeks and had been expecting to pay for a taxi back,

    2) the rugby club. Is it members only? What are the hours, is it worth going out that far?
    Thanks
    K


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    a taxi over and back usually costs €20 return and we normally have 7 or 8 lads goin, so i sopose it depends on how many goes with you for an exact price, as for the rugby club its not members only but i sopose if they dont know your face they will look for id to see who you are and where you live, Tullamore is a good spot though you will enjoy it lad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭Kingdom


    ports best wrote: »
    a taxi over and back usually costs €20 return and we normally have 7 or 8 lads goin, so i sopose it depends on how many goes with you for an exact price, as for the rugby club its not members only but i sopose if they dont know your face they will look for id to see who you are and where you live, Tullamore is a good spot though you will enjoy it lad

    thanks Ports Best. I've been in Tullamore loads, it is a good spot, I'd prefer it over Portlaoise myself. When you say its €250 return, I presume you mean per head? It would only be myself and mrs kingdom. I'll give the rugby club a go over the summer. I find the hotel a great laugh, I mean I'm still young enough not to get bored with the antics that go on there, that could change soon enough though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    yeah it was €20 per head return wasnt bad like at least your getting out of port for a night ya no


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 679 ✭✭✭undecided


    So how much 2 p/laoise? I asked in whelans b4 and they said would b 25 but sure tullamore is further!?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Rugby club is open Saturday nights from 10pm - 2am. €10 on the door and you've to sign in as a guest of the club.

    Can be good on occasion, be ready to see the same faces regularly though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    it was prob because there was a few of us goin to tullamore that night so it was only €20 return undecided thats all i can think off


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Curvy Vixen


    So pb that was €160 return for you in total?? :eek::eek:

    undecided, I'll take ya for €100 :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    no it was only €20 for me in total curvy, but i know what your sayin the taxis make savage money on it, curvy you wouldnt even bring undecided over for nothing im surprised at ya:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Curvy Vixen


    Sorry I meant for you as in 'the group of you'....

    No way would I??? Have you seen how much booze she puts down her neck...she can well afford a cab for a 100 quid :D:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    ah curvy im disappointed in ya:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 679 ✭✭✭undecided


    :eek: curvy!

    Ok I get the hint will back to AA tomorrow:o lol

    PB im v weary of taking lifts from strange with creme egg spilling from their mouthS!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    undecided:eek:


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭kikel


    undecided wrote: »
    PB im v weary of taking lifts from strange with creme egg spilling from their mouthS!:D

    TWISTED!!!!

    http://www.cremeeggtwisted.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    This thread has gone awful strange....:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Curvy Vixen


    kikel wrote: »

    Kikel, we were in NI for the weekend and both my Mum and Sis got one of these are they are just like long cream eggs.......but twisted!!!!!!!!! Mmmmmmmmmmmm....:pac::pac:


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭kikel


    Steve_o wrote: »
    This thread has gone awful strange....:confused:

    Sorry Steve_o. it happens every now and then

    Speaking of strange i see you are recruiting for the LNA. Now there is a blast from the past.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    jaysus there ye go now i had got over the whole creme egg thing now ye go and bring it all back up again.:rolleyes:


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭kikel


    Kikel, we were in NI for the weekend and both my Mum and Sis got one of these are they are just like long cream eggs.......but twisted!!!!!!!!! Mmmmmmmmmmmm....:pac::pac:

    Click on the TV in the link. the ads are deadly


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭ports best


    savage are they available kikel at the moment


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