Useful Info For New Maynoothians.

banquo

We get a few posters on here asking about the local pubs, shops, trains, etc. So, I thought I'd start at thread where we could all this stuff in one handy place. I'll get the ball rolling.



Travel

1. Trains

The easiest way to check trains going to/from Maynooth is from this site:

http://irishrail.ie/home/

The last train out of Maynooth is 23:15-ish every day except Sunday.

2. Bus

The following buses go from Dublin city centre to Maynooth: (linked to timetables)

66
67a

They leave from Pearse Station

Taxis

Maynooth Cabs are the cheapest taxi company. Located just off main street, they have a flat rate of 6 euro for travel between any two parts of Maynooth.

masherella88

Tesco is 24 hour, always good for a midnight wander

no meeting place like dunnes was when it was 24 hr but still...

also, get your photos printed here...cheapest place-if you print 150+ photos they're only 5c each. pretty sure it's the cheapest in maynooth

irish_goat

Any buses to Dublin Airport and UCD?

More importantly, cheapest place to buy drink?

masherella88

SU on mondays-it was €3 drinks all day

shop-wise...tesco, aldi, lidl...the roost off-licence and the mill might be worth checking out too. maybe, i'm not too sure, aldi is where i bought mine-close to campus so didn't have to carry it back so far

banquo

irish_goat wrote: »

Any buses to Dublin Airport and UCD?

Afraid not You have to go into Dublin first. 16a or 41 to the airport, 3 to Belfield (code for UCD)

Devia

irish_goat wrote: »

Any buses to Dublin Airport and UCD?

More importantly, cheapest place to buy drink?

You can get the 67a or the 66 to Liffey Valley shopping centre and there is a shuttle bus from there to the airport, that way you're not backtracking. Its called the flybus, departs every hour from the N4 footbridge there at liffey valley.

funky penguin

Monday Nights

SU for cheap booze

O'Neills for a 'night out'

Caulfields for Jazz


Tuesday night

Used to be LA, but now kind of do whatever you want night. I wonder what Mantra will do? I usually stay in with cans and a DVD here

Wednesday

Brady's (downstairs, nicest pint in town IMO)

Thursday

Roost, but Caulfields has a good buzz with a 50's and 60's Rock 'n' Roll band

Beau

Commuter buses

Lidl for Excelsior (Carling in a different can), 4 for €2.95.

irish_goat

Beau wrote: »

Commuter buses

Brilliant! There's one that goes past my house that I never knew about.

Michellenman

If you're a commuter make friends with the Donegal people.

ScissorPaperRock

Michellenman wrote: »

If you're a commuter make friends with the Donegal people.

Why so?

Michellenman

So you'll have somewhere to stay on nights out :P

Also, savage craic, those people.

Beau

Join the rugby team for serious craic.

banquo

Beau wrote: »

Join the rugby team for serious craic.

I'm quite puny. It would indeed be serious craic

barleybooley

banquo wrote: »

I'm quite puny. It would indeed be serious craic

You could be their prison b*tch or whatever the rugby version of that is

Accommodation

Kingsbry, Meadowbrook, Beaufield, anywhere with the word 'Newtown' in it is quite the walk for a nine o'clock lecture. Houses are grand but not great. Rent is reasonable enough, should be definitely less than €90/week. A house in Griffin Rath Hall/Manor would also be far enough as well as Maynooth Hall but these houses are very new, less than 3 years old. On-campus is quite expensive but I believe it's a good meeting ground for first years. Old Greenfield is about as rough as you can get and it's not even that bad. House typically hold 5 people so be awful careful if you see a house in Kingsbry that holds 7, I made that mistake and it was so cramped because those houses are teency. Make sure you're on an official registered list of tenants in case things go belly up with your landlord, just have your bases covered. That's all I can proffer for now, other people's 2 cents can be deposited below

Verbal_Kint

why do you think they call him the hooker. never mind a cup you need a chastity belt.

sadie06

Do the 09/10 timetables go up online before the semester starts, and if so, how early? I have two children and childcare to think of, so the sooner the better!

Thank you.

Michellenman

I know the first years ones weren't up before we started last year. You'll get it on your orientation day though which is about a week before the semester starts.

LeixlipRed

*cough* study *cough*

The guy

sadie06 wrote: »

Do the 09/10 timetables go up online before the semester starts, and if so, how early? I have two children and childcare to think of, so the sooner the better!

Thank you.

Here's the link, it won't update I think for another month.

Verbal_Kint

im looking for the exact starting and finishing day of a course in finance. whats the best and quickest way to do this?

morning-glory

http://registrar.nuim.ie/ImportantDates.shtml

rcaz

LeixlipRed wrote: »

*cough* study *cough*

Seriously?? Aww man...

Bam_Dan

Beau wrote: »

Join the rugby team for serious craic.

Do you need to play rugby for a club to give it a go in the collage?, cause ive not played for years but wanna give it a go again

Beau

Bam_Dan wrote: »

Do you need to play rugby for a club to give it a go in the collage?, cause ive not played for years

No you don't. There are 3 teams; 1sts, 2nds and Freshers. The 1st team would be all club players and play in division 1, the 2nds would be a lot of people like yourself and beginners with a few experienced heads thrown in and they play in Division 2 and finally freshers are first years so it just depends on that year but generally there's a good mix of beginners and club players, the freshers have reached the all ireland final 3 years in a row and lost (Waterford and Carlow are the big teams).

Training is every Monday at 6 (on the Astro turf) and matches usually kick off at about 2 on Wednesday (matches don't take place every week). Even on the first Monday of college there should be some form of training (last year it was strip tip ) on the Monday so check it out.

kc525

Hey i'm heading into 3rd year accounting & finance. does anyone know if 2nd counts towards my degree? or is it just your 3rd year marks?

Thanks!!!:):)

funky penguin

Just 3rd year, isn't it? But if your second year marks are better, they're taken into account or something? I suppose I shouldn't really answer....

LittleKitty

theres free tea every day in pudgin hall at 11 and most wensdays in the arts block.

LEARN WHERE THE AULA IS!!!
it annoys people directing traffic at your graduation, that you have been here for 3 or 4 years and you still dont know where the aula is.

ontour

I know someone already posted looking for a start and finish date for a course, but the reply link only showed the finish date for the first year. How would I go about finding out the finish date for the end of the course. Its three years. Would it be admissions I'd need to ring?

banquo

kc525 wrote: »

Hey i'm heading into 3rd year accounting & finance. does anyone know if 2nd counts towards my degree? or is it just your 3rd year marks?

Thanks!!!:):)

There is only 1 rule about the split between 2nd/3rd year marks when it comes to your final degree mark, but it does not apply to all courses. It's basically a) optional split, or b) just 3rd marks count for your degree.

You can CHOOSE to split your marks 30% 2nd year to 70% 3rd year if your marks in 2nd year are better. Or you can go 100% 3rd year.

C'est ca

jane says

LittleKitty wrote: »

theres free tea every day in pudgin hall at 11

Thought this was for theology?

sickpuppy32

masherella88 wrote: »

Tesco is 24 hour, always good for a midnight wander

no meeting place like dunnes was when it was 24 hr but still...

also, get your photos printed here...cheapest place-if you print 150+ photos they're only 5c each. pretty sure it's the cheapest in maynooth

really cute assistant at the camera desk too!
hint: think barry manilow song!

wha

Go to tutorials when attendance counts towards your grade! Might sound obvious but it can be so easy to think "ah, it's only a few percent". At the end of the semester you'll be raging if you fail because of this!

If you commute get a locker. Well handy.

Also, invest in some Milk Thistle. I swear by this stuff. A few drops in a glass of water before you go out and again when you come home and POOF no hangover! Got me through the torture that was first year €3 monday SU nights followed by 9-6 Tuesdays. Ugh.

tootyflutty

I know from experience that bridge is a bugger, and from looking at last years timetable looks like I'll be over and back 10 times a day, anyone reccommend getting a bike and going round by Dunnes, or is it not worth the bother?

internetaddict

I went up there for college open day and I walked over bridges 5 times including my train station bridge.The worst one is the rickety one by the train station.They make me all shaky. Roll on September. I figure it might cure my vertigo though

internetaddict

The smileys screwed up in my last message. The smiley with sunglasses didn't really convey my feelings.

Jimmy Iovine

tootyflutty wrote: »

I know from experience that bridge is a bugger, and from looking at last years timetable looks like I'll be over and back 10 times a day, anyone reccommend getting a bike and going round by Dunnes, or is it not worth the bother?

I reckon it'd be fairly pointless considering you're not even supposed to be allowed cycle on the South campus in case Jim or whatever his name is catches ya and it'd take way longer. You should try liven up the walk by counting your steps across the bridge. It's great crack I think I managed around the 140 mark one day

mickstupp

wha wrote: »

Go to tutorials when attendance counts towards your grade!

Or go to tutorials always, like you're supposed to. That way the departments don't decide that nobody wants them and then cuts them out altogether. Because then you hear crowds of people moaning about the lack of tutorials. Some people want and need them regularly, not just three or four times a semester.

kc525

Hey does anybody know when timetables are up? Need to sort out my hours for work?

Holsten

Not for a while yet, and even then they are not full timetables, no labs/tutorials/others/etc...

Jimmy Iovine

Does anyone know when you have to choose you modules for second year Arts or do you even get a choice?

Nationalist

masherella88 wrote: »

also, get your photos printed here...cheapest place-if you print 150+ photos they're only 5c each. pretty sure it's the cheapest in maynooth

150 photos!? Your room must be plastered! Is it an automatic machine printing thing or do they do it over night?

Nationalist

wha wrote: »

Also, invest in some Milk Thistle. I swear by this stuff. A few drops in a glass of water before you go out and again when you come home and POOF no hangover! Got me through the torture that was first year €3 monday SU nights followed by 9-6 Tuesdays. Ugh.

Tell me more about this milk thistle you speak of!

wha

Nationalist wrote: »

Tell me more about this milk thistle you speak of!

my lover: http://www.avogel.com.au/images/download/milkthistle.jpg

xochillixo

sum1 fill me in on CAMPUS ACCOMMADATION just got acceptd so waitn 2 hear where i got...
my preferences wur
1 river
2 village
3rye......

Nision

banquo wrote: »

There is only 1 rule about the split between 2nd/3rd year marks when it comes to your final degree mark, but it does not apply to all courses. It's basically a) optional split, or b) just 3rd marks count for your degree.

You can CHOOSE to split your marks 30% 2nd year to 70% 3rd year if your marks in 2nd year are better. Or you can go 100% 3rd year.

C'est ca

When do you have to make the choice? End of second or end of third year?

xochillixo

wha wrote: »

Go to tutorials when attendance counts towards your grade! Might sound obvious but it can be so easy to think "ah, it's only a few percent". At the end of the semester you'll be raging if you fail because of this!

If you commute get a locker. Well handy.

Also, invest in some Milk Thistle. I swear by this stuff. A few drops in a glass of water before you go out and again when you come home and POOF no hangover! Got me through the torture that was first year €3 monday SU nights followed by 9-6 Tuesdays. Ugh.

just bought sum yestrday bcus of u n used it last nyt... it worked although tough to remembr to take it wen u come in

twas a gud investment many thanks!!

Teabag!

xochillixo wrote: »

just bought sum yestrday bcus of u n used it last nyt... it worked although tough to remembr to take it wen u come in

twas a gud investment many thanks!!

translation please?

xochillixo

Teabag! wrote: »

translation please?

wat needs translating?

Holsten

xochillixo wrote: »

Hello good Sir/Madam,

Yesterday I manged to purchase myself some Milk Thistle from the local market, due to your excellent recommendation! I used the product in question last night although it was quite perplexing to remember to take when you come in from a night on the town filled with shenanigans. It was a fine investment that will do me well over the coming weeks, thank you so much once again.

Yours faithfully, xochillixo.

That's probably what they meant, must be an English student, eh?

Teabag!

Holsten wrote: »

That's probably what they meant, must be an English student, eh?

it makes sense now,:(

i must be gettin old.......