King's Island

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 6:43pm #1

Anyone here live in King's Island?

Know of anything fun to do there? Aside from King John's Castle...

I won't have a car so I'm looking for fun things to do and cool people to meet in walking distance of nicholas street.

Thanks a million!

padma · 14-10-2010 7:13pm

sadly Nicholas street has been left go to the dogs recently. There are a lot of empty shops there. This is in the medieval quarter of Limerick city, so has a lot of history and stuff. Before they brought in the one-way system there it was quite a busy area of Limerick but I'm going back 10/15 years now. There is an arcade and pool rooms up there in a place called stix. Can be rough enough sometimes but if your fiance is from there, ye will probably have no worries. Nicholas street is a 2/3 minute walk from the main city centre, so in essence you are pretty much in the city centre without the traffic noise and high buildings.

zuroph · 14-10-2010 7:24pm

my mates live just off nicholas st, when you get over we'll organise a beers and introduce ya

Conor Bourke · 14-10-2010 7:45pm

I'm about a 7 minute walk from Nicholas' Street. A relative noob to Limerick myself (here since March), found the people to be friendly and welcoming

Will see you round hopefully!

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 7:51pm

padma wrote: »

sadly Nicholas street has been left go to the dogs recently. There are a lot of empty shops there. This is in the medieval quarter of Limerick city, so has a lot of history and stuff. Before they brought in the one-way system there it was quite a busy area of Limerick but I'm going back 10/15 years now. There is an arcade and pool rooms up there in a place called stix. Can be rough enough sometimes but if your fiance is from there, ye will probably have no worries. Nicholas street is a 2/3 minute walk from the main city centre, so in essence you are pretty much in the city centre without the traffic noise and high buildings.

yeah he is from limerick, i've told him my concerns since i've had about limerick... he assures me that anyone that knows i'm his girl won't mess with me... :P

zuroph wrote: »

my mates live just off nicholas st, when you get over we'll organise a beers and introduce ya

awesome, sounds good

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 7:54pm

Alaskimo-cake wrote: »

I'm about a 7 minute walk from Nicholas' Street. A relative noob to Limerick myself (here since March), found the people to be friendly and welcoming
Will see you round hopefully!

oh cool! where are you originally from?

Berty · 14-10-2010 8:15pm

Kings Island sounds nice but to be fair its not the nicest of areas. I certainly dont like being near the place when its dark other than driving through from one place to another.

Within walking distance could be the nice(ish) walk which will take you out the Corbally road, turn down the Mill road to "the ducks" and along the riverbank bringing you out onto the Corbally road at the Athlunkard Bridge. You can continue this walk through the Shannon fields following along the Canal which will eventually bring you back to Kings Island(more or less).

Or then again walk into the City.

kilburn · 14-10-2010 8:18pm

Florida to Nicholas Street some change

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 8:33pm

kilburn wrote: »

Florida to Nicholas Street some change

lol, yeah... esp since i'm from south florida and i'm moving in december :eek:

kilburn · 14-10-2010 8:53pm

Well as long as you bring your welies, coat and hat you will be grand. I love Nicholas Street and the Kings Island area

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 8:59pm

kilburn wrote: »

Well as long as you bring your welies, coat and hat you will be grand. I love Nicholas Street and the Kings Island area

i don't own anything like that.... i have one long sleeve sweater that doesn't keep me warm in 21 c

kilburn · 14-10-2010 8:59pm

you could feed these two

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie/5033724251/

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 9:02pm

kilburn wrote: »

you could feed these two

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie/5033724251/

they are so beautiful! i've never seen black swans before

Jumpy · 14-10-2010 9:03pm

sunshineoh9 wrote: »

they are so beautiful! i've never seen black swans before

OI. We know what foreigners do to our swans. No eatin now ya hear!

zuroph · 14-10-2010 9:07pm

sunshineoh9 wrote: »

they are so beautiful! i've never seen black swans before

thats cos all the white supremacist swans drove them out of florida..

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 9:07pm

Jumpy wrote: »

OI. We know what foreigners do to our swans. No eatin now ya hear!

i could never eat anything so pretty! i might feed them but i assure you there will be no feeding ON them

Jumpy · 14-10-2010 9:08pm

Actually I am an Aussie, how did Limerick get a couple of our swans?

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 9:11pm

zuroph wrote: »

thats cos all the white supremacist swans drove them out of florida..

nah, the white ones just immigrated when they heard america has more sun than rain

electrobanana · 14-10-2010 9:13pm

Jumpy wrote: »

Actually I am an Aussie, how did Limerick get a couple of our swans?

we exchanged them for a few thousand migrant workers fair swap really:D

theparish · 14-10-2010 9:22pm

Hi,
I'm from Kings Island myself.You could check out King johns castle,Limerick city museum,St.Marys cathedral,Hunt museum on Patrick St and a nice walk over Thomond bridge and follow the river down Clancy and O'Callaghan strand which is nice on a sunny day.
P.S. any chance we can swap social security numbers so I can nip off to the states and get work while you are here.:)Either you are crazy or seriously in love moving to Limerick,I am a proud native but the place is slowly dying:(.
Best of luck and hope you enjoy your stay.

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 9:31pm

theparish wrote: »

Hi,
I'm from Kings Island myself.You could check out King johns castle,Limerick city museum,St.Marys cathedral,Hunt museum on Patrick St and a nice walk over Thomond bridge and follow the river down Clancy and O'Callaghan strand which is nice on a sunny day.
P.S. any chance we can swap social security numbers so I can nip off to the states and get work while you are here.:)Either you are crazy or seriously in love moving to Limerick,I am a proud native but the place is slowly dying:(.
Best of luck and hope you enjoy your stay.

well i surely am madly in love

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 10:37pm

zuroph wrote: »

my mates live just off nicholas st, when you get over we'll organise a beers and introduce ya

Alaskimo-cake wrote: »

I'm about a 7 minute walk from Nicholas' Street. A relative noob to Limerick myself (here since March), found the people to be friendly and welcoming
Will see you round hopefully!

so what pubs do y'all drink at?

zuroph · 14-10-2010 10:41pm

pubs?! lah dee dah! house drinkings where its at.

The locke will be close by to you for a chilled enough atmosphere, attracts all ages. Up town to mickeys, tom collins for decent pints, or Bakers for rock music.

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 10:45pm

zuroph wrote: »

pubs?! lah dee dah! house drinkings where its at.

The locke will be close by to you for a chilled enough atmosphere, attracts all ages. Up town to mickeys, tom collins for decent pints, or Bakers for rock music.

well alex drinks at the cauldron, so i was trying to see if anyone goes there

johnnyryan89 · 14-10-2010 11:13pm

padma wrote: »

sadly Nicholas street has been left go to the dogs recently. There are a lot of empty shops there. This is in the medieval quarter of Limerick city, so has a lot of history and stuff. Before they brought in the one-way system there it was quite a busy area of Limerick but I'm going back 10/15 years now. There is an arcade and pool rooms up there in a place called stix. Can be rough enough sometimes but if your fiance is from there, ye will probably have no worries. Nicholas street is a 2/3 minute walk from the main city centre, so in essence you are pretty much in the city centre without the traffic noise and high buildings.

Sadly Stix got rid of the arcade and snooker/pool tables and replaced them with a casino, sad times used to love going up for a game of pool but if your looking for game of pool the cauldron pub up the road have a table upstairs and nice pints. Stix still does food, cant beat a good ol stix special with seasoning...:D

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 11:49pm

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

Sadly Stix got rid of the arcade and snooker/pool tables and replaced them with a casino, sad times used to love going up for a game of pool but if your looking for game of pool the cauldron pub up the road have a table upstairs and nice pints. Stix still does food, cant beat a good ol stix special with seasoning...:D

yay! do you go there often? alex has told me about it

johnnyryan89 · 14-10-2010 11:54pm

Dont go in there that often, used to go in there after matches every weekend for few pints and few games of pool, havent been in there in a couple of months but great pub and the owners are very nice and friendly.

sunshineoh9 · 14-10-2010 11:58pm

yeah, have you seen the video of toni in australia? i was mad!!!!

johnnyryan89 · 15-10-2010 12:01am

Cant say i did, was it on youtube or something? Did see him on the paper today haha

sunshineoh9 · 15-10-2010 12:09am

skip to 3:00 so you don't have to watch the whole thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzQ-d5b_qDA

johnnyryan89 · 15-10-2010 12:21am

sunshineoh9 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzQ-d5b_qDA

Heard about that alright but never seen that video. Think he got a bit of slagging over that but people just having a laugh and joke with him...

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