GALWAY RALLY

cats.life

anyone going to the rally this weekend? just wondering cos i am not. do ye think its a waste of time ?( think i,ll bring the kids to cinema to see tangled.)

minxie

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biko

If you don't like rally then the cinema is a better bet.
For people that like rally it's never a waste of time.

Wompa1

I don't mind the rally itself, unfortunately it brings with it a sea of ignorant A-holes..and I know not all of them are but three years now I've gone out to watch the Superbowl in different pubs to have a bunch of lads in Galway for the rally trying to take the p!ss about the game, jeering the national anthem etc. And one of the years some guy got bottled and the pub closed early...very very annoying

WallyGUFC

Is the cinema not a waste of time then?

Wompa1

WallyGUFC wrote: »

Is the cinema not a waste of time then?

Tangled is meant to be good :P Apparently a throw back to the old Disney cartoon pre-Pixar

Fey!

OP; if you don't like rallying, then don't go.

But while you're having a sly dig at the rally, bear in mind the huge amount of work gone into organising it by a very large team of volunteers. You're having a dig at them, too, which isn't very nice.

gaeilgegrinds1

I'll just say I love the rally. Just the rally though. Not SOME of the people who come with it. There is a reason they draft in extra Gardaí for the day. It's a shame for those who are involved in rallying who genuinely love the sport of it.

cats.life

Fey! wrote: »

OP; if you don't like rallying, then don't go.

But while you're having a sly dig at the rally, bear in mind the huge amount of work gone into organising it by a very large team of volunteers. You're having a dig at them, too, which isn't very nice.

eh? where do you see that in my post ,all im asking is do ye think its a waste of time to go, i dont ,i love the rally. my kids want to go to cinema its a treat for them, cos my hubbie is one of the VOLUNTEERS so he will be gone all day .so mum (me) is taking my lovely kids to see tangled.

Fey!

My apologies; I read that as "it's a waste of time" rather than "do ye think it's a waste of time".

What is your husband up to out there for the weekend. It's a nasty one for marshaling!

cats.life

Fey! wrote: »

My apologies; I read that as "it's a waste of time" rather than "do ye think it's a waste of time".

What is your husband up to out there for the weekend. It's a nasty one for marshaling!

he was for service, but he would see more of the stages if he went marshaling . the wind seems to have gone now so it might not be that bad. love to see a rally car coming over a hill and suspended in the air seems like for ages for it to land.

Kinda hungry.

Was thinking either a bowl of cereal or a sandwich... what ye think?

milehip1

anyone got a link to the percise locations of the stages?
nothing on the rally site or the AA .

KylieWyley

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Kinda hungry.

Was thinking either a bowl of cereal or a sandwich... what ye think?

pizza, man. definitely a pizza.

have a beer too.

KylieWyley

milehip1 wrote: »

anyone got a link to the percise locations of the stages?
nothing on the rally site or the AA .

they deliberately don't put the route up on the website to make you buy a program. thats a load of BS.

milehip1

KylieWyley wrote: »

they deliberately don't put the route up on the website to make you buy a program. thats a load of BS.

thanks,it is a load of bs, local people have a right to know the route and go about the daily business unhindered, I gotta go to mountbellow 2moro and dont wanna get caught up in the shagging thing!

hoody

KylieWyley wrote: »

they deliberately don't put the route up on the website to make you buy a program. thats a load of BS.

In fairness to them, the road closures were printed in the Connacht Tribune either this week or last. The program is a total rip off though, I've seen it for sale for €12 this week, and there's damn all in it. They're only hurting themselves really - the more info people have the more that will attend, you'd imagine?

i went to tesco last night, my head was wrecked with all the little muppets with the souped up fiesta's and micra's revv'ing like crazy

made my day on the way home to see one guy pulled by the Garda for coming off the terryland roundabout by breaking a red light, and another 2 pulled for speeding on the sean mulvoy rd

worked for a few years across in chartbusters and i've grown to hate this particular event and despise the teenage twits who follow it from town to town

I mean, it takes a special kind of stupid to spend 2-3k to buy a car and a further 10k on souping it up to make it seem more powerful

cats.life

if anybody have fotos of rally please post them here,want to see what im missing . and yes those petrol heads are a pain in the ass, its only an excuse to act the magget. saw on the safety direct website the magazine is 15e bloody rip off.

snubbleste

Why aren't the organisers getting litter fines for all the signs they have put up on roundabouts for the last few weeks?

Sponge Bob

There aren't half as many skanger me bangers around this year thank God

Captain Darling

I could hear a bunch of bell ends revving their cars all around Athenry last until the small hours. I'm sure there are decent people that follow the rally too, but these guys have to be the biggest fcuking assholes that ever walked the face of the planet flying around the place.

I fcuking hate when the rally comes to town. I wish it would fcuk off back to Donegal with the rest of the nordies.

Fey!

Captain Darling wrote: »

I could hear a bunch of bell ends revving their cars all around Athenry last until the small hours. I'm sure there are decent people that follow the rally too, but these guys have to be the biggest fcuking assholes that ever walked the face of the planet flying around the place.

I fcuking hate when the rally comes to town. I wish it would fcuk off back to Donegal with the rest of the nordies.

Those little scummers are usually the same ones who are there the other 51 weeks of the year, only they appear en masse. Check out the shopping centre for that any night.

A few years ago cameras were put on the rally stages for a few weeks preceeding the rally. As the normal complaints came in the videos were checked; the "Nordie" "boy racers" booting it up and down the road turned out to be little Johnny from next door!

Those "car enthuasiasts" aren't part of the motor club. If you check out the cruising websites around the place you'll find that they aim their "meets" to coincide with the various rallies around the country.

Each of the motor clubs around the country work with, or are willing to work with, the Gardai in order to get rid of these these louts.

Captain Darling

Fey! wrote: »

Those little scummers are usually the same ones who are there the other 51 weeks of the year, only they appear en masse. Check out the shopping centre for that any night.

A few years ago cameras were put on the rally stages for a few weeks preceeding the rally. As the normal complaints came in the videos were checked; the "Nordie" "boy racers" booting it up and down the road turned out to be little Johnny from next door!

Those "car enthuasiasts" aren't part of the motor club. If you check out the cruising websites around the place you'll find that they aim their "meets" to coincide with the various rallies around the country.

Each of the motor clubs around the country work with, or are willing to work with, the Gardai in order to get rid of these these louts.

I know a few guys that are mad into the rally, dead sound blokes, fanatical about cars.

But these other guys, i dont know, it makes my blood boil...:mad::mad:

cats.life

Captain Darling wrote: »

I know a few guys that are mad into the rally, dead sound blokes, fanatical about cars.

But these other guys, i dont know, it makes my blood boil...:mad::mad:

they think that they can get away with it cos ''rally'' is in town, the club is pissed of with them to, its giving them bad name. saw a fiasta today so low to the ground with 4 slap heads ,dont know how it moved.

JONJO THE MISER

I thought most of them would have gone to county Bondi by now:rolleyes:

Irish_Elect_Eng

milehip1 wrote: »

anyone got a link to the percise locations of the stages?
nothing on the rally site or the AA .

Nothing about the stages on the site, that is done to make sure that you have to buy a program to know where the stages are. I don't know how wise this is as it probably putts of a lot of people that would just wander down for a look.

As for the un-desireables that follow the rally, there does not seem to be as many of them in recent years, which is a good sign, lets hope it keeps improving.

OP, I took your advice and brought my gang to Tangled, they loved it, best non-Pixar Disney flick in ages..

dsrckiyisvddht

OP your punctuation irritates the balls off me. I'm as skint as a ginger prostitute so the rally would be a good day out if I wasn't lazy/studying. Do agree it brings a good few eijits into town though.

JohnCleary

Anyone know what time they're coming into Eyre Sq at? Or are they even doing that this year?

-EDIT- nm, it's in Oranmore

Fey!

JohnCleary wrote: »

Anyone know what time they're coming into Eyre Sq at? Or are they even doing that this year?

-EDIT- nm, it's in Oranmore

It changed to Oranmore last year, and the people into the town turned it into a bit of a festival. Even with a low number of cars there's a great atmosphere in it (and thankfully it dried up a bit!).

As for the program, it is needed to try to fund a portion of the cost of the event. Especially this year, when the entries were well down. Other than the program it's a free show.

Information about the stagesis available on sites such as this and rallyforums.com, but clubs try to keep it close to the chest so that residents aren't pestered for weeks by people using the course as a racetrack at night.

The rally also does fundraising for groups. This year it was Cystic Fibrosis.

For those who were out there, I hope you all enjoyed it. For those who weren't, we might see you at one of the sprints in Tynagh, the hillclimb in Ballyvaughan, the autocross in Ardrahan, at an autotest in Loughrea, or maybe at the summer rally stages.; each is a bit different from each other, and you may find yourself enjoying some free entertainment.

More information on events can be found on www.galwaymotorclub.ie for local events, or www.motorsportireland.com for national events. For the rally that was on this weekend, try www.galwayinternationalrally.com.

mikom

The Galway Rally is just a propaganda tool that shows how powerful they are so we dont mess with them.

Fey!

mikom wrote: »

The Galway Rally is just a propaganda tool that shows how powerful they are so we dont mess with them.

Shows how powerful who is, exactly?

cats.life

fotos please , anyone got fotos.need to see fotos. herd that it cost the drivers 900e to enter the rally .then they have to do up the car after that. no wonder there were not as many this year.

sidewaysdrivin

Fey! wrote: »

Those "car enthuasiasts" aren't part of the motor club. If you check out the cruising websites around the place you'll find that they aim their "meets" to coincide with the various rallies around the country.

I am a "car enthuasiast" and was at the site meets on the friday night cos its what i am about............ oh and you'd never guess what..... I was marshalling the following morning on stage 2 / 5 /8..... FAIL on you

some people get their kicks from going drinking, some people get their kicks from motorsport & cars.... some bringing the kids to the cinema:rolleyes: im into motorsport & cars && its not for you to judge me!!!

i will admit tho the gowls with 1.4 civics with their typeR badges and a straight piece of cattlecrush pipe where the exhaust used to be... they are gowls

JohnCleary

cats.life wrote: »

herd that it cost the drivers 900e to enter the rally .then they have to do up the car after that. no wonder there were not as many this year.

No different from any other motorsport really - it aint cheap!

doOh

Rally was ok ;p and u people who moan about guys and girls meeting in their cars somewhere ... its their hobbies same as yours is fishing etc now after your moaning I'm getting catback for my is200 xd

faw1tytowers

KylieWyley wrote: »

they deliberately don't put the route up on the website to make you buy a program. thats a load of BS.

12 euro a program at that!

barryd09

is it over yet?is it safe to go late night shopping again??

996tt

sidewaysdrivin wrote: »

I am a "car enthuasiast" and was at the site meets on the friday night cos its what i am about............ oh and you'd never guess what..... I was marshalling the following morning on stage 2 / 5 /8..... FAIL on you

some people get their kicks from going drinking, some people get their kicks from motorsport & cars.... some bringing the kids to the cinema:rolleyes: im into motorsport & cars && its not for you to judge me!!!

i will admit tho the gowls with 1.4 civics with their typeR badges and a straight piece of cattlecrush pipe where the exhaust used to be... they are gowls

Do you not think that having a car meet on a rally weekend is short sighted. Could you not have it on another weekend so that the reputation of the rally could be improved?

Ive never been to a car meet where everyone behaved, even simple reving of engines in a car park(and allot worse always happens even if its one knob spinning their wheels leaving a car park) is anti social and gives the rally a bad name. For example there are many non car fans posting on this thread and they associate the rally with antisocial young lads for the very reason of the meet which you attended.

Fey!

sidewaysdrivin wrote: »

[IMG]I am a "car enthuasiast" and was at the site meets on the friday night cos its what i am about............ oh and you'd never guess what..... I was marshalling the following morning on stage 2 / 5 /8..... FAIL on you some people get their kicks from going drinking, some people get their kicks from motorsport & cars.... some bringing the kids to the cinema:rolleyes: im into motorsport & cars && its not for you to judge me!!! i will admit tho the gowls with 1.4 civics with their typeR badges and a straight piece of cattlecrush pipe where the exhaust used to be... they are gowls[/img]

If you are an enthuasiast and you're not one of the people wailing around the town or wheel spinning around carparks, then they're doing just as much damage to you and your ilk as they are to the rally. The problem is everyone sees us all as the same.

There are online groups whose goal is to cause mayhem, and a large number of them refer to themselves as cruisers.

Why don't you post up the URL of the sites you use so that we can see where these idiots don't hang out?

doOh wrote: »

Rally was ok ;p and u people who moan about guys and girls meeting in their cars somewhere ... its their hobbies same as yours is fishing etc now after your moaning I'm getting catback for my is200 xd

I have no issue with enthuasiasts and meets; my problem is with the morons pulling handbrake turns on the main road and other stupid behaviour.

Honestly, I couldn't give a toss if you have a factory saloon or a modified coupe with a 10" exhaust; it's driver behaviour, not the car.

ghosty!

Wompa1 wrote: »

I don't mind the rally itself, unfortunately it brings with it a sea of ignorant A-holes..and I know not all of them are but three years now I've gone out to watch the Superbowl in different pubs to have a bunch of lads in Galway for the rally trying to take the p!ss about the game, jeering the national anthem etc. And one of the years some guy got bottled and the pub closed early...very very annoying

gaeilgegrinds1 wrote: »

I'll just say I love the rally. Just the rally though. Not SOME of the people who come with it. There is a reason they draft in extra Gardaí for the day. It's a shame for those who are involved in rallying who genuinely love the sport of it.

Like every event sport/festivals stc it brings a crowd! in a crowd there is gonna be trouble makers! Its life!

Think of the good things the rally offers like improved buisness for the weekend.

milehip1 wrote: »

anyone got a link to the percise locations of the stages?
nothing on the rally site or the AA .

KylieWyley wrote: »

they deliberately don't put the route up on the website to make you buy a program. thats a load of BS.

milehip1 wrote: »

thanks,it is a load of bs, local people have a right to know the route and go about the daily business unhindered, I gotta go to mountbellow 2moro and dont wanna get caught up in the shagging thing!

hoody wrote: »

In fairness to them, the road closures were printed in the Connacht Tribune either this week or last. The program is a total rip off though, I've seen it for sale for €12 this week, and there's damn all in it. They're only hurting themselves really - the more info people have the more that will attend, you'd imagine?

Alot of work goes into the rally weeks in advance bills have to be paid money has to come from somewhere! and come on!!! its about a tenner to go into the cinema for an hour or 12 euro for 2 full days of adrenalin filled action thats good!!!! and locals that are on the stages are informed 6-8 weeks in advance!

cats.life wrote: »

if anybody have fotos of rally please post them here,want to see what im missing . and yes those petrol heads are a pain in the ass, its only an excuse to act the magget. saw on the safety direct website the magazine is 15e bloody rip off.

Take By gerard forde...






More can be found at

Www.fordefotos.com

www.myrally.ie

il post a few more later

snubbleste wrote: »

Why aren't the organisers getting litter fines for all the signs they have put up on roundabouts for the last few weeks?

I can pretty much guarantee you they had full permission to do so. And i can also guarantee they will come down soon!!

Captain Darling wrote: »

I could hear a bunch of bell ends revving their cars all around Athenry last until the small hours. I'm sure there are decent people that follow the rally too, but these guys have to be the biggest fcuking assholes that ever walked the face of the planet flying around the place.

I fcuking hate when the rally comes to town. I wish it would fcuk off back to Donegal with the rest of the nordies.

**** back to donegal?? Your post annoys me! your the type that sits down giving out about everything i just know it!!;)

mikom wrote: »

The Galway Rally is just a propaganda tool that shows how powerful they are so we dont mess with them.

Which means?

Lads "rallying" is only ever heard of when something bad has happened or if someone has soemthing bad to say! motor clubs who run these rallys organise them with highest standards and profesionalisam(sp)!.

Lots of money is raised for local charities thanks to the "rallying" and its clubs!

Buisness improves for the weekend of the rally!

Hotwheels

cats.life wrote: »

if anybody have fotos of rally please post them here,want to see what im missing . and yes those petrol heads are a pain in the ass, its only an excuse to act the magget. saw on the safety direct website the magazine is 15e bloody rip off.

Jonathan Folan Galway, flying high





Pat & Ger Divilly Moylough, Class 11 winners & 6th overall in the national event




More here from the weekend

Well done to all the marshal & crew who braved the rotten weather...

996tt

more pics here
http://www.crspics.com/2011/galwayint2011.html

hi_im_fil

My pics of stages 3&4

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CrowdedHouse

Excellent Photos - boring sport

996tt

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Excellent Photos - boring sport

crap post

cats.life

foto,s are great lads and lassies. the ones coming over the hill and two to three feet of the ground are super.

Wompa1

Anyone have any funny stories from around town at the weekend? Lots of yellow reg plates around the place. Wasn't in many places..Where I was though had some arsehole trying to trip people coming out of the bathroom in Kellys, a young skinned head lad going ape on some guy down near The Hole in the Wall and some guy trying to stare me down for some reason around Mill Street. Lovely boys.

Tesco looked busy as always. A few years ago I pulled up beside a big group that were all lined up so the driver side and passenger side windows were in line...I rolled down my window and threw the oul head back and gave them a whats up and drove off. Fun times.

Any Superbowl aggro this year? Booing of the American anthem and a-hole remarks?

Robbo

Wompa1 wrote: »

Any Superbowl aggro this year? Booing of the American anthem and a-hole remarks?

I'd imagine the Americans did quite enough to debase the anthem on their own this year.