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article on elan on rte six one news tonight

  • 09-05-2011 11:04pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    Was watching footage of the midlands correspondant . Kieran Milloudy i think, who was standing outside Elan in Athlone when I noticed the traffic was driving on the right side,ala continental. So I rewound on sky plus which confirmed this . Anyone see this , or can someone enlighten me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,969 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    It's a raised road on an embankment as it passes Elan, you're mixing it up somehow as you didn't see both lanes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    They drive on the right side in Athlone.

    It also has a different currency & time zone.

    Strange place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭kinvara64


    pretty sure i saw traffic going both ways ,2 lanes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    I dunno.

    Maybe Don Panoz.*











    *Elan based humour


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Maybe they flipped the image for whatever reason?

    Was there any text (signs, clear number plates etc) that would give it away?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭kinvara64


    well the elan sign was the right way around .strange


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,124 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    It's on the TV so everything appears as opposite.. like when you look in a mirror.. black is east, up is white..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭kinvara64


    funny :)


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    kinvara64 wrote: »
    Was watching footage of the midlands correspondant . Kieran Milloudy i think, who was standing outside Elan in Athlone when I noticed the traffic was driving on the right side,ala continental. So I rewound on sky plus which confirmed this . Anyone see this , or can someone enlighten me.

    I worked in maintanence at Elan and looking at the road you would get that impression from a distance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    People in Westmeath don't know which way traffic goes outside the motorway.....Westmeath being a bypass county and all!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Ciaran Mullolleyyyyyyyyy RTEEEEE Newsssssssssss Athloneeeeeeeeee


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Ciaran Mullolleyyyyyyyyy RTEEEEE Newsssssssssss Athloneeeeeeeeee

    Have to get the voice right too though. Stick him and Rebecca black together and who knows what might happen :eek: He also couldn't pronounce élan.

    There's nothing weird about the roads - just took a peek at the video on RTE player, looks like it's been flipped alright, the élan sign is backwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    They're quite continental in Athlone don't you know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Just to throw a spanner in the works, the factory in last nights news is situtated in Monksland, Co Roscommon.:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Just to throw a spanner in the works, the factory in last nights news is situtated in Monksland, Co Roscommon.:cool:

    Meh, Athlone is part Roscommonian anyway


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    That Athlone there is Apache country...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    That Athlone there is Apache country...
    I know - they absolutely love pizza!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    axer wrote: »
    I know - they absolutely love pizza!

    Thick crust and soggy cheese...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I worked in maintanence at Elan and looking at the road you would get that impression from a distance.

    Sounds like the magic road in father ted, where unattended wheelchairs roll up the hill!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Its probably a one way system for traffic coming from the left of the image. Industrial areas can sometimes have strange road/lane set ups that cause newbies to go round in circles for 10 mins before finally understanding where they need to turn (and which direction)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    That Athlone there is Apache country...

    It was, until the locals ate them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I looked at 6:1 on the player but that part of the report seems to be missing we only see Ciaran Mulloooooooooooooly, I also checked google earth and I can see no one way system around Elan.


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