Fireworks!

whatlliwear

There are some fab fireworks going off over the city at the moment

01902

What are they for?

joeKel73

There's a fairly elaborate fireworks display going on in town for the last few mins. Anyone know what's it for? Hadn't heard anything.

Can only see the tops of it from here.

dilallio

What's the story with all the fireworks going off at the moment? Just caught a glimpse of some of the bigger ones. Looks good.

whatlliwear

No idea but they were really nice.. Poor animals will be terrified though.

evil_seed

Looked cool from my house. No idea though

01902

Looked like it was pretty much the city center from where I was.

ben.schlomo

Was brilliant, far better than the Volvo finale ones, looked like it was in the area near the Radisson from what i could see.

biko

Lol, three threads in as many minutes. Merged.
I don't know what they're for, don't think it was mentioned in the paper though.

James Forde

They were let off from lough atalia

dilallio

biko wrote: »

Lol, three threads in as many minutes. Merged.

Fastest mod in town

evil_seed

anyone?

Birroc

Chinese New Year is Feb 10th.

O'Bama maybe?

BhoscaCapall

Birroc wrote: »

Chinese New Year is Feb 10th.

O'Bama maybe?

What's Obama got to do with it?

It's MLK Day in America, if we're scraping the barrel.

Randall Floyd

Related to The Gathering?

Seaneh

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

What's Obama got to do with it?

It's MLK Day in America, if we're scraping the barrel.

inauguration day

BhoscaCapall

You'd hope Ireland wasn't still so far up American's hole that they'd have firework displays for that...

thesandeman

Scared the crap out of me. Was in the middle of my siesta. Strangely enough dog didn't seem to notice and those things usually drive her nuts.
It definitely wasn't pre-publicised anywhere I've been reading.

Maybe it was our councillors celebrating getting through a meeting without an argument :-)

Seaneh

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

You'd hope Ireland wasn't still so far up American's hole that they'd have firework displays for that...

Or maybe there's over a thousand american ex-pats in Galway and it was some of them?

:rolleyes:

Asmodean

I nearly sh*t myself in work. Didn't have a clue what was going on. Quite bizzare that there's been no definite explanation yet!

BhoscaCapall

Seaneh wrote: »

Or maybe there's over a thousand american ex-pats in Galway and it was some of them?

:rolleyes:

Oh right yeah I suppose one of the ex-pats could have imported several fireworks and paid for a professional display in their back garden. I mean they happen all over the city on the 4th July. Of course.

Seaneh

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

Oh right yeah I suppose one of the ex-pats could have imported several fireworks and paid for a professional display in their back garden. I mean they happen all over the city on the 4th July. Of course.

Why would it have to be a professional display?

It was only a few minutes of fireworks and they could have easily been bought up north and loaded into the back of a car.

What went off was likely only a few hundred quids worth.

It could have been ****ing anything. Someone might have a bit over excited about their kids birthday.

BhoscaCapall

Ok bud relax. They seemed pretty baller to me.

confuseddotcom

What's baller?

BhoscaCapall

confuseddotcom wrote: »

What's baller?

Kittywake

They were let off from one of the floating platforms on Lough Atalia. Saw a boat out there at around 4pm with a few guys and a kid. Didn't know what they were doing there at the time but when the fireworks went off from there later it explained it. Still don't know why though.

Iwannahurl

99% sure the fireworks were for celebrating Obama's inauguration, as a couple of posters have said already.

Noisy no doubt, but could be a lot worse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGxpdP3ZbWQ

fifib

heard yer man on galway bay fm this morning asking if anyone knew why they were let off

G Power

Iwannahurl wrote: »

99% sure the fireworks were for celebrating Obama's inauguration, as a couple of posters have said already.

Noisy no doubt, but could be a lot worse!

if this is true i suppose it makes a nice change that rockets are flying from surface to air instead of the other way around where America is concerned, gotta love another 4 years of unmanned drone attacks!!

Chicken1

G Power wrote: »

if this is true i suppose it makes a nice change that rockets are flying from surface to air instead of the other way around where America is concerned, gotta love another 4 years of unmanned drone attacks!!

Got to love this, just has to get the bit about the drones in, any excuse to have a go at the US

Talk about Anti American

inisboffin

Sounds like it was probably an ex-pat group who put them on.

From what I heard (I was inside so heard, didn't see them), they were going off for a good chunk of time. Coupled with the fact that people said they looked quite impressive, that adds up to more than a few hundred quid's worth of fireworks IMO.
I remember how 50 quids worth of 'Moore St' fireworks was gone in a minute, so am basing my calculations scientifically on that*!

(*that and working on an event where I saw the fireworks budget)

FouxDaFaFa

Could even have been a wedding at the radisson or something.

Bit strange no-one seems to know. Galway is tiny, after all.

BhoscaCapall

Chicken1 wrote: »

Got to love this, just has to get the bit about the drones in, any excuse to have a go at the US

Talk about Anti American

Maybe he's just anti-murdering-civilians. Not his fault America happen to be good at it.

laugh

Company celebrating 10th birthday at Radisson.

snubbleste

laugh wrote: »

Company celebrating 10th birthday at Radisson.

Eh which company? Did they have a licence to import the fireworks?

beardybrewer

Americans? That's absurd.

The space-o-tron reports it was the galactic monkey men from the 9th dimension celebrating their victory over omicron persei 8.

Obviously their compatriot Donald Trump pulled some strings so via the transitive properties an American was vicariously involved. But technically you have to be human for that to count.

JonathanByrne

The fireworks were in celebration of DemonWare's 10th anniversary, which they celebrated in Galway, with staff from all around the globe in attendance. They were all staying at the Radisson, hence the fireworks show was over Lough Atalia.

confuseddotcom

snubbleste wrote: »

Eh which company? Did they have a licence to import the fireworks?

Ya just gotta love this Country! Nosey for news first and then comes the back-stabbing!!

KingJamsie

few seconds of them http://www.tout.com/m/brm54a?ref=twqfkvgc