Cannonball run Limerick visit *Mod warning Post 84 *

Mc Love

Really looking forward to this. Rumour has it will bring over 10 million euro to the city! Forget M&S!

LIMERICK’S streets will roar with the sound of finely tuned engines as 160 of the finest cars on the planet pass through the city for the Cannonball 2013.

The event, the largest organised road trip in Europe, will pass through Limerick on Saturday, August 24 and feature the world’s top brands including, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Aston Martin, McLaren, Porsche, Masseratti, Rolls Royce and Bentley.

The procession will arrive into the city around 6pm and stop in the Pery Square area to allow people to get up close and personal with drivers, celebrities and, of course, the cars themselves.

The event is the the brainchild of AB Signs proprietor, Alan Bannon, and is now in its fifth year having already raised nearly€500,000 for children’s charities, and this year will support the Laura Lynn Children’s Hospice Foundation.

The parade will overnight in Limerick and feature over 50 supercars coming from as far as Italy, Germany, US, UK, Monaco, Russia, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands in this very special year of The Gathering.

“Cannonball 5 is set to be one of the most spectacular events of 2013,” said Don O’Neil of Manhattan Popcorn, main sponsor of the Cannonball event.

“We are very proud to be part of this exhilarating event and to help raise funds for LauraLynn,” he added.

http://www.limerickleader.ie/what-s-on/arts-entertainment/cannonball-revved-up-to-roar-through-limerick-1-5378588

Sully777

Mc Love wrote: »

Really looking forward to this. Rumour has it will bring over 10 million euro to the city! Forget M&S!



http://www.limerickleader.ie/what-s-on/arts-entertainment/cannonball-revved-up-to-roar-through-limerick-1-5378588

Should be a good event and certainly worthy of a visit.

PS - the old "worth 10 million to the City" sound bite has been flogged to death at this stage and to be honest not even remotely funny anymore.

Mc Love

Sully777 wrote: »

Should be a good event and certainly worthy of a visit.

PS - the old "worth 10 million to the City" sound bite has been flogged to death at this stage and to be honest not even remotely funny anymore.

Maybe to you - I still think its funny as it is still used for certain events

bazz26

Should be some very nice metal on display.

Mc Love

Gonna bring in the good camera for it, hope the weather stays good!

Thanks! Will have to trek in to get a look at this

Semi final this weekend,

Shiny, loud, expensive vroom vroom day next weekend,

Electric picnic the weekend after,

August is a good month!

roast

Sounds awesome, must get to this!

Mr Heavy

Mod Post: This forum must be just as bad, because you just had your access to it taken for seven days.

deadeye187

Can`t wait

bazz26

Mr Heavy wrote: »

Mod Edit:

Yes because wheels only get robbed in Limerick right? :rolleyes:

Here's a bigger brush for your sweeping statement.

Mc Love

Bumping this as its closer to the date and incase anyone forgot about it!

deadeye187

Mc Love wrote: »

Bumping this as its closer to the date and incase anyone forgot about it!

Mc Love, where and what time is this on?

Mc Love

deadeye187 wrote: »

Mc Love, where and what time is this on?

read the original post - its right there for you

Berty

150 super cars?

Maybe 149, saw two in Galway today. A Lamborghini and a 9 year old BMW 6 series. Not an M6. Which is not the super car?

seachto7

3 of these cannonball w*nkers passed me on the motorway coming back to Limerick earlier. I was in a 60mph zone coming out of Dublin. They passed, must have been doing at least 100mph. Pr1cks of the highest order.
These cannonball d1cks are mainly rich toffs using Europe's roads as their playground. I would laugh if Limerick lived up to the sterotype for once and their cars are robbed and burned out.
W*nkers.
Worst case scenario is a bunch of them will end up driving into a tree or a wall. Best case scenario is nobody else will get injured because of them.:mad::mad:

bigpink

Sound like total knobs!Would be great if someone recorded them acting in a dangerous manner and said it to the organisers

testicle

Pity Munster are playing in Thomond Park at this exact time.

Parchment

seachto7 wrote: »

3 of these cannonball w*nkers passed me on the motorway coming back to Limerick earlier. I was in a 60mph zone coming out of Dublin. They passed, must have been doing at least 100mph. Pr1cks of the highest order.
These cannonball d1cks are mainly rich toffs using Europe's roads as their playground. I would laugh if Limerick lived up to the sterotype for once and their cars are robbed and burned out.
W*nkers.
Worst case scenario is a bunch of them will end up driving into a tree or a wall. Best case scenario is nobody else will get injured because of them.:mad::mad:

Happened me last year - so dangerous...im pretty sure i even posted about it here. reckless mid-life crisis men in expensive cars.

seachto7

Hopefully someone reported them. I seriously hope their cars get burned out. Arrogant d1ckheads...

Mc Love

Ye sound jealous lads!

gowley

Mc Love wrote: »

Ye sound jealous lads!

was thinking the same myself.

seachto7

Jealous? How would I be jealous of someone doing over 100mph on a 60mph zone? That's just being a wa*nker. If you call that jealous, you need your head examined.

deadeye187

seachto7 wrote: »

Jealous? How would I be jealous of someone doing over 100mph on a 60mph zone? That's just being a wa*nker. If you call that jealous, you need your head examined.

Like no one ever went over 60 in a 60 zone!

grow up!

seachto7

eh? So you think it's alright to go over 100mph in a busy 60mph zone coming out of Dublin just because you have a souped up car? (or a small d1ck)

deadeye187

seachto7 wrote: »

eh? So you think it's alright to go over 100mph in a busy 60mph zone coming out of Dublin just because you have a souped up car? (or a small d1ck)

I have zero prob with this, I do 80/90 in a crap car! they are lucky they have good cars to do it in!

seachto7

deadeye187 wrote: »

I have zero prob with this, I do 80/90 in a crap car! they are lucky they have good cars to do it in!

You're missing the point. I don't care if they had a formula 1 car to do it in.
Everyone goes over the limit, but they were driving recklessly, busy traffic on a Friday, and these wa*kers, because there is no other word for them, driving at over 100mph. If you fail to see what's wrong, I'd hate to meet you on the road in your crap car going 90... :rolleyes::rolleyes:

deadeye187

seachto7 wrote: »

You're missing the point. I don't care if they had a formula 1 car to do it in.
Everyone goes over the limit, but they were driving recklessly, busy traffic on a Friday, and these wa*kers, because there is no other word for them, driving at over 100mph. If you fail to see what's wrong, I'd hate to meet you on the road in your crap car going 90... :rolleyes::rolleyes:

I get where your coming from, but I do not care if they were doing 150mph, as alot of ppl would not!

To stop the back and forth, I really do get where your from..

if they passed me by at speed i`d be in danger of crashing looking at them class care!...

seachto7

I dunno, that's where I differ I suppose. A car to me is like a central heating burner in a house. You put fuel in it, it starts up, makes a noise and does its job.

deadeye187

seachto7 wrote: »

I dunno, that's where I differ I suppose. A car to me is like a central heating burner in a house. You put fuel in it, it starts up, makes a noise and does its job.

LOL....i defo see where you are coming from!...if you have no interest they they would be a pain for sure!..i love them, and would travel to see them!....

seachto7

Well, I will admit they were seriously nice cars, but they were taking the pi55!!

deadeye187

seachto7 wrote: »

Well, I will admit they were seriously nice cars, but they were taking the pi55!!

I bet they were class no doubt!....have to take my camera with me. Make out like its mine to sum silly people!...:D

cottager83

Anyone know how long these cars will be around Pery square? Am heading to the Munster game so would be after 7 before I'd be up that direction. Cheers!

Not very long. 17:30 to 18:30 according to their site. Try get there for a look before the match if you can. Head away at 18:15 and you should make it in plenty of time for the match.

bazz26

More info here for anyone interested:

http://www.limerick.ie/visiting/whatson/2013-08-24cannonballireland2013.html

Mc Love

Not leaving until 10am Sun Morning apparently:
On Saturday August 24th, CANNONBALL leaves Cork at 10.30am to take in a stunning drive through Kenmare and Killarney and arrives to Limerick at 5:30pm.

On Sunday morning Cannonballers will leave Limerick at 10am and go to Killaloe for a very special Gathering of the 'Men of the Water'. From there the cars will move on to Cashel in Tipperary at 1:30pm where they will close a Cannonball Festival before descending on Tullamore in County Offaly at 6pm for the finish line where the roars of the engines will compete with a cheering crowd of over 10,000 people.

seachto7

How do they know 10,000 people. Based on what I saw coming out of Dublin the road to Cashel will one best avoided this weekend...

Parchment

Seems to be running very late...

LB6

on news today it said that it'll be 7.30 before the cars get to Limerick

deadeye187

what time and from where they leaving tomorrow?

Jofspring

They seem to be all over town at the moment so worth a drive in. Just got sandwiched on Henry street between a Maserati and a Lamborghini

Kev131

Watched them leave Pery square last night.
Awesome cars and sounds with some smoking burnouts.

Hardcore acceleration across the O Connell street junction that really needed to be on a racetrack only but it was exhilarating if also dangerous to get so close to the sights sounds and smells. The "supercars" were all over the place in the wet but the real performers were the 4WD Audi S4 and S6. They laid down their power without a twitch and were gone with snarling crackles! I defy anyone not to be impressed with some of these machines. The participants were friendly too and prepared to chat.

I'm getting up now to see them leave as last night was so much fun. :-)

deadeye187

Was in town all morning watching the cars, the noise of sum of them is unreal!....class cars, good times!

misterdeeds

Please move outta d way and let them pass ,vroooooom and der they go ha ha
As for calling them w*nkers ,all the people who take part in cannonball are the most lovely people you could wish to meet I have met most of them over the last few years and I have to say they are so so nice and generous and always kind to many many kids who wanna sit into the cars they have ,they put alot of their OWN MONEY AND TIME into this v good cause every year
I have nothing to do with cannonball just follow it every year for the last 3 years and hope to continue doing so
So please do not comment on people you do not know nor have met
and keep your opinions to yourself .

bigpink

Went to this with my family and young kids.Whatever about the delay that ok cause they got tons of free popcorn but the arrival entrance was done very badly.They should have had more barriers and stewards or even just closed Mallow street fully and an hour or so.The cars letting of there engines went down well with the crowd but one car kinda half skidded and it took have ended badly.The young lads loved and my nephrew who loves cars was amazed

Kess73

misterdeeds wrote: »

Please move outta d way and let them pass ,vroooooom and der they go ha ha
As for calling them w*nkers ,all the people who take part in cannonball are the most lovely people you could wish to meet I have met most of them over the last few years and I have to say they are so so nice and generous and always kind to many many kids who wanna sit into the cars they have ,they put alot of their OWN MONEY AND TIME into this v good cause every year
I have nothing to do with cannonball just follow it every year for the last 3 years and hope to continue doing so
So please do not comment on people you do not know nor have met
and keep your opinions to yourself .

Mod Post: If you wish to continue to give your own opinion in this forum, then do not tell other posters whether or not they can give their opinions.

Had no problem with your post until the last sentence. Back seat mod like that again and you will get a break from this forum.

bazz26

Some very nice machines at this event yesterday evening even though the weather was crap as normal. Still got to sit in one of the orange Lamborghini Gallardo's and the McLaren MP4-12c, spoke to some of the owners who were decent down to earth guys who just love their cars. Lots of kids poking around and left sit in the cars too which made their day, this was very nice considering the money these cars cost. The A-Team GM van was crazy and nostalgic along with the Delorean from Back to the Future.

Overall a great few hours where people had a chance to poke around hyper cars that they normally would not see in their lifetime.

seachto7

misterdeeds wrote: »

Please move outta d way and let them pass ,vroooooom and der they go ha ha
As for calling them w*nkers ,all the people who take part in cannonball are the most lovely people you could wish to meet I have met most of them over the last few years and I have to say they are so so nice and generous and always kind to many many kids who wanna sit into the cars they have ,they put alot of their OWN MONEY AND TIME into this v good cause every year
I have nothing to do with cannonball just follow it every year for the last 3 years and hope to continue doing so
So please do not comment on people you do not know nor have met
and keep your opinions to yourself .

Sorry bud but anyone that goes over 100mph in busy traffic in a 60mph zone is a bit of a dick in my eyes. I don't care if they have a skoda or a porsche....

Kev131

Kess73 wrote: »

Mod Post: If you wish to continue to give your own opinion in this forum, then do not tell other posters whether or not they can give their opinions.

Had no problem with your post until the last sentence. Back seat mod like that again and you will get a break from this forum.

Do you mind me asking....is your issue with the posting about its content... or what you may see as a possible attempt to usurp the power of moderation?

Another viewpoint would be that moderation of the earlier comments using an offensive term beginning with the letter W... might have been of more benefit to the forum. Instead, occasional users like me are left with the impression that name calling is fine but attempts by non moderators to positively respond to abusive comments... are stepping over the line.

I know that moderation is a difficult task and often subjective - I do it myself for two motoring forums but IMHO it's important to try to avoid publicly humiliating contributors while concentrating on promoting the forum and its benefits. Btw, I don't know either of you.

Just to try to get the subject back on track and for the petrol heads out there, I went to Killaloe on Sunday morning and saw even more fantastic machinery. The participants couldn't have been nicer allowing kid after kid to jump around in their €200,000 exotics. A lot of the drivers were dressed up as characters such as Iron Man, Fred Flintstone and Bart Simpson and were delighted to wave and pose for photos. I took lots of photos and then left early to try to get some video as they headed back to the M7. Unfortunately their departure was delayed and I had to leave but I was left with the idea that I won't be missing this next year and will set aside enough time to follow them around a bit. What a genuinely nice bunch of guys and gals and they put on a very entertaining and FREE show.

Kess73

Kev131 wrote: »

Do you mind me asking....is your issue with the posting about its content... or what you may see as a possible attempt to usurp the power of moderation?

Another viewpoint would be that moderation of the earlier comments using an offensive term beginning with the letter W... might have been of more benefit to the forum. Instead, occasional users like me are left with the impression that name calling is fine but attempts by non moderators to positively respond to abusive comments... are stepping over the line.

I know that moderation is a difficult task and often subjective - I do it myself for two motoring forums but IMHO it's important to try to avoid publicly humiliating contributors while concentrating on promoting the forum and its benefits. Btw, I don't know either of you.

Just to try to get the subject back on track and for the petrol heads out there, I went to Killaloe on Sunday morning and saw even more fantastic machinery. The participants couldn't have been nicer allowing kid after kid to jump around in their €200,000 exotics. A lot of the drivers were dressed up as characters such as Iron Man, Fred Flintstone and Bart Simpson and were delighted to wave and pose for photos. I took lots of photos and then left early to try to get some video as they headed back to the M7. Unfortunately their departure was delayed and I had to leave but I was left with the idea that I won't be missing this next year and will set aside enough time to follow them around a bit. What a genuinely nice bunch of guys and gals and they put on a very entertaining and FREE show.

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Gallee

I was driving into town on Saturday evening. 2 cars came in Patrick St that were escorting some of the Cannon Ball cars. One of them was a 13 reg BMW with flashing yellow and red lights on the roof. Both of them were fitted with illegal sirens which are not permissible under law. The problem was of course that while they were blaring these sirens most of the people driving thought they were ES vehicles and started to pull in on top of those who knew they were not ES and caused consternation and almost an accident.

iguana

Absolute dangerous ****, some of them. I was crossing the road outside my house on the Ballysimon Rd on Saturday afternoon and one of them came out of nowhere when the road seemed clear and nearly ran me over. For the next 5 or 10 minutes a whole load of them were zooming up and down the road, swinging in by the entrances to Woodlawn and Lynwood Parks doing u-turns and straight back out on main road in the opposite direction as I assume they were lost and trying to get back on their route. All in the pissing rain making their reckless driving even more dangerous.

Thankfully my husband was home and had our son with him as normally I'd have been trying to cross with the buggy and if I'd been pushing that, one or both of us would have been dead. I didn't know what they were involved with until I saw this thread and I'll definitely be complaining to the organisers.