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Giro 2014 routes for Irish stages

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    #32
    Beasty
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    How do lads know it passing their house/their mother's house etc.? :confused:
    There are some roads you can easily work out based on comparing the map they provided and Google maps, then there are some others that there's probably only one option (such as in and out of Skerries, although I may put some bollards out to force them up Togher Hill and past my house....)


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    #33
    Wishbone Ash
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    Beasty wrote: »
    There are some roads you can easily work out based on comparing the map they provided and Google maps, then there are some others that there's probably only one option (such as in and out of Skerries, although I may put some bollards out to force them up Togher Hill and past my house....)
    I was hoping it might go from Skerries via Rush - then it would be only meters from my house. :)

    I suppose I can say goodbye to my top ten Strava position between Lusk and Blake's Cross! :D


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    #34
    granda
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    How do lads know it passing their house/their mother's house etc.? :confused:

    well in the news article it says it goes past whitehead which is where i'm from and just from the route its easy enough to work out


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    #35
    Lusk_Doyle
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    Sweet. Straight past the front door by the looks of it! Can't wait. Drinks in mine that day!


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    #36
    Waitsian
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    How do lads know it passing their house/their mother's house etc.? :confused:

    Have you ever been to Forkhill? Or Newtownhamilton for that matter? And there's only one Forkhill road into Dundalk that I know! Pretty easy to work out.


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    #37
    Beasty
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Sweet. Straight past the front door by the looks of it! Can't wait. Drinks in mine that day!
    Let me guess - you're from Lusk aren't you?


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    #38
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    Let me guess - you're from Lusk aren't you?

    Portmarnock actually. I do live in Lusk though! :P


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    #39
    RobFowl
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Portmarnock actually. I do live in Lusk though! :P

    Bleedin blow ins....


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    #40
    Lusk_Doyle
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    Bleedin blow ins....

    Ah here, leave it out! The old lad is from Loughshinney.


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    #41
    clog
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    How do lads know it passing their house/their mother's house etc.? :confused:

    The team time trial map is on a better scale if you know Belfast at all it's quite easy to work out the exact roads.
    It also looks like they are not going up the steep section of Torr Head but taking the climb up the Cushendall road out of Ballycastle. I will probably watch from there on Saturday after cycling from Belfast up the Antrim Coast road.


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    #42
    Captain Havoc
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    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    You can probably wave goodbye to most of your KOMs.

    Even Ryan Sherlock is bricking it.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



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    #43
    wav1
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    Dunsany GP on the same day as stage 3 i think.Looks like a 6am start for that one now and a shuttle service then directly to the route.No prizes at the race.We'll spend the fund on burgers and beer for the BBQ along the route lol


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    #44
    dastardly00
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Sweet. Straight past the front door by the looks of it! Can't wait. Drinks in mine that day!

    we should have a Boards cycling forum meet-up :D


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    #45
    riparooo
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    Classy statement from the shinner Maskey implying that Minister Foster (DUP) ensured it missed the catholic areas in belfast. Twit.

    Though it does have to be said the route from Armagh to the border is a spiders web of a route that somehow links each last town, village, hamlet and townland of unionism in South Armagh!

    Goes right by Willie Frazer house - not sure how he will feel with any Italian flags flying


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    #46
    Pherekydes
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    Jesus, shouldn't most of the info in this thread be spoilered? Some might want a surprise when we head to the Pavilions next May.


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    #47
    Chips Lovell
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    SF might have had more luck on the route if they'd sponsored a prime.

    First prize: a tanker of red diesel.


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    #48
    RobFowl
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    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    SF might have had more luck on the route if they'd sponsored a prime.

    First prize: a tanker of red diesel.

    Or instead of the pink jersey they could tar and feather the leader?

    Just hope to God no one asks then to fire the starting gun


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    #49
    Kav0777
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    Or instead of the pink jersey they could tar and feather the leader?

    Just hope to God no one asks then to fire the starting gun

    "Starting Gun? .... That's not a gun.... This is a gun!"


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    #50
    el tel
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    You can have a nice gander of the main section of the route by following the link below and chosing street view.

    http://goo.gl/maps/hQnBO

    As you proceed up the Lower Newtownards Road road, take your time to look left and right to take in the various anti-Catholic, Anti-Irsh, and pro-paramilitary murals as well as St. Matthew's RC Church. If you follow Northern Irish news and have heard the words "Loyalist Riot", "mob", "church attacked", "police attacked" and "shots fired" it is likely you are familiar with said location and church.

    I just hope the locals aren't still revolting come May 2014!


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    #51
    Darkglasses
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    el tel wrote: »
    You can have a nice gander of the main section of the route by following the link below and chosing street view.

    http://goo.gl/maps/hQnBO

    As you proceed up the Lower Newtownards Road road, take your time to look left and right to take in the various anti-Catholic, Anti-Irsh, and pro-paramilitary murals as well as St. Matthew's RC Church. If you follow Northern Irish news and have heard the words "Loyalist Riot", "mob", "church attacked", "police attacked" and "shots fired" it is likely you are familiar with said location and church.

    I just hope the locals aren't still revolting come May 2014!

    But that's "freedom corner"! Sounds lovely :pac:


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    #52
    maloner
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    http://www.steephill.tv/giro-d-italia/#live

    Apparently they'll have live streaming of the route unveiling, starting I think at 3pm


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    #53
    Kav0777
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    http://www.gazzetta.it/Giroditalia/2014/it/percorso-tappe/tappe.shtml?t=03&lang=it&sez=INFO_TECNICHE

    The Map is up for the 3rd stage to Dublin. There go all the KOM's on strava.


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    #54
    lennymc
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    would have been great to see them go out to howth then turn right at the church. :)


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    #55
    Rambling Man
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    The Chuck Wagon on the R132 might do as the final food stop of the stage.

    Well for supporters anyway.


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    #56
    mcgratheoin
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    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    SF might have had more luck on the route if they'd sponsored a prime.

    First prize: a tanker of formerly red diesel.

    FYP


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    #57
    buffalo
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    So they're going through Skerries - Black Hills?

    And looks like they're heading down the Clontarf coast - along S2S perhaps? Really looking forward to this! Why is it so far away?!


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    #58
    bcmf
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    From what I am seeing on the map it looks like its going into Balbriggan -straight down the coast road into Skerries and straight out the main road into Lusk -past the party at Lusk Doyles house - out onto the main road and so on.


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    #59
    drogdub
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    bcmf wrote: »
    From what I am seeing on the map it looks like its going into Balbriggan -straight down the coast road into Skerries and straight out the main road into Lusk -past the party at Lusk Doyles house - out onto the main road and so on.

    Hopefully this means they'll sort out the road surface between Balbriggan and Julienstown, which in places is shocking. Is it going down Dublin Road in Drogheda? Seems to be from the maps


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    #60
    Esroh
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    drogdub wrote: »
    Hopefully this means they'll sort out the road surface between Balbriggan and Julienstown, which in places is shocking. Is it going down Dublin Road in Drogheda? Seems to be from the maps
    The riders are all referring to the easy start. A nice rough stone top dressing put down about 3 weeks before hand is just what is needed


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    #61
    cityman 18
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    Bit disappointed the route isn't going through Howth, thought it they would considering they're going right beside Howth Hill.


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