Ladies beach

snubbleste

in Salthill.
Why is there no Gentlemens Beach?

When will this appalling gender-named location be revised? How is this travesty allowed in the 21st century? #shocking

misstearheus

First I've heard of it.

Cheshire Cat

We could easily rename it to Lads' Beach, would that keep you happy?

snubbleste

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

We could easily rename it to Lads' Beach, would that keep you happy?

No.

Never mind Ladies Beach, I still want to know if it is Kennedy Park or Eyre Square.

Mrs OBumble

snubbleste wrote: »

in Salthill.
Why is there no Gentlemens Beach?

When will this appalling gender-named location be revised? How is this travesty allowed in the 21st century? #shocking

Because there are no gentlemen? #hyperbole

Your Face

I like the name. Let's not rename everything just to pander to a few vocal idiots.

pablo128

snubbleste wrote: »

in Salthill.
Why is there no Gentlemens Beach?

When will this appalling gender-named location be revised? How is this travesty allowed in the 21st century? #shocking

Legend has it that the beach is named after a gentleman by the name of John Lady.

You can climb down off the horse and sleep easy tonight now.

biko

That doesn't make sense.
If it were true it'd be "Lady's beach", not "Ladies beach"
Which actually should be "Ladies' beach"

pablo128

biko wrote: »

That doesn't make sense.
If it were true it'd be "Lady's beach", not "Ladies beach"
Which actually should be "Ladies' beach"

It's actually a misnomer and misleading, because I rarely see ladies there.

stampydmonkey

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It's actually a misnomer and misleading, because I rarely see ladies there.

Meooooow

Rob Thomas

We were only on about this last week.

Where is it? I thought it was across from Grattan park but my mate insisted its where the steps are after Blackrock.

beach_walker

There actually used to be some separate beaches for men (I think one of the ones up farther up near Blackrock), for swimming in the nudes and stuff.

misstearheus

Just kick the wall lads and don't worry about anything else. :cool: :cool:

/behappy

Aerohead

Ladies beach was where the small shop is on the beach, at one time it was ladies only allowed there and only men were allowed to bathe at Blackrock

snubbleste

I thought it was called Ladies beach because the water was shallower and more gently protected due to a breakwater.
Either way its sexist and needs a rename! Now!

connemara man

snubbleste wrote: »

I thought it was called Ladies beach because the water was shallower and more gently protected due to a breakwater.
Either way its sexist and needs a rename! Now!

The reason it's called ladies beach is sexist I think a priest or bishop back in the day said that's where the women should go as to not entice men ( I may be completely of but it's something like that) the name has stuck around till now and I doubt it'll be changed as it's engrained in memory

snubbleste

connemara man wrote: »

The reason it's called ladies beach is sexist I think a priest or bishop back in the day said that's where the women should go as to not entice men ( I may be completely of but it's something like that) the name has stuck around till now and I doubt it'll be changed as it's engrained in memory

If that's the case, where are all the other ladies beaches around?

biko

There's another in Ballybunion

nuac

At Mulranny Co Mayo there was an area on the western edge used by the local nuns

The old GSR hotel had bathing/dressing huts on the eastern side. Still there in the fifties