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    #752
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Sue de Nimes wrote: »
    Thanks - we spotted a house close to Clonown Road and thought it looked cheap for what it was. I guess the risk of flooding is the reason it is so cheap!


    Shopping for home insurance recently I was asked if the house is within 100 meters of a river/lake, and at least one firm would not quote at all if the answer was Yes.


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    #753
    [Deleted User]
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    Zubeneschamali wrote: »
    Shopping for home insurance recently I was asked if the house is within 100 meters of a river/lake, and at least one firm would not quote at all if the answer was Yes.
    That's just laziness by the insurance companies, if they checked to postcode against any of the flood maps, they'll soon be able to assess flood risk.
    100 metres from a river is meaningless if you don't take elevation above said body of water into account.


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    #754
    roosterman71
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    I was refused insurance for a 4th floor apartment in Athlone previously. Said it was a flood risk. Told them I was 4 floors up, and they say there's a subsidence risk :rolleyes:


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    #755
    boredatwork82
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Look here http://www.floodinfo.ie/ for the flood maps.

    There looks to be lots of areas missing off that map. Do you reckon if you flagged flood areas near your house would insurance companies look at this website and then refuse to cover you?


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    #756
    [Deleted User]
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    boredatwork82 wrote: »
    There looks to be lots of areas missing off that map. Do you reckon if you flagged flood areas near your house would insurance companies look at this website and then refuse to cover you?
    Possibly, but I do know that the old floodmap was far better at showing the extent of historical floods.


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    #757
    4ensic15
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    roosterman71 wrote: »
    I was refused insurance for a 4th floor apartment in Athlone previously. Said it was a flood risk. Told them I was 4 floors up, and they say there's a subsidence risk :rolleyes:

    Subsidence would be covered by the block policy. What were you trying to insure?


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    #758
    pawrick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭pawrick


    i've noticed in the past that when I enter like for like details and just change my house address on the online quotes that the westmeath side of Athlone carries a slightly lower premium. same for car insurance.


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    #759
    4ensic15
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    pawrick wrote: »
    i've noticed in the past that when I enter like for like details and just change my house address on the online quotes that the westmeath side of Athlone carries a slightly lower premium. same for car insurance.

    Westmeath is on both sides of Athlone. Do you mean the Leinster side?


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    #760
    Sue de Nimes
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭Sue de Nimes


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    Westmeath is on both sides of Athlone. Do you mean the Leinster side?

    Some of Athlone is in Westmeath, some of it is in Roscommon.


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    #761
    4ensic15
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    Sue de Nimes wrote: »
    Some of Athlone is in Westmeath, some of it is in Roscommon.

    Who said it isn't?


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    #762
    Sue de Nimes
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭Sue de Nimes


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    Who said it isn't?

    It is the logical inference from your reply above.


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    #763
    4ensic15
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    Sue de Nimes wrote: »
    It is the logical inference from your reply above.

    It is not the logical inference. Athlone has two sides. East and West. The Shannon is the dividing line. Westmeath straddles both east and West. It is thus not correct to talk about the Westmeath side. The usual reference is to the Leinster side, since Leinster stops at the Shannon.


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    #764
    igCorcaigh
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    Used to live in Athlone back in the '90s.
    Worked in Elan.

    Sean's bar was a nice spot.
    Bozos is hardly still going, is it?


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    #765
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    Sue de Nimes wrote: »
    Some of Athlone is in Westmeath, some of it is in Roscommon.

    Some of Westmeath is west of the Shannon. The castle and Luan gallery for example are owned and operated by Westmeath county council. The boundary of Westmeath extends across the Shannon on a triangle from South and North of town and meets at about shines pub.


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    #766
    4ensic15
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Some of Westmeath is west of the Shannon. The castle and Luan gallery for example are owned and operated by Westmeath county council. The boundary of Westmeath extends across the Shannon on a triangle from South and North of town and meets at about shines pub.

    Which is why people refer to the Leinster side and the Connaught side, not the Westmeath side.


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    #767
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Used to live in Athlone back in the '90s.
    Worked in Elan.

    Sean's bar was a nice spot.
    Bozos is hardly still going, is it?

    Bozo's is still there, albeit under a different guise, is it called Q or something? The top floor has been redone as a late bar and the rest of the nightclub is linked to it but the middle and bottom floors are still largely the same.


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    #768
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    Which is why people refer to the Leinster side and the Connaught side, not the Westmeath side.

    Exactly. Because weirdly enough the provincial border is the middle river/lake meaning a (tiny) part of Westmeath is actually in Connacht.


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    #769
    4ensic15
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Exactly. Because weirdly enough the provincial border is the middle river/lake meaning a (tiny) part of Westmeath is actually in Connacht.

    It is because of the Local Government (Ireland) Act of 1898. The provinces are an Irish creation. The counties are an english creation, hence the discrepancy.


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    #770
    boredatwork82
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    Sue de Nimes wrote: »
    Some of Athlone is in Westmeath, some of it is in Roscommon.
    There is Athlone. Which is anything east of the Shannon. Then west of the Shannon there is the "far side".

    The Far side is a strange place. It's where people sleep with their cousins and sheep. Wear hidious yellow and blue uniforms and sing obnoxious songs like wagon wheel a number of times a night. They also have a tendency to be negative and sneery, with a false sense of their own importance.


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    #771
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    boredatwork82 wrote: »
    There is Athlone. Which is anything east of the Shannon. Then west of the Shannon there is the "far side".

    The Far side is a strange place. It's where people sleep with their cousins and sheep. Wear hidious yellow and blue uniforms and sing obnoxious songs like wagon wheel a number of times a night. They also have a tendency to be negative and sneery, with a false sense of their own importance.

    Most of the people who live on "the far side" wear maroon jerseys.


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    #772
    [Deleted User]
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    I don't know about Brexit and fears of a hard border, but it's clear there's a hard "cultural" border down the middle of the Shannon! :P


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    #773
    boredatwork82
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I don't know about Brexit and fears of a hard border, but it's clear there's a hard "cultural" border down the middle of the Shannon! :P

    Rosexit!

    😂


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    #774
    Blanco100
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Most of the people who live on "the far side" wear maroon jerseys.

    And have Donna and Joe McCaul posters on there wall.

    Actually, are they not west of the shannon aswell? Fierce confusing altogether :p


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    #775
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    Blanco100 wrote: »
    And have Donna and Joe McCaul posters on there wall.

    Actually, are they not west of the shannon aswell? Fierce confusing altogether :p

    Nope. They're from east of the Shannon, just.


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    #776
    L.Jenkins
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Nope. They're from east of the Shannon, just.

    And the east side can have them, though I believe Donna is living out in the US for now.


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    #777
    pawrick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭pawrick


    This is starting to read like an Ali G sketch, west bank (but technically on the east bank) posse represent!


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    #778
    L.Jenkins
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    #779
    boredatwork82
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    L.Jenkins wrote: »
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    Eastside has a KFC where you knock your Julie up in the bogs.


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    #780
    flazio
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Most of the people who live on "the far side" wear maroon jerseys.

    Galway doesn't reach that far east. Doesn't touch the Shannon until south of Shannonbridge.


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    #781
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Most of the Westmeath heads living in the part of town west of the Shannon wouldn't know a Gaelic football if it hit them in the face.


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