La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

Hurrache

Never realised that used to be the Four Provinces.

tomasrojo

Think it was the Richard Crosbie Tavern before that? There's a statue to Richard Crosbie, pioneering balloon dude, in the park nearby, by the Luas bridge.

EDIT: That's it, I think.



Is that a double-yellow line? Bit hard to tell. Maybe you weren't allowed to park there even back then.

tomasrojo

The upper stories were added in 1991, and the change of name, I guess:
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/ranelagh-pub-and-club-to-make-5-million-plus-1.142441

and it was still operating as a pub in 2005:
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/village-voices-1.496975

Hurrache

Ah Night Owls, was a 'happening' place at the time.

tomasrojo

I vaguely remember they had a radio ad for a club night that, more or less but not quite, had the strap line: "because you're old now"

Hurrache

I had to google the place as the tag line was on the tip of my tongue. Sullied myself by clicking into the Sun website to find it,
"It’s the in place to be seen. The bar’s open late. The Disco’s cool as a dream. Night Owls – Europe’s Only Laserdisc Nightclub". They pushed the latter part alright.

The Sun also mentioned it got the name "fight club", which I definitely remember becoming the de facto name.

"Scratchy Toes" as we called it was only down the road, Itchy Feet. That became the Tesco in Terrenure. The pub itself was actually alright when it was Quinlans but became pretty quiet. I remember it clearly as it was one of the places I'd meet my now wife and one day the bar man serving us was a friend of her ex boyfriend, both were dicks, and we never went back.

tomasrojo

"Laserdisc Nightclub"

The distant future ...

Harrybelafonte

Hurrache wrote: »

I had to google the place as the tag line was on the tip of my tongue. Sullied myself by clicking into the Sun website to find it,
"It’s the in place to be seen. The bar’s open late. The Disco’s cool as a dream. Night Owls – Europe’s Only Laserdisc Nightclub". They pushed the latter part alright.

The Sun also mentioned it got the name "fight club", which I definitely remember becoming the de facto name.

"Scratchy Toes" as we called it was only down the road, Itchy Feet. That became the Tesco in Terrenure. The pub itself was actually alright when it was Quinlans but became pretty quiet. I remember it clearly as it was one of the places I'd meet my now wife and one day the bar man serving us was a friend of her ex boyfriend, both were dicks, and we never went back.

Think it was "Fight Owls"? Or "****e Owls" as we'd call it.

Hurrache

Ah yes, they're the ones.

Seth Brundle

SV Ranelagh obviously isn't the only MSVC outlet that allows its delivery drivers to blatantly ignore the law...

https://twitter.com/DonallGeoghegan/status/1261205315305037826

Hurrache

Must be the chicken fillet rolls that attract the ignorant to Centra, customers and deliveries.

The Audi and Passat CC are actually within the orcas, the crappy Passat, BMW and Golf in the bus stop.

https://twitter.com/lemon_he4d/status/1261251885736112128

Doctor Bob

tomasrojo wrote: »

Think it was the Richard Crosbie Tavern before that? There's a statue to Richard Crosbie, pioneering balloon dude, in the park nearby, by the Luas bridge.

EDIT: That's it, I think.



Is that a double-yellow line? Bit hard to tell. Maybe you weren't allowed to park there even back then.

tomasrojo wrote: »

The upper stories were added in 1991, and the change of name, I guess:
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/ranelagh-pub-and-club-to-make-5-million-plus-1.142441

and it was still operating as a pub in 2005:
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/village-voices-1.496975

Good finds. I have no recollection of it as a single-storey building, but I only really got to know Ranelagh in the mid-90s. According to The Little Book of Ranelagh by Maurice Curtis, the venue was purchased by Superquinn in 1999, who reopened the nightclub 'as the short-lived Il Mundo, sporting a bouncy dancing floor and often finishing a rave night with "Old Red Eyes" by Beautiful South or "Rock Da House" by Tall Paul.' I'm sorry I never made it along.

LollipopJimmy

I have no recollection of this and would have sworn blind it was a Superquinn since the 80s.

Superquinn were falling apart since the early enough 2000s

MojoMaker

The 4P's was a good spot if you liked a bit of full-sized snooker, pints from a hatch, and a smoky shadowy ambience.

NamelessPhil

Róisín did it! 116.3km in 10 days, over €1,000 raised for the DSPCA. Thanks for all the support from everyone who knows us in real life and on here.

tomasrojo

This might work out. Waterford city and environs seem to have pretty decent cycling modal numbers, based on my last visit there, two summers ago.

https://twitter.com/seamusryan1/status/1260979605059633152

keane2097

I hope they maintain it better than they do in Limerick.

tomasrojo

I remember a Green councillor tweeting about a pedal falling off when he was using one of the shared bikes. Think it was Galway or Cork?

c.p.w.g.w

keane2097 wrote: »

I hope they maintain it better than they do in Limerick.

Problem with the limerick scheme...is all the parks are within like 8km area...nothing outside the city centre...should be at LIT, UL & Crescent Shopping Centre...for me it's useless and many others as it doesn't really safe much time...well i tend to walk quiet fast tho

keane2097

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Problem with the limerick scheme...is all the parks are within like 8km area...nothing outside the city centre...should be at LIT, UL & Crescent Shopping Centre...for me it's useless and many others as it doesn't really safe much time...well i tend to walk quiet fast tho

The location of the stations is one issue, but the bikes and actual station infrastructure is in rag order and isn't taken care of at all. Nobody is going to bother with a bike hire service where you're constantly worried about the bike falling apart under you and the station where you want to drop it off refusing to accept a return.

magicbastarder

i wonder when decathlon plan to open in ballymun; they might qualify under the allowance for bike shops opening, but that would be pushing it a little?

loyatemu

magicbastarder wrote: »

i wonder when decathlon plan to open in ballymun; they might qualify under the allowance for bike shops opening, but that would be pushing it a little?

I assume when Ikea can open, so can Decathlon.

Weepsie

They havn't finished building it yet by the looks of it. Not far off, but not finsihed. As I passed it yesterday, it looks like they might have a little track outside possibly to test bikes on, but might just be a kids play area.

cletus

I think it's going to be like a BMX type track

CramCycle

cletus wrote: »

I think it's going to be like a BMX type track

Excellent

rubadub

https://twitter.com/pkoonce/status/1261796136701931521

Anyone been watching the old Giro stages on Eurosport? They rerecorded the commentary for some reason, I'd imaging they'd have to make some notes and do bit reading before hand or at least listen back to their own commentary from the original airing.

ednwireland

rubadub wrote: »

https://twitter.com/pkoonce/status/1261796136701931521

and ? nothing new in that, nottingham cycle lanes had bike activated traffic lights in the ahem some time ago when i was a student

ednwireland

team car anyone ?
https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1983-skoda-105-s/24679954

eeeee

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