The Ballybunion thread

fryup

will someone tell the good people of ballybunion sea & rescue to get that webcam up and running again

UpTheAshes

McMunn's restaurant has one but it's not a view of the beach like the Sea Rescue webcam. Here's the link-

http://www.mcmunns.com/cam.htm

fryup wrote: »

will someone tell the good people of ballybunion sea & rescue to get that webcam up and running again

Yittisay

hi there, just wondering if there is anywhere in ballyb with strong wifi? few of the bars seem to have wifi but the signals seem to be weak, not sure if tis an issue with coverage in the area? thanks.

boomkatalog

Yittisay wrote: »

hi there, just wondering if there is anywhere in ballyb with strong wifi? few of the bars seem to have wifi but the signals seem to be weak, not sure if tis an issue with coverage in the area? thanks.

I think the latter

Yittisay

tis pretty poor anywhere I've been - if I was running a business and payin for wifi I'd be pretty annoyed with the service they are getting.

snow scorpion

Don't I remember hearing or reading something about the escorts for the Roses were getting some sort of training in Ballybunion and that RTE was sending a camera crew to film it all? I'm hoping to catch a glimpse of the village today or tomorrow on the RTE player.

Squaredude

I think that might be on tonight

RiderOnTheStorm

snow scorpion wrote: »

Don't I remember hearing or reading something about the escorts for the Roses were getting some sort of training in Ballybunion and that RTE was sending a camera crew to film it all? I'm hoping to catch a glimpse of the village today or tomorrow on the RTE player.

Yup, we had them down here for 2 days. It was a bonding and boot-camp. They (the escorts) were brought out on kayaks, and surfing, and the Sea Rescue took them out on their rescue boat, and they did a bit of abseiling on the castle green cliff ...... oh, and they played tag-rugby against a quality ladies team too! (aplogies to the ladies, I dont know what team they were from .... something like the Irish or Munster team, or something).

Anyway, I heard that the escorts tale is on this evening (Monday) too .... video recorder Sky+ set to capture that!

snow scorpion

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Yup, we had them down here for 2 days. It was a bonding and boot-camp. They (the escorts) were brought out on kayaks, and surfing, and the Sea Rescue took them out on their rescue boat, and they did a bit of abseiling on the castle green cliff ...... oh, and they played tag-rugby against a quality ladies team too! (aplogies to the ladies, I dont know what team they were from .... something like the Irish or Munster team, or something).

Anyway, I heard that the escorts tale is on this evening (Monday) too .... video recorder Sky+ set to capture that!

Excellent! RTE Player, here I come!

RiderOnTheStorm

Watched the ROT last night, and yes indeed, our fair town is featured in the escorts story. The clip is about 70 mins into the 2nd part of the show. I think Ballyb looks great! The weather on the clip looks better than it was on the day!

looks like the escorts had a great time .......

snow scorpion

RTE uploaded the show without breaks so I figured the 70-minute mark would be about 55 minutes into the 1 hour, 42 minute show but I can't find the Ballybunion part. Looks like I'm going to have to watch the entire thing.

snow scorpion

Ballybunion doesn't seem to be in RTE's upload of the Rose of Tralee - unless it was there very briefly during the segment where are the Roses were touring Kerry together.

RiderOnTheStorm

...leave it with me , I will put something together for y'all :-)

RiderOnTheStorm

OK .... the segment was on after the Darwin Rose (Bridget Haines), she was the one who read Dathai the bedtime story while he lay on the bed .

If the RTE Player doesnt have it, then check out my recording (done on iphone while Sky+ plays on the telly) ...... apologies for the quality (on sound there is just DOS saying at the beginning that these escorts are prob chancers, then Thin Lizzy / Boys Are Back In Town soundtrack, then DOS saying that they were def chancers!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw89NUP3JTU

snow scorpion

Thanks for the YouTube video, rider. I don't think that was on the RTE Player. (But, to be fair to RTE, I wasn't actually watching the video, I was listening to it.) But I didn't hear anyone mention Ballybunion.

Maybe it's on the other video. RTE has two Rose of Tralee videos. One is about 40 minutes and the other is about 100 minutes. I only checked the 100-minute one. I give the other a listen and keep my ears sharp for someone mentioning the Darwin Rose.

snow scorpion

There are six Rose of Tralee videos on the RTE Player. :eek: And I can now eliminate the one with the Texas Rose (the green gown) in preview image. Ballybunion is not in that one either.

Two down, four to go.

Howard Juneau

snow scorpion wrote: »

There are six Rose of Tralee videos on the RTE Player. :eek: And I can now eliminate the one with the Texas Rose (the green gown) in preview image. Ballybunion is not in that one either.

Two down, four to go.

Could you not have looked on YouTube? The segment is sure to be there & no further need to trawl through the rte player

snow scorpion

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Could you not have looked on YouTube? The segment is sure to be there & no further need to trawl through the rte player

All I see at YouTube is rider's video.

snow scorpion

Found it!

The Ballybunion section starts at 1:07:15.

http://www.rte.ie/player/us/show/10191391/

I like the "I ♥ Ballyb" t-shirts.

RiderOnTheStorm

Nice one Snow!

There are a couple more vids on youtube now ..... good quality .... this one is funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fdYVRFstts

RiderOnTheStorm

..and the bit from the TV (with a few subtitles!) is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWU7wFttfNs

snow scorpion

Aww, the one from RTE has been taken down.

I should have made a copy of it while it was up.

snow scorpion

Rider, did you see this one? I especially like the choice of Song for Ireland.

And that shot at 1:25 with the light from the setting sun! The urge to get back to Ballybunion is completely filling my mind now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLvhSFg3OFE

0utcast

This might interest folk. Its one of the the Wild Atlantic Way promotion videos, and this one is by local historian Danny Holahan. It has Ballybunion in it (the rest is North Kerry, so its relevant to the Kerry site)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7zYjkq64qI

RiderOnTheStorm

some photos from today .... cracking weather!!


View of Ballyb from part way up Knockanore


View from same spot, but looking to Beal and Clare across the Shannon

RiderOnTheStorm

a few more photos ....

This is the old bakery building on the way into town (opp Buckleys petrol station)



And this is some street art (opp Holleys pub)

RiderOnTheStorm

And we got some new sign-posts too ....

snow scorpion

^ Cloudless skies in Ballybunion!

RiderOnTheStorm

Yeah, we had mixed weather lately .... but there were some very-late-summer days where it was actually bright, dry & warm! Some good sunsets too ....

RiderOnTheStorm

This weeks newsletter .....


http://www.ballybunionnews.com/Issue%2031%20October%204th.pdf

RevBlueJeans

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

And we got some new sign-posts too ....

"Ozone Terrace" I love it!

Nice old style signs.

RiderOnTheStorm

cool name, eh? I thought 'ozone' was invented when we discovered what the cfc's were doing over the poles ..... but I am told that Ozone Terrace has been in Ballyb for decades!

Anyone know how old this terrace is? (there is an online ref to this terrace and a photographer from the 1930's, but I dont see any pics.....)

Howard Juneau

RevBlueJeans wrote: »

"Ozone Terrace" I love it!

Nice old style signs.

Love the makey uppey Irish word for ozone too.

RevBlueJeans

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Anyone know how old this terrace is? (there is an online ref to this terrace and a photographer from the 1930's, but I dont see any pics.....)

Its there a long time. It appears on the OS historic 25" map series which was surveyed in the 1890's. I reckon the terrace was built the same time as the railway in the late 1880's.

UpTheAshes

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Love the makey uppey Irish word for ozone too.

Sadly that's the way Irish (language) has gone it seems. If you listen to the Irish news on RTE most of it just English words with an Irish sound effect. Eg: a car is now a"carr" but when I was a young fella a car was a gluaistean. Sad.

Howard Juneau

UpTheAshes wrote: »

Sadly that's the way Irish (language) has gone it seems. If you listen to the Irish news on RTE most of it just English words with an Irish sound effect. Eg: a car is now a"carr" but when I was a young fella a car was a gluaistean. Sad.

I was in Presentation primary school for the referendum & they had pics of animals on the wall. The normal cat, dog, pig, cow etc they had both sionnach & madra rua for fox.
But then I saw pine marten.....cat crainn, a tree cat! That's taking the proverbial just a little I think

RevBlueJeans

The victorians thought that Ozone responsible for the sea air. In fact Ozone is a poisionous gas.

The following is from QI.com

MYTHCONCEPTIONS: OZONE-BY-THE-SEA by Mat Coward

THE MYTH: Seaside air is good for you because it is full of the health-giving gas, ozone, which gives coastal areas their characteristic smell. Go on, boy, get your nose out of that book and open your lungs up!

THE "TRUTH": The seaside doesn't smell of ozone - it smells of rotting seaweed, which releases a mixture of sulphur compounds. This is the odour which mid-Victorians mistook for ozone. Their error was great news for entrepreneurs in seaside towns; “Ozone Hotels” can still be found in Australasia. Ozone, an allotrope of oxygen, was first identified in 1840. For decades it was viewed by many medical scientists as a cure-all, which could be used in enclosed spaces, where the danger of infection was greatest, to neutralise disease-causing effluvia. Gradually, the miasma theory of disease was displaced in the consensus by the germ theory, and ozonisation fell from fashion. The myth of the ozone-rich sea breeze, however, has lived on in folklore. One thing’s for certain: a good lungful of pure ozone would do your respiratory system irreparable damage.

snow scorpion

RevBlueJeans wrote: »

THE "TRUTH": The seaside doesn't smell of ozone - it smells of rotting seaweed, which releases a mixture of sulphur compounds.

from Seinfeld:

KRAMER: You know the way you smell when you first come home from the beach? Well, I want to make a cologne that captures the essence of that smell.

STEVE: That is the dumbest idea I have ever heard. Do you think people are going to pay $80 a bottle to smell like dead fish and sea weed? That's why people take showers when the come home from the beach. It's an objectionable offensive odour.

RiderOnTheStorm

Twas a cold night in Ballyb last night. Temp down to single figures ( ..... 5c is about 40f , for all you Fahrenheit converts!) . Trees are loosing their leaves rapidly now. Its nice and brights & dry now, with clear blue skies. But I needed a jacket when walking the dogs this morn. I will try and get a pic today. Hope everyone is enjoying the autumn / fall, where-ever you are ;-)

RiderOnTheStorm

some more photos from around (ie 'near') Ballyb ....

Horse race on the beach at Asdee


The Ladies Walk (near Ratoo Tower)


Ratoo Tower


view over hills to Tralee / Feinit


Autumn strikes in Ballyb (not many deciduous trees around here!)


another sign ....

jezzag

Nice pics Rider. Is the ladies walk the road up from the pig bridge towards the bally duff/ ballyb road?

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

some more photos from around (ie 'near') Ballyb ....

Horse race on the beach at Asdee


The Ladies Walk (near Ratoo Tower)


Ratoo Tower


view over hills to Tralee / Feinit


Autumn strikes in Ballyb (not many deciduous trees around here!)


another sign ....

RiderOnTheStorm

jezzag wrote: »

Nice pics Rider. Is the ladies walk the road up from the pig bridge towards the bally duff/ ballyb road?

Thx.

The pig-bridge is just off the Ladies Walk. AFAIK the LW goes from just after the Ferry Bridge, past the back of Ratoo tower, and on to the Ballyduff / Abbydorney road (comes out at Crossaigh (sp?) Nat School). That wood-tunnel in my pic is about 20 feet from the pic of Ratoo tower .

Weather lovely here at the moment. Cool & dry. Fantastic blue skies. I hear we are in for a bad winter .... at least I have a load of turf ready ;-)

Work has started on new house(s) at the bottom of the Glenn Road (Ladies Beach)

jezzag

That's it, it does indeed come out on the Abbeydorney road. Looks like its been resurfaced recently. Must pop up and take a look at the work on the beach soon.

RiderOnTheStorm

Concrete being poured for the retaining wall on the new house/apartment on the Ladies Beach (bottom of Glen Road and Seaweed Baths visable on the right)

RiderOnTheStorm

sorry I have been so quiet lately. not getting out much, so not much news to put in here.

So, just wanted to pop in and wish all the Ballybunioners and all the readers of the BB Thread (here & abroad) a very merry Christmas, and I hope you have a great time over the coming weeks. Please post a few pics / thoughts / wishes over the season and let us know what you are up to!

Did ya know ..... St Nick is buried in Ireland (Co Kilkenny I believe). Thats 2 saints buried in ireland with international holidays named after them.

snow scorpion

RiderOnTheStorm

another makeover on a vacant property. This is Maudie Costello's shop (opposite the St Joes school on Doon Rd)

snow scorpion

Well, we're a consistent lot. I'll say that for us.

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RiderOnTheStorm

Sad news ... Molly Miller has passed away. Some of you may remember little Molly who sang like a bird for years in the hotel. She is a part of Ballybunion as much as the golf course and the castle. May she rest in peace.

RiderOnTheStorm

More sad news .... Owen Liston (father of Eoin 'Bomber' Liston) has passed on. Funeral was tonight (I think). Big boots to fill ....

RIP