Go to NUIG!

man the place has got everything plus very safe!the lecturers are very good(well they are in science)the nightlife is the best ive here as well!ive gone out on a thursday night in dublin and limerick this term and none of them was as good as galway!weve classy nightclubs(radisson cps and cuba) and for the underage and people who wanna have more lenient bouncers!there is boo radleys and gpo.the people are friendly!you can walk down shop street and not get shouldered by a scumbag!cuirt na coiribe is a great place to stay as well!it very uppercrust!:D also the science arts and law people are sound and well the less said about the engineers the better(we dont know them theyre so timid!!oh the clubs are brill especially the kayak club where it is nearly a requirement to be drunk to get into the kayak!

Funkstard

I've been to Galway 3 times since July and I absolutely love it, it's my joint favourite place in Ireland already (along with Dingle). The place is just so nice, absolutely no scumbags, all the streets & architecture are amazing, and the nightlife there is unbelievable. Pity about the weather though!


However, I went to the radisson and thought it was a bit of a scumhole tbh, and CP's was one of the only places I've ever been refused from. Cuba is supposed to be great. I prefer the bars though, the Róisín Dubh is my favourite pub down there, and along the street with Barnacles hostel, all of the pubs there are jus great craic.

I plan on spending plenty of weekends down there in the future, especially when the motorway opens, it'll only take around 2 hours to get to Galway from Dublin!

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

im from dingle...

im guessing you went to radisson on the weekend!its really only an option on a thursday night though.oh god i was locked last night but i made it out last night with eight shot glasses;)oy yeah kids!dont drink!it very bad!

Funkstard

"im from dingle..."

My granddads from Ventry. I spent pretty two weeks there every summer until a few years ago.

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

yeah,i might know ya then lol did you live here until you went to college or what?

galway open day is on 1st december

Haedes1987

Im from Galway so it's good to hear such good reviews of the place! Have to admit myself the nightlife here is unreal. This place is just the right size if you ask me, not too big not too small!

geraghd

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man the place has got everything plus very safe!the lecturers are very good(well they are in science)the nightlife is the best ive here as well!ive gone out on a thursday night in dublin and limerick this term and none of them was as good as galway!weve classy nightclubs(radisson cps and cuba) and for the underage and people who wanna have more lenient bouncers!there is boo radleys and gpo.the people are friendly!you can walk down shop street and not get shouldered by a scumbag!cuirt na coiribe is a great place to stay as well!it very uppercrust!:D also the science arts and law people are sound and well the less said about the engineers the better(we dont know them theyre so timid!!oh the clubs are brill especially the kayak club where it is nearly a requirement to be drunk to get into the kayak!

Cuba is classy??
Cuirt isnt that great in fairness, just looks nice.
Dont mind this guy, go to Trinity!

exiot

I was in Galway last week (Thursday) staying with a friend who is in GMIT. Didnt go out, but went over to Dun na Corribe where aload of my other friends were.. Everyone is sound out up there, at 5am we were walking into house parties (or small get togethers.. as the rooms arent that big, security is very strict), drank, and moved on..

Great fun, but UL is the place for me.

caesar

exiot wrote:

........ but UL is the place for me.

Me too:D

Haedes1987

geraghd wrote:

Cuba is classy??
Cuirt isnt that great in fairness, just looks nice.
Dont mind this guy, go to Trinity!

Feck off and go play cricket

Funkstard

Is UL good? I'm thinking of putting it down in my CAO. My brother was there for his first year and absolutely loved it

rose**

galways class......apart from the rain. and their is rain!!!


but def come to galway really lovin it

exiot

Funkstard wrote:

Is UL good? I'm thinking of putting it down in my CAO. My brother was there for his first year and absolutely loved it

A teacher who is doing supervision was talking to us, sound out teacher. She has been to 4 universites throughout her education completing masters in different things and she told us that UL was her favourite, its alot more modern than any of the other uni's. Another told us that NUIG is really laid back, some departments are great, others are uafásach but her social life was at an extreme. Im sure thats at any other uni though.

Moira

the rad on a thurs night is the place to be!! i dont know myself cos never have to spend a penny out since most places are free if your early so a few bevys from aldi's finest at home does the trick! dont know what your talkin bout the engineers being too timid, im one and personally i disagree! i agree though that cuirt na coiribe is the business, security is a bit strict especially that guy with the tash but its good to have someone around to let you into your room after gettin locked out in your pyjamas cos some fool rings around random apartments in the middle of the night!!!
overall nuig is class, i was asked did i wasnt to transfer down home to cork and never, not in a month of sundays!

moira!aare you in cuirt!what your apartment number?im no3

Tar.Aldarion

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moira!aare you in cuirt!what your apartment number?im no3

Notes how close by you are to my estate. Puts on stalking gloves.
With all the mist, tis good raping weather.

so youre going to find me?;)

Tar.Aldarion

I hvve a picture of you and an adress which is five-ten mins from here
but no, no i'm not...Well...may....be...

my hunky ukrainian security guard will stop you!:D

Tar.Aldarion

I'll pay somebody to slip him the hand
Btw everybody come to NUIG, i promise, I'll bite

especially the girls!we need more of ye to brighten place up!especially when hot thangs like me and tar!hes straight and he still wants to rape me!:D

lipstick

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cuirt na coiribe is a great place to stay as well!

I don't know how you can think this and if you live in 3 then we are in the same block! It's alright but it's not the luxury they claimed it to be, I fell for the sales pitch. You can hear everything from everywhere, it's freezing constantly, we never have hot water anymore-since the clocks went back, the floor can never be clean, it's just an endless list of things about the place that drive me mad really, definitely won't be staying there next year!!!
By all means come to NUIG, it's a really great college (I transfered from UCD coz I hated it) and a Galway's a brilliant city-just don't live in cuirt is my advice!

Tar.Aldarion

Don't live in student accom, get a house like we did... then you know what you are getting too.
I love my house.

you werent at the party in 71 on thursday?jesus isnt that bad?are you in 4bedroom apartment!

ApeXaviour

Haedes1987 wrote:

Feck off and go play cricket

I think you'll find croquet is the sport of the day. A haw. A-haw-haw. Ah-haw-haw-haw.

is your college sport not bare knuckle fighting?

lipstick

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you werent at the party in 71 on thursday?jesus isnt that bad?are you in 4bedroom apartment!

No wasn't there, was 'studying', don't really know anyone living in cuirt other than those i live with. It's fine I just won't be living there next year is all-a house is the way too go I think-they have real keys not ones that need to be updated constantly& leave you locked out and easily turned off fire-alarms one would assume! Yeah in a four bedroomed apartment-freezer is a joke! You live on ground floor so can you not hear everything above you too?

ApeXaviour

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is your college sport not bare knuckle fighting?

Well boxing is the largest sports club on campus afaik. However I'm fairly sure they wear wraps and gloves. Bare knuckle boxing hurts the hands so bad

no its grand!we didnt wake ye up on thursday night cause we had a slagging match and set off the noisemeter!sorry if we did!my roommate has the worst bedroom!hes hears everybody opening the door into block1he says he wakes up loads!cuirt isnt the friendliest student accomodation!i dont know any of my neighbours1just the girls i know from the kayak club!

is the pav the student bar in trinity?

Tar.Aldarion

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and set off the noisemeter!

lmao, I heard about them last year, another reason i could never live there.

cuirt isnt the friendliest student accomodation!i dont know any of my neighbours1just the girls i know from the kayak club!

Hmm, that's odd, well it happened in a lot of blocks in corrib too I suppose...
not ours though, knew everybody and made some great friends. Moved in with a person from next door then this year.
Ah that was a fun year, corrib was great, apart from the awful awful accom. It mattered not though as it was all about the people.

yeah ill prob get house next year!i hate the 10min walk in the morning especially in the cold

lipstick

no i was awake for all hours anyway didn't hear any noise thing go off only some girl at about three o'clock coming in the main gate screaming 'it's snowing!'-always hear people coming in main gate. is no.3 the one beside door to block one? girls i live with used to always watch their tv when going for a smoke until started closing blinds
Yeah it doesn't seem to be friendliest of places really after hearing all about corrib anyway (was in UCD for 1st year so missed that experience). I have seen corrib though and is an absolute dive (though from what I've heard an absolute must for first years really!) so cuirt is a palace by comparison really! Just find some parts of it irritating-but I'm sure there is irritating things about everywhere-so reckon it will be a house next year so long as can find decent (somewhat cleaner) people to live with!

lipstick

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i hate the 10min walk

Omigod I think only having 10 min walk is brilliant-i'll be better obviously when the steps are finished but it's way better than spending an hour/hour & half every morning on the poxy buses that had to get to UCD. eugh the thought of it! of course now there's a bus that goes from down the road that only takes 25 mins isn't that just typical! but i hated UCD anyway NUIG is definitely the way to go imo

Tar.Aldarion

17 minute walk for me, it's grand.
was only 5mins from corrib.

lipstick

well I made it in 7 mins one day last week walking at a very fast pace but I nearly had a heart attack when I got in!and nearly tumbled down the slope too but that's what I get for leaving apartment late only ten mins before lecture starts!

ApeXaviour

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is the pav the student bar in trinity?

That it be.. Well one of them. The better one. The other is just drab and doesn't have the atmosphere of the pav. Should pop up anyone (over 18) in dublin. Go to the bar and order 4 bavaria, for 7.50. That's the cheapest booze you'll get from a pub in dublin

geraghd

lipstick wrote:

I don't know how you can think this and if you live in 3 then we are in the same block! It's alright but it's not the luxury they claimed it to be, I fell for the sales pitch. You can hear everything from everywhere, it's freezing constantly, we never have hot water anymore-since the clocks went back, the floor can never be clean, it's just an endless list of things about the place that drive me mad really, definitely won't be staying there next year!!!
By all means come to NUIG, it's a really great college (I transfered from UCD coz I hated it) and a Galway's a brilliant city-just don't live in cuirt is my advice!

Yeah Cuirt can be a bit sit at times (walls are paper thin, the doors bang and snap very loudly when closed, no carpet and you have to rent a hoover, and the fridge is tiny!) but it seems to be the best out there. Unless you manage to find a nice house you like and dont mind the problems outlines Id go for it. And lipstick, you did set your thermostat for Winter time didnt you?!
And I wouldnt recommend Galway for one reason: the weather! It is purely the ****iest I have ever seen! So get a car, otherwise go to TCD! Actually go there first!

watching our tv and smoking!if my roommate found out hed go mad!very anti smoking!yeah were on the corner!we had the duffys poster in the window!

cool!heard people talking about!ill have to head some day im in dublin!what best student club on a thursday?

lipstick

geraghd wrote:

Yeah Cuirt can be a bit sit at times (walls are paper thin, the doors bang and snap very loudly when closed, no carpet and you have to rent a hoover, and the fridge is tiny!) but it seems to be the best out there. Unless you manage to find a nice house you like and dont mind the problems outlines Id go for it. And lipstick, you did set your thermostat for Winter time didnt you?!

Yep it's set for winter there's something wrong with it I think one of the girls said she said it too them already but I'm gonna have to go talk to them again coz it's really annoying setting boost and waiting for 2hrs for only 5mins of hot water! Fridge doesn't bother me too much even though it's tiny it's the tiny little freezer that really annoys me! And the paper thin walls even the main walls that you think should be concrete are like cardboard seem to have no insulation whatsoever and our balcony door howls at us when it's windy huge draft from it, but think they're getting maintainance into fix it because whole place is constantly freezing because of it. In fairness to them, if there is problems they seem to make an attempt to fix them quick enough! It's not the worst just think I would rather have a house next year!

we should have a block party in cuirt on the8th december!i love pissing off reception!!(especially fionnuala)

lipstick

off you go! I won't be there though I'm attempting to get study done at home in Dublin over this week and my week gap between exams because I know I'd be driven demented by two of girls in my apartment if I stayed down there, you can probably hear them screaming at each other all the time-they are mental! So me and the other girl I live with decided to stay home and study for study week and I have a week gap between 6th and 12th with no exams- I'm not actually getting much study done so I may have to re-think being home between 6th and 12th but sure I'll see how first exam goes-oh god the thought of it!

ah!you are not in first year!ive maths exam at 10 tomorrow so im not going to cram till later tonight

lipstick

Yeah 2nd year transfered from UCD dropped out of 2nd year there so paying to be in Galway so have to do really well! I normally leave it all til night before too-I don't care what anyone says it works for me always been a crammer and hasn't failed me yet! Just this first exams scary missed loads of lectures for it (so all my own fault) and it's a new subject so no past paper's and only got sample questions for one bit of exam!

sounds nasty!im finshed the seventh so it all over for me pretty soon!

lipstick

I'm jealous would love to be finished that early for christmas!had no christmas exams in UCD was brilliant but at least this way I'll have less exams in the summer I suppose so not all bad! And I think all girls in apartment aren't finished till 15/16th so that's grand really! Are all 1st years in your apt?

yeah we all first although ian(red hair)is 22!he doing denominated arts!were all lads as well!

lipstick

Dunno prob wouldn't recognise any of u I'm one of the few people I'm sure who don't stare into your apartment when walking passed! Corrib didn't appeal to any of you so-I thought that was a must for first years! I heard they only put lads on ground floor except I think for a few girls who booked late and that was all they had left (but I only know of one that happened to).

why they put us on ground floor?i was offered room in the upstairs seven bedroom apartment but i rejected it coz i thought it would be too many people!it be cool to be allowed use the elevator!