Off Topic Thread 3.0

Asking for a friend here - he's doing a 15 day road trip from Galway to Cobh and wanted some recommendations as to good non tourist trap stuff to do. Anything you can give for him will be appreciated.


As for myself, picked up my wedding licence today. Won't quite believe its happened until it does but nearly there.

sydthebeat wrote: »

thats as a result of the fact that the majority of costs paid out by the insurance companies are not for the value of cars, but for medical issues / out of court settlements.

so if you go from a ?1K '95 reg to a ?10K '12 reg, the likelihood of you being in / causing an accident is lessened... thus the cheaper premium.

So there are figures that show most accidents involve older cars?

English Lurker wrote: »

Asking for a friend here - he's doing a 15 day road trip from Galway to Cobh and wanted some recommendations as to good non tourist trap stuff to do. Anything you can give for him will be appreciated.

Really depends on what their interests are or when they're visiting.

I know you said non tourist traps but they should do some of the Atlantic Way, fabulous views, a trip (hike) through the Burren is a must and any trip to Kerry (if they're going to Cobh via Kerry) should take in the Dingle peninsula, I'd also recommend the mountains in Kerry.

They could take in a GAA game if their visit clashed with a Munster Championship game, personally I'd prefer hurling but the gaelic football isn't too bad if the got the right fixture.

Stheno wrote: »

I'm on a three day break in killarneys at the minute and we are doing part of the ring of Kerry based on off the beaten track recommendations so I'll post after we do them.

One thing I'd say is don't discount the sheer loveliness of the towns your friend might visit we arrived in killarney about four o'clock today went into town had dinner and an amble and it was suddenly ten o'clock
Same in kinsale which I love

If you get a chance drive over to cahirsiveen then follow to road to ballinskelligs, then finian's bay (stop at the skelligs chocolate factory) then down to portmagee and over to valentia island and then the car ferry back to cahirsiveen. Well worth it.

He actually has to go to the Aran Islands. Inis Mor while in Galway. Should probably eat Dough Bros pizza while he's there too, it's spectacular.

As he heads from Galway down the coast towards county Clare to the cliffs of Moher, he will come close to a chocolate factory and cafe near Boston. It's a little off the road on the side of a hill. It's called Hazelnut Mountain. Absolutely spectacular cup of coffee, and gorgeous food. Well worth it.

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Ignore all the rubbish the others have been telling you. Tell your mate to head to Dublin from Galway for two weeks of quality eating and drinking. Might be pricey but at least he will avoid all those boggers :pac:

He's clearly catching the steam packet from Cobh back to Liverpool. #MakeBritainGreatagain. :pac:

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/860111499230150661

Jaysus - surely shouldn't be too radical to expect the Dail to be secular?

Podge_irl wrote: »

I genuinely find that utterly dumbfounding. Whatever about it remaining as a historical holdover, to vote on it now and leave it there by such a large margin. It's crazy.

Cowards are frightened to vote against and risk isolating themselves from conservative sections of society i.e. the ones that turn out in the highest numbers come election day.

The tentacles of the church are so ingrained in our culture and society, I don't think we'll be free of them in my life time i.e. in the next 50 years.

97 to 17 to make it compulsory to stand for the D?il prayer.
http://www.thejournal.ie/dail-prayer-4-3372533-May2017/



A non-issue compared to other topics but still...

Deleted User wrote: »

Have a look at census figures for the last 10 years. A surprising number of people still mark themselves down as Catholic and politicians are going to have this in mind.

More importantly however, people of no religious persuasion probably don't care what their local TD voted and certainly won't remember come the next election but religious people absolutely will. Voting against is in all likelihood bad for the numbers so we get this.


I would still be of the opinion that we have the most left leaning government in the history of the state.

Agree with pretty much everything there.

That's not to say that this isn't a ridiculous vote though. I'm not against religion. I have a very jaundiced and cynical view of the religious orders that exist in Ireland but I have no issue with religion as a whole or Christianity.

But we live in a nation where the church controls who can attend schools. We live in a nation where the church can have a massive impact on the medical well being of women. We've seen a total clusterf*ck recently in relation to the building of a new maternity hospital. There are massive payments outstanding to victims of abuse from various religious orders which they would appear to have no intention of paying after agreeing to do so.

This vote says to me that the leaders and legislators of this country are too spineless and scared to speak out against those whose opinions side with those of the religious orders. And, if they won't do it for something so simple and basic as this (and they're actually expanding the religious protocol in the chamber from what I can see as opposed to just maintaining the existing protocol), then what hope do we have of any of the major issues above being addressed?

Secular country my arse clearly.