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Howth Tram to Return

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  • #92
    petronius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭petronius


    Jim Sherwins Tracks and trails had some great ideas for activities around the country, and howth has many options.
    I would prefer investment on projects like the tram rather than the white wate jaccuzzi in the docklands.

    The tram would inhance the recreational offering howth has, it would open up the hill to those whose mobility may not be as good as others. I have regularly done the hill walk and on a normal summers it is frequented by many tourists visiting dublin for a short stint.


  • #93
    BowWow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭BowWow


    Fergal's walk was first shown in 2011.


  • #94
    BowWow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭BowWow


    Fergal sadly passed away in early 2019. Didn't know he did an update.


  • #95
    railer201
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 968 ✭✭✭railer201


    BowWow wrote: »
    Fergal sadly passed away in early 2019. Didn't know he did an update.

    You're correct I think, it looks like that episode is 8/9 years old ok.,


  • #96
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,374 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    railer201 wrote: »
    You're correct I think, it looks like that episode is 8/9 years old ok.,

    So not as old as some of the recent programmes on RTE.


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  • #97
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,128 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Howth is one of my favourite walking routes. We take the DART and hop on the 31 to the Summit (uphills I don't do, and it's a steep climb!).

    Coffee break in the Summit Inn then take the cliff walk into Howth. We use the wider path parallel to the narrow and quite vertigo inducing lower cliff walk.

    Take the old tram path down into the town and late lunch and a few drinks in the Bloody Stream, Dart home. Aaaagh, haven't been able to do it in ages for obvious reasons, and driving out there is a pain with pretty poor parking, and then there's no chance of a pint on the way home either.

    I don't know about the trams being reinstated, but sure they'll appeal to some people as a novelty.


  • #98
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,864 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I did it with a pint in the Summit, then one in most of the pubs in the town and then dinner in the Findlater; only proper way to make a day of it :pac:


  • #99
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,128 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    L1011 wrote: »
    I did it with a pint in the Summit, then one in most of the pubs in the town and then dinner in the Findlater; only proper way to make a day of it :pac:

    Proper order there. :P


  • #100
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Howth is one of my favourite walking routes. We take the DART and hop on the 31 to the Summit (uphills I don't do, and it's a steep climb!).

    Coffee break in the Summit Inn then take the cliff walk into Howth. We use the wider path parallel to the narrow and quite vertigo inducing lower cliff walk.

    Take the old tram path down into the town and late lunch and a few drinks in the Bloody Stream, Dart home. Aaaagh, haven't been able to do it in ages for obvious reasons, and driving out there is a pain with pretty poor parking, and then there's no chance of a pint on the way home either.

    That's a grand day out but no reason you can't do it now. Plenty of parking in Howth village, there's a couple of large car parks by the south pier and yacht club. Or park in the summit car park. Do the walk, time it for a 31 back up to the summit (you'll only be less than 10 minutes on the bus!), in to the Summit Inn for a pint and lunch, and home. Next time, other person drives.

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  • #101
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


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



    Watch and weep. :(

    ****



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  • #102
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Brilliant little movie - people had a great respect for archives in the past - modern life is all whats app - then lost in the cloud , of some account you do not want , or do not want to pay for.


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