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Do you associate any places with an event/product/crime/etc

  • 10-09-2020 04:22PM
    #1
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,286 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    For me I always associate

    Stradbally with Electric Picnic.
    Mayo with Enda Kenny.
    The Naul is in Dublin with Rachel O’ Reilly.
    Omagh with the Omagh bomb.

    Do you associate any places with an event/product/crime/etc


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  • #2
    pawdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭pawdee


    I don't know why but I always associate Hiroshima with the atomic bomb.


  • #3
    matchthis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭matchthis


    Jacks with me hole


  • #4
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    I associate spite, and meanness, with Portadown.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #5
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Leopardstown with Gary the Leopard who used to be in Dublin Zoo


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Piccadilly with the circus.

    Kilgarvan with the circus.


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  • #7
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,139 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    The North with the troubles

    Brazil with Soccer

    Netherlands with drugs

    New Zealand with Rugby

    Scotland with William Wallace

    Gibraltar with the IRA shooting in the 80s


  • #8
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Enniskillen with the bomb.


  • #9
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    a campsite in Brittany with my first hand job


  • #10
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Actually some of the time I do. I just past a place I associate with something that happened sometime ago.


  • #11
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,286 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    [Deleted User] wrote: »

    Kilgarvan with the circus.


    The Healy-Rae‘s?


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  • #12
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,139 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Mars with men, war, Mars bars and Bruno.

    Venus with women, love, lady shaving equipment and Bananarama.


  • #13
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    East Galway with the League of Gentlemen.


  • #14
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Dublin. Shootings, crime, scumbags.


  • #15
    Snotty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Snotty


    Limerick with that time I was stabbed


  • #16
    Sesame
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Sesame


    Naas Road traffic Lights at Bewley with Veronica Guerin. Last time I was there noticed they are gone.


  • #17
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,039 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Places that are known for something notorious and not much else

    Abbeylara - shooting of John Carty
    Granard - The Kanes, Ann Lovett incident
    Ferns - paedophiles
    Edendery - GUBU
    Mountmellick - kidnapping


  • #18
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,487 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Anytime I'm heading to Wexford, Jack Whites pub beside the N11 will always be associated with the murder that took place there


  • #19
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Dublin. Shootings, crime, scumbags.

    Oh buts its a lovely city, and you don't need Netflix to see it all. I love Dublin


  • #20
    Nexytus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭Nexytus


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    Places that are known for something notorious and not much else

    Abbeylara - shooting of John Carty
    Granard - The Kanes, Ann Lovett incident
    Ferns - paedophiles
    Edendery - GUBU
    Mountmellick - kidnapping

    Salins - train robbery
    Cahirciveen - babies
    Clara - dead priest
    Ballinspittle - statues
    Drogheda - feud
    Rathkeele - rovers
    Limerick - feud


  • #21
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    Vatican, all the molesting and forced adoptions.


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  • #22
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,039 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Buttevant - train crash
    Mullaghmore - explosion
    Monaghan - diesel laundering
    Cavan - dinner in the draw-er


  • #23
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Galway the auld golf and dinner


  • #24
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,139 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    the bands Slade and Wizzard for their Xmas songs

    Just can't listen to them and not think of those songs

    There royalties in Nov/Dec keeps them very happy


  • #25
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,188 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Your Face wrote: »
    East Galway with the League of Gentlemen.

    Better than west Galway anyway.


  • #26
    Andrew00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    Wicklow mountains - Larry Murphy


  • #27
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Better than west Galway anyway.

    West side is the best side apparently.


  • #28
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Your Face wrote: »
    East Galway with the League of Gentlemen.

    Jesus, Killimor.


  • #29
    Jeremiah Spoiled Tinder
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Jeremiah Spoiled Tinder


    Fianna Fáil - brown envelopes.


  • #30
    paul71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭paul71


    Hate Thy Neighbour wrote: »
    Loneliness and alienation with Boards.ie

    You created an account to post that, oh the irony :-)


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  • #31
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Slane - Concerts
    RDS - Horse Jumping
    Semple Stadium - Cans of Carling Black Label ( yep ) and wet ham sambos - sideways rain.
    Listowel - riding a fair haired off duty Ban Garda in the back of my mates car during the Rásaí week. We loved it.
    Kilkenny - the castle and oddly Battenburg Confectionary.
    London - The Tube
    Wimbledon - John McEnroe
    Coolock - Cadburys
    Wexford - Beaches and 99's ( no idea why )


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