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Fionn1952 wrote: »

Can't recall where it was perchance, can you Blanch?

I'm not doubting this one like I did the absolute nonsense about Enniskillen, but as I've said before, I lived quite a few years in Belfast too, never came across a road that was closed at night time and open during the day.

I was travelling to the airport by back roads from the city centre. Travelled it in the morning no problem, not that night.

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Wasn't that a gift? The health care?

What is it you epect of socialists? Sackcloth and ashes? How do you know his wife's earning/inheritances?

He's hardly running around in bling and Mercs claiming to be working for the ordinary man and woman like the multitude millionaires in the Dáil.

A gift? Is there a smilie with tears of laughter??

As for Gerry of the at least three houses, are you sure he's not a millionaire?

blanch152 wrote: »

I was travelling to the airport by back roads from the city centre. Travelled it in the morning no problem, not that night.

Ah so a road closure presumably rather than it just routinely being closed for the night? I've come across that a load of times down this side of the border too.

....granted the area you were in, a bomb scare is probably more likely to have been the cause rather than maintenance, which I haven't come across since the move (though haven't seen with any notable degree of regularity in 20 years in the North either).

blanch152 wrote: »

A gift? Is there a smilie with tears of laughter??

As for Gerry of the at least three houses, are you sure he's not a millionaire?

No idea if he is or not.

Fionn1952 wrote: »

....I think not.

If you're going to spoof, you could've picked a better spot. I might have an idea or two about Enniskillen in '95.

Think it was '95. Went on the new at the time waterway. Up the Shannon on to Ballyconnel and then Enniskillen.

There was a record store in some sort of square. Sold bootleg tapes of concert and rarities. Can't remember the name. I think there was a big leisure centre near where the boats moor. I remember playing table tennis in there. There were lots of stops on the way so the leisure centre might of been somewhere else. But the record store was definitely Enniskillen.

Only thing i remember about the stop in Cavan was that the chipper gave me an easi single on my curry chips. I asked for curry chip cheese and they never heard of one! I think there was statue to i assume an IRA guy near where the boats were.

Wasn't of drinking age so wouldn't be able to name a few pubs.

blanch152 wrote: »

I was travelling to the airport by back roads from the city centre. Travelled it in the morning no problem, not that night.

Sorry, not getting what is so unusual about a road being closed. Roads are temporally closed all the time.

blanch152 wrote: »

A gift? Is there a smilie with tears of laughter??

As for Gerry of the at least three houses, are you sure he's not a millionaire?

3 houses, are you sure?

I read he was having trouble paying the mortgage on it. As if any bank would dare repossess that!

Fionn1952 wrote: »

Ah so a road closure presumably rather than it just routinely being closed for the night? I've come across that a load of times down this side of the border too.

....granted the area you were in, a bomb scare is probably more likely to have been the cause rather than maintenance, which I haven't come across since the move (though haven't seen with any notable degree of regularity in 20 years in the North either).

No, it wasn't a temporary road closure with cones and stuff, it was a permanent feature, appeared to close at night, through road during the day. I found it very strange.

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Sorry, not getting what is so unusual about a road being closed. Roads are temporally closed all the time.

No temporary closure this.

jh79 wrote: »

Think it was '95. Went on the new at the time waterway. Up the Shannon on to Ballyconnel and then Enniskillen.

There was a record store in some sort of square. Sold bootleg tapes of concert and rarities. Can't remember the name. I think there was a big leisure centre near where the boats moor. I remember playing table tennis in there. There were lots of stops on the way so the leisure centre might of been somewhere else. But the record store was definitely Enniskillen.

Only thing i remember about the stop in Cavan was that the chipper gave me an easi single on my curry chips. I asked for curry chip cheese and they never heard of one! I think there was statue to i assume an IRA guy near where the boats were.

Wasn't of drinking age so wouldn't be able to name a few pubs.

Where were the painted kerbs? Red white and blue or green white and orange?

blanch152 wrote: »

No temporary closure this.

So why was it closed?

Edit strike that.^ I know what it probably was. You crossed a peace line during the day, they use gates on some of the roads through them and close some of them at night if there are tensions.

Fionn1952 wrote: »

....I think not.

If you're going to spoof, you could've picked a better spot. I might have an idea or two about Enniskillen in '95.

It was 94 the waterway had just opened.

Fann Linn

blanch152 wrote: »

No temporary closure this.

Armed Gardai and road and business closures for travellers funerals down here Blanch. It's not all milk and honey in the South either.
You soon get used to it when you get out and about.

James Brown

blanch152 wrote: »

That sums up an awful lot of the sentiment around the place. There are plenty of people who take that simplistic attitude with no concern at all for the consequences.

Are they carrying two pints?

James Brown

blanch152 wrote: »

No, it wasn't a temporary road closure with cones and stuff, it was a permanent feature, appeared to close at night, through road during the day. I found it very strange.

Just bizarre.

jh79 wrote: »

Think it was '95. Went on the new at the time waterway. Up the Shannon on to Ballyconnel and then Enniskillen.

There was a record store in some sort of square. Sold bootleg tapes of concert and rarities. Can't remember the name. I think there was a big leisure centre near where the boats moor. I remember playing table tennis in there. There were lots of stops on the way so the leisure centre might of been somewhere else. But the record store was definitely Enniskillen.

Only thing i remember about the stop in Cavan was that the chipper gave me an easi single on my curry chips. I asked for curry chip cheese and they never heard of one! I think there was statue to i assume an IRA guy near where the boats were.

Wasn't of drinking age so wouldn't be able to name a few pubs.

The record store was Island Discs, the leisure centre was the Lakeland Forum. Not a single painted kerbs within miles of either in '95 (or indeed any other time within my lifetime) nor was there a coterie of amputees either.

I'm not doubting that you were in Enniskillen once upon a time, I'm just saying that your assertion that you saw a rake of painted kerbs and amputees is absolute b*llocks!

Fann Linn

jh79 wrote: »

Think it was '95. Went on the new at the time waterway. Up the Shannon on to Ballyconnel and then Enniskillen.

There was a record store in some sort of square. Sold bootleg tapes of concert and rarities. Can't remember the name. I think there was a big leisure centre near where the boats moor. I remember playing table tennis in there. There were lots of stops on the way so the leisure centre might of been somewhere else. But the record store was definitely Enniskillen.

Only thing i remember about the stop in Cavan was that the chipper gave me an easi single on my curry chips. I asked for curry chip cheese and they never heard of one! I think there was statue to i assume an IRA guy near where the boats were.

Wasn't of drinking age so wouldn't be able to name a few pubs.

There's a marina right beside the Leisure Centre in Enniskillen. Swimming pool, all weather pitches, gym etc. A great facility that my gang used to avail of regularly anytime we took a Carrick Craft from Bellanaleck.

blanch152 wrote: »

No, it wasn't a temporary road closure with cones and stuff, it was a permanent feature, appeared to close at night, through road during the day. I found it very strange.

What year was this? I was under the impression you were talking about something recent.

If it was a permanent fixture, you're talking about Troubles Gates, the last one in the North was removed in 2012 from Donegall Pass in Belfast, and hadn't been used in over a decade at that point, so I presume you're going back at least twenty years.

jimmycrackcorm

FrancieBrady wrote: »

It isn't a 'cost'. NI will be a contributing region just like Connacht or Munster. If you 'invest' in either of those regions you get a 'return'.

Do Munster and Connaught cost us £10Bn each annually?
I think we should wait until NI is reasonably self-sufficient before we can consider uniting. It's been a self-inflicted own goal by the IRA whose indiscriminate bombing campaigns hamstrung private sector economic activity over the decades.

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Where were the painted kerbs? Red white and blue or green white and orange?

Long time ago but was definitely Blue and the guy on crutches was wearing a Rangers jersey. Now he could of been in a car crash or been a diabetic.

Are you familiar with the town? Do you remember the record store. It was an independent rather than a chain.

I didn't have a bad experience up there. Had a great time but painted kerbs and the like were alien to me.

Been a few times since. Stayed somewhere near the Giants Causeway. Pre sat nav days and we got lost. Sent a Spanish girl into a petrol station for directions. She was told "you don't want to be going there!"

Went to a conference in Queens once. Had to stay in the Holiday Inn or some other chain at the bottom of the Shankill Road. Walked very quickly to Queens. Wasn't hanging around there. Had a great night out though. Made the faux pas of asking the barman for a token for the fag machine. Bouncer stopped me and said to wait for the girls to come around. They were like something out of an American cinema, you know those tray things around their necks with all the fags displayed. Dunno which side i was financing with the dodgy fags.

Fann Linn wrote: »

There's a marina right beside the Leisure Centre in Enniskillen. Swimming pool, all weather pitches, gym etc. A great facility that my gang used to avail of regularly anytime we took a Carrick Craft from Bellanaleck.

Lovely spot...People will flock to the Erne waterway when the lazy cliches die out.

Fann Linn wrote: »

There's a marina right beside the Leisure Centre in Enniskillen. Swimming pool, all weather pitches, gym etc. A great facility that my gang used to avail of regularly anytime we took a Carrick Craft from Bellanaleck.

Yeah thought so. We rented a room with table tennis set up.

Wasn't there a kfc near it too?

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Lovely spot...People will flock to the Erne waterway when the lazy cliches die out.

Have they stopped? It was busy in 94. Loved it. It's a great holiday. Would love to do it again.

wicklowstevo

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Lovely spot...People will flock to the Erne waterway when the lazy cliches die out.

couple of hundred years after the hatred bitterness and sectarianism at the very least

Fionn1952 wrote: »

What year was this? I was under the impression you were talking about something recent.

If it was a permanent fixture, you're talking about Troubles Gates, the last one in the North was removed in 2012 from Donegall Pass in Belfast, and hadn't been used in over a decade at that point, so I presume you're going back at least twenty years.

No, this was last summer. It was very strange. Google Maps took me the same way as in the morning, but it was a dead end. Had to turn around, find a different route.

wicklowstevo wrote: »

couple of hundred years after the hatred bitterness and sectarianism at the very least

Somebody else who has never been up here much.

Fionn1952 wrote: »

The record store was Island Discs, the leisure centre was the Lakeland Forum. Not a single painted kerbs within miles of either in '95 (or indeed any other time within my lifetime) nor was there a coterie of amputees either.

I'm not doubting that you were in Enniskillen once upon a time, I'm just saying that your assertion that you saw a rake of painted kerbs and amputees is absolute b*llocks!

Island Disc was great. Stuff you couldn't get anywhere else. Unofficial live concerts and b sides. I remember it having some sort of chain fence for queuing.

It was only a few painted kerbs and one dodgy looking Rangers fan missing a leg.

To be fair I lived in Dublin in the Celtic Tiger era. Junkies everywhere and legal drugs in the headshops. Now that was a real eye opener.

jh79 wrote: »

Island Disc was great. Stuff you couldn't get anywhere else. Unofficial live concerts and b sides. I remember it having some sort of chain fence for queuing.

It was only a few painted kerbs and one dodgy looking Rangers fan missing a leg.

To be fair I lived in Dublin in the Celtic Tiger era. Junkies everywhere and legal drugs in the headshops. Now that was a real eye opener.

So it was one person missing a leg, that could've been for any reason at all rather than, 'people on crutches missing limbs' like you first said?

And perhaps memories are shaky with the years that have passed, but you didn't see a painted kerb within a mile in any direction from Island Discs (a shop I knew very well, I got many a Rory Gallagher bootleg from it).

Like I said, plenty of spots in the North you could level that criticism at, but Enniskillen wasn't one, even in the 90s.

Fionn1952 wrote: »

So it was one person missing a leg, that could've been for any reason at all rather than, 'people on crutches missing limbs' like you first said?

And perhaps memories are shaky with the years that have passed, but you didn't see a painted kerb within a mile in any direction from Island Discs (a shop I knew very well, I got many a Rory Gallagher bootleg from it).

Like I said, plenty of spots in the North you could level that criticism at, but Enniskillen wasn't one even in the 90s.

Given it was 94 the memory is shaky. I dunno if it was within a mile of Island Discs but I definitely seen some.

Why would I make it up? I could easily get examples from google of sectarianism in NI. That just happens to be something i saw.