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The wondrous adventures of Sinn Fein (part 3) Mod Notes and Threadbanned List in OP

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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

[Deleted User]

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.

[Deleted User]

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

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.

[Deleted User]

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.

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.

Fionn1952

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.

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.

Fionn1952

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!

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.

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?

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.

[Deleted User]

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.

FrancieBrady

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.

FrancieBrady

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

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.

blanch152

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.

[Deleted User]

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!

FrancieBrady

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.

[Deleted User]

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.

FrancieBrady

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

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

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

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

jh79 wrote: »

Never said wealthy. The lads are on the average industrial wage and claim to be Socialists!

What about Gerry and getting the best private health care in the US?

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.

blanch152

wicklowstevo wrote: »

said with all the conviction of a bar stool republican shouting up the ra knowing full well that he wont have to contribute a cent as ever

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.

FrancieBrady

blanch152 wrote: »

This was more than a no-go area situation.

Never seen anything like it in Dublin.

Dublin hasn't had a 40year conflict or 100 years of partition.

Fionn1952

blanch152 wrote: »

This was more than a no-go area situation.

Never seen anything like it in Dublin.

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.

[Deleted User]

FrancieBrady wrote: »

They are certainly not wealthy. There is nothing unusual in people have second homes. I was amazed at how easily it can be done if you are frugal. Thinking about it as well, another family member picked up a secluded cottage in Mayo for 19,000 a decade or more ago. Has done it up into a lovely little place, and he has been in and out of work for health reasons for years.

Never said wealthy. The lads are on the average industrial wage and claim to be Socialists!

What about Gerry and getting the best private health care in the US?

blanch152

FrancieBrady wrote: »

There's as many No-Go areas in Dublin as there are in Belfast. There are very few if any in Enniskillen.

Citing that those areas would stymie investment in a northern Ireland in a UI scenario is a nonsense.
Deprived, troublesome areas of any city don't stymie investment in any country including ours.

This was more than a no-go area situation.

Never seen anything like it in Dublin.