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The Ballybunion thread

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33 UpsideDown


    Used to go down to Ballybunion every single summer. I have a granny that lives there. It is where my father lived when he was a boy. Him and the family used to run the hotel down there before the war broke out. Myself and my sister used to love the dodgems and the one armed bandits down there. We used to spend hours on the merry-go-round by the beach making ourselves sick.

    Will definately have to go back there soon to see how it is now and visit.
    Brings back good memories when i think of the place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    UpsideDown wrote:
    Used to go down to Ballybunion every single summer. I have a granny that lives there. It is where my father lived when he was a boy. Him and the family used to run the hotel down there before the war broke out. Myself and my sister used to love the dodgems and the one armed bandits down there. We used to spend hours on the merry-go-round by the beach making ourselves sick.

    Will definately have to go back there soon to see how it is now and visit.
    Brings back good memories when i think of the place.
    _________________________________________
    Which hotel ??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33 UpsideDown


    The Ambassador hotel,,, as it was called at the time. Think it may be called the golf hotel now or something


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    UpsideDown wrote:
    The Ambassador hotel,,, as it was called at the time. Think it may be called the golf hotel now or something
    ________________________
    I worked there before it was called the Ambassador ( The Central Hotel- Matt Sullivan was the owner then). My brother worked there when it was called the Ambassador. He probably knows your family.I lived in Ballybunion ,am now in USA.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Alfasudcrazy


    ...ok some of the locals are a bit odd.
    c028.gif Why do people keep saying that?

    Not wishing to cause offence to any Ballybunion people but I think that is a definite perception by many from outside even from as close as Tralee.

    Perhaps its the geographical isolation of Ballybunion being surrounded on two sides by water - there is a definite suspicion of outsiders and it takes time for 'blow ins' to be accepted. Don't know why but as I see it that's the way it is?? :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33 UpsideDown


    ________________________
    I worked there before it was called the Ambassador ( The Central Hotel- Matt Sullivan was the owner then). My brother worked there when it was called the Ambassador. He probably knows your family.I lived in Ballybunion ,am now in USA.

    He was my grandfather. My dad and him ran the hotel back before the Northern Ireland crisis broke out. My Gran is still living down there. Your brother would probably know my father too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    This image is the Golf Hotel ( Ambassador Hotel).It is the tallest red building in the left background



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    This image is of the Central Ballroom ( with Flag flying) & Central Hotel beyond .Maybe late1950 s-1960s
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    Thanks to ALFASUDCRAZY for these photos.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    UpsideDown wrote:
    He was my grandfather. My dad and him ran the hotel back before the Northern Ireland crisis broke out. My Gran is still living down there. Your brother would probably know my father too.

    Hello UPSIDEDOWN<

    Please check your private message box.I sent you an email( check top right of your screen after you log/sign in)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Thanks to AERO for these images, from a past thread
    Aero wrote:
    Two images of the Central / Ambassador / Golf Hotel

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    8708914_6b7462daa9_o.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    .
    Hope you have your sound on. If not, it is still OK.


    viewcard.asp?code=JN27675759

    The BALLYBUNION Forum is the place for :
    Golf, Sea Air and many Memories.
    Come back again!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Alfasudcrazy


    It was sad about the motorcycling races in Ballybunion last Sep. I wonder will they be held anymore now? It was the first year of them an all - what a strange freak accident. :(

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/4257912.stm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Hi I'm Kerrygirl,

    I saw your beautiful pictures and I was wondering if youu had any other pictures from the 50's ar any time around then, I'd love to see them.

    Cheers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Hi there, how are you all to-day ?:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭A90Six


    kerrygirl wrote:
    Hi there, how are you all to-day ?:)
    Tower Bridge. Up and down. I'm overworked and underpaid, over stressed and under the weather, overjoyed at your interest and under obligation to ask the same of you.

    How are you today?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    I saw the picture last posted, that road leads down to the beaches, funny enough my sister lives in Ballybunion and I believe that is her car in the photo. over that wall was the old castle hotel. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Hi there,

    Sorry to hear your so down, but remember the glass may be half empty but it is also half full,

    Beautiful pictures of Ballybunion, well done.

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    kerrygirl wrote:
    Hi I'm Kerrygirl,

    I saw your beautiful pictures and I was wondering if youu had any other pictures from the 50's ar any time around then, I'd love to see them.

    Cheers.
    __________________________________
    Hello KERRYGIRL and welcome aboard boards.ie.
    Hope we can get some fresh old photo from those many, many viewers out there in computerland.
    SNOWSCORPION started this thread and it has now over 6000 Views. Socongratulations and thank you to SNOWSCORPION, from all of us who love Ballybunion-by-the-sea


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Hi there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,750 ✭✭✭sudzs


    Not wishing to cause offence to any Ballybunion people but I think that is a definite perception by many from outside even from as close as Tralee.

    Perhaps its the geographical isolation of Ballybunion being surrounded on two sides by water - there is a definite suspicion of outsiders and it takes time for 'blow ins' to be accepted. Don't know why but as I see it that's the way it is?? :rolleyes:


    You think Ballybunion people are "odd", what about Beal??!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭reic


    Hi Kerrygirl.

    Have I mentioned that I like Kerry girls?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 Dingle1


    Hi to all in North Kerry,

    Recently while away in Castres with "les rouge" I ended up in the European Hotel where a mighty sing-song ensued into the wee hours of the morning. A Tarbert lad gave a great rendition of John B's The Sive Song....... On the road to Abbeyfeale etc. It was only mighty!

    Would anybody have the words of it & be so kind as to post them up on the site.

    Where could I get a tape or preferably a CD of the song?

    Muchos Gracias


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Dingle1 wrote:
    Hi to all in North Kerry,

    Recently while away in Castres with "les rouge" I ended up in the European Hotel where a mighty sing-song ensued into the wee hours of the morning. A Tarbert lad gave a great rendition of John B's The Sive Song....... On the road to Abbeyfeale etc. It was only mighty!

    Would anybody have the words of it & be so kind as to post them up on the site.

    Where could I get a tape or preferably a CD of the song?

    Muchos Gracias

    -*_*_*_*_*_*_
    You should also post this in the LISTOWEL FORUM.
    Good luck. It is a lovely song and I wish I could remember it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Hi there,

    How's everyone to-day ? :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    reic wrote:
    Hi Kerrygirl.

    Have I mentioned that I like Kerry girls?


    Good to hear from you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Welcome KERRYGIRL>


    Have your speakers on for this.

    http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=GB37712966 .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    For SIVE you can't find better than this!



    http://www.mickeymacconnell.com/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Hi everyone, hope your all keeping well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Welcome KERRYGIRL>


    Have your speakers on for this.

    http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=GB37712966 .

    That was lovely thank you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Hi everyone,

    greetings from kerry. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Hi Kerrygirl.
    Greetings from the USA.
    What part of the KINGDOM are you settled in ?
    How is the Winter over there?
    This is my little town over here:

    www.rhinebeckchamber.org

    also one of our local attractions, I help them with their research.

    www.wilderstein.org

    We are close to the Hudson River and alongs it's banks are many mansions , some open to the public.
    Lots of Irish settled here in the 1800s.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Hi everyone,

    I'm seem to be really unlucky, there's never anyone here when i log on !!!:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 kerrygirl


    Hi Kerrygirl.
    Greetings from the USA.
    What part of the KINGDOM are you settled in ?
    How is the Winter over there?
    This is my little town over here:

    www.rhinebeckchamber.org

    also one of our local attractions, I help them with their research.

    www.wilderstein.org

    We are close to the Hudson River and alongs it's banks are many mansions , some open to the public.
    Lots of Irish settled here in the 1800s.


    It's very good to here from you, the weather is nice here at the moment, I'm currently living in Tralee, just 20 miles from Ballybunion.
    I looked up the site you posted and it lookes lovely, do you like it over there ?.

    there's never anyone here when I sign on, thought it was me, ha ha ha.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Yes, I am beginning to worry where everybody is myself.
    Do you ever go out to Fenit.? How is the Oyster Tavern doing?. Remember the great food there. I still have friends in the Spa.
    I used to live in Ballybunion & Listowel .I have been here in the USA many years now. It is home now.
    I am 110 miles from New York City( 1 3/4 hours by train).
    I usually check in here after 10:00PM which would make it after 3AM your time.
    Let's hope we hear from our friends in the Forum soon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭reic


    I've had an invite to Listowel for the weekend. Must check out the weather forecast. The farming area I'll be going to is no place to be in wet weather, lol.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    cid003101c5dbd0a4872d10c37a174.gifBetween the Ballybunion and Listowel Forums over 11,000 Views !!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    cid003001c5dbd0a4872d10c37a174.gifCome on, join in !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Welcome back, SNOWSCORPION


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 townie


    Some people should not judge all limerick people the same, just remember without the Mad limerick people going back there year after year that town wouldn't survive. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Snow in Ireland yesterday! :eek:

    Click the Nine News link at the bottom of the page for a 2-minute report from RTE

    -8 C = 17F

    What's the bog deal about the ground temp being -16 C (3 F)?

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0303/weather.html


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Just running a little test ( think I've forgotten how to post pictures :o

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭reic


    Everytime I plan to head for Nth. Kerry something conspires to prevent me. Grrrrrrr. I'm overdue a visit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    :D

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Squaredude


    i live in Ballybunion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    i live in Ballybunion.
    _____________________
    Welcome to the Ballybunion Forum:
    Hope all is well in Ballybunion. Some of us sure miss it a lot.
    I used to live down by the old golf club.Are you in town or in the country?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Squaredude


    _____________________
    Welcome to the Ballybunion Forum:
    Hope all is well in Ballybunion. Some of us sure miss it a lot.
    I used to live down by the old golf club.Are you in town or in the country?
    i live in town.molly miller is my gran aunt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    i live in Ballybunion.

    You're the guy we've all been waiting for!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Kerry - A Cut Above the Rest c011.gif
    AFTER reading through the 38 pages devoted to Kerry in the latest edition of the Lonely Plant guide to Ireland, you find yourself thinking, thank God I already live here, because if I didn’t, I’d be packing my bags and heading for this slice of paradise in the southwest, post haste!

    To say that the writers of the popular travel guide were impressed with our fair county, would be something of an understatement. There is very little criticism of any kind about any place, and any that is levied, is hard to argue with.

    It’s also noticeable that there’s a vast amount of space devoted to the county in the guide — only places like Dublin and Belfast get more column inches and, with their vast populations, that’s only be be expected. You actually find yourself feeling a bit sorry for the people of Leitrim and Longford, whose counties are collectively deemed worthy of a paltry three pages.


    But all the news is not good... c021.gif
    So assuming most of you out there haven’t read the guide, you’ll be keen to ask the obvious question: so what do they think of us? Well, if you’re from Castleisland, Ballybunion, Sneem or Ballyheigue, the answer unfortunately is “not much”, because none of these places were mentioned.


    Won't someone - anyone - ride to Ballybunion's rescue?

    YES!!

    To Deirdre Walsh

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    from: the regulars of The Ballybunion Thread
    In praise of Ballyb

    By Deirdre Walsh

    I’VE always been a big fan of the Lonely Planet guides — I’d scarcely get on a plane in recent years without one tucked into my hand luggage — but after reading their latest 732-page tome on Ireland, I must admit I’m in a major sulk with them. In fact, they may have lost a life-long customer.

    Why? Because having gone through the entire Kerry section in great detail, I can’t find a single reference to my beloved home town. Zilch. Nada. As far as this 2006 guide to Ireland is concerned, Ballybunion doesn’t exist.

    Never mind that it just happens to be home to one of the top ten golf courses in the world, has two Blue Flag beaches and is one of the most popular seaside resorts in the country. It seems that author Fionn Davenport and his team of four other travel writers simply never ventured past Listowel when they headed north of the county, save for a cursory mention of Tarbert and the fact that the car ferry leaves from there.

    Being ignored is almost worse than being slated. At least the good citizens of Dundalk — “a charmless place without much to see or do” — got some decent publicity in the national media in the aftermath of the guide’s publication last month, and thereby got a chance to defend the honour of their home town. But we Ballybunion natives weren’t even deemed worthy of a good slagging off.

    Having smarted over this glaring omission all week, I’ve decided that the only decent thing to do is write my own ‘Guide to Ballybunion’, which any tourists reading this can feel free to tear out and keep for future reference.

    GETTING THERE: Embark from the car ferry at Tarbert and follow the signs. Or if you’re coming from the Tralee side, drive slowly over the infamous Dale Road, or you could find yourself upsidedown in a bog. Arriving alive is always a good start.

    WHERE TO STAY: There are several good hotels, none of which will rip you off at any time of year. The Golf Hotel has a spectacular view of the town from its rooftop restaurant. Or better still, stay in one of the numerous top-class B&Bs such as Mary Beasley’s 19th Green near the golf club — the favoured choice of world-renowned golfer Tom Watson. There’s a hostel too, if you’re on a budget.

    THINGS TO DO: Get the ultimate relaxation experience with a hot seaweed bath at Collins’ Baths on the ladies’ beach. Better than any trip to a fancy health spa, and a lot cheaper. Make sure you have tea and some of Mary Mulvihill’s homemade scones afterwards. Sheer heaven.

    Go for a long walk back the cliffs and take in some breathtaking scenery, including the Virgin Rock. Pick perriwinkles on the Black Rocks or lounge on one of the two unspoiled Blue Flag beaches.

    Take a day-long boat trip up along the coast and travel through the magnificent Virgin Rock.

    Of course if you’re a golfer, you’re in seventh heaven. Ballybunion has two top-class links courses, which are firm favourites with everyone from Bill Clinton to Catherine Zeta-Jones.

    EATING OUT: The Strand, Kilcooley’s, Cliff House and Harty Costelloe’s are all top-class and great value, and the town also has a Chinese, an Indian and a steak house.

    PUBS: No shortage of variety here either. The Exchange and JDs for the young and the trendy; Mikey Joe’s if you want to talk golf all night, or The Railway if you want to meet the locals.

    Of course I could go on and on — and will no doubt get in to trouble for omitting some place or other — but what the hell. The tourists need to know, in case they come to Kerry and never make it to my beloved home town. Maybe the Lonely Planet people might even offer me a job in time for their next edition.


    Ooops! Forgot to include the link: http://www.unison.ie/kerryman/stories.php3?ca=45&si=1567379&issue_id=13714 a090.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    i live in town.molly miller is my gran aunt.
    .
    I and my family know your gran aunt very well. Hope she is well.Tell her a guy in America says hello and has fond memories of her and "The Rainbow Lounge ".She is very a dear lady.Does she still have the store ?
    Does Bubbles and Donald still have the Restaurant at the top of the town?
    Having great weather here ( 100 miles North of N. Y City ) this weekend. 65 degrees today and possibly in the 70s tomorrow.
    Have you read through all the Ballybunion thread?
    I hope to be home this year PG so will give you all a visit !


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


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