First Waterford Post!

SheroN · 15-08-2002 12:00pm #1

BOW BEFORE YOUR MASTER.

Guy Incognito · 15-08-2002 12:00pm

Ah you just beat me...bastid!

strat · 15-08-2002 12:39pm

gg k

regi · 15-08-2002 1:14pm

He's from carrick, what do you expect?

SheroN · 15-08-2002 1:22pm

Stratagist if more from carrick than I regi my dear man.

strat · 15-08-2002 3:18pm

well tbh none of us are from carrick

pauls from piltown

Lawnkiller · 15-08-2002 7:04pm

pH33R meh!!

actually - don't really.

mike65 · 15-08-2002 7:13pm

Whats the point of this board again!?

Can we complain about the roads?

Mike.

OLDYELLAR · 15-08-2002 7:23pm

hola huneys

PPC · 15-08-2002 7:24pm

Bah i live in Portlaw, Eye lives in Carrick me thinks.

OLDYELLAR · 15-08-2002 7:30pm

i drink in carrick

Mossy Monk · 16-08-2002 12:51am

i passed through Carrick only the other day

now the roads. why don't they fix the things. Waterford CC are brutal

logic1 · 16-08-2002 12:17pm

Waterford. That is all.

.logic.

ToxicPaddy · 16-08-2002 4:57pm

Carrick is classed as south Co. Tipp.. so not Waterford CC's problem..

But sure they are all as bad as each other :rolleyes:

Quigs Snr · 16-08-2002 5:45pm

Also Waterford (City) and sick of the roads, my car is shaking itself apart. Must get a car with a suspension next time. Carrick ain't too bad with the new piece of road there outside mooncoin, but as for Portlaw PPC, I was cycling down that feckin hill into the town (from Kill), and my fillings fell out.

Anyway, what it the point of this board, are we all going to rejoice in our waterford-i-ness and arrange trips to the seaside or something ?

mike65 · 16-08-2002 7:03pm

I'm a little sceptical about these boards myself, and I'm a Mod!

Still as it is here, I'm sure thier are a few topics that we can moan in unison about.

Like why is Waterford the forgotten city, Galway
everyone loves, Cork you can't ingnore even though you'd like to. Hell even Limerick is'nt as badly perceived as was once the case, yet Waterford is'nt thought about at all.

Its worth noting that when these boards were first created
the other 4 big cities were up and running together, we were an afterthought along with the rest! And that is syptomatic of our place in life. Major Chains will have outlets in places like Navan
or Portlaoise before they arrive down here (don't ask me to suply specific names!).

If RTE ever point a camera in our direction its for some bad news story, the roads are crap if Galway had needed a second river crossing they'd have had it built decades back but government ministers don't push for development
in the Deise as they don't know anything about the place!
I will excempt Mary Harney from my ire as she alone has made Waterford part of here general itinery. At last we have a FF minister (the first in almost 50 years!) but will he deliver or be allowed to?

I could go on....:mad:

Mike

Tellox · 16-08-2002 10:30pm

'wan waterford with their ntl weekend packages..

Lawnkiller · 16-08-2002 10:44pm

boo to the ff waterford politician

he stuck his head in the sand for his last term of office and got voted back for all the "good" he did. i expect nothing less than the same high standard of work this time round.

even killkenny or south kerry have more noteworthy politicians than here.

i would have elected the professional clown if i did the vote fixin this time round.

that would have put waterford on the map and we would be gettin more stuff.

<boy - i'm tired after that rant>

BuffyBot · 17-08-2002 12:32am

Hi,

Waterford....sure tis only the fillet of counties :P

PPC · 17-08-2002 12:37am

Originally posted by Quigs Snr
but as for Portlaw PPC, I was cycling down that feckin hill into the town (from Kill), and my fillings fell out.

I'm despretaly trying to move out, only been here 3 years and i hate it.

/me want town

Mossy Monk · 17-08-2002 2:47am

we are the arse of Ireland and have all the facilities etc. to show it

Makaveli · 18-08-2002 12:30am

Originally posted by PPC
Bah i live in Portlaw, Eye lives in Carrick me thinks.

No offence but Portlaw is quite possibly the worst place in Ireland I have ever been.
Havent been there in years though, now that the grandparents have passed on.
But God I hated having to go down there.

jmcc · 18-08-2002 12:49am

Originally posted by mike65

Like why is Waterford the forgotten city, Galway
everyone loves, Cork you can't ingnore even though you'd like to. Hell even Limerick is'nt as badly perceived as was once the case, yet Waterford is'nt thought about at all.

The bright side, I suppose, is that Waterford is not Dublin.

Nice to see that there are actually other boards users in Waterford.

Regards...jmcc

Lawnkiller · 18-08-2002 1:05am

Originally posted by jmcc

The bright side, I suppose, is that Waterford is not Dublin.

tell the pub owners that - €4.50 for a flat pint - no thnx guv....

but in fairness - NewYorkPie - why is their nothing else like this anywhere else. - mmmmmmm drnk fud

Quigs Snr · 18-08-2002 1:22pm

At last another NY Pie Co fan. I am addicted to that place. Nothing else like that around anywhere (cept NYC) and I can't understand why ?

Did try to eat a chilli dog after a heavy night in the Kazbah once though, looked like an extra from a George Romero Movie afterwards. Maybe thats why.

Mossy Monk · 19-08-2002 12:20am

Originally posted by Lawnkiller
€4.50 for a flat pint

who charges €4.50 for a flat pint. more imprtantly, who pays €4.50 for a flat pint. that's shocking

Lawnkiller · 19-08-2002 8:22pm

the yuppie pubs have no problems doing that. especially if its a "late bar". clubs are worse tho - does anybody ever check these places lines and gas???? bleuuhggghhhh

merlante · 14-09-2002 11:21pm

About the whole Waterford being a forgotten city thing. I don't think anyone would disagree.

Have you read the weekly article by 'The Phoenix' in the News & Star? A weekly guide to how Waterford has been shafted the previous week!

Still things are a lot better than they were a few years back; the place is starting to look well. And they're doing up the north quays...

We are the worst race on the island for marketing ourselves though, who would guess that there's a F1 powerboat race on in Waterford at the moment?

merlante

mike65 · 14-09-2002 11:58pm

Hi merlante and welcome to boards.ie!

About the power boats, you're right. If this were happening in Galway the national radiowaves would be festooned with ads for it, along with guff about the craic and the strains of that Galway Bay tune in the background.

We have always been the worlds worst
at marketing ourselves as a desirable place to be.

Desie folk are too damn self-effacing.

Mike.

Mossy Monk · 15-09-2002 12:58am

Originally posted by mike65
We have always been the worlds worst
at marketing ourselves

tell me about it. i forgot it was on and i missed it :mad:

merlante · 17-09-2002 12:11am

Cheers Mike.

About the power boats, you're right. If this were happening in Galway the national radiowaves would be festooned with ads for it, along with guff about the craic and the strains of that Galway Bay tune in the background.

Damn straight! The Irish Times covered the Galway arts festival every single day, with editorials that even went as far as to say "if Ireland were a woman, then Galway would be it's erogenous zone!" They're pitching the place as the San Francisco of Ireland, fastest growing city in europe etc. etc. It's even calling itself the third city in Ireland, sheerly because Limerick is having problems extending its city boundaries.

Meanwhile you have dubs asking if there is a Waterford town? I suppose you have to give their (galway) politicians and marketing people credit.

merlante

mike65 · 17-09-2002 6:34pm

I'm just about old enough to remember when Waterfords population was larger than Galways but then something seemed to happen. Galway got political clout while Waterford went into a 20 year sleep.

I mentioned earlier our PR stinks, the Dublin media simply does'nt think we exist but as you noted the Irish Times (the paper of the establishment) ran stories everyday on the arts shindig. RTE covered the Galways races everyday, complete with cheesy shots
of assembled polictical hacks and "celebs".

Mike.

merlante · 17-09-2002 9:39pm

Well first of all Galway's population tends to be exagerated for the simple reason that their city boundary is large enough to encompass everyone that could conceivably be considered Galway. One subburb, Barna, is in the middle of the countryside.

Waterford and Limerick are having problems enlarging their boundaries so their populations are larger than stated in the preliminary census results of this year. At the moment Waterford city council is trying to expand Waterford across the river, where they've already spent a lot of money, on a port and a bunch of housing estates.

In my opinion there are 3 reasons Galway expanded the way it did:
1. Galway has a university. The student crowd has revitalised the city and after prosperity returned to Ireland, students now comprise 15% of the total population.
2. The midlands and border regions have been bleeding people since the famine, some go to Dublin, but a large number find a city in the west more to their liking. 80% of the increase in Galway's population is due to inward migration.
3. Galway's PR machine is extremely effective, and its various festivals are very successful.

A fourth reason might be the fact that Galway has two constituencies gunning for it, whereas we only have one. In addition towns such as Kilkenny and Wexford have the cheek to compete with us for 'regional' services, which will only ever be in Waterford in any case.

merlante

mike65 · 17-09-2002 10:41pm

I forgot (!) about the univeristy issue. On city boundries remember in 1980 Waterford breifly became the second largest city in the state when it pushed out halfway to Tramore!

Kilkenny County Council are a joke, they sit up the other end of the county ignoring the southern part which for all intents and purposes is Waterford North, the city needs to push up at least as far as Glenmore and west to Mooncoin-ish. Imagine the kilkenny GAA reaction to that!

Mike.

PPC · 18-09-2002 9:13am

Make this board restricted to waterford people only and then we can plan the take over of Kilkenny

Mossy Monk · 18-09-2002 10:59pm

then Tipperary and then who knows, the world

merlante · 18-09-2002 11:57pm

Well I was too young to remember the boundary change in 1980, but apparently it was all easy on the Waterford side but blocked completely on the Kilkenny side.

But it actually looks like it might happen this time, since apparently if they can't work it out with Kilkenny CC then it's passed on to the minister for environment & local government, who I'm guessing would be sympathetic to our cause.

(since he's a Deise man)

The proposed boundary extension is supposed to go along the line of the new waterford bypass and extend as far as slieverue.

merlante

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