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The Ballybunion thread

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  • #952
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Someone posted a video on youtube of some fella turning donuts near the top of Knockanore.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ2RF9gXlXo


  • #953
    Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Aero


    Radio CJAD Montreal interview with JJ O'Carroll, radio callsign EI6AH concerning the Marconi station in Ballybunion which first transmitted voice from east to west across the Atlantic.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyB3v1PvejM

    ...and more information on the Ballybunion station here...

    http://vr2xbm.googlepages.com/home

    Slainte! / Aero.


  • #954
    culhane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭culhane


    Hi,

    Just logged on to this thread for the first time. I live In Ballybunion and have mainly for most of my life (36yrs). I suppose there are a lot of Ballybunion people ( like every town in ireland ) scattered to the 4 corners. So this site is great for those people.

    The towns pavements and roads are getting a long needed revamp at the moment.

    Ballybunion gets a lot critisism. I cant blame people. For such a massive resource of stunning natural beauty it is a very small Town/village.
    The Business people/Local people get the brunt of this critisim and perhaps a little unfairly. I think Kerry Co co has left the place down badly.

    If you takeListowel at the moment - it is looking exceptionally well. A very pretty Market Town with the whole writers vibe going on. But listowel has its own Urban Council - there are massively strict bye laws which inforce standards front facades of buildings so that they keep a certain standard.
    And you can see this in the town. It looks better then it ever has.

    Ballyb would not be allowed have its own UDC. Its population is too small. In the abscense of a UDC it is up to KCC to therefore inforce the standards. But they don't. Ballyb is a free for all!! In the abscence of enforcement you cant expect one local to tell another clean up your the front of your pub, shop etc.

    So where is Kerry Co Co??...Oh They will break people up with planning permission 3 miles out the road and tell u what species of trees u can plant ( no exaggeration )But the town itself is a free for all......
    You can leave a building go derilicht - why not. Leave the main street potholed for the summer. Leave sick and fags build up outside your pub for 2 weeks. Decorate the inside and out just to make sure u encourge the roughest of the roughest from the roughest city in ireland all become patrons...., and incase the place wasnt honky tonk enough lets gets a 5th rate cringing honky tonk country band to play open air on the main street on the busiest days.....look im ranting too much here..ill sign on again some other time when im not so demented.

    Anyway snow scorpian well done on the Ballybunion thread.


  • #955
    John Granville
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭John Granville


    culhane wrote: »
    Hi,

    Just logged on to this thread for the first time. I live In Ballybunion and have mainly for most of my life (36yrs). I suppose there are a lot of Ballybunion people ( like every town in ireland ) scattered to the 4 corners. So this site is great for those people.

    The towns pavements and roads are getting a long needed revamp at the moment.

    Ballybunion gets a lot critisism. I cant blame people. For such a massive resource of stunning natural beauty it is a very small Town/village.
    The Business people/Local people get the brunt of this critisim and perhaps a little unfairly. I think Kerry Co co has left the place down badly.

    If you takeListowel at the moment - it is looking exceptionally well. A very pretty Market Town with the whole writers vibe going on. But listowel has its own Urban Council - there are massively strict bye laws which inforce standards front facades of buildings so that they keep a certain standard.
    And you can see this in the town. It looks better then it ever has.

    Ballyb would not be allowed have its own UDC. Its population is too small. In the abscense of a UDC it is up to KCC to therefore inforce the standards. But they don't. Ballyb is a free for all!! In the abscence of enforcement you cant expect one local to tell another clean up your the front of your pub, shop etc

    Anyway snow scorpian well done on the Ballybunion thread.

    Well said, Culhane. Im sure your feelings are shared by many in Ballybunion and beyond. I'm not from Ballyb. but originally from Listowel and I think anyone who grew up enjoying the beauty and freedom of Ballybunion and its beaches in days gone by is saddened by the state of the place and the clientele that has been attracted during the summer. I know everyone is entitled to enjoy a day out and have a drink but do so many have to be so obnoxious and loutish in their manner and appearance?
    You say nice things about Listowel and I agree, it does look well when compared to other towns of similar size. It's not without its disasters though. For example,what were planners thinking when permission was given to build a block of ugly flats at the bottom of Colbert St.? And now, I believe, someone is looking to extend a Disco Joint in William Street as if it didn't cause enough noise and disturbance already at weekends! The motto seems to be "If there's an empty space, build on it and if there's a building there already, make it bigger - and bugger the residents." "Anything will do as long as it can make us money."
    Seaside towns generally seem to be a bit tatty. For instance, I hear many complaints about the state of Tramore from friends who come from the area. The usual complaint there seems to be about the amount of dog crap on the footpaths. If my friends are to be believed, its the World Leader in Dog Dirt! And it has a Town Council! Bundoran doesn't seem to get too many favourable mentions either. I don't know about other resorts but I'm sure there are similar complaints elsewhere. One thing is sure though - they don't hold a candle to Ballybunion as far as natural beauty is concerned.
    Hopefully the works being undertaken in Ballyb will be hugely successful and lead to better things. We live in hope but maybe we have been too quiet for far too long.
    Rant over!


  • #956
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Two new kids to the thread! An embarrassment of riches!

    Welcome, welcome, welcome (as my grandmother used to say) to the both of you.

    I hope both of you will show up here regularly.

    I'm glad to hear about the streets are being repaved. I took some videos of the town last July (they're on YouTube ... search "Ballybunion" and you'll run into them) and Main Street and the switch outside the barrack shook the hell out of the camera. The East End was nice and smooth, however. :)


  • #957
    culhane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭culhane


    Hi Again,
    Perhaps its better for those of u who are xpats to enjoy Ireland - you don't have to put up with the weather!!.
    There is definetly increased rainfall and wind, and last summer there was no summer whats so ever.
    One wonders is it worth living in this country at all anymore.
    There just seems to be no weather at all now. Winters appear milder. Which means warmer accompanied by rain and wind. And if you look
    at the weather chart for the North Atlantic for much of the time there are atlantic lows queing for Ireland.
    I think the nicest weather in Ireland is a clear frosty morning. But these these days now sadly are few and far between. In the year 2000 there
    were exactly half the number of frosty days recorded in 1950!! see www.    geography.nuim.ie/ICARUS/present/mcelwain.pdf

    Pubs like every other village and town in Ireland were a major part of the social fabric.This is changing big time. There are now fewer that open
    in Ballyb in winter, and those that do - perhaps there is just 1 that opens early. However alcohol consumption has gone up. People buy in supermarkets
    and drink at home. Every one is twisted at home every night. (joke) For a lot of publicans there is just perhaps Saterday night.
    At the moment there are fewer business open in winter (in Ballyb) then there were even 2 winters ago. I can think of 3 on the main street which were open
    regulary 2 winters ago. North Kerry is impossible. You Grind out a living. Thats all.

    The other sudden huge change at the moment is the collapse in construction....that whole thing seems to have come to a halt. Property not shifting eithier.
    I have heard of construction workers leaving for London again. The poles and lithuanians will surely not stick around eithier.
    Kilburn High road here we come.


  • #958
    culhane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭culhane


    An american humorous article written in a major publication about ballyb( can't remember which ). Back in the late 90's when there was more of a buzz about. Perhaps some people have read.
    http://www.eamonlynch.com/work6.htm


  • #959
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    I think 640pixels is the widest picture you can post without screwing up the margins.

    copyofimg0685aa5.jpg


  • #960
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Ballybunion gets a write-up in a California newspaper: the San Jose Mercury News. An excerpt:
    When you want a real idea of who will be the next president, do not turn to the pundits and the talking heads of the chattering, bodiless, odoriferous order that pontificates for each and every network and cable channel - look to Ballybunion. Here in a place known for golf, seaweed baths and prognostications, you will find the truth. Here the denizens decry the hoopla of polls and likely voter profiles, and simply prefer the age-old method of trial by rhetoric, argument and ancestry - oh, yes, ancestry. Even now in Costello's Public House, the verdict has been rendered, and it's for the kinsman. As they say, "Surely, ....

    Read more here:
    http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_8116619


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  • #961
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    welcome to John Granville and Culhane! The more the merrier!

    Culhane, I have to agree with most of your statements! Things just seem to be always going downhill. And, speaking as one who has had it happen to them, the planning laws in North Kerry are a joke. We (my wife and I) were about to buy a site about 2 miles out of town, but the outlying planning permission had so many conditions on it (including specifying what type of trees had to be planted, and where!) that it put us off. I see a house build on that site now, and there is no sign of any trees! I guess we were too niave. We should have gone ahead, not planted the dozens of trees between the house and the view, and just wait and see if anyone complains that we didnt adhere to the pp.

    anyway......
    To confirm what Culhane said: Main St ballyb is in a terrible state. They are making many streets one-way, and at the same time extending footpaths all over the place. Particularly along Sandhill Road and out along by the boys school. I hope it will all be worth it when its finished!


  • #962
    kesey
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭kesey


    Hi all,

    This is a great thread - it is a wonderful read and it is mighty to see the pictures of a place where many a fabulous summer was had.

    I'm looking for any pictures that might exist of the Church of Ireland church that used to stand on Boyles Car Park.

    all the best,

    kesey


  • #963
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    hi kesey! more fresh meat for the thread! yeahhh


    I am only a blow in here. Lived here for 4 years, and came here for about 6 years before that on summer hols with wife & kids, but I have never seen a COI church in Ballyb. I will find out about it though, and send a pic of the site as it is now.....wherever it might be.

    I wonder if thats the old church on Sandhill road (that is now a library), or if its that old church that used to be close to the castle (ive seen it in old photos).


  • #964
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Does anyone know what this is?

    You see it along the Cliff Walk.

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2385/2270489032_b8ba068247_b.jpg


  • #965
    Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Aero


    RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »
    hi kesey! more fresh meat for the thread! yeahhh


    I am only a blow in here. Lived here for 4 years, and came here for about 6 years before that on summer hols with wife & kids, but I have never seen a COI church in Ballyb. I will find out about it though, and send a pic of the site as it is now.....wherever it might be.

    I wonder if thats the old church on Sandhill road (that is now a library), or if its that old church that used to be close to the castle (ive seen it in old photos).

    I believe you are correct. The church was moved "stone by stone" to its new location on Sandhill Road and after it finished life as a Church, was converted to a library. Found photo on the internet here...

    http://www.kerrycolib.ie/ballybbranch.asp


  • #966
    culhane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭culhane


    Hi,
    The Church to which Kesey refers to was in Boyles Car Park which he refers to. This is triangular the car park in front of the marine hotel/ Southern hotel just before you come to the old Atlantic Hotel site. It existed before the present much smaller C O I church further down SandHill Road. By all accounts it was a beautifull church and should never have been demolished. I am not sure when it was demolished perhaps the 40's??? Pictures do exist of it though. I think Perhaps the former contributer to this thread SandHill Road (Rest In Peace ) may have posted a picture of this much further back in the thread.

    Snow Scorpian the picture which u posted is the last remaining room of Pookeenee Castle. Though it is often referred to locally as the "jail".The little field to the front of it formed part of a fort. I guess it stood around the same time as ballybunion castle and lick castle but apparently there is much less known about it.


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  • #967
    kesey
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭kesey


    culhane wrote: »
    Hi,
    The Church to which Kesey refers to was in Boyles Car Park which he refers to. This is triangular the car park in front of the marine hotel/ Southern hotel just before you come to the old Atlantic Hotel site. It existed before the present much smaller C O I church further down SandHill Road.

    Rider (a name from a time when music was music!), aero and culhane, many thanks for your replies. It's great to see a bit of history coming out. I understand that the church which is now the library on the Sandhill Road came from Ballyduff originally. The one that stood on Boyles' Car Park was apparently bigger and a fine structure. Next door was the Rectory: that later became Horans, a use infinitely better to my mind:-)

    Like many of you, I was an annual visitor to Ballybunion many years ago. I had the pleasure of doing summer work in both the Castle Hotel and in the Marine Hotel which gave me the opportunity to enjoy the bands that used to play in Horans and in the Central: they were blooming marvellous,and the craic phenomenal.

    I'll keep digging for the photo of the church. If I find one I'll post it.


  • #968
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    kesey wrote: »
    Hi all,

    This is a great thread - it is a wonderful read and it is mighty to see the pictures of a place where many a fabulous summer was had.

    I'm looking for any pictures that might exist of the Church of Ireland church that used to stand on Boyles Car Park.

    all the best,

    kesey

    kesey, there's a brief look at the library/church in this video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pjm7xCNQcs


  • #969
    kesey
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭kesey


    kesey wrote: »
    I'll keep digging for the photo of the church. If I find one I'll post it.

    This picture of the Castle Hotel and the Church of Ireland on Boyles' Carpark was posted on this thread, page 31, by John Sheehy (SandhillRoad) R.I.P. on 8th June, 2006.


  • #970
    kesey
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭kesey


    Here's a couple of more photos of the Church of Ireland church in Ballybunion: note the bundle of people on the green in what was to become the Castle Hotel site. That picture appears to be captioned: Pattern Day in Ballybunion.


  • #971
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    I stumbled across this tonight:
    Sunday, December 09, 2007

    The stormy weather has caused up to ten thousand euro worth of damage to a lifeboat station in Kerry.

    A freak wave hit the boathouse of Ballybunion Sea and Cliff Rescue in the early hours of this morning.

    The almost five foot wave blew the doors off their hinges and water flooded the building, damaging essential equipment.

    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/article3237164.ece

    A five-foot wave all the way to the top of the beach?!

    :eek:

    If the online version of the Kerryman still ran the Local Notes we wouldn't have to depend on the Belfast Telegraph for Ballybunion news.


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  • #972
    reic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭reic


    Ballybunion was a desolate, windy place on Saturday afternoon 23rd February 2008.

    bbun2.jpg

    bbun1.jpg

    All shuttered up.


  • #973
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    reic wrote: »
    Ballybunion was a desolate, windy place on Saturday afternoon 23rd February 2008.

    All shuttered up.

    It looks so sad.

    Then again, who wants to eat ice cream while sitting by the Castle Green in the end of February? :D


  • #974
    lola12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭lola12


    ballyb 3.jpg
    Hi Snow Scorpion & all the gang in the thread, really enjoyed catching up with the thread! I have a long history with Ballyb. I spent a lot of my growing up time there & my Dad still lives there. I was back in Jan for women's Christmas & had a few drinks in Kilcooley's, Mikey Joes, The Exchange & the Cashen. A good night had by all!I am trying to attach a couple of pics, but may take some time to get sorted as I am a bit slow on the old computer, anyway there is one of the Cof I church in Boyle's car park (which Kesey was interested in (sorry if it is on already) & also one taken from the roof of this church. I would also love to get a photo of a lovely sunny day (of which I have enjoyed many!) on the Ladies beach ( although I know it better as Maggie Daly's), just for a bit of contrast to the recent ones posted by Reic. Cos I think on a glorious summer day, there is no place to beat Ballyb.
    Hope to be back soon.


  • #975
    lola12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭lola12


    sorry, couldn't manage the pics, will try later when IT support gets home!


  • #976
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Welcome to the thread, Lola!

    I always love coming to boards.ie and seeing "The Ballybunion Thread" in boldface print.

    Maybe this will help you with posting pics:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=3443022&postcount=97


  • #977
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    lola12 wrote: »
    ballyb 3.jpg
    I would also love to get a photo of a lovely sunny day (of which I have enjoyed many!) on the Ladies beach ( although I know it better as Maggie Daly's), just for a bit of contrast to the recent ones posted by Reic. Cos I think on a glorious summer day, there is no place to beat Ballyb.
    Hope to be back soon.

    Here's a welcome to the thread present for you, Lola. I'll post a couple more when later when I have more time.

    img8219px4.th.jpg


  • #978
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Lola, the Ladies Strand:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYF-bFS8O8


  • #979
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    hello all, i have to say this is one amazing thread,who would have thought it would get so big,theres a hell of alot of informative reading in it, makes me proud to be a kerryman:)!! Being honest i never paid much attention to ballyb when i was there, it was just another small town though i loved the amusements when i was younger, i think theres pictures somewhere around the house just to find them! I wont be as dismissive of ballyb next time im out there!!its great how somewhere so small can be so big!!
    Keep up the community spirit!!!!:D


  • #980
    lola12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭lola12


    snow scorpion wrote: »
    I stumbled across this tonight:



    A five-foot wave all the way to the top of the beach?!

    :eek:

    :cool:
    Hi All, I esed to have a subscription to the Kerryman, but they were looking for something ridiculous to renew this; about £200 i think, so I decided to jump ship - anyway, they seem to have closed down the Tralee operation & "The Kerryman" is now printed in Belfast!! & I have to say - I only had a look at the first couple of editions & it was total PANTS! ie could not make out the print, pictures not matching the captions, "tralee down the years" section unintelligible! So decided to give it a miss.
    Although I have just signed up to a years subscription to "Kerry's Eye", on special offer at the moment- Euro 50 for a year on line, which is good value in any language!

    Does anyone remember Fitz's shop, next door to Jimmy Lynch's on Main Street? was a sweet shop that also sold toys etc. - I used to go there for choc ices, brunches, ice bergers, sindys etc. & I got a really cool chemistry set there once!

    I have had a goat uploading a couple of pics, so hope they come out ok, they are not the original ones I wanted to post, as it seems they were too large for the thread, anyway, I hope they come out ok.

    Thanks for the welcome to the thread present Snow Scorpion, Does anyone else know this beach as Maggie Daly's? Must ask my Da who she was!


  • #981
    Seinas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Seinas


    was passing through ballybunion last week, here's a few pics i took

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    18022008108.jpg


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  • #982
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Nice pics, pity the 4x4 got in the way of the last one!;):p


  • #983
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    carchaeologist wrote: »
    hello all, i have to say this is one amazing thread,who would have thought it would get so big,theres a hell of alot of informative reading in it, makes me proud to be a kerryman:)!!

    Welcome to the thread, carchaeologist! When I saw your name I immediately thought of the scene from "Jaws" where Richard Dreyfuss was calling the great white shark by it's scientific name - Carcharodon carcharias - and my first thought was you must be some sort of shark expert. Then when I checked your profile and saw you have a love of old cars. Car + archaeologist = carchaeologist - a lover of old cars. That's clever.

    I hope you'll make the Ballybunion thread a regular stop in your wanderings around the internet.


  • #984
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Thanks snow, im laughing my head off here after what you said!! Iv been called a few names but never a shark expert!!How did you remember what he said in jaws, i find it hard to remember what day it is some times!!Haha!
    I was reading through the bally b thread the last day and i like the way it just got bigger and bigger! And the fact you seem to be the daddy of the thread:D. It was sad to read of sandville roads passing, im sure you got used to having him around, he bought alot of life to the thread. Next time im in bally b il take a few photos and post them up,to keep the ball rolling!!


  • #985
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    culhane wrote: »
    Hi,
    The Church to which Kesey refers to was in Boyles Car Park (gone) ... this is triangular the car park in front of the marine hotel (gone)/ Southern hotel just before you come to the old Atlantic Hotel (gone) site. It existed before the present much smaller C O I church further down SandHill Road.

    no wonder i could not find it! nearly all these places are gone. The Southern Hotel is still there. There is just some empty scrubland infront of it now. I think I have a pic of that area..... let me go look

    PS welcome to all the new people!

    PPS Run, Lola, Run!
    (ha ha ha .... Im a sad film fan, I know.... .)


  • #986
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    culhane wrote: »
    Snow Scorpian the picture which u posted is the last remaining room of Pookeenee Castle.
    aaaahh... so thats Pookeene Castle! I was reading about that recently. I got a small booklet on Ballybunion Myths and Legends.

    Here is the entire Pookeenee Castle entry:
    The Ghost of Pookeenee Castle.
    Historical sources have translated the name of Pookeenee Castle as 'the hood of the broken vaults'. In Irish mythology the name bears a more mythical name, The Castle of the Pooka. In ancient times in this area, the dreaded Pooka (or deformed animal) crept up on its victims while they slept, and a nightmare journey would ensue on the back of the pooka, traversing ditches, mountains and rivers until the victim awoke within the walls of the Pookeenee Castle.
    Local tradition informs us that if the victim did three rounds of the castle the spell was broken. It is said that on May eve a deformed ghostly specter of the pooka wanders the cliffs of Doon in search of its next victim.

    From Ballybunion Myths & Legends – compiled by Danny Houlihan


  • #987
    lola12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭lola12


    Very interesting to find out about the Pookeens - I often wondered about what it was!

    Rider, are there any plans afoot for celebrating St. Patricks Day In Ballyb? Some photos would be really good, If there is anything goin on & you happen to have your camera with you! I read in Kerry's Eye that they are having a parade in Tralee.

    I also saw an article about the leisure centre running some swimming clubs over the Easter holidays. What is it like? Similar to the aquadome in Tralee?


  • #988
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    lola12 wrote: »
    Rider, are there any plans afoot for celebrating St. Patricks Day In Ballyb? Some photos would be really good

    Sorry Lola, I didnt have my camera with me. I was in the Listowel parade (with the coast Guard) and in the Ballybunion parade (with the local theatre group) but no camera. I will see if I can find some pics.... Im sure 1 or 2 people brought theirs!
    The parade in Ballyb was better than Listowel IMHO. Weather was good and there was a bit of craic.

    lola12 wrote: »
    I also saw an article about the leisure centre running some swimming clubs over the Easter holidays. What is it like? Similar to the aquadome in Tralee?[/FONT]

    the leisure centre is doing well. they had a float in the parade. it was very funny. They had people dressed up as life guards and swimmers, and had a small paddeling pool and kept splashing people!

    Its a small leisure centre, not same as Aquadome. It has a standard 20m pool , and a couple of very small pools for the toddlers. There is also a sauna and jacuzzi. Upstairs, there is a gym with lots of weights and cardio equip.
    Not sure if anything special is being organised for Easter.


  • #989
    Beezer19
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    Hey Alice, what a surprise? How have you been, I miss laughing with Bubbles, she always looked on the brightside of things. Life has been very good to me since returning to America. I married my highschool sweetheart and i have a 3 year old son, Kieran Patrick!! You can always send me an email at tlorah@depot-america.com , i'd love to catch up with ye.

    Tell all i said hello.


  • #990
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Theres a tralee band called oracle playing in the exchange tommorrow night(23rd)at 10.30,i would reccommend seeing them highly. They play a sort of trad rock folk crossover, its hard to explain!


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  • #991
    snow scorpion
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    Three weeks without a post to the thread?!

    This will never do! I'll have to go looking for another video I made last summer. In the meantime, a question occurred to me the other day...

    Does anyone know what the castle looked like when it was first built?

    I was thinking that outcropping it's sitting on is pretty small. Was part of the outcropping removed somewhere along the line? Or was the castle small enough to fit on the outcropping as it is now?


  • #992
    Queenfan
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    Hi everyone on the BB thread. my first ever post anywhere today - I found your fascinating thread a few weeks ago and as I've been a frequent holidaymaker to Ballybunion since 1994 I enjoyed the photo's and the memories you all share.
    I was in BB over Easter weekend but it was very quiet - a mixture of the early Easter and the March weather I think.


  • #993
    carchaeologist
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    snow scorpion wrote: »
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    Three weeks without a post to the thread?!quote]
    I agree, the thread was sliding into oblivion there!!Thought i might have made it out to bally b for a drive yesterday, hadnt the time after all though.:(


  • #994
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    snow scorpion wrote: »
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    I was thinking that outcropping it's sitting on is pretty small. Was part of the outcropping removed somewhere along the line? Or was the castle small enough to fit on the outcropping as it is now?

    I would think coastal erosion has had a hand in it, im sure when the castle was first built that there was quite alot of land around it.i have no idea what iot looked like when first built though.


  • #995
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Queenfan wrote: »
    Hi everyone on the BB thread. my first ever post anywhere today - I found your fascinating thread a few weeks ago and as I've been a frequent holidaymaker to Ballybunion since 1994 I enjoyed the photo's and the memories you all share.
    I was in BB over Easter weekend but it was very quiet - a mixture of the early Easter and the March weather I think.

    Welcome to the thread, Queenfan. I hope you'll stop by here often. But as some of the regulars here can tell you, sometimes this thread gets as quiet as the village itself.

    I like the quietness of Ballybunion. Quietness in The Ballybunion Thread ... not so much.


  • #996
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    carchaeologist wrote: »

    Three weeks without a post to the thread?!quote]
    I agree, the thread was sliding into oblivion there!!Thought i might have made it out to bally b for a drive yesterday, hadnt the time after all though.:(


    Ah, well, many more opportunities coming with the return of spring, eh?


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  • #997
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    snow scorpion wrote: »
    Ah, well, many more opportunities coming with the return of spring, eh?
    Absolutly sir, it helps when you have a couple of old cars knocking around that need to be driven!Yesterday was a fantastic day weatherwise in kerry!today is even better.


  • #998
    reic
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    Just to add a post. The wind was mighty when I took this a few months ago. Still have to go down and explore those caves.

    nuns.jpg


  • #999
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    reic wrote: »
    Just to add a post. The wind was mighty when I took this a few months ago. Still have to go down and explore those caves.

    nuns.jpg

    I meant to go down there last July, but I couldn't see anyway down. Is there a way down from that next cove north and then you walk over to the Nun's Strand when the tide is out?


  • #1000
    snow scorpion
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    Big announcement!



    One post down!



    Can you feel the excitement?


  • #1001
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    The Ballybunion Thread is now ...

    1,000 posts long!!

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    To celebrate, take a little drive up the Church Road and down the Cliff Road...

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paryYkirEl4


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