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SÓ Sligo

  • 16-03-2010 08:29PM
    #1
    magnumlady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭


    Lots going on this weekend. Including music, a market, carnival, all kinds of things.

    More details on here:
    http://www.sosligo.com/


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  • #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    There's even a "Vegetable Model Making Display" in Quayside on the Saturday. Can't wait. :D


  • #3
    tuppence
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,130 ✭✭✭tuppence


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    There's even a "Vegetable Model Making Display" in Quayside on the Saturday. Can't wait. :D
    So have you got an Irish stew recipe you'll enter or is it just coddle your speciality? ;)


  • #4
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    tuppence wrote: »
    So have you got an Irish stew recipe you'll enter or is it just coddle your speciality? ;)

    Ha ha.. just coz I'm a Dub doesn't mean I live on coddle! I was thinking of entering my Guinness & Cinnamon stew, but the closing date was last month.


  • #5
    dardevle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 771 ✭✭✭dardevle


    ....


    was not around at the weekend so did'nt get to check it out,i was wondering how did it go? anybody got feedback from the any of the events?




    ...


  • #6
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    dardevle wrote: »
    ....


    was not around at the weekend so did'nt get to check it out,i was wondering how did it go? anybody got feedback from the any of the events?




    ...

    I didn't go to any events, but there were a few shabby looking stalls down by the river & a few taximen I spoke to didn't even know there was a festival going on.. hardly surprising really as there was virtually no advertising of it - I found only out about it here.


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  • #7
    magnumlady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    I had a look at the market. It wasn't anything like the French market......plus 3 euro for a cupcake is way too expensive.
    There was no one to stop cars that were trying to drive down Rockwood parade, so there was a few near misses with cars and kids.


  • #8
    Xiney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭Xiney


    so basically, yet another screw up.

    sigh. :rolleyes:


  • #9
    Truley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    I thought there was a great atmosphere down at Rockwood with the drumming band etc and the food was lovely. I got some gorgeous stuff at the market. I also heard great things about the cookery demonstrations my mother claims she got loads of free dinners and receipies out of them! I agree there could have been better promotion/ advertising but I would definately like to see it happening again next year.


  • #10
    magnumlady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    I saw a lot of advertising for it.
    Every shop I went into had a poster up or leaflets about it.
    It was in the local papers too and on Sligo Today.

    I think there should be a regular market at Rockwood Parade, there was a great atmosphere there (and there were lots of free samples to try). It was great to see the town busy.

    I felt sorry for the Sligo Concert Band trying to play on the pavement in O'Connell Street and people trying to listen from across the road with cars going by.


  • #11
    tuppence
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,130 ✭✭✭tuppence


    magnumlady wrote: »
    I saw a lot of advertising for it.
    Every shop I went into had a poster up or leaflets about it.
    It was in the local papers too and on Sligo Today.

    I think there should be a regular market at Rockwood Parade, there was a great atmosphere there (and there were lots of free samples to try). It was great to see the town busy.

    I felt sorry for the Sligo Concert Band trying to play on the pavement in O'Connell Street and people trying to listen from across the road with cars going by.

    RTE TV covered (Eileen Magner anyway) it at least once.


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  • #12
    Mrs.T
    Closed Accounts Posts: 486 ✭✭Mrs.T


    One week before it started, they announced on facebook that they had just got the posters from the printers. Surely you would get that arranged way before to get it distributed. If I didn't see it on FB I wouldn't have known it was happening. The Mad Hatters Tea Party was brilliant for the wee ones. It was a bit hairy at the market with the cars reversing everywhere.


  • #13
    redarmyblues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    i kept my distance cos of the samba drummers, that noise goes through me.


  • #14
    ge_ch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭ge_ch


    magnumlady wrote: »
    I had a look at the market. It wasn't anything like the French market......plus 3 euro for a cupcake is way too expensive.
    There was no one to stop cars that were trying to drive down Rockwood parade, so there was a few near misses with cars and kids.

    in the place i work we got big piles of flyers and business cards brought in every day, but there was no real helpfull information on it about locations and times. my friend came from dublin and checked the website to find out where the market was, again no information, no map nothing. we had the stand at the market selling the cupcakes (2 euro or 6 for 10euro), we were told by the organisers to drive down rockwood parade. they didnt give us any information before hand about where to park where to set up or anything. were also told there would be over 30 stalls saturday and sunday. clearly not the case. the organisation would need to be improved for next year they were facing lots of problems too: http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=8267


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