Ireland's First Motorway Service Station

gizmo · 15-09-2010 11:46PM

Fan-****ing-tastic, 300 new jobs created and all people have to offer is sarcasm. :rolleyes:

Celly Smunt · 15-09-2010 11:47PM

furiousox wrote: »

Ha! Well at least our prime minister doesn't have a drink problem...so there!

at least our taoiseach isn't a crazy right wing capitalist.

oh wait...

Celly Smunt · 15-09-2010 11:48PM

OisinT wrote: »

Yeah, almost ran out of diesel due to that... was thinking to myself "surely there will be one soon..."

no such luck

happened to me aswell,had to turn off at kilkenny :mad:

furiousox · 15-09-2010 11:54PM

gizmo wrote: »

Fan-****ing-tastic, 300 new jobs created and all people have to offer is sarcasm. :rolleyes:

Um...have you been in the AH forum before?

doolox · 15-09-2010 11:54PM

I have taken to carrying a spare 5l can of petrol with me to get around on our service-less motorway network.

Initially my wife had misgivings about the dangers about carrying extra petrol in case of a rear-end crash but after a few anxious trips to Galway, Belfast and Waterford she has come around to my way of thinking after we had to use th can to get to known supply of petrol.

Many rural petrol stations have closed down since being bypassed by the new Motorways, many more close down early and supply outside the major cities with their 24 hour stations is no longer reliable especially when travelling at night.

I always fill up when going on any trip over 100 miles now since outside Dublin you cannot rely on an all day supply.

NoseyMike2010 · 15-09-2010 11:58PM

Ireland = Bedrock until 2 years ago!!!!! (See attached picture!!!!)

gizmo · 15-09-2010 11:59PM

furiousox wrote: »

Um...have you been in the AH forum before?

Oh yea, but I thought even this place had some standards.

LizT · 16-09-2010 12:00AM

Was in the new service station, it's actually quite nice. It has a shop, a Costa, a Burger King and a buffet/restaurant. It's a lot like the ones in England.

Celly Smunt · 16-09-2010 12:01AM

lizt wrote: »

Was in the new service station, it's actually quite nice. It has a shop, a Costa, a Burger King and a buffet/restaurant. It's a lot like the ones in England.

just more...Irish?

Koloman · 16-09-2010 12:03AM

lizt wrote: »

Was in the new service station, it's actually quite nice. It has a shop, a Costa, a Burger King and a buffet/restaurant. It's a lot like the ones in England.

Just a lot more expensive probably.

LizT · 16-09-2010 12:03AM

pmcmahon wrote: »

just more...Irish?

I think the fact that it's overdue by about 20 years makes it Irish.

fonecrusher1 · 16-09-2010 12:07AM

gizmo wrote: »

Fan-****ing-tastic, 300 new jobs created and all people have to offer is sarcasm. :rolleyes:

furiousox wrote: »

Um...have you been in the AH forum before?

More like....have you been in Ireland before.:pac:

furiousox · 16-09-2010 12:08AM

lizt wrote: »

Was in the new service station, it's actually quite nice. It has a shop, a Costa, a Burger King and a buffet....

Mmmm...Bon Appetit!

OPENROAD · 16-09-2010 12:12AM

lizt wrote: »

Was in the new service station, it's actually quite nice. It has a shop, a Costa, a Burger King and a buffet/restaurant. It's a lot like the ones in England.

Did you sample the produce in each of the establishments

fonecrusher1 · 16-09-2010 12:13AM

lizt wrote: »

Was in the new service station, it's actually quite nice. It has a shop, a Costa, a Burger King and a buffet/restaurant.

Sounds ok to me.

AH response: :rolleyes: pfff!...sure it'll never work, who buys petrol???:rolleyes:.

Father Ted reference - loads of thanks.

LizT · 16-09-2010 12:14AM

OPENROAD wrote: »

Did you sample the produce in each of the establishments

Nope, was in a foul mood because I realised I left my handbag in Dublin, so we had to turn back and get it:mad:

Son Of A Vidic · 16-09-2010 12:15AM

A bit late isn't it? But then again we are the country that invented the two laned motorway.

FreudianSlippers · 16-09-2010 12:17AM

doolox wrote: »

I have taken to carrying a spare 5l can of petrol with me to get around on our service-less motorway network.

Initially my wife had misgivings about the dangers about carrying extra petrol in case of a rear-end crash but after a few anxious trips to Galway, Belfast and Waterford she has come around to my way of thinking after we had to use th can to get to known supply of petrol.

Many rural petrol stations have closed down since being bypassed by the new Motorways, many more close down early and supply outside the major cities with their 24 hour stations is no longer reliable especially when travelling at night.

I always fill up when going on any trip over 100 miles now since outside Dublin you cannot rely on an all day supply.

5l of diesel, a bottle of cold diet coke and a tube of smarties!

Best be prepared.

FreudianSlippers · 16-09-2010 12:18AM

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Sounds ok to me.

AH response: :rolleyes: pfff!...sure it'll never work, who buys petrol???:rolleyes:.

Father Ted reference - loads of thanks.

Not gonna thank you now!

FarmerGreen · 16-09-2010 02:07AM

medicman2009 wrote: »

A bit late isn't it? But then again we are the country that invented the two laned motorway.

And the bog.
And the overpriced sambo.
All together in one place now.

ChopShop · 16-09-2010 07:40AM

about blank wrote: »

Has anyone here been into it yet?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0915/roads.html

"Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:20
The country's first motorway service area opened at Lusk on the M1 in Co Dublin today."

Lies!

I was there on Tuesday evening.

IvyTheTerrible · 16-09-2010 08:36AM

Most other countries build these service stations at the same time as the motorway, cos it's, you know, logical?

Front page news my eye. Front page news on the incompetence of planners more like.

Noffles · 16-09-2010 08:49AM

This is great news allows me to continue to slag this country off... with laughable stuff like this no one has a good response!

SuperGrover · 16-09-2010 08:58AM

Oh, FFS, it's a bleedin' garage on the side of a road. To be embarrassed or otherwise emotionally inflamed by it's existence, or lack of heretofore, is laughable.

CreepingDeath · 16-09-2010 09:13AM

When are we getting drive-thru toilets ?

gurramok · 16-09-2010 09:13AM

I'll miss taking a p1ss at the side of the road in Meath & Louth :mad:

up for anything · 16-09-2010 09:20AM

flyton5 wrote: »

Have a look at some of the metal covers protecting wires or whatever on footpaths. A lot of them still say P&T on them. Posts and Telegraphs...backwards as fúck...

Would you prefer that some tosser somewhere had authorised a purchase and installation order for some shiny, new ones at a cost of €75M and then gone ove budget by €20M!!

If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

16-09-2010 10:21AM

brummytom wrote: »

You didn't have services until today?

Jesus Christ

Every post you see here is done by telegraph. It takes ages to post something, let alone quote like I just did.

And if we want to start a new "thread" it takes a week :eek:

16-09-2010 10:23AM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

When are we getting drive-thru toilets ?

We kind of have them already although they're called mobile toilets i.e. when you're on a bus, you just open the door as it's moving and piss away!

LizT · 16-09-2010 12:19PM

wernstrom! wrote: »

"Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:20
The country's first motorway service area opened at Lusk on the M1 in Co Dublin today."

Lies!

I was there on Tuesday evening.

I was there on Monday morning. There were signs up saying testing phase though.

Ireland's First Motorway Service Station

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