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Non Drinking activities for St Paddy's?

  • 13-03-2012 11:24PM
    #1
    Xim1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 17 ✭


    Hi all ,
    I am new in town and a non drinker :) any sugesstions of how can I get the most out of my time in Ireland without needing to go to the pub?

    Cheers X.


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  • #2
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    Xim1 wrote: »
    Hi all ,
    I am new in town and a non drinker :) any sugesstions of how can I get the most out of my time in Ireland without needing to go to the pub?

    Cheers X.


    Go see the parade in the city centre (of dublin)


  • #3
    TreesAreCrowd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭TreesAreCrowd


    ****


  • #4
    The Snipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭The Snipe


    If your in Dublin, I hear heroin is quite popular, you could try that instead.


  • #5
    Roadtrippin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭Roadtrippin


    Knitting or crocheting seems to be all the rage these days... especially on Paddys day with green wool.

    Seriously though, if you have a backyard/balcony, I would suggest a BBQ if the weather holds up :) If you don't have one, get a disposable one!


  • #6
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    pitch and put up in the alsaa,never many around on paddy day so you can get a few rounds in


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  • #7
    Captain Darling
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    If you are not drinking, i'd recommend staying at home. The country will be full of pissed up ejits.


  • #8
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Go to the Off-Licence instead! Knacker drinking (or just normal drinking if your in Dublin) is what St Patrick's day is all about


  • #9
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    Stay indoors and wait until it all blows over.


  • #10
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Xim1 wrote: »
    Hi all ,
    I am new in town and a non drinker :) any sugesstions of how can I get the most out of my time in Ireland without needing to go to the pub?

    Cheers X.

    WHHHHAAAATTTTT TOOOOOWWWWNNNNN....???????? Because you obviously CAN'T mean Dublin.....

    Sorry... running joke around here....

    Seriously, though....
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1015

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #11
    TreesAreCrowd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭TreesAreCrowd


    Captain Darling wrote: »
    If you are not drinking, i'd recommend staying at home. The country will be full of pissed up ejits.
    Yes, seriously this.

    The cities and towns will be full of messy drunken cúnts who will cause trouble and wreak havoc. Every knacker in Dublin heads into the city centre and causes a mess.

    It's not worth it and I genuinely feel terrible for any tourist coming here to enjoy "St.Pattys Day".


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  • #12
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    designated driver for your mates/randomers?


  • #13
    tvnutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,790 ✭✭✭tvnutz


    Xim1 wrote: »
    Hi all ,
    I am new in town and a non drinker :) any sugesstions of how can I get the most out of my time in Ireland without needing to go to the pub?

    Cheers X.

    Go home


  • #14
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Xim1 wrote: »
    Hi all ,
    I am new in town and a non drinker :) any sugesstions of how can I get the most out of my time in Ireland without needing to go to the pub?

    Cheers X.

    you're picking a seriously bad day to want to do something and not drink. there's a few things on though - look here.
    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Go to the Off-Licence instead! Knacker drinking (or just normal drinking if your in Dublin) is what St Patrick's day is all about

    :confused:
    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    WHHHHAAAATTTTT TOOOOOWWWWNNNNN....???????? Because you obviously CAN'T mean Dublin.....

    Sorry... running joke around here....

    his location is down as Dublin.


  • #15
    leggit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭leggit


    stay at home, parade is rubbish and it will just be drunken people falling around all day/night

    5k race through city centre on the 18th is good, did it last year but can't this year otherwise would defo do it.


  • #16
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    TreesAreCrowd wrote: »
    Yes, seriously this.

    The cities and towns will be full of messy drunken cúnts who will cause trouble and wreak havoc. Every knacker in Dublin heads into the city centre and causes a mess.

    It's not worth it and I genuinely feel terrible for any tourist coming here to enjoy "St.Pattys Day".

    Ridiculous.

    I know plenty of foreigners who make it to Dublin every year for St. Patrick's weekend because they enjoy it so much.

    I head to Dublin most years too to mingle with them and enjoy the craic it has to bring. Stop generalising. Not everyone feels the need to 'wreak havoc' after a few drinks ffs.


  • #17
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    stupidusername wrote: »


    his location is down as Dublin.

    Hence the reference to the running joke. I guess it's lost on you!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #18
    tdv123
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭tdv123


    A nice of game scrable.


  • #19
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Wait until people get drunk then beat/rob them. It's all the rage in Dublin I hear.
    Or check this thread out.


  • #20
    TreesAreCrowd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭TreesAreCrowd


    ShiverinEskimo wrote: »
    Ridiculous.

    I know plenty of foreigners who make it to Dublin every year for St. Patrick's weekend because they enjoy it so much.

    I head to Dublin most years too to mingle with them and enjoy the craic it has to bring. Stop generalising. Not everyone feels the need to 'wreak havoc' after a few drinks ffs.
    Yeah well anywhere, even when it's crawling with drunken knacker kids in the middle of the afternoon, beats Dundalk, doesn't it? I'd say it comes across as a sophisticated metropolitan utopia in comparison to the stuff that does down in your neck of the woods.

    Dublin during Paddy's day is an absolute nightmare. The pubs are to the brim, the publicans rip everyone off and outside the pubs are drunks making a mess of themselves and everything around them.


  • #21
    stupidusername
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    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Hence the reference to the running joke. I guess it's lost on you!

    ah I get ya now. see, I get jokes :D


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  • #22
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Go for a swim.


  • #23
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    Cocaine :cool:


  • #24
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    TreesAreCrowd wrote: »
    Yeah well anywhere, even when it's crawling with drunken knacker kids in the middle of the afternoon, beats Dundalk, doesn't it? I'd say it comes across as a sophisticated metropolitan utopia in comparison to the stuff that does down in your neck of the woods.

    Dublin during Paddy's day is an absolute nightmare. The pubs are to the brim, the publicans rip everyone off and outside the pubs are drunks making a mess of themselves and everything around them.

    Ah the old slag where I'm from line now.

    You best be sure to stay indoors and lock up tight for the long weekend so you don't dare mix with the great unwashed out having a good time.

    Just what this country needs - more snobs.


  • #25
    TreesAreCrowd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭TreesAreCrowd


    ShiverinEskimo wrote: »
    Ah the old slag where I'm from line now.

    You best be sure to stay indoors and lock up tight for the long weekend so you don't dare mix with the great unwashed out having a good time.

    Just what this country needs - more snobs.
    Yeah 'cause the country really needs a day where people, including children, go into the city centers and towns and get out of control drunk, causing trouble and damage?

    Having a good time, my arse. You have people who go to the parade and are hugely disappointed, and people who go into pubs and get out of their face drunk and either forget what happened (therefore, by default and until proven otherwise, a great night apparently), cause themselves or others problems or leave a mess for someone else to clear up.

    Typical oul OIreland though, right? If you don't get off your face drunk or criticize others for doing so, you're a killjoy, of course! I mean I've lived in Dublin all my life, I know what the city center is like on Patrick's day and yet I've some clown from down the country telling me I should like the behaviour that takes place there or else I'm a snob.

    Anyway, again, of course it seems good to you, you're from Dundalk.


  • #26
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭philstar


    Xim1 wrote: »
    Hi all ,
    I am new in town and a non drinker :) any sugesstions of how can I get the most out of my time in Ireland without needing to go to the pub?

    Cheers X.

    you can't be serious ?? :pac:


  • #27
    starbelgrade
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    tdv123 wrote: »
    A nice of game scrable.

    I think you're missing a letter.


  • #28
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Saturday is the opening qualifying round of this year's Formula 1 season with the Australian GP. Stay at home and watch that instead.
    Also you'ld wanna wake up early on Sunday to catch the race at 6am if you wanna watch it live, which you should cuz it's gonna be a cracker!

    Time much better spent than going into town which is gonna be full of drunk people stumbling around...


  • #29
    Adamantium
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    Street cleaner


  • #30
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    club finals in croke park, then find a decent place just outside the city centre for the rugby in the evening.
    i'm a non drinker, and would avoid the city centre except for the night before when it's good craic. it's seriously messy in the few hours after the parade too. all the scummers are drinking on the streets, and the tourists seem to like packing themselves into temple bar.
    there's usually some stuff on at merrion square too.


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  • #31
    travelledpengy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭travelledpengy


    Moose hunting


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