Olympic Torch relay - Are you looking forward to its arrival, and will you be there?

LordSutch · 30-05-2012 10:58AM #1

Seven Olympic torchbearers will run with the torch throught the streets of Dublin on Wednesday the 6th of June.
The torchbearers will carry the flame, which arrives in Howth at 9.30am from a border handover, through the streets of Dublin.
The ceremony finishes with the lighting of a commemorative Olympic cauldron at the bandstand in St Stephen’s Green at 11.50am.

Torchbearers include Irish gold medallists Ronnie Delany and Michael Carruth, Jedward, Kilkenny hurler Henry Shefflin, retired rugby player Shane Horgan and Dublin footballer Bernard Brogan. The flame began its journey around Britain last week in Cornwall and thousands have turned out to see it en route.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/torch-relay/9275035/London-2012-Olympic-torch-relay-route-map-street-by-street.html

http://www.olympicsport.ie/news/5024-all-the-olympic-torchbearers.html

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/5/24/1337879718606/Will.I.Am-carries-the-Oly-009.jpg

flutterflye · 30-05-2012 11:00AM

Think I'll be washing my hair that day.

Nothingbetter2d · 30-05-2012 11:01AM

flutterflye wrote: »

Think I'll be washing my hair that day.

use the torch to heat the water to wash your hair

chin_grin · 30-05-2012 11:04AM

Ha! Wouldn't it be gas if it p!ssed rain and it put it out?

Oh I AM a giddy goat!

Biggins · 30-05-2012 11:04AM

No. Pass.

Cookie_Monster · 30-05-2012 11:04AM

LordSutch wrote: »

The torchbearers will carry the flame, which arrives in Howth at 9.30am from a border handover

Has the border moved south since I left

Madam · 30-05-2012 11:07AM

It passes just a few minutes away from me in Glasgow but nope I won't be here to see it(on my way to Oz that day:)), not that I'd be bothered anyway.

Nothingbetter2d · 30-05-2012 11:07AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Has the border moved south since I left

no we joined germany... we are now known as west west germany... kenny signed us over but told noone

schlecht gesprochenes Deutsch ist nun unser offizieller langauge

SEPT 23 1989 · 30-05-2012 11:07AM

It might never be in Dublin again

so of course i won't go and see it

LordSutch · 30-05-2012 11:09AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Has the border moved south since I left

Yes, its been specially moved for the Olympics to save the runners from calf strain

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Actually I got that quote from the Irish Times (see last paragraph), http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0526/1224316733049.html
So I can only presume that the flame comes down on the train to Howth Junction for the handover?

Pompey Magnus · 30-05-2012 11:10AM

I won't be watching the Olympics so I sure as hell won't be going out of my way to watch the least interesting aspect of the entire event.

gabsdot40 · 30-05-2012 11:10AM

I'm going to keep the kids home from school ad bring them in to see it. I've no doubt they won't appreciate it. My son is 8 and at the moment everything is lame. But i'm bringing them anyway damn it!!!!

dmcronin · 30-05-2012 11:11AM

Jedward. Why?

Are cartwheels an Olympic event now?

phasers · 30-05-2012 11:11AM

I don't see the appeal in watching a fella carry a torch down the road

im invisible · 30-05-2012 11:11AM

Did anyone go see it the last time it was here?

CardBordWindow · 30-05-2012 11:12AM

Going to see a fire......in this weather!!? It'd be one thing if it was winter.

Run_to_da_hills · 30-05-2012 11:30AM

The Olympic Torch has its roots in Nazi Germany.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/16/torch-nazis-lit-olympic-flame

paul_mcshane · 30-05-2012 11:32AM

the olympics has fallen in stature in a big way , it was once the top sporting event by some distance , track and field has always been the flagship of the olympics and track and field has slid down the pecking order of spectator sports this past fifteen years

the olympics is one big who cares

Immaculate Pasta · 30-05-2012 11:33AM

Why when the Olympics is being hosted by Britain, is the Olympic Torch visiting a foreign country?

Run_to_da_hills · 30-05-2012 11:41AM

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

Why when the Olympics is being hosted by Britain, is the Olympic Torch visiting a foreign country?

This also happened with the Tour de France in 1998.

As long as they can keep the games itself out of this country I am fine about it.

Jester252 · 30-05-2012 11:48AM

Jedward, Kilkenny hurler Henry Shefflin, retired rugby player Shane Horgan and Dublin footballer Bernard Brogan

Good to see that they are a last getting recognition for their life time work with the Olympics.

saintsaltynuts · 30-05-2012 11:57AM

No one gives a shiny sh1te the Euro's are on.

ejmaztec · 30-05-2012 11:58AM

We're not allowed to burn stuff, so why should they get away with it? They should be arrested.

Anita Blow · 30-05-2012 12:15PM

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

Why when the Olympics is being hosted by Britain, is the Olympic Torch visiting a foreign country?

We're far too small to ever host an event like the Olympics so this would be the only chance we'd get to have the torch in our country. We share a border with NI so while it's in Belfast it'd be relatively simple to run it down to Dublin and then back to England.
I'm not going to complain. It's a fair enough argument by the Olympic Council of Ireland and it'll be good exposure for the country.

im invisible · 30-05-2012 12:57PM

Shure we hosted the Special Olympics in 2003 (i think), and the olympic torch did a tour of the country,

Pompey Magnus · 30-05-2012 02:56PM

Anita Blow wrote: »

it'll be good exposure for the country.

No it won't, nobody abroad will pay any attention whatsoever to the fact it will be here for a few hours.

The same argument was used about how great it was for the Queen and Obama to visit last year, I would be amazed if ten tourists in total decided they would come to Ireland based on those visits.

LordSutch · 30-05-2012 03:06PM

I heard from a friend that Paul McGrath will be doing one leg of the relay here in Dublin (a real footballing hero to those of who remember).

old_aussie · 30-05-2012 03:16PM

F*ck the olympics, and tourch bearers,

They're only in it for the money

Zebra3 · 30-05-2012 04:09PM

It's amazing the crap some people get excited over.

biko · 30-05-2012 04:13PM

Ok this will sound political but why bring the torch to Dublin if the games are in the UK.
Ok, it's Dublin and all but still?

Oh and no, I won't be there.

Logical Fallacy · 30-05-2012 04:15PM

biko wrote: »

Ok this will sound political but why bring the torch to Dublin if the games are in the UK.
Ok, it's Dublin and all but still?

Oh and no, I won't be there.

The torch always travels through multiple countries during the relay.

Olympic Torch relay - Are you looking forward to its arrival, and will you be there?

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