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Why are there so many hippies in Galway?

franktheplank

Hippies, crusties, new agey types, call em what you like, why does Galway (and West Cork for that matter) attract so many of them?

Is it a physical aspect of these places or some historical factor? Any ideas?

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TheBody

I've noticed a lot of hippie drum circles there recently too op. :pac:

franktheplank

TheBody wrote: »

I've noticed a lot of hippie drum circles there recently too op. :pac:

Thats the worst kind of circle too.

Nodin

franktheplank wrote: »

Hippies, crusties, new agey types, call em what you like, why does Galway (and West Cork for that matter) attract so many of them?

Is it a physical aspect of these places or some historical factor? Any ideas?

...they like the vibe. I remember lads going there in the early 90's, but I thought the whole tribe would be largely extinct by now. Good to know theres still a few left.

TeddyTedson

Hippies, traditionally tend to home towards the west.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Frank.....have you ever pondered that you may just be a hippy magnet?

keith16

They took over after Galway was liberated from the Indians

starbelgrade

Many of them are English & come here with a romantic notion of moving to the West of Ireland to get away from it all, to a place where there's no traffic, no commercialism and is rural and isolated.

Lord knows why they stay though.

franktheplank

benwavner wrote: »

Frank.....have you ever pondered that you may just be a hippy magnet?

Oh, im not in Galway. I only go there under the most pressing circumstances.

TeddyTedson

starbelgrade wrote: »

Many of them are English & come here with a romantic notion of moving to the West of Ireland to get away from it all, to a place where there's no traffic, no commercialism and is rural and isolated.

Lord knows why they stay though.

Leitrim would be ideal.

Does it have anything to do with the gathering?

starbelgrade

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Leitrim would be ideal.

Does it have anything to do with the gathering?

Leitrim. The only county in Ireland that doesn't have any traffic lights.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

franktheplank wrote: »

Oh, im not in Galway. I only go there under the most pressing circumstances.

It doesnt matter.........if you are a hippy magnet, they just come to you. Have you checked outside yet tonight?

Local-womanizer

starbelgrade wrote: »

Leitrim. The only county in Ireland that doesn't have any traffic lights.

Give them some credit, they have 1 set!

Spiritual

Everyone knows and stop pretending that ye don't. It's the mushrooms, plentiful and potent.

TeddyTedson

starbelgrade wrote: »

Leitrim. The only county in Ireland that doesn't have any traffic lights.

An absolute disgrace in this day and age. Surely a TD down there could sort that out.

franktheplank

benwavner wrote: »

It doesnt matter.........if you are a hippy magnet, they just come to you. Have you checked outside yet tonight?

I know how to keep safe, I've made a cloak from the jobs pages of newspapers. I find they flee in terror.

starbelgrade

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Give them some credit, they have 1 set!

Not any more - They used to have traffic lights in Carrick-on-Shannon, but they were replaced a while back with a pedestrian crossing.

galwayrush

TeddyTedson wrote: »

An absolute disgrace in this day and age. Surely a TD down there could sort that out.

A Hipple TD? :DThey have one down the road in Roscommon...:D

Local-womanizer

starbelgrade wrote: »

Not any more - They used to have traffic lights in Carrick-on-Shannon, but they were replaced a while back with a pedestrian crossing.

OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!

Links234

how do you define a hippie?

starbelgrade

Why do hippies wave their arms around when they dance?

To keep the music out of their eyes, man.

Intensive Care Bear

Links234 wrote: »

how do you define a hippie?

I used to get called a hippy for wearing a Slayer t-shirt when i was 15 so god only knows what qualifies you to be one these days.

Triangular

Sun sets in the west.

franktheplank

Links234 wrote: »

how do you define a hippie?

Think irritating, think wool, think very, very pretentious, think wool, think utterly useless, think lots of bad hair, think healing stones, think perma-culture.

HeyThereDeliah

starbelgrade wrote: »

Leitrim. The only county in Ireland that doesn't have any traffic lights.

No need for traffic lights they don't have cars yet.

HeyThereDeliah

Links234 wrote: »

how do you define a hippie?

From a distance cause they smell.

frozenfrozen

Horticulture in NUIG

flogging a dead horse

Claddagh and Connemara people like hippies and hippies in turn like Connemara people and people from the Claddagh. An un-usual combo, bit like Fr Jack and the rabbitts!

Butterface

franktheplank wrote: »

Think irritating, think wool, think very, very pretentious, think wool, think utterly useless, think lots of bad hair, think healing stones, think perma-culture.

Point to where the hippie touched you on this hemp doll..

Ah no, they add to the laid back vibe in the city. They bring big woolly hair and colourfully dyed hemp clothing to the rainy, grey city. I don't find them particularly offensive.

franktheplank

Butterface wrote: »

Point to where the hippie touched you on this hemp doll..

Nope, like i said i know how to protect myself.

And there'll be nothing going the other way either, shudder, I saw this hippy chick once with armpits more hairy and smelly than my own, because it's natural man, barf barf barf.

Slidey

There is traffic lights in Manorhamilton now as far as I remember.

There's also loadsa hippies out that way