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The Ballybunion thread

snow scorpion

I was in Ballybunion 20 years ago and have happy memories of the village.

I'd love to hear what it's like today and how much it has changed.

The only recent picture I've seen on the world wide interweb is this:

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fryup

will someone tell the good people of ballybunion sea & rescue to get that webcam up and running again

UpTheAshes

McMunn's restaurant has one but it's not a view of the beach like the Sea Rescue webcam. Here's the link-

http://www.mcmunns.com/cam.htm

fryup wrote: »

will someone tell the good people of ballybunion sea & rescue to get that webcam up and running again

Yittisay

hi there, just wondering if there is anywhere in ballyb with strong wifi? few of the bars seem to have wifi but the signals seem to be weak, not sure if tis an issue with coverage in the area? thanks.

boomkatalog

Yittisay wrote: »

hi there, just wondering if there is anywhere in ballyb with strong wifi? few of the bars seem to have wifi but the signals seem to be weak, not sure if tis an issue with coverage in the area? thanks.

I think the latter

Yittisay

tis pretty poor anywhere I've been - if I was running a business and payin for wifi I'd be pretty annoyed with the service they are getting.

snow scorpion

Don't I remember hearing or reading something about the escorts for the Roses were getting some sort of training in Ballybunion and that RTE was sending a camera crew to film it all? I'm hoping to catch a glimpse of the village today or tomorrow on the RTE player.

Squaredude

I think that might be on tonight

RiderOnTheStorm

snow scorpion wrote: »

Don't I remember hearing or reading something about the escorts for the Roses were getting some sort of training in Ballybunion and that RTE was sending a camera crew to film it all? I'm hoping to catch a glimpse of the village today or tomorrow on the RTE player.

Yup, we had them down here for 2 days. It was a bonding and boot-camp. They (the escorts) were brought out on kayaks, and surfing, and the Sea Rescue took them out on their rescue boat, and they did a bit of abseiling on the castle green cliff ...... oh, and they played tag-rugby against a quality ladies team too! (aplogies to the ladies, I dont know what team they were from .... something like the Irish or Munster team, or something).

Anyway, I heard that the escorts tale is on this evening (Monday) too .... video recorder Sky+ set to capture that!

snow scorpion

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Yup, we had them down here for 2 days. It was a bonding and boot-camp. They (the escorts) were brought out on kayaks, and surfing, and the Sea Rescue took them out on their rescue boat, and they did a bit of abseiling on the castle green cliff ...... oh, and they played tag-rugby against a quality ladies team too! (aplogies to the ladies, I dont know what team they were from .... something like the Irish or Munster team, or something).

Anyway, I heard that the escorts tale is on this evening (Monday) too .... video recorder Sky+ set to capture that!

Excellent! RTE Player, here I come!

RiderOnTheStorm

Watched the ROT last night, and yes indeed, our fair town is featured in the escorts story. The clip is about 70 mins into the 2nd part of the show. I think Ballyb looks great! The weather on the clip looks better than it was on the day!

looks like the escorts had a great time .......

snow scorpion

RTE uploaded the show without breaks so I figured the 70-minute mark would be about 55 minutes into the 1 hour, 42 minute show but I can't find the Ballybunion part. Looks like I'm going to have to watch the entire thing.

snow scorpion

Ballybunion doesn't seem to be in RTE's upload of the Rose of Tralee - unless it was there very briefly during the segment where are the Roses were touring Kerry together.

RiderOnTheStorm

...leave it with me , I will put something together for y'all :-)

RiderOnTheStorm

OK .... the segment was on after the Darwin Rose (Bridget Haines), she was the one who read Dathai the bedtime story while he lay on the bed .

If the RTE Player doesnt have it, then check out my recording (done on iphone while Sky+ plays on the telly) ...... apologies for the quality (on sound there is just DOS saying at the beginning that these escorts are prob chancers, then Thin Lizzy / Boys Are Back In Town soundtrack, then DOS saying that they were def chancers!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw89NUP3JTU

snow scorpion

Thanks for the YouTube video, rider. I don't think that was on the RTE Player. (But, to be fair to RTE, I wasn't actually watching the video, I was listening to it.) But I didn't hear anyone mention Ballybunion.

Maybe it's on the other video. RTE has two Rose of Tralee videos. One is about 40 minutes and the other is about 100 minutes. I only checked the 100-minute one. I give the other a listen and keep my ears sharp for someone mentioning the Darwin Rose.

snow scorpion

There are six Rose of Tralee videos on the RTE Player. :eek: And I can now eliminate the one with the Texas Rose (the green gown) in preview image. Ballybunion is not in that one either.

Two down, four to go.

Howard Juneau

snow scorpion wrote: »

There are six Rose of Tralee videos on the RTE Player. :eek: And I can now eliminate the one with the Texas Rose (the green gown) in preview image. Ballybunion is not in that one either.

Two down, four to go.

Could you not have looked on YouTube? The segment is sure to be there & no further need to trawl through the rte player

snow scorpion

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Could you not have looked on YouTube? The segment is sure to be there & no further need to trawl through the rte player

All I see at YouTube is rider's video.

snow scorpion

Found it!

The Ballybunion section starts at 1:07:15.

http://www.rte.ie/player/us/show/10191391/

I like the "I ♥ Ballyb" t-shirts.

RiderOnTheStorm

Nice one Snow!

There are a couple more vids on youtube now ..... good quality .... this one is funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fdYVRFstts

RiderOnTheStorm

..and the bit from the TV (with a few subtitles!) is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWU7wFttfNs

snow scorpion

Aww, the one from RTE has been taken down.

I should have made a copy of it while it was up.

snow scorpion

Rider, did you see this one? I especially like the choice of Song for Ireland.

And that shot at 1:25 with the light from the setting sun! The urge to get back to Ballybunion is completely filling my mind now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLvhSFg3OFE

0utcast

This might interest folk. Its one of the the Wild Atlantic Way promotion videos, and this one is by local historian Danny Holahan. It has Ballybunion in it (the rest is North Kerry, so its relevant to the Kerry site)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7zYjkq64qI

RiderOnTheStorm

some photos from today .... cracking weather!!

View of Ballyb from part way up Knockanore

View from same spot, but looking to Beal and Clare across the Shannon

RiderOnTheStorm

a few more photos ....

This is the old bakery building on the way into town (opp Buckleys petrol station)

And this is some street art (opp Holleys pub)

RiderOnTheStorm

And we got some new sign-posts too ....

snow scorpion

^ Cloudless skies in Ballybunion!

RiderOnTheStorm

Yeah, we had mixed weather lately .... but there were some very-late-summer days where it was actually bright, dry & warm! Some good sunsets too ....

RiderOnTheStorm

This weeks newsletter .....

http://www.ballybunionnews.com/Issue%2031%20October%204th.pdf