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annual ice rinks

  • 11-11-2013 11:39PM
    #1
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Has anyone gone ice skating yet in these rinks that pop up during Christmas time?

    I have not been to any yet. Actually I have never been on any of these rinks in ireland.


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  • #2
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    They are very good.

    Unless you are dating a ice queen. Still good. Just no ride after.


  • #3
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    I'm one of those people whose ice-skating technique is the "furiously stamping the ice, hunched over, looking straight at the nearest handrail".


  • #4
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Do they get over crowded during the skating session?


  • #5
    cruais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭cruais


    cena wrote: »
    Do they get over crowded during the skating session?

    Yes alot of the time by the 'knack-attacks'.


  • #6
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    I used to be real good on roller blades and expected it to be the same. Came home with a sore back sore everything and felt pretty embarrassed trying to show off. Not as easy as it looks


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  • #7
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Sad.


  • #8
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Sad.

    Why is that?


  • #9
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭TheBody


    They are great craic. Highly recommend.


  • #10
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    If they get so many people this time of year, would it not be smart to leave a few open all year round


  • #11
    LoganRice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭LoganRice


    They're mostly enjoyable if you don't fall down, get rushed to the hospital and spend 6 months with a broken leg.


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  • #12
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    I think it helps if you have roller bladed or roller skated before whe on the ice


  • #13
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I once went to an ice-rink in Galway on a school outing.

    I say "ice-rink", it was a waxed marble floor.

    Christ, that was a shit day.


  • #14
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The one in Dundalk is supposed to be good craicc. Rumour has it that Sean Lock spent a good 4 hours trolling people a few years ago.. bumping into them while skating the wrong way and asking to have his photo taken with them :pac:


  • #15
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    My name is URL wrote: »
    The one in Dundalk is supposed to be good craicc. Rumour has it that Sean Locke spent a good 4 hours trolling people a few years ago.. bumping into them while skating the wrong way and asking to have his photo taken with them :pac:

    The dundalk one closed down 3 years ago, if your on about the ice dome


  • #16
    131spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    I was at the Dundrum one a few weeks back. I'm sure it's great craic if you're good at it. I ain't :P


  • #17
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    131spanner wrote: »
    I was at the Dundrum one a few weeks back. I'm sure it's great craic if you're good at it. I ain't :P

    How big was it?


  • #18
    Nova Obedient Barricade
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Nova Obedient Barricade


    Aren't a lot of rental skates dull anyway so you think you're useless at it when it's partly the skate as well


  • #19
    131spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    cena wrote: »
    How big was it?

    Erm... I'd imagine it was smaller than average but I haven't been skating very often. It had a hand-rail that went all the way round, which was enough for me :pac:


  • #20
    FreshKnickers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭FreshKnickers


    I went once. It was grand craic. I fell on my butt a couple of times.

    What? I never said it would be an interesing story...


  • #21
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Aren't a lot of rental skates dull anyway so you think you're useless at it when it's partly the skate as well

    nice of them to provide tools for the workmen to blame. :D


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  • #22
    Zamboni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,292 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    cena wrote: »
    If they get so many people this time of year, would it not be smart to leave a few open all year round

    They get customers purely because they are seasonal.
    It would take a shrewd business man to break even on a permanent full size rink.
    I reckon I'd pull it off with financial backing.
    :-D
    I can clean the ice myself...


  • #23
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Muise... wrote: »
    nice of them to provide tools for the workmen to blame. :D

    A guy comes down from belfast to sharpen the skates. He was in dundrum last week


  • #24
    Zamboni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,292 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Aren't a lot of rental skates dull anyway so you think you're useless at it when it's partly the skate as well

    More to do with the fact that the sharpening machine is expensive and labour intensive.


  • #25
    djburchgrove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭djburchgrove


    The Tramyard bar in Dalkey is opening theirs on 23rd November. So you'll be able to go Ice Skating at midnight with pints! If that interests anyone :)


  • #26
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,598 ✭✭✭Duff


    My name is URL wrote: »
    The one in Dundalk is supposed to be good craicc. Rumour has it that Sean Lock spent a good 4 hours trolling people a few years ago.. bumping into them while skating the wrong way and asking to have his photo taken with them :pac:

    It really is a great laugh. Yeah, he was about last year acting the eejit. Sound as a pound too. The one in Dundalk is opening again this year on the 24th of this month.


  • #27
    Zamboni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,292 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    Duff wrote: »
    It really is a great laugh. Yeah, he was about last year acting the eejit. Sound as a pound too. The one in Dundalk is opening again this year on the 24th of this month.

    DKIT will lose their bollo# on it and planet will take a nice management fee and run.
    I'll give it two years tops :-D


  • #28
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,598 ✭✭✭Duff


    Zamboni wrote: »
    DKIT will lose their bollo# on it and planet will take a nice management fee and run.
    I'll give it two years tops :-D

    Eh, it's only there for a month or so at The Square each year. I'm not talking about the ice dome.


  • #29
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    There's been one in Galway for the last few years. They're good craic. Get drunk first and it's even better craic.


  • #30
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Cheap flight to Budapest will get you this, it's absolutely amazing. At one end the lads play soccer on the ice with skates and a hockey puck.

    http://www.jegkorongblog.hu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Varosliget-a-magasbol.jpg


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  • #31
    bigron2109
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,751 ✭✭✭bigron2109


    Been to the One in Smithfield, and found it a bit of craic with the missus. Although i did get kinda bored skating around in the same direction the whole time.


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