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Church bells..a blast from the past?

  • 06-04-2014 09:18AM
    #1
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    Moved to Saggart about a year ago but one thing about the village drives me nuts and that's the church bells.
    8.45 a.m on a Sunday morning and woken from my reverie for what feels like 5 minutes but is probably actually a minute of bong -bong-bong from the local church calling the faithful to mass.
    The bells go every day but I only really hear them at the weekend and at 6 pm on a weekday.Yip I can move as I only rent but as we all know decent rental properties are hard to find these days.
    I understand its quaint and tradition but its not 1950's Catholic Ireland anymore where people needed to be informed by bells that mass is starting cos they lack the ability to tell the time back then maybe.
    In this day and age does one really need to put up with this 'noise pollution'?


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  • #2
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Ear plugs?


  • #3
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Bells.


  • #4
    Paloma Pitiful Sewage
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Paloma Pitiful Sewage


    It's not something I've ever minded, liked it in spain


  • #5
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Close your windows.


  • #6
    Banjoxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    The epitome of a first world problem. The OP is renting, therefore moving will not be a problem.


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  • #7
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    The Bells are calling you to Mass, you should go, you might lose some of this uptightness. We're Catholics micks here, that's our identity. If you raised with it don't diss it, like Fianna Fail they did more good to this country than bad.


  • #8
    eyescreamcone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    When they are having their mass get a loudspeaker and blast them out of it.

    See how they like it.

    Bangers also do the job.


  • #9
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg92QpjRcJk
    :P


  • #10
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    anncoates wrote: »
    Close your windows.

    Soundproof the house maybe ..anyone got loads of egg cartons so I can soundproof the room?
    Sorta missing the point of the post ... would you wear earplugs or soundproof your house thinking 'a sure its my problem'.
    What right does the catholic church have to disturb non-catholic people with their bells? If a mosque was to start blasting bells in the area every morning they would quickly be silenced I'm sure.


  • #11
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    notnumber wrote: »
    Soundproof the house maybe ..anyone got loads of egg cartons so I can soundproof the room?
    Sorta missing the point of the post ... would you wear earplugs or soundproof your house thinking 'a sure its my problem'.
    What right does the catholic church have to disturb non-catholic people with their bells? If a mosque was to start blasting bells in the area every morning they would quickly be silenced I'm sure.


    Become a town crier and see what happens!


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  • #12
    The Backwards Man
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    notnumber wrote: »
    Soundproof the house maybe ..anyone got loads of egg cartons so I can soundproof the room?
    Sorta missing the point of the post ... would you wear earplugs or soundproof your house thinking 'a sure its my problem'.
    What right does the catholic church have to disturb non-catholic people with their bells? If a mosque was to start blasting bells in the area every morning they would quickly be silenced I'm sure.

    Is it the noise that's problem, or who's making it?


  • #13
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    Banjoxed wrote: »
    The epitome of a first world problem. The OP is renting, therefore moving will not be a problem.

    Yip I can move as I only rent but as we all know decent rental properties are hard neigh on impossible to find these days.


  • #14
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Is it the noise that's problem, or who's making it?

    Its the noise -not the religion.


  • #15
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    notnumber wrote: »
    Soundproof the house maybe ..anyone got loads of egg cartons so I can soundproof the room?
    Sorta missing the point of the post ... would you wear earplugs or soundproof your house thinking 'a sure its my problem'.
    What right does the catholic church have to disturb non-catholic people with their bells? If a mosque was to start blasting bells in the area every morning they would quickly be silenced I'm sure.

    For the record, I also live in that village and I can't recall the last time I heard the church bells so I presume your ears are more sensitive than mine.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The church was there first, so they don't have to stop ringing the bells for you.
    An RPG would sort the problem though. ;)


  • #17
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    Put away your trendy anti Catholicism. The Protestant churches are fair boys for ringing the bells as well. Were ye ever in around Christchurch on a Sunday morning? When living in London I used get up early on a Sunday and walk along through Fulham to Hammersmith and down by the Thames. The sounds of the ringing bells from the different churches were lovely before the hum of the city took over. Maybe you could move to Baghdad and start writing to the paper about the noise from the Mosque calling people to prayer?


  • #18
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    So based on the replies it seems this my issue and they have every right to wake up the neighborhood on a Sunday morning at 8.45 am.
    If you don't like get earplugs or move seems to be the consenus.
    They can ring the bells all day on a weekday because I am at work but on a weekend morning I would prefer not to hear them..ok rant over ,,as mentioned I only rent and one day I will move but I wondered do others find them annoying.


  • #19
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    notnumber wrote: »
    Its the noise -not the religion.

    Suck it up then, a minute every Sunday morning is miniscule compared to what many people have to put up with. How would you handle trains rattling, cars honking, cows mooing, sheep baaing? Or the smell of slurry or fish offal permeating through your walls?

    Many do and you don't hear them complaining.


  • #20
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    anncoates wrote: »
    For the record, I also live in that village and I can't recall the last time I heard the church bells so I presume your ears are more sensitive than mine.

    I cannot speculate as to your hearing levels or whereabouts you reside but I live on the main street just down from the cemetery ,,if you couldn't hear these bells then you might need to contact hidden hearing for a free hearing aid :)


  • #21
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Suck it up then, a minute every Sunday morning is miniscule compared to what many people have to put up with. How would you handle trains rattling, cars honking, cows mooing, sheep baaing? Or the smell of slurry or fish offal permeating through your walls?

    Many do and you don't hear them complaining.

    Well that's quite true many are in a worse position than I,some folks don't even have houses and live on the streets :eek:


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  • #22
    Arthur Beesley
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    Bloody campanologists, always ringing their bells.


  • #23
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    Santa Cruz wrote: »
    Put away your trendy anti Catholicism. The Protestant churches are fair boys for ringing the bells as well. Were ye ever in around Christchurch on a Sunday morning? When living in London I used get up early on a Sunday and walk along through Fulham to Hammersmith and down by the Thames. The sounds of the ringing bells from the different churches were lovely before the hum of the city took over. Maybe you could move to Baghdad and start writing to the paper about the noise from the Mosque calling people to prayer?

    Quit trying to imply stuff ..if it was a synagogue or a buddha temple the issue would be the same.


  • #24
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The church was there first, so they don't have to stop ringing the bells for you.
    An RPG would sort the problem though. ;)

    A role playing game ? how?


  • #25
    vicwatson
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    Good morning Esmerelda


  • #26
    Arthur Beesley
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    notnumber wrote: »
    A role playing game ? how?

    They could turn the computher speakers down. Or use headphones maybe?


  • #27
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    notnumber wrote: »
    Quit trying to imply stuff ..if it was a synagogue or a buddha temple the issue would be the same.

    That's right the Jews in Saggart have gone completly out of control. And as for the Budhists. I blame the Dalai Lama


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Bloody campanologists, always ringing their bells.
    campanology, now there's a job title that rings a bell! :pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h6Vqj0oemU


  • #29
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    Deleted User wrote: »
    campanology, now there's a job title that rings a bell! :pac:

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


    classy:rolleyes:


  • #30
    anncoates
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    notnumber wrote: »
    I cannot speculate as to your hearing levels or whereabouts you reside but I live on the main street just down from the cemetery ,,if you couldn't hear these bells then you might need to contact hidden hearing for a free hearing aid :)

    In other words, a couple of yards from the church. Did you notice the extremely large bell tower when you agreed to rent the house? :)


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  • #31
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    buckle your belts for another catholic-bashing thread.


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