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What do you miss that used to be in Sligo?

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    #92
    worlds goodest teecher
    Registered Users Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭worlds goodest teecher


    The pick n' mix in Penny's, free sweets.


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    #93
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Slideways wrote: »
    ....There used to be a computer shop in Ballymote, forget what it was called. Was years before its time

    The one just down road from McDonaghs or one across from Kanes supermarket or the one upstairs in Perry's DIY?


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    #94
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    worlds goodest teecher wrote: »
    Yeah it closed about 5 years ago. I think it would have done a lot better if it was on ground floor level and it was too big, always looked empty. Good Thai food though, much better than the attempt at Thai food some of Chinese restaurants in Town are serving up. It wasn't made up to be a flashy restaurant, but that was fine, it is the food that I miss.

    Wasnt the chef on a episode of the Irish Dragons Den (in the good times) with some sauces in a jar, and got backing from one of the investors on the show?


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    #95
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Anyone remember Exchange & Mart , (where the inner relief road is now) and off one the streets on the road leading to Finnisklin - I think Ronnie Gallanders run it, I miss it a great little lock-up with all second-hand bits and pieces and furniture - everything priced up reasonable as well. bought some sofa's and washing machine and other bits an bobs off him and you could leave stuff in and he would sell it for you. - Be good to have something back like that place in the town.


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    #96
    Slideways
    Registered Users Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭Slideways


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    The one just down road from McDonaghs or one across from Kanes supermarket or the one upstairs in Perry's DIY?

    I'm sure it was across the road from Kanes. Think the owner used to have a hand painted Ford Orion if my memory serves me rightly


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    #97
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Slideways wrote:
    I'm sure it was across the road from Kanes. Think the owner used to have a hand painted Ford Orion if my memory serves me rightly


    Ah yeah top bloke, good little shop that. ;-)


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    #98
    worlds goodest teecher
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    Wasnt the chef on a episode of the Irish Dragons Den (in the good times) with some sauces in a jar, and got backing from one of the investors on the show?

    That was actually the Indian buffet that went in there after the Thai.


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    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    frag420 wrote: »
    The Clarence before it went up its own a$$!
    Its was at its best when its was a small sh!tbox out the back of the hotel!

    McGarrigles back in the 90's/early 2000's!!

    Yaaaaaasssss!!! All of the above. Loved Thursday nights in the old Clarence.

    The Garavogue in its original incarnation, none of this flat screen TV/pull your own pint/Dj Scruffy Duffy/hen party nonsense that goes on now. The PROPER horseshoe bar, funk up first Saturday of the month, Strictly Handbag on a Friday, open Mic on a Monday, Sabotage on a Thursday. Had some of the best nights of my life in there.

    Going to see Indigo Fury in McGarrigles!


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    #100
    Slideways
    Registered Users Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭Slideways


    Petronella in McHugh back when people still referred to it as Gullivers.

    Was back in Sligo over the summer and saw tabby play on a Sunday night with a gang in McGarrigles and he can still belt them out and make the guitar talk to him


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    Plazaman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Ahh The Stables, great wee spot, total deathtrap but twas lively. I remember Hayleys Restaurant in O Connell Steeet had decent burgers at the time too. Truffles on the Mall, tasty pizzas before anyone had them in Sligo. Plenty more places I can't think of at the moment.


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    #102
    FoxyVixen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭FoxyVixen


    What was the restaurant called on O'Connell street called? Where the Liber bookshop is now? Used to do great dinners in there and was great craic as a kid. Was it The Ritz or something like that?


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    #103
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    That was the Ritz surely.


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    #104
    curtisbrown
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭curtisbrown


    I can't post the link but there's a great article about The Ritz and Liber Bookshop on The Independent website.


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    #105
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Lovely memories reading all these places.
    Pity theres no photos.
    I feel old.


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    curtisbrown wrote: »
    I can't post the link but there's a great article about The Ritz and Liber Bookshop on The Independent website.

    http://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/news/liber-bookshop-has-been-in-the-family-for-82-years-27589067.html


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    #107
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Anyone mention the airport? Handy if flying on elsewhere from Dublin.


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    #108
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    there used to be a lovely little cafe in the building (on the ground floor) where Northwest Radio Studios were up at the market yard (they were upstairs) and then some small business/ art workshops were there as well in the same premises. The cafe done a lovely egg salad mayonnaise


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    #109
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    That was Joe Feeneys coffee shop in the old fire station.


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    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    red sean wrote: »
    That was Joe Feeneys coffee shop in the old fire station.

    was that the old fire station that NWR building?


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    #111
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Yeah.


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    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    red sean wrote: »
    Yeah.

    oh cool


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    #113
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    can you still even get egg salad mayonnaise in any of the cafes in sligo? - havent had one for years


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    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Bit out of town but Barry's of Grange is badly missed. There were some great bands there over the years. There's not a large enough population in the village to sustain it.


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    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    there used to be Willies restaurant in Grange, that was another good eating place


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    #116
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    A ham sandwich and mug of hot tea in Parke's Castle for an empty stomach. Do they still do it?


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    #117
    sligolad1
    Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭sligolad1


    Tobergal lane restaurant!


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    #118
    BronsonTB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭BronsonTB


    Shopwell on O'Connell street.....

    & Alfie Bree's

    www.sligowhiplash.com - 3rd & 4th Aug '24 (Confirmed!)



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    littlejp
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    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Anyone mention the airport? Handy if flying on elsewhere from Dublin.

    The airport is still there but sadly only for private flights and the coast guard.


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    #120
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    littlejp wrote: »
    The airport is still there but sadly only for private flights and the coast guard.
    And Mary Harney.


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    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Crazy to think these days because every restaurant and fast food place is smoke free due to law, but back in the day when McDonald's and Burger King graced O'Connell Street in sligo, McDonald's had some plaques inside exclaiming proudly 'this is a family non-smoking restaurant' so if you wanted a smoke with your burger and fries you would have to cross the road to Burger king where they had 'smoking areas' .... You know, a group of tables mainly resided by smoking loud school going kids puffing away, swearing and flicking fag ash lol :-)


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