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Where have all the fireworks gone?

  • 11-10-2016 7:36pm
    #1
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,506 ✭✭✭✭
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    It's just under 3 weeks to go to Halloween and I have yet to hear or see a single firework going off. Any been used in your area?


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  • #2
    trixychic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭trixychic


    There has been numerous fireworks and bangers going off around me every night since about the last wk in Sept. Dogs are beginning to lose their hair around us.


  • #3
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,322 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Only in the bedroom*

    *That's a complete lie


  • #4
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Now that you mention it I haven't heard one yet. Usually they be going off from late September.


  • #5
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭Duff


    I live in Dundalk which resembles downtown Baghdad on a good day.


  • #6
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Much harder to get up north and the 3000 euro fine and your car seized takes the fun out of importing them


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  • #7
    trixychic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭trixychic


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Much harder to get up north and the 3000 euro fine and your car seized takes the fun out of importing them

    Wish it would work for here!!!


  • #8
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,395 ✭✭✭sjb25


    Grayson wrote: »
    Only in the bedroom*

    [


    ...


  • #9
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Heard the first firework the other night. Nothing since. Live in North West Dublin too.

    Guess they are just getting cranked down on more.


  • #10
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Plenty being set off around here since last week.


  • #11
    Shint0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭Shint0


    I heard a few one evening about a month ago and that was it. Some years back they used start around end of August and continue up to almost December. Definitely not on the same scale as they used to be.


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  • #12
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,646 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Probably because of Pokeman or they decided to dress up as clowns instead and scare people.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #13
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Much harder to get up north and the 3000 euro fine and your car seized takes the fun out of importing them

    What :confused:

    Are you saying that if I drive up North and buy a family box of fireworks and then on the way back down I get stopped in the South by the Gardai, that they will seize my car and fine me 3000 Euro.

    Really?


  • #14
    tomofson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭tomofson


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    It's just under 3 weeks to go to Halloween and I have yet to hear or see a single firework going off. Any been used in your area?

    All the traditions we grew up with are well and truly dying out unfortunately.

    I can remember when I was a kid looking forward to all the horror films that would be shown on the telly halloween week, now you will be hard pressed to even find a horror movie on T.V. on halloween night.

    Good for the internet now you can make your own T.V guide for the day, you decide what movies you want to watch.


  • #15
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    LordSutch wrote: »
    What :confused:

    Are you saying that if I drive up North and buy a family box of fireworks and then on the way back down I get stopped in the South by the Gardai, that they will seize my car and fine me 3000 Euro.

    Really?

    Yes and no. The fine is not 3000 but 2500. Legislation was tightened up in 2006 and bangers are now defined as fireworks April 2010.


  • #16
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,840 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I've actually noticed that their back this year compared to the last few years!


  • #17
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Santa is already in M&S


  • #18
    JimmyTClarke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭JimmyTClarke


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Santa is already in M&S

    You think that's bad? He has been in Brown Thomas since August :-o


  • #19
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I gather it's a lot harder to get them in the city centre these days as well which is a shame. As in, if you can't drive up North, you can't get them at all. Seems the days of 'aul wans selling them at open air markets are gone.

    Interestingly, a friend of mine has mentioned that the National Ploughing Championships has become the new drop zone for the black market... Seems like a strange place for them to set up shop but there you go


  • #20
    tupenny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭tupenny


    The youth of today. Lazy bastids with their couches and technologies


  • #21
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Lad on our street has been setting them off most nights since August. Seems to be his kids bedtime ritual.
    Some parents read bedtime stories, this lad sets off fireworks in the garden.


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