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Well done Dublin hurlers!
Peter Dalton
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16-Jul-2006 13:15
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Great to see them get revenge against Ear V.
A victory over intolerance, backwardness and general ignorance.
djabu
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16-Jul-2006 14:43
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A victory over intolerance, backwardness and general ignorance.[/QUOTE]
Eh???
Peter Dalton
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16-Jul-2006 15:43
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Originally posted by djabu:
Eh???
Westmeath is a county full of ignorant, backward, narrow-minded as*holes.
firsttime
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16-Jul-2006 15:50
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Westmeath is a county full of ignorant, backward, narrow-minded as*holes.[/QUOTE]
idiot
Peter Dalton
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16-Jul-2006 18:39
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Originally posted by firsttime:
idiot
I lived in Athlone for four years, worst four years in my life
The places is full of settled travellers and small farmers who lost their farms and a new cross breed of travellers and farmers, the perfect mix of scum and redneck, that commonly have addictions to the heroin the army brings through the barracks from the Lebanon on the sly. Athlone has a raging smack problem, but is a totally landlocked town, so nobody could understand how such huge amounts of smack was getting into this small provincial town... why go to the trouble of bringing it from Dublin, Cork or Galway to some midlands dive when you could sell it in these big coastal city, this was along the lines of the general thinking on the matter.
Turns out some soldiers coming back from the Lebanon were loading the tanks full of Heroin, at this time Athlone was where everything coming and going from the Leb was cleared. Rise in smack problem Q.E.D.
The culture shock, especially from somewhere civil like Dublin, is intense. The place was bloody feral back in the 90s.
One year Scheer and Watercress came to Athlone RTC... it was poorly attended so for the next three years of my time there they had Abbaesque on instead...
*mimes slashing wrists*
And you have that lovely country thing of the locals hating students EVEN THOUGH the students are one of the few things bringing money into the town.
Of a friday, in Athlone, around 9pm you would hear for miles around the trundle of taxis coming from every farm house and tin roofed shack in the surrounding counties... all heading for "BOZO'S" night club in Athlone.
Where once in side all the men, identically dressed in blue jeans and white blue check shirts with the back of the collar flicked up (why?!?), they would savage an unholy feed of booze, molest women in the most base manners, savage more booze, puke on each other, puke on everyone else (it's amazing how socially accepted vomit is in Athlone), then all the ones who weren't off to sexually assault some poor lass down a side street, would head up to Supermacs to beat several shades of sh*t out of anyone who looked liked they deserved it.
I assure everyone these boys were all country stock true and true. Best friends would paste each other into the pavement using their fists. But by the next week it'd all be forgotten.
Granted most of these sorts generally move to Dublin for college, go to DCU, TCD or UCD or somewhere sh*te like that, doss around on the grant, and generally become the sort of assholes who ring up looking for last months invoice, or the sort of schmucks the bank sends you too when you havn't paid you student loan in a year or two. This would point to while older pubs in the country are superior, supposidly cause all the ass holes have moved to Lucan and are trying to outdo each other with gimicky kitchens and spoiled children.
I lived with a country fella down in Athlone who used to cook two dinners when he was cooking, he'd lay both dinners out on two plates, just as if he was serving to people... then he would eat one and put the other one in his press (not the fridge.. the press) where it remain till dinner time the next day when he'd pull it out bing it in the microwave and tuck in.
I liked living in the country.... however Athlone was the most depressing place on earth, constantly grey of sky and suspicous of odour. But no matter how mental you thought you were going or how drunkly stoned and depraved your life was becoming you only had to have a quick look aorund you and realise that most folk there were a BILLION times worse off then you!
I firmly believe Athlone was built on some bad energy line or something, or a Indian burial ground, or the very gateway to the pit of hell itself.
The whole town needs to be nuked from orbit.
OneArmedMan
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16-Jul-2006 22:51
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So you dont like Athlone then ?
LimerickNomad
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16-Jul-2006 23:06
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1000BC,
There's the makings of a Flann O'Brien-esque novel
in those ramblings of yours. More please?!?
Glinnti Glasa
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16-Jul-2006 23:09
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Why am I not suprised you lived with a fella?
Fitzy
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17-Jul-2006 04:15
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1000bc, for a fella who constantly rambles on about Irish people attitudes to Britain, you sure are one intolerant f**ker.
I too used to live in Athlone, I found it alright, boring, but alright (nowehere near as bad as Longford, now thats a sh*te town).
Nomad, I dunno what you're reading, hes about as Flann O'Brien esque as my left testicle.
irishgolfonline
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17-Jul-2006 07:58
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Never lived in Athlone, but years ago was working there from time to time. I never got a good feeling from the town, could never put my finger on it. I think 1000BC went a bit far, but at least someone else recognised that there is something about the town that just isn't right.
I get the same feeling about Athy. Nothing against people who live in these towns, it's just the towns themselves.
Stool Pigeon
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17-Jul-2006 08:11
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Originally posted by The 'Lockes:
Never lived in Athlone, but years ago was working there from time to time. I never got a good feeling from the town, could never put my finger on it. I think 1000BC went a bit far, but at least someone else recognised that there is something about the town that just isn't right.
I get the same feeling about Athy. Nothing against people who live in these towns, it's just the towns themselves.
Lived in athlone for a few months and got the same vibe. Just an allround bad (negative) atmosphere in the place, didn't enjoy it much. As 'Lockes says, not so much the people, more the place itself really.
Portumna Bridge
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17-Jul-2006 08:36
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Originally posted by Stool Pigeon:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by The 'Lockes:
Never lived in Athlone, but years ago was working there from time to time. I never got a good feeling from the town, could never put my finger on it. I think 1000BC went a bit far, but at least someone else recognised that there is something about the town that just isn't right.
I get the same feeling about Athy. Nothing against people who live in these towns, it's just the towns themselves.
Lived in athlone for a few months and got the same vibe. Just an allround bad (negative) atmosphere in the place, didn't enjoy it much. As 'Lockes says, not so much the people, more the place itself really.[/QUOTE.
Even approaching it by boat, it's a bit eerie, can't explain it. Is Battery Heights still standing?
Fran
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17-Jul-2006 13:00
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And you still managed to spend four years there. Not too keen on the place myself but I wouldn't tar the whole county with the one brush tho. Have plenty of good friends in Mullingar and it's nothing like athlone
Peter Dalton
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17-Jul-2006 19:05
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Originally posted by Glinnti Glasa:
Why am I not suprised you lived with a fella?
Standard house share involving students.
Some fellas, some girls. It varied.
Peter Dalton
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17-Jul-2006 19:06
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Originally posted by Fran:
And you still managed to spend four years there.
My parents would not have been happy if I left.
Aside - the course in the RTC was good and I did fairly well out of it.
It was the town and the inhabitants though.
T_de_B
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17-Jul-2006 20:24
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Originally posted by Stool Pigeon:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by The 'Lockes:
I never got a good feeling from the town, could never put my finger on it. I think 1000BC went a bit far, but at least someone else recognised that there is something about the town that just isn't right.
A sort of roundabout way of getting at Declan Lynch, I would have thought!
SHANNONSIDER**
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17-Jul-2006 20:52
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The Irish Army have tanks?
Fitzy
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18-Jul-2006 04:36
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Originally posted by SHANNONSIDER**:
The Irish Army have tanks?
And guns too SS!
Dermot Dodgy
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18-Jul-2006 09:41
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Originally posted by 1000BC:
Great to see them get revenge against Ear V.
A victory over intolerance, backwardness and general ignorance.
Ah, come on 1000BC, you forgot all about Donna and Joseph McCaul and their lovely, flat midland accents!
sam
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18-Jul-2006 12:53
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from hill16 ...
Hurlers stave off relegation
DUBLIN 0-16 WESTMEATH 0-8
Eight points from the stick of David Curtin saw Dublin protect their Tier One status in Saturday afternoon's All-Ireland SHC relegation final at O'Connor Park, Tullamore.
Dublin also avenged their Leinster SHC quarter-final defeat to Westmeath and much like last season (against Laois) ended up reversing the Leinster result in the relegation play-off.
The Dubs finished with 13-men as both John McCaffrey (56 mins) and Kevin Ryan (68 mins) were dismissed for second yellow card offences while Westmeath's Enda Loughlin was straight red-carded (65 mins) for a pull across the elbow of Stephen McDonnell as the Craobh Chiarain man accelerated away.
Dublin's half-back line of Michael Carton, Ronan Fallon and Tomas Brady was their strongest line and kept the Westmeath attack mostly at bay as the midlanders fought back in the second half.
Dublin led 0-11 to 0-2 at the interval with Westmeath's scores both coming from frees by Andrew Mitchell.
Tommy Naughton's men hurled with greater conviction from the outset while a succession of simple enough scores saw them build up a nine-point interval advantage.
The introduction of sub Derek McNicholas posed more problems for the Dublin rearguard and he had two points to his credit within seven minutes of the restart.
In the 45th minute he almost goaled but his flicked shot cleared the outcoming Gary Maguire but bounced narrowly wide.
With 15 minutes to go Dublin led 0-13 to 0-7 and when the influential McCaffrey was sent off Dublin could have struggled. However, they lifted their game with a Curtin point following a great fetch from Kevin Flynn and lay-off by John Kelly dampened Westmeath's fire.
SCORERS - Dublin: D Curtin 0-8 (0-5f), J McCaffrey, S McDonnell 0-2 each, M Carton, J Kelly, K Flynn, P Carton 0-1 each. Westmeath: A Mitchell 0-5 (0-5f), D McNicholas 0-2, B Murtagh 0-1.
DUBLIN - G Maguire; G O'Meara, K Ryan, P Brennan; M Carton, R Fallon, T Brady; D Sweeney, S McDonnell; J McCaffrey, L Ryan, D Curtin; A McCrabbe, J Kelly, K Flynn. Subs: D O'Reilly for O'Meara, P O'Driscoll for McDonnell, P Carton for McCrabbe.
WESTMEATH - M Briody; C Jordan, C Murtagh, P Greville; G Gavin, J Shaw, N Gavin; E Loughlin, A Mitchell; B Smyth, B Murtagh, P Clarke; D Devine, D Carty, J Clarke. Subs: M Williams for Carty, D McNicholas for J Clarke, R Whelan for P Clarke, B Lahart for Devine, M McNicholas for Smyth.
REF - D Kirwan (Cork).
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