When will the Fairview park cycle lane be complete?
I cut across the east wall, so it’s quite safe there
There is a new cycleway before the five lamps that is due to open soon. Will bring you to the convention centre
Think there are plans to have a cycleway from east wall business park to the convention centre too
Easy to avoid a lot of towns these days depending on where you work
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I think I remember Christy Moore mentioning Bunker Lydon in a song?
Any idea where the name bunker was got?
Wan of the richest landowners in Galway I’d imagine, rip.
Never heard a bad word said about him.
Never heard a Christy Moore song either.
I’d be surprised, we was more a salthill fixture than a national one, or even a city one, though I suppose he resided on the primest real estate on the west coast.
Sure Christy never wrote a decent song in his life, it’s likely it was some Galway fella wrote it
Bunker Hayden if I recall correctly
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I’ll get back in me bunker
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I could be wrong. I can remember the line of the song but not the song itself
In Waterford in my time we had
Denny the Pig, because he rode a pig
Josie Roche, the head of the town, possibly the ugliest man in Munster.
Mary the Hog. She looked like a hog.
Eddie Legs. He had deformed legs.
Bridgie Walsh ran a shop beside the school, that smelled of paraffin but the older boys in the school would go in there and smoke at breaktime. She sold everything including metal tips for your shoes that were great for annoying the brothers because you could clack clack on the tiles in the school. The shop was originally run by Black Johnny who was a boy taken in and educated by Edmund Rice himself and was as the name suggests black.
Seanie Browne on the other side of the road was an evil little shopkeeper who would sell you a single major and a match for a shilling regardless of your age.
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Subtlety wasn’t really a consideration while selecting nicknames in Waterford in dem days
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We had Warty Nora cc @Lazarus
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It was a pretty cruel time in fairness.
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There was an urban legend about a joyrider from Tallaght in the 80s who lost his eye in a car smash. He was known afterwards as The Eyeotallaght
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Corks Jimmy McCarthy wrote all his good ones
His best was written by an Englishman about the dark satanic mill.
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The imagination is fierce
Know the family well, had the first swimming pool in Cork, on Glasheen Rd, 16 kids AFAIK, few went with us to scoil an Spioraid Naoimh, dad used ask them all regularly " right who wants to go to school?"
Those who didn’t went with him working, he’d the main contract delivery of newspapers in the land for a while, all sound PPL
Which family pal?
McCarthy ( Jimmy and co) most prolific Irish song writer for years
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