I went down to UCC a few nights and put down some savage nights there donāt get me wrong, but they donāt have that same everyone around here is a student thing.
The closing of the western star was a national travesty. Should have been a grade one listed building.
Iād say the fine wines on the roundabout was where they sent everything they couldnāt sell everywhere else. Rather than throwing it out theyād send it down to limerick and if itās cheap enough theyāll drink it.
Most memorable rag week anecdote is a bunch of us going to Pimps and Prostitutes in drag. My mate was getting abuse from a lad sharing a taxi for his get up and they ended up in a punch up outside College Court. Unfortunately a cop whoād caught my mate fighting the previous night was passing by and hauled my mate to Henry Street.
Heād to spend a night in the cells in drag and hand in his bra so he couldnāt hang himself. Had to hire a barrister to represent him in court, whoād to relay the background of Pimps and Prostitutes to the judge.
Iād stolen a coat from my female housemate which I damaged and had to head to Parkway drapery to repair before she noticed so escaped relatively lightly.
I believe the briefās preamble to the judge was āon the night in question my client was at an event called Pimps and Prostitutesā¦and letās just sayā¦he wasnāt a pimpā.
There were cans inside in that place Iāve never seen anywhere else. In a way it was kind of like a pre-cursor to the current craft beer buzz, just with four-packs of dreadful lager for ā¬5
The Star was only for gobshites, anybody leaving the college and walking away from town would want to have a long hard look at themselves, grand for pints after Quarry cup games.
Iāve always felt that UL must be quite dull for the lack of options, convincing themselves that the Hurlers and the stables are shit hot cause they donāt have the energy to go any further, a college makes a city and vice versa