Yeah and all the stands are pretty much in the city centre. By the time you’ve taken a bike and dropped it back, you wouldn’t save much if any time.
Same in Limerick, sure you’d walk the city in ten mins. By the time you’ve walked to the stand got the bike etc. you’d be there.
Bullshit - hopping on a bike outside Mary I and heading to the Market or Markets field is the job… Likewise if you are at the top of town and heading to the library, out by the Castle/ Curragower. They need to introduce more stands at the edge of the City alright… One at the crescent maybe, but certainly if you are living in or around South Circular road they are the job.
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Would that not depend on where you start from?
There’s a place called The Old Forge not far from the Roisin Dubh that I put down a Saturday many years ago drinking pints and watching football - is it still open?
Was introduced to it by an old flame who told me that it was always someone’s birthday there and there was always plates of food lashed out as a result. On one New Year’s Eve, the lad in the corner playing on the Casio keyboard took a break out so they could read out the list of pub patrons who had passed away during the year - she told me it had been a pretty bleak November. It was the kind of place with cheap (but decent) porter, All Stars posters from the early 1990s and the telly on with RTE1 in the corner (regardless of what was on).
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Is there a big demand to go from the markets field to Mary I there is?
Those are very specific journeys at the absolute extreme of the scheme. All I’m saying is Limerick is small so there is very little need for it in and around the city. If it went out to UL, the Ennis Rd or Dooradoyle then maybe.
There is huge demand from what I can see, massive altogether… lots of use from the Mary I stand into the City in general.
The traffic situation is funny. Think of it as a bubble, if you live near the city centre the traffic is generally fine, but when you have to come in from outside you get caught in chronic bottlenecks. Someone coming temporarily has no business living in claregalway or oranmore anyway. Live near dominic street or off mill street and everything is an easy walk away.
How’s the knee, pal?
Improving slightly pal. I have a ten day course of antibiotics. Wtf?
Crush em up and snort them, you’ll be fixed in half the time.
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Closed only last week buddy. Considering the average age of the punters was 80+ it’s no shock. Fine pub to watch the racing in back in the day, they used to bring you out blocks of cheddar and slices of ham on recycled plastic plates to keep you going. You wouldn’t get that in the RoisIn
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We actually call it the Tropical South East. We have a wet season and the rest of the year is non stop sunshine. Your chart does not reflect the seasonal spread of rain.
The wet season BTW, is between June and August. It’s terribly depressing, especially on Sundays and some Saturday evenings.
How’d it go mate?
I’m now meeting him after work. I’m ready to be wooed.
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Best of luck mate xxx
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Dont give up anything on the first date pal. Enjoy.
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I remember the plates of cheddar alright. Was starving the first night I turned up there and low and behold, a plate of sandwiches and cheese was lashed out within five minutes of arriving.
Had a Google of it there and seems Twas sold alright: http://www.myhome.ie/commercial/brochure/the-old-forge-9-william-street-west-galway-city-galway/3300712
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Do you google everything just to make sure buddy? You’ll fit right in here
What harm, you appear to have an eye for a proper pub, fair fucks
Nah, just wanted to recall what it looked like. The times I was there my belly and mind was full of porter and cheese and I wanted to make sure I hadn’t romanticised it too much. I hadn’t - it was a gem
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