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The city is on fire!!!

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  • 23-06-2008 9:40pm
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    tuxy
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    HELP I'm a culchie from Tipp and only here a few day's.
    Why can I smell smoke from my bedroom and see smoke all over the city when I look out the window.
    Are we all going to die?


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    smackbunnybaby
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    23rd of june in cork is bon fire night! people light fires!
    its also by birthday ha ha


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    run_Forrest_run
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    there's no better way for people in Cork to illegally get rid of unwanted junk ;)


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    deRanged
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    run_Forrest_run wrote: »
    there's no better way for people in Cork to illegally get rid of unwanted junk ;)

    absolutely. I've seen 3 piece suites, beds, kitchen tables being hauled off for the bonna.

    we don't have bonfires round our way any more. I miss them.


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    Cool_CM
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    run_Forrest_run wrote: »
    there's no better way for people in Cork to illegally get rid of unwanted junk ;)
    And evidence!;)


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    Fast_Mover
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    Bonfire's mainly a city thing?! Don't have them out my way (country)..


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    Heisenberg.
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    aidan_walsh
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    Ah, I was wondering what was going on looking out the window Blackpool direction to see the place burning.


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    deRanged
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    Fast_Mover wrote: »
    Bonfire's mainly a city thing?! Don't have them out my way (country)..

    yeah, there used to be plenty of them out Glounthaune way, but they stopped a few years ago. Around the same time that they built on everything green now that I think of it.


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    Clare Bear
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    They still have them out the country. There's always a massive one in Glenville. Was great fun when I was small, everyone used to go to it.


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    bill_ashmount
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    3 or 4 good bonas up in Mayfield last night.


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    mathias
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    St Johns night , a christianisation of the old midsummers festival , dying out now in Ireland unfortunately , very few in Dublin will even have heard of it , but still hugely popular in parts of Europe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer


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    tuxy
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    The Scientist wrote: »
    Is this just a Cork thing?
    I was walking over the Sarsfield Rd. footbridge last night and i must have counted 12 fires going...
    I also noticed that 3 bus stops in the vicinity of the Lough were smashed this Morning.
    Hooligans Ted.

    They do the same thing in Limerick city only it's on the first day of summer.


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    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    Cool_CM wrote: »
    And evidence!;)

    true:D Out my way (Passage) I think I saw a few more bank notes going up in flames :D


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    Kold
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    Yeah, helped my Dad against my will. My carbon fairy won't speak to me for a month fs.


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    Sephiroth_dude
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    ah ya the good old nights of the bon fire nights :-) ah the memories :-).


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    hunnymonster
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    we used to have it up the country too. Last night if you were one side of the divide, 12th July if you were the other.

    I'm always glad I don't work for the fire service when bonfire night rolls around.


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    Chloris
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    It was some crazy night last night. Drinking until 4am in fantastic company and chucking cans into the dying embers.. These are the days, lads!


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    Tree
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    mathias wrote: »
    St Johns night , a christianisation of the old midsummers festival , dying out now in Ireland unfortunately , very few in Dublin will even have heard of it , but still hugely popular in parts of Europe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer
    they have it in dublin on guy fawkes in november, them being the pale and all that.


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    fastrac
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    My neighbours started burning rubbish at two o clock pm and continued until eleven o clock pm.Everybodies house stinks of smoke as most people were out and had windows open.


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