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Where in Offaly are you from?

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    #62
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,951 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Firstly, I wouldn't post any names on forum.

    I'm not far from Edenderry(6 miles), if you want you can PM me the name and I can ask a few friends and see what they know.


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    #63
    SIX PACK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭SIX PACK


    Im from Moneygall the butt end of the county on the N7 to Limerick half is in Tipp d other in Offaly


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    #64
    lavman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭lavman


    RAHAN what more can i say


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    #65
    dancingqueen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭dancingqueen


    I'm from Shinrone, outside Birr.. mad so many locals on Boards.ie :)

    Yup! Up the Faithful :)


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    #66
    offaly1
    Registered Users Posts: 993 ✭✭✭offaly1


    lavman wrote: »
    RAHAN what more can i say

    Not much!!!:p:P;)


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    #67
    Scawgeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭Scawgeen


    dancingqueen wrote: »
    I'm from Shinrone, outside Birr.. mad so many locals on Boards.ie :)

    Yup! Up the Faithful :)

    Ah the humble Yup! recognised as a welcoming greeting among Offalians accross the globe. From Pullagh to Mukacheve to Los Angeles and from Tullamore to Timbucktu via Queens. YUP! :D


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    #68
    offalyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭offalyman


    shinrone..............i am so sad to say:confused:


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    #69
    Lou08
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭Lou08


    The great city of Ballycumber!!!!!!!!!!


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    #70
    medoc
    Registered Users Posts: 971 ✭✭✭medoc


    The Blueball


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    #71
    Former Great
    Registered Users Posts: 475 ✭✭Former Great


    Seanie M wrote: »
    Living in Daingean, lived in Tullamore (family home), originally from Canada (long ago).

    Seanie.

    Seanie the radio 3 man...


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    #72
    Farranm
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭Farranm


    From Tullamore living on Durrow


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    #73
    nodirectionhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭nodirectionhome


    Daingean.....Shhhh...


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    #74
    offaly1
    Registered Users Posts: 993 ✭✭✭offaly1


    nodirectionhome wrote: »
    Daingean.....Shhhh...

    Don't broadcast that too loud!!!:P


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    #75
    nodirectionhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭nodirectionhome


    I know lol, though its not that bad a place but everyone always slags about it!!


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    #76
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,951 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    nodirectionhome wrote: »
    I know lol, though its not that bad a place but everyone always slags about it!!
    I'm co managing the local soccer team there.


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    #77
    nodirectionhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭nodirectionhome


    I'm rarely here so i wouldnt even know if they were any good!


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    #78
    emma11811
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭emma11811


    i live in rhode where did you live


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    #79
    Frank_Leach
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭Frank_Leach


    Tullamore...A great place to reside..

    Didn't notice many from clara. For the record, and in no may ment to antagonise...



    .....where did the term "hawk" originate in relation to clara people?

    I always laughed at the term, but no one seems to know what it means or how it started.


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    #80
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Frank_Leach wrote: »



    .....where did the term "hawk" originate in relation to clara people?

    I could guess but id probably be banned:D


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    #81
    Frank_Leach
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭Frank_Leach


    maybe...but it is a genuine query...i mean, since as long as i can remember the phrase "clara hawks" always popped up. I just never knew why.

    Hey, you won't get banned. Come on, shed some light for Offaly!


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    #82
    token56
    Registered Users Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭token56


    Not actually from Offaly myself, but my mother and her family are from Shinrone, nice little Village


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    #83
    Scawgeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭Scawgeen


    Frank_Leach wrote: »
    Tullamore...A great place to reside..

    Didn't notice many from clara. For the record, and in no may ment to antagonise...



    .....where did the term "hawk" originate in relation to clara people?

    I always laughed at the term, but no one seems to know what it means or how it started.

    I believe originally it was a derogatory term just like the Tullamore people were called ''bottlewashers'' but the Clara people seem to have turned it into a badge of honour. I've been told it had to do with how Clara people look you up and down when they meet you '' look you up and down like a hawk'' I could be completely wrong of course.


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    #84
    Frank_Leach
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭Frank_Leach


    Scawgeen wrote: »
    I believe originally it was a derogatory term just like the Tullamore people were called ''bottlewashers'' but the Clara people seem to have turned it into a badge of honour. I've been told it had to do with how Clara people look you up and down when they meet you '' look you up and down like a hawk'' I could be completely wrong of course.


    wow..o.k., that kinda makes sense. I always wondered.

    Never knew the "bottlewashers" term either, i must ask around. Thanks!


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    #85
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Scawgeen wrote: »
    I believe originally it was a derogatory term just like the Tullamore people were called ''bottlewashers'' but the Clara people seem to have turned it into a badge of honour. I've been told it had to do with how Clara people look you up and down when they meet you '' look you up and down like a hawk'' I could be completely wrong of course.

    Yea have heard the term bottlewashers too.
    Iv heard similiar reasons Scawgeen,
    one was people used to sit outside others houses waiting for the man of the house to leave for work, so they can go in and 'spend' the day with yer mans wife. Watching like hawks. Clara person told me that one.

    The other one is they'd snatch (like a hawk) something off ya before ya knew it.


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    #86
    pixeedust
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭pixeedust


    Between Portarlington and Tullamore, a village called 'Cloneygowan' :) work in Tullamore though..


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    #87
    Wine_Guy
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    Dusty87 wrote: »
    Yea have heard the term bottlewashers too.
    Iv heard similiar reasons Scawgeen,
    one was people used to sit outside others houses waiting for the man of the house to leave for work, so they can go in and 'spend' the day with yer mans wife. Watching like hawks. Clara person told me that one.
    He probably said that to emphasize we're always ridin or somethin, i never heard that before and i am from clara.....Bottlewashers came cos the locals in tulamore use to wash the bottles for the whiskey plant while distillers and other higher ranking jobs were sourced outside the town


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    #88
    Frank_Leach
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭Frank_Leach


    Wine_Guy wrote: »
    He probably said that to emphasize we're always ridin or somethin, i never heard that before and i am from clara.....Bottlewashers came cos the locals in tulamore use to wash the bottles for the whiskey plant while distillers and other higher ranking jobs were sourced outside the town


    Sourced from where...Clara? :D
    Makes no sense. Applying your own theory, why place a distillery where there was no labour? Go back to the drawing board with that one Wine Guy..


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    #89
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Wine_Guy wrote: »
    He probably said that to emphasize we're always ridin

    Probably:rolleyes: LOL


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    #90
    Frank_Leach
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭Frank_Leach


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    Probably:rolleyes: LOL
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    Always ridin?

    Yes, Clara is well known as the Paris of Offaly...and here we have our very own Romeo!
    Can't picture hawks "ridin", can you? :eek:


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    #91
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Frank_Leach wrote: »
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    Always ridin?

    Yes, Clara is well known as the Paris of Offaly...and here we have our very own Romeo!
    Can't picture hawks "ridin", can you? :eek:

    Theres so many smart things i can reply, but would be banned Frank:D:D
    We'll give them their dues though. A fair amount of ridin goes on in Clara alright id say.


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