Limerick port for supertankers!

the drifter

feck just read on another site that there bringing in a €1000 a minute charge on docking supertankers in ireland in the next budget!!!!

there goes that good idea...

Firefox10

I'm going to have to go with the Las Vegas idea. Sorry lads....:D

D-A-V-E

in an unrelated post this in on the news outside foynes island! :eek:




:P:P

Paulegend

see what happens when you spread the wrong news DAVE...........

poor zuroph went off and grounded his supertanker:D

zuroph

Anyone with a tow rope in or around the city?Need it fairly quickly!

Aidric

Have they computers up in St Joseph's now?

TestTransmission

zuroph wrote: »

Anyone with a tow rope in or around the city?Need it fairly quickly!

I asked that question last week and I got a smart answer,pop down to tesco there,You will get a half decent one

Raiser

Warning!!!

Many of the above posts contain spoilers of page 5 of this weeks Limerick Post.

wylo

jackncoke wrote: »

Just read that Limerick will be the richest city in Ireland,after we knock it all down and rebuild Las Vegas style,so watch out!

Dont we have a Christmas tree that looks like that floating in the shannon every year.
All we need now is the Limerick 'in crowd' celebrities(im looking at you, top 50 sexiest men) and a big casino and were nearly there.

old boy

a long long time ago while alcan was being built, 5,000 employed in the construction of it, a group of goverment agencys got togeather, so after much chin wigging etc got a brain wave of building an oil therminal,(change of dealer required i.m.o.) they bought up a big moxey of land on the shoreline, down ballylongford way, as the water was so deep they could not test it with the old drop a stone in it trick, no money wasted in them days, the idea being they could start up another massive construction job, and like today no one at the helm saw the recession coming, like now except then it was state money, now it is bank money, sure no difference anyway

grenache

Thread should be in County Limerick forum. Foynes is not Limerick City.

Itsdacraic

grenache wrote: »

Thread should be in County Limerick forum. Foynes is not Limerick City.

Well if you had read the article it actually focuses on the benefits of such a port for Limerick City so it is pretty relevant.

zuroph

Won't somebody PLEASE read the article!

Casperbhoy

If you build it, they will come:rolleyes:

The Bull O'Shea

I wont read the article but I want D-A-V-E strung up angry mob style based on all the angry posts on here

D-A-V-E

word on the street is they want me killed, but they dont know what i look like!

the only evidence was in this photo!

daithicarr

poor dave, being picked on when the article isint complete rubbish.

If you guys look it up, there were proposals to build a large super port and possible rail link to a tunnel connected to ireland the reasons being that ,
1 the shannon esturay can accomidate this kind of ship,
2 is one of only a few places in europe that can
3 the exising ports such as rotterdam can not increase capacity as the english channel is reaching the ful capacity of ships it can take without serious accidents being regular occurances
4 more capacity will be needed.

other possible locations i remeber reading was in the very north of scotland in the old royal navay base (possibly scapa flow in the orkneys ?) and some where in portugal.

the shannon location would be closest to the heart of europe, but would require investment in the port, the tunnel and the rail link.

dont have time to look this stuff up now, but i think the engineers society of ireland did up a proposal on it, if ye can not find it in the next few hours ill look for it when i get a chance

daithicarr

found it

http://www.euro-case.org/publications/transport/TransportIreland.pdf

of course 2050 might be a bit late to impact on most of us as we should all be retired by then or nearing it.

Plus FF will still be in power and they dont have the forsight to pull the finger out for something like this

Raiser

D-A-V-E wrote: »

word on the street is they want me killed, but they dont know what i look like!

the only evidence was in this photo!

Well I've the latest Photoshop Professional Suite and the zoom goes up to 1000X......

Folks - Meet D-A-V-E

zuroph

the face that launched 1000 ships.

Firefox10

zuroph wrote: »

the face that launched 1000 ships.

....a thousand supertankers you mean.:D

zuroph

Firefox10 wrote: »

....a thousand supertankers you mean.:D

that was implied.


Anyway, the tesco tow rope wouldn't budge her, it snapped. I'm gonna just burn it out and claim the insurance money, say it was stolen for a joyride. It was parked in Limerick, so they'll believe that.

Harpy

D-A-V-E wrote: »

jesus lads why is everyone getting so firey?! i thought id share a bit of news like, planned, thinking of being planned..i think ye need to have a look at this!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMAtRklyzkI&feature=related

zuroph wrote: »

BECAUSE DAVE, After reading your Opening post, I went off and bought myself a fcuking supertanker. Yeah, that's right. Now where the **** am I meant to park it?! You've only added to the misery of this city. dick.

D-A-V-E wrote: »

in an unrelated post this in on the news outside foynes island! :eek:




:P:P

Paulegend wrote: »

see what happens when you spread the wrong news DAVE...........

poor zuroph went off and grounded his supertanker:D

zuroph wrote: »

Anyone with a tow rope in or around the city?Need it fairly quickly!

zuroph wrote: »

that was implied.


Anyway, the tesco tow rope wouldn't budge her, it snapped. I'm gonna just burn it out and claim the insurance money, say it was stolen for a joyride. It was parked in Limerick, so they'll believe that.

Those posts made me laugh so much... i've shown it to 3 people. brilliant!!

jonski

zuroph wrote: »

say it was stolen for a joyride.

Would the term here not be Pleasure Cruise ?

ninty9er

zuroph wrote: »

BECAUSE DAVE, After reading your Opening post, I went off and bought myself a fcuking supertanker. Yeah, that's right. Now where the **** am I meant to park it?! You've only added to the misery of this city. dick.

That just made my day
:D:D:D:D

betonit

Itsdacraic wrote: »

The lack of a proper road connecting Foynes to Limerick would also hinder this proposal. There was supposed to be some provision for a link up between the new Rathkeale by-pass and Foynes, but I read in last weeks post that none of the preferred routes for the by-pass contain proposals for a link up with the port.

theres a rail link between foynes port sand limerick. It runs through raheen indst est right beside the Motoway

Itsdacraic

betonit wrote: »

theres a rail link between foynes port sand limerick. It runs through raheen indst est right beside the Motoway

That line isn't used anymore plus the train is only suitable for transporting certain types of cargo, a proper road to Foynes would be essential for the upgrading of the port.

billy the squid

Aidric wrote: »

Have they computers up in St Joseph's now?

One week ban.

I would also advise the rest of you to keep the garbage in this thread to a minimum.

baza1976

Itsdacraic wrote: »

That line isn't used anymore plus the train is only suitable for transporting certain types of cargo, a proper road to Foynes would be essential for the upgrading of the port.

are you sure that line isn't used anymore??? could swear it is still used and used for taking coal from ships!!!???!!

zuroph

Itsdacraic wrote: »

That line isn't used anymore plus the train is only suitable for transporting certain types of cargo, a proper road to Foynes would be essential for the upgrading of the port.

I'm sure they could spring for upgrading the train line if they were building a massive fecking supertanker port. which they're not.

We could ship out all the garbage on one of the tankers. dump it off the coast of somalia.