Mosney possibly re-opening

token101

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

I was more of a Butlins in Wales kid, Mosney was beneath me frankly. I went one year and i found the place to be truly abhorrent.

This. Borne out by statements like this:

kitty9 wrote: »

i went there for the community games in 2002 when i was 12 for a table quiz.

got my first **** from a girl that day

good times

I'm all for getting the leg over early....but 12? F***ing hell!

markc1184

Used to love this place when I was younger. Both going on day trips and the summer I spent working on the ghost train. Can't see myself being too bother by it if it was to reopen though. Looking at some of the pictures, it looks to be awfully run down in places.

IrishAm

Biggins wrote: »

Thanks. Much appreciated.

No worries, man. Sorry again for any offence caused by my original post.

IrishAm

KittyeeTrix wrote: »

I went there every summer from the age of about 4 to 15 in the late 70's and 80's back in the days before holidays to Spain were the norm for most Irish families..............:D

Absolutely loved the place and was so annoyed that I couldn't even take my own kids there on a day-trip when they shut it up and turned it into a refugee camp:(

I'd love to be able to take my younger ones there at some point and bore the backsides off them with all the stories of the place.....

I know they'd love the pool and looking inwards at it from the street. I could only imagine the faces on them when they get mooned:p

Well for some. We got to a day trip there for our holidays. And that was in the mid to late nineties!:P

Ah, simpler times.

Biggins

IrishAm wrote: »

No worries, man. Sorry again for any offence caused by my original post.

No. I over-reacted.
Again, apologies.

KittyeeTrix

IrishAm wrote: »

Well for some. We got to a day trip there for our holidays. And that was in the mid to late nineties!:P

Ah, simpler times.

Haha, you know times have changed when we were considered the lucky kids cos we got a week away to Butlins every year:D

My dad was a window cleaner and even during the recession of the 80's he was always busy due to having the large window cleaning contracts for the hospitals in the Whest!!

IrishAm

KittyeeTrix wrote: »

Haha, you know times have changed when we were considered the lucky kids cos we got a week away to Butlins every year:D

It highlights the dramatic rise in the living standards of everyday Irish people.

Quite remarkable, when one looks back on the not so distant past.

KittyeeTrix wrote: »

My dad was a window cleaner and even during the recession of the 80's he was always busy due to having the large window cleaning contracts for the hospitals in the Whest!!

My da was a wannabee entrepreneur. He wasnt very good at it, god love him.

Feast or famine in our gaff. But we got a two week holiday to Ryans(?) Hotel in Kerry one year. That had one kick ass kids club. Thought I was the dogs bollix eating with the kids club in a restaurant every night. :cool:

antz182

just seen this on fb....apparantly it's been bought by a UK company and may re-open in 2013....watch this space I say... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=224148514343697&set=a.209778065780742.49775.209771145781434&type=1#!/ButlinsMosney

MHalberstram

It is right up there with Crispy Pancakes, best forgotten about and never mentioned again in conversation.

MaxSteele

Jesus I remember going there in the mid nineties when I was about five.

Imagine, from family friendly fun park ... to bleak, sleazy, bosnian refugee camp.

BillyMitchel

Some great posts in this thread.

Had some great day trips from school in mosney, used to be a great little place.

At what stage did it stop becoming a holiday camp and become a refugee camp? Was it closed down and the government said lets use this or what was the craic?

The swarms and swarms of Dub families that will head there if it opens back up. With a bit of luck it will.

end of the road

it closed in 2000. apparently to do with dwindling visitor numbers and staff shortages but i'm open to correction.

juan.kerr

Disgraceful that the mostly bogus asylum seekers get to take advantage of all the great facilities and the irish tax paying public are denied access to these same facilities.

Littlehorny

Remember going there couple of times as a kid and then going back as an adult and couldnt believe how small it was, kinda ruined the memory tbh. It must need millions spent on it at this stage to bring it up to scratch surely?

Mr Benevolent

juan.kerr wrote: »

Disgraceful that the mostly bogus asylum seekers get to take advantage of all the great facilities and the irish tax paying public are denied access to these same facilities.

What? Are you addled in your head or just strange?

Missymoohaa

I remember going there in 1974 for a week with my parents and relatives, we stayed in the apartments, i remember they were very dark green in colour and our block was way at the back. We were on the first floor and in the corner, I remember climbing in through a bedroom window thinking it was our apartment and arriving up into the sitting room of total strangers, with my Mam looking through the window at me in horror. Good Memories, I also remember that the Bay City Rollers were huge at the time and everyone wearing tartan trousers up around their ankles. We had a fantastic time.

Biggins

antz182 wrote: »

just seen this on fb....apparantly it's been bought by a UK company and may re-open in 2013....watch this space I say... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=224148514343697&set=a.209778065780742.49775.209771145781434&type=1#!/ButlinsMosney

If true that the place is bought, a serious amount of work will have to be done to the place, done by the equivalent of an army of engineers. The main buildings are sound but a lot of machinery/equipment will either have to be repaired/updated and/or brought in again (some original items were taken out when the camp changed its use).
All new lines/fridges/coolers for the bars (which too need to be updated) alone will have to be re-done completely too.

Open again (If true), I would say it would be closer to the end of 2014 and that would be lucky.

.jacksparrow.

hell yeahhhhhhhh!!!

CreepingDeath

A camp for asylum seekers right beside the rail line, and a proposal to build in incinerator in Dublin... sounded suspicious at the time.

Duggy747

Was a legend of a place, especially the big yellow wheel and the arcades that had the remote-controlled cars behind a glass window.

Now it looks like Pripyat, rotting away. Supposedly, a lot of the old arcade machines and cabinets are still there and working. Would love to get one of them as they'll either rot away or be destroyed.

Guy:Incognito

Confab wrote: »

What? Are you addled in your head or just strange?

Presumably he read this from an above post. http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/sex-and-drugs-for-sale-at-mosney-477063.html . Salt of the earth types housed in it.

Independant wrote:

"Of the 11 families I interviewed at the camp, all had a baby under 12 months of age and most made it clear that their youngest child was an Irish citizen. .

Wonder what the motivation is for having these kids? Especially when they were apparently living in Prision with substandard food and no money.

Independant wrote:

"The sooner I get out of this prison and am given my own house the better," said one woman.

The bloody cheek of the Irish government not giving her a house of her own straight away.:rolleyes:

Independant wrote:

"One young woman from the Ukraine ........ after a year her asylum application has not been dealt with yet..........She has a nine-month-old baby, and speaks to her husband every three months.

Independant wrote:

"Another woman I met from Moldova is here with her husband. He is working in the building trade in Galway. She admitted he has no permit.

Independant wrote:

"Another woman seeking asylum is a young widow who left Kenya ........She has been here for a year and she has a six-month-old child.

Independant wrote:

"He wanted to talk. He told me he was Nigerian and became irate, like a man waiting for a fix: "You write this in your fu***ng paper, we are only treated like s**t because we are black."

He refused to give me his name and then added: "They feed us s**t, I won't eat it, my children eat it, but I won't. The fu**ing place is like a prison and they give us f**k-all money."

Looking around his large chalet, I noticed that he had added many modern comforts to his temporary home.

While he was shouting about his life and how difficult it was, to my amazement he took what looked like ?1,000 from a drawer, placed it in his pocket and left, calling back: "Print what I said in your fu**ing paper." .

Independant wrote:

"As I left his chalet, one woman from the Congo told me: "Don't mind him - he sells drugs on the site and also in the town, he is a trouble-maker, be careful of him." .

Though the use of all the the facilities is debateable.

AnonoBoy

I can't wait to go back to Mosney and relive my youth.

Playing the arcade games, swimming in the pool, getting off with teenage girls.


...... eh..... maybe not.

Richard Hillman

It would be great if they brought it back, restored the place and modernised it but we all know the place will be over run by the skanger population. They will ruin it like they ruin everything.

Pumpkinseeds

We were forced to visit relatives in Louth when we were kids back in the 80's. Many's a time we were brought to Mosney. If the chlorine from the pool didn't burn the eyes out of your head just walking past the glass wall, then the stench of urine from an open chalet door would choke you. Having said that I loved the waltzers.

Babooshka

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

We were forced to visit relatives in Louth when we were kids back in the 80's. Many's a time we were brought to Mosney. If the chlorine from the pool didn't burn the eyes out of your head just walking past the glass wall, then the stench of urine from an open chalet door would choke you. Having said that I loved the waltzers.

I remember loads of black dirt at the bottom of the fountains and outdoor pool too...nostalgia has hit most people and it was a horrible hole, if you took most kids to it now as it was back then, they'd be ringing childline.

Grayson

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Presumably he read this from an above post. http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/sex-and-drugs-for-sale-at-mosney-477063.html . Salt of the earth types housed in it.

Wonder what the motivation is for having these kids? Especially when they were apparently living in Prision with substandard food and no money.


The bloody cheek of the Irish government not giving her a house of her own straight away.:rolleyes:


Though the use of all the the facilities is debateable.

Great article. Cutting edge journalism.

sue z

Hi Guys,

Having major Mosney nostalgia lately, did someone say that security would let you in for a nose?
Thinking of going on a roadtrip with the sister but its almost 3 hours away and don't want to bother if we wont be allowed in...
Also are the asylum seekers still there or gone? Will they be annoyed at us for going in and give us grief? Or is there enough security around to ensure that doesn't happen?

Any info. is much appreciated,
thanks in advance

LordSutch

J.Ball wrote: »

Mosney possibly re-opening?

But will it be back in the Butlins fold?

http://www.butlins.com/Images/46-96573_ButlinsLogo.png

Hootanany

That link is just a logo
Have all the refugees gone from Mosney now.

juan.kerr

Hootanany wrote: »

That link is just a logo
Have all the refugees gone from Mosney now.

Yes, transferred to Disneyland.

Hootanany

juan.kerr wrote: »

Yes, transferred to Disneyland.

Paris
Or
Florida

flutterflye

I used to love going to Butlins and Trobolgan.
But I went back to Trobolgan there about 3 years ago with my kids, thinking it would be great - but dear god was I wrong!
The place is such a kip - I wouldn't go again even if I was forced at gunpoint!
Can only imagine Butlins would also fall short of my childhood memories.

stoneill

It has been a while since I squeezed my arse cheeks up against a glass window.

Death and Taxes

IrishAm wrote: »

This article verifies your claims, Biggins.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/sex-and-drugs-for-sale-at-mosney-477063.html



They also receive clothing allowances and other payments which are funded by the local health board.

Of the 11 families I interviewed at the camp, all had a baby under 12 months of age and most made it clear that their youngest child was an Irish citizen.

The day the mothers leave the hospital, they collect top-of-the-range buggies, child seats and other equipment needed for a new born baby.

Yes and the SW buys them Mercedes cars, they get €1,000 a week for specialist food, and they have new buggy every week because the Bus eats their old one!
Some racist crap you peddle.

Omackeral

stoneill wrote: »

It has been a while since I squeezed my arse cheeks up against a glass window.

Not if the coffee table counts.... I've heard the stories.

stoneill

Omackeral wrote: »

Not if the coffee table counts.... I've heard the stories.

They promised never to tell!

juan.kerr

Hootanany wrote: »

Paris
Or
Florida

Florida, of course. No second rate amusement parks for these lads.

hadepsx

jesus d memories. am i dreaming or was there a slide that went down into a black hole??

delad

it would be good if they reopened it and added a theme park, a 10 pin bowling alley, a go-kart track, an ice rink, a paintball area, a casino, an indoor skiing centre.........probably not going to happen though

Nodin

I only vaguely remember it. What comes to mind is waiting all day excited to see a magic show. We go in, and theres this guy putting a stuffed rabbit in some contraption on the stage. He starts his act, and - shock horror - pulls out the stuffed rabbit "as if from nowhere". All the kids started booing and he lost the head. It was probably my first walk out.