Fireworks!

whatlliwear · 21-01-2013 8:06pm #1

There are some fab fireworks going off over the city at the moment

21-01-2013 8:07pm

What are they for?

joeKel73 · 21-01-2013 8:07pm

There's a fairly elaborate fireworks display going on in town for the last few mins. Anyone know what's it for? Hadn't heard anything.

Can only see the tops of it from here.

dilallio · 21-01-2013 8:08pm

What's the story with all the fireworks going off at the moment? Just caught a glimpse of some of the bigger ones. Looks good.

whatlliwear · 21-01-2013 8:10pm

No idea but they were really nice.. Poor animals will be terrified though.

evil_seed · 21-01-2013 8:11pm

Looked cool from my house. No idea though

21-01-2013 8:13pm

Looked like it was pretty much the city center from where I was.

ben.schlomo · 21-01-2013 8:13pm

Was brilliant, far better than the Volvo finale ones, looked like it was in the area near the Radisson from what i could see.

biko · 21-01-2013 8:14pm

Lol, three threads in as many minutes. Merged.
I don't know what they're for, don't think it was mentioned in the paper though.

James Forde · 21-01-2013 8:14pm

They were let off from lough atalia

dilallio · 21-01-2013 8:22pm

biko wrote: »

Lol, three threads in as many minutes. Merged.

Fastest mod in town

evil_seed · 21-01-2013 8:23pm

anyone?

Birroc · 21-01-2013 8:27pm

Chinese New Year is Feb 10th.

O'Bama maybe?

BhoscaCapall · 21-01-2013 8:47pm

Birroc wrote: »

Chinese New Year is Feb 10th.

O'Bama maybe?

What's Obama got to do with it?

It's MLK Day in America, if we're scraping the barrel.

Randall Floyd · 21-01-2013 9:03pm

Related to The Gathering?

Seaneh · 21-01-2013 10:28pm

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

What's Obama got to do with it?

It's MLK Day in America, if we're scraping the barrel.

inauguration day

BhoscaCapall · 21-01-2013 11:42pm

You'd hope Ireland wasn't still so far up American's hole that they'd have firework displays for that...

thesandeman · 22-01-2013 12:25am

Scared the crap out of me. Was in the middle of my siesta. Strangely enough dog didn't seem to notice and those things usually drive her nuts.
It definitely wasn't pre-publicised anywhere I've been reading.

Maybe it was our councillors celebrating getting through a meeting without an argument :-)

Seaneh · 22-01-2013 1:16am

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

You'd hope Ireland wasn't still so far up American's hole that they'd have firework displays for that...

Or maybe there's over a thousand american ex-pats in Galway and it was some of them?

:rolleyes:

Asmodean · 22-01-2013 1:18am

I nearly sh*t myself in work. Didn't have a clue what was going on. Quite bizzare that there's been no definite explanation yet!

BhoscaCapall · 22-01-2013 1:20am

Seaneh wrote: »

Or maybe there's over a thousand american ex-pats in Galway and it was some of them?

:rolleyes:

Oh right yeah I suppose one of the ex-pats could have imported several fireworks and paid for a professional display in their back garden. I mean they happen all over the city on the 4th July. Of course.

Seaneh · 22-01-2013 1:24am

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

Oh right yeah I suppose one of the ex-pats could have imported several fireworks and paid for a professional display in their back garden. I mean they happen all over the city on the 4th July. Of course.

Why would it have to be a professional display?

It was only a few minutes of fireworks and they could have easily been bought up north and loaded into the back of a car.

What went off was likely only a few hundred quids worth.

It could have been ****ing anything. Someone might have a bit over excited about their kids birthday.

BhoscaCapall · 22-01-2013 2:06am

Ok bud relax. They seemed pretty baller to me.

confuseddotcom · 22-01-2013 4:12am

What's baller?

BhoscaCapall · 22-01-2013 4:15am

confuseddotcom wrote: »

What's baller?

Kittywake · 22-01-2013 10:12am

They were let off from one of the floating platforms on Lough Atalia. Saw a boat out there at around 4pm with a few guys and a kid. Didn't know what they were doing there at the time but when the fireworks went off from there later it explained it. Still don't know why though.

Iwannahurl · 22-01-2013 12:38pm

99% sure the fireworks were for celebrating Obama's inauguration, as a couple of posters have said already.

Noisy no doubt, but could be a lot worse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGxpdP3ZbWQ

fifib · 22-01-2013 1:04pm

heard yer man on galway bay fm this morning asking if anyone knew why they were let off

G Power · 22-01-2013 1:21pm

Iwannahurl wrote: »

99% sure the fireworks were for celebrating Obama's inauguration, as a couple of posters have said already.

Noisy no doubt, but could be a lot worse!

if this is true i suppose it makes a nice change that rockets are flying from surface to air instead of the other way around where America is concerned, gotta love another 4 years of unmanned drone attacks!!

Chicken1 · 22-01-2013 1:28pm

G Power wrote: »

if this is true i suppose it makes a nice change that rockets are flying from surface to air instead of the other way around where America is concerned, gotta love another 4 years of unmanned drone attacks!!

Got to love this, just has to get the bit about the drones in, any excuse to have a go at the US

Talk about Anti American

inisboffin · 22-01-2013 1:47pm

Sounds like it was probably an ex-pat group who put them on.

From what I heard (I was inside so heard, didn't see them), they were going off for a good chunk of time. Coupled with the fact that people said they looked quite impressive, that adds up to more than a few hundred quid's worth of fireworks IMO.
I remember how 50 quids worth of 'Moore St' fireworks was gone in a minute, so am basing my calculations scientifically on that*!

(*that and working on an event where I saw the fireworks budget)

Fireworks!

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