Naas Chat Thread

Anatom

wilser wrote: »

I'd also like to know.I'm in Sallins over 20 years and I've no idea what they are talking about

Same here...!

yermandan

Thomasirl123 wrote: »

What type of anti social behaviour is in Sallins?

To be fair the poster said 'maybe' !

I'm in Sallins 20 years and the worst I've seen is poor auld Joe playing his one string guitar with an amp at Super Valu and the train station. Other than that there has been next to nothing here anti-social wise.

2lazytogetup

wilser wrote: »

I'd also like to know.I'm in Sallins over 20 years and I've no idea what they are talking about

Sallins playground was trashed before official opening. Last time I was in sallins playground two groups of teenagers had a serious fight. No blood but heavy punches. Had to explain to my 6yr old nephew who doesn't want to go back.

Suppose nowhere else to hang around when you are a teenager in sallins and it wasn't too serious a fight

you2008

Went a walk near the big Tesco around about 8pm last night, OMG. The air pollution almost killed me.:eek::eek::eek:

twomonkeys

2lazytogetup wrote: »

Sallins playground was trashed before official opening. Last time I was in sallins playground two groups of teenagers had a serious fight. No blood but heavy punches. Had to explain to my 6yr old nephew who doesn't want to go back.

Suppose nowhere else to hang around when you are a teenager in sallins and it wasn't too serious a fight

So, not a whole lot different to the playground in Monread then?

Tomrota

wilser wrote: »

I'd also like to know.I'm in Sallins over 20 years and I've no idea what they are talking about

I love how that’s the only part of my post people read. I just said maybe Sallins cause on my few times in sallins I’ve seen people clearly on drugs and personally have been beaten to a shred for no reason while walking through Sallins to the train station and the gardai never caught them. That’s why I said “maybe sallins”.

coffeepls

Tomrota wrote: »

I love how that’s the only part of my post people read. I just said maybe Sallins cause on my few times in sallins I’ve seen people clearly on drugs and personally have been beaten to a shred for no reason while walking through Sallins to the train station and the gardai never caught them. That’s why I said “maybe sallins”.

I honestly don’t know how you managed to be so unfortunate. I have been living in Sallins for over 15 years, used to be on the train every weekday too. I honestly find Sallins to be incredibly quiet. Have never seen any anti social behaviour. I spent years living in Dublin City centre and working there, and I know what anti social behaviour is.
Sorry to hear that you were beaten up, but also baffled at your misfortune.

Tomrota

Tomrota wrote: »

You don’t even have to go into the park, just step outside your house for five seconds and you’ll get the smell. The place is swamped in fumes. Smells like there’re about 100 bonfires burning at once. Absolute disgrace, can’t imagine how many people will be getting asthma, lung cancer, etc. as a result.

I actually love the smell of wood or peat fires and smoke from chimneys never really bothered me through the years- but the sort of smells i've been getting recently, people must be burning something else- I'm convinced it's those compressed logs- not sure what brand or what they're made of, but there's definitely a different smell out there, not pleasant at all and yes, catches the throat- smells a bit like old bins.

scwazrh

A lot of it is caused by badly installed stoves that have chimney flues that are too short. If you notice stove flues that are only going as high as the 1st floor instead of above the roof , they will be adding substantially to the air pollution of the immediate area

Kaizer Sosa

The air pollution is really bad in Naas. I've moved here recently having lived in Dublin for a long number of years and I just never noticed anything as bad in Dublin all my years there. It's not just Monread either. Sartro Park and Teampull Cearach are other blackspots I've noticed for it. Horrible really as I hate taking our baby out after dark in Winter as I'm afraid of the effect on her lungs.

I really wish the government would incentivise switching to more sustainable, healthier fuels but fat chance of that after the pandemic. I really can't believe people are minimising its effect - it has legitimately bad health impacts. If you try to avoid the residential areas, you get choked on diesel fumes on the ring roads, it's really hard to get some fresh air within the 5k of our house.

WalshLaLi

Hello,
I am sure this is the wrong group, but would anybody have the link to the thread about Abbottfiel Estate in Ballinagappa Road in Clane? Thanks

2lazytogetup

twomonkeys wrote: »

So, not a whole lot different to the playground in Monread then?

no, ive never noticed fighting in monread playground. been in sallins playground about 4 times, and saw that fight i referred to above. ive been in monread playground hundreds of times with my nephew and nothing.

Karlos77

2lazytogetup wrote: »

no, ive never noticed fighting in monread playground. been in sallins playground about 4 times, and saw that fight i referred to above. ive been in monread playground hundreds of times with my nephew and nothing.

Monread playground is 20 times bigger than sallins playground ..so unless yiu are popping by in a helicopter to monread playground u cant be seeing everything going on

Ash.J.Williams

I’ll be in monread playground tomorrow at 4pm with my 9yo if anyone is looking for a fight 20quid double or quits , she’s tough enough to be fair.

Fall_Guy

2lazytogetup wrote: »

no, ive never noticed fighting in monread playground. been in sallins playground about 4 times, and saw that fight i referred to above. ive been in monread playground hundreds of times with my nephew and nothing.

In fairness I'm in sallins playground every day and I've never seen anything even close to resembling a fight take place, so you were very unlucky and it's most definitely not representative of the atmosphere there normally.

There are older kids in there sometimes with nothing better to be doing, but they are nice kids and will jump out of the way apologetically if they are even holding up a swing from a younger kid if you ask them to move. Definitely have never experienced anything close to anti-social behaviour there during the day (there have obviously been issues with some vandalism in the evenings but I know that is an all too common occurrence up and down the country, and the reason that there was calls for cctv at Monread playground).

I'm in sallins a good few years now and like others have said, I've yet to see anything that would come under the category of antisocial behaviour, and certainly no violent incidents, so while it's really unfortunate that a couple of posters here seem to have witnessed them in passing, they aren't reflective of the general vibe of the area.

Sallins is the sex Capitol of Ireland.
That's official

Ash.J.Williams

BrownFinger wrote: »

Sallins is the sex Capitol of Ireland.
That's official

All it needs now is a weed coffee shop and it’s our own little Amsterdam

anewme

This is a a community thread and would be great to keep it that way.

Ash.J.Williams

anewme wrote: »

This is a a community thread and would be great to keep it that way.

Keep out the riff Raff eh

anewme

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Keep out the riff Raff eh

I’m sure there are many more threads for ‘brown finger “to eulogise locations as the sex “capitol” of Ireland.

Karlos77

Why sex capital

coffeepls

Karlos77 wrote: »

Why sex capital

It was probably over a decade ago now that an apartment was raided for being a brothel. The tabloids had a field day. I can’t even find ref to it on the internet anymore.

Anatom

The brothel was there alright, in the Waterways, but not for very long. There had been a long history of girls setting themselves up in business in temporary, rented accommodation in Naas at around the same time as Punchestown Festival was on. They were in Sallins that year. I'd say its more than 15 years ago now.

Ash.J.Williams

coffeepls wrote: »

It was probably over a decade ago now that an apartment was raided for being a brothel. The tabloids had a field day. I can’t even find ref to it on the internet anymore.

Unfortunately it’s not just a one off over decade ago , every town has significant sex traffic passing through

coffeepls

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Unfortunately it’s not just a one off over decade ago , every town has significant sex traffic passing through

Well I’m just answering the question re the ‘sex capital’ business. It was news headlines re Sallins over a decade ago.

To Alcohol

BrownFinger wrote: »

Sallins is the sex Capitol of Ireland.
That's official

And Naas is the coffee shop capital of Ireland.

mightybashful

To Alcohol wrote: »

And Naas is the coffee shop capital of Ireland.

Yes. But Mr Price is on his way here

Streetlamp

Anyone know what the spot lights were in the sky last night?

twomonkeys

Streetlamp wrote: »

Anyone know what the spot lights were in the sky last night?

The Hill of Allen was lit up last night from 6pm- midnight to commemorate St Brigids Day today.

Carrie6OD

Does anyone know where I can buy a St. Brigids cross today?