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    #3302
    Adiboo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Was it in the corner unit across from Polymaths years ago or am I making that up?

    Does anyone remember pet shop behind the Mall on Milk Market Lane? Think it was Bobbys. Remember my nan bringing me in there.


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    #3303
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Adiboo wrote: »
    Was it in the corner unit across from Polymaths years ago or am I making that up?

    Does anyone remember pet shop behind the Mall on Milk Market Lane? Think it was Bobbys. Remember my nan bringing me in there.

    Its further up from Polymaths, just a couple of doors down from the back of Bailey's bar, closer to Ashe street. I don't remember it being in the corner unit, but that's not to say it wasn't.


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    #3304
    Herpes Free Since03
    Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭Herpes Free Since03


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Its further up from Polymaths, just a couple of doors down from the back of Bailey's bar, closer to Ashe street. I don't remember it being in the corner unit, but that's not to say it wasn't.

    Over 30 years ago, that's where the original pet store began


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    #3305
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    The restoration of the diving boards in Fenit have been approved! This piece of text has been copied from a post by Billy Ryle on Facebook this evening:

    'FENIT DIVING BOARDS ARE COMING BACK
    There was great news on Friday last, 18th April when the Restore Fenit Diving Boards Campaign (RFDBC) committee was given the green light from Kerry County Council to restore the diving boards at the bathing slip in Fenit. The sides reached agreement at a meeting in Áras an Chontae, Rathass, Tralee.
    The positive response from Kerry County Council means that Fenit can now look forward to the restoration of a much loved and badly missed sports and leisure facility.
    Planning permission for the project will now be applied for. When the construction is complete, Kerry County Council will include the diving boards in its foreshore licence.
    The project will be entirely community based and financed by grant aid and local contribution.
    The five people who led the campaign and successfully negotiated with Kerry County Council – Liam Doyle, Paddy Kissane, Mike O Neill, John Edwards and Billy Ryle - will continue to oversee the project right through to completion.'


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    #3306
    kev_Makaveli
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭kev_Makaveli


    Great news. Loved them as a kid. Just hope the minority don't scupper it for the rest.


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    #3307
    Ciarrai76
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    kev_Makaveli wrote: »
    Great news. Loved them as a kid. Just hope the minority don't scupper it for the rest.

    I don’t think I ever jumped off them! I think I was too much of a chicken! I do remember being out there a few times with friends.


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    #3308
    Jimmy Dags
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 172 ✭✭Jimmy Dags


    Huge health and safety issues with putting them back. Who will take the wrap if some dies off them? Will anyone who want to use them have to sign a declaration?


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    #3309
    xxyyzz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭xxyyzz


    Jimmy Dags wrote: »
    Huge health and safety issues with putting them back. Who will take the wrap if some dies off them? Will anyone who want to use them have to sign a declaration?

    I guess we'll just have to take that chance.


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    #3310
    kev_Makaveli
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭kev_Makaveli


    Not a health and safety risk at all once common sense is used. At high tide the slip is plenty deep to accommodate diving.

    Its the morons who dive as the tide is starting to come in that would hinder it. I dove head first off the top one when they were in place years ago and never suffered any injuries or DIED.


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    #3311
    BPKS
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    Jimmy Dags wrote: »
    Huge health and safety issues with putting them back. Who will take the wrap if some dies off them? Will anyone who want to use them have to sign a declaration?

    Kerry County Council (in other words you & I, the taxpayer) will end up paying out when some fool injures himself on this and finds a good enough solicitor who points out some minor flaw that makes the Council liable.

    On another note, does this mean we will have Paschal Sheehy reporting from Fenit the next time there is a big storm warning people not to go into the sea.


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    #3312
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    From Kerry County Council ‘s Facebook page.

    From Monday next, 28th May, the Brandon Car Park in Tralee (opposite the Brandon Hotel) will be closed for approximately one week to facilitate resurfacing works. Parking, if required, will be facilitated at Fels Point and will be signposted.


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    #3313
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    A planning notice has gone up for old Shindig unit next to Shaws to convert that unit to a bar/restaurant with an upstairs terrace that juts out over Bill Booley Lane. Sounds interesting. I think this is a project being run by the Kirby Brogue Inn family. Another dining/socialising option for Tralee!!


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    #3314
    Ciarrai76
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    ongarboy wrote: »
    A planning notice has gone up for old Shindig unit next to Shaws to convert that unit to a bar/restaurant with an upstairs terrace that juts out over Bill Booley Lane. Sounds interesting. I think this is a project being run by the Kirby Brogue Inn family. Another dining/socialising option for Tralee!!

    Yeah it’s the Kirby/Cotter family who bought it. There used to be a bar Licence there many years ago, so it’s probably easy enough to get one for there again.


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    #3315
    Chancer3001
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    Re the diving boards,

    If anyone is familiar with Galway they'll know the diving boards are one of the key attractions of the city. Go any time of day in any season and you'll find swimmers in there.

    There's a fantastic community spirit there too.

    Let's hope fenit gets the same and doesn't attract compo culture morons.

    Galway would have a much higher number of people there and the council has never looked at shutting them down


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    #3316
    cute geoge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭cute geoge


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Yeah it’s the Kirby/Cotter family who bought it. There used to be a bar Licence there many years ago, so it’s probably easy enough to get one for there again.

    Was that the coin bar and then the coin off lienence


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    #3317
    Herpes Free Since03
    Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭Herpes Free Since03


    cute geoge wrote: »
    Was that the coin bar and then the coin off lienence

    No, its the old shindig shop, it's at one side of Bill Booleys lane and Shaws is on the other side


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    #3318
    deuces wild
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    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Yeah it’s the Kirby/Cotter family who bought it. There used to be a bar Licence there many years ago, so it’s probably easy enough to get one for there again.


    Not so easy to get a license.Under Irish Statute law if it has not had a license for 5 years it can never get another http://connollysofleap.com/our-story/ had that issue and fought to get a theatre license.


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    #3319
    Quackster
    Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 5,775 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quackster


    deuces wild wrote: »
    Not so easy to get a license.Under Irish Statute law if it has not had a license for 5 years it can never get another http://connollysofleap.com/our-story/ had that issue and fought to get a theatre license.

    Plus the fact that new pub licences can't be created and any that become available when pubs close down get snapped up by supermarkets and the like to add to the proliferation of off-licences.


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    #3320
    Herpes Free Since03
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    Eugie Creagh of the Ballymac Bar in Boherbee has passed away, ill remember him as always being dapperly dressed and a consummate host.


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    #3321
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Herpes Free Since03 wrote: »
    Eugie Creagh of the Ballymac Bar in Boherbee has passed away, ill remember him as always being dapperly dressed and a consummate host.

    Ah that’s sad news. Condolences to his family. RIP


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    #3322
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Anyone attend the races today?

    Must have been a good crowd at it with the good weather


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    #3323
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    I was shopping in a Dunnes NCR on Saturday & was impressed with their new trolleys! A whole new bunch of fancy looking trolleys now there. They have cup holders & all! Hopefully they won’t cause static shocks like the old ones! My life’s is very boring the fact that I’m impressed with new trolleys! Haha!


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    #3324
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Kind of Tralee related..............bizarre!!

    https://www.thesun.ie/news/2631125/ohio-rose-tralee-shot-dead-witches/


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    #3325
    SecretsOfEarth
    Registered Users Posts: 967 ✭✭✭SecretsOfEarth


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    I was shopping in a Dunnes NCR on Saturday & was impressed with their new trolleys! A whole new bunch of fancy looking trolleys now there. They have cup holders & all! Hopefully they won’t cause static shocks like the old ones! My life’s is very boring the fact that I’m impressed with new trolleys! Haha!

    They've had them in Limerick for a while and was wondering when Tralee would get them - hopefully less prone to tailing in a certain direction for the whole shop!


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    #3326
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    SecretsOfEarth wrote: »
    They've had them in Limerick for a while and was wondering when Tralee would get them - hopefully less prone to tailing in a certain direction for the whole shop!


    I must say they look very smart, must have been costly! I was so sick of getting static shocks off the old ones, and off my poor baby who was sat on them! lol


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    #3327
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Mick Hucknell of Simply Red fame was dining in the Brogue last night!!

    http://traleetoday.ie/simply-reds-mick-hucknall-enjoys-the-brogues-hospitality/


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    #3328
    jimmytwotimes 2013
    Registered Users Posts: 4,769 ✭✭✭jimmytwotimes 2013


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Mick Hucknell of Simply Red fame was dining in the Brogue last night!!

    http://traleetoday.ie/simply-reds-mick-hucknall-enjoys-the-brogues-hospitality/

    Waiter: something to get you started?

    Mick: we're leaving


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    #3329
    Herpes Free Since03
    Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭Herpes Free Since03


    jimmytwotimes 2013 wrote: »
    Waiter: something to get you started?

    Mick: we're leaving


    Waiter: Sorry, who are you?


    Mick "If you don't know me by now"


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    #3330
    JonathonS
    Registered Users Posts: 702 ✭✭✭JonathonS


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    I was so sick of getting static shocks off the old ones, and off my poor baby who was sat on them! lol

    It was you discharging to the trolley!

    The problem is caused by wearing rubber-soled shoes. The friction of the trolley wheels builds up a charge on you, it can't go to ground through the rubber, so it discharges next time you touch a metal object.

    You get the same problem in cars - sliding on the seat to get out creates the charge, and you then feel a shock as you touch the door to close it. Synthetic carpets and door handles are another favourite.


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    #3331
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    JonathonS wrote: »
    It was you giving discharging to the trolley!

    The problem is caused by wearing rubber-soled shoes. The friction of the trolley wheels builds up a charge on you, it can't go to ground through the rubber, so it discharges next time you touch a metal object.

    You get the same problem in cars - sliding on the seat to get out creates the charge, and you then feel a shock as you touch the door to close it. Synthetic carpets and door handles are another favourite.

    I hate it! Same happens in Penney’s. I hate touching the button for the lift, or if I even touch my little boy while he’s in his pram, I end up with shock!


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