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    #2462
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    What a beautiful day for Feile an Blath! Going to head down to it tomorrow with the baba!


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    #2463
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    The Kilflynn Enchanted Fairy festival is on this weekend! Info here https://www.facebook.com/events/1082469721863260/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%223%22%2C%22ref_newsfeed_story_type%22%3A%22regular%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%22361%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D


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    #2464
    pickled101
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭pickled101


    I have to say changing Denny street to two-way traffic has really opened up the town and has to be good for business?


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    #2465
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Was home at the weekend for the first time since the traffic changeover.  Yes, it does look better and already you can see what the street paving will look like in the Mall as it has been completed outside some of the shops. Looking forward to the finished product.  However, when driving down Ivy Terrace towards Princes Street,  the idiot driver before me didn't stop at the first red light well before Counihan's corner or immediately prior to the yellow box but proceeded to the actual corner (ie stalling on the yellow box).  This meant a van turning left from Fabric onto Ivy Terrace couldn't complete his manoeuvre.  No amount of beeping by the van would prompt the idiot to reverse to give the van clearance.  He appeared oblivious to the fact he was in the wrong.  I'm guessing this is a regular occurrence.....


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    #2466
    BPKS
    Registered Users Posts: 17,019 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    Is the road near the surface car park (running along the underground car park) down from the Tesco express also called Ivy Terrace?

    Was crossing the pedestrian lights there from the Park last week and a car turning left at this junction towards Denny St came straight through our Green Pedestrian light. Afterwards I had a look and if you are turning left there you cants see the red light, the 'Green Man' would be you only indication that you shouldnt be turning there.

    An accident waiting to happen.


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    #2467
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Saw a guy right up at the top of the yellow box beside counahins the other day. Obviously another person who doesn't know what a yellow box means! Plenty of them around this town! Always see it on JJ Sheehy road when trying to turn into or out of Slatts carpark. There is usually some fool or two blocking it by stopping right in the yellow box! They always seem to avoid looking at you and pretend not to notice!


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    #2468
    kn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,867 ✭✭✭kn


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Saw a guy right up at the top of the yellow box beside counahins the other day. Obviously another person who doesn't know what a yellow box means! Plenty of them around this town! Always see it on JJ Sheehy road when trying to turn into or out of Slatts carpark. There is usually some fool or two blocking it by stopping right in the yellow box! They always seem to avoid looking at you and pretend not to notice!

    The one outside Pres on Castle Street is always blocked up as well at peak times for the school.


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    #2469
    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Hey folks,
    Anyone have a notion where I would be able to pick up a Nintendo Switch around Kerry? It's the young fellas birthday this weekend and that's what he wants. Been trying to get one for the last three weeks and I keep being told that they will be in stock in the next "week or two". I have been trying all the big places (Argos, gamestop and Smyths) daily, and a lot of the other places that you would think might stock consoles (Tesco, harvey normans, currys etc) don't stock them, They have one in one of the second hand shops in town, but it's priced nearly 100 euro above retail. He knows they are hard to get at the moment, but I would love to have one for him on his actual birthday.

    Cheers


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    #2470
    BPKS
    Registered Users Posts: 17,019 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    oeb wrote: »
    Hey folks,
    Anyone have a notion where I would be able to pick up a Nintendo Switch around Kerry? It's the young fellas birthday this weekend and that's what he wants. Been trying to get one for the last three weeks and I keep being told that they will be in stock in the next "week or two". I have been trying all the big places (Argos, gamestop and Smyths) daily, and a lot of the other places that you would think might stock consoles (Tesco, harvey normans, currys etc) don't stock them, They have one in one of the second hand shops in town, but it's priced nearly 100 euro above retail. He knows they are hard to get at the moment, but I would love to have one for him on his actual birthday.

    Cheers

    I think you are out of luck really. Out of stock everywhere (even online from Amazon/Game etc) until mid July.

    Dont buy the 2nd hand one, not worth it and probably no warranty with it.

    Its worth waiting for besides buying something else if your kid is old enough to understand that.


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    #2471
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    oeb wrote: »
    Hey folks,
    Anyone have a notion where I would be able to pick up a Nintendo Switch around Kerry? It's the young fellas birthday this weekend and that's what he wants. Been trying to get one for the last three weeks and I keep being told that they will be in stock in the next "week or two". I have been trying all the big places (Argos, gamestop and Smyths) daily, and a lot of the other places that you would think might stock consoles (Tesco, harvey normans, currys etc) don't stock them, They have one in one of the second hand shops in town, but it's priced nearly 100 euro above retail. He knows they are hard to get at the moment, but I would love to have one for him on his actual birthday.

    Cheers

    I would give him a voucher for Smyth's so that when it comes back in stock he knows he can go buy one. I'm sure he will understand.


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    #2472
    Brock Stevens
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    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Saw a guy right up at the top of the yellow box beside counahins the other day. Obviously another person who doesn't know what a yellow box means! Plenty of them around this town! Always see it on JJ Sheehy road when trying to turn into or out of Slatts carpark. There is usually some fool or two blocking it by stopping right in the yellow box! They always seem to avoid looking at you and pretend not to notice!

    Something I have noticed with the ivy terrace/princes street junction is if you have come down Denny street and are stopped at the lights on ivy terrace. When they go green the traffic starts moving. For the cars turning left towards the Brandon there is a sizeable pothole/uneven surface on the corner from some roadworks a couple of months ago. When drivers see this most will naturally slow down to avoid damaging car. If turning right to go by Dominicans sometimes there is traffic build up that won't be seen till you exit ivy terrace that also slows down traffic. Now imagine being the 2nd car behind them you enter the new box junction on a green light the cars in front slow down slightly then light goes red, what do you do continue onto princes street, which you can't see either way till you enter it or do you stop and wait for next green. Flaw in the system. Of course there still are some that just do as they always did and stop at the corner anyway. Just my opinion on the high volume of cars all the way up.


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    #2473
    bobdcow
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭bobdcow


    I don't think all the drivers deliberately go as far as Counihans into the yellow box, when the lights turn red you can be easily caught, I think a timer would be handy on the countdown to red.

    On another note I've seen it, if you don't pull right up to the traffic light at Four Star the traffic lights don't seem to recognise your there. We were stuck in a tail back at those lights last Sunday and there was approx a meter in it, between the van and the traffic light/sensor. It took an irate bus driver to get out of his bus and yell at the man before he would move up to the line, and then it turned green, straight away.


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    #2474
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    bobdcow wrote: »
    I don't think all the drivers deliberately go as far as Counihans into the yellow box, when the lights turn red you can be easily caught, I think a timer would be handy on the countdown to red.

    On another note I've seen it, if you don't pull right up to the traffic light at Four Star the traffic lights don't seem to recognise your there. We were stuck in a tail back at those lights last Sunday and there was approx a meter in it, between the van and the traffic light/sensor. It took an irate bus driver to get out of his bus and yell at the man before he would move up to the line, and then it turned green, straight away.

    There seems to be a lot of teething problems with those lights. They are still causing traffic delays. They really need to sort them out.


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    #2475
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    Seems the taxi drivers are on a bit of a go slow in town, lots of beeping of horns and slow procession thru town


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    #2476
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Erik Shin wrote: »
    Seems the taxi drivers are on a bit of a go slow in town, lots of beeping of horns and slow procession thru town

    They were on about that on the radio this morning


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    #2477
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,092 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Anyone got a spare Kerry Gems? I asked the inlaws to keep me one, for our 2 week holiday in July, but they never bothered.


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    #2478
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Gardai are looking for info about a hit & run in clash recently.

    http://traleetoday.ie/gardai-investigate-hit-run-incident-young-girl-injured/


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    #2479
    JB81
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭JB81


    Just wondering if anyone has taken their little ones to attend the Lego camps, i seen them advertised on Facebook. Abbeydorney, Listowel, Ballylongford, Tralee I would presume as well.
    My son is 3.5 and there are no suitable summer camps for his age.

    Has anyone any experience,

    Also any mother baby groups or activities that any knows off, apart from the normal community run sessions?
    Anywhere in Tralee, Killarney or North Kerry?


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    #2480
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    JB81 wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone has taken their little ones to attend the Lego camps, i seen them advertised on Facebook. Abbeydorney, Listowel, Ballylongford, Tralee I would presume as well.
    My son is 3.5 and there are no suitable summer camps for his age.

    Has anyone any experience,

    Also any mother baby groups or activities that any knows off, apart from the normal community run sessions?
    Anywhere in Tralee, Killarney or North Kerry?

    I've heard the lego groups are good. I think I know someone who's brought their son to it.

    I have personally only done a baby massage group with my little one, but since then I've not really done anything else and he's almost 1.


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    #2481
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    I see the grass verges all the way from Forge Cross roundabout to Ballygarry roundabout are still overgrown & haven't been touched since we first mentioned it here at the start of May! It looks so bad. How do the council expect the town to improve in the tidy town status with that!?


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    #2482
    SecretsOfEarth
    Registered Users Posts: 967 ✭✭✭SecretsOfEarth


    Grass on bypass near IT could really do with attention too, it looks quite ridiculous with it being a major road in the town and approaching peak tourism season!


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    #2483
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    SecretsOfEarth wrote: »
    Grass on bypass near IT could really do with attention too, it looks quite ridiculous with it being a major road in the town and approaching peak tourism season!

    Yeah that's where I'm talking about. It's awful looking. What is going on that it's being neglected so badly!?


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    #2484
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Dublin Coach update

    Attention: Stop location change for Tralee M7 service!

    The new stop is in front of the Tralee Municipal District Office (County Council) building, directly across the road from our current stop.

    We will start to use this stop from 1.00am this Thursday, the 29th June. There is no change to our departure or arrival times.


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    #2485
    SecretsOfEarth
    Registered Users Posts: 967 ✭✭✭SecretsOfEarth


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Yeah that's where I'm talking about. It's awful looking. What is going on that it's being neglected so badly!?

    Sorry yeah you were, I didn't read your post right and I thought you meant Castleisland road near Ballygarry. It's ridiculous at this stage, it looks worse because the grass inside the IT fences is so well maintained!!


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    #2486
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Dublin Coach update

    Attention: Stop location change for Tralee M7 service!

    The new stop is in front of the Tralee Municipal District Office (County Council) building, directly across the road from our current stop.

    We will start to use this stop from 1.00am this Thursday, the 29th June. There is no change to our departure or arrival times.

    How are people meant to deal with this? Firstly the roadworks.... now this!! The town's gone mad I tell ya!


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    #2487
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Dublin Coach update

    Attention: Stop location change for Tralee M7 service!

    The new stop is in front of the Tralee Municipal District Office (County Council) building, directly across the road from our current stop.

    We will start to use this stop from 1.00am this Thursday, the 29th June. There is no change to our departure or arrival times.



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    #2488
    xxyyzz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭xxyyzz


    Erik Shin wrote: »
    How are people meant to deal with this? Firstly the roadworks.... now this!! The town's gone mad I tell ya!

    Don't want to be interfering with Kerry Group's view.


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    #2489
    kn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,867 ✭✭✭kn


    Erik Shin wrote: »
    How are people meant to deal with this? Firstly the roadworks.... now this!! The town's gone mad I tell ya!

    I agree. Having to cross the road is just madness I tells ye! :p


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    #2490
    theaceofspies
    Registered Users Posts: 577 ✭✭✭theaceofspies


    Now we really have proof of who runs this county 1. Kerry Group 2. the GAA (sponsored by No.1) 3. Anyone with vested interests in no.'s 1 & 2 (probably also beneficiaries/members of PS union) 4. the rest of Kerry's inhabitants

    Perestroika Kerry stile. Is it any wonder out brightest and best emigrated a long time ago.


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    #2491
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    theaceofspies wrote: »
    Now we really have proof of who runs this county 1. Kerry Group 2. the GAA (sponsored by No.1) 3. Anyone with vested interests in no.'s 1 & 2 (probably also beneficiaries/members of PS union) 4. the rest of Kerry's inhabitants

    Perestroika Kerry stile. Is it any wonder out brightest and best emigrated a long time ago.

    How come you're still here oh wise one?


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