The midlands - say something nice

warsaw2018

down de bohom a de rooaaad

Archeron

That sculpture on the M6 that looks like the various stages of Pacman eating a ghost, and the one on the M4 that looks like a giant polo mint making a break for it by rolling down a hill.

warsaw2018

croagh patrick

Roger Hassenforder

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

At least it's not Cork.

Reported.
You fcuking langer

satguy

Been living in the Midlands for 25years,, Last 12years in Portlaoise, Have been very very happy.

If Portlaoise had an airport, I would never have drive up the M7 again..

Mailcoachinn

Slieve Bloom Mountains,
A beach (no, really I’m serious),
Emo Court & Gardens,
Tracey’s Bar,
Rathdaire Lake,
The Heath,
Abbeyleix,
Stradbally,
Eddie Kirwan’s Pub,
Kavanagh’s,
Swimming in the Nore in Castletown,

That’s County Laois alone & even then I could go on...

Richard Hillman

No jellyfish

satguy

No M50

freshpopcorn

Newbridge is a handy town for shopping!

Ian OB

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I live there. :P

Me too. It's great!ðŸ‘

Quazzie

JayZeus wrote: »

You can get to Naas for a choppy-changey haircut and a visit to Doo-nays Boutique with ease.

It'd take a Jackeen to think Naas is in the midlands

Quazzie

Mailcoachinn wrote: »

Slieve Bloom Mountains,
A beach (no, really I’m serious),
Emo Court & Gardens,
Tracey’s Bar,
Rathdaire Lake,
The Heath,
Abbeyleix,
Stradbally,
Eddie Kirwan’s Pub,
Kavanagh’s,
Swimming in the Nore in Castletown,

That’s County Laois alone & even then I could go on...

Where is the beach in Laois?

bodhrandude

Life Festival, Mullingar, Westmeath
Body&Soul Festival, Clonmellon, Westmeath.
Electric Picnic Festival, Stradbally, County Laois.

Mailcoachinn

Quazzie wrote: »

Where is the beach in Laois?

Just outside Portarlington. Nicknamed the “Costa del Sod”. Have enjoyed many a summer day there...

Donald Trump

Deleted User wrote: »

... sure, isn't that one of the reasons for the housing crisis in Dublin? Everyone wants to live near their Mammy. :rolleyes:

Not atall


It's all the bleedin' refugees coming in from desperate places like Carlow and Offaly

JohnnyFlash

Uisneach is a pretty cool place. It's the highest point in Westmeath, so bring climbing gear and bottled oxygen if attempting a solo ascent.

Cool guided tours there at the weekends. The tour guide is a genuinely good story teller, if you are into mythology and legend.

http://uisneach.ie/

Would personally recommend you avoid any of the more crusty events held there, but to each their own.

mfceiling

The wife's from there.

mojesius

I married a Midlands man. Fine man too, so he is

John_Rambo

Quazzie wrote: »

It'd take a Jackeen to think Naas is in the midlands

I was going to mention Pollardstown Fen as a unique and pretty unexplored midland attraction, but I'm afraid it will be dismissed by the Dublin obsessed person (like Quazzie here) that will insist it's not a midland attraction, but another East coast jewel instead.


Is the fen in or out?? Is the pretty impressive Curragh landscape in or out?

Charles Babbage

Not many **** seagulls.

ewc78

Mailcoachinn wrote: »

Slieve Bloom Mountains,
A beach (no, really I’m serious),
Emo Court & Gardens,
Tracey’s Bar,
Rathdaire Lake,
The Heath,
Abbeyleix,
Stradbally,
Eddie Kirwan’s Pub,
Kavanagh’s,
Swimming in the Nore in Castletown,

That’s County Laois alone & even then I could go on...

How can you mention Abbeyleix and not Durrow. Durrow is a much prettier village than Abbeyleix.

Star Bingo

My sis has a place out overlooking Lough Rea it’s like a spa by the lake I walk the perimeter and indulge in the sauna if I didn’t have that as an escape from time to time I’d go f*ckin nuts... really nice will probs move there someday myself when mam passes it’s no good for my head being boxed up in the ‘burbs at this stage. City isn’t as much use to me either anymore, bored with all that now the wilderness awaits...... how do I get to athlone. Give it another ten years or thereabouts and I’m outta here

ewc78

There seems to be a lot of people who don't actually know where the Midlands are. I have seen Meath,Croagh Patrick and Naas mentioned on this thread. None of them are in the Midlands. I think people are getting confused with the Midlands and what Dublin people call anywhere outside of Dublin as down the country.
The Midland counties to me anyway would be Laois, Offaly, Westmeath and maybe Longford.

Mailcoachinn

ewc78 wrote: »

How can you mention Abbeyleix and not Durrow. Durrow is a much prettier village than Abbeyleix.

Agreed & apologies. Like I said, I hadn’t mentioned everything.

OOnegative

Star Bingo wrote: »

My sis has a place out overlooking Lough Rea

Lough Rea is in Loughrea, Co Galway. Lough Ree is in the midlands.

Star Bingo

OOnegative wrote: »

Lough Rea is in Loughrea, Co Galway. Lough Ree is in the midlands.

:rolleyes: Lough Ree it is then

John_Rambo

ewc78 wrote: »

There seems to be a lot of people who don't actually know where the Midlands are. I have seen Meath,Croagh Patrick and Naas mentioned on this thread. None of them are in the Midlands. I think people are getting confused with the Midlands and what Dublin people call anywhere outside of Dublin as down the country.
The Midland counties to me anyway would be Laois, Offaly, Westmeath and maybe Longford.

You're dead right according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_Region,_Ireland


Some of us would call areas the West midlands or the East midlands, but they're not officially the midlands. It's not from ignorance thought, some of us coastal dwellers tend to think anywhere an hours drive from the beach is a midland area!! But officially the midlands are where you say they are.

My original point remains true. The inland waterways are amazing. I've canoed them for years, mostly before they were navigable and they're just amazing.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Reasonable property prices, decent infrastructure, convenient to Dublin Airport, no congestion, you can get to any part of the country in reasonable time, beautiful countryside and loads of space.

ewc78

John_Rambo wrote: »

You're dead right according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_Region,_Ireland


Some of us would call areas the West midlands or the East midlands, but they're not officially the midlands. It's not from ignorance thought, some of us coastal dwellers tend to think anywhere an hours drive from the beach is a midland area!! But officially the midlands are where you say they are.

My original point remains true. The inland waterways are amazing. I've canoed them for years, mostly before they were navigable and they're just amazing.

Well I'm from Laois originally so I would hope I'd know where the Midlands were

John_Rambo

ewc78 wrote: »

Well I'm from Laois originally so I would hope I'd know where the Midlands were

Some of us can't smell the tang of the salt air and think we're landlocked!! Did the Barrow a few times, the nicest river in the country to canoe.

OOnegative

John_Rambo wrote: »

tang

Great part of the midlands, the area where “The Busy Mill” is located, made famous by a poem from Oliver Goldsmith.

John_Rambo

OOnegative wrote: »

Great part of the midlands, the area where “The Busy Mill” is located, a famous poem by Oliver Goldsmith.

I know it well. I bought an old Porsche 944 in Tang!! Had it for a few years, sold it on, think it's in the UK now.

OOnegative

John_Rambo wrote: »

I know it well. I bought an old Porsche 944 in Tang!! Had it for a few years, sold it on, think it's in the UK now.

Jaysis wasn’t to many of them around when I was growing up there!!

Quazzie

Mailcoachinn wrote: »

Just outside Portarlington. Nicknamed the “Costa del Sod”. Have enjoyed many a summer day there...

Well then you should know that the Costa del Sod is actually across the border in Offaly

Feisar

Gunning's in Rathconrath.

OOnegative

Feisar wrote: »

Gunning's in Rathconrath.

Is it still operating? Past by it a few times when I was home few weeks back & it looked shut. Mind you it has always given that appearance. Drank fair few pints in my youth there!!

WoollyRedHat

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

Ah am just a blow in apparently lol!

Or a blow out, even worse!

Grandeeod

ewc78 wrote: »

How can you mention Abbeyleix and not Durrow. Durrow is a much prettier village than Abbeyleix.

And has a Scarecrow festival that is brilliant!

PlaneSpeeking

Grandeeod wrote: »

And has a Scarecrow festival that is brilliant!

I know someone who got married in Durrow - is it as ritzy as they made out ???

Grandeeod

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

I know someone who got married in Durrow - is it as ritzy as they made out ???

Most likely Castle Durrow which would be a bit Ritzy alright.

whisky_galore

Charles Babbage wrote: »

Not many **** seagulls.

Seagulls are nature's scangers.

MikeyTaylor

whisky_galore wrote: »

Seagulls are nature's scangers.

Nature's chavs indeed!

DEFTLEFTHAND

I grew up in the midlands and found it very bleak tbh. I always wanted to live by the sea.

The ok thing in my area I suppose is the weather. We never seem to get hit with the worst of any storm. Also it can get very hot during the summer, and cold in the winter. We get snow most years where I live up on high ground.

ToddyDoody

The coastal counties value the Midlands tourism.

mvl

Tom Dunne wrote: »

The Wineport

I would think Glasson // Village of the roses // has few other restaurants that are nice. Time stops for me when I get there for a meal.

badabing106

The best male golfer and female golfer in Ireland are from the midlands

Plopsu

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

Ah am just a blow in apparently lol!

Hmm.. So you're only third generation, then?

Plopsu

It's quiet (at least where I live).

sydneygolfdude

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

I know someone who got married in Durrow - is it as ritzy as they made out ???

Was at a wedding in Castle Durrow last year, spectacular venue and Durrow was great little village. The scare crow festival was on the same weekend, some craic!!

topper75

Rock of Dunamase is amasing (sic).