Ultimate All-Ireland Landmark Tournament

Citizenpain

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Victor's Way advances to the Wicklow Qualifying Play-off

Glendalough National Park



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Victor's Way

Citizenpain

Glendalough ,,, a fun park for families


Unlike victors way

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Victor's Way ; it's the discovery of the tournament for me. Definitelty want to go see it.

cdeb

Victors Way is interesting, but I think Glendalough is a national icon - balancing history and scenery - so it deserves to go through here

I'm going with Victors Way here, Glendalough is beautiful but we have many beautiful places in this country.
Victors Way is a very unique place

HeidiHeidi

You're giving Victor's way a bit of a boost there with the multiple pics!


Think I'm going to stick with Glendalough all the same, just because it's beautiful and scenic and historical.

Electric Nitwit

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Victor's Way
It's like nothing else in Ireland, probably the world!
It's terrifying, really weird but an amazing place, everyone should go once

Here's another picture...

Still Victor's Way

There's lots of places as nice as Glendalough, Lough Ouler for one. Glendalough just had the reputation and the car park

Purgative

Victors Way for what Electric said in the heats.

Irish Aris

A tough call.
I will go for Victor's Way. It has been in my list for a while now, a very unique sight.

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Victor's Way.

Not very Irish. Unique.

Sawduck

Victor's Way. something different, Glendalough is beautiful though

Victor's Way advances and will represent Wicklow

That is shock of the tournament. Saved the best til last!

Electric Nitwit

Omackeral wrote: »

Victor's Way advances and will represent Wicklow

Whoo-hoo and wow!
That was my only non-Donegal nomination and I didn't expect it to do so well, Wicklow has some big hitters. Delighted

It really is an incredible place. Batshıt crazy, but incredible!

Electric Nitwit

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Whoo-hoo and wow!
That was my only non-Donegal nomination and I didn't expect it to do so well, Wicklow has some big hitters. Delighted

It really is an incredible place. Batshıt crazy, it incredible!

I don't know if you have to pay to go there but I reckon you should be on commission because I'd say at least 10 of us will be going for a visit on the back of this!

Electric Nitwit

Omackeral wrote: »

I don't know if you have to pay to go there but I reckon you should be on commission because I'd say at least 10 of us will be going for a visit on the back of this!

Ha ha, I'll phone and ask tomorrow!
Think it's a fiver in or something, it's not a lot. That might even be the price per car

The J Stands for Jay

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Glendalough National Park
Has to be, doesn't it? Yes it's too crowded and there are nicer places around if you know where to go but it's so iconic and a great spot for a hike

Best thing about operation fannacht is that the hordes from Dublin have been kept away

KathleenGrant

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Ha ha, I'll phone and ask tomorrow!
Think it's a fiver in or something, it's not a lot. That might even be the price per car

Fiver each and you must have cash. You enter through this vagina resembling gateway.. A lot of the pieces are good. Some are amazing.

Electric Nitwit

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Fiver each and you must have cash. You enter through this vagina resembling gateway..

Just read the philosophy on the website again, so crazy. On that vagina tunnel...

By going through Victoria’s Gate one leaves behind (i.e. temporarily dies to) one’s everyday world with all its stresses, cares, joys and sorrows. Victoria’s Gate, a sheela-na-gig, represents a birth canal.

On the other side of Victoria’s Gate one as it were enters a timeless, form-less world, a womb-like reality (like the nave (originally: navel ≈ sanctum) of a church, mosque or temple, to wit, the holy of holies*) wherein one’s original, therefore virtually true potential has not yet been relativized and actualised. Beyond the gate one is as it were bathed in and cleansed by one’s original, indeed, by any possible purpose/being (Sanskrit: dharma) to be made actually real, hence true.

This his side of the gate one lives one’s actual, relatively (because conditional) true/perfect being, true because one is ‘here and now’ the outcome** of all the ‘best’ choices one (i.e. one’s Bio-Nav) has made. Beyond the gate one can access one’s virtually true potential since no everyday (i.e. this side) choices (i.e. applications) have yet been made. Beyond the gate one is as it were bathed in and cleansed by one’s original and essential purpose (in ancient India called the SAT-guru) before being born again with a new purpose and new vigour.

It therefore helps, meaning that it’s less distracting, if one leaves one’s mobile and personal chatter, that is to say, the dross of the everyday world, on this side of the gate. Then, passing through the gate and wandering alone and at half speed, becalmed and fully mindful, one enters an enchanted forest wherein one encounters 7 icons that represent 7 essential personal development and therefore survival programs which, when processed, help refocus the wanderer’s attention upon the supreme purpose/goal of his or her brief existence.

Cleansed and refreshed by the vision of one’s ultimate purpose in life (and, if fully mindful, of life as such) and the means to its fulfilment (in IT terms, defragmented and returned briefly to ‘factory settings’, thereby fully restored as logic unit capable of processing the world at maximum speed), one exits via the gate (i.e. as birth canal) and is, as it were, born again.

*… the holy of holies, or sanctum, serves as default ‘setting’ for the recovery and consummation of one’s wholeness (or completeness). Entering the sanctum via the gate the pilgrim is cleansed (i.e. defragmented), regenerated (i.e. by the vision of the goal) and refreshed (i.e. reconfigured) so that upon leaving the sanctum (i.e. the womb of creation) the pilgrim may recover his or her true path to personal salvation.

*… In ancient Buddhism one’s current status, a condition (i.e. influence) for positive or negative change within oneself or others, was called karmic residue.

HeidiHeidi

So, what's the story with the main playoff?


I'm hopelessly addicted to this now, don't want to miss any of it if I can help it!

KathleenGrant

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

So, what's the story with the main playoff?


I'm hopelessly addicted to this now, don't want to miss any of it if I can help it!

Same.

This your line-up for the Ultimate All-Ireland Landmark Championship

Antrim
The Giant's Causeway

Armagh
Armagh Observatory and Planetarium

Carlow
Duckett's Grove

Cavan
Cloughoughter Castle

Clare
Cliffs of Moher

Cork
Charles Fort

Derry
Derry City Walls

Donegal
Grianan of Aileach

Down
Scrabo Tower

Dublin
GPO

Fermanagh
Stairway to Heaven

Galway
Kylemore Abbey

Kerry
Skellig Islands

Kildare
Irish National Stud and Japanese Gardens

Kilkenny
St Canice's Cathedral and Round Tower

Laois
The Rock of Dunamase

Leitrim
Glencar Waterfall

Limerick Qualifying Match
King John's Castle

Longford
The Corlea Trackway

Louth
Mary McAleese Boyne Valley Bridge

Mayo
Downpatrick Head Sea Stack

Meath
Newgrange

Monaghan
The Tin Church

Offaly
Kinnitty Pyramid

Roscommon
Lough Key Forest Park

Sligo
Gleniff Horseshoe Valley

Tipperary
The Rock of Cashel

Tyrone
The Tinnies

Waterford
Coumshingaun Lough

Westmeath
Athlone Castle

Wexford
Hook Lighthouse

Wicklow
Victor's Way

Green&Red

Giants Causeway and Skelligs would be the bookies favourites

KathleenGrant

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Fiver each and you must have cash. You enter through this vagina resembling gateway.. A lot of the pieces are good. Some are amazing.

Yeah that won't be a problem...

Necro

Green&Red wrote: »

Giants Causeway and Skelligs would be the bookies favourites

Downpatrick should do well too depending on the draw imo

HeidiHeidi

Green&Red wrote: »

Giants Causeway and Skelligs would be the bookies favourites

Cliffs of Moher, though, for sheer name recognition?


Or the Hook lighthouse could be a good outside bet........