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The Ballybunion thread
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SandhillRoad wrote:SNOWSCORPION:
Check out the new GOOGLE VIDEO
Sandhill - a key word would be really helpful.
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Hickey's wrote:If you were a Garda in BB,you must have heard of the great John Morgan.and Eddie Connor. St Molone.
Ah Yes - great guys - worked with them all. Eddie is retired now too. Ah good memories.
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I thought I posted this before but "search this thread" says I didn't (unless I'm using it wrong
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Turn on your speakers and you'll hear the voice of an angel (and try to ignore that drunk in the background who insists on "helping" her.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAUU_H1z6VY0 -
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Very cool, Sandhill, very cool!
I've never seen the castle from that angle before. At first I thought a helicopter or private plane. Then when I realized the camera is on the same level as the Castle Green I figured the pic was taken with a digital camera from the path for the cliff walk.
What's the big white thing behind the castle? I couldn't figure it out. My brother thinks it's covering the stage for the Fleadh.0 -
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I was wondering myself, I was there last Saturday, the weekend after the Fleadh (couldn't get tickets for the Gipsy Kings the weekend before) and couldn't get parking anywhere. That's the price you pay for a sunny Saturday in Ballybunion. I drove on to Beale strand, pretty depressing, but on the way back stopped off at Beale Wind Farm. Scary!!! Those tall "windmills" making a whoosh...whoosh...whoosh sound. Very eerie.
And paid a trip to Ballyheigue beach. A wedding party arrived for photos. It took 3 bridesmaids to hold her dress down from the wind that was blowing, lol.
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Well, hello to ye all! I am so glad to see this Ballybunion thread! My father was born on Knockanore, and his father before him and a few more before that! My dad left in 1955 to come to London for work but still comes home often. I first came to Ballybunion around 1984, aged 7, to meet my grandfather for the first time. I remember driving up from Shannon in amazement as it was the first time I had ever seen the countryside!! I went home many times with my dad through my childhood, but I haven't been back now since I was 17, that's coming up 13 years since I was last in Ballybunion. I was doing photography at college at that time, and I have quite a few photos you all may be interested in. I think I even have pictures of the 'stolen' Lartigue Monorail in Boscoe's backyard! He was a good friend of my dad's, I'm sure we'll be having a good laugh about that when I tell him it was nicked!
Anyways, I have read the whole of this thread and have enjoyed it so much, there's a couple of things my dad has told me which might interest you. Knockanore IS known as the 'Hill Of Gold', although you'll find it's mostly the older people who know this. Many many years ago, some Germans came over and believed it was true and started digging huge holes all over the top to try and find all the gold! Sounds mad but it's true, I don't know how long ago it was though. I love the picture of the two boys standing on the old plinth at the top. There used to be a huge cross stuck in it, what was left of it was lying nearby, but it's probably well gone by now! You can walk down from the top straight to our old house but you end up running it's so steep!
So much seems to have changed in the 13 years I have been away, I almost feel like staying home because it sounds like everything has or is being developed and I just can't imagine Ballybunion like that! I remember lock-ins at Mikey Joe's when the man himself was still in charge! What a great fella he was, he always gave me 20ps for the pool table while he and my dad sat back and talked of old times. My Aunt Eileen used to work at the Castle Hotel, I'm so shocked it's gone! And the missing piece off Castle Green, I'll say no more about that one! I have a picture of my dad standing out next to the red flag over the railings, I'll have to have a look for it.
Also, someone earlier said it was the highest tide for 20 years not too long ago, well when I was over in 93', the tide touched the path at the back of the beach, it came in so quick as well some old fella told me it was the spring tide, and I am amazed if there was a bigger one then that! I took photos of waves 30 foot high hitting the cliffs before my my ankles were drenched and I had to run back up the beach! The wind and weather there is crazy! I truly believed that all birds in Ballybunion flew backwards until my dad explained it was the wind coming in off the sea, blowing them all over the place!
So I will be back again very soon, I am so excited but nervous in case it's all changed too much, but this time I'm armed with an even better camera and the knowledge that the birds are normal! I will be around Ballybunion, Tullamore, Lisselton, Listowel, Ballyduff, Asdee for most of my holidays, so if anyone has any requests for photos of anything at all, do let me know. I'll be going at the beginning of October so you all have a while to think about it! Of course there will be the obligatory Castle Green photo, but I think my dad's a bit too old now to go over those railings so he won't be in it!
Good luck to ye all, if I see fella in a Jim Morrison t-shirt I'll be guessing if it's you Rider!
Cheers
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