The Ballybunion thread

RiderOnTheStorm

This weeks newsletter (with commentary)

We celebrate out fifth Birthday (March 4th) and begin our sixth year of publication next week with Issue 1 of Volume 6 which will also be our "Election Special"

http://www.flipgorilla.com/p/23837411469458476/show

snow scorpion

Is this how you get down to the Nun's Strand by foot?

RiderOnTheStorm

Yes, thats the way most go down. There used to be a rope at the end of that dotted-line, as an aid to balance on the way down, as the last part is a bit steep and slippy. Its quite tricky really, that last bit, and you need to be fit.

A word of caution: when the tide comes in, all those little inlets & bays are cut off from the way back out. Watch the tides!!

snow scorpion

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Yes, thats the way most go down. There used to be a rope at the end of that dotted-line, as an aid to balance on the way down, as the last part is a bit steep and slippy. Its quite tricky really, that last bit, and you need to be fit.

A word of caution: when the tide comes in, all those little inlets & bays are cut off from the way back out. Watch the tides!!

I thought so. I couldn't see any other way down there.

But that long straight grass and the smooth soles of my runners have always made me wary about going down. That would be a very nasty fall if I lost my footing.

The idea of making another trip back has been making itself felt way in the back of my mind. Maybe in the fall. And maybe I'll walk down to the Virgin Rock one day when the tide is all the way out.

RiderOnTheStorm

this weeks newsletter

http://www.flipgorilla.com/p/23837411469459549/show

And an early Happy St Patricks Day !!

snow scorpion

snow scorpion

333,393 views!

We've gone past a third of a million!

graciex7

Hi I'm just wondering would anyone have contact numbers for caravan parks in ballybunion . Looking to buy down there but can only get number of 3 caravan parks. Thanks

RiderOnTheStorm

This weeks newsletter

http://www.flipgorilla.com/p/23837411469460766/show

snow scorpion

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... a drone! Over Ballybunion!

Well, over the beach at Ballybunion.

The Cliff Walk at 2:45 looks especially good.

RiderOnTheStorm

the latest news letter (just a few days old, but worth waiting for!)


http://www.flipgorilla.com/p/23837411469462343/show

snow scorpion

Where exactly is the Old Slip Road?

Tychoo

snow scorpion wrote: »

Where exactly is the Old Slip Road?

Can't say I've ever heard of it. It may just have been to fit the song.

snow scorpion

Tychoo wrote: »

Can't say I've ever heard of it. It may just have been to fit the song.

I think you're right. I've been hearing about Ballybunion my entire life and I've never heard anyone ever mention the Old Slip Road.

snow scorpion

Best drone video of the beach I've ever seen!

I can't remember seeing the Virgin Rock with no white water at its base.

snow scorpion

Go to 8:30 and watch David Feherty and Bill Clinton talking about Killahenny and Ballybunion. (It lasts for only a minute or so.)

http://www.golfchannel.com/media/feherty-bill-clinton/

snow scorpion

RiderOnTheStorm

Thats a cool vid, Snow. And my son is in it too. Small world!

snow scorpion

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Thats a cool vid, Snow. And my son is in it too. Small world!

That's the Nine Daughter's Hole at 4:00?

And the section before that is the part of cliffs below the Cliff Walk Fence?

snow scorpion

I wonder what kind of bird that is?

snow scorpion

The Caves - up close and personal.

Very, very up close!

Deco99

Big gang thinking of heading to ballybunion, bout 20+ in a month or so. I see the golf hotel caters for those types of numbers but it gets shocking reviews on tripadvisor

Thanatosgratus

The Golf Hotel shut its doors in February of this year

radiokerry.ie/news/management-announces-sudden-closure-of-golf-hotel-ballybunion
facebook.com/TheGofHotelBallybunion/posts/1099295283423311

Deco99

Any other suggestions, not from area but with numbers like we have its better ring up than go online.

Felix Jones is God

Deco99 wrote: »

Any other suggestions, not from area but with numbers like we have its better ring up than go online.

Yoire probably better off in Tralee, and then just bussing out to the course early in the morning.
Plenty to choose from in that case

Deco99

The plan is to stay in Ballybunion to go out after Listowel Races, not going playing golf.

Tychoo

Try the Attic Bar. I stayed there a few times over the years. Tim Joe is grand.

snow scorpion

We've been unstickied?!?



In all fairness, traffic has dropped off noticeably. We used to get 100-110 views per day. but in the last year it's dropped down to 15-20 per day.

carchaeologist

snow scorpion wrote: »

We've been unstickied?!?



In all fairness, traffic has dropped off noticeably. We used to get 100-110 views per day. but in the last year it's dropped down to 15-20 per day.

Boards isn't the place it used to be anymore, I hardly ever come on here now, and it used to be many times a day.
This thread started 11 years ago! That's mad isn't it!

snow scorpion

carchaeologist wrote: »

Boards isn't the place it used to be anymore, I hardly ever come on here now, and it used to be many times a day.
This thread started 11 years ago! That's mad isn't it!

A third of a million views. Not bad for a village of 1300 people.