Best Town in Offaly
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Topic: Best Town in Offaly
Posted By: Walsh Island
Subject: Best Town in Offaly
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2014 at 9:52pm
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Genuine question, what ye think? Is it best town in Offaly, Ireland, the world? That ferry terminal is something else |
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Posted By: Metal Paul
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 1:51pm
  
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Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 1:53pm
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Posted By: the_walls
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 2:07pm
| Hard to beat Edenderry |
Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 2:08pm
------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Walsh Island wrote:Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 2:49pm
| Walsh Island the pride of North Offaly |
Posted By: athlonecelt
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 2:51pm
| Pullagh |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 3:09pm
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Posted By: drog addict
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 4:29pm
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Where's Offaly? ------------- Chips don't bounce |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 4:35pm
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Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 4:37pm
------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 4:45pm
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Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 4:49pm
 ------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Posted By: Salzburglilly
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 7:02pm
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Isn't there a home for evil kids in Daingean? ------------- Nathan Collins - The best Kildare baller since Johnny Doyle! |
Posted By: brianie
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 7:03pm
Translates as Juvenile Delinquents ------------- ITS KEANE YES YBIG You Can Please some of the People Some of the Time But Not All of The People All of The Time |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 7:20pm
Correct closed down now, st conleth's reformatory! |
Posted By: jackshat
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 9:21pm
Lovely spot is "da island"  ------------- It's Jack Shat |
Posted By: Walsh Island
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 9:42pm
The Sunday is the Lords day, what sort of heathen are you? LIine dancing is solely a Friday night activity, as well as Mon, Tues and Tues, Weds for bingo, Saturday for winning streak |
Posted By: nvidic
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 9:51pm
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surely it should be least worst town in Offaly? |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 9:57pm
| Its a village |
Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 9:59pm
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The fact you live on an island baffles me
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Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:04pm
jaysus------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Posted By: AntrimMan
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:05pm
Mother a god ------------- @AntrimMan85 |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:08pm
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Holy jaysus ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:08pm
------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Posted By: Walsh Island
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:09pm
What's so baffling?? Obviously from portarlington |
Posted By: Sono
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:09pm
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Posted By: Walsh Island
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:10pm
Why would we associate with That prodestant bollox? |
Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:15pm
 and then go and spend it in hoppers ------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Posted By: Walsh Island
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:20pm
Who are you? the secret police? |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:31pm
Ah lads!
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Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:32pm
How the hell do you no the shops name!! |
Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:34pm
i am the oracle my good friend, just tell John and Breda you know me------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Posted By: Walsh Island
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:46pm
Good people, taking the mick earlier, didnt know there was three of us islanders here ------------- 1981, 1985, 1994, 1998 |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:49pm
We won it 12times!.....
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Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 10:59pm
------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Posted By: Walsh Island
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 11:02pm
now yer talking, beating tubber today with a panel that even laois would be embarrassed about was great though ------------- 1981, 1985, 1994, 1998 |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 11:29pm
Thats for sure, we could even make the Q-finals yet!
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Posted By: athlonecelt
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 11:55pm
I came on earlier to ask yee would yee beat Tubber at 4/6. Game must have f**kin kicked off cause when i went on powers it was gone. deleted mid post. |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2014 at 11:57pm
12pm Wouldn't of touched us today, didn't expect that win at all |
Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 8:09am
| What's so funny? He gets a ferry to his gaff and he lives in the centre of Ireland? |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 8:12am
 seriously?
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Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 8:17am
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Eire told me he did I'm so confused |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 9:29am
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Not a real island. Not even the best town in Ireland which is not a real island. Castleisland is much nicer. ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: rossieman
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 9:32am
oh holy f**k |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 9:37am
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Posted By: BigPodge
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 9:45am
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Jaysus Sassy having a mare ------------- 
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Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 9:53am
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Right you can all just shut up for a minute. I asked Eire about this Island business before and he told me he lives on one. I then thought it was a similar set up to Waterford castle that you have to get a little kind of car ferry over to. I dont think that is actually that hard to believe and is an easy mistake esp when you take the word of someone that lives there
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Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 9:57am
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Sorry sasa I was joking about it be being a island!(like most of us islanders do) I didn't think anyone believed me! |
Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 10:01am
Apology accepted. You just made me look like a complete mug but I forgive you.
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Posted By: El_nino
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 10:02am
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Posted By: da scientist
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 10:04am
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SGB[ Delightful entertainment on a Monday morning hungover ------------- The main thing is not to panic |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 12:15pm
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SGB ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: Gaz
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 12:23pm
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SGB I had never heard of Walsh Island until I read this so don't mind them bullies Although I tend to Google these things before I post on an Internet forum of which I know a lot of the members ------------- I dont email the count anymore, its been 9 months : ( He even sent me a YBIG scarf for my Birthday |
Posted By: jackshat
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 12:27pm
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------------- It's Jack Shat |
Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 12:31pm
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When I wrote the original comment about Eire living on an island I genuinely thought he lived on an island on a lake or something. I didnt realise it was such an outragous comment to make. I googled it when I got to work and realised I was incorrect. I think its an easy mistake to make myself. Why in the name of god would a place be called something island if its not on a poxy island. Its stupid.
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Posted By: Gaz
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 12:33pm
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------------- I dont email the count anymore, its been 9 months : ( He even sent me a YBIG scarf for my Birthday |
Posted By: Flanno7hi
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 12:33pm
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SGB. ------------- Our City. Our Community. Our Club IG @flanno_7hi |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 12:40pm
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Loads of Island place names in Ireland that's not in fact a original island. Walsh Island(offaly) Castle island(kerry) Little island(cork) Thats only at top of my head |
Posted By: reddladd
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 12:40pm
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While not being an island as we would normally know them it is a small village in the middle of the bog so with bog water and marsh etc it could technically be called an island. One thing for sure is that it's remote. How many ways in and out are there Eire? ------------- I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong. |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 12:42pm
5 roads in!
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Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 1:02pm
So in actual fact I was correct?? Eire I would presume those places you mentioned were islands too and if I knew someone from those areas I would ask them and if they said they did live on an island then I would believe them!!!
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Posted By: keitho5
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 1:25pm
  ------------- Oooooooooohhhhhh yes sir...... |
Posted By: Trapcandoit
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 1:29pm
Ná bí buairthe SGV, níl ann ach caint carn mór cacamais  ------------- 5 goals to go Robbie! |
Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 1:35pm
Tá siad buachaillí dána  |
Posted By: SGB's Island
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 1:46pm
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What Island is Dublin on then? |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 2:53pm
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J'ai connaître idée de ce que vous les gars parlent
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Posted By: Trapcandoit
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:18pm
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Nous parlons merd mon ami. Allez The Island! ------------- 5 goals to go Robbie! |
Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:23pm
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Eire just checked into the Walsh Island Ferry Port on facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Walsh-Island-Ferry-Port-Terminal-1/722289321127175 |
Posted By: Trapcandoit
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:33pm
Grand place altogether.. pity about the floods  ------------- 5 goals to go Robbie! |
Posted By: reddladd
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:42pm
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Is it true they found part of a boat there a few years ago made from bog oak and there were rumours that it could be from the Ark ------------- I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong. |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:43pm
Very much true, nothing ever came of it though |
Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:43pm
They may find parts of you in there if you dont keep your gob shut
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Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:45pm
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How low can you go. Getting outwitted by Eire 31. :) ------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:46pm
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Posted By: reddladd
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:46pm
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I wouldn't be the first person found down a bog hole in the midlands! ------------- I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong. |
Posted By: ShayGivensBum
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 3:48pm
| Well technically I didnt get outwitted by anyone. I was merley told a lie and I mistakingly believed it. |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 4:22pm
 Next ybig meet up? Maybe the Xmas party?
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Posted By: irishmufc
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 5:21pm
I'm only after noticing the signature below your username ------------- Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been. |
Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 6:58pm
------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 7:03pm
| Is that little country lane the village? |
Posted By: daithi
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 7:09pm
------------- Just because it's tradition does not make it right |
Posted By: Madferret
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 7:20pm
Breatnach is a mutated form of Breatain which is an Old Irish name for Britain or more specifically Wales. Hence Welsh (Walsh) Island. And speaking of mutants, we have some quare village names in this country; Crazy Corner in Westmeath, which unsuprisingly is close to St.Lomans, Effin in Co.Limerick and my all-time favourite, Horse & Jockey. Anyway, Walsh Island for the Olympics
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Posted By: irishmufc
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 7:33pm
------------- Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been. |
Posted By: AntrimMan
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 7:35pm
Is that why Munster folk pronounce the surname Walsh as Welsh? Would go someways towards explaining it. They're still wrong, but at least it might explain it... ------------- @AntrimMan85 |
Posted By: Madferret
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 7:41pm
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Yah it could be the reason alright AM. They have a way of dropping the "ough" part of Coughlan too in Cork. So it sounds more like "Cawlin". Or you could drop the "U" for Eamonn Coghlan to bring it back to the pronunciation most people would be familiar with and the harsher "ough" sound. Doughnuts for Donuts. |
Posted By: Salzburglilly
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 7:41pm
They also say Culm for the name Colm. ------------- Nathan Collins - The best Kildare baller since Johnny Doyle! |
Posted By: Jackthelad
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 7:46pm
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Go way to f**k will ye! Walsh is Walsh from a Munster man right here! ------------- Oh Poland we loved you..... |
Posted By: Walsh Island
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 8:22pm
Tis an Island, the clues in de name sure, don't mind everywan else, sure did i not work on de ferry after de junior cert ------------- 1981, 1985, 1994, 1998 |
Posted By: Madferret
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 8:24pm
Are they all the years you repeated your Group Cert in your signature??? I'd say you can barely write your name with a stick.
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Posted By: Walsh Island
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 8:27pm
Maybe not but Brian Whelehan could knck em over with wan and thats all that matters hey ------------- 1981, 1985, 1994, 1998 |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2014 at 11:45pm
No camp site on D'island! Have one in the next village, Geashill caravan park! Offaly Tidy towns winners many times
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Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2014 at 10:20am
Don't forget Bastardstown in Westmeath, Nobber in Meath, Blue Ball in Offaly, and Ringaskiddy in Cork ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2014 at 12:30pm
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Bastardstown have a football club I wonder?? C'mon the bastards |
Posted By: Mrs Iris Robinson
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2014 at 1:57pm
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------------- oh young man |
Posted By: BigPodge
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2014 at 2:20pm
You in the wrong account TJ? Any craic? -------------
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Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2014 at 9:52am
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Walsh Island Threshing village today Fantastic day in store if anyone fancies coming down. All kicks off at the black well at 2pm! Ends tonight with the barndance. #itsaislandlife 
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Posted By: nvidic
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2014 at 11:44am
Of course it is |
Posted By: eire32
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2014 at 2:29pm
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Gwan D'Island
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Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2014 at 5:01pm
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Offaly exists? Thought it was like Narnia? ------------- Greed has won, big finance has won. Whatever small role elite clubs still play in the local communities from which they grew is dwarfed now by their position as global brands. |