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Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:25 pm
by DrJackRyan
So who on this board is going to Ireland?

I was leaning towards it but wanted to see how my kids did flying (took them to Mexico last week) and also wanted to wait until the cheap Norwegian air flights from Boston to Cork got started.

My kids did fine, but the Boston to Cork flights have been indefinitely delayed. So have to look at Air Lingus or some other carrier.

Anyone else thinking of going?

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:37 pm
by TobaccoRoadEagle
no.

four words - sgt. slaughter sucks scrotum

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:39 pm
by eepstein0
Dublin might be the most overrated city in the world.

No chance I'm going. If I'm going to Ireland I'm playing golf

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:08 pm
by 2001Eagle
no - already had a june 2016 Ireland golf trip in the works.

that said - September is a great time of year weather wise for Ireland (usually). I agree that Dublin is nothing special, but if you go, bring your clubs and play portmarnock and the island club. the latter is really a treat.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 3:16 pm
by eepstein0
2001Eagle {l Wrote}:no - already had a june 2016 Ireland golf trip in the works.

that said - September is a great time of year weather wise for Ireland (usually). I agree that Dublin is nothing special, but if you go, bring your clubs and play portmarnock and the island club. the latter is really a treat.


One of the bunkers I was in at Portmarnock was so depressing it required a ladder to climb in and out of it. Great course

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 3:29 pm
by dtwalrus
Are you kidding me?! Hell yeah! I'm so excited I'm going tonight, staking out the best seats!

No, but seriously, happen to be going tonight. Will let you know if the locals are any more interested in this game than TRE...

Any Galway recommendations, BTW?

:screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:33 pm
by DuchesneEast
I am going.

Actually was switching hotels this morning to someplace that if I puke on the floor, it will just blend in.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 6:06 pm
by mod6A
i am going. rare chance to see a pair of 3 win teams battle it out on foreign soil. can't pass that up.
:screamyeagle :flagus :angrychicken :koolaid

:whalepants :whalepants :whalepants :whalepants

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 6:11 pm
by Salzano14
I am going

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 6:14 pm
by TobaccoRoadEagle
Salzano14 {l Wrote}:I am going

are you bringing your tuba, your family or both?

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:39 pm
by commavegarage
labor day is meant to be spent at lake homes and cape houses, not with tuba players.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:46 pm
by twballgame9
I'm traveling somewhere interesting.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:09 am
by eepstein0
commavegarage {l Wrote}:labor day is meant to be spent at lake homes and cape houses, not with tuba players.


I spent last Labor Day in the EO Section

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:48 am
by DrJackRyan
dtwalrus {l Wrote}:Are you kidding me?! Hell yeah! I'm so excited I'm going tonight, staking out the best seats!

No, but seriously, happen to be going tonight. Will let you know if the locals are any more interested in this game than TRE...

Any Galway recommendations, BTW?

:screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle


Moran's on the Weir.

If you are out in Connemara you can pop in An Poitin Stil in Invern and hang out with my relatives. Brush up on your Gaeilge first: Dhá uiscí beatha, le do thoil

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:54 pm
by 2001Eagle
eepstein0 {l Wrote}:
2001Eagle {l Wrote}:no - already had a june 2016 Ireland golf trip in the works.

that said - September is a great time of year weather wise for Ireland (usually). I agree that Dublin is nothing special, but if you go, bring your clubs and play portmarnock and the island club. the latter is really a treat.


One of the bunkers I was in at Portmarnock was so depressing it required a ladder to climb in and out of it. Great course


Agreed. The Island Club has some amazing holes. 13 and 14 on the water stood out. 14 had the narrowest fairway I've ever seen. Very unique, but I enjoyed it. Couldn't find any pictures but this short video has a good shot:


Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:31 pm
by eepstein0
2001Eagle {l Wrote}:
eepstein0 {l Wrote}:
2001Eagle {l Wrote}:no - already had a june 2016 Ireland golf trip in the works.

that said - September is a great time of year weather wise for Ireland (usually). I agree that Dublin is nothing special, but if you go, bring your clubs and play portmarnock and the island club. the latter is really a treat.


One of the bunkers I was in at Portmarnock was so depressing it required a ladder to climb in and out of it. Great course


Agreed. The Island Club has some amazing holes. 13 and 14 on the water stood out. 14 had the narrowest fairway I've ever seen. Very unique, but I enjoyed it. Couldn't find any pictures but this short video has a good shot:



I made birdie out of that bunker should anyone care. Best shot of my life.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:40 pm
by claver2010
only 1 trip to europe the cards for the claver camp this year so I'm out. i don't get the appeal of dublin, there i said it.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:13 pm
by Reverend Mike
DrJackRyan {l Wrote}:
dtwalrus {l Wrote}:Are you kidding me?! Hell yeah! I'm so excited I'm going tonight, staking out the best seats!

No, but seriously, happen to be going tonight. Will let you know if the locals are any more interested in this game than TRE...

Any Galway recommendations, BTW?

:screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle


Moran's on the Weir.

If you are out in Connemara you can pop in An Poitin Stil in Invern and hang out with my relatives. Brush up on your Gaeilge first: Dhá uiscí beatha, le do thoil

Your smarter, fitter ancestors left there for a reason: Ireland is a fucking shit hole full of stooped-over, drunken, pasty Irishmen on a bleak, gray, wind-swept island under the yoke of British oppression and the tyranny of drink.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:21 pm
by TobaccoRoadEagle
Reverend Mike {l Wrote}:
DrJackRyan {l Wrote}:
dtwalrus {l Wrote}:Are you kidding me?! Hell yeah! I'm so excited I'm going tonight, staking out the best seats!

No, but seriously, happen to be going tonight. Will let you know if the locals are any more interested in this game than TRE...

Any Galway recommendations, BTW?

:screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle


Moran's on the Weir.

If you are out in Connemara you can pop in An Poitin Stil in Invern and hang out with my relatives. Brush up on your Gaeilge first: Dhá uiscí beatha, le do thoil

Your smarter, fitter ancestors left there for a reason: Ireland is a fucking shit hole full of stooped-over, drunken, pasty Irishmen on a bleak, gray, wind-swept island under the yoke of British oppression and the tyranny of drink.

Yeah, but it's not spain

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:41 pm
by apbc12
On the list of things I do not understand about people, the impulse to travel thousands of miles just to play golf is near the top. Hey, Paris has some great black top - anybody want to go over and just play pickup basketball for a few days?

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 7:56 am
by eepstein0
apbc12 {l Wrote}:On the list of things I do not understand about people, the impulse to travel thousands of miles just to play golf is near the top. Hey, Paris has some great black top - anybody want to go over and just play pickup basketball for a few days?


Wait seriously?

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:24 am
by MilitantEagle
I would have gone if BC didn't suck so bad this past year. I still might do it, but it would likely be a solo trip.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:48 am
by BCMurt09
I would like to go, but I am of the age where most of my expendable income is going towards weddings and bachelor parties.

Also, I have never been, but my mother has always talked about taking us on a family trip. The sentimentalist in me thinks that should be my first trip to the motherland, not a few days in Dublin to watch us lose a football game.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 6:40 pm
by dtwalrus
Reverend Mike {l Wrote}:
DrJackRyan {l Wrote}:
dtwalrus {l Wrote}:Are you kidding me?! Hell yeah! I'm so excited I'm going tonight, staking out the best seats!

No, but seriously, happen to be going tonight. Will let you know if the locals are any more interested in this game than TRE...

Any Galway recommendations, BTW?

:screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle


Moran's on the Weir.

If you are out in Connemara you can pop in An Poitin Stil in Invern and hang out with my relatives. Brush up on your Gaeilge first: Dhá uiscí beatha, le do thoil

Your smarter, fitter ancestors left there for a reason: Ireland is a fucking shit hole full of stooped-over, drunken, pasty Irishmen on a bleak, gray, wind-swept island under the yoke of British oppression and the tyranny of drink.


Fuck that! This town is great! Cheap whiskey! Live music! Lots of fish and chips! Loving Galway! Off to the Cliffs of Moher tomorrow, can't get better.

Now...would I live here....

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 6:59 pm
by 2014 Eagle
dtwalrus {l Wrote}:
Reverend Mike {l Wrote}:
DrJackRyan {l Wrote}:
dtwalrus {l Wrote}:Are you kidding me?! Hell yeah! I'm so excited I'm going tonight, staking out the best seats!

No, but seriously, happen to be going tonight. Will let you know if the locals are any more interested in this game than TRE...

Any Galway recommendations, BTW?

:screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle :tophat :screamyeagle


Moran's on the Weir.

If you are out in Connemara you can pop in An Poitin Stil in Invern and hang out with my relatives. Brush up on your Gaeilge first: Dhá uiscí beatha, le do thoil

Your smarter, fitter ancestors left there for a reason: Ireland is a fucking shit hole full of stooped-over, drunken, pasty Irishmen on a bleak, gray, wind-swept island under the yoke of British oppression and the tyranny of drink.


Fuck that! This town is great! Cheap whiskey! Live music! Lots of fish and chips! Loving Galway! Off to the Cliffs of Moher tomorrow, can't get better.

Now...would I live here....


Galway is always a blast- the west coast is beautiful.

I did an internship in Dublin during the fall of 14 after graduating. The people overall are super friendly, there are lots of pubs, and any cow/lamb dish is delicious since there are so many animals on the island. It did rain a lot, and was pretty cold the whole time I was there (though early September was BEAUTIFUL). If you have an interest in Irish history, there's a lot to see in Dublin, and getting to the beautiful countryside with all the old castles is super easy on train or bus. Plus, Ryanair is based in Dublin so it's easy to get all over Europe cheaply. Overall, a great place to live in my opinion.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 8:27 pm
by fs33
A year ago I was looking forward to showing my Irish friends American football. Might just send them Coach Flip's slide deck now.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:25 am
by DuchesneEast
Anyone get their code in the email yesterday to buy tix today. I didn't, if anyone can send me the info, I would appreciate it.

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:34 am
by claver2010
BCEAGLES

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:34 pm
by BCEagles66
claver2010 {l Wrote}:BCEAGLES


Did this work? I got the e-mail, clicked the link....code works but then ticketmaster says "Unable to process your request" when I search for tickets

Re: Who's going to Ireland?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:13 pm
by Reverend Mike
BCEagles66 {l Wrote}:
claver2010 {l Wrote}:BCEAGLES


Did this work? I got the e-mail, clicked the link....code works but then ticketmaster says "Unable to process your request" when I search for tickets

It doesn't work if you try to buy tickets on the GT side of the stadium.

Select either:
A) "best available" or
B) whatever price you want to pay, but only on the BC side