stag and blackcurrant
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Topic: stag and blackcurrant
Posted By: irish_mammy
Subject: stag and blackcurrant
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 15:09
I used to drink Stag and blackcurrant, then added peppermint (for a dodgy stomach) and then added lime to make it taste better.
No wonder I had a dodgy stomach!!!! We used to go The Sheds and then on to the Grove. Don't know how I didn't spend my nights in the girls toilets.
Anybody else any strange combination back then (or now)
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 15:16
Dont know if it was strange - actually it wasnt really, just what I used to drink a lot of (snakebite, cider and lager mixed). Ugh! I couldnt drink that now!!  
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 15:21
I'm a bit more boring now with just bacardi and 7up, or dry white wine, or anything from a dirty old boot!!!!

------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 16:15
Actually I drink cheap beer and cider, just couldnt mix 'em in the same glass! 
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Posted By: RoundaboutToo!
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 16:21
I went on a 5-a-side / drink weekend to the Isle of Man long time ago and one night we were drinking Snakebites (cider& lager) and Pernod & Blackcurrant.
Doesn't sound too bad, but this was all in the same pint glass . Didn't taste too bad either!
CP
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Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 16:26
Remember drinking Depth Chargers in Moscow...............and not that long ago either.
A shot of Vodka, still in the glass is dropped into a pint of lager. You can figure the rest out yourselves.
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 16:35
Try a shot of Jaegermeister. Taste like a mixture of cough medicine and meths (don't ask).
Was introduced to it by a mad corkman while a group of us were skiing in Austria (fantastic place to go)
Couldn't taste anything for about 2 years tho'
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: freebird
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 17:35
Watermelon Gin
I do remember one time in the US buying a whole water melon. Cutting a small hole in the top and pouring a whole bottle of gin into it. Letting it to soak for a couple of hours, then eating great big wedges of it with the gin rolling down your arms.
Lethal on a hot day-
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 18:29
Don't like gin but I'll try that with Bacardi.
Nice for the summer barbies!!!
Will give you a shout when I try it.
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 18:37
Actually, its just come to me - I think many of us tried the old "cocktails" from our folks booze cabinets! whisky/vodka/brandy etc., all mixed in the one bottle - ah, desperate times 
Lost track of the amount of times I nearly 
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Posted By: IanL
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 19:42
Vodka (Huzzar) with Fanta Orange ... yuck !!!
Was a desperate case of there being no coca cola,
pepsi or even Club Orange around. Result = dizzy
head, heebie jeeby stomach for 2-3 days later,
collapsed on the floor before even heading off to
the Grove.
It took me several years to get over my distate for Vodka
after imbibing that horrid mix. It has taken a lifetime
to get over Fanta. Hate the stuff with a passion along
with its evil sister "Lilt"
Cool Neat (non diet) Club Orange = lovely
(my favourite non alcoholic pub drink)
Ice cold Stolichnaya vodka neat = sudden rush of
admiration for the old Soviet state
If the Grove had been based in Mayo God forbid I'd say
some of us would have had war stories about nasty
poteen mixes. I've yet to try any of that evil stuff!!!
------------- Ian - Grover '81-'84
Exiled to Mayo since 2005
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 20:56
My parents didn't drink, so there was nothing in the cabinet. Used to go to the Beachcomber. Drank Smithwicks back then I think.
Used to go to Hijacks, drank dodgy wine and sangria - think I said this before on another thread.
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 22:39
We used to drink vodka and Lime back then, and loved it....now even when I smell it , I just wanna
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Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 22:54
Same here Bluebell but later I would drink Guinness and blackcurrent....
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 25-October-2006 at 23:30
eejit91 wrote:
Same here Bluebell but later I would to drink Guinness and blackcurrent.... |
Only drank guinness and blackcurrent when I was pregnant Teresa.....and hated it.
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Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 26-October-2006 at 11:50
It always amazes me how anyone could destroy a perfectly good drink like Guinness with sugary blackcurrant....
Pure sacrilege...eek!!
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Posted By: xgrovehead
Date Posted: 26-October-2006 at 13:29
Hayseed Dixie wrote:
It always amazes me how anyone could destroy a perfectly good drink like Guinness with sugary blackcurrant....
Pure sacrilege...eek!!
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With you on that HD. As for the rest of you - dipsos!!
Anyone ever tried a drink called Unicum? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicum
Its really lethal stuff - the label has a medicine cross on it! We have some in our spirits collection - rather himself does, he got it in Hungary years ago - it has to be tasted to be believed! It used to make an appearance at house parties in the pre childer days..... wicked hang overs for all the next day.
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 26-October-2006 at 15:50
dum de dum de dum - sounds like the archers (radio 4)?
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Posted By: xgrovehead
Date Posted: 26-October-2006 at 16:43
finno wrote:
dum de dum de dum - sounds like the archers (radio 4)? |
Heard of it Finno but never heard it, if you know what I mean.
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 26-October-2006 at 20:21
Can't believe no one out there went to Hijacks (under pizzaland in O'Connell Street. I know I wasnt the only Grover who went
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Posted By: Sharon
Date Posted: 27-October-2006 at 13:18
finno wrote:
Can't believe no one out there went to Hijacks (under pizzaland in O'Connell Street. I know I wasnt the only Grover who went |
most ppl knew how dodgy the wine was there...says an ex pizzaland worker..."giggles"
Sharon
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Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 27-October-2006 at 16:19
Ok what about a red witch pint glass shot of pernod bottle of stag and stash of black currant to give it colour. Most i ever managed was 4 I think 
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 27-October-2006 at 18:14
ugh! Maybe two of them and I reckon I'd be on the way (rapidly) to the loos..
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 27-October-2006 at 18:54
Sounds revolting
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Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 27-October-2006 at 19:36
Ok what about those Buck Fizz - champagne and orange juice - nearly blew the head off myself up leeson street one night drinking them. Came home and stripped off and stood there in front of my Mother starkers.... drunk as a monkey... did not get up out of bed for about 2 days...
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 27-October-2006 at 21:36
Mmmmmm......now Bucks Fizz I do like....had it for breakfast the day of
my wedding and have loved it ever since.....but I never get it for
breakfast anymore (hint hint HD )
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 27-October-2006 at 22:12
They always have bundles of that stuff in M&S around Christmas time and Siobhan insists on getting it for Christmas morning/lunch. Not mad keen, too sweet!
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 27-October-2006 at 22:43
Yeah Mel.....we also bought a few bottles last christmas....but I think we drank them all before christmas day !!!!
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 27-October-2006 at 22:44
Bucks Fizz has become a bit of a tradition in our house on Christmas morning.
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 03:12
Hey Finno,
Not to make you jealous or anything but Christmas tradition in our house is taking a bottle of champers down to the beach in the mornings, watching the dolphins swim in the Indian Ocean, get drunk, ring your friends back in Dublin (middle of the night for them) and tell them how warm it is here.
haha
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 10:26
Im not jealous sure with global warming we'll all be able to go to the beach without the thermals
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Posted By: freebird
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 11:23
yeh and when the sea levels rise I will finally get my ocean views
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 13:34
Hey Freebird,
If the sea levels rise I'll have ocean views IN my bedroom not from.
Hope that doesn't happen anytime soon.
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: Stevie
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 18:35
Ok! Ok! Finno I'M gonna own up...my 1st ever experience drinking was Hijacks , I also have a terrible memory of climbing over the backs of other premises on that block in the dark when it was raided (Vivienne Purcell you've a lot to answer for if you're out there somewhere??).
God, I was terrified that I'd be delivered home to my Mother by the police, this was before my Inter Cert (cos I celebrated THAT in The Nep) so we were all quite under age.It may come as a surprise to some of the more innocent on this site ( not likely!) that I did of course rediscover drink again after this experience, I was tempted never to drink again for a least a week but fought the fear off bravely.
Think one of the Molloys was there that night maybe youself too Finno?
Stevie
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Posted By: star
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 23:17
oh my god,
Stag and Blackcurrant! I had completely forgotten that I used to drink that. THE minute i read it here I could get the smell of it in my head and the smell of The Hairy Lemon pub in town
Brought a smile to my face and some funny memories.
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 23:24
I missed that particular but I remember them coming in once or twice once or twice and hiding stuff behind the posters on the wall. Do you remember the sort of "tudor" look the place had?
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Posted By: RoundaboutToo!
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 23:45
on my first attempted visit to Hijacks, people inside Pizzaland
upstairs were signalling everyone not to go down -
turned out there was a raid going on! I did go a second time and we didn't stay too long. Did they only sell wine and no beer? CP
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 23:48
Wine and sangria and possibly coke and fanta but no beer
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 28-October-2006 at 23:51
There was a guy who used to hang out there khown as Pat the rat. about 3 years after I stopped going I was on a nightbus in Amsterdam (1983?) I met him out of his tree totally stoned I dont think he was even too sure of his name
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Posted By: Stevie
Date Posted: 29-October-2006 at 12:32
Not too sure about the coke & fanta for obvious reasons!! didn't sell beer at all, WHAT was the "Tudor Look" all about???-never did see the significance...I thought that the wine & sangria was sorta mediterranean so that kind of look would have made sense! actually it was quite a progressive idea for the 70's in Dublin---wish they had one now
Stevie
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Posted By: myploscarfe
Date Posted: 19-November-2006 at 09:19
Brunswick wrote:
Actually, its just come to me - I think many of us tried the old "cocktails" from our folks booze cabinets! whisky/vodka/brandy etc., all mixed in the one bottle - ah, desperate times 
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We used to call that the "Dynamite Cocktail" an inch off every bottle in the folks booze press. Tasted vile but blew our heads off!! The only liquor that was barred from the cocktail was Pernod, too overpowering for our strange brew. Oh but we had the very best of taste!!!
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 19-November-2006 at 09:25
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We used to call that the "Dynamite Cocktail" an inch off every bottle in the folks booze press. Tasted vile but blew our heads off!! The only liquor that was barred from the cocktail was Pernod, too overpowering for our strange brew. Oh but we had the very best of taste!!!
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A bit dangerous to try that in my house. My mam always had a bottle of poteen in it (she used it to add flavour to cakes!!)
Blew your head off if you added that.
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 19-November-2006 at 09:45
A friend of mine drank rum and black. awful stuff could never take to it. Maybe thats why he is now on the dry
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Posted By: myploscarfe
Date Posted: 19-November-2006 at 09:47
Only equalled by Guinness and blackcurrent.
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 19-November-2006 at 09:48
ugh just the thought of that..
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Posted By: myploscarfe
Date Posted: 19-November-2006 at 09:50
Knew a few girls who drank that..
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Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 19-November-2006 at 12:02
Have to put my hand up to that one drank guinness with blackcurrant when I was pregnant
Used to drink a "cocktail" that had bottle of stag blackcurrant and a shot of vodka I think all served up in pint glass called a Red Witch
------------- Blondie
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 19-November-2006 at 14:32
I could never take to Guiness.
Funny tho' I think blackcurrant was invented to take the yucky taste away of some drinks.
Don't know any other use for it.
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 19-November-2006 at 23:45
I drank my first pint of Guinness down in Galway when I was 40yrs old,
and I have to say it was not bad while I was drinking it.....it was
afterwards that I felt sick, I was so full up couldn't have another
drink after it.....so I really don't know how you lads do it 
Anyway I think I made my dad very proud that day cos he spent all his
working life in Guinnesses helping to make the stuff....but I do think
it would of tasting better with a dash of blackcurrent in it 
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Posted By: RoundaboutToo!
Date Posted: 20-November-2006 at 00:18
here goes any Cred I may've had! My first drink was a Glass of Guinness with a drop of blackcurrant and I liked it . It was in a pub in Marlboro St meeting up with a few going to see Horslips in the Stadium! I drank Guinness for years till giving it up one summer 15 years ago for Cider. I drank Guinness all night at the Halloween reunion though- it's filling all right, but just put on some Zep & Purple, headbang away between pints and you'll have no probs...
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Posted By: freebird
Date Posted: 20-November-2006 at 06:48
Can't remember my first pint of Guinness - think I must have been reared on the stuff.
My mother in her youth used to drink a bottle of Guinness a day for 'medicinal purposes' after a bout of Rheumatic Fever that was before she discovered Johhny Walker.
Has anyone tried a 'Black and Tan', Think its Guinness and Harp ???mixed.  
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 20-November-2006 at 08:58
Guinness and Harp.
Thats worse than my stag and black.
I think none of us had any taste buds (or sense) back then
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: myploscarfe
Date Posted: 20-November-2006 at 18:31
freebird wrote:
Has anyone tried a 'Black and Tan', Think its Guinness and Harp ???mixed.  
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A Black and Tan is Smythwicks with a Guinness head or vica versa...
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 20-November-2006 at 18:32
Mmmm......sounds wonderful !!!!
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 20-November-2006 at 20:25
irish_mammy wrote:
Guinness and Harp.
Thats worse than my stag and black.
I think none of us had any taste buds (or sense) back then
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Hi Lesley, theres also an argument to be made about our sense (or lack of it) these days too. 
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 21-November-2006 at 00:17
Mel,
There certainly is,
No argument from me there.
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
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Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 21-November-2006 at 08:05
Wot about snakebites cider and lager I think ???
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 21-November-2006 at 13:45
Blondie,
They wouldn't taste too much better either
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 21-November-2006 at 14:10
Great stuff Lesley would blow your mind 
------------- Blondie
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Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 21-November-2006 at 14:49
myploscarfe wrote:
freebird wrote:
Has anyone tried a 'Black and Tan', Think its Guinness and Harp ???mixed.  
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A Black and Tan is Smythwicks with a Guinness head or vica versa... |
Guinness...with a Smithwicks head...??
Just one question...
WHY!!!?? 
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 21-November-2006 at 14:57
Would have a Guinness or a Smithwicks but not in the same glass.
My local opened in 1850. Closing time fluctuates depending on demand!
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 21-November-2006 at 16:58
Finno,
I like the sound of your local.
Aussies start early but finish early too. By the time you're ready to go out everywhere is shut (except in the city) and everyone is ready to go home.
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 21-November-2006 at 19:31
must try and grab a photo or two of it.
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 22-November-2006 at 01:09
Finno, Whats the pub called?
(ps Thanks for the cd covers doc)
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 22-November-2006 at 10:04
Lenehans in Kilkenny
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 22-November-2006 at 16:18
My mam's friend is from Kilkenny.
I remember going on a school trip with her kids, (cos my class were going somwhere crap).
We went to visit all their relations and mams friends.
The girls got money from everyone and cos I was with them they gave me money too. Came home rich!!!!!
Must be great pubs in Kilkenny. A girl I worked with few years ago in Dublin, went home nearly every weekend cos of the pubs!!
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 22-November-2006 at 16:41
Great place to live. Ithink there are 81 -82 pubs in city. I've not been in them all. Some nice places to eat and not too far for a visit from Dublin. (Obviously a bit far for the day from Perth!)
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 23-November-2006 at 16:12
finno wrote:
Great place to live. Ithink there are 81 -82 pubs in city. I've not been in them all. Some nice places to eat and not too far for a visit from Dublin. (Obviously a bit far for the day from Perth!) |
All those pubs. Now that's what I call a great city.
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 23-November-2006 at 17:21
Population 19,500 approx
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Posted By: myploscarfe
Date Posted: 23-November-2006 at 22:14
finno wrote:
Lenehans in Kilkenny |
Hi Finno
Is Lenehans just off John street on the right before the bridge as you head for the train station
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 23-November-2006 at 22:59
Near extravision? Thats Tynans - The Bridge Bar.
Lenehans is red and gold paint on the outside. Its on the corner opposite the army barracks ( corner of Castlecomer Road and Barrack Street. There is another near there called Carrolls ( known as "the bucket of Blood" absolute hole. John Street from station down has (crossing from side to side has Lawlors, O'Gormans, O'Byrnes,Kilford Arms, Worlds End, Egans, O'Faolans, Breathnach's, Dempseys, Langtons, Biddy Earley's, Mc Courts and Matt the Millers. And then you cross Johns Bridge...........
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Posted By: myploscarfe
Date Posted: 23-November-2006 at 23:17
Tynans yeh thats the one I was thinking of. I know Lenehans though my brother in law lived out the Castlecomer Rd in an estate opposite The Brougemaker. Lenehans was the first pub we would hit on the way into town of an evening. He lives out in Kells now so haven't been in Lenehans in years. We make do with Shirleys in Kells, some good nights there...
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Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 08:10
finno wrote:
Near extravision? Thats Tynans - The Bridge Bar.
Lenehans is red and gold paint on the outside. Its on the corner opposite the army barracks ( corner of Castlecomer Road and Barrack Street. There is another near there called Carrolls ( known as "the bucket of Blood" absolute hole. John Street from station down has (crossing from side to side has Lawlors, O'Gormans, O'Byrnes,Kilford Arms, Worlds End, Egans, O'Faolans, Breathnach's, Dempseys, Langtons, Biddy Earley's, Mc Courts and Matt the Millers. And then you cross Johns Bridge........... |
My god Finno thats an impressive list of pubs sounds like just the place for a pub crawl
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 10:52
Thats not even the half of it!
ps I forgot to include the River Court on this side of the bridge
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 13:56
Hey Finno... HD and me stayed in the River Court Hotel two years ago....great place I love Killkenny, great pubs, great shops and lovely places to eat.
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 14:05
Well its about time you visited again!
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 14:15
Yeah think your right.....must look into taken a weekend down there after the christmas...could catch up with ya for a few (or loads) of drinks....after I drag HD all around the shops...hehehe
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Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 14:17
Bluebell wrote:
Hey Finno... HD and me stayed in the River Court Hotel two years ago....great place I love Killkenny, great pubs, great shops and lovely places to eat. |
Agreed Bluebell.
Finno, there's a really lovely little Restaurant in Butterslip Lane ( think that's what it's called.) Pordylo's is the name of it. Ever tried it ?
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 14:20
No Rolo....can't remember the name, so guess I was never in it.
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 14:31
Yes a number of times great food
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 14:33
Maybe Hd and I could find something better - i mean something else to do and leave you to enjoy shopping!
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 18:57
finno wrote:
Near extravision? Thats Tynans - The Bridge Bar.
Lenehans is red and gold paint on the outside. Its on the corner opposite the army barracks ( corner of Castlecomer Road and Barrack Street. There is another near there called Carrolls ( known as "the bucket of Blood" absolute hole. John Street from station down has (crossing from side to side has Lawlors, O'Gormans, O'Byrnes,Kilford Arms, Worlds End, Egans, O'Faolans, Breathnach's, Dempseys, Langtons, Biddy Earley's, Mc Courts and Matt the Millers. And then you cross Johns Bridge........... |
at "Bucket of Blood" - sounds like a dodgy dockside tavern in one of my Dungeons and Dragons games - barbarian, bandit and general lowlife hangout. Lots of barroom brawls!! 
------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick).
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Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 20:49
Might remind others of the Mended Drum.
Theres some great stories about but this is not the place. R emind me on 2nd, Mel
------------- A man must have a code
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Posted By: myploscarfe
Date Posted: 24-November-2006 at 23:18
Blondie wrote:
finno wrote:
Near extravision? Thats Tynans - The Bridge Bar.
Lenehans is red and gold paint on the outside. Its on the corner opposite the army barracks ( corner of Castlecomer Road and Barrack Street. There is another near there called Carrolls ( known as "the bucket of Blood" absolute hole. John Street from station down has (crossing from side to side has Lawlors, O'Gormans, O'Byrnes,Kilford Arms, Worlds End, Egans, O'Faolans, Breathnach's, Dempseys, Langtons, Biddy Earley's, Mc Courts and Matt the Millers. And then you cross Johns Bridge........... |
My god Finno thats an impressive list of pubs sounds like just the place for a pub crawl
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Certainly be crawling by the end of John Street
------------- Careful With That Patchoulie Oil Eugene
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 26-November-2006 at 03:35
Hi gang....just in from a night out with good friends and I was drinking wine and bacardi with orange and toffee snapps with a baileys head....so you all guess it .....I'M pissed and gonna be tomorrow......OH GOD HELP !!!!!!!
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter
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Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 26-November-2006 at 09:25
Toffee snaps with a baileys head ...............
sounds revolting hope not feeling too bad today Bluebell
------------- Blondie
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it !
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 26-November-2006 at 10:20
toffee schnapps and a baileys head.
I like the sound of that.
------------- Lesley
25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car.
Grove 1980-1984
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