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A few clips from a typical Saturday night on O'Connell St. Dublin.
The street is a lot more social than it was a few years ago. The redesign of the streetscape has certainly helped.
Old statues of burghers, patriots & assorted types, now stand on wide pavements with modern furniture.
Overall, it is a far more attractiv...e place to spend time then heretofore.
Of course, shenanigans still occur (hence the arrest of the guy in this film). Unfortunate for sure - tho' it is pretty common all over Ireland at the weekend.Read More
The street is a lot more social than it was a few years ago. The redesign of the streetscape has certainly helped.
Old statues of burghers, patriots & assorted types, now stand on wide pavements with modern furniture.
Overall, it is a far more attractiv...e place to spend time then heretofore.
Of course, shenanigans still occur (hence the arrest of the guy in this film). Unfortunate for sure - tho' it is pretty common all over Ireland at the weekend.Read More
LikePlace Ireland Another addition to the incidental series about places to worship in Ireland. The National Baha'i Centre is in a rather grand building near Mespil Road.
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Is it just me or have a lot of people taken up running in the last couple of years?
Hardly a week goes by without some place in Ireland hosting its own Fun Run , Marathon or Iron Man event.
Last week, it was a 10KM Halloween nighttime run thru the demesne of Lough Key, Co.Roscommon.
About 150 people participated - each k...itted out with headlamps and emergency whistles. Your intrepid reporter was among them. I came in 54th. Not too bad.
The route meandered in pitch black through the woods, around by the lake, through some underground tunnels and then back to the visitor centre.
Wet, muddy but not scary.Read More
Hardly a week goes by without some place in Ireland hosting its own Fun Run , Marathon or Iron Man event.
Last week, it was a 10KM Halloween nighttime run thru the demesne of Lough Key, Co.Roscommon.
About 150 people participated - each k...itted out with headlamps and emergency whistles. Your intrepid reporter was among them. I came in 54th. Not too bad.
The route meandered in pitch black through the woods, around by the lake, through some underground tunnels and then back to the visitor centre.
Wet, muddy but not scary.Read More
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Ballyclare, Co.Antrim ... "Smells like a pigsty. Tastes like peach ice cream." - according to Willie McCrae.
Definately our most bizarre comment so far.
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Another LP (Lonely Planet) says Cork City is a top place to visit in 2010.
Cork is listed alongside place such as Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Kyoto, Singapore and Vancouver.
Illustrious company.
Source: www.irishtimes.com
CORK HAS been listed alongside cities in the US, Canada and Italy in a new Lonely Planettravel guide for the top places to visit in 2010.
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Remember what I said before about 'permanent Beta'?
Our latest development is a LikePlace plugin for Google Earth. This will allow you to see everywhere rated in Ireland at a single glance. (This can't be done on Google Map due to performance issues.)
The new download will be ready in a few days. A preview is shown below.
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"Yes, I live in Yukon. Yukon, Co.Dublin - that is!"
I love these weird house names.
I have seen everything from Tolkien references ('Rivendell' is very popular), to CS Lewis (Want to visit 'Narnia'? It is in Portmarnock) to Yeats (Inisfree is ubiquitous). The more bizarre & obscure the better.
I don't have a name for my own place as yet - but I am very open to suggestions.
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Scotland is now officially my favourite country in Europe.
Having just returned from a week long tour there, I was stunned by just how beautiful it is. Rich countryside, huge forests of Birch & Scots Pine, and towering mountains.
Not only that, the villages and towns are beautiful too. Very well maintained, clean and no... litter.
It looks like a great place to live.
My biggest surprise was that there is no "Bungalow Blitz" in Scotland. Good planning seems to have restricted housing within towns & villages. What buildings are sited in the countryside are well integrated to the landscape, i.e. in a traditional, rural style surrounded by trees.
The result is that the Scottish countryside still looks incredibly beautiful. No half-finished, South Fork Ranch-style monstrosities littered in otherwise scenic areas.
We could learn an awful lot from Scotland.Read More
Having just returned from a week long tour there, I was stunned by just how beautiful it is. Rich countryside, huge forests of Birch & Scots Pine, and towering mountains.
Not only that, the villages and towns are beautiful too. Very well maintained, clean and no... litter.
It looks like a great place to live.
My biggest surprise was that there is no "Bungalow Blitz" in Scotland. Good planning seems to have restricted housing within towns & villages. What buildings are sited in the countryside are well integrated to the landscape, i.e. in a traditional, rural style surrounded by trees.
The result is that the Scottish countryside still looks incredibly beautiful. No half-finished, South Fork Ranch-style monstrosities littered in otherwise scenic areas.
We could learn an awful lot from Scotland.Read More
LikePlace Ireland For info, we are currently away on holiday (in Scotland!), so updates will be few til next Monday.
LikePlace Ireland An addition to our incidental series about new places to worship in Ireland. This includes non-Christian denominations too. This Sikh Gurdwara is based in an old, converted cinema in Sandymount, Dublin.
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How is your balance?
If you are brave, try these stepping stones on the walk between Lough Tay and Lough Dan.
Wicklow really is wonderful.
Almost everyone knows of Glendalough and its views. But - in my book - it is easily surpassed by Lough Tay & Lough Dan.
Why?
It seems "lived in" and yet is unspoiled. It has a few far...m houses but also includes a stunning off-road walk through a river valley full of wild deer, a clear river and very few crowds.
Definitely recommended.Read More
If you are brave, try these stepping stones on the walk between Lough Tay and Lough Dan.
Wicklow really is wonderful.
Almost everyone knows of Glendalough and its views. But - in my book - it is easily surpassed by Lough Tay & Lough Dan.
Why?
It seems "lived in" and yet is unspoiled. It has a few far...m houses but also includes a stunning off-road walk through a river valley full of wild deer, a clear river and very few crowds.
Definitely recommended.Read More
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Oktoberfest Dublin = Paddy's paradise.
I visited this last weekend. The sausages were big, the lederhosen short, the bar maids buxomy and the beer frothy.
Quite good fun, in a sense-assaulting kind-of-way.
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We have discovered that LikePlace.ie is Ireland's most active community rating website! The average number of ratings we receive per day is greater than any of our peers.
Humble thanks to you guys.
LikePlace gets an average of 7.5 ratings per day, compared to 5.0 for Ratemyarea. Not too bad!
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That's the question LikePlace can help you to answer. This is especially useful if you are planning to move to Ireland and want to decide where to set-up your new home.
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Dingle seems an unlikely place to run a film festival, yet each year it manages to attract some high profile names to appear on its line up.
This year Jim Sheridan and Saoirse Ronan (young star of 'Atonement') were the the big attractions.
I myself managed to see the Production Screening of a new Irish horror filmed (bas...ed in London, but filmed in Tralee) called "Spiderhole", in the IFI mobile cinema. Lots of suspense and not too much blood. Worth a look out.
http://www.dinglefilmfestival.com/Read More
This year Jim Sheridan and Saoirse Ronan (young star of 'Atonement') were the the big attractions.
I myself managed to see the Production Screening of a new Irish horror filmed (bas...ed in London, but filmed in Tralee) called "Spiderhole", in the IFI mobile cinema. Lots of suspense and not too much blood. Worth a look out.
http://www.dinglefilmfestival.com/Read More
