Rugby fans-where is Croker?
 

Just a quick note to say that Croke Park is the big Grey and Bluish monstrocity off Clonliffe road. Your best bet is to follow the Ireland/Dubs fans who managed to get tickets. However thats probably the last you'll see of them, because they will most likely drink on the northside afterwards, long after you have taken the return trip to a southside hostilery on the hired minibus. But fair play, you're taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint around Croker by not driving the top of the range (as delboy would put it) merc or beamer, while locked out of your brains or lowering yourself to the level of public transport (Dublin Bus style) to the game.:D Safe driving is very important.

Overall, enjoy and dream of the day that Landsdowne Road is just like Croker. Because thats all that you may do. I believe the Irish Times is setting up a dedicated "Landsdowne in the courts" department.

I'd love to laugh, buts its not very funny due to the chance of truth. (according to Jeremy in Havelock Square):D

Why is it that people are giving the southside in general this image of stupid rich people with an inane fear of the northside?:confused:

Common, i went to sandford park and knew a lot of these ross o'caroll kelly types and non of them where that stupid. Ok so one or two of them did make the ocasional comment of the northside being dangerous and that redz niteclub was awful cause it was a "beacon" for northsiders because its on o'connell bridge. But some of them lived on the northside. Hell i used to live in ballenteer, im used to public transport, hell most people i knew where, especially with so many using the luas in my school.

Not only that but i knew that the best place for the cinema was cineworld on parnell street, and that some people are so missinformed on the northside that they call the spire the "spike". But i doubt anyone doesnt know where croker is, its not hard to miss, that and we had to go there for a history trip.


Shame on anyone who think rugby fans are really the thick rich people that everyone makes them out to be.

I also grew up and went to school on the southside. I call the spire, the spike. I know someone who got alot of "A1"s in his leaving in Blackrock College and still only knows 1 route to drive across the city. There are alot of insular southsiders. It's just the way it is when daddy buys them everything they need in BT. Hey my own sister, who was in a posh southside school took the 16A the wrong way from town a few times :)

I was only joking loike!

I've recovered enough from the 78th minute to be able talk about this. Originally I was quite offended when reading your post Derek, but it was funny how accurate it actually was. One of my mates had to give his parents directions! I mean COME ON, I may never have been to Croker before yesterday, but how can you live in this country and not know where it is? You ask an immigrant just off the plane, and they will already be able tell you where it is, and what pub to drink in depending on whether or not the Dubs are playing.

I heard that southside pubs were doing a deal of dinner and a minibus so they wouldn't lose their heavy walleted patrons to northside pubs (although I can't imagine any of them switching locals permanently). I suppose they didn't want a cash injection loike that into the Northside :D

And Aphfaneire it's da bleedin' Spike righ'? It doesn't deserve an elegant name like the Spire...

Dan & Becs anyone?

(And don't start on me, I'm a Northsider...so I'm possibly dangerous)

Ah, but were the dubs playing last weekend???;)

Im not rich but 7 grand plus to go to school, more than the govt are paying for my college education, means i will call it the spire, when else could some one use such a word, theres spikes everywhere, its unique.

Truth be told i got lost using the 16a once, because ever since the 16 route was made while i live in ballinteer i though both busses came down the road behind my estate. unfortunate for me i didnt know it ended at nutgrove, but i walked up to the 14/48a/116 terminus anyway, lazily though i think i txted for a lift even though it was half the journey i had just walked to get home:D

I admit, i only know 4 through city routes that are relitivly free flowing to get to the southside, this doesnt include the m50 or n11, which are just fools work, ones a c ones a straight enough line:rolleyes:

But also, i only know about 2 or 3 routes on the northside. Drumcondra road, glasnevin avenue to finglas/airport and to some extent that going far enough on the malahide road can get you to a road that meets the end of the m50, i think:rolleyes:

Well considering most churches have a 'spire' so it's not really that unique a word if you really feel like using it. What Dublin monument has escaped an affectionate nickname anyway? Consider Spike a term of (ahem) endearment, not a lack of education.

The Syringe.

Sorted.

I laughed very hard when I heard "Tomb of the Unknown Junkie"

My sister's story was that she got the bus into town for something instead of the usual school bus home. She then hopped on a 16/16A intending to get to Terenure and ended up in Santry.

This same sister is a credit to private education when it comes to public transport as well. She knew that any 15 15A 15B 15D 15E or 15F would get her home, so she thought maybe the 15O would as well (O as in "O" not as in zero)

Jayz Oisin, you'd better pray she soesn't read this....!

Judging from her apparent lack of knoledge of public transport, is a forum on its flaws and short commings really going to be on her reading list?

She knows we slag her all the time about it.
But as you know.... which of my 5 sisters could it be ....:D

Quote of the year, by a long shot.

'sfunny how the gist of dereks original post is actually ringing truer and truer....... if you're from the southside, please stop digging now.

...and to think I got all cowardly and said I was joking.:D

Its in my blood to keep digging myself deeper into this, hey if im no good for digging real holes metaphorical ones can do.

Or yeah, 7 grand a year does not gaurentee i can spell:cool:

Íde?

I'm not going to answer in case you go through all 5, but, no!

As Saturday approaches, its time to bump the thread.

The media have played up this whole Southsider on the Northside thing and I have started a thread on it out of curiosity. The thread has discovered that there is indeed a poor representation of the Southsider, in relation to the Northside. I think this is absolutely terrible albeit true in some circumstances. What really annoyed me today was the fact that the Right Hook is continuing to do its Friday of a rugby weekend outside broadcast from the Lansdowne Hotel on Pembroke road. (deep deep southside)

Would the cause of the Southsider not be better served if George (he being from Cork like) had done his outside broadcast from a hotel on the northside near Croke Park, or are the media dahlings still caught up in the perception that I intended portraying in my original post and unintentially fuelling this "division" of cultures.

George Hooks son is manager of the Lansdowne, that's the only reason that the broadcasts come from there.

Like say...
Jury's Croke Park hotel??

No No No No No agus aris NO......The Official Hotel for all such Outside Broadcasts in relation to matches and "other assignations" at Headquarters is......Of Course........BARRYS HOTEL in Gt Denmark St.......Where love stories and much else begin......and end :D

Good man, only place to go

Yeah Barry's got an honorable mention in work this morning alright.

Thursday night, Nurses night in Barry's.

We used to go there to gawk at the country women, difficult creatures that they are.

Isn't there a lap dancing club there now as well? Do the girls wear wellies?

Probably.

Lap dancing is next door, last time I was in it was a very wet day and the crew in the wet seats arrived wearing black refuse sacks