Brighton

[Fosterbloke]

Brighton are the closest thing to Man City but without the oil state funding.

Laptey has come a long way and that Adingra looks handy, and he's only 21! Maybe we'll go for him instead

I'm actually really happy for Lallana, he's 35 and still has something to offer.

[Irishnev]

Pretty sure Sue Ann went to college in Moylish (later to become LIT) in Limerick with her husband to be.

Another from the wider McManus family did go to UCC but would not have crossed paths timewise with you or I.

She was def out with me in Sir Henry’s a couple of times and was a good friend of a girl I knew I assumed she was in UCC, I even googled it to verify to make me not look like a tool, couldn’t see anything

I remember a good mate of mine falling over himself trying to impress her

[Doc_Piptorious]

She was def out with me in Sir Henry’s a couple of times and was a good friend of a girl I knew I assumed she was in UCC, I even googled it to verify to make me not look like a tool, couldn’t see anything

I remember a good mate of mine falling over himself trying to impress her

Checked since your post.

She went to LIT in Limerick and Cian (her husband) was there at the same time (is where they met).

You are 100% it was Sue and not one of her first cousins? Just that there is a UCC connection with one of them and the surname would be McManus too. Course could just be a case of her going down to Cork with some mates and then running into some escapees from Fota park in Sir Henrys .

You must be a bit younger than I thought you were. Thought you were late 40
s.

For some reason I thought you were in UCC around the same time as me (mid 1990s)

[Irishnev]

Checked since your post.

She went to LIT in Limerick and Cian (her husband) was there at the same time (is where they met).

You are 100% it was Sue and not one of her first cousins? Just that there is a UCC connection with one of them and the surname would be McManus too. Course could just be a case of her going down to Cork with some mates and then running into some escapees from Fota park in Sir Henrys .

You must be a bit younger than I thought you were. Thought you were late 40
s.

For some reason I thought you were in UCC around the same time as me (mid 1990s)

45 - 46 in Dev and my friend was a couple of years behind me. I’m pretty certain it was her - my mate was pestering her for tips! Maybe it was a cousin as it was over 20 years ago

[Doc_Piptorious]

Nev hanging with the kids






"Mr Neville seemed a normal sort of guy" Doc said to the Dispatches reporter "if I knew then what I now know, I would have just put a bullet in the critter"






Not in any way related to your activities, but think this year or next is 20 years since Sir Henry's closed it's doors. Was around that Western road/Washington street/Grand Parade area over the weekend and is mad how much as changed when one starts to recall what was here and what was there when on the move.

Not sure when you were last in Cork city centre, but in that area (ish) the Vault bar is up for sale now and so is the Electric. Somewhere around 5 million gets you both of them.

Might need another what's changed in Cork or Memories of Cork from the 1990s post or two in the Irish thread as to avoid doing it any further in this one.

[Irishnev]

Nev hanging with the kids






"Mr Neville seemed a normal sort of guy" Doc said to the Dispatches reporter "if I knew then what I now know, I would have just put a bullet in the critter"






Not in any way related to your activities, but think this year or next is 20 years since Sir Henry's closed its doors. Was around that Western road/Washington street/Grand Parade area over the weekend and is mad how much as changed when one starts to recall what was here and what was there when on the move.

Not sure when you were last in Cork city centre, but in that area (ish) the Vault bar is up for sale now and so is the Electric. Somewhere around 5 million gets you both of them.

Might need another what's changed in Cork or Memories of Cork from the 1990s post or two in the Irish thread as to avoid doing it any further in this one.

Years Jaco sadly, not been to Cork City since the kids were young and we staying down the western road and took the train to Fota for the day. Henry’s …… those were the days and sitting against the brewery across the road afterwards waiting to meet up and the pub that escapes my name on the corner (Roundhouse?) for a pre pint.

Coming to Ireland in Oct for a 5 day flying visit with the family to see the folks!

[fidget]

I was interested in finding out more about Tony Bloom. Was not expecting his path to financial success to be this.

I've met him a couple of times back when I used to play live poker. Very nice fella.
The people who worked for him at starlizard (at least back then) were paid a fairly low basic but were allowed to be part of his private betting syndicate which would place bets on the football and pay out the profits (tax free) at christmas and the end of the football season. Usually an awful lot more than their salary. Everybody wanted to work for him.
Nobody knows his net worth but he's reputed to be the biggest winner ever on the asian handicap markets.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Years Jaco sadly, not been to Cork City since the kids were young and we staying down the western road and took the train to Fota for the day. Henry’s …… those were the days and sitting against the brewery across the road afterwards waiting to meet up and the pub that escapes my name on the corner (Roundhouse?) for a pre pint.

Coming to Ireland in Oct for a 5 day flying visit with the family to see the folks!

Beamish was across from Sir Henrys but the Roundy is on Castle street. Would it have been the Oval you are thinking of? That is/was owned by Beamish.


Next time you are in Cork city take a walk down South Main street where you used to go after a night in Sir henry's.

The Brewery was rebuilt into an event centre and the fake tudor building (The Counting House) is still there with the new modern building having been built around/behind it.


This is one of the mock up pics of it and the real thing looks a lot better.

[Irishnev]

The Oval! That was it

[danperkins]

****ing Beamish or Murphys, ****e.

[Norbs]

Everyone in Ireland seems to know everyone else

[Doc_Piptorious]

Everyone in Ireland seems to know everyone else

Well Nev and I went to the same Uni, UCC, and we also grew up (in parts in my case) hanging around the same city (Limerick) prior to going to uni in Cork. So a lot of common ground there and would have been going to the same bars, clubs etc.

BadPiggy also has spent a bit of time in Cork city and has been to a lot of the same places though I suspect I potentially have another layer of folk in common with Piggy given his stated profession and especially if he trained for that profession in Limerick city as have three of my family in that profession, all three having trained in Limerick, and also a family member who was a lecturer there in Limerick. Have two close friends who are in that profession as well and are now based in Cork city but had worked out of Dublin prior to that.


Plus Ireland is pretty small. Limerick city only has a population now of around 100k, far less 30 years ago. Cork city (second biggest city in Ireland) has about 250k to 300k if you include the outlying areas.

Other than Dublin, nowhere in Ireland has a really big population so playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in Ireland only needs two or three moves at most



You will note however that none of us claim to know Perkins or any of his ilk.


Sorry Perks, just needed to go at someone, you know how us Irish are.

[Irishnev]

correct

[Doc_Piptorious]

correct

It really us, though in the case of you and I, we really have hung around in an awful lot of the same places in Limerick, Cork and also Shannon (quite possibly Ennis too I suspect) over the years.

Hell we were even spending time in the same hospital earlier this year despite neither of us living in the city that hospital is in and think I had an appointment there at the same time that your dad was in there.


How is he doing now btw? Is he back to eating normally/doing his old routine or still being a bit careful with things?

After I had a similar knock out to him at the start of this year I only had my first brekkie roll of the year this day last week.

[Irishnev]

It really us, though in the case of you and I, we really have hung around in an awful lot of the same places in Limerick, Cork and also Shannon (quite possibly Ennis too I suspect) over the years.

Hell we were even spending time in the same hospital earlier this year despite neither of us living in the city that hospital is in and think I had an appointment there at the same time that your dad was in there.


How is he doing now btw? Is he back to eating normally/doing his old routine or still being a bit careful with things?

After I had a similar knock out to him at the start of this year I only had my first brekkie roll of the year this day last week.

We are completely detouring the thread but as I created it…….

He’s still struggling tbh, can’t travel and will have a pacemaker fitted soonish. We are coming to see him as it’s the first semi reasonably priced Ryanair flight to Shannon in ages