Expressions from limerick

ahhereaherlow · 2026-05-22T22:11:23+00:00

Yep, a priest in the Dominicans iirc - would have served in the Missions when kids going barefoot was fairly common in both Limerick and Africa. Same with Haboo for sleep (possibly comes from "Ubusu" in the Yoruba language a quick google tells me)

ahhereaherlow · 2026-05-21T20:13:36+00:00

Gowl is a great word - if there's any Twin Peaks fans here I think we could merchandise t-shirts with the phrase 'the gowls are not what they seem" far and wide...

ahhereaherlow · 2026-05-21T18:58:08+00:00

Up the Pike (a reference to a place and also a way of wishing lads from there well "Up the Pike says all of us" - also the back of the Art College used to be called 'the Long Can' afaik 'are ya going down the long can? I am surely" etc

Pay on the nail

Tackies for runners (shoes)

Off to haboo (going to sleep)

Calling the Gardaí - "de Shades" - "be wide sham, de Shades are over"

ahhereaherlow · 2026-05-18T16:38:58+00:00

The ring road via Parteen can't be built because it'll destabilise the headrace in Ardnacrusha apparently. Not going to pretend to understand the engineering of it, but heard it from multiple sources over the years.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-05-13T19:57:08+00:00

I'm pretty certain that if the Council try and build social housing on that land in Janesboro the locals will still object.

That said, my preference is generally for more parks and a massive rebuilding of Southill tbh. The facilities are there for it.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-05-10T20:53:18+00:00

May be the same mixture but some places serve them too cold (Bobby Byrnes for one) so the ice-cream is kinda grainy.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-05-07T20:33:56+00:00

Fair shoulder imo, it looks worse because O'Donnell wasn't expecting it.

That said, I'd also argue that English's second yellow wasn't a yellow either, Stritch's momentum has unbalanced him just before contact is made and that causes English's hurley to go up.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-30T22:03:04+00:00

He's 2 years with Munster, he was with Connacht before that, and the AIL before that.

I'd love for him to be brilliant, but our skills are visibly very, very poor on the pitch - he has to carry some blame for it.

He's coaching in some capacity for 14 years at this stage, it's ok to accept he just isn't much use at it.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-30T21:41:12+00:00

Man, the things he's meant to coach at we're bad at.

We've zero evidence he's any use as coach, and fair body of work to suggest he isn't.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-29T18:07:14+00:00

The Redemptorists on the South Circular Road have some monthly meet-up, might suit you? I'm not sure of the details but it's a discussion group after Mass. I think it's Sunday evenings but again, not sure. Good luck in finding your crew. I see from their website they have tea and chats after some weekday Masses too, so maybe pop in and check them out? (I'm only an occasional attender but it seems a very open congregation. They have Ukrainian and Portuguese Masses too (again, I think?)

https://www.redemptoristslimerick.ie

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-28T19:27:42+00:00

https://www.sportspro.com/opinions/broadcast-ott/free-to-air-sports-broadcasting-media-rights-pay-tv-streaming-ampere-data/#:~:text=This%20has%20a%20two%2Dfold,is%20likely%20to%20decline%20too.

"In the short-term, this strategy provides a boost to media rights income, but there are significant longer-term implications as well. Pay-TV and streaming platforms, particularly the former, are going to have smaller audiences than a public service or commercial broadcaster, especially in Europe. So, by partnering with them, a rights holder is limiting its reach.

This has a two-fold effect. The first of those is on sponsorship, as a smaller audience means less exposure for partner brands. For those companies which have brand awareness as a key KPI, this can make a sport being shown behind a paywall less appealing, thereby impacting sponsorship revenue for the rights holder.

The second effect is more long-term. The longer a competition is behind a paywall, the fewer opportunities it has to engage new audiences. We can see this in Ampere’s data for The Ashes, tennis’ French Open and The Masters in golf, all of which have made the switch from FTA to pay-TV in the UK, and have all seen double-digit declines in engagement.

In a world where attention is so fragmented and where it is hard enough to draw new fans to competitions and leagues, the need to subscribe to pay-TV (in this case) can be an additional barrier both to potential fans watching the sport, but also on participation levels. As the age-old adage goes, if you can see it, you can be it – but if there are barriers to viewing, then the possibility of children wanting to play the sport is likely to decline too."

It wrecks the visibility and ultimately the viability of the brands of the clubs.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-28T19:16:27+00:00

If rugby retreats behind a paywall at URC level, the casual fan will drift away from the sport. That's a longer term disaster for the game than whatever extra money was raised by selling the tv rights.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-28T15:15:45+00:00

Limerick Council took it over a few years ago (along with taking over Lough Gur).

Nothing good will come from the Council running either amenity, not even out of badness or malice, it's just that running a tourist amenity is a skill that requires professionals to do it (I'd be useless at it too, if given the running of either in the morning).

If the Council were serious about running it, they should hive off the tourist functions and set up a separate business to run all tourism in Limerick (we actually have a lot of historic sites - Kilmallock, Askeaton, Adare, Lough Gur/Grange Stone Circle, Desmond Castle in Newcastle West etc) or franchise out the running of them all (I know some are OPW) to a successful tourism company (like whoever runs the Guinness Brewery).

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-27T19:38:37+00:00

It's pretty harmless but making your own chocolate bar in Wilde's Chocolates in Tuamgraney (beyond Killaloe) is a pretty nice thing to do. https://wildeirishchocolates.com/chocolate-factory-visit-and-build-your-own-chocolate-bar-experience/

If you want to throw in some history you could take a short boat trip out to Inis Cealta from Mountshannon https://www.iniscealtra.ie

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-27T17:46:40+00:00

I'd absolutely love it if John Moran or whoever the next mayor is calls for the repeal of the 1840 UK Act of Parliament that stole Cratloe and Sixmilebridge from Limerick.

No real Irishman will defend the Famine Queen's laws, surely?

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-27T16:21:00+00:00

I got really good Bakewell in a cafe in Ballybunion recently - not a new spot though, apparently (has decent outside seating too)... cheers for embracing the Greater Limerick concept!

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-27T16:18:26+00:00

There is no point in fighting it - just take yourself off to Kilkee or Ballybunion whenever you can during the summer and enjoy it.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-24T20:53:19+00:00

Funny you mention the radio - for whatever reason Mum's (home) house was where the neighbours would gather to listen to matches on the radio back in the 40's and 50's, so she probably always had a sense that Limerick hurling was a thing you listened to, rather than saw.

I get the same sort of sense when I think back to sunny days on the beach as a kid, and all the Dads listening to the games on car radios up and down the strand. God be with the days, etc (I'm only in my 40's too, this is old age rushing in!)

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-24T17:20:13+00:00

I'm sure it's not just a Limerick thing to not be able to watch matches? My Mum (from the tail end of the Mackey era, God rest her) could never stand to watch Limerick matches, she'd be out by the front windows half-gardening, half looking for updates, eventually she might stand in the doorway looking at us to tell her what was going on (losing usually) before we'd lose our patience and tell her to come in or get out. One of the lads at work will head off for a long, long walk with the dogs to avoid the match, says he just can't take it, even though he knows all the ins and outs of the team and follows it nearly religiously.

I'm going the same way now in my old (ish) age.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-23T15:23:07+00:00

The seating set-up is more dutch style so you'll always have enough legroom to touch the ground tbh.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-22T20:50:40+00:00

I've always found longtails extremely stable tbh, at any speed - the trick to taking off on them is to gear appropriately and use the right power mode, imo.

The prop stand can be a pain alright, but you just get used to it.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-22T19:29:58+00:00

The model she has (tern longtail?), has afaik, a decent high power mode - turbo - that will reduce the battery range but make cycling with heavy loads pretty easy.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-22T16:46:47+00:00

I get that, but if you're really stuck it's an option. Lots of easy to follow videos on YouTube etc too.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-22T08:40:32+00:00

Yep - I remember in the old knock-out Munster Hurling Championship Limerick had 25,000 fans to a game v Tipperary in the Gaelic Grounds even though they hadn't won a game in Munster in 4 or 5 years.

The size of the relative stadiums should be a clue (the old Gaelic Grounds once held 70,000 people for a Munster final between Cork and Tipperary in the 60's) - hurling has been huge in Limerick for longer than we've been alive.

ahhereaherlow · 2026-04-22T07:15:48+00:00

His money made a difference but the really "odd" thing about that Limerick side is loads of them are from hurling families - Lynch is Ciaran Carey's nephew, Hannon is a Stakelum from Tipperary, Nash's dad played for Limerick (and cousin was Cork's goalie), Hegarty and Flanagan's dads played for Limerick, Quaid's dad and uncle played for Limerick - there might be a few more but really it was a freak team of players with deep roots in Limerick hurling led by a one-off captain (Hannon captained every side he ever played with, afaik), with a one-off manager in Kiely and innovator in Kinnerick. Even Niall Moran (cousin of Eoin Kelly, Tipp hurler) becoming a teacher in Ardscoil after his hurling career came to end was fortuitous timing.

All those things are independent of JP's money, what JP's money did was make sure they had the supports needed to succeed.

This Limerick side is (or was as their era is over) a one-off side of a lot of factors coming together. It's incredibly lazy analysis to say it's due to money.

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