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Ned Kelly
25-05-2007, 11:54
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Kieran
26-05-2007, 21:09
Ya the yacht club???
Ned Kelly
30-05-2007, 11:37
Spent a lot of weekends exploring the the yacht club!!!!
Kieran
30-05-2007, 12:18
Its all done up and renovated now Ned and run by local artists. Its called the sirius centre. A history tit-bit. A bomb was placed at the door of the building in 1939. It was destined to be brought into the interior but one of the gunmen trying to gain entry was twarted and so it was left at the door instead. A Garda sergeant Scott from across the street was called. Brave and stupid, he brought it back across the street to his own barracks where it was later defused. It failed to detonate because the gelgnite used was damp. Because weeping gelignite is very unstable, the Garda could have blown himself and his barracks up. A number of local volunteers and a Carrigtwohill man who later played a very prominent role with the Cork County GAA were arrested and later released without charge!
Katy
30-05-2007, 12:47
Hope photo comes out okay......:) cheers Katy
Mike
31-05-2007, 09:05
I like the third one
Ned Kelly
31-05-2007, 10:58
Is that the runt in da punt Mike?
Yeah K its not that long since I visited the aul sod , made a few excursions into Sirious last time, Very helpful they were too!
Kieran
31-05-2007, 11:19
We had our little girl in the prominade the other day. She kept pointing at the runt in the punt and shouting "Daddy". Must be the big shine on his head! Mind you, I had some weird scrapes in a punt myself!
Ned Kelly
28-03-2008, 10:15
I bet she loves the shrek movies !!!! SNORT!!!:D
Kieran
29-03-2008, 11:26
She does and points out daddy when she sees him on his shrek mug!
Ned Kelly
17-04-2008, 11:38
The Yacht club, I can remember sneaking in their sometime in the early 70's, One of the latest places to explore ya had to sidle along the sea wall to get in, there was probably about 10 of us, stacks,assumptas, glenenarrs and lake roaders, not mentionin any names. Jeez ladz what a brilliant place we loved it, there was heaps of old paperwork that really we should have studied but feck we were young and did'nt give a shite! What we were really interested in was the *dumb waiter* which used to go from the bottom floor to the top, we had heaps of fun on that until it gave way and one of the older and heavier lads plummeted from the top floor to the bottom with no brakes involved, I don't think his back was ever the same afterwards not that it matters now since he has departed this life! Anyways we had a couple of weeks of exploring there before the garda sicini gave us the boot. It was great while it lasted!