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Diarmaid:

--- Quote from: Canuala on January 18, 2009, 11:57:24 ---what with your feelings of guilt for selling out on us and abandoning us to the Brits
--- End quote ---

I'm sure what Nuala meant to say was "feelings of guilt for selling out on *it* and abandoning *it* to *us*

 :P

allio:
not sure about the north.

a few things i can see...

you'd really have to be certain that the village you go to is cool with a hundred people turning up to go absolutely batshit crazy for a week... having worked with lads from all over the north at home and abroad, i've found that northern lads (and i include donegal in this) tend to go from best mates, to insanely violent in about two heartbeats. just last night while working in the pub i had two seperate northern gents threaten to pull my ears off for asking them to settle down in the pub. thank god for bouncers. secondly, if we pissed off even one person in the village, i can pretty much guarantee that a phone call later the pub could turn into a warzone. anybody remember what the odyssey in creeslough used to be like, or tj's in bundoran for that matter. i could actually see some groups taking serious offense at a hundred of us taking over their local boozer for a week at new years. i know from working with these guys, that us *dublin freestaters* are not at all popular, even among the people of *nationalist* persuasion... this is just my experience.... i really don't think we'd feel all that comfortable.... small groups would be fine i think. a hundred of us could go very very wrong....

I've a lot of very good northern friends here in aberdeen, but when they're full of beer the kid gloves go on. it can be very much like handling dynamite.

secondly.... the weather on the north coast can be absolutely ridiculously cold at that time of year. i mean ridiculous. the atlantic is barely tolerable in kerry at that time of year. i've tried surfing up there late in the year and in the spring, not for the faint of heart...

thirdly, no matter what anybody says. you're legally in a foreign country, and all the fun and games that goes along with that....

we may get overcharged in the ross area. but, and i mean a big but, we are given massively preferential treatment, by everyone in that area when it comes to what we're allowed get away with. pub til 6/7am. no matter what happens, the police are never called. if there's ever any hassle with the locals, it's the locals that get tossed out of the pub. the people in the ross know which side their breads buttered on, but also know what services they provide for us and act accordingly. that pub closes in october and doesn't reopen until the spring, except for the week of new years where he reopens just for us.

i think its worth the extra few quid...

my .02$
allio
p.s. i hope i offended noone in this post, as no offense was intended

becca:

--- Quote ---i can pretty much guarantee that a phone call later the pub could turn into a warzone
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Ah go on yeah, we will go. It sounds like an adventure. Doesn't it sound like an adventure?
We could turn it into a game right, those who make it back alive get a curly wurly.

Those who make it back alive minus an eye get a curly wurly and a half.

If you make it back alive without a foot and/or arm you get two curly wurlys. etc.

I sound like the worst insurance cover ever. Hey, wouldn't you be just as pissed off if you lost an eye as if you lost a foot? I don't see why you get more for loosing a limb.

Personally, I won't go back to Kerry. If you guys feel like moving that would be cool but i would hope that no one would feel emotionally blackmailed into leaving because of what happened with Dee. Obvioulsy thats a consideration for me, and others too, but everyone who knew her has to make up their own mind about how much they're going to let that affect their decision to go to Kerry. It shouldn't be a group issue. Our freshers for instance, never even met her. so. Thats a bit sad really.

Pia!:
I'm with Becca on this one- i'd definitely give up an eye for a curly wurly!!

Ok no seriously, i'm personally not going back to Kerry but that's for my own reasons. I don't think the freshers should miss out on the amazingness of Rossbeigh for something that happened before their time. If its getting too expensive and the club finds somewhere better to go than you should move but don't let Kerry become the place that we only associate with Dee's accident. Me myself, well- I wanna burn that place to the ground but no one's forcing me to go back there and i don't think the club should give up on that tradition because as Allio said- we do have a pretty sweet setup down there!

I say scare that woman down there (who's name i can't mention) into thinking we're gonna go somewhere else next year and she'll eventually crumble and reduce the price!!

 

Monkey Loving Bob:
Just to be clear, everyone has their own reasons for suggesting venues other than Rossbeigh for new year's celebrations, however I do think it's worth mentioning at this point that this isn't just UCD who are pushing for a change of venue, it's a number of colleges and is more to do with the extortionate way we are dealt with.

If I've upset anyone call me and I'll clarify or apologise. I for one went back this year and had a ball. I didn't get ripped off completely because I stayed in Glenbeigh and I wouldn't pay the asking price in Rossbeigh.

I think if you're going to change the venue for this it needs the active participation of all the larger colleges and on that basis it's less of an emotive decision.

On the other hand, each reason and opinion is as important as the next (except Becca's) so maybe I'm just picking this up wrong and being an asshole. Who knows?

 

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