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Tr Ash:
the call to discuss moving Rossbeigh wasn't started because of what happened last year and i say that as sensitively as possible cause i do realize it is the motive for quite a few people and i respect and understand that totally. for DUKC it was because of the continually rising prices. Its easily discussed here on the UCD board because all the other colleges have closed off message boards where you have to log in to see a discussion, where here its (well this thread at least) is open to the public to view.

I think each club knows that the other colleges are thinking about this too and maybe if we come together over varsities and discuss it then in person with people from each of the colleges, im sure we can come to an agreement of what to do next.

I think the suggestion of going to the local holiday home owner as a group and asking as a "collective" for a reduced rate sounds good, or looking for the other rented houses in the area and booking them instead as much as possible. I love kerry so im not the keenest on moving but still want soemthing to change.......I'll prob suggest to my club to not book the ice-boxes next year(if we do decide to go back) and look to the surrounding area within walking distance cause NUIG got a lovely house(big, warm, spacious) up the hill for 150e less than the small, damp and cold ice-boxes.....

edit to remove a name

Tr Ash:
ah shite sorry! said her name again!! really dont mean to do that!!! soooorrry! just keep typing as im thinking and its comes out!

allio:
not that i'm against moving kerry, just that a little bit of appreciation for what we actually do get down there doesn't seem to be being mentioned. if you can avoid the iceboxes kerry can be comfortable. but even then i have to say, some of my fondest kerries were spent in the iceboxes....

also the last time when we moved to castlegregory i had two amazing years in kerry....

as i suggested theirs plenty of holiday villages around the coast.... thence leenane, newport, baltimore suggestion. just that i didn't think the north is really all that great an idea for the reasons i mentioned.

somebody get out a map of kerry, or the west coast for that matter and start looking. then contact the pub in the village to find out how many holiday homes there are in the area. i'm fairly certain that most of the villages 50 miles either side of ross beigh know that we go down there for new years and how much money we bring into the area the week of new years, and look on with envious eyes. i know the tralee bay hotel certainly bent over backwards for us the year we went to castlegregory, and i certainly got the impression that all other local businesses were rubbing their hands with glee when we turned up.... :)

allio

TomB:
Hey Guys,

Can we factor in one major point about this Kerry.

The was no water

If we had got 2 fresher trips in, runs down the flesk, cut grade 4 wannabies teeth on the roughty, ventured into the balck valley etc, we would not be having this rant.

I personally think, that for majority of people Kerry was just an expensive drinking holiday. If people just dropped the ice boxes then how bad would it really be?

Imagine if this tread was replaced with topics of the following -

"My first run down the flesk, what a day"

"Congrats to hero freshers on Upper Carragh"

"Swimmer - Cormac Lynch swims again (hardly surprising thou)!"

"Head Torch - never realised how useful they are on a river trip"

However, i'm on for a change but i agree with Allio. The area of Glenbeigh/Rossbeigh should not be blamed.

I think a change would be good. However, the proposed venue has to match Glenbeigh/Rossbeigh. I'm not going somewhere that required long driving to go paddling, and the only reason for going there is because they have pubs and holiday homes.

Diarmaid:

--- Quote from: TomB on January 20, 2009, 09:35:07 ---If we had got 2 fresher trips in, runs down the flesk, cut grade 4 wannabies teeth on the roughty, ventured into the balck valley etc, we would not be having this rant.

--- End quote ---

Absolutely not true. We have been discussing this for about two years now.

Nobody said "Kerry wasn't fun [because there was no boating] so we should change it", they said "it's expensive so we should change it (maybe)".

Running rivers or not doesn't affect the price of holiday homes.


The lack of rain this year may have affected some people's holiday but it has nothing at all to do with this thread.

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