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to kerry or not to kerry?
RichyG:
P.S. The surf beach makes such a differance as it's so easy to get to paddle - one downer with Castlegregory is that if you weren't up early enough to put your name down on a list you didn't get to paddle. With Rossbeigh all the hungover people got the padling fix.
allio:
*bump
Monkey Loving Bob:
:o
Let's just pick Inch as a startin point, same area, access to surf, 12 miles further than Rossbeigh. It seems to tick the paddling boxes as far as I'm concerned.
Now to the minor details:
- accomodation? not sure but it's a big tourist town.
- Pub - there are two I think.
- Locals? Who knows anyone locally to use as a sounding board.
Debate and destroy. :o
Diarmaid:
alright then KY,
I would say that on the strength of what's been posted here, we should stay in Rossbeigh and just try to argue for better treatment there.
randomly picking a place off a map and going there for the sake of making a decision is a bit rash. better a still-very-good status quo than a long shot at even better.
Monkey Loving Bob:
I'm providing a practical example Diarmaid not just closing my eyes ad putting a finger on a map - It's in the same area so it maintains all the same constraints as Rossbeigh in terms of travel and paddling, you know like the HR people say, what does better look like - I don't know, but I'm willing to find out.
I hope by providing a location people will discuss it on merit and see if it fits the criteria that have been coming to the fore by consensus throughout this debate.
If Rossbeigh is the place then we go full circle on the argument and everyone clearly sees that it is the best option. What it will not do and never will explore is whether there is a better option available. We know Rossbeigh and the situation - we know it will still be the same in a month's time and the following month and the same again in April. So no harm done and the opinionated get to go hell for leather for a while.
What we have here is the opportunity to examine viable alternatives, despite the emerging trend of let's approach 'she who must not be named' as a block and such, I for one believe that will be left too late and then all other options won't be available so we will walk back into the exact same scenario next year. To be honest approaching as a group may work, however if she's in any way tough she'll wait until she sees if there's any other interest from other parties nearer the date, I don't mean random gobsheens who for some strange reason would want to holiday in Kerry at Midwinter, but rather independent groups who organise accommodation aside from college club arranged accommodation who decide to go for it on short notice - which let's be honest is only all too possible.
So I'm suggesting that we actually put the money where our mouths will be and if Rossbeigh emerges as the best option above all others in this entire country a representative of the colleges will have to approach the landlords in Rossbeigh and negotiate a better deal, if they have another option they will be able to do it from a position of strength.
I see no harm in looking at alternatives, but saying we should look at them for a month without really sitting down and examining even one. Well, that could go on forever.
Like I said before debate and destroy
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