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Stay in Dublin till Thursday	1 vote - 25 %
Go up or down the coast for a bit	2 votes - 50 %
Go inland to the countryside	1 vote - 25 %
Cross the country to Galway	0 votes - 0 %
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Nokia keyboard was the better option	2 votes - 50 %
Stowaway keyboard was the better option	1 vote - 25 %

4 Total Votes

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That should have read by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #1 Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 07:02:21 AM EST

"...alternative to a laptop". A keyboard is not actually an alternative to a keyboard.
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Re by coillte (4.00 / 1) #2 Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 02:37:09 PM EST

Ireland.

If you are heading northwards from Dublin, in Louth there is the Boyne Valley (a large area, conrtaining several truly horrible large towns, and some very beautiful countryside), Newgrange and Carlingford town(by the sea) to see. All somewhat difficult without your own transport though.

If you have your own transport, they're all at most 20 minutes drive from the main Dublin to Belfast rd, and within a days drive.

The people are horrible though.

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Thanks! by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #3 Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 03:19:57 PM EST

Are you in Dublin still? I'm meeting Merekat on Monday in Temple Bar if you want to turn up.
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I'm in Dublin by coillte (4.00 / 1) #4 Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 05:13:59 PM EST

always.

Actually, I would, but I have at least one appointment in Rathmines directly after work.

Still, what time, and where?

Or, if you prefer, mail me at coillte@india.com.

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DHusi drinks? by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #6 Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 06:05:52 PM EST

I'm meeting Merekat at The Porterhouse, Temple Bar, 6PM on Monday, for drinks and food. Not sure how long she's staying, but I've got the evening free if you want to turn up later (providing she hasn't drunk me under the table by then).

Porterhouse address: 16-18 Parliament Street.
Website: http://www.porterhousebrewco.com/templebar.html

Will send an email with contact details.
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I know by coillte (4.00 / 1) #7 Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 03:03:21 AM EST

the Porter House well. Not a bad spot. I'd suggest Mulligans on Poolbeg St - largely unchanged since Joyce set some scenes there, as another interesting venue, worthy of a visit.

At 6 in the evening though, I'll be paying someone exorbitant rates to poke around in my gob for an hour.

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Mulligans is good by Merekat (4.00 / 1) #10 Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 01:57:17 PM EST

But this is not stout weather and I'd feel a bit of a tourist trying to get weisbier there:)

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: Too by coillte (2.00 / 0) #12 Tue Jul 25, 2006 at 04:48:53 PM EST

bloody right.
Porterhouse is a fine choice.
Unfortunately my week went profoundly pear shaped, and actually remains so.
Still, hope ypou got him drunk. Then mugged. Then arrested. And then split up from his family, and deported back to Afghanistan.
The authentic Irish exp[erience.
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"The people are horrible" by Cloaked User (4.00 / 2) #5 Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 05:30:04 PM EST

Compared to London? (I seem to remember that Monsieur Escargot hails from our fair city, although I could be wrong...)

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Well hell. by coillte (4.00 / 2) #8 Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 03:21:08 AM EST

Louth is about the bitterest place on the planet.

South London is a pleasantly melodious idyll of mutually concerned civic heroes by comparison. Tower Hamlets is a model of seamless racial integration.

It breeds a culture where ones concern is not that one is doing well in ones life, but where one openly hopes everyone else is doing badly.

Its also about the only county - in its Northern part - where you will find any support for the "Real" or "Continuity" IRA.

Wow.

I got really involved in that whole thing.

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: addendum by Merekat (4.00 / 1) #9 Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 01:55:48 PM EST

I'm from rouond there - they really do raise bregrudgery to an art form. However, I've experienced more people openly in favour of the IRA in Kerry than in the southern part of Louth.

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Country folk by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #11 Mon Jul 24, 2006 at 05:23:29 AM EST

Always worse than city folk

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