Holloway: I'd love to see Liverpool win the title
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In footballing terms that may indeed be true, styles are frightfully identical
Ha! I remember that. Larne looked a bit scary. I remember your advice about keeping the windows on the car up! Just a couple of miles beyond that was the weird red, white and blue town. I forget the name of it but I've never seen do many union jacks! County Antrim is very much on my to do again list. I loved it.
That would probably be Glenarm.
The Glenarm/Carnlough derby makes The Old Firm Derby look like a love-in.
I think the best person to say if Rodgers is Irish or British or both... is Rodgers.
Larne used to be a happening place. People actually went there on their hols.
Or so I've been told, anyway.
We had a cottage nearby, in Islandmagee. No leecy, no running water. Loved it. We actually did wee daytrips to Carnlough then back in the day.
When you say "no running water" and then "wee daytrips" I can't help wondering just what, er, amenities you *did* have.
Mrs. Athens had a job interview in the power station Ballylumford a few years ago when we were living in Belfast. I took the afternoon off work to drive her up as I was 100% certain that she wouldn't find it herself. That was the first time I had been there since I was a kid and thought I would take a spin round the place while she was in her interview. I couldn't believe it, it is only a short drive from Belfast but feels like 1000 miles away. I went to Portmuck as I had a vague memory of being there one day with my family and it is literally just a concrete boat slip that goes into the sea. There is nothing there, apart from the power station.
Can someone with knowledge of the area explain this to me?
Why does Carnlough have such different loyalties from its neighbours? Coincidence or do people move where they feel comfortable?
There's an ice cream parlour about 20 minutes down the road.
Generally that's the way it works.
Although you do get places that both sides of the community live in. I was lucky enough to grow up in one of them.
They were smugglers cottages. It was a holiday home of sorts (minimal rent, merely for upkeeping the property) on a farmer's land. Langdale lane. I think you can see them on Google maps. There was a tap on the lane where you filled your water from. Obviously light came from gas and paraffin lamps and candles.
Ahh. Damnation!
Sorry about that Doc. 😀
They're tiny villages for a start - so I've no doubt partly because people stick to whichever community they feel more comfortable in.
Historical reasons as well to do with local industry - Glenarm Castle is the home of the Earl of Antrim & the old local industry was a lime works - which was probably Protestant owned with the village being built as housing for workers there.
Hah - best ice cream ever (although I've always been more of a fan
Of Maude's).
Used to go to Browns Bay a lot when younger.
I can assure you Larne has never been a holiday destination for anybody in their right mind. 🙂
I think I've been in a cottage like that round there.
A very powerful power station though
Said the guy who used to go to 'Brown's Bay'.
If that's not a euphemism I don't know what is.
Aye - I know what Portmuck you "visited"
I never knew that Islandmagee would be such a rich source for innuendos and euphemisms.
The "Gobbins" is another local landmark.
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