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Irish cablecar project gets (another) go-ahead

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Don't get too excited about this one - it's been mooted for 15 years.
Also - how did you guess? - it's not for skiers but it'll be a rare (unique?) opportunity to ride a cablecar in Ireland.

The cablecar will link the island of Inishbiggle in County Mayo to the mainland. It's a 2.5 million Euros project, and the latest news - from The Mayo News - is that it's going ahead.

Well, according to this news report from 1996, that's not the first time this has been said!

So, could we have official Snowheads approval for the Inishbiggle Cablecar, please? Queue here for lift passes.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Does it take donkeys (and carts) as well?
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Er, no hills then?

Or snow?
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Inishbiggle - great name for a place.

I'm terribly sorry, David, but the lack of mountain + snow to go with cablecar has sort of dampened my enthusiasm. How about this fine example, Blackgang chine chair lift
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
" Inish " is the gaelic for island. Its a very small island off Achill island and the mainland. I've got a link for a picture ( which probabaly will not work - failing that just type in Inishbiggle )

www.eircom.net/~caoimh1/oilean/achill2.html

The mountains in Co. Mayo at just 650 meters are not renowned for skiing!

I have family in the adjacent County Galway, and know the area reasonably well.
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So what does Eilean mean then? Or is Scottish gaelic totally different from Irish? Sorry - don't really have a clue about these things (only moved up here a year or so ago).
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Both the words Inish and Oilean are irish gaelic for island. Don't know much about scottish gaelic but a lot of the words, I am told, are similar
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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
joseph wrote:
The mountains in Co. Mayo at just 650 meters are not renowned for skiing!


That might to do with the effects of the NAD as anything. How high are the French Juras?
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Ian Hopkinson wrote:
How about this fine example, Blackgang chine chair lift


That was the very first chair lift I ever went on, would have been in the summer 1977 or 1978.
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Sadly, even the highest mountains of Ireland (which are only a bit lower than the Scottish peaks) apparently collect little snow. A few years ago we took a summer holiday at the foot of the Conor Pass on the Dingle Peninsula (an utterly magnificent destination), which is an impressively high mountain road in the midst of some of highest summits, and I asked a local farmer if the pass was ever blocked.

He gave me the impression he'd never seen a snowplough in the area.
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Yeah, same here. It is/was actually at Alum Bay, by the Needles where the different coloured sands are. The tourist experience was to walk down the trail, fill a lightbulbed shapes glass er, bulb with layers of the different coloured sand, seal it, get the chairlift back up, go home and display object for all to see. Cool
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I gave one of those to my Nan when I was about 10.
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
I could put my Nan in one of those now Laughing Confused Crying or Very sad
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You know it makes sense.
MR VINCE I'm shocked and saddened at your ignorance! We do have motorised vehicles over here, albeit most are tractors or some other form of agricultural equipment (just ask johnboy). NehNeh

And to clear up any further confusion, we get Eastenders (worst luck), Corrie and EVEN the same News programs as you lot on the 'Mainland' (as we like to call your homeland). I've lost count of the number of times I've been asked in England if I've ever seen Coronation Street!! My sister was in Reading when Princess Diana died and someone asked her if she (my sis) knew who she was - and you call us Irish thick!!!! Shocked

Getting back to this thread, I was on a chairlift on the beautiful island of Capri last year - does that make the Italians as thick as us Irish.... Laughing
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Oh dear, tried to use a quote and bold text in that last one but failed miserably. Just reinforcing the 'thick paddy' stereotype..... Embarassed
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