Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)

Hi,

John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.

I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.

With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.

I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.

If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.

I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.

I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.

Thank you
Darragh Sherwin

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11 Feb 2015 22:55 #31 by Gonefishy (Brian oneill)

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Athlone is middle of country and fair to all...I'm in Dub but willing to travel ...B

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11 Feb 2015 23:12 #32 by LemonJelly (Johnny Cowley)

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sounds like a fair compromise... but I'll be mightily p!$$ed if we meet up and it's a room full of Dublin people! :angry:

"The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life; your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you.They're freeing your soul."

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12 Feb 2015 00:15 #33 by irish-zx10r (James feenan)

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LemonJelly wrote:
sounds like a fair compromise... but I'll be mightily p!$$ed if we meet up and it's a room full of Dublin people!

It's full of dubs down here every weekend having hen party's you feel right at home.

Something fishie going on here

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12 Feb 2015 00:39 #34 by LemonJelly (Johnny Cowley)

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irish-zx10r wrote:

LemonJelly wrote:
sounds like a fair compromise... but I'll be mightily p!$$ed if we meet up and it's a room full of Dublin people!

It's full of dubs down here every weekend having hen party's you feel right at home.

I think my wife would be mightily p!$$ed if I was at a hen party :woohoo:

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12 Feb 2015 01:25 #35 by alan 64 (alan)

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just a thought keeps entering my head and that is is this viablity with the logistics of everybodys locations the big white elephant in this room

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12 Feb 2015 01:51 #36 by JohnH (John)

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alan wrote:
just a thought keeps entering my head and that is is this viablity with the logistics of everybodys locations the big white elephant in this room

I am of the opinion that perhaps the way to go would be to firstly ascertain the names and locations of all interested parties and only once that is known can a central location be worked out between those points.

It might also be a good thing to decide what sort of venue any participants might like this event to take place at - from a 'driving' aspect perhaps a pub wouldn't be the best of ideas?

So (again) over to all interested members.

John

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N. Tipp

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It's a long way to Tipperary.

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12 Feb 2015 02:26 #37 by alan 64 (alan)

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ok well my idea is a few pints and a get together so I dunno if its central in the country to suit members the only way I can thik of that working is if anybody interested puts a few bob aside for a set amount of weeks get a decent hotel maybe cost ye 70euro for a room coz a taxi home from the centre of the country would cost me a lot more get, a few pints have a laugh of a night meet people behind the screen here and talk about what we all love and id be up for that, other option if there are any members in the Dublin area wanna meet up for a drink bit of laugh that suits me also so that's all that I can think of working, maybe I just think like that coz I love a few pints and talking about aquatic shit ha

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12 Feb 2015 08:16 #38 by hammie (Neil Hammerton)

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Lads it doesnt matter where it is really!
Someone is going to drive for a few hours if they want to go!
Dublin is handy for the dublin lads
Athlone is handy for the meath / galway lads

Kilkenny is handy for the kilkenny lads.....

What im trying to say is, no single location will be handy for everyone!
But no matter where in the country it is, im willing to travel and fill my car with other members.on the way if needs be.... share the travel if its not on your door step lads, that way noone should end up feeling duped!

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12 Feb 2015 09:36 #39 by Miamiheat (Stephane Lemaire)

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I agree with Hammie: I have 2 seats in my car. If the date is right and the location within a couple of hours i would go. In the past i've done that for fishing trips and we stayed at B&B's that are much cheaper.
Once we find a place we can dig special deals to stay on Groupon for example=> found massive deals in the past.
Now the "weighted average" method for the location that John mentioned I thought of but even with that it is still going to please a few and not please others. But we got the conversation moving. Perhaps we start writing our username and location on this thread and each one interested replies by adding their username and location. By next week we work on a choice based on the list (others tagging along later will have to work with the chosen location).

example:

Miamiheat Dublin
XYZ Waterford
......... Galway

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12 Feb 2015 12:22 #40 by hammie (Neil Hammerton)

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1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3.

4.

5.

6.

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1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4.

5.

6.

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12 Feb 2015 16:07 #42 by JSleator (Jason Sleator)

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1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5.

6.

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12 Feb 2015 16:19 #43 by tetdiscus (Maritess McCarthy)

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1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5. Tetdiscus - Cork

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1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5. Tetdiscus - Cork

6. Anthonyd - Cork

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12 Feb 2015 17:26 #45 by paulcavan (Paul Gileoold)

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anthonyd wrote:
1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5. Tetdiscus - Cork

6. Anthonyd - Cork

7. Paulcavan-cavan

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12 Feb 2015 17:54 #46 by Eric (Eric Corcoran)

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paulcavan wrote:

anthonyd wrote:
1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5. Tetdiscus - Cork

6. Anthonyd - Cork

7. Paulcavan-cavan

8. Eric - Kilkenny

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12 Feb 2015 23:48 #47 by jeff (Jeff Scully)

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Eric wrote:

paulcavan wrote:

anthonyd wrote:
1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5. Tetdiscus - Cork

6. Anthonyd - Cork

7. Paulcavan-cavan

8. Eric - Kilkenny

9. Jeff - South Dublin

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15 Feb 2015 21:57 #48 by Joukeder (Jouke)

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I am in. How about Limmerick?
3 hours for me....

Jouke

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15 Feb 2015 22:17 #49 by irish-zx10r (James feenan)

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jeff wrote:

Eric wrote:

paulcavan wrote:

anthonyd wrote:
1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5. Tetdiscus - Cork

6. Anthonyd - Cork

7. Paulcavan-cavan

8. Eric - Kilkenny

9. Jeff - South Dublin

10. Irish-zx10r Offaly

Something fishie going on here

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15 Feb 2015 22:50 #50 by flint1 (Ricky McNulty)

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irish-zx10r wrote:

jeff wrote:

Eric wrote:

paulcavan wrote:

anthonyd wrote:
1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5. Tetdiscus - Cork

6. Anthonyd - Cork

7. Paulcavan-cavan

8. Eric - Kilkenny

9. Jeff - South Dublin

10. Irish-zx10r Offaly

11. Flint1- north Dublin

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16 Feb 2015 21:59 #51 by Sukahn (Shane Doorley)

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flint1 wrote:

irish-zx10r wrote:

jeff wrote:

Eric wrote:

paulcavan wrote:

anthonyd wrote:
1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5. Tetdiscus - Cork

6. Anthonyd - Cork

7. Paulcavan-cavan

8. Eric - Kilkenny

9. Jeff - South Dublin

10. Irish-zx10r Offaly

11. Flint1- north Dublin

12. Sukahn - Galway city

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02 Mar 2015 11:56 #52 by Miamiheat (Stephane Lemaire)

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Reviving this to give it a push:

12 answers:

4 x Dublin
3 x Cork
1 X Cavan
1 X Carlow
1 x Kilkenny
1 x Tullamore
1 x Galway

Very rough suggestion ==> Portlaoise?

Sukahn wrote:

flint1 wrote:

irish-zx10r wrote:

jeff wrote:

Eric wrote:

paulcavan wrote:

anthonyd wrote:
1. Miamiheat - Dublin

2. Hammie - South Kildare / Carlow Region

3. LemonJelly - South Dublin

4. JSleator - Cork

5. Tetdiscus - Cork

6. Anthonyd - Cork

7. Paulcavan-cavan

8. Eric - Kilkenny

9. Jeff - South Dublin

10. Irish-zx10r Offaly

11. Flint1- north Dublin

12. Sukahn - Galway city

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02 Mar 2015 13:08 #53 by paulcavan (Paul Gileoold)

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Just my two cents dublin is a good idea for location cheap accommodation plenty of venues to choose from and we can visit aquatic village and other sponsors on our way home