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This evening.
Dominic Cooney writes:
This gorse fire going strong near Sally Gap [Co Wicklow] had to turn back on the bike due to heat and smoke…
Pray for Sally.
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Meanwhile…
Tonight
Peter Hayes writes:
Bit of a fire occuring at the old mental asylum on the Lee Road, Cork
Update:
Peter adds:
Fire now out. Cork Fire Brigade responded in 6 minutes. Fire was put out in 2 minutes.
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don’t ya want to know why we keep starting fires?
it’s my desire
it’s my desire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning.
Fuppers
I cycled up Kippure and could see the smoke being blown up by the wind. It looked like there were other fires too. Couple of pics.
Ah the Lee Road.. Or ‘de red brick’ as it was known in the good oul’ days when the parents would threaten you with ‘a trip to de red brick’ if you were acting the maggot..
That the one that’s the longest building in Ireland or some such?
De Red Brick is the building to the east. It’s known as St Kevins. It’s the red one.
The one on fire here is Atkins Hall, which is grey, so not really red.
Both places are incredibly creepy since they’re both abandoned (at least half of Atkins hall anyway).
The night of the big flood in 2009, I had to fly out of Cork airport the following morning. I lived behind Atkins hall in the new townhouses.
I had to park my car up in Shanakiel as the Lee Road was closed the night before, so at 4.30am after the storm had died down, I had to walk through the grounds of both Atkins hall and St Kevins in the pitch f**king black and it was eerily calm.
It wasn’t ghosts or any of that nonsense I was scared of, but the place is a great haunt for junkies.
Not my fondest memory of living in that place.
I really dont think you were experiencing any heat from the flames.Smoke yes.Flames?,no.
where’s the flippin papers you nags?
Sorry bllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaa. They’re up now. Thanks.
Ursa Johnny Jump Up ‘ta me here wan’time
Da mad house by da Lee