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The Studley Tool Chest, a 20x40in (40x40in when opened) ergonomic wall-hung case with flip-up panels, hidden compartments and multiple layers for 245 tools.

It was designed sometime between 1890 and 1920 by carpenter and piano maker (hence the elegant ivory and mother of pearl inlays)  Henry O. Studley. 

Mmm. Organised.

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NO REPRO FEE 10/04/2017 Tayto Park Viking Voyage. Construction is well under way at Tayto Park for the exciting new Viking-themed flume ride, The Viking Voyage at The Park, which will open this June. With 1.7 million litres of water, a Viking village, 5 replica Viking ships and 20 life size Vikings, families can expect to feel the splash on the latest addition to Ireland’s favourite theme park and zoo. Tayto Park is now open to the public just in time for Easter with The Viking Voyage at the Park opening during June 2017. For the first time, you can also book entry and wristbands online and save money. For more information and opening hours visittaytopark.ie.

NO REPRO FEE 10/04/2017 Tayto Park Viking Voyage. Construction is well under way at Tayto Park for the exciting new Viking-themed flume ride, The Viking Voyage at The Park, which will open this June. With 1.7 million litres of water, a Viking village (pictured), 5 replica Viking ships and 20 life size Vikings, families can expect to feel the splash on the latest addition to Ireland’s favourite theme park and zoo. Tayto Park is now open to the public just in time for Easter with The Viking Voyage at the Park opening during June 2017. For the first time, you can also book entry and wristbands online and save money. For more information and opening hours visittaytopark.ie.

NO REPRO FEE 10/04/2017 Tayto Park Viking Voyage. Construction is well under way at Tayto Park for the exciting new Viking-themed flume ride, The Viking Voyage at The Park, which will open this June. With 1.7 million litres of water, a Viking village, 5 replica Viking ships and 20 life size Vikings, families can expect to feel the splash on the latest addition to Ireland’s favourite theme park and zoo. Tayto Park is now open to the public just in time for Easter with The Viking Voyage at the Park opening during June 2017. For the first time, you can also book entry and wristbands online and save money. For more information and opening hours visittaytopark.ie.

NO REPRO FEE 10/04/2017 Tayto Park Viking Voyage. Construction is well under way at Tayto Park for the exciting new Viking-themed flume ride, The Viking Voyage at The Park, which will open this June. With 1.7 million litres of water, a Viking village, 5 replica Viking ships and 20 life size Vikings, families can expect to feel the splash on the latest addition to Ireland’s favourite theme park and zoo. Tayto Park is now open to the public just in time for Easter with The Viking Voyage at the Park opening during June 2017. For the first time, you can also book entry and wristbands online and save money. For more information and opening hours visittaytopark.ie.

NO REPRO FEE 10/04/2017 Tayto Park Viking Voyage. Construction is well under way at Tayto Park for the exciting new Viking-themed flume ride, The Viking Voyage at The Park, which will open this June. With 1.7 million litres of water, a Viking village, 5 replica Viking ships and 20 life size Vikings, families can expect to feel the splash on the latest addition to Ireland’s favourite theme park and zoo. Tayto Park is now open to the public just in time for Easter with The Viking Voyage at the Park opening during June 2017. For the first time, you can also book entry and wristbands online and save money. For more information and opening hours visittaytopark.ie.

This morning.

Tayto Park, Ashbourne, County Meath

Ian Collins writes:

Construction is well under way at Tayto Park for the exciting new Viking-themed flume ride that will open at Irelands favourite theme park and zoo, this June.

Tayto Park have used Viking experts from Sweden and theming contractors who have worked in major worldwide theme parks and film sets including Game of Thrones.

With 1.7 million litres of water, a Viking village, 5 replica Viking ships and 20 life size Vikings, families can expect to feel the splash on the latest addition to Ireland’s favourite theme park and zoo.

The Viking Voyage at the Park will open during June 2017.

Pillage!

Tayto Park

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Martin Jackson writes:

I am having a dispute with my car insurance handler Axa insurance. I have an ongoing damage claim with them since December 2016 and they are still not taking responsibility to repair the damage done to my vehicle. They requested I have some mechanical work carried out on the vehicle before they would do any body work repair.

I have had the required mechanical work repaired and put my car through the NCT. The NCT only failed my car on broken body work. I phoned my insurance to inform them the work was done to which they told me having an NCT certificate isn’t enough evidence and that I had to contact a mechanical engineer to do a full assessment on the car.

My main problem here is why am I paying for a national car test (which is Irish government standard car safety testing) if my insurance company does not recognise this as a valid report for a vehicle’s road-worthiness?

My insurance is €1250 and I have had to pay for my insurance since December without having a road-safe car to drive and they haven’t honoured my insurance policy.

Surely this is a national issue that insurance companies do not accept the NCT?

Anyone?

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A longtime stalwart of Irish music radio, and fierce advocate of Irish artists, KCLR’s Roddie Cleere still keeps the home-fires burning every Sunday night.

Last week saw him put up a quick spiel about his beginnings in the 1980s scene, and it’s a bit of a time-capsule…

I was still very young, about 13/14 years old. I was never a fan of the whole showband scene that was so popular in Ireland. Me and my friends would spend our evenings listening to Radio Luxembourg or, if we were lucky, Radio Caroline.

Here, we would get to listen to bands like Cream, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones or anything that would take us away from the drone that was the showbands and their feeble attempts at the songs of the day.

When Thin Lizzy arrived we finally found a band we could call our own – they were Irish!

More at the link below…

Roddie Cleere

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Laurie Shaw – Cork/Wirral guitar-pop peddler

What you may need to know…

01. So, how many albums did you record and release by the time you were twenty-two years old? If the answer is “over 57”, you’re probably Cork-based Wirral man Laurie Shaw.

02. Having resided in Kenmare, where the surrounding atmosphere gave Shaw the space to create in such a rapid-fire fashion, he’s now in Cork city, with his band The Swamp People. Themes vary from love & non-league soccer to alternative soundtracks to popular TV dramas.

03. Streaming above is a preview of Shaw’s next album, The Great British Night Out. Recorded over Christmas, it’s releasing this week via his Bandcamp, and on super-limited handmade CD.

04. Catch Shaw live with The Swamp People on Thursday 13th at Gulpd Cafe in Cork, launching the album, his fifty-something-th full-length(?). No support act.

Thoughts: A musical renaissance man, Shaw moves between frames of pop-music reference with the greatest of ease. Once you get over having wasted your own teens and twenties by comparison, Shaw’s output is immensely enjoyable.

Laurie Shaw