President’s XV Vs. Bruff Exiles, Stephen’s Day, 2007.

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Jan 022008
 

Yes, Yet again the exiles managed to (Load), pack , piece together a makeshift team of misfits and pull off another win on the Annual Stephen’s Day outing.

As you can see from the photoset LINK HERE, the misfits were of a kinda higher caliber of misfits this year. Again please note the link is definitely not dialup friendly, broadband recommended as I’ve included a suitable backing track to the slideshow…….
Anyways final score as far as I can remember was Exiles-35, President’s XV-24.

Another coup for old man Howardy…….

P.S. Howardy, if ure looking, Let me know which ones you want the full version of and I’ll link them here.

==EDIT== By the way did ye know that Bourky went training with the First XV on Stephens Morning inside in U.L. , played in the  Exiles game and then went to the front pitch to play in the Reindeer Tag tournament?????  Man of Steel indeed!…….

Thomond Park Photos: Third Day of roof construction.

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Nov 232007
 

Another photoset in the series. 23rd November, 2007. Third roof section goes up over the Popular Side. The welding is going on as well locking the three roof sections together into one continuous steel frame and as you can see there is blockwork going on in under the stand itself. By the way the connection of the frame to the base is a “pin joint” from a structural point of view.

Anyway click the link below to get to the Photo gallery of day three.

Click Here To Get to the Gallery.

Nov 222007
 

Righto, along the theme of Thomond Park (Or “New Limerick Stadium” if you like what they’re trying to name it) I’ve linked to another set of photos at the bottom of the post. This shows the Second Part of the roof Frame over the East Stand (Former “Popular Side”).

There is a couple showing the construction on the West Stand (The Former Stand Side).

Have a look at the little green box hanging from the crane over the frame. There was two guys in it welding the two parts of the roof frame together, standing in the box. The Big Round Concrete cone shaped lumps, (which I thought were for the new light pole Bases) seem to be the bases for the bottom of the Roof frame. There’s some nice steelwork going on on the top floor too.

Anyways click below if ya want a look.

Click here to view Part II

I’ll probably make this a fairly regular feature as the work progresses.

Nov 222007
 

As they started to put the roof frame on the west stand yesterday, I managed to get a few shots of what was going on during the day. To get a look at them click

Link to Photo Gallery.

Again with the proviso that it is probably not Dial up Friendly, the pics being kinda Biggish files.