Lurgan

[Eamonnca1]

Why has Lurgan two cycling clubs? Is one more leisurely than the other?

Good old sporting rivalry. I was in Clann Eireann myself, they've never really gone away. Lurgan Road Club was a big force in the 80s, but I don't know if there's anything left of them now. Last I saw of it was a handful of the older fellas on the Sunday run. I think the Apollo crowd came from a split in the Road Club, last I heard they're still around. They got into mountain biking when it started getting popular in the 90s, and I think they recently started a youth MTB wing that rakes around the lakes in the evenings. Clann Eireann still going reasonably strong too. They were never into mountain biking when I was around, they were pure into the road racing. Always was a good healthy rivalry within the club during the Wednesday night 10 series and the Wednesday night handicapped road race series. The midweek races were good crack. Shorter than an open race, and the dynamics of the handicap always made it interesting.

[brokencrossbar1]

Pure shitehole of a place plain and simple😂😉

[illdecide]

Pure shitehole of a place plain and simple😂😉

I agree with you BC, that top end of the town where all them Prods live is a pure shit hole...

[ziggysego]

Never been there. So can't really comment.

[armaghniac]

Never been there. So can't really comment.

This is GAABoard General Discussion, you don't have to know anything about the topic!

[ziggysego]

Never been there. So can't really comment.

This is GAABoard General Discussion, you don't have to know anything about the topic!

Noticed that from some of the contributions some have made in other topics.

[lurganblue]

Caffola's marshmallow and ice cream is unreal.

[T Fearon]

I remember early on in my soccer career,with the famous Lurgan Inter,playing a hastily arranged friendly against what you might describe as a hastily put together team from Teghnevan in the mid 70s one Sunday.

The guy marking me asked the referee,the late Gabby Headley,how long was left.Gabby said "20 minutes" to which my marker said "Ah for f..k sake,the Forresters will be closed!" 😂😂😂😂

[Orior]

I remember early on in my soccer career,with the famous Lurgan Inter,playing a hastily arranged friendly against what you might describe as a hastily put together team from Teghnevan in the mid 70s one Sunday.

The guy marking me asked the referee,the late Gabby Headley,how long was left.Gabby said "20 minutes" to which my marker said "Ah for f..k sake,the Forresters will be closed!" 😂😂😂😂

Nah, he was more concerned about having to listen to another 20 minutes of incessant talk about Spurs, Celtic, Armagh, Tir Na nOg and free tickets lol.

[armaghniac]

Even that might be tolerable, but the explanation of being "Northern" Irish would have been worse.

[lurganblue]

I remember early on in my soccer career,with the famous Lurgan Inter,playing a hastily arranged friendly against what you might describe as a hastily put together team from Teghnevan in the mid 70s one Sunday.

The guy marking me asked the referee,the late Gabby Headley,how long was left.Gabby said "20 minutes" to which my marker said "Ah for f..k sake,the Forresters will be closed!" 😂😂😂😂

Surely the "Fosters" is never closed! (exception being between the hours of about 3am and 7am)

[JimStynes]

Caffola's marshmallow and ice cream is unreal.

Big or the wee caffola's for ice cream? That's the big question!!

[johnneycool]

Caffola's marshmallow and ice cream is unreal.

Big or the wee caffola's for ice cream? That's the big question!!

Worked down that part of the world for a while and lord, a decent chip was hard to come by.

The "Borger" Stop chips were a soapy mush and the albino lad, Paul who'd the van outside the primary schools were decent, but not great.

[nrico2006]

Caffola's marshmallow and ice cream is unreal.

Big or the wee caffola's for ice cream? That's the big question!!

Worked down that part of the world for a while and lord, a decent chip was hard to come by.

The "Borger" Stop chips were a soapy mush and the albino lad, Paul who'd the van outside the primary schools were decent, but not great.

I heard someone say there are good cafes in Lurgan but I would say the opposite was true.  There is the like of Caffola's and a few others that only really serve chip based meals, and none of them are great.  No real cafes where you can get nice stew, lasagnes, Spaghetti Bolognese etc.

[The Iceman]

don't forget the thai sweet chilli chicken!! any good spot has to have it lol
good food in lurgan..... I've heard it all!