Comments on: Super Sunday: Wales v Ireland http://irishkc.com/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm Kansas City Irish Festivals, Music, Pubs, & Events by an Artist in Ireland Sat, 26 May 2012 13:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: eolai http://irishkc.com/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31994 eolai Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:34:03 +0000 http://irishkc.com/index.php/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31994 Live or Delayed MAtt? Live or Delayed MAtt?

]]> By: Matt Messer http://irishkc.com/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31992 Matt Messer Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:42:50 +0000 http://irishkc.com/index.php/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31992 The games are available to watch on Setanta at WJ McBride's in KCK. The games are available to watch on Setanta at WJ McBride’s in KCK.

]]> By: Doris http://irishkc.com/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31672 Doris Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:12:03 +0000 http://irishkc.com/index.php/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31672 So what is going on with McBrides in Village West? We used to enjoy going out there for the music and food. It has really gone downhill quickly. So what is going on with McBrides in Village West?
We used to enjoy going out there for the music and food. It has really gone downhill quickly.

]]> By: eolai http://irishkc.com/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31504 eolai Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:33:53 +0000 http://irishkc.com/index.php/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31504 Primal, a couple of other pubs have done the not-opening-on-Sunday lark here. In short it's because there isn't really a pub culture here at all - or at least it's very different from home, or even from the East Coast. Here, a pub is a bar, and frequent drinking in them is indulged by frat kids, and misfits. You don't get the across the ages social mix that you do in Ireland. Most social drinking is done in domestic situations. It is possible to drink regularly in bars and not be frowned upon if those bars are really expensive restaurants themed on Irish pubs. So then the food becomes more important than anything else in there. And Sunday isn't a big day for the family to go out and get drunk, so they tend to stay at home and do so, or go to a house party. Especially if somebody is showing Father Ted. The first time I went to Croke Park was in the 1970s when the GAA came to our school and offered us tickets for 10p. Even back then that was very cheap. Every year in Kansas City the Wizards (soccer) give away tickets for free for one game in an attempt to break their attendance record. Typically they attract about 30,000 for the game - a nice sized crowd though it looks very sad in a stadium with a capacity of 80,000. Free or dirt cheap, if the people don't want to go, you won't get them there. I'd a been one of the 7,000 last night. I love a good miracle. Primal, a couple of other pubs have done the not-opening-on-Sunday lark here. In short it’s because there isn’t really a pub culture here at all - or at least it’s very different from home, or even from the East Coast.

Here, a pub is a bar, and frequent drinking in them is indulged by frat kids, and misfits. You don’t get the across the ages social mix that you do in Ireland. Most social drinking is done in domestic situations. It is possible to drink regularly in bars and not be frowned upon if those bars are really expensive restaurants themed on Irish pubs.

So then the food becomes more important than anything else in there. And Sunday isn’t a big day for the family to go out and get drunk, so they tend to stay at home and do so, or go to a house party. Especially if somebody is showing Father Ted.

The first time I went to Croke Park was in the 1970s when the GAA came to our school and offered us tickets for 10p. Even back then that was very cheap. Every year in Kansas City the Wizards (soccer) give away tickets for free for one game in an attempt to break their attendance record. Typically they attract about 30,000 for the game - a nice sized crowd though it looks very sad in a stadium with a capacity of 80,000. Free or dirt cheap, if the people don’t want to go, you won’t get them there. I’d a been one of the 7,000 last night. I love a good miracle.

]]> By: Primal Sneeze http://irishkc.com/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31490 Primal Sneeze Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:31:35 +0000 http://irishkc.com/index.php/super-sunday-wales-v-ireland.htm#comment-31490 Just wondering, Eolaí, why doesn't The Gaf open on Sundays? As you know yourself, if a pub didn't open here there'd be lads marching up and down outside waving "Down with this sort of thing" and "Careful now" placards. On last night's match I reckon there <em>were</em> only 10,000 there to see the game. 2,000 to see the Saw Doctors. 2,000 to see the Dublin Gospel Choir. 7,000 to see the <em>miracle</em> of floodlights. And 60,678 because the tickets were, for the one and only time, dirt cheap. Just wondering, Eolaí, why doesn’t The Gaf open on Sundays? As you know yourself, if a pub didn’t open here there’d be lads marching up and down outside waving “Down with this sort of thing” and “Careful now” placards.

On last night’s match I reckon there were only 10,000 there to see the game.
2,000 to see the Saw Doctors.
2,000 to see the Dublin Gospel Choir.
7,000 to see the miracle of floodlights.
And 60,678 because the tickets were, for the one and only time, dirt cheap.

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