If your having money problems I feel bad for you son because I have them too

I basically want somebody to sponsor my lifestyle. The joys of having an internship that ruins my chances of getting a Summer job and moving to Glasgow ruins any chance of a permanent one, so, I need someone who will just give me money and expect nothing in return. Any takers? No one? Please? Ah, oh well.

Also in other news I have completely found my calling. I went on a boat ride down the Shannon with Local Heroes Limerick for work, and I decided to volunteer with them this Summer. They are so awesome and i am really looking forward to it. Still no money, but i’d rather be out doing something than sitting at home watching TV all Summer.

Anyway I am wrecked tired so I am going to have a quiet night in.

Talk soon,

N

My Favourite Places Part 1: Costello’s Tavern

I decided to write a little piece on my favourite parts of Limerick/Ireland so what better place to start than Costello’s Tavern, the greatest late bar/ nite club in existence. There is a sign above the door that says nite club that I have never seen turned on. 

Welcome to Costello’s. Myself Sarah and my sister Aoife upstairs chatting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Costello’s Tavern is a magical place. It’s ran by Flan Costello who stands at the door demanding fivers off everyone, but its €3 on Thursdays and its free before 11. These are things you learn as a student with no money. He loves the horses and his son, Young Flan is the DJ upstairs. I’ll talk about him shortly.

 

That is me with Flan on Paddy’s night. Aren’t we lovely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He doesn’t check bags ever so its easy to sneak drinks in if you are into that kind of thing… It is very possible to sneak in a bottle of wine and drink it on that dance floor as I saw last Saturday night.

Now let me describe the interior of Costello’s. It is two storeys, with the stairs out the front beside where Flan takes your money. You can either walk past him into the main bar or up the stairs to the dance floor. In the main bar there are booths along  the walls and the bar is in the centre of the room. Then you can leave there and go around the back to where the beer pong tables are, yes I said beer pong tables. They’re Family Guy themed. A pitcher of Bavaria is only €10 and it comes with the ping pong balls and plastic cups. Behind that room is the downstairs smoking area, it is a little corridor room I suppose. You would be amazed by how many people it can hold. Upstairs there is another bar, which serves cans. Yes it is that awesome. There are a few seats upstairs and they added an extra area which the filled with what looks like church seats. The smoking area upstairs kinda looks like a car park.

This is the upstairs smoking area in Costello’s. Myself and my neighbour Kate are enjoying our cans as you can see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The place is empty until around midnight, then the place starts packing out. Then people wander up to the dance floor once they are well drunk. I have many friends that don’t dance unless they are drinking, I luckily am not one of those people. I would never stop drinking if that was the case. In Costello’s nobody really cares if you can dance well, you usually hear a song you like and run into the dance floor and start jumping around like a crazy person.

Speaking of dance floor… they play alternative music in Costello’s, lots of 70s, 80s and 90s tunes. I think there is a list of songs that must be played every night in Costello’s. Here are a few of them.

Blister in the Sun is usually one of the last songs they play every night, between 2.30am and 2.45am. Good laugh everyone squirming to the music and shouting the lyrics.

The Cure must be played, even if it’s not Just Like heaven, it could be The Lovecats or Boys Don’t Cry or all three.

Everyone knows this song, I forgot it existed until I started going to Costello’s, but it is played every night and every night the dance floor is crowded with drunk people dancing to this song.

I’ve also heard Young Flan play Empire State of Mind by Jay Z and Alicia Keyes and I’m Not Alone by Calvin Harris one night. You never really know what to expect, also Young Flan does requests. And dancing to The Prodigy in there is nearly as good as the real thing… nearly. One thing I have never heard them play, which I have heard at every other night club ever since 2009 is I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas, and for that I am eternally grateful.

I’m busting a move in Costello’s. That’s the mural behind me on the dance floor. Megan is also pointing at something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can meet anyone in Costello’s, I met the writer Darren Shan at my friend’s birthday last week. You can be any age to enjoy the place, from 18 to 48, there is such a variety of people there, whereas in other night clubs you are ancient if you are 24. Especially on weekends or after rugby matches in Thomond Park. Anything is possible in Costello’s, I have never seen anyone get kicked out… ever. Smoking inside, moshing on the dance floor, they really don’t care.

Dancing with Konrad at like half 11, as you can see the place is practically empty. I had a bow in my hair but it started to come out because i was dancing so hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its only open Thursday, Friday Saturday and Monday but it’s also open Sundays on Bank Holiday weekends. On Mondays it is usually the Art College students that go there, and on Thursdays it is mostly students from the Art College and UL, you don’t really see people there from LIT or Mary I.

I kept the most important thing for last. SANDWICHES ARE SERVED ALL NIGHT. Forget the burger and chips, you can get a delicious toastie for only €4. Also if you go during the day you can have a carvery lunch. Om nom.

Here I am with Grace, matt and Aimee in a booth downstairs in Costello’s.

Ramble, ramble, ramble… ramble

You may have noticed that I have changed my theme a few times over the past two months, it’s just that I’d been trying to find the right one. I liked my last one but there was no sidebar, it was on the bottom of the page which was unacceptable. I think I may have fallen in love with this. I love the minimalism and it just looks clean, there is nothing I like more than a clean blog, am I right.

I do have other things to write about than WordPress themes. Anyway check out my new page, it is my partial reading list, yes there are more books on the list than that. They are the books that I wrote down in my notebook to read. Yes I am one of those people who carry a notebook with them, I go one step further I bring two… One is just words a bit of a mess and the other one is a little planner, a bit more functional.

I love blogging again. I was working all the time and when I wasn’t working I was at Forum Society or Out in UL and I just never had time. I finally have time where I can blog. I had a blog this time last year too but I didn’t write in it for the three months of Summer, but I promise to be different this year. I do know I haven’t put up that many photos, so I have that on my to do list in my functional notebook. I uploaded a few dreadful drunk photographs from my birthday a few days ago to my Flickr account, they are just awful. My account is niamhbroderick if you wanna look them up. Please don’t, but you can add me as a friend if you want to.

I’m not very original with my account names, it’s always niamhbroderick, ninibroderick or something along those lines. I make it very easy for future employers to stalk.  Or for stalkers to stalk too I suppose.

Hope you enjoyed my little ramble anyway. I don’t really have any news and I’m at work so i have to get back and write some articles.

See you later,

Niamh

The Productivity Continues

The month of May has been unbelievably productive for me. I know I said earlier this month that I was in a wave of productivity and creativity but I expected it to wane after a week. It’s been three weeks and I’m still in it. I made my darling friend Kate a little mobile for her birthday and I made a necklace stand yesterday. And…. my room is kinda clean. I don’t know what has happened to me but I hope it lasts. I like being productive. I will not be spending the Summer inside watching TV. Lets get proactive. Woo Yeah. Anyway I’m gonna get back to work doing nothing.

Lots of love,

Niamh

We Don’t Need To Talk About Kevin

I’ve been reading We Need To Talk About Kevin since Sunday. I’m 50 pages in and I hate it. I read it in the canteen while the lads are talking about Soccer and they hate it as much as I do. Everytime I attempt to read it I let out a sigh. But I must finish it. Maybe. I’ll give it another 50 pages. Or I could just watch the movie. I like me some Ezra Miller.

Here are some pictures so you can like him too.

 

 

 

 

That’s Zoe Kravitz with him. They were both in Californication. Some show. i think it’s the jaw line that I like. It is so defined.

For My Dear Friend

Reblogged from Random Ramblings:

I am dedicating this post to my oldest and dearest friend Niamh who has unfortunately converted over to the side of…..the hipsters. I knew this day was coming but there was just no way to stop it so now I must accept that she has become a full blown hipster. I’ll stand by her side though no matter what choices she makes because I’m just an epic friend.

Read more… 68 more words

Stupid Aimee wrote this about me.