Irish in Pamplona 28 July 2024

[The 5 McC's]

Hi we will be in Pamplona on 28th July. We are Irish mostly from Armagh and would like to know where best to watch the all ireland gaa football final. Any Galway pilgrims walking too. Would love the atmosphere. Thank you

 

[Kirkie]

Hi we will be in Pamplona on 28th July. We are Irish mostly from Armagh and would like to know where best to watch the all ireland gaa football final. Any Galway pilgrims walking too. Would love the atmosphere. Thank you

Buen camino, all of you. I have no idea about how you can watch your game. Why don't you ask your gaa local reps? Or write to the head of RTE?
Might give him some relief from other pressing issues!
Seriously, if I can find an answer I will get back to you.

 

[SabsP]

Hi we will be in Pamplona on 28th July. We are Irish mostly from Armagh and would like to know where best to watch the all ireland gaa football final. Any Galway pilgrims walking too. Would love the atmosphere. Thank you

Maybe contact the people at Bar A Novena Porta?

A Novena Porta

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[The 5 McC's]

Maybe contact the people at Bar A Novena Porta?

A Novena Porta

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Thank you I will do

 

[The 5 McC's]

Buen camino, all of you. I have no idea about how you can watch your game. Why don't you ask your gaa local reps? Or write to the head of RTE?
Might give him some relief from other pressing issues!
Seriously, if I can find an answer I will get back to you.

We will be able to watch it online but we would love the atmosphere off watching it with other pilgrims. Thank you so much

 

[Kirkie]

I just asked a local who will follow it up. I trust @SabsP though, to offer a good link!

 

[The 5 McC's]

I just asked a local who will follow it up. I trust @SabsP though, to offer a good link!

Thank you so much

 

[Kirkie]

I have just spent about a half an hour trying to 'reach out' - how I loathe that expression - to anybody here in Dublin under the GAA umbrella, to see if they can direct a link to any pub/bar/hotel in Pamplona. The nice guy in security in Croke Park did his best but basically, he has got a script and cannot deviate from it. So, let's wait and see who can find the link for you. Try your home gaa group...Anyway, just switch to tennis!

 

[Kirkie]

Try this... or look yourself for another Irish pub in Pamplona. Unless my local friend replies, this is it, wishing the best...and buen camino...

Dublin House | Nuevo concepto de pub irlandés vanguardista que conserva el estilo acogedor de los pubs irlandeses pero con un sabor renovado.

dublinhousepamplona.com

 

[SabsP]

Oops sorry OP! Should not have answered before my first coffee .
Of course my link is wrong and you were looking for something in Pamplona and not in Santiago!

 

[The 5 McC's]

I have just spent about a half an hour trying to 'reach out' - how I loathe that expression - to anybody here in Dublin under the GAA umbrella, to see if they can direct a link to any pub/bar/hotel in Pamplona. The nice guy in security in Croke Park did his best but basically, he has got a script and cannot deviate from it. So, let's wait and see who can find the link for you. Try your home gaa group...Anyway, just switch to tennis!

Thank you so much. It’s not very often our county is in the all Ireland . There’ll be plenty off prayers said going over the Pyrenees

 

[Madamjoy]

Hi we will be in Pamplona on 28th July. We are Irish mostly from Armagh and would like to know where best to watch the all ireland gaa football final. Any Galway pilgrims walking too. Would love the atmosphere. Thank you

I just did a quick google search ‘Irish pubs in Pamploma and… there’s one called Dublin House, another called Shamrock. You can take it from there….

 

[The 5 McC's]

I just did a quick google search ‘Irish pubs in Pamploma and… there’s one called Dublin House, another called Shamrock. You can take it from there….

Thank you I’m waiting in a reply from Dublin house

 

[timr]

Buen camino, all of you. I have no idea about how you can watch your game. Why don't you ask your gaa local reps? Or write to the head of RTE?
Might give him some relief from other pressing issues!
Seriously, if I can find an answer I will get back to you.

Writing to the head of RTE may work.....but paradoxically, in the past, writing to the head of BBC did.

In the 1980s I lived in rural Nigeria and in the 90s in rural Kenya. Long before the days of internet or mobile phones and (as it was then) on the first and third Sundays of September the BBC World Service Sports Report at 6:45pm on Sunday night, on rather crackly short wave, used to always give the result of the hurling and football finals.

This we understood was due to personal application by a generation of exiled missionary priests and sisters. For these exiles, the result was hugely important. The idea of seeing or hearing the game in real time was a distant notion at that time. In later years RTE broadcast the finals only, on shortwave - again this was prior to internet or mobile phones. i think they used to rent a wavelength just for the day.

And this is really off topic. BUT, 20 years ago when satellite TV (from South Africa) arrived in Kenya, I was watching a BBC detective serial and there has a widespread power outage in Nairobi on the night of the season finale. Not uncommon. If you didn't have your own generator, there was never much you could do.

I wrote to the head of MTN, the satellite company in South Africa saying I was left hanging. They broadcast it again, FOR ME, a week later. Never underestimate the humanity of people to whom you might tell your tale of woe or longing.

May the best team win, as my very partisan grandfather from Galway always said, magnanimously. But he never meant it!

 

[Baggiegaz]

I just did a quick google search ‘Irish pubs in Pamploma and… there’s one called Dublin House, another called Shamrock. You can take it from there….

Yes I remember going into one of these in 2017. The guy was Irish/basque as he kept on telling us. Great pub with excellent tapas and beer. Just can’t recall which one but hey. Try em both. Buen Camino

 

[Kirkie]

I finally paid proper attention to your actual request. Next Sunday, not today. Sure, you have tons of time to bribe a pub guy to tune his tv...
Above, someone said the owner of one of the two pubs is Irish/basque. Interesting blend...I can't even promise to watch on your behalf, all 6 McCs, as I won't be sure to be home from the St James's mass in town...I hope you all arrive safe and sound in Pamplona and rarin' to watch.

 

[Kirkie]

My friend wrote the following:
"This is the only Irish pub that I have found open the 28th of July. I am not completely sure, but I talked to them and they said me that they could tune the TV channel if is a free one. I think the match is offered in Eurosport, so probably it will work to see the game."

Cervecería Paddy's Corner

After San Fermin, a lot of places take a couple of weeks holidays, so you are lucky that this one will be open. Good luck!

 

[Kirkie]

And if it doesn't work, nae problems! Just watch the Scottish match

 

[The 5 McC's]

My friend wrote the following:
"This is the only Irish pub that I have found open the 28th of July. I am not completely sure, but I talked to them and they said me that they could tune the TV channel if is a free one. I think the match is offered in Eurosport, so probably it will work to see the game."

Cervecería Paddy's Corner

After San Fermin, a lot of places take a couple of weeks holidays, so you are lucky that this one will be open. Good luck!

Thank you so much really appreciate all your help

 

[The 5 McC's]

I finally paid proper attention to your actual request. Next Sunday, not today. Sure, you have tons of time to bribe a pub guy to tune his tv...
Above, someone said the owner of one of the two pubs is Irish/basque. Interesting blend...I can't even promise to watch on your behalf, all 6 McCs, as I won't be sure to be home from the St James's mass in town...I hope you all arrive safe and sound in Pamplona and rarin' to watch.

Thank you so much

 

[timr]

Hi we will be in Pamplona on 28th July. We are Irish mostly from Armagh and would like to know where best to watch the all ireland gaa football final. Any Galway pilgrims walking too. Would love the atmosphere. Thank you

Right at the moment I am "abroad".

I had better not say where.

And I have just been sent an invitation to pop around to the embassy on Sunday to watch the match!

Sorry this does not help you in the least....

Best of luck in finding a TV and a crowd. I won't say who I want to win. Let us know what happens,

 

[Kirkie]

@ The 5 McC's,
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The 5 McC's​

To the 5 or 6 however many you actually are - Be careful, watch the ground below your feet, if you want to arrive safe and sound in Pamplona tomorrow! Did I already say, my only sport watching luxury is Wimbledon? However, I know the energy levels in this tiny island rise far more than whatever exponentially really means, whenever a football or rugby or hurley ball are involved. Aren't you envious of @timr?
Not really. He will be in a very civilised environment. You will be in a Cerveceria.
Not The Shambles. See? I know your town .
Do post something afterwards, and wishing you and your county, and the opposition, the very best of luck. Then, onwards and upwards, on your pilgrimage to Santiago.

 

[Kirkie]

Let me guess the colour: orange? I see lots of hats and t shirts already on my way to St James's church!

 

[Kirkie]

Last piece from me on this thread! I hope you saw it in the pub.
Congrats, people. I caught the end, incredible testimony to long years of : if at first you don't succeed...

 

[timr]

Well. It couldn't have been closer.
Congrats to Armagh.
My grandfather is dead 34 years...... He may have become more philosophical by now.

 

[The 5 McC's]

Last piece from me on this thread! I hope you saw it in the pub.
Congrats, people. I caught the end, incredible testimony to long years of : if at first you don't succeed...

We watched it on our phone no where showing it. Brilliant result and great achievement, meant so much.

 

[The 5 McC's]

Well. It couldn't have been closer.
Congrats to Armagh.
My grandfather is dead 34 years...... He may have become more philosophical by now.

Very very close great ending

 

[The 5 McC's]

@ The 5 McC's,
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The 5 McC's​

To the 5 or 6 however many you actually are - Be careful, watch the ground below your feet, if you want to arrive safe and sound in Pamplona tomorrow! Did I already say, my only sport watching luxury is Wimbledon? However, I know the energy levels in this tiny island rise far more than whatever exponentially really means, whenever a football or rugby or hurley ball are involved. Aren't you envious of @timr?
Not really. He will be in a very civilised environment. You will be in a Cerveceria.
Not The Shambles. See? I know your town .
Do post something afterwards, and wishing you and your county, and the opposition, the very best of luck. Then, onwards and upwards, on your pilgrimage to Santiago.

Thank you. We watched it in our phones. Brilliant achievement meant so much,

 

[The 5 McC's]

Thank you everyone for your help on watching the match. We watching it on our phones in our apartment in Pamplona. Not that o seem too much off it. Nervy game but a brilliant result. It meant so much to the whole Armagh county. We celebrated well. Thank you all