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  • #62
    Amazotheamazing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    Kess73 wrote: »
    I think that if you did total up the populations of those areas and the areas that are joined onto them that you would get a figure far higher than 6,000. Southill on it's own is listed as having a population of between 3,000 and 4,000.

    Moyross has a listed population of between 3,400 and 4,000.

    So those two alone come to between 6,000 and 8,000.

    Now throw in Weston, The Island field and a few other areas involved and I think you could be at least doubling your original figure.


    44% is not a historical figure btw. The official 2006 figure was 41% and the published 2010 figure was 44%.

    Even if we double it and say it's 12,000, that still doesn't justify the impact it has on how the city is seen.

    the 41% refers to within the city boundary, so excluding Castletroy, Raheen, etc, which would significantly lower it.

    Eitherway, it's a story that dominates Limerick far beyond it's size.


  • #63
    liammur
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    there's no doubt it's high, and no doubt it gets far too much attention.

    In fact every time I read the local papers, practically nothing in them apart from rugby, regeneration and out&about!


  • #64
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Just caught a glance at tonights' "Leader".

    Headline reads something like "Long to lead mission to China" :eek:

    Expect a call from the Chinese Air Force shortly.


  • #65
    constantg
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    so the paypal jobs have gone to Dundalk i hear....http://irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/paypal-confirms-1000-dundalk-jobs-540649.html


  • #66
    Mc Love
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    europa11 wrote: »
    Just caught a glance at tonights' "Leader".

    Headline reads something like "Long to lead mission to China" :eek:

    Expect a call from the Chinese Air Force shortly.
    God help us all-he might bring niall Collins with him and stay there


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  • #67
    Raiser
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    vkid wrote: »
    disappointed with this.Seems Noonan and Jan O Sullivan are going to be as useless as Willie O Dea was.

    Nothing announced for the Mid West in years. You can have as many regeneration projects as you want but without jobs this region will continue to slide.

    In my opinion the only thing Michael Noonan ever brought back to Limerick was shame and disgrace to himself and his family over his horrific, inhuman and cruelly callous treatment of the Hepatitis C victims and in particular the brave Bridget McCole who he publically mocked even days after her death due to the negligence of the Blood Transfusion Services Board a fact that had been passed to the government by the attorney general prior to this foul and sickening act.

    His political career should have ended then and there when he stood up in the Dail and showed us all what kind of a man he is :mad:


  • #68
    Mc Love
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    If it wasnt for Michael Noonan we wouldnt have the top facilities we have in the regional today! be thankful for having that on your doorstep


  • #69
    niallers1
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    europa11 wrote: »
    Just caught a glance at tonights' "Leader".

    Headline reads something like "Long to lead mission to China" :eek:


    My Good Jesus... :eek: We're [EMAIL="Fu@ked"]Fu@ked[/EMAIL]


  • #70
    crackcrack30
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭crackcrack30


    :confused: what was the last large/medium scale multinational to be attracted into limerick and how long ago?


  • #71
    Raiser
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    Mc Love wrote: »
    If it wasnt for Michael Noonan we wouldnt have the top facilities we have in the regional today! be thankful for having that on your doorstep

    He could have built an 80,000 seater ice hockey rink in Limerick, and it would have still been for the same reason, to win votes to allow him to continue to live off the fat off the land and further feather his stinking noonan nest.

    As it happens it was additions to the Regional Hospital, and as it happens he will die a fat, rich, conscienceless and utterly vile man (just my own opinion)

    - Thats Irish democracy for you, get exposed as a moral vacuum with the decency of a slug and ethics of grave robber and you will be rewarded with a massive annual salary, lavish expenses and a ridiculous pension.

    Also for the record, due to the personal empire building of the local greedy hospital Admins/Consultants and local politicicians the Regional now serves half of Ireland so chances are that if you live in Dooradoyle and bring a seriously sick child in there they face a lottery for medical care due to sheer numbers as the staffing freeze unfortunately collides with the decision to cater for any number of surrounding counties........ ie. end result for all will be laying on a trolley in a cold grey corridor and praying to whatever god happens to be on yer Mammys wall.......


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  • #72
    Kess73
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    crackcrack30 wrote: »
    :confused: what was the last large/medium scale multinational to be attracted into limerick and how long ago?


    My guess would be Dell in terms of being the last company that came to Limerick and provided 1,000 + jobs. That would have been a little over 20 years ago. Don't think anything close to that size has opened in Limerick since then.


  • #73
    Kess73
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    europa11 wrote: »
    Just caught a glance at tonights' "Leader".

    Headline reads something like "Long to lead mission to China" :eek:

    Expect a call from the Chinese Air Force shortly.



    Feckers read my post from this morning about Chinese investment. :D


  • #74
    crackcrack30
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭crackcrack30


    Vistakon 16 yrs, couldnt believe it, u'd expect something at leat every 5 yrs.............when was the last time dundalk got something????

    Dont even mention cork or dublin :rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #75
    liammur
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    crackcrack30 wrote: »
    Vistakon 16 yrs, couldnt believe it, u'd expect something at leat every 5 yrs.............when was the last time dundalk got something????

    Dont even mention cork or dublin :rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Galway has got about 10 big multinationals in since 1997. FF really destroyed this region, it used to be thriving until Bertie Ahern took over.

    There are a thousand more jobs on the way I read recently, none for Limerick.


  • #76
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Dillie O'Wee giving out this morning about the lack of investment in Limerick, and how "we" should have got PayPal to come here.

    Apparently the 'tached wonder is "shokked bee dese divillipmints". :eek:


    ............he does understand the meaning of the word "irony" doesn't he, and with any luck the word "dickhead" rings a bell with him as well. If not a picture of himself and Calamity Coughlan arriving in Dell's Houston HQ not so long ago might come in handy.


  • #77
    liammur
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    europa11 wrote: »
    Dillie O'Wee giving out this morning about the lack of investment in Limerick, and how "we" should have got PayPal to come here.

    Apparently the 'tached wonder is "shokked bee dese divillipmints". :eek:


    ............he does understand the meaning of the word "irony" doesn't he, and with any luck the word "dickhead" rings a bell with him as well. If not a picture of himself and Calamity Coughlan arriving in Dell's Houston HQ not so long ago might come in handy.

    Goes to show how stupid they take the people for. I bet the clown on the radio didn't mention what about the last 15 years.


  • #78
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    liammur wrote: »
    Goes to show how stupid they take the people for. I bet the clown on the radio didn't mention what about the last 15 years.

    Of course he didn't.

    Why change the habit of a lifetime.


  • #79
    Amazotheamazing
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    liammur wrote: »
    Galway has got about 10 big multinationals in since 1997. FF really destroyed this region, it used to be thriving until Bertie Ahern took over.

    There are a thousand more jobs on the way I read recently, none for Limerick.

    Willie O'Dea was a massive disaster for the entire midwest.


  • #80
    flutered
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    Mc Love wrote: »
    If it wasnt for Michael Noonan we wouldnt have the top facilities we have in the regional today! be thankful for having that on your doorstep

    sorry to disillusion you, one of the reasons the regional in in the s(hit, is that €30m yes €30m has been diverted to galway university hospital, the cancer units were to be moved there as well until the guy who paid for them to be installed in the regional kicked, thanks jp mcmanus, no word form the spinless politicians about this, also it was been bandied about that one of the dialisys machines here to be moved as well, when he is supposed to have kicked again, does it not say a lot about the politicans, when a unit like the cancer treatment department which was paid for and installed by a benefactor, could at the whim of politicians be moved to another hospital in another region, but then again one only has to drive or walk about our city to see first hand what they are capable, or is it incapable off.


  • #81
    vkid
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    You know what, Willie O'Dea is irrelevant and should be treated as such.

    FG/Labour are in power 12 months and nothing has been done to tackle the jobs problem...that is all that matters. Pointing back at FF and WOD is getting really tiresome in this country. Not just on here but from members of the current government as well. Throwing crap at what went before just isn't good enough. True enough the previous government wrecked the place but that is not an excuse that should be accepted by anyone for any longer.
    The finance minister of the country is from Limerick and Jan O'Sullivan is a super duper junior minister. Both are getting very well paid to represent both their ministries and just as important the people of Limerick who voted for them...its about time they started doing something for their very large-pay packets. Some serious questions should be asked of the government and the IDA,.


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  • #82
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users Posts: 7,810 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    crackcrack30 wrote: »
    Vistakon 16 yrs, couldnt believe it, u'd expect something at leat every 5 yrs.............when was the last time dundalk got something????

    Dont even mention cork or dublin :rolleyes::rolleyes:
    ach quit your complaining.
    15 years is like yesterday.

    The last time Cavan (town or county) got major inward investment was Pawels Trafo in 1977.
    Thats 35 years and counting.


  • #83
    Amazotheamazing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    ach quit your complaining.
    15 years is like yesterday.

    The last time Cavan (town or county) got major inward investment was Pawels Trafo in 1977.
    Thats 35 years and counting.

    Em, Cavan isn't the third largest city in the State...


  • #84
    munchkin_utd
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    Amazotheamazing wrote: »
    Em, Cavan isn't the third largest city in the State...
    Tisn't

    but if we are whinging why a corner of the country feels it needs inward investment due simply to number of years elapsed, then Limerick certainly shouldnt feel all THAT put out.


  • #85
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    vkid wrote: »
    You know what, Willie O'Dea is irrelevant and should be treated as such.

    FG/Labour are in power 12 months and nothing has been done to tackle the jobs problem...that is all that matters. Pointing back at FF and WOD is getting really tiresome in this country. Not just on here but from members of the current government as well. Throwing crap at what went before just isn't good enough. True enough the previous government wrecked the place but that is not an excuse that should be accepted by anyone for any longer.
    The finance minister of the country is from Limerick and Jan O'Sullivan is a super duper junior minister. Both are getting very well paid to represent both their ministries and just as important the people of Limerick who voted for them...its about time they started doing something for their very large-pay packets. Some serious questions should be asked of the government and the IDA,.

    Not disageeeing with you in the least, but WO'D should have the cop on to keep his trap shut, given his abysmal record in representing Limerick and indeed job creation, when it comes to job announcements.

    You could be forgiven at times when he - and his sidekick Googlemaps Collins - come on air of late, to believe that they have just recently arrived in the country having spent the last 15 years marooned on a desert island such is their apparent disbelief at the state of the nation.


    Again though, on your points re current gov't ministers from the area, the IDA, and of course Dillie O'Wee, I wholeheartedly agree.


  • #86
    vkid
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    europa11 wrote: »
    Not disageeeing with you in the least, but WO'D should have the cop on to keep his trap shut, given his abysmal record in representing Limerick and indeed job creation, when it comes to job announcements.

    You could be forgiven at times when he - and his sidekick Googlemaps Collins - come on air of late, to believe that they have just recently arrived in the country having spent the last 15 years marrooned on a desert island.


    Again though, on your points re current gov't ministers from the area and IDA, wholeheartedly agree.

    But WOD giving his speil this morning, he has you me and others discussing him on here. No doubt the same discussion is taking place elsewhere..giving him exactly what he wants. He only wants to be seen to be doing something or to be seen to be critical...if people pay him attention..thats enough. He should be ignored.

    The focus should now be on the two highy paid politicians in the city who to date have done very little to help the jobs problem in Limerick. Similarly the FG/Lab boys in the mid west as a whole...

    It is a joke that nothing has changed..and the ball is firmly in Noonan, Jan O'Sulliuvan and the rests court. That should be peoples focus. Even aside from the fact that he is a useless gimp, WOD has no power to do anything..nothing. I'd say his forte pf getting people medical cards is even a stretch for him these days.. so lets not pay him any more attnetion and focus on the likes of Noonan who have the power.
    Limerick has been downgraded in favour of Galway and until that changes, nothing will happen. You can thank FF's spatial strategy for that..but Noonan and co are keeping it going. Sad really. I had high hopes for Noonan.


  • #87
    Sponge Bob
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    UCH Galway IS The "Regional Hospital" since the HSE combined the three western regions into one.


  • #88
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    vkid wrote: »
    Limerick has been downgraded in favour of Galway and until that changes, nothing will happen. You can thank FF's spatial strategy for that..but Noonan and co are keeping it going.

    Very difficult to see that downgrading reversed. Just listen to any discussion on radio/TV when discussing .....well just about anything. The mantra is now "Dublin, Cork, Galway" and that's it. We only make it when a crime reporter wants to deflect from a situation elsewhere (a la Tallaght shooting last week)

    Small example: guy today talking on teh Pat Kenny Show about how the motorways have impacted upon rail travel.

    All his figures / stats related to the Dublin-Galway and Dublin - Cork routes. We might as well be on the moon at times. Not knocking Galway, they've done it right while we had gombeens "defending" lines in the sand (city/county boundary bullcrap) for decades and doing little or nothing to promote this region.


  • #89
    Mc Love
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    flutered wrote: »
    sorry to disillusion you, one of the reasons the regional in in the s(hit, is that €30m yes €30m has been diverted to galway university hospital, the cancer units were to be moved there as well until the guy who paid for them to be installed in the regional kicked, thanks jp mcmanus, no word form the spinless politicians about this, also it was been bandied about that one of the dialisys machines here to be moved as well, when he is supposed to have kicked again, does it not say a lot about the politicans, when a unit like the cancer treatment department which was paid for and installed by a benefactor, could at the whim of politicians be moved to another hospital in another region, but then again one only has to drive or walk about our city to see first hand what they are capable, or is it incapable off.

    One of the things is that the blame is lying at the wrong feet. FF got us into this mess, FG are doing what is needed to recover the countrys economy. It will need extreme measures and if we have to endure these for a few years so that our economy can become stable and recover than so be it.


  • #90
    Amazotheamazing
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    europa11 wrote: »
    Very difficult to see that downgrading reversed. Just listen to any discussion on radio/TV when discussing .....well just about anything. The mantra is now "Dublin, Cork, Galway" and that's it. We only make it when a crime reporter wants to deflect from a situation elsewhere (a la Tallaght shooting last week)

    Small example: guy today talking on teh Pat Kenny Show about how the motorways have impacted upon rail travel.

    All his figures / stats related to the Dublin-Galway and Dublin - Cork routes. We might as well be on the moon at times. Not knocking Galway, they've done it right while we had gombeens "defending" lines in the sand (city/county boundary bullcrap) for decades and doing little or nothing to promote this region.

    the really sad thing about the boundary debate is everyone, even the people currently defending it, loses under the current situation. The entire region is weakened. The people defending the status quo are too myopic to see that though.


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  • #91
    crackcrack30
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    What medium to large multinational companies in Limerick (not Cavan:rolleyes:) have closed in the past 16 odd yrs?

    Ill start...............1, Krups.


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