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Clonmel Thread

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  • #5642
    Vizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,527 ✭✭✭Vizzy


    Galileo and Lava Rock are definitely owned by the same family.


  • #5643
    Qreq
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Qreq


    The same guy had a planning application for an Islamic cultural centre which google also calls a mosque (rightly or wrongly, I don't know), on the two floors above Zip Yard on O'Connell Street in 2014 according to Tipp CoCo's site.


  • #5644
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭cml387


    Qreq wrote: »
    The same guy had a planning application for an Islamic cultural centre which google also calls a mosque (rightly or wrongly, I don't know), on the two floors above Zip Yard on O'Connell Street in 2014 according to Tipp CoCo's site.

    That's already there. The entrance is round the corner in Bolton St.


  • #5645
    Vizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,527 ✭✭✭Vizzy


    Qreq wrote: »
    The same guy had a planning application for an Islamic cultural centre which google also calls a mosque (rightly or wrongly, I don't know), on the two floors above Zip Yard on O'Connell Street in 2014 according to Tipp CoCo's site.
    I don't think that this is the same people who own the restaurants.
    As far as I am aware, the guy who has the kebab shop in Irishtown is the leading light in the mosque/prayer house, but I'm open to correction on this.


  • #5646
    Qreq
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Qreq


    Vizzy wrote: »
    I don't think that this is the same people who own the restaurants.
    As far as I am aware, the guy who has the kebab shop in Irishtown is the leading light in the mosque/prayer house, but I'm open to correction on this.

    There are multiple directors listed for the centre on solocheck.ie; only one of the directors is named on the planning application online. This doesn't necessarily mean he is/was a public-facing leader of the centre. TippFM has an article about a guy with the same name saying he runs Galileo in Clonmel and Lava Rock in Cahir.

    I can link the three articles as they are easily available, however, I'm using an abundance of caution in case somebody thinks it would be doxxing. Googling "Galileo" and "Lava Rock" together gets the TippFM article. Searching the named person gets both the planning application and Solocheck info on the first page of results.


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  • #5647
    masterboy123
    Registered Users Posts: 5,716 ✭✭✭masterboy123


    Heard many emergency services running at around 10 pm. Hope all ok in the town


  • #5648
    softkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭softkitty


    What's the name of the time that the church in Irish town plays at 12pm after it the bells stop chiming its lovely


  • #5649
    Qreq
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Qreq


    softkitty wrote: »
    What's the name of the time that the church in Irish town plays at 12pm after it the bells stop chiming its lovely

    I hear a church playing Ave Maria now and then. Not sure which church it is Here's a link to the tune..


  • #5650
    zurbfoundation
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭zurbfoundation


    Do we know much about this event?

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-2017-tickets-32931519060?aff=erelexpmlt

    A techno event in the middle of a residential and business area? Do the locals know this? Was there a license granted? I love a gig as much as the next fella but would be worried about the clientele this one wil attract.

    Are the Garda prepared for the end of this event and the people management required? 2-12 all day on a Saturday - I see it as a disaster waiting to happen.


  • #5651
    klose
    Registered Users Posts: 11,473 ✭✭✭✭klose


    zurbfoundation wrote: »
    Do we know much about this event?

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-2017-tickets-32931519060?aff=erelexpmlt

    A techno event in the middle of a residential and business area? Do the locals know this? Was there a license granted? I love a gig as much as the next fella but would be worried about the clientele this one wil attract.

    Are the Garda prepared for the end of this event and the people management required? 2-12 all day on a Saturday - I see it as a disaster waiting to happen.

    Am going myself, would be lying if I said i didn't have any worries over some of the undesirables that may turn up but it's my scene of music so had to pick up a ticket.

    I have heard the greyhound stadium have been handsomely paid to host the event after the original Kilkenny setting was moved to clonmel. I hope it goes well, if it does what's to stop other concerts/gigs being held there? There is shockingly little that happens around town in terms of gigs concerts so hopefully it goes well, if you are to believe their Facebook tickets have/are selling well so hopefully there's adequate facilities and of course security.


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  • #5652
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,433 ✭✭✭touts


    zurbfoundation wrote: »
    Do we know much about this event?

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-2017-tickets-32931519060?aff=erelexpmlt

    A techno event in the middle of a residential and business area? Do the locals know this? Was there a license granted? I love a gig as much as the next fella but would be worried about the clientele this one wil attract.

    Are the Garda prepared for the end of this event and the people management required? 2-12 all day on a Saturday - I see it as a disaster waiting to happen.

    Wouldn't be my thing and I suspect the drug squad will be kept busy but I think overall it's a good development. There are not a lot of crowd pulling events in Clonmel compared to other towns and cities. The junction festival is a good week but most of their events are niche and will attract a limited crowd in a small venue. You're never going to fill the greyhound stadium with something like an interpertation of the impact of precolumbian art on the writings of Belarussian novelist Wuda Neverheardov expressed through the medium of modern interperative silent dance. Nor do we have any big sports teams that will attract a crowd. Most other towns the size of Clonmel would have some GAA championship matches. Clonmel needs some one day events that will attract people and fill the hotels and bars and using the greyhound stadium for a concert sounds like a good step forward for the town. I hope it succeeds and encourages other promoters to bring other events to the Greyhound Stadium or GAA grounds etc.


  • #5653
    zurbfoundation
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭zurbfoundation


    klose wrote: »
    Am going myself, would be lying if I said i didn't have any worries over some of the undesirables that may turn up but it's my scene of music so had to pick up a ticket.

    I have heard the greyhound stadium have been handsomely paid to host the event after the original Kilkenny setting was moved to clonmel. I hope it goes well, if it does what's to stop other concerts/gigs being held there? There is shockingly little that happens around town in terms of gigs concerts so hopefully it goes well, if you are to believe their Facebook tickets have/are selling well so hopefully there's adequate facilities and of course security.

    Sound - I'm guessing a license would need to be granted by local authority - just like Croke park putting on gigs. I would consider the Race course a far more suitable venue as it's near town but not in it. These heaps of young family's in Raheen court and they will have to have techno from lunch time till midnight that day. I'm sure the Showgrounds and Larry O'keeffe is delighted with it.

    Any reason given for the change of original venue?


  • #5654
    zurbfoundation
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭zurbfoundation


    touts wrote: »
    Wouldn't be my thing and I suspect the drug squad will be kept busy but I think overall it's a good development. There are not a lot of crowd pulling events in Clonmel compared to other towns and cities. The junction festival is a good week but most of their events are niche and will attract a limited crowd in a small venue. You're never going to fill the greyhound stadium with something like an interpertation of the impact of precolumbian art on the writings of Belarussian novelist Wuda Neverheardov expressed through the medium of modern interperative silent dance. Nor do we have any big sports teams that will attract a crowd. Most other towns the size of Clonmel would have some GAA championship matches. Clonmel needs some one day events that will attract people and fill the hotels and bars and using the greyhound stadium for a concert sounds like a good step forward for the town. I hope it succeeds and encourages other promoters to bring other events to the Greyhound Stadium or GAA grounds etc.

    Hey don't get me wrong I am all for gigs and events - all kinds - I was at Glastonbury last year and wil be at Sun and Bass in Sardinia in September - but I will give you an example of my concerns - the three gigs in Phoenix park in 2012, I went to the stones roses the first night, all peaceful. Next night Swedish house mafia and all the issue that arose with the handling of that. The authorities thought - sure a gig is a gig, ''tis like a Munster hurling semi final or a half marathon, send out a squad car and a couple of reserve Garda. I would be surprised if things are in place to handle this event and all it brings. If Nathan Carter played there, there would be a few parking tickets given out and that would be it. Easy to deal with. This kind of event? Stick it out of town.

    That is the main interest I have with the granting of a license for it - I would think the local authority, Garda, emergency services etc - would have no interest in deal with this.

    Ps I would sooner go to this than Nathan carter .


  • #5655
    klose
    Registered Users Posts: 11,473 ✭✭✭✭klose


    zurbfoundation wrote: »
    Sound - I'm guessing a license would need to be granted by local authority - just like Croke park putting on gigs. I would consider the Race course a far more suitable venue as it's near town but not in it. These heaps of young family's in Raheen court and they will have to have techno from lunch time till midnight that day. I'm sure the Showgrounds and Larry O'keeffe is delighted with it.

    Any reason given for the change of original venue?


    Looking at their Facebook page it was originally in ballykeefe amphitheatre, tickets were nearly sold out and it was moved to a much bigger area as they described it in clonmel and could sell more tickets/put on more acts. That or looking at photos of the amphitheatre it does not look an ideal venue for such an event.


  • #5656
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    klose wrote: »
    zurbfoundation wrote: »
    Sound - I'm guessing a license would need to be granted by local authority - just like Croke park putting on gigs. I would consider the Race course a far more suitable venue as it's near town but not in it. These heaps of young family's in Raheen court and they will have to have techno from lunch time till midnight that day. I'm sure the Showgrounds and Larry O'keeffe is delighted with it.

    Any reason given for the change of original venue?[/

    Looking at their Facebook page it was originally in ballykeefe amphitheatre, tickets were nearly sold out and it was moved to a much bigger area as they described it in clonmel and could sell more tickets/put on more acts. That or looking at photos of the amphitheatre it does not look an ideal venue for such an event.

    The dog track stadium isn't that big. Wouldn't have thought it suitable for an event like this.


  • #5657
    klose
    Registered Users Posts: 11,473 ✭✭✭✭klose


    They say there'll be 4 different stages there, where they'll go in anyone's guess!


  • #5658
    Jim Bowen
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭Jim Bowen


    Finally got into Lonergan's for a pint. All looking lovely but turn down the bloody music. If it's a disco bar you want, then fine but seriously Lonergan's? Christ!
    #oldfart


  • #5659
    It wasnt me123
    Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭It wasnt me123


    klose wrote: »
    Am going myself, would be lying if I said i didn't have any worries over some of the undesirables that may turn up but it's my scene of music so had to pick up a ticket.

    I have heard the greyhound stadium have been handsomely paid to host the event after the original Kilkenny setting was moved to clonmel. I hope it goes well, if it does what's to stop other concerts/gigs being held there? There is shockingly little that happens around town in terms of gigs concerts so hopefully it goes well, if you are to believe their Facebook tickets have/are selling well so hopefully there's adequate facilities and of course security.

    Easy to see you don't live near it with young children. I will be onto the guards and the county council first thing in the morning. Outrageous that they would get a permit for this and the local residents not be informed.


  • #5660
    F34
    Registered Users Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭F34


    Any one know what the fire works were for?


  • #5661
    It wasnt me123
    Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭It wasnt me123


    F34 wrote: »
    Any one know what the fire works were for?

    Nope, but they weren't official. Phone line for the guards was busy when I tried. Probably celebrating the coming of the Mass 2017 event :mad:


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  • #5662
    Qreq
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Qreq


    There have been 5 minutes of substantial fireworks from 11:10pm-11:15pm (Wednesday night) roughly in the vicinity of Dennis Burke Park. Anybody know what the event is, if any? I don't imagine it's because of the solstice.

    Edit: Looks like I took too long to type this comment since two others got in before I was finished daydreaming.


  • #5663
    Recliner
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Recliner


    According to FB comments a celebration of either the summer solstice or a new business opening on the Quay.


  • #5664
    johnny_adidas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭johnny_adidas


    Wedding in Raheen I'd imagine


  • #5665
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,178 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    It wasnt me123 wrote: »
    Easy to see you don't live near it with young children. I will be onto the guards and the county council first thing in the morning. Outrageous that they would get a permit for this and the local residents not be informed.

    It wasnt me123 wrote: »
    Nope, but they weren't official. Phone line for the guards was busy when I tried. Probably celebrating the coming of the Mass 2017 event :mad:

    You seem to be keeping the Gardai busy!


  • #5666
    Recliner
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Recliner


    johnny_adidas wrote: »
    Wedding in Raheen I'd imagine

    That sounds plausible.


  • #5667
    Vizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,527 ✭✭✭Vizzy


    Recliner wrote: »
    According to FB comments a celebration of either the summer solstice or a new business opening on the Quay.

    Opening of Camida in the 2 blue buildings on the Quay.


  • #5668
    julyjane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭julyjane


    johnny_adidas wrote: »
    Wedding in Raheen I'd imagine
    The boom is back! :D


  • #5669
    johnny_adidas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭johnny_adidas


    Re Mass
    Does the Junction festival or similar notify residents directly when they have big events on the Quay as a matter of interest?

    Given the event finishes at 12, I'd guess this is an enforced curfew as part of a licence. Plenty of loud noise coming from the likes of chrissies, o'keefes, the local, etc beyond this time at the weekends directly next to residences.
    That said this will be much louder and it'll be difficult to shelter the houses and apartments to the side if the racecourse. M&S will provide a bit of a buffer to the Waterford road.

    Hopefully there will be a strong security presence as turfing out time could be a nightmare in that car park, not to mention the onslaught to bars up Parnell St afterwards.

    I hope it's a success and not dragged down by the troublesome minority from the point of view of possible future concerts in the town but it will always be difficult to get this first one over the line given the nature of the music & the bass tones


  • #5670
    johnny_adidas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭johnny_adidas


    julyjane wrote: »
    The boom is back! :D

    Then again, a wedding booked for a Wed isn't likely to fork out for fireworks :D:D
    The Raheen Road was choc a block with parked cars when I passed earlier so was just a guess. Camida building opening sounds more likely


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  • #5671
    Recliner
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Recliner


    Vizzy wrote: »
    Opening of Camida in the 2 blue buildings on the Quay.

    What's Camida?


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