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Businesses OPENING/REOPENING around the county.

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    #92
    Firblog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Firblog


    Going by that they're going to toss all the buildings on the opposite side of the car park and get rid of the car park itself :eek:


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    #93
    overshoot
    Registered Users Posts: 3,202 ✭✭✭overshoot


    Firblog wrote: »
    Going by that they're going to toss all the buildings on the opposite side of the car park and get rid of the car park itself :eek:

    Am i missing something?!


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    #94
    buckfasterer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭buckfasterer


    Has Pearls Place closed in Donegal Town?


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    #95
    overshoot
    Registered Users Posts: 3,202 ✭✭✭overshoot


    buckfasterer wrote: »
    Has Pearls Place closed in Donegal Town?

    Gone well over a year and came close to taking a few things with it!


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    #96
    Firblog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Firblog


    just kiddin', the graphic on the architects website doesn't show the carpark or any other buildings.


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    #97
    feelpablo
    Registered Users Posts: 510 ✭✭✭feelpablo


    overshoot wrote: »
    Gone well over a year and came close to taking a few things with it!

    Oh yeah?? what was that


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    #98
    overshoot
    Registered Users Posts: 3,202 ✭✭✭overshoot


    feelpablo wrote: »
    Oh yeah?? what was that

    It went a year ago, scroll back in the thread. Wasn't the only downfall tho.
    I know of one other business with a hole in its account


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    #99
    Bazdonegal
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭Bazdonegal


    New computer repair shop recently opened in Letterkenny.

    LK IT Centre, Computer Repairs & Services down past the Dry Arch Complex, Bonagee on the way down to Tinney's oil Depot.


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    #100
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,286 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    new italian restaurant trattoria toscana next to tonis not sure when its opening (where the chinese was)

    My weather

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    #101
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    New barber shop on Larkin's Lane Letterkenny.

    Two others opened in the last while, one opposite Solo and where Carmel's shop used to be on the High Road (showing my age).

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #102
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Seen on FB earlier on a new takeaway is opening in September where the diamond grill was up untill recently. Only clue was one with over 100 premises nationwide. Dont know what the figures are for Subway or Abras, but would guess it to be one of them if any truth in the story.

    Anyone hear anymore on this?


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    #103
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,286 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Seen on FB earlier on a new takeaway is opening in September where the diamond grill was up untill recently. Only clue was one with over 100 premises nationwide. Dont know what the figures are for Subway or Abras, but would guess it to be one of them if any truth in the story.

    Anyone hear anymore on this?
    Apache pizza allegedly

    My weather

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    #104
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    ednwireland wrote: »
    Apache pizza allegedly
    apache.ie wrote:
    Apache Pizza is a fully Irish owned quality pizza delivery company, we have in excess of 100 stores nationwide.

    Could be right indeed. I have never eaten from Apache Pizza before, so dunno what they're like. For a town that had no proper pizzaria place for years (apart from the restaurants like The Harbour and La Bella Donna offering pizza to take away), there's probably too many now, with Caspian Pizza and Taj offering pizza also.

    I guess it's better than another empty premises though, so good luck to whoever takes over.


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    #105
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    byte wrote: »
    Could be right indeed. I have never eaten from Apache Pizza before, so dunno what they're like. For a town that had no proper pizzaria place for years (apart from the restaurants like The Harbour and La Bella Donna offering pizza to take away), there's probably too many now, with Caspian Pizza and Taj offering pizza also.

    I guess it's better than another empty premises though, so good luck to whoever takes over.

    Personally, i would rather pizza from an independent rather than a chain. Not sure what the former No11s offer in terms of kebabs, but I was delighted to see a proper kebab store even if it was not always the best.


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    #106
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Personally, i would rather pizza from an independent rather than a chain. Not sure what the former No11s offer in terms of kebabs, but I was delighted to see a proper kebab store even if it was not always the best.

    Apache's are franchises so independently owned; but they seem to be borging a lot of former full independents recently. My local one down here fell to them in the past few weeks but the really interesting bits of their menu went ages ago.


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    #107
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    L1011 wrote: »
    Apache's are franchises so independently owned; but they seem to be borging a lot of former full independents recently. My local one down here fell to them in the past few weeks but the really interesting bits of their menu went ages ago.

    Maybe independently owned, but same or similar menu in all. Similar to other franchise takeaways.


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    #108
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    ednwireland wrote: »
    Apache pizza allegedly
    And indeed, it is Apache Pizza.

    Signage up a week or so ago, presumably won't be long before it's open (heh, could already be).


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    #109
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,703 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Noticed a new restaurant where Galfee's used to be on Letterkenny Main St today. "Florence's"


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    #110
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Apache has finally opened in Donegal Town


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    #111
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,286 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Rumours of specsavers going into old subway unit a b d Holland and Barrett into foodies in donegal town.

    My weather

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    #112
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    ednwireland wrote: »
    Rumours of specsavers going into old subway unit a b d Holland and Barrett into foodies in donegal town.
    Part of me would be happy to see the shop units occupied, but another part of me would worry these big chain-stores would add pressure to local business of Simple Simon's*, Brady Opticians and Argus Opticians etc.

    *I think H&B offer similar produce to that of Simple Simons but may be wrong.


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    #113
    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    byte wrote: »
    Part of me would be happy to see the shop units occupied, but another part of me would worry these big chain-stores would add pressure to local business of Simple Simon's*, Brady Opticians and Argus Opticians etc.

    *I think H&B offer similar produce to that of Simple Simons but may be wrong.

    I agree with your sentiment but Specsavers in Letterkenny don't seem to have done the existing opticians much harm. A well established shop like Simple Simon's is also well placed to resist the less personal approach of a chain store.
    Nobody minds fair competition but unfortunately it is often a case of one law for the big guys and a different law of the rest with all sorts of deals and more favourable conditions for the big names.


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    #114
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,703 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    I see signage up for "Jamie's Supermarket" above the door where Joseph Gallagher's (Joe Bid's) shop used to be. If he manages to stay in business as long as Joe did he'll be doing well. Good luck to him, whoever he is


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    #115
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,820 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Nice to hear a wee bit of good news :)


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    #116
    Cherry Blossom
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cherry Blossom


    McGettigans Applegreen opening in Lifford. I hear on the grapevine they will be opening sometime in March. A bit of competition for Dalys. I wonder will they be 24 hour.


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    #117
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    The Limit Bar and Restaurant recently opened in Ballyshannon


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    #118
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    hairyprincess wrote: »
    The Limit Bar and Restaurant recently opened in Ballyshannon
    Whereabouts is that?


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    #119
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    byte wrote: »
    Whereabouts is that?

    Where Sweeneys White Horse Bar used to be, just out the Bundoran road


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    #120
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,703 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    See a lot of signage up on the premises that used to house Patrick Gildea's hairdressers on Letterkenny Main St indicating that it's to be a deli during the day and a wine bar at night called "Berry Layne". Is there room for yet another deli on Main St.? Also noticed a new supermarket opening on the Port Rd., can't remember what it's called but they say that they'll be doing Indian and European food with free delivery.


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    #121
    Maldesu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭Maldesu


    donegal_man wrote: »
    See a lot of signage up on the premises that used to house Patrick Gildea's hairdressers on Letterkenny Main St indicating that it's to be a deli during the day and a wine bar at night called "Berry Layne". Is there room for yet another deli on Main St.?

    Think this is owned by the same people that have Bread and Butter. They are supposed to do tapas at this location, so I guess we'll see. My only request is that they post the lunch specials online before the lunch period, not hours afterwards when its not use to me.

    Speaking of supermarkets, there is a new one open in Joe Bidd's place, called Jamie's supermarket who also deliver (according to signage). Not been in yet though


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