Mac Donagh Station Shopping Centre

Firetrap · 06-01-2008 6:48pm

Eurospar's really convenient. The parking's free, with luck you get to drop the car close to the door and you can be in and out of there in a few minutes. Going to Dunnes in McDoughnut Junction is just too much hassle unless you're on for a big shop.

zootroid · 06-01-2008 10:15pm

JohnMc1 wrote: »

Isn't Debenhems and M&S supposed to go into CitiMart where the barracks amd Cattle Mart is?

i know M&S is, but think it was refused planning permission as the infrastructure isn't there to support it. think it's going to an bord pleanalla (sp?) in april, but until the relief road is built i can't see that development going ahead

fricatus · 06-01-2008 10:26pm

zootroid wrote: »

but until the relief road is built i can't see that development going ahead

What relief road is that? I thought the only new road in planning in KK city was the one that just opened. Are they extending it further, or is it some other road that you're referring to?

cargo · 07-01-2008 12:27pm

The "Inner Relief Road" as it's called is in the pipeline in Kilkenny also. It's not an extension of the current "Ring Road" but takes a more central line down to the Waterbarracks along Dean St. and cuts straight out at the back of the Brewery's property over a new bridge downstream from Greensbridge and on up by the back of this proposed mart development site.

It has undergone a few revisions as it originally it was more of a mini Ring Road back around the City edge from the Waterbarracks but now they've included the spur in through the City I mention above.

Details of the old route and the new variation contained in this link;

http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/cdp/cdpvol3/vol3/variation2.htm

Not sure what the current status of it is as it has had it's fair share of false starts and revisions.

Pigletlover · 07-01-2008 1:50pm

I was there after Christmas, have to say I thought it was very disappointing. The building is lovely but the range of shops isn't great and there's nowhere to eat. We went into Quigley's (only because it was the best of a bad lot) and they had no wraps, paninis or ciabattas, only bread, so I ordered a toasted special but they had no ham. FFS, there's a Dunnes next door! I'm sure it's not always that bad but there is another food outlet needed.

JohnMc1 · 07-01-2008 3:50pm

zootroid wrote: »

i know M&S is, but think it was refused planning permission as the infrastructure isn't there to support it. think it's going to an bord pleanalla (sp?) in april, but until the relief road is built i can't see that development going ahead

Thanks zootroid. I should of known not to get my hopes up for a second shopping centre in Kilkenny. Callan can't even get a Tescos thanks to that prat Phil Hogan.

kleefarr · 05-02-2008 11:54am

I think McDoughnut junction must be hemorrhaging money. I or anyone we know haven't been there since it opened.

Does anyone go on a regular basis?

Deliverance XXV · 05-02-2008 12:35pm

I only live five minutes away from it and only being in there three times.
I can assure you if it were Tesco or Marks and Spencers in there the outcome would have been different. Shame really.

PhilipMarlowe · 05-02-2008 1:26pm

Exactly, if M&S were there, I'd likely be in it 3+ times a week...
As it is, I use Dunnes as a convenience shop basically, and only really would be interested in Virgin and Next occasionally.
I wouldn't make an effort to go there - the place lacks a decent restaurant and a decent bookshop etc.

just-wonderin · 05-02-2008 1:39pm

it allway's seem's quite busy to me whenever i'm in there, which is every other day haven't been to town since christmas, it's handy out

but its a pity a few more of the shops wouldn't open up soon.. i think the problem is the management never to been seen and total lack of seating around the place no bins few plants would help it look bit better,,, is the bowling alley opening this month anyone know..

JohnMc1 · 05-02-2008 5:27pm

I have no idea when the Bowling Alley will open. Not even the website lists the Bowling Alley.

I myself go a couple times a week to go to Champions and/or Zavvi. Like Licksy I only use Dunnes as a convenience store. I think Dunnes only wnet in there to block some other store from going in there. For the store as big as it is its practically empty compared to the Kieran St branch.

If it wasn't for the fact I live so close to the Junction [Maudlin St] I would hardly go there at all]

PhilipMarlowe · 05-02-2008 8:59pm

You see a lot of 'fresh' products marked down in dunnes as they come close to their use-by date. Obviously they need a certain amount of the products for a facing and to make the store looked stocked but there's no way they are selling them! Lots of wastage I guess.
Also, the food dept has probably close on 20 checkout lanes?
Even on a thursday evening which I'd imagine would be busy, you wouldn't have to queue with only 3 or 4 lanes open.
Madness, dog in the manger stuff by dunnes, I hope they are suffering to some extent.

Firetrap · 05-02-2008 11:18pm

You'd really want to watch the dates of food in there alright. I learned that the hard way when I accidentally bought ham in there which was about 5 days past its use by date

You'd also want to be careful about the bread you buy from the bakery as well - they're not above trying to flog stale stuff. Milk as well - I saw 2l containers on the shelves that were a day off their use by date. Usually in a supermarket, you wouldn't have to be watching the dates of perishable food as much as you have to in there.

Sully · 09-02-2008 3:28pm

Anyone know of any website / phone number for this place?

kensutz · 09-02-2008 3:37pm

Sully wrote: »

Anyone know of any website / phone number for this place?

Posted on the second page

Sully · 10-02-2008 3:58pm

Thanks for the useful post kensutz

Was there yesterday. I like the way its designed but is there not to much space for each store? Its got one floor of shops - and its already half full by the looks of it and that's with feck all shops. One of them apparently closed down - Claires. The whole shopping center has LOTS of space, and each store has a pretty big unit to themselves. There is a few places with "To Let" or "Coming Soon" but then its full..

Seems to have been a big flaw in the design. For such a big building, there is only one floor of shops and at that they have only limited units for shops.

JohnC. · 10-02-2008 4:50pm

I got that impression too. Not a lot there for the size of it and was very surprised there was only one floor.

kensutz · 10-02-2008 5:07pm

Sully wrote: »

Thanks for the useful post kensutz

No problem, I was looking for a website myself but went to the trouble of actually searching the thread.

trishw78 · 10-02-2008 5:08pm

there might only be one floor but tk maxx, next and river island are on two floors

Sully · 10-02-2008 5:35pm

kensutz wrote: »

No problem, I was looking for a website myself but went to the trouble of actually searching the thread.

lol. I just searched for a URL in the thread, skimming over posts. I didn't spot the "LINKY" bit. Search Engines are avoiding it, wonder how much they paid for the site.

trishw78 wrote: »

there might only be one floor but tk maxx, next and river island are on two floors

Nothing major though. A few good stores, and that's about it. Never liked TK Maxx myself, was in the one in Dublin (cant recall where) and it was just awful.

I just think its pretty badly designed - huge amount of space, lots of room allocated to stores but far to much room so little units left.

trishw78 · 10-02-2008 5:45pm

a lot of the buildings and walls are protected. out by the curved wall there was a vault built to house the bones of the dead that lived and died in the workhouse. Those bones were excavated near the junction at Lawlors the whole way round to the entrance of the Carpark/Train station.

Sully · 10-02-2008 6:29pm

Interesting. I think the new building fits well, and has a mix of old & new. I love the design, but the major flaw is the large space and limited units.

ztoical · 10-02-2008 7:37pm

trishw78 wrote: »

a lot of the buildings and walls are protected. out by the curved wall there was a vault built to house the bones of the dead that lived and died in the workhouse. Those bones were excavated near the junction at Lawlors the whole way round to the entrance of the Carpark/Train station.

cool

Firetrap · 10-02-2008 10:23pm

If you look at the floor plan in the centre, there are suppose to be kiosks for the likes of Sky in the middle of the floor but I don't see any of them yet. Maybe they're not going to come. I occasionally visit the shopping centre over in Rathdowney and in a weird way it reminds me of MacDonagh Junction. Lots of space, lots of empty units and ones saying a store is coming soon and...almost no customers.

Nightwish · 11-02-2008 12:50am

Is it true that Claires has closed down already? I've noticed it hasnt been open for the past 2 weeks.

Sully · 11-02-2008 5:29am

Nightwish wrote: »

Is it true that Claires has closed down already? I've noticed it hasnt been open for the past 2 weeks.

Was closed when I was there and locals said it was closed to me.

Firetrap · 15-02-2008 1:07am

I've heard Dunnes is doing badly because......(wait for it).....it's haunted.

Stephen · 15-02-2008 10:41am

for **** sake. Its doing badly because there's three bloody dunnes stores in Kilkenny!

just-wonderin · 25-02-2008 3:52pm

any more new shops open lately, havent been out of the house in weeks

JohnMc1 · 25-02-2008 4:57pm

just-wonderin wrote: »

any more new shops open lately, havent been out of the house in weeks

You haven't missed much. Nothing new has opened and Claire's is closed for some unknown reason.

Mac Donagh Station Shopping Centre

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