Where are you from in d Deise?

Baby4

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looksee

Its very quiet on this forum!! Baby4 you didn't give your own area. Mine's Tramore - nice place to live, don't go 'downaround' but the 'top of the town' is a good area to live in. Love the coastline around here - Newtown, Annestown, along to Stradbally. Could wish there was a bit more facilities in Tramore - shopping etc, but I think it will come.

Sully

In Tramore myself..

looksee: Well, its planned a Dunnes Stores, Lidl/Alidi, and a Tesco...

mike65

I used to live in Tramore before it became "commuterville", twas very quiet outside the summer season and the road to Newtown cove was still rural back then! Place has gone to hell!

I live in (older bit of) Cherrymount which has no redeeming features being a collection of boxes built by Frisby Construction. 'nuff said I think.

Mike.

Minto

I'm a Tramore head myself, its a grand place outside of the summer months. I agree that we do need more shops. Dunnes might be good, same for Tesco, but Lidl/Aldi would be a waste.

Sully

Lidl/Alid has proven a sucess everywhere it goes. Most of the time, its snobbery ignorant fools who refuse to go there - simply because its "cheap".

You can buy stuff in there, that you can get elsewhere. Advantage? Its cheaper.

Seriously, some people wont go there and buy the SAME product that they can get elsewhere - which ends up costing them more. Its just pathetic!

BIG-SLICK-POKER

BallyMun in the sun for me too - Tramore

BadCharlie

Good
Live in Butlerstown.
Love to live in the country side.
About 5 to 6 miles out from the city centre so not far to do some shopping, going out, Or about 4miles away from Tesco on the by-pass.

Bad
I live so near to Waterford City but yet cant get Broadband or wireless where i live.

Baby4

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Minto

Sully wrote:

Lidl/Alid has proven a sucess everywhere it goes. Most of the time, its snobbery ignorant fools who refuse to go there - simply because its "cheap".

You can buy stuff in there, that you can get elsewhere. Advantage? Its cheaper.

Seriously, some people wont go there and buy the SAME product that they can get elsewhere - which ends up costing them more. Its just pathetic!

Actually, Sully, I said it would be a waste because Tramore already has a SuperValu, a Tesco on the way and a Dunnes Stores in the works. Aldi or Lidl would just be one supermarket too much for the population, if people want Lidl products, it's 15 mins in the road. Thats why I think it would be a waste in Tramore. I'm not being snobby or elitist, I leave that to the experts.

mike65

Baby4, no traffic? Have they moved the ferry?

Mike.

Psychedelic

from tramore myself.

JLemmon

Dungarvan.

Baby4

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rasper

Tramore, again great place summer or winter

mailrewop

BadCharlie wrote:

Good
Live in Butlerstown.
Love to live in the country side.
About 5 to 6 miles out from the city centre so not far to do some shopping, going out, Or about 4miles away from Tesco on the by-pass.

Bad
I live so near to Waterford City but yet cant get Broadband or wireless where i live.

i live in butlerstown too and i have eircom broadband but saying that, it took me a while.

Sully

Minto wrote:

Actually, Sully, I said it would be a waste because Tramore already has a SuperValu, a Tesco on the way and a Dunnes Stores in the works. Aldi or Lidl would just be one supermarket too much for the population, if people want Lidl products, it's 15 mins in the road. Thats why I think it would be a waste in Tramore. I'm not being snobby or elitist, I leave that to the experts.

Sorry, its just how you made it out to be - singling out each store and giving it a rating

Super Value is a rip-off, and holds the monopoly.

Tesco will beat them down, and offer more of the same stuff at much lower rates. This brings more shopping centre competion, and will see Super Value heading downhill unless it starts to reduce prices.

Lidl/Aldi offers a different type of shopping choice that no shopping centre in Tramore can offer. Its nothing like Tesco/Dunnes/Londis/Super Value. Its in a category all by itself, and offers something unique. They dont target the main shopping retailers for competion, as they offer a different choice anyway.

Dunnes.. we have no idea yet if its a clothes shop or shopping centre. Id assume shopping centre... wouldnt really shop there tho. Id see that more of a waste tbh.

Londis was Tramores only competion and failed because every owner they had didnt hear of keeping it clean, nor did they seem to have a clue how to run a shop. I do believe they got warnings from Health and Safety about how bad it became at one stage - as you know yourself.

So with the "new tramore" - we will see competion between two sucesfully companies: Tesco and Super Value. No more monopoly, and finaly a bit of choice. Dunnes.. iv never considered them for anything but clothes :P. Lidl/Aldi will come and offer something that nobody yet has in Tramore, and will take people from the surrounding areas.

All these new retailers answer peoples pleas: they dont want to have to drive 20mins into town, get parking, shop, get back in and drive for another 20mins back to Tramore. Its much handier if its just kept in Tramore, as the town is so big.

run_Forrest_run

mike65 wrote:

I used to live in Tramore before it became "commuterville", twas very quiet outside the summer season and the road to Newtown cove was still rural back then! Place has gone to hell!

I live in (older bit of) Cherrymount which has no redeeming features being a collection of boxes built by Frisby Construction. 'nuff said I think.

Mike.

Hey yeah I used to be in a band and we used to practice in a shed off some old estate house or something out around the Newtown way...across from the driving range. Our guitarist lived around there. It was lovely in the winter, quite remote but the sea air was great and the wind would blow any remaining cobwebs right off!

Newtown cove, a beautiful spot...I never did do the dive though

Come to think of it, we then moved to another friends house out in Annestown to practice (had a good shed in the back yard!). We took plenty of walks there too....nasty waters around there in the winter.

We should have known from our rehearsal locations that the band would eventually be 'washed up'

tonc76

Butlerstown but living in Dublin at the mo

neon_glows

i for one think its a shame that so many large shopping markets will be allowed into tramore as it affect the smaller retailers in tramore and supervalu might not be able to compete with larger shopping markets and you have to remember that supervalu sponsor nearly every activity in tramore in some way.

Minto

I didn't think of that neon, I suppose if Sean Quish left Tramore, would Tesco, Dunnes or Lidl/Aldi pick up where he left off?

Mossy Monk

Dungarvan.

Hi everyone.

Junior

Kilmacthomas.

Dhia Dhuit...

Sully

neon_glows wrote:

i for one think its a shame that so many large shopping markets will be allowed into tramore as it affect the smaller retailers in tramore and supervalu might not be able to compete with larger shopping markets and you have to remember that supervalu sponsor nearly every activity in tramore in some way.

Your joking right? Super Valu is a small retailer? Go home out of that. Quish himself owns a fair few stores in Ireland, and the organisation itself is all over Ireland! In fact, its owned by an organisation which is huge - Musgraves. They also own Centra, amongst others. Super Valu is also in Northern Ireland and Spain. That's NOT small. That's BIG.

At the moment, they are dominant. Londis couldn't survive (partly) because of them. So did some of our smaller retailers that used to be on Main Street (our Butcher Shops, Grocery Shops etc) that gave up as a result of Super Valu. More competition will answer peoples needs - and give us more choice and better prices.

Tesco promote a lot of local activities in counties they are located anyway.

Sully

Minto wrote:

I didn't think of that neon, I suppose if Sean Quish left Tramore, would Tesco, Dunnes or Lidl/Aldi pick up where he left off?

Hell no. Whats to pickup? The only difference is we wont have Super Valu products and over-priced products.

The alternatives will bring the same products (incl. their own brands) at lower prices in much bigger stores.

(Remember, years ago we had a Dunnes stores - popular enough I believe. Makes me wonder is it the same type of Dunnes coming back?)

Mick86

Originally from near Ballymacarbry but haven't lived there in donkeys years.

Moved over the border to Clonmel for a long time now live in Rosegreen.:D

DéiseGirl

When was there a Dunnes in Tramore?

New Dunnes stores are pretty good, their supermarkets do a fantastic range of food, but maybe with Tesco and Aldi/Lidl it would be too much. I'd say SV will definitely be sold off, it would be very hard for them to try and compete with Tesco (i.e. they'd have to reduce prices!!). I don't get home much so I am a bit out of the loop, and I probably won't ever live in Tramore again as I'm after settling elsewhere. Still and all, I'd love to see the town get some proper shops and become a place where people didn't HAVE to travel into Waterford for everything apart from groceries, hardware and medicine. I know the city is not far at all and the bus service is not bad compared to other towns in Ireland, but as Sully said it is a pain having to go into town, get parking etc.

Mossy Monk

This isn't a shops in Tramore thread.

Sully

Mossy Monk wrote:

This isn't a shops in Tramore thread.

Maybe it should be. The convo is on both.

Chillax a bit mate, its hardly bringing this convo off-topic.

Sully

D&#233 wrote: »

When was there a Dunnes in Tramore?

The old Xtra Vision / Londis was a dunnes if I recall correctly.

Sully

run_Forrest_run wrote:

Hey yeah I used to be in a band and we used to practice in a shed off some old estate house or something out around the Newtown way...across from the driving range. Our guitarist lived around there. It was lovely in the winter, quite remote but the sea air was great and the wind would blow any remaining cobwebs right off!

Across from the driving range.. there was ever only the one house, but a new one went up. Owned by Walsh. One is that old guest house the nuns used to be in, and the one beside it is a house with their daughter/son? If I recall correctly

Newtown cove, a beautiful spot...I never did do the dive though

Ya its a great spot, espically if the weather is good. Attracts lots of people all year around tho.

bored and tired

Mossy Monk wrote:

Dungarvan.

Hi everyone.

hey Mossy Monk, Dungarvan here as well.

Bad points
As everyone is talking about shops. why the hell did they put mcdonalds and lidl just off roundabout, its impossible to get out of them when traffic anyway heavy.

Good points, half hour free parking, shopping centre, clonea beach over the road and ballinroad kids club is A1,

Sully

Great place that Clonea Beach is (or at least was!) Aint been out there in a long time now tho, whats it like these days?

CantGetNoSleep

Sully wrote:

The old Xtra Vision / Londis was a dunnes if I recall correctly.

no that was darrers, never a dunnes in tramore

Sully

CantGetNoSleep wrote:

no that was darrers, never a dunnes in tramore

Ahhh ya, sorry. I vaguely remember that name, was it a local store or some franchise?

DéiseGirl

Sully wrote:

Maybe it should be. The convo is on both.

Chillax a bit mate, its hardly bringing this convo off-topic.

Chillax is right. :eek:

Hi everyone, my name is DéiseGirl and I'm from Tramore, in the COUNTY of Waterford. :rolleyes:

tonc76

Sully wrote:

Ahhh ya, sorry. I vaguely remember that name, was it a local store or some franchise?

There used be a darrer's stores as well in what is now red square. It used be where McD's is now.

Sully

tonc76 wrote:

There used be a darrer's stores as well in what is now red square. It used be where McD's is now.

Thanks to Google for pointing me to this small article.

DéiseGirl

Sully wrote:

Thanks to Google for pointing me to this small article.

LOL, with a link to the thread on UTD started by moi

ex_infantry man

Sully wrote:

The old Xtra Vision / Londis was a dunnes if I recall correctly.

it was,nt dunnes sully twas darrer,s big difference there haha by the way i,m a tramore head from downtown beirut, hey sully can ya find on wikipedia wat the darrer family are up ta these days haha

Sully

ex_infantry man wrote:

it was,nt dunnes sully twas darrer,s big difference there haha by the way i,m a tramore head from downtown beirut, hey sully can ya find on wikipedia wat the darrer family are up ta these days haha

... aye that was cleared up earlier in the thread if you read it..

wikipedia.com

ex_infantry man

Sully wrote:

... aye that was cleared up earlier in the thread if you read it..

wikipedia.com

i know ye did,nt read all of it till after i replied haha

Mossy Monk

ex_infantry man wrote:

i know ye did,nt read all of it till after i replied haha

Your posts are very hard to read.

ex_infantry man

Mossy Monk wrote:

Your posts are very hard to read.

how are they my friend, i speak english and write english just like every1 else!!!

Sully

ex_infantry man wrote:

how are they my friend, i speak english and write english just like every1 else!!!

Its more like txt spk. Basically, talk in full words. Simple spelling and grammar mistakes happen to all of us, but txt speak which is what I would say your doing - is very hard to make out.

ex_infantry man

Sully wrote:

Its more like txt spk. Basically, talk in full words. Simple spelling and grammar mistakes happen to all of us, but txt speak which is what I would say your doing - is very hard to make out.

alrite sorry lads i won,t text speak again

Slash_irl

I Used to live in Tramore.. the Cul de sac right up from Tramore Park! Was an amazing town to live in, used to go to the Gael Scoil when it was in the old building. Shame I live out in the hills o' donegal now .

I remember how L&N was where Super Valu used to be, and Londis has changed aswell!

cianclarke

bored and tired wrote:

hey Mossy Monk, Dungarvan here as well.

Bad points
As everyone is talking about shops. why the hell did they put mcdonalds and lidl just off roundabout, its impossible to get out of them when traffic anyway heavy.

Good points, half hour free parking, shopping centre, clonea beach over the road and ballinroad kids club is A1,

Er... Heavy traffic? That road connecting the shopping centre and the main road is never busy!

Dungarvan here too.

ToxicPaddy

Tramore man here too, well just outside it but went to school there and grew up around there.. Stuck in Dublin now and longing for the day when I get back to a decent part of the country



ohhhh I'm gonna hang for that one!!

ToxicPaddy

Leonitos..

Old news mate, move on.. :rolleyes:

Tox

Mahon Falls

Lived for years in London, Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Wicklow, Wexford and Tipperary and moved to Waterford 10 years ago. No question, County Waterford is A 1 and streets ahead of the rest. Of course it could be better but thats up to the people living in the area and no one else. Too many people talking the place down. Up Mahon Falls for the Sean Kelly Tour of Waterford last Sunday and proud to be from Waterford. Great buzz.