Parnell St

Melion · 18-02-2009 1:48pm #1

Is this the most ridiculous street in the country? Just after driving through it only to be confronted with 3 delivery trucks and 4-5 cars parked smack bang in the middle of the lane. Can we not do something about it?

puntosporting · 18-02-2009 1:53pm

Melion wrote: »

Is this the most ridiculous street in the country? Just after driving through it only to be confronted with 3 delivery trucks and 4-5 cars parked smack bang in the middle of the lane. Can we not do something about it?

Call the gaurds or set fire to yourself and run down the street shouting!

Itsdacraic · 18-02-2009 2:29pm

What would Charles Stewart Parnell think if he came back to Ireland today and saw the two streets named after him (in Limerick and Dublin) are the two dodgiest streets in both cities! Doubt he would be impressed.

Berty · 18-02-2009 4:55pm

Itsdacraic wrote: »

What would Charles Stewart Parnell think if he came back to Ireland today and saw the two streets named after him (in Limerick and Dublin) are the two dodgiest streets in both cities! Doubt he would be impressed.

I would be more upset If it was Douglas Hyde driving along Hyde Road.

What can you do about Parnell St parking OP? Not much really. It has been like that a long long time and will be like that for a long long time. Most people are just abandonding their cars for a few minutes at a time. I personally have no problem double parking outside the chipper when getting some grub. By the time the Gardai turn up some have left and more have arrived and by the time the Gardai leave more have arrived.

Banging head against the wall syndrome. :cool:

Mc Love · 18-02-2009 5:13pm

Well they are redeveloping this area when the station gets renovated/upgraded...so maybe then Parnell will be proud as well as most of limerick!

bazz26 · 18-02-2009 7:53pm

You think Parnell Street is bad, try the main street in Charleville.

acalmenvoy · 19-02-2009 3:02am

Annie Fitz is gone now (R.I.P.)...So things are lookin' up for Parnell St...:rolleyes:

J. · 19-02-2009 3:06am

acalmenvoy wrote: »

Annie Fitz is gone now (R.I.P.)...So things are lookin' up for Parnell St...:rolleyes:

is annie fitz dead?

Jumpy · 19-02-2009 10:31am

Shes not dead. How did this rumour start?

Kess73 · 19-02-2009 11:14am

acalmenvoy wrote: »

Annie Fitz is gone now (R.I.P.)...So things are lookin' up for Parnell St...:rolleyes:

She was moving fairly well for a dead woman at the corner of the Railway Hotel this morning

puntosporting · 19-02-2009 12:07pm

Annie has died abou 20 times the last 10 years!

Melion · 19-02-2009 1:11pm

She's not dead, i was told she was and posted it up here. It was deleted(rightfully) but i found out the other day she wasnt dead, just had an altercation with an officer.

Berty · 19-02-2009 3:03pm

I also heard she had died by my MIL yesterday evening who seems to know everybody and everything.

jmccoy · 21-02-2009 11:58am

I was told that she is now living in a big grey building surrounded by ramparts and high fences up on Mulgrave Street.

ham_n_mustard · 21-02-2009 12:30pm

which side of the jail boreen, could be either in fairness

zuroph · 21-02-2009 7:17pm

I hear she's just a figment of each of our depraved imaginations.

ilovecars · 21-02-2009 8:46pm

she's not dead, she's just havin a break..

Enright · 21-02-2009 8:53pm

ah annie -brings back memories, i started reading this thread and was disapointed to hear of her demise, but glad to hear shes still with us! its people like annie that make our city unique, she is harmless and a character

we should do a whos who of limerick characters like dodo (rip) and francis

the cowboy (dont know his name)

grenache · 21-02-2009 9:22pm

Enright wrote: »

ah annie -brings back memories, i started reading this thread and was disapointed to hear of her demise, but glad to hear shes still with us! its people like annie that make our city unique, she is harmless and a character

She's a pain in the hole and an embarassment to the city. Was walking behind her in Mulgrave St one day, minding my own business, when she turned around, eyeballed me and told me to ''f*ck off and stop following her''! :rolleyes: Not exactly the image we want for our ''local characters''. Thank god i didn't have to serve her in the offie i worked in, she's barred from every pub/off licence in Limerick and rightly so.

jmccoy · 21-02-2009 11:51pm

ham_n_mustard wrote: »

which side of the jail boreen, could be either in fairness

Next door to Gerry O'Dea's pub.

Aidric · 22-02-2009 11:38am

Enright wrote: »

francis

Is that Francie at Fixed Price? That man used get himself in some states of stress on weekend nights down on Shannon St. Of course he was dealing with drunken mobs.

Berty · 22-02-2009 11:42am

Aidric wrote: »

Is that Francie at Fixed Price? That man used get himself in some states of stress on weekend nights down on Shannon St. Of course he was dealing with drunken mobs.

Used to arrive down and tell him we were waiting twenty minutes and "whats the story". He would put us in the next taxi. Worked every time. Foolish guy

acalmenvoy · 22-02-2009 1:37pm

Aidric wrote: »

Is that Francie at Fixed Price? That man used get himself in some states of stress on weekend nights down on Shannon St. Of course he was dealing with drunken mobs.

Think thats 'Fat Francis' the movie expert, hes dead now 4 or 5 years, used to hang round O'Connell st.

Sgt Hartman · 22-02-2009 2:03pm

Berty wrote: »

Used to arrive down and tell him we were waiting twenty minutes and "whats the story". He would put us in the next taxi. Worked every time. Foolish guy

Lousy, doing that to the poor guy. Bet he hated his job, having to deal with people regularly giving him abuse and making a tool out of him.

Speaking of Annie, I was taking the Cals field shortcut from Hyde road to Janesboro a few years ago and as I entered at the Hyde Road side there was Annie to the left of me squatting down, taking a huge piss. Absolutely revolting!

zuroph · 22-02-2009 2:16pm

Enright wrote: »

its people like annie that make our city unique, she is harmless and a character

terribly terribly incorrect.

Sgt Hartman · 22-02-2009 2:28pm

zuroph wrote: »

terribly terribly incorrect.

Yes, didn't she chop up another wino nicknamed "Fluke" with a knife there a good few years ago?

zuroph · 22-02-2009 2:36pm

she's been very involved in a lot of violent incidents.

Melion · 22-02-2009 2:58pm

She attacked my GF's uncle who has down syndrome a few years back. He was afraid to leave the house for ages.

mysterious · 23-02-2009 6:11am

Some giant walks over Parnells street and does a big ****E.

Still would make Parnell street better than what it is.
I'm telling you, bulldoze the lot. Put 5/6story uniform street, trees on both side the pavements and roads up to standards of the new orbital, and better traffic arrangent out of the new bus station and the train station.

I would love if there was a bus tunnel under the Parnell road and join onto the Parnell street left hand side without inflicting traffic. But thats just idealisitic thinking.

Does anyone have an idea what I mean. a small tunnel allowing all buses to leave the new bus station without inflicting the Orbital/Parnell street level. and ramp to the left hand side as a slip?

Anyway on topic, Iraq the bejesus out of this street please. What are the Bus plans like? Any offices planned above the building? Please build enough lanes too. Don't want a clausticphobic Busaras where there are not enough bus stops for the amount of buses leaving the bus station pffft.

Parnell St

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