Happy Birthday Kilkenny

road_high

Kilkenny is marking 400 years as a city

http://www.kilkenny400.ie/site/index.php

thealltimelow

thay had People going around in u2 heads there yesterday

brettmirl

I get the feeling that this thread is going to attract some trolls....

thealltimelow

There was shows going on all day in both shopping canters and music around the city

Cabaal

mick_irl wrote: »

I get the feeling that this thread is going to attract some trolls....

If it does they can be dealt with by a mod in-line with the charter

Lets enjoy the year long celebrations!

Our man in Havana

The one bridge city dwellers must be pleased.

Happy Birthday Kilkenny.

Purry Cat

Wouldn't it have been nice if the Parade had been finished in time for the start of the celebrations instead of being a building site?

Very unsightly. Very embarrassing. But nothing less than we might expect from the Borough Council.

Firetrap

That's true. The Parade looks awful at the moment.

road_high

Firetrap wrote: »

That's true. The Parade looks awful at the moment.

But the area across from Bateman Quay looks nice now

road_high

Bond-007 wrote: »

The one bridge city dwellers must be pleased.

Happy Birthday Kilkenny.

Yep, indeed, they seem more hyped up over it than anybody ;
http://www.upthedeise.com/waterfordmessageboard/viewtopic.php?t=8905&start=30

Apparently Clonmel is bigger is than us now and seems to imply we shouldn't have our A&E something I find pretty disgusting. I'm glad attidues like that are in the slim minority.

Deliverance XXV

Firetrap wrote: »

That's true. The Parade looks awful at the moment.

The parade looks terrible now but I think it has great potential. I'm looking forward to seeing how it finishes out.

mfitzy wrote: »

But the area across from Bateman Quay looks nice now

True. Opposite Bateman quay will look great when it's completely finished. As long as it gets rid of it's reputation for underage drinking down further.

Cabaal

Had planned on going into the city yesterday, weather was ****e though

Purry Cat

mfitzy wrote: »

But the area across from Bateman Quay looks nice now

I assume you're NOT referring to the library, which has been a building site with nothing happening on it for the past two months. Until last weekend, when there were builders there again. The people who run this town, I just don't know...

catblack

Can anyone tell me about what is happening on the Parade? Is that abomination of a structure going to be a toilet????
I thought the plan was to have discrete doors in the reinstated wall and the toilets hidden underneath the Rose Garden. It is a woeful looking thing and I hoped that at least it would be faced with stone and be a tourist office, but someone told me it is a jacks!
Medieval city me arse! They have covered the lovely cobbles at the Castle entrance with concrete and the Canal Walk is like an ice rink when wet.
Maybe the slabs there are the same material they used in the Watermess above in Scanlon Park. Were they imported from China too? With all the Kilkenny Limestone we have at our disposal, we had to go to the other side of the world to find such an unsuitable, pale, boring and downright dangerous surface.
Who is responsible for this mess?
When is the Parade going to be finished? There is no sign of it yet, at least on the Mayor's Walk side. How long does it take to lay such a straightforward surface for god's sake?

kilkennymusic

The Parade won't be finished until the end of September I reckon. They're making the Castle Road one way altogether in the next few weeks, running up to September 30th so the works will carry on all through the summer.

Alfie Boon

mfitzy wrote: »

Yep, indeed, they seem more hyped up over it than anybody ;
http://www.upthedeise.com/waterfordmessageboard/viewtopic.php?t=8905&start=30

Apparently Clonmel is bigger is than us now and seems to imply we shouldn't have our A&E something I find pretty disgusting. I'm glad attidues like that are in the slim minority.

Ignorant People:mad:
We should all join and lay into them!!

road_high

Alfie Boon wrote: »

Ignorant People:mad:
We should all join and lay into them!!

Let them off I say, they're a sad minority. Why so bitter I don't understand. If Kilkenny really bothers them so much well it says it all really .
Oh yea and apparently Kilkenny are the small backward minded ones.....a small minority I add...

KatCookie

thealltimelow wrote: »

thay had People going around in u2 heads there yesterday

I actually thought you were messing.. but apparantly not!

catblack

The Mayor's Walk side of the Parade seems to be a storage and parking area for the builders. There are loads of them running around in hard hats and hi-vis jackets on the other side, but the progress is so slow it is incredible. They knock off for lunch, in the early evening and no one works at weekends. If this was Spain or France they would work around the clock to finish a job on such an important historical site as quickly as humanly possible.
The surface is boring and pale too and does not suit our medieval city. I saw a young wan, wearing Uggs, fall on her arse on the Canal Walk the other day when it was wet. I felt sorry for her, but if she is falling down while wearing sensible boots, what would happen to older, less mobile or less sensibly shod people?
You can see the water lodging on the tiles already as the drainage is crap.
Can you imagine what it will be like when there is ice and snow?
I think we will be seeing another Watershed scenario with those tiles being taken up and replaced by something safer.