Where is everyone???

panda100

My favourtie time to go into Limerick is Saturday morning for the Market. It's one of the best markets I've been to in any Irish city. The Cork and Galway markets go on till 6pm on Saturdays creating a real busstling feel to the citys. Why does Limericks market close before 1pm?Whose even up at that time on a Saturday?!

kilburn

panda100 wrote: »

My favourtie time to go into Limerick is Saturday morning for the Market. It's one of the best markets I've been to in any Irish city. The Cork and Galway markets go on till 6pm on Saturdays creating a real busstling feel to the citys. Why does Limericks market close before 1pm?Whose even up at that time on a Saturday?!

I think its open till 4 on Saturdays now and 7 on fridays

Amazotheamazing

panda100 wrote: »

My favourtie time to go into Limerick is Saturday morning for the Market. It's one of the best markets I've been to in any Irish city. The Cork and Galway markets go on till 6pm on Saturdays creating a real busstling feel to the citys. Why does Limericks market close before 1pm?Whose even up at that time on a Saturday?!

Think the market is open later now it's been done up?

panda100

Oh excellent must check that out.

LoganRice

Limerick's city boundaries have been laid out in a terrible way. It's probably busier in the Crescent shopping centre than in the actual city of Limerick. Think about it, there is no cinema in Limerick city, no shopping centre that is actually worth going into for over 2 hours in Limerick city, and all the reasonably large retail shops are located in suburbs almost as big as Limerick city itself.
If there was a boundary change, that would put Limerick city's population over the 150k Mark, with about 200,000 people in the urban area with a catchmenr if about half a million people.
I live in Limerick city, I like it, but tbh I sent most of my time in Dooradoyle in the crescent shopping centre.

zuroph

LoganRice wrote: »

Limerick's city boundaries have been laid out in a terrible way. It's probably busier in the Crescent shopping centre than in the actual city of Limerick. Think about it, there is no cinema in Limerick city, no shopping centre that is actually worth going into for over 2 hours in Limerick city, and all the reasonably large retail shops are located in suburbs almost as big as Limerick city itself.
If there was a boundary change, that would put Limerick city's population over the 150k Mark, with about 200,000 people in the urban area with a catchmenr if about half a million people.
I live in Limerick city, I like it, but tbh I sent most of my time in Dooradoyle in the crescent shopping centre.

by gum he's right!!! How did none of us ever think of this?!

One council to run the lot, only way to solve it.

dave 27

i totally agree, these suburbs of Limerick outside the boundary are so big they now have to be seen as suburban TOWNS, as opposed to suburbs, dooradoyle/raheen and castletroy have a population bigger than the city itself..they are totally dependant on themselves having at least 2 big shopping centress, restaurants, pubs, cinemas, even a university..

these TOWNS are taking from the city and the focus needs to be reversed (while facilitating for these people with police stations and fire stations), so that these huge numbers will come back into the city again like it was 20 yers ago

LoganRice

Castletroy has more people than Ennis lol

dave 27

ya castletroy has around 32,000 and the dooradoyle/raheen area has anywhere between 22-30,000 depending on how far out you go so you could say two of them are bigger!