Thurles Thread

Amtmann

Post all comments and general discussion on Thurles here

hinault

I'm an exiled Dub living in Clongour/Rosemount.

slyme

i use to live here :pac:

osullic

I spend most of my time here,Especially recently.

Its not the worst place in the world.

slyme

osullic wrote: »

I spend most of my time here,Especially recently.

Its not the worst place in the world.

who are you hiding from?

osullic

Ha nobody,just not getting to go abroad as much anymore..Lack of work and all that.

rmacm

Originally from Thurles, working for a company in Dublin but spend most of my time outside Ireland.

Asphyxia

I'm 15 mins in away from Thurles.. I'm on the border of Tipp and Kilkenny I go there to shop in Tesco because Kilkenny doesn't have one

hinault

Does anyone know what happened to the railings on the road side at the Supermacs/TSB corner on Liberty Square.
Looks like a car ran in to it!

domkk

I also live about 15mins away from thurles, on the kk/tipp border. Also shop in Tesco cos kk doesn't have one

popebenny16

Asphyxia wrote: »

I'm 15 mins in away from Thurles.. I'm on the border of Tipp and Kilkenny I go there to shop in Tesco because Kilkenny doesn't have one

domkk wrote: »

I also live about 15mins away from thurles, on the kk/tipp border. Also shop in Tesco cos kk doesn't have one

I also live 15 mins from Thurles, near the Tipp/Laois border.

This is like a self help thread... "i an joe and I too live 15 mins from Thurles"

anyway, just thought I would pop in to say that I used to buy a fill of petrol from the garage on the Templemore road, every friday night coming back from the big shop in dunnes. Then last week I bought the gas BBQ in Aldi, and I needed a gas bottle thing. I went to buy it at that garage, bought it no problem, but I didnt know that you had to have an empty one in exchange.
Again, no problem, expect for the attitude of the man who I assume is the owner (and who I have never had to deal with before) who treated me as if I was stealing the dammed thing. He shouted at me accross the forecourt, took the bottle off me and shouted at the poor woman behind the counter to give me my money back. The only thing he kept repeating was how he wasnt goign to pay money to calor for the bottle, I explained that i had never bought gas before and maybe he should have somehting like a sign. Woman behind the counter didnt know either, but he kept roaring (and I am not exagerating that) about how he would have to pay calor for the bottle and no empty bottle no gas. He then pulled the bottle out of my hand and chained it up.

Anyway, on the way back I called into cambies in templemore who have a notice up about the empty bottles but also say that you can but down a deposit on your first purchase that you get back when you return the bottle. So I did that, no problem, nice and polite. So thats a good example of how you lose a customer for good as i wont be filling up there anymore, nor buying coal and turf which I also used to do.

mrsbyrne

that doesnt surprise me a bit about him. everyone knows hes mad as a box of frogs. he was out sweeping the forecourt in the pitch dark at 1am the other night. sweeping furiously and not a light about the place.

hinault

We decided to stay in Thurles this bank holiday weekend so myself and the wife went out for pint last night.
We don't usually go out for a drink as we're not great drinkers but last night we made an exception.

County bar was dead.
The Arch was dead also.
Noel Ryans was lifeless also.
Kennedy's was busy.

Is Thurles normally this quiet at the weekends? Where do youngsters go?

rmacm

hinault wrote: »

We decided to stay in Thurles this bank holiday weekend so myself and the wife went out for pint last night.
We don't usually go out for a drink as we're not great drinkers but last night we made an exception.

County bar was dead.
The Arch was dead also.
Noel Ryans was lifeless also.
Kennedy's was busy.

Is Thurles normally this quiet at the weekends? Where do youngsters go?

Can't comment on what it's like all the time but I was back for a night on the 23rd and Noel Ryans was dead but Kennedy's was busy (there was live music). Was surprised at Noels being so quiet especially being the day after good Friday.

My sister goes out most weekends and she tends to go for a few drinks in friends houses and then heads out to Hayes or a pub.

anfieldrd

hinault wrote: »

We decided to stay in Thurles this bank holiday weekend so myself and the wife went out for pint last night.
We don't usually go out for a drink as we're not great drinkers but last night we made an exception.

County bar was dead.
The Arch was dead also.
Noel Ryans was lifeless also.
Kennedy's was busy.

Is Thurles normally this quiet at the weekends? Where do youngsters go?

Well sice kennedy's opened under the new owners, they seem to have taken the trade from noel ryans, arch wouldn't usually be to busy, county is usually a good spot, big crowd but pub is very small. Coppingers and lars bar prob busy since lar got involved. kennedy's def attracts the crowds now.

Sigma Force

Hi, can anyone recommend a supplier of well seasoned Firewood in bulk in Thurles area, log size like the size you'd get in a garage or shop because the stove isn't massive.

watsgone

lived in Thurles, well just outside most my life.
Not the worst place in the world

lillymai

HI there just wondering if anyone has applied for the garda vetting jobs in Thurles and heard anything back? there was 10 positions i wonder how many applied??

jprboy

Well done to Thurles on being named European Town of Sport 2012

http://www.rte.ie/sport/other/2011/1116/thurles.html

flanders1979

How rough is Thurles these days?

hinault

flanders1979 wrote: »

How rough is Thurles these days?

I suppose it is as rough as any other city/town.

Having said that there was a very serious assault last saturday night outside Hayes Hotel.

flanders1979

I used to live in near enough to Thurles. It was always the same undesirables causing trouble. Very sad about that poor young fella the other night.
I suppose it happened in the Square after closing time.

hinault

flanders1979 wrote: »

I used to live in near enough to Thurles. It was always the same undesirables causing trouble. Very sad about that poor young fella the other night.
I suppose it happened in the Square after closing time.

I was driving through the square on my way back from Dublin at 01.35hrs and ambulances and squad cars were outside Hayes Hotel.

Gardai have the person that they deem responsible for the fatality too.

Troxck

popebenny16 wrote: »

I also live 15 mins from Thurles, near the Tipp/Laois border.

This is like a self help thread... "i an joe and I too live 15 mins from Thurles"

anyway, just thought I would pop in to say that I used to buy a fill of petrol from the garage on the Templemore road, every friday night coming back from the big shop in dunnes. Then last week I bought the gas BBQ in Aldi, and I needed a gas bottle thing. I went to buy it at that garage, bought it no problem, but I didnt know that you had to have an empty one in exchange.
Again, no problem, expect for the attitude of the man who I assume is the owner (and who I have never had to deal with before) who treated me as if I was stealing the dammed thing. He shouted at me accross the forecourt, took the bottle off me and shouted at the poor woman behind the counter to give me my money back. The only thing he kept repeating was how he wasnt goign to pay money to calor for the bottle, I explained that i had never bought gas before and maybe he should have somehting like a sign. Woman behind the counter didnt know either, but he kept roaring (and I am not exagerating that) about how he would have to pay calor for the bottle and no empty bottle no gas. He then pulled the bottle out of my hand and chained it up.

Anyway, on the way back I called into cambies in templemore who have a notice up about the empty bottles but also say that you can but down a deposit on your first purchase that you get back when you return the bottle. So I did that, no problem, nice and polite. So thats a good example of how you lose a customer for good as i wont be filling up there anymore, nor buying coal and turf which I also used to do.

Nothing new about him. I'd go in before school to get something and he'd just be staring at you as if you were going to rob something. If you go in without buying anything he'd be swearing under his breath at you, he kicked my friends and I out for no reason... We were just waiting in line.

HotShot Events

Anyone have contact info for Wallop the cat?

flanders1979

HotShot Events wrote: »

Anyone have contact info for Wallop the cat?

Ask in Milleas i'd say. Haven't seen them in a few years myself.

mrsbyrne

HotShot Events wrote: »

Anyone have contact info for Wallop the cat?

I see they are playing in barrats pub in Kickham St in thurles on this Saturday night:)

flanders1979

mrsbyrne wrote: »

I see they are playing in barrats pub in Kickham St in thurles on this Saturday night:)

Anything beats going to Hayes.

mrsbyrne

flanders1979 wrote: »

Anything beats going to Hayes.

How very dare you!!!:eek: hayes disco, the caesars palace of the south! mind yourself in Barrats!

frankz

Troxck wrote: »

Nothing new about him. I'd go in before school to get something and he'd just be staring at you as if you were going to rob something. If you go in without buying anything he'd be swearing under his breath at you, he kicked my friends and I out for no reason... We were just waiting in line.

To be fair lads I dont think this is very fair; Thurles is a small town and he is well know and generally accepted that he is not 100% - possibly, I think, as a result of an accident. His family have prob suffered enough from that accident/incident without a faceless internet forum slaging him as well.
Ya its not the best in a shop/business situation but thats what they have, those of us that are lucky enough to be close to 100% in the head can surely manage to have respect and a bit of understanding for those less fortunate.
Maybe less rushing to judgement

JaMarcus Hustle

Does anyone know if anything is going to replace HQ? Last I heard it had closed but I haven't been in Thurles in ages.

GoldFour4

JaMarcus Hustle wrote: »

Does anyone know if anything is going to replace HQ? Last I heard it had closed but I haven't been in Thurles in ages.

Hayes pretty much rules the town on a saturday night these days I think.

frankz

The link road from the Nenagh Road to the Templemore/Roscrea Road opened today.
Seems a good job; hadn't realised it was such a short distance between the two roads.

should take some of the pressure off around the area of the three schools at peak times.

Probably a bit of chaos in the housing estate on the templemore road side on big match days in semple stadium

mrsbyrne

frankz wrote: »

The link road from the Nenagh Road to the Templemore/Roscrea Road opened today.
Seems a good job; hadn't realised it was such a short distance between the two roads.

should take some of the pressure off around the area of the three schools at peak times.

Probably a bit of chaos in the housing estate on the templemore road side on big match days in semple stadium

Your right about the match days. Match goers have been parking in the estate for years, i dont think they will be able to do it now:eek:

frankz

mrsbyrne wrote: »

Your right about the match days. Match goers have been parking in the estate for years, i dont think they will be able to do it now:eek:

Fraid match goers are creatures of habit though -
(i) see a bit of grass and park on it!!!
(ii) if they have parked in that estate before its now tradition to park there!!

Is there any fields that are opened up out that side of town like there is out the Holycross Road and across from race course? Or would those fields have been too far out up to now?
Could be a money spinner for a farmer out that side -
didnt walk the new Road but it would appear parking in a field near the estate would now get you very close to the pitch.

Cerbera

I wonder what the logic was for not putting a roundabout at the Templemore road end of the link road?

There was space to do it in the bit of "waste land" at the housing estate side of the road if they'd offset it a bit.

Surely that'd have made the junction safer and easier to get out of.

What do you reckon?

frankz

Cerbera wrote: »

I wonder what the logic was for not putting a roundabout at the Templemore road end of the link road?

There was space to do it in the bit of "waste land" at the housing estate side of the road if they'd offset it a bit.

Surely that'd have made the junction safer and easier to get out of.

What do you reckon?

Hard to say - I always thought that was why that field was left there - but apparently no; its owned by a different landowner to what owned the field where the housing estate now is and is still in his private ownership and not owned by the council or people who developed the housing estate (dont think there was a cpo on it) - he prob wont appreciate it being called "waste land" !!! I think it backs onto his farmyard so hence he might have been reluctant to sell it to the developers when the estate was being built.
(Thats the story at the weekend anyway - Some suggestions that maybe the same guy sold the rest of the land for the estate but this field was too close to his own holding so he held onto that field; either way same outcome)

I was actually going to raise the point about no roundabout or traffic lights in my original post but said I would just put the info out there and be positive on the first day the road opened.

If not a roundabout I would have thought either traffic lights or
-
offset it (as you suggest) but make the new road the main road with a spur into Thurles (maybe both are of equal importance so perhaps that couldn't have worked)


I genuinely hope the junction works well and people are patient. Will be slightly akward for trucks coming off the new link road and turning left for Roscrea (and part of the plan was to divert Roscrea bound traffic without have to go town centre/Cuchulain road.)

Most of the traffic gives trucks a chance when they are trying to come off Cuchulain Road and turn left but the trafic has slowed down at that stage anyway so mightn't work as well out further where the traffic is still moving well.

Anyways great to see it open.

I wonder will it cause a rethinking on one way system around Parnell street/Cuchulain road.

I suppose no parking on Parnell street is out of the question!!!! Would seem less extreme than a one way?

In terms of affecting business by taking away parking - most of the businesses are very close to the car park. Fair enough might make it more akward for customers of the bookies and takeaway but there is parking just past the junction for them

tippguy

Anyone heard anything on the new shopping centre on the erin foods site??? Tesco still have planning lodged for the driving range so can't be them really

Cerbera

Does the town actually need another shopping centre?

After the initial boost to the economy while the building work was being done came to an end would the centre be able to co-exist profitably alongside the existing shopping centre ?

With the way the economy is at present I doubt it.

Having said that it'll possibly still happen to some extent.

chris2008x

It's currently on appeal with An Bord Pleanála. Thurles Town Council granted permission for it in September but ruled out the drive-thru restaurant part of the application. It's not a shopping centre btw just a supermarket and Tesco more than likely are going to anchor this. They withdrew the planning application for the Clongour site back in March and submitted a new application in September/October for warehouses on that site.

varberg

Erin foods was such a big employer and added so much to the economy.Back in the 70s and 80s thurles was a thriving town. It had erin foods, sugar factory, big racing meetings etc.. then gmx and other manufacturing jobs and was a growing town. it was a big market town. Now, among other things, it needs a new multinational to set up there, it needs a ring road and better links to the motorway, strong politicians actively promoting the area which it doesnt have, and a better road to limerick and shannon airport for a big company to pick thurles as a location though there is a few others ahead on most shortlists. A big factory would really help the local economy.

Talking to a thurles local lately who used to work in the sugar factory and he said it meant workers bought a good car locally, shopped locally, employed a few hundred seasonal workers who paid their mortgages, bought kids presents, and basically spent millions locally was vital to the mid tipp economy. He said that he met a man from clare who used drive a truck with sugar beet, and when tuam sugar factory was full he used drive to thurles with a load of a clare farmers beet, so all local areas benefited adding to the clare local economy. The sugar factory was so central to shops in the area,services etc.

Currently the sugar in ireland is imported from germany! Even so, Its still called suicra which is the irish for sugar!! Anyone know is there any chance of a new sugar factory opening in thurles?

connaugg

Does anyone know if there are any plans to add two more ramps to J5 on the M8? It looks as if the project here was only half completed! The current situation can be viewed by putting the following coordinates into Google Maps: 52.665082, -7.706804 If you are travelling northbound on the M8 and you want to go to Thurles you must take exit 6 (Horse & Jockey). If you miss it you would need to go the whole way to exit 4 (Urlingford) and come back!! You can then take exit 5 (Two Mile Borris) or exit 6 when travelling southbound.

the_pen_turner

connaugg wrote: »

Does anyone know if there are any plans to add two more ramps to J5 on the M8? It looks as if the project here was only half completed! The current situation can be viewed by putting the following coordinates into Google Maps: 52.665082, -7.706804 If you are travelling northbound on the M8 and you want to go to Thurles you must take exit 6 (Horse & Jockey). If you miss it you would need to go the whole way to exit 4 (Urlingford) and come back!! You can then take exit 5 (Two Mile Borris) or exit 6 when travelling southbound.

no plans to that iv head of
I don't know why they did that. it make no sence.
why spend 90% of the cost doing half of it. it wouldn't cost that much to finish it off