Nenagh Thread

DaveNoCheese

Whats up guys and gals... thought I'd get al ole thread going on our fair town of Nenagh.

Discussions are open, from local business's, events etc, to goings on in Maximus whatever your heart desires.


I'll get the ball rolling, are there any gigs or good bands due to play in the near future? There's a lot of hype behind the band Rafiki but haven't personally seen them. They good?

Dave

mikemac1 wrote: »

The list is there for everyone to edit but I've updated it now with that input

Pub | Location | Type | Quality of Beer
Philly Ryan's|Silver St.|Mixed Crowd (great atomsphere) | Never had an issue
Talbot|Kenyon St.|Young persons | Can be dodge
Louies | Kenyon St | Young, has pool table |
Rohan | Sarsfield St | look up old mans pub in the dictionary and it's this | The Guinness is famous |
Dapp Inn | Sarsfield St | Older crowd, one of the bigger pubs in town, |
Una Powels | Summerhill | Old mans Pub/Mixed |
Figgertys | Summerhill | Good mix of all types / young crowd at weekends, has pool tables, good to watch sports|
Half Door | Summerhill | Old mans Pub, above average bar food, best beef burger in town |
Silvermine| Silver St | Old mans Pub, bookies/racing crowd during the day, good soup and sandwich |
Hi-B| Pearse St | Oldish, thirties upwards, best barfood in town |
The Kenyon| Kenyon St | Week-oldish, weekend- young, if you want a quiet lunchtime pint to relax it's where I would go|
Dowlinz/Chaplains | Kenyon St | Youngish, good atmosphere, great lunchtime barfood | possibly closed, can anyone confirm?|
The Malt House | Dublin Rd | Oldish crowd, has pool table |
The Half Barrell| Pearse St | Youngish, tiny, kinda place you stop for shots on a pub crawl and then move on|
Reddans/Forty Four | Pearse St | Oldish/mixed |
Molly Bawns | Summerhill | Oldish crowd |
Railway Bar | Kenyon St | Closed for the last decade lol Nenagh Co-op turning down lease offers, a shame |
Maddens | Silver St | Mixed to older, good atmosphere |
Rockys | Banba Sq | Mixed/thirties upwards, | can't be faulted
Abbots Bar | Hotel, Dublin Rd | Oldish crowd, great staff, avoid if you want to watch sports| best in town, used to barman there :cool:
The Well | Mitchell and Sarsfield St | Oldish/mixed | not a fan of the service in there |
Andy Flynns | Sarsfield St | Old mans pub | cannot be faulted |

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

So just compiled a few bits together, will hopefully be use to somebody in the future!




Some useful links:

Nenagh Town Website - http://www.nenagh.ie/
Nenagh Town Council - http://www.nenaghtc.ie/index.html
Nenagh Guardian - http://www.nenaghguardian.ie/index.php

Info Page:

Nenagh Wikipedia page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenagh

Sport:

Ormond Rugby Club - http://www.nenaghormondrfc.com/
Eire Og Gaa - http://www.nenagheireog.com/
Nenagh AFC Soccer - http://www.nenaghafc.ie/
Nenagh Tennis Club - http://www.nenaghltc.ie/
Nenagh Triathon Club - http://www.nenaghtriathlon.com/about.html
North Tipp Athlectics - http://www.tipperaryathletics.com/
Nenagh Golf Club - http://www.nenaghgolfclub.com/

Accomodation:

3* Abbey Court Hotel- http://www.abbeycourt.ie/
Abbeyview B&B - http://www.abbeyview.ie/
Ardcroney B&B - http://www.ardcroneybandb.com/
Ashley Park House B&B - http://www.ashleypark.com/
Ormond Hotel - http://www.ormondhotel.ie/

Other:

Nenagh Garda Station:
Tel: +353 67 50450
Fax: +353 67 50453

Nenagh Fire Station:
Tel: +353 67 38400

Nenagh Hospital:
Tel: +353 67 31491
Fax: +353 67 33440




If a Mod could also copy the above to the OP, that'd be swell

jprboy

Good man, Dave.

There was a Nenagh sticky here some time ago but I don't think anyone ever posted to it.

Maximus? Easy Street was where it was at back in the day.... :pac:

Anyone got contact details for booking the indoor facility in Lisboney for 5-a-side?

DaveNoCheese

jprboy wrote: »

Maximus? Easy Street was where it was at back in the day.... :pac:

haha thats the one, or sleazy street to its patrons

jprboy wrote: »

Anyone got contact details for booking the indoor facility in Lisboney for 5-a-side?

one of the lads goes there with his work mates, i'll see about getting contact details for ya

jprboy

Dave,

Thanks for offering to get that number.
Got the contact details for the indoor pitch in the meantime.
Did a search for "Nenagh Arena" - throws up a Facebook page.

Amtmann

Stickied.

jprboy

Tremelo wrote: »

Stickied.

Thanks, Tremelo.

Was actually going to suggest this.

Now, let's see if we can catch up with the Clonmel thread post count

jprboy

Mulqueen's Supermarket & Off-Licence has ceased trading after 40 years in business.
First Super Valu, then O'Connor's and now this......

unnameduser

jprboy wrote: »

Mulqueen's Supermarket & Off-Licence has ceased trading after 40 years in business.
First Super Valu, then O'Connor's and now this......

Yes it's a sad state of affairs. People should try spend with local retailers. Although it is very hard to compete with Tesco prices... catch 22

ki

jprboy wrote: »

Mulqueen's Supermarket & Off-Licence has ceased trading after 40 years in business.
First Super Valu, then O'Connor's and now this......

I worked across the road from Mulqueen's for the past year.
my impression from day one was it was about to close any minute.
The shelves were half full, and we returned milk so many times for being gone off but in date.

jprboy

ki wrote: »

I worked across the road from Mulqueen's for the past year.
my impression from day one was it was about to close any minute.
The shelves were half full, and we returned milk so many times for being gone off but in date.

It was actually for sale for some months before it closed.

DaveNoCheese

I live only up the road from Mulqueens, was very handy to nip down to pick up milk or bread but you're right, the prices were bit high and they had little to no stock most of the time. Tis a pity, where will be next?

SARZY

Think the off license is closed as well.

Thats a surprise.

The family are in the drink business in the town.

tippguy

so now nenagh now only has a tesco, lidl & dunnes despite been a bigger town dan d likes of thurles and carrick. clonmel is littered with supermarkets with 2 dunnes, tesco, supervalu, m&s, crunch, iceland and a few londis's too..surely for a town of its size this isnt fair competition and the chamber of commerce should be supporting these family stores but i suppose its all too late now

SARZY

The chamber of commerce kept ALDI out of Streame and cost all the jobs in Super Valu as well.

It was well known that Super valu were willing to try to continue as they felt Aldi would have brought people to Streame and aldi have a limited range.

So the chamber cost Nenagh about 50 jobs in Aldi and 50 more in Super valu,

As well as denying CHOICE to the people of Nenagh.

The chamber doesnt serve nenagh it serves its own greedy members.

Made up of gob*****s mostly.

ki

Is Joe(y) O Conor on the committee?

Who else?

mikemac1

Smokin' Joe

Famous for caught by Revenue and been taken to court for tax dodging.
And also declaring Nenagh would become a ghost town if it were ever bypassed.

DaveNoCheese

mikemac1 wrote: »

Smokin' Joe
And also declaring Nenagh would become a ghost town if it were ever bypassed.

Close enough, but things have turned around. Lots of "high end" fashion shops and shtuff around the town, does be busy too on weekends.

Are the shops doing much business though? Any work around the town centre?

ki

Today is my last day working in Nenagh:(, the town can be busy some days, it depends on weather/mart/schools etc.

The shops on the main street are the ones doing business, I hear its a real struggle for anyone a little off the beaten track.

DaveNoCheese

ki wrote: »

I hear its a real struggle for anyone a little off the beaten track.

I can imagine yea, I'm living here my whole life and wouldn't know most of the shops around town. Tis a shame.

One thing I have been meaning to do in nenagh is a pub crawl, get in maybe 10, possibly 15 pubs in an evening/night. Recommendations? :pac:

jprboy

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

I can imagine yea, I'm living here my whole life and wouldn't know most of the shops around town. Tis a shame.

One thing I have been meaning to do in nenagh is a pub crawl, get in maybe 10, possibly 15 pubs in an evening/night. Recommendations? :pac:

Shame on you !

As for the pubs, if you get in 15 there'll be very few left.
Care to do up a list of all the pubs and their owners and post it up?
The watch the reviews flow in.....:p

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DaveNoCheese

jprboy wrote: »

Care to do up a list of all the pubs and their owners and post it up?

God i would'nt know half the owners of 'em.

Pubs though, we have the Kenyon, talbot, figgertys, the well, silvermines, maddens, phillies, sh!t, brain isn't working. Can't think of anymore :eek:

radagast

From openstreetmap (
http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/search.php?q=pubs+in+nenagh&viewbox=-225%2C74.27%2C225%2C-58.53
)
we have:

• The Quill
• Mac Mathúnas
• The Kenyon
• Rocky's
• Malthouse
• Dapp Inn
• Reddans
• Fogarty's
• The Half Barrel
• Long Charlies
• The Well
• Maddens

I keep meaning to add Figgerty's!

Any others?

DaveNoCheese

• The Quill
• Mac Mathúnas
• The Kenyon
• Rocky's
• Malthouse
• Dapp Inn
• Reddans
• Fogarty's
• The Half Barrel
• Long Charlies
• The Well
• Maddens

• Figgerty's
• Una Poles
• Silvermines
• Rohans
• Andy Fylnn's

There are loads more too!!

DaveNoCheese

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

• The Quill
• Mac Mathúnas
• The Kenyon
• Rocky's
• Malthouse
• Dapp Inn
• Reddans
• Fogarty's
• The Half Barrel
• Long Charlies
• The Well
• Maddens

• Figgerty's
• Una Poles
• Silvermines
• Rohans
• Andy Fylnn's

There are loads more too!!

Anybody know the owners??

mikemac1

I counted one day and got twenty eight pubs in Nenagh. That was a few years ago now

For a pub crawl just do it street by street.
For example start at the Dapp Inn, go down Sarsfield Street [elderly folk call it Pound St] past Andy Flynn's, onto the Well for Mitchell Street and then down Kenyon St

End of Summerhill is another good starting point, Pearse St and then up Silver Street. You'd be buckled :P

I used to go to Figgerty's a lot, well they had pool tables.
And there was a tiny place up the street, I forget the name.
Has anyone ever been in there? From the outside there looks to be barely any room at all.

mrsR2011

mikemac1 wrote: »

I counted one day and got twenty eight pubs in Nenagh. That was a few years ago now

For a pub crawl just do it street by street.
For example start at the Dapp Inn, go down Sarsfield Street [elderly folk call it Pound St] past Andy Flynn's, onto the Well for Mitchell Street and then down Kenyon St

End of Summerhill is another good starting point, Pearse St and then up Silver Street. You'd be buckled :P

I used to go to Figgerty's a lot, well they had pool tables.
And there was a tiny place up the street, I forget the name.
Has anyone ever been in there? From the outside there looks to be barely any room at all.

first time poster sorry if this is a bit arse-ways
molly bans!(is the little one)
phillys
railway bar (not sure if its still open)
hi-b
rockys

jprboy

mikemac1 wrote: »

I used to go to Figgerty's a lot, well they had pool tables.
And there was a tiny place up the street, I forget the name.
Has anyone ever been in there? From the outside there looks to be barely any room at all.

That tiny place is Una Powell's. She sold it a few years ago but the new owners kept the name AFAIK.

One question, Mike: have you been re-incarnated on Boards?

jprboy

mrsR2011 wrote: »

first time poster sorry if this is a bit arse-ways
molly bans!(is the little one)
phillys
railway bar (not sure if its still open)
hi-b
rockys

The Railway Bar hasn't been open for a long, long time !!

flipall

Anyone got any opinions of what Nenagh Christmas Spirit there is around town this year! How are the businesses doing? What has been provided to help them?

A website has been set up, christmasinnenagh.ie, have seen a couple of scattered signs for the site around town,
The website itself tells you of whats going on in nenagh for Christmas
BUT
There is fe*k all going on!! There is an attempt to have a guiness book record for the most elves in the one place, i have no problem with this, its a good idea

BUT
They are holding it on a sunday (18th), personally think Saturday would be a better day and its also in Church Street ie out of the way. Just dont see how this would be in any way beneficial to the businesses in Nenagh?!

Also on the website is Santas grotto and details of mass times in nenagh.... Thats pretty much the website.

Free parking on a Saturday, why not for the week of Christmas ie 19-25th or if they really wanted to encourage shopping in Nenagh the 12-25 which would be two weeks?!
They also organised for Christmas music to be played on the streets for shoppers. Is this the best that a town can come up with for Christmas?! I just think its not good enough because Nenagh is so close to Limerick people will just shop there instead with free parking in the cresent and the likes..

Opinions?

DaveNoCheese

In fairness, first time i've heard of the site or any of the events but have to say its a great idea. Obviously they could have a lot more going on but tis a start.

I'd say a few business or pubs will have their own events going on closer to D-Day Xmas day, so we can expect a bit more.

All in all, alot of people have and will just shop in limerick, free parking, more stores, later opening hours.... it's a given really :rolleyes:

OwaynOTT

whats up with indicators on the roundabouts as well?

OwaynOTT

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

In fairness, first time i've heard of the site or any of the events but have to say its a great idea. Obviously they could have a lot more going on but tis a start.

I'd say a few business or pubs will have their own events going on closer to D-Day Xmas day, so we can expect a bit more.

All in all, alot of people have and will just shop in limerick, free parking, more stores, later opening hours.... it's a given really :rolleyes:

Yeah but what stores? Look at Dooradoyle-
HMV = Xtravision/gamestop
Bookshop=Easons and the Bookshop is crap in limerick
All phones shops there are here
nicer food places here

The only thing in Limerick thats better is clothes shops. Limerick city centre is crap for shopping.

mikemac1

Downtown over the weekend

Summerhill is looking even more run down then usual

And still nothing done with the old army barracks.
Nearly a decade ago they were talking about building a business park with modern offices and that was before the Celtic Tiger. And also preserve some of the grounds to make it interesting.

It's a great site and just laying idle. Well it may be another decade before anyone looks at it again

mikemac1

mrsR2011 wrote: »

railway bar (not sure if its still open)

Yep, as said that place hasn't been open is about a decade now.
It's not a bad location, just the end of Kenyon St and it used to do good business. I'm not sure what went wrong and why nobody will give it a go

jprboy wrote: »

That tiny place is Una Powell's. She sold it a few years ago but the new owners kept the name AFAIK.

I will visit one day
Just from the outside it look like there in room for about ten customers standing.
I assume there is more room out the back. Otherwise it must be going for smallest pub in Ireland

DaveNoCheese

Anybody notice that new 'old time sweet shop' on Kenyon st beside Hungry Harry's (frydays)?

Only spotted it Monday, didnt see nor hear anything about it prior. Oh and and they're looking for staff too, drop a CV into them.

Amtmann

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

Anybody notice that new 'old time sweet shop' on Kenyon st beside Hungry Harry's (frydays)?

Only spotted it Monday, didnt see nor hear anything about it prior. Oh and and they're looking for staff too, drop a CV into them.

I've noticed a new one in Cork too, and there was one in Clonmel until recently. They seem to be a fairly new phenomenon.

DaveNoCheese

Tremelo wrote: »

I've noticed a new one in Cork too, and there was one in Clonmel until recently. They seem to be a fairly new phenomenon.

One in Limerick awhile too (Mr. Simms). Guess I can say goodbye to my teeth.

In other news, ended up in Maximus New years eve and to my surprise, it wasn't similar to a cattle mart. Had room to breath :eek:

jprboy

OwaynOTT wrote: »

whats up with indicators on the roundabouts as well?

Do you mean the lack of indicator use by motorists?

jprboy

mikemac1 wrote: »

I will visit one day
Just from the outside it look like there in room for about ten customers standing.
I assume there is more room out the back. Otherwise it must be going for smallest pub in Ireland

Una Powell's - Yes, a few years since I was there but they had a covered area at the back which was a bit rough and ready but it was pretty busy.

bellybuster12

Nenagh is a town that is going nowhere pretty fast i'm afraid. The life blood is been sucked out of it with Tesco,Lidle,Aldi(going in where supervalue was by all accounts),Boots are coming in as well and will finish off all the chemists(too many anyways).

I know, i know it's good for jobs, but not in the right way, if you know what i mean. Impossible for local business to grow.

Also there is very little in Nenagh, if we take Thurles which is only over the road for e.g, semple stadium,greyhound track,horse track and a third level college just to name a few.

Also the drinking scene is very quiet, apart from a few pubs or the kenyon at 11 o clock on a sat night, i know ppl have less money and all that but imo it has alot to do with the worryingly amount of 20-40 year old's who have packed their bags for Oz, Canada etc. I think it's fair to say everybody in nenagh know's not just 1 but a load of ppl who have up'd sticks.

Sorry for been all doom and gloom but it's the reality of living in nenagh.

OwaynOTT

bellybuster12 wrote: »

Nenagh is a town that is going nowhere pretty fast i'm afraid. The life blood is been sucked out of it with Tesco,Lidle,Aldi(going in where supervalue was by all accounts),Boots are coming in as well and will finish off all the chemists(too many anyways).

I know, i know it's good for jobs, but not in the right way, if you know what i mean. Impossible for local business to grow.

Also there is very little in Nenagh, if we take Thurles which is only over the road for e.g, semple stadium,greyhound track,horse track and a third level college just to name a few.

Also the drinking scene is very quiet, apart from a few pubs or the kenyon at 11 o clock on a sat night, i know ppl have less money and all that but imo it has alot to do with the worryingly amount of 20-40 year old's who have packed their bags for Oz, Canada etc. I think it's fair to say everybody in nenagh know's not just 1 but a load of ppl who have up'd sticks.

Sorry for been all doom and gloom but it's the reality of living in nenagh.

That is I'm afraid the reality of living in small towns in Ireland. Tesco et al are terrible for towns. Good for low paid jobs, bad for town center and for small businesses. Butchers, homeward, electronic, food, pubs, off license, entertainment stores, etc. all up against a competitor that doesn't have to worry about prices.
Jobs created is an illusion as well. How many people there are from Nenagh? There's a few from Roscrea and Thurles. That don't live in town so won't spend their money in town.
I didn't know boots where coming. That's about 6 local shop under pressure

Cat Melodeon

I wish people would realise that Aldi & Lidl don't threaten small businesses as much as they take away some of the customers from the likes of Dunnes & Tesco, who have already shut down the mid-sized family run supermarkets like O'Connors. I mostly shop in Tesco and Aldi. If there was an Aldi in Nenagh, I'd do 100% of my shopping in the town. Instead I have to trek in to Limerick and end up doing any other business I need to do there too. I'd much prefer to do my shopping in Nenagh than Limerick - traffic is easier to handle and there are plenty of good quality small shops in the town that are all within walking distance of each other. When you've kids in tow, being able to park up just once or twice is a huge factor. I did most of my Christmas shopping online but what I did buy in the shops I got in Nenagh. It's not a bad town, it just needs a couple more big names to lure people in from the hinterland.

OwaynOTT

'It's a euro cheaper in tesco, let's get it there.'
I've heard a good few times over the years. Tesco do petrol in other towns. Tesco is bad for business.

mikemac1

Town centre is dying and it's dead and depressing up around Summerhill

Anyone ever visit the Heritage Centre? It's fantastic, a real credit to the town. You can even visit the condemned cells and they have a wax statue of a man getting tied up before being led out. Realy good but it's badly advertised and I doubt many even know about.
They could even renovate the old jail, do something with it and open up the old tunnel that went from the jail to the courthouse if the court is not in session. I'd pay as a tourist to see that even if as a local

Yeah Boots may be coming but tbh, Nenagh doesn't lack for chemists. There must be some money in that game if there are so many still going

Can the welfare office find a new office? Sure the council have fantastic new offices on Limerick Rd which cost twenty seven million, no expense spared. Surely there is office space in town somewhere?

The welfare office is tiny and it's humiliating to have people queing out in the wind and rain and all the students looking at them as they pass by
Maybe this makes no sense, I just think it's a bit sad

DaveNoCheese

Never even heard of the heritage centre where is it located??

The town has a lot of potential, they just need to get thier arse in gear and do something about it.

mikemac1

http://www.tipperarynorth.ie/heritagemuseum/index.html

DaveNoCheese

Oh ya, there beside the courthouse. Didnt realise you could actually head in there, assumed it was part of the courthouse property.

mikemac1

They turned the governors building into a school last century so you can see what an old classroom looked like

Has a big stick too :eek:

Right underneath the statue inside the gate there are stairs leading up to the condemed cells
And they have displays on the walls about capital punishment and about being transported to Van Dieman's Land as it was known back then

Realy needs to be advertised better

DaveNoCheese

Actually sounds half decent, remember going to the old prison in Wicklow town and it was class. Must check it out some weekend, assuming it's free in yea?