New Shop Maynooth

Moonbeam

There is a huge new euro shop between Maxi Zoo and Boots.
It is pretty good too:)

I have to say it is nice seeing new shops opening up locally.

Orion

Now if only Penney's would hurry up and take old tesco's so I can clothe my kids cheaply

L1011

Seeing as they just renewed the permission to let them knock the old one (which was reported as permission to knock the NEW one :rolleyes:) there's a good chance that something else could go in there.

Moonbeam

There is a new ladies clothes shop over by the post office too.
Tesco has a sale on kids clothes at the moment:)
I am hoping for a Pennys too.

In the property paper a few wees ago I read there is going to be a new cafe bar in Maynooth,anyone have any info on it?

Orion

I thought that was rejected by the council.

Moonbeam

Nope, apparently it is under way but it did not say where.

Orion

What paper said this?

Staplor

The bistro place under Manor Mills looks a bit like a cafe bar, tasty breakfast too.

Moonbeam

Orion wrote: »

What paper said this?

Indo I think I still have it at home. I will check.

Moonbeam

http://www.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/new-maynooth-cafe-bar-3026899.html

Moonbeam

http://www.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/new-maynooth-cafe-bar-3026899.html

http://www.hospitalityenews.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2610-maynooth-cafe-bar.html

E39MSport

Tesco are doing half price on a lot of cleaning products too. Spring clean.

L1011

The cafebar is going to the derelict house / building site beside Reilly/Merrick's dentists. The site across Doctors Lane behind it is to become a pay car park.

I would think permission might have been given as the council need that carpark to be there for their pay parking plans!

Clare Bear

MYOB wrote: »

The cafebar is going to the derelict house / building site beside Reilly/Merrick's dentists. The site across Doctors Lane behind it is to become a pay car park.

I would think permission might have been given as the council need that carpark to be there for their pay parking plans!

Anything is better than that derelict house, it looks so ugly.

The Euro store was packed yesterday when I popped my head in. Pity the pet section isn't bigger though, the one on the main street is better. Great to have it all the same.

L1011

Clare Bear wrote: »

Anything is better than that derelict house, it looks so ugly.

The Euro store was packed yesterday when I popped my head in. Pity the pet section isn't bigger though, the one on the main street is better. Great to have it all the same.

It has a pet section and is next to Maxi Zoo? One of the three (them + the main street) is going to go in that case, there is no way the market for that.

Don't suppose you're here long enough to remember the PTSB house being derelict for years, the house at the end of the street opposite the girls school being derelict for years and Rebel Pizza / Royal City being a burnt out shell? That was just a selection of the wide array of dereliction we had in the town centre!

Moonbeam

I still can not picture the location..
When I am down there tomorrow will keep an eye out.

MYOB - is that a very long time ago?

L1011

Moonbeam wrote: »

I still can not picture the location..
When I am down there tomorrow will keep an eye out.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=maynooth&hl=en&ll=53.381968,-6.589619&spn=0.002237,0.006748&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.199598,55.283203&hnear=Maynooth,+County+Kildare,+Ireland&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=53.381928,-6.589765&panoid=zCihs1RvnmZF1v3xERPPJQ&cbp=12,167.12,,0,4.8

Moonbeam wrote: »

MYOB - is that a very long time ago?

Prior to 1998 or so anyway. Think the house down by the girls school was derelict later than that though.

You've not lived in Maynooth long enough if you can't remember the smell of the mart. And I'm not even from here!

Moonbeam

Thanks:)
Looks very small to be a cafe bar.
I pass it every day and even looking at it a derelict house on that corner seems new to me.

We only moved here about 2 years ago.

I didn't know that there was a mart here,

ChewChew

Oh god the mart :eek: had totally forgotten bout that!!

L1011

Moonbeam wrote: »

Thanks:)
Looks very small to be a cafe bar.
I pass it every day and even looking at it a derelict house on that corner seems new to me.

Site goes all the way back to Doctors Lane - it's as deep as three or four units.

Moonbeam wrote: »

I didn't know that there was a mart here,

Where the current Tesco is. The original Tesco was towards the front of the uncovered car park - the "old" Tesco (Quinnsworth, O'Briens) is the "new" Tesco to anyone here pre-2001.

Orion

Moonbeam wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/new-maynooth-cafe-bar-3026899.html

it is probably one the few towns in Ireland where there is ample scope for a new pub

Tell that to Mantra and Caulfields who are both in receivership. To Brady's which is half-empty even on big match days and to the Glenroyal which is in NAMA.

L1011

Didn't know Caulfields was in receivership. Glenroyal was allegedly a performing asset compared to other Grehan properties but the repeated closure/reopening/rebranding of the nightclub showed it was having problems on that front too.

The Newtown Inn is generally empty also.

Orion

Actually I think Caulfields is in examinership not receivership. It has been for well over a year now.

crazyginlady

Ah the mart . The smell was something else ! Poped my head into the euro shop today and picked up a ton of cleaning poducts for a tenner

Buffman

I was in the euro shop today, nice addition to the centre.

The cattle mart brings back memories alright! I remember being able to get a pot of tea with your dinner. Nice fresh steak too!:D

Teaandcoffee

Hi guys, is the new Euro Store in the Manor Mills Center or down at Tecso?

Clare Bear

Teaandcoffee wrote: »

Hi guys, is the new Euro Store in the Manor Mills Center or down at Tecso?

At Tesco, near Maxi Zoo.

I see a new Veterinary clinic has gone up there too, over near the post office.

L1011

There's now planning apps in for TWO takeaways at Greenfield and Newtown S/Cs (Seeing as this has turned in to the "new shops in Maynooth" thread.

Can't see either getting approved to be honest. Although a general takeaway in Newtown might do OK with the amount of student accom around.

Moonbeam

There is planning permission in for a chinese takeaway beside xtra vision.
There is no way that the shopping centre can cope with more traffic or another take away open at 3am on weekdays.
They got the planning permisiion to buld an extra 2 units in Greenfield shopping centre but tbh I have no idea what I want to go in there.

I love the new euro shop:)

L1011

The other permission is for the empty unit (formerly a pound shop, formerly a video shop, formerly a butchers if my memory of that centre is right) at Newtown S/C for an undefined type of takeaway.

The original permission applied for Greenfield in the late 1990s or so was to build a second storey on the entire centre! Too old to be on KCC's public planning system. The permission for the second of the two new units was revoked on request: http://webgis.kildarecoco.ie/PlanningEnquiryLIte/Default.aspx?FullFileNumber=06a-11209&FromList=true

L1011

Riverside Bistro closed in the last two weeks - seems the demand for food outlets in the town has been met already. That unit has never done well, the previous tenant (Kens) also closed; and the units closer never opened as their intended use.

Although there appears to be another cafe going in where the Esquires was (right beside the inner entrance for Riverside) in Manor Mills.

Moonbeam

It is only closed due to a leak apparently.
It is always busy enough.

I love Maynooth and its coffee shops:)

L1011

Taking down *all* your signs inside and out is a bit serious for a "leak", I have to say.

Corruptedmorals

I got lunch there nearly everyday when I worked in Maynooth and that place was seriously busy in the lunchtime period. Less quiet at 4-5 of course but never empty. Often difficult to get a table at peak time. I'd have difficulty believing it's from lack of customers.

Moonbeam

Same, I would go in about once a week and it always has people in it.

the_big_kahuna

Anyone know what is going in where Lotus was in the middle of the town at the lights? I hope it's not another bar

As for that independent article link posted by MoonBeam......

"So it is probably one the few towns in Ireland where there is ample scope for a new pub"

This is a ridiculous statement. As MYOB said, a number of bars etc are in receivership in the town, so there is absolutely no need for another one

n97 mini

the_big_kahuna wrote: »

This is a ridiculous statement. As MYOB said, a number of bars etc are in receivership in the town,

Aside from the Glenroyal, which other ones?

Corruptedmorals

Caulfields and Mantra. Mantra's problem is that it's too expensive. It's ridiculous that a nightclub with a university on it's doorstep isn't doing well.

n97 mini

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Caulfields and Mantra. Mantra's problem is that it's too expensive. It's ridiculous that a nightclub with a university on it's doorstep isn't doing well.

But isn't Mantra heaving, and one of the most popular niteclubs in that part of the country?

Is Caulfields still trading?

the_big_kahuna

n97 mini wrote: »

But isn't Mantra heaving, and one of the most popular niteclubs in that part of the country?

Is Caulfields still trading?

From the last couple of times I was in Mantra, and from talking to others, it is practically empty up until about 12:30 am. So they are getting very little business before this time. People are either drinking later at home or in the Roost etc before hand.

I heard Mantra was empty on New Years as well. I was in the Roost myself, and it was ridiculously busy. I think Mantra may have been charging ridiculous money in that night so people chose the Roost since it's free in

From what I know, Caulfields is still trading

the_big_kahuna

MYOB wrote: »

Riverside Bistro closed in the last two weeks - seems the demand for food outlets in the town has been met already. That unit has never done well, the previous tenant (Kens) also closed; and the units closer never opened as their intended use.

Although there appears to be another cafe going in where the Esquires was (right beside the inner entrance for Riverside) in Manor Mills.

I was only in the Riverside Bistro for the first time a couple of months back. Very impressive lunch in it. It's a shame it's closed

Orion

Caulfield's is still trading.

I heard there's an Indian going in where Lotus was. Mohana is gone from above Caulfields (no loss tbh).

the_big_kahuna

Orion wrote: »

Caulfield's is still trading.

I heard there's an Indian going in where Lotus was. Mohana is gone from above Caulfields (no loss tbh).

Didn't know Mohana was gone (not a fan of Indian food anyway)

Times are a changing in Maynooth with the opening and closing of all these businesses! :P

Moonbeam

At least stuff is still opening:)

n97 mini

the_big_kahuna wrote: »

I was in the Roost myself,

Has the Roost a niteclub or a late licence or something? I'm not familiar with night life in Maynooth...

L1011

n97 mini wrote: »

Has the Roost a niteclub or a late licence or something? I'm not familiar with night life in Maynooth...

It has one again now, after a prolonged period of not having one on weekends.



The last time I ate in Mohana there was food encrusted on the curtains along the inside window, no loss...

liamo22

Riverside is defiantly closed I'm gutted cause I loved that place, but I have a small feeling that the new café style thing going at the back of Manor Mills where Esquires used to be is the "New Riverside", but this is just a hunch tbh. Also on the topic of new Shops in Maynooth, there is a new Florist in Manor Mills where that Herbs and Acupuncture shop used to be towards the back. No name on it yet but its open, also the Eurosaver shop on the Leixlip road between the main street and Tesco has changed into a Florist aswell, I think its called Carrig Flowers or something

Moonbeam

One of them is a florist that has moved premises.
The flowershop in Greenfield sc has closed.

Seren_

Can't believe the Riverside bistro is closed :eek: As a few posters have said already, any time I was in there it was packed!

I imagine a lot of restaurants and places down the town are suffering this year due to the new canteen opening on campus...

L1011

Has the florists beside Three Pin Electrical closed? Sign was painted out last night; but it could just be being repainted.

It could also have moved to be one of the two "new" ones of course.

donspeekinglesh

She's moved into Manor Mills.
The bike shop is gone too.

Was in Mantra yesterday around lunchtime. Practically empty - more staff and live band than customers. On the other hand the Roost was packed.