Creedon's Cities

xii

Starting well.

Neeson

Not so well now!

SarahBeep!

I think its going well

Neeson

SarahBeep! wrote: »

I think its going well

I was referring to the crime.

RikkFlair

Milk Market ghost coming up

SarahBeep!

Neeson wrote: »

SarahBeep! wrote: »

I think its going well

I was referring to the crime.

Nothing people dont already know.

Conor Bourke

I'm enjoying it. I only lived in Limerick for 18 months and despite its faults, I loved the city from almost my first night there. So far the show is making me very wistful for Limerick

xii

The city looks well on camera, lets hope they don't go up Patrick street.

xii

I love the Soviet story.

SarahBeep!

xii wrote: »

I love the Soviet story.

Ive never heard it before, its great!

xii

Here's more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Soviet

Spudmonkey

Nutters here....

road_high

Limerick looks great. Lots of positive people and things gong on. Makes me want to pay a visit soon

xii

He did speak highly of Limerick, but I thought the program over focused on one part of the city (Thomandgate) with few shots of the city center,it would also have been more representative of the city if he popped out to the other suburbs where the kids don't have pseudo Mohawks.

liammur

mfitzy wrote: »

Limerick looks great. Lots of positive people and things gong on. Makes me want to pay a visit soon

Well if you do, I saw an offer on grabone for the carlton castletroy hotel 4* for €39. Lovely hotel. Limerick does offer fantastic value for visitors.

road_high

xii wrote: »

He did speak highly of Limerick, but I thought the program over focused on one part of the city (Thomandgate) with few shots of the city center,it would also have been more representative of the city if he popped out to the other suburbs where the kids don't have pseudo Mohawks.

He did though . He was in Moyross (?) playing soccer and then rugby with kids for nearly half the programme!

Gallee

Not a bad reflection on our City. We need any half positive stuff so this did help.

Raiser

WTF was the long ghost hunting section all about, ectoplasm FFS - Were they really that stuck for footage?!?!?!

- Limerick looked well, it's a real shame how it has been and continues to be so horribly mismanaged by the fcukheads in the City Council and also of course that the Gardai gave up on Limerick decades ago.....

parasomnia

Hi,

As a native of Southill & Rosbrien and former ex (D)Hell employee, expat and beyond and back again, I thought the program was OK, it focused too much on the obvious,
I would have like da guy to visit the Mid Regional or maybe a stop to the Crescent SCC, what about LIT or UL, da never got a mention.

He's da head off my Brother who is a manager with a Tesco in da midlands I won't mention.

My Tv has a built in PVR so I recorded it, works like a charm on the telly but encrypted to view on me Laptop. As my Son is 14 yrs old living in Germany, I will put aside time to make RTE into a codec I can send.

If anyone knows a solution or an idea, please let me know.

TEMPLAR KNIGHT

"They identified the anomaly as an...ORB" that was a classic haha, city looked well though in fairness!

parasomnia

ol' Lim always looks her best coming from da river straight flowing, driving in from da Airport.

In my Opinion, Lim can = looks a City, give a good chip fight on Broad st, next to that beautiful St.Marys

I live next door.

Berty

A bit of meh.

Too much Moyross, too much Northside suburbia and not enough Limerick. We don't all play rugby and do community work you know. The market trustees must be annoyed. A pitch black market which showed us nothing of it other than a few nutcases chasing ghosts.

Limerick City, we have a river that's about it. We don't make enough use of our river by facing business's at it. We are a Georgian city but he didn't bother with that. People's park, Georgian area, Limerick walking tour(Frank McCourt etc), Current Industry(we still have some you know) and maybe the fact Limerick has become a great place to meet, eat and socialise.

The missus said "That programme was made for auld ones suppin' tae" and she's probably right.

jocksandsocks

limerick looked well but the show was terrible

ghosts in the milk market,WTF like?? would have being much better showing the milk market on a saturday morning.
the whole moyross thing was terrible.gave the impression it was the only housing estate in limerick and that everything going on in moyross is positive.
as for the rugby they could have told the kids before hand who keith earls was at least

i really enjoyed the boat maker though

RikkFlair

The last section where he was in period costume went on too long IMO, could have easily halved that and squeezed in a piece about another aspect of the city.

All in all I thought it wasn't too bad.

Poxyshamrock

Beer Baron wrote: »

A bit of meh.

Too much Moyross, too much Northside suburbia and not enough Limerick. We don't all play rugby and do community work you know. The market trustees must be annoyed. A pitch black market which showed us nothing of it other than a few nutcases chasing ghosts.

Limerick City, we have a river that's about it. We don't make enough use of our river by facing business's at it. We are a Georgian city but he didn't bother with that. People's park, Georgian area, Limerick walking tour(Frank McCourt etc), Current Industry(we still have some you know) and maybe the fact Limerick has become a great place to meet, eat and socialise.

The missus said "That programme was made for auld ones suppin' tae" and she's probably right.

Couldnt have put it better myself.

Creedon when talking about Moyross: "I grew up in the city centre myself"

wingnut

Just caught up on RTE Player.

Pros: Limerick Soviet piece, King Johns Castle looked well.

The Milk Market stuff was utter BS - of all the things in Limerick they gave a large segment to that!!

Parasomnia was right UL / LIT have a lot going on and should have featured (though it is a 'city' feature and UL is not in the city center)

Rugby piece was good but kids at Keith Earl's own club guessing he was from Dublin did not make a good impression!

Might have been nice to talk to some of the older traders / characters in the city.

DaveNoCheese

parasomnia wrote: »

Hi,

As a native of Southill & Rosbrien and former ex (D)Hell employee, expat and beyond and back again, I thought the program was OK, it focused too much on the obvious,
I would have like da guy to visit the Mid Regional or maybe a stop to the Crescent SCC, what about LIT or UL, da never got a mention.

He's da head off my Brother who is a manager with a Tesco in da midlands I won't mention.

My Tv has a built in PVR so I recorded it, works like a charm on the telly but encrypted to view on me Laptop. As my Son is 14 yrs old living in Germany, I will put aside time to make RTE into a codec I can send.

If anyone knows a solution or an idea, please let me know.

Have him try the RTE player, assume it works outside of the country?
Here's the link for the Limerick episode - Creedon's Cities - Limerick

Missed this the other night so will catch up myself this evening.

NinjaK

thought it was terrible, he is an annoying guy

Jofspring

Was ok. Rugby is far from the working mans sport in limerick like they made out. Maybe 20 to 30 years ago. Nothing working class about the top schools were it is predominately played not to mention the cost of going to Munster matches. Only a handful of working class rugby clubs in the city. Soccer is the working class sport in limerick played predominantely in the more disadvantaged areas and areas that would be considered more working class.

The market thing was stupid. Thought it was just a moth flying past the camera myself ha.

To be honest it was still better than a lot of previous programmes done about limerick. As mentioned by a few others there is a hell of a lot more to the city than what got the major amount of time.

bigpink

Watched it and thought it was very bad,im sick of hearing about Moyross,they most have a p.r guru there cause there always has to be be something in the media about it.And Munster rugby yes its big for the the city but yawn

Its the way they market Limerick to tourists and Munster rugby seems to be a marketing tool

So much this programme could have looked at even made a mini series

Silentcorner

Jofspring wrote: »

Was ok. Rugby is far from the working mans sport in limerick like they made out. Maybe 20 to 30 years ago. Nothing working class about the top schools were it is predominately played not to mention the cost of going to Munster matches. Only a handful of working class rugby clubs in the city. Soccer is the working class sport in limerick played predominantely in the more disadvantaged areas and areas that would be considered more working class.

The market thing was stupid. Thought it was just a moth flying past the camera myself ha.

To be honest it was still better than a lot of previous programmes done about limerick. As mentioned by a few others there is a hell of a lot more to the city than what got the major amount of time.

Can't argue with any of the above, I can only say tho rugby outside of this city is only played by a certain class, and it ain't the working class, we are unique in this country on that one ( a bit like Wales or NZ ), and it is the only sport where we can claim superiority...for now...

It was a bit of a poor affair, no need to be showing the CCTV in operation, in my opinion, that Hourigan one didn't have to be hauled out either, if you were never in Limerick you couldn't help but be aware of "the crime issue" which in a programme of this nature was uncalled for, let's face it RTE will never leave that one go...

I couldn't help but grimmace at that tagline near the end..."I think limerick and limerick people deserve a break"...after giving half an hour to dissadvantaged areas...and then re enacting a war in King Johns...b**tards!!!

brianregan09

Thought it was rubbish to be honest they focused on Moyross and Rugby mostly the segment in the milk market was embarrassing as others have said the Milk Market on a saturday would have been a much better choice, I wouldn't have gone too much into the city centre as everything is closing down and the place looks raggedy as ****,

But theres loads for people of Limerick to be excited about not just bloody moyross and our Rugby clubs , theres the gaelic grounds, UL, LIT, the soccer club which by the way is about to host the countries most high profile friendly in a long while (and no Man U vs the Airtricity 11 doesn't count, I think it started well but ended up turning into a vanity project for you're man creedon because RTE had nothing else for him to do and going by the highlights of the cork one thats going to be on next week, looks like more of the same

BESman

The overall series has been disappointing, very gimmicky (like that ghost thing and the period reenactment at the end) and quite boring at times. Being a Galway native I was looking forward to that episode and it was worse than watching paint dry. However, I think Limerick comes out of it quite good for a change. They could have shortened certain segments and added in a few more areas of the city but overall I think it showed a side to the city not everyone sees. I've always maintained that wide angle shots from the Clancy Strand side of the river give a great view of the city and this could be seen plenty of times throughout the show.

Pity Creedon is an insufferable ass.

seachto7

NO mention of the great music scene here? Or The Cranberries etc?

clint_eastman

moan moan moan moan moan..... just thought I'd join in!

Insect Overlord

clint_eastman wrote: »

moan moan moan moan moan..... just thought I'd join in!

Please don't do that. Pointless posts are considered spam. Spam is bad.

DaveNoCheese

Insect Overlord wrote: »

clint_eastman wrote: »

moan moan moan moan moan..... just thought I'd join in!

Please don't do that. Pointless posts are considered spam. Spam is bad.

Mmmm spam....




In all seriousness though, watched this last night. Thought the stuff about the soviets was good but the rest was meh...

Especially the ghost thing, I know alot of people believe in spirits and stuff and they have every right to but that had nothing what so ever to do with Limerick city...

Neeson

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

Especially the ghost thing, I know alot of people believe in spirits and stuff and they have every right to but that had nothing what so ever to do with Limerick city...

Yes it did. It was about some people who lived in limerick, died and became ghosts. Wasn't it?

phog

SarahBeep! wrote: »

Ive never heard it before, its great!

It's covered brilliantly in Pigtown, next time it's on try and catch it.

Back OT, I refrained from reading this thread until I saw the programme and overall I was happy enough with what was broadcast with the exception of the ghosts in the Milk Market, the market itself is one of the success storys around the city and it got poor coverage in what they chose to broadcast.

It's very difficult to condense a programme about a city into an hour long programme without someone being upset at something being omitted or edited, yes, I guess there was some opportunities missed but it did portray the city in a good light. The best piece for me was Pat Doran with his new boat built by the primary school in Moyross.

I can see why Thomond Park and rugby got a mention, I know there are snide remarks here every so often about a game being worth €10m to the city, but the games that Munster bring to Limerick must be the biggest income earners for the city from any sporting activity in the city.

Overall, I'd be happy enough with what got broadcast.