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Maynooth

  • 27-08-2012 11:44pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭


    If you had to make one change to Maynooth(town or college) good or bad what would it be ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    I want my footbridge back, dammit :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    CINEMA!!!

    OR

    A SUPERQUINN (so i could get transferred there)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    Superquinn would be awesome,I love their cakes :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    DB21 wrote: »
    I want my footbridge back, dammit :mad:

    I frankly hated the footbridge, though I wasn't a student at the time so Just saw it as a nuisance to try bring the dog over when bringing him for a walk! :L


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭westdub15


    subway. cinema would be sweet too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    fix the traffic lights sequence in the town centre , bring back the footbridge, put in more 24 hour shops , a subway, open dunnes 24 hours again , make parking free everywhere again, open the garden by the seminary again

    damn theres just too many things to choose from.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    Superquinn would be awesome,I love their cakes :P
    i prefer our donuts tbh... even if i do shop regularly in aldi :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    fix the traffic lights sequence in the town centre , bring back the footbridge, put in more 24 hour shops , a subway, open dunnes 24 hours again , make parking free everywhere again, open the garden by the seminary again

    damn theres just too many things to choose from.

    Thought you would've went with a ban on lefties :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    I frankly hated the footbridge, though I wasn't a student at the time so Just saw it as a nuisance to try bring the dog over when bringing him for a walk! :L

    Far better than the level crossing. I used it as exercise :L


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    fix the traffic lights sequence in the town centre , bring back the footbridge, put in more 24 hour shops , a subway, open dunnes 24 hours again , make parking free everywhere again, open the garden by the seminary again

    damn theres just too many things to choose from.

    Subway is definatly needed , garden by the seminary is open afaik Well it was during repeats anyway!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    DB21 wrote: »
    Thought you would've went with a ban on lefties :pac:

    ohh no , theyre funny to listen to in the pub and such, I just wish they wouldnt bring their nonsense into the college where impressionable minds might pick up bad habits, also im an advocate of free speech, I defend their right to say whatever they want, no matter how wrong they may be


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    DB21 wrote: »
    Far better than the level crossing. I used it as exercise :L

    that and the level crossing is a shít place to go drinking / riding at 4am


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    DB21 wrote: »
    Far better than the level crossing. I used it as exercise :L

    I love the level crossing, makes me feel like god making all the cars stop and then walking across as slowly as possible just to piss them off !:P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    Superquinn would be awesome,I love their cakes :P

    Gotta agree here. Nothing like a coffee slice from superquinn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    Definitely would love a Subway; it would have made so much more sense to put one in Manor Mills instead of yet another Bagel Factory.

    And as much as I disliked it, I do miss the footbridge :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    The weather.....even for Ireland Maynooth always seems to be dull and wet. Cinema would also be a good way to fill the hours in between lectures when you're supposed to be doing assignments.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Ms. Koi


    I would LOVE a Subway...my favourite sandwich shop in the world!

    Also...I bake so I don't need no superquinn buns......total bareface attempt at promoting my cakes....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,633 ✭✭✭TheBody


    We BADLY need a monorail (or similar) from the south to the north campus.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    i thought he was wearing a centra shirt for a second there


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Leptons


    @TheBody:

    A travelator?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,633 ✭✭✭TheBody


    Leptons wrote: »
    @TheBody:

    A travelator?

    I don't give a toss what's installed as long as I don't have to haul ass over and back several times per day. I just think a monorail sounds cool!! :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    TheBody wrote: »
    I don't give a toss what's installed as long as I don't have to haul ass over and back several times per day. I just think a monorail sounds cool!! :pac:

    Name-post irony is strong in this one :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,633 ✭✭✭TheBody


    DB21 wrote: »
    Name-post irony is strong in this one :P

    TheBody is getting old!! Time to start thinking of my hips and the like :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭Woodward


    A penneys and buses to and from places other than dublin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    Woodward wrote: »
    A penneys and buses to and from places other than dublin

    A bus to south kildare/nass/newbridge is defiantly needed!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    Both above me are on to something. I take back my bridge request. I want proper public transport, dammit :mad: In fact, could've done with it in second year (the first time).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    DB21 wrote: »
    Both above me are on to something. I take back my bridge request. I want proper public transport, dammit :mad: In fact, could've done with it in second year (the first time).

    I just think its a bit crazy you can't go from one end of the co. to the other w/o having to go back into Dublin first


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    I just think its a bit crazy you can't go from one end of the co. to the other w/o having to go back into Dublin first

    I'll go one better. For my teaching practice, I was placed in Dunboyne. Not all that far from Maynooth, really. By train though, it involved getting a train to Clonsilla at 7 in the morning, and praying that there'd be no delays, so I wouldn't miss the connecting train over to Dunboyne >_>


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    DB21 wrote: »
    I'll go one better. For my teaching practice, I was placed in Dunboyne. Not all that far from Maynooth, really. By train though, it involved getting a train to Clonsilla at 7 in the morning, and praying that there'd be no delays, so I wouldn't miss the connecting train over to Dunboyne >_>

    MADNESS!! Dunboyne's only 11k from Maynooth !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭Woodward


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    A bus to south kildare/nass/newbridge is defiantly needed!!!!


    The only one at the moment is the Kavanaghs one which is a pile of ****e. I commuted for a year and it wasnt worth the money I saved. The bus never got in before 9.15 and it was frequently late. When the bus is running late or there's problems the office dont answer the phone. One of the drivers who used to drive the Naas bus was a cantankerous auld bastard and would always stop for a fag even when he was running late


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭Woodward


    DB21 wrote: »
    I'll go one better. For my teaching practice, I was placed in Dunboyne. Not all that far from Maynooth, really. By train though, it involved getting a train to Clonsilla at 7 in the morning, and praying that there'd be no delays, so I wouldn't miss the connecting train over to Dunboyne >_>


    Yikes. I used to drive through Dunboyne on my way to my work placement. I probably could have given you lifts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    Woodward wrote: »
    The only one at the moment is the Kavanaghs one which is a pile of ****e. I commuted for a year and it wasnt worth the money I saved. The bus never got in before 9.15 and it was frequently late. When the bus is running late or there's problems the office dont answer the phone. One of the drivers who used to drive the Naas bus was a cantankerous auld bastard and would always stop for a fag even when he was running late

    Yeah , and that's only for college purposes like if you need to go to Naas on a Sat/Sunday or the evening you're royally screwed !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭girlonfire


    I'm jumping on the Subway bandwagon! I love that place.
    I hate O'Brien's:mad:


  • Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    O' Briens is some rip to be fair. Subway would have queues out the door if there was one in Maynooth.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    O' Briens is some rip to be fair. Subway would have queues out the door if there was one in Maynooth.

    Especially when they do there half price after 4pm deal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 Dr. Nguyen Van Falk


    id bring back some of the places that have closed down over the years, like the creative arts center, and the L.A(what mantra used to be) which was the biggest hole in the town but an enjoyable one nonetheless. €2.50 a drink on a monday as far i remember

    also the stage in the roost is too close to the bar and the entrance much to my annoyance,

    would agree with everyone on the subway vs O'briens issue, only reason i wasted all my money there in the first place was because i taught i was in with a chance with the girl who works in it, because she calls me dear, hart was broken when i realized she was saying that to everyone


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭DylanII


    The pedestrian crossing should be obliterated. Its like all the fu#k tards showed up every time I try to go over it. It's like they plan to ensure there is always one really slow walking person on it. Ugh!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    id bring back some of the places that have closed down over the years, like the creative arts center, and the L.A(what mantra used to be) which was the biggest hole in the town

    I was pretty sure the arts centre was still open....

    The LA was an absolute dump I'm so glad it's gone, though maybe if I was of legal age when it was around I would have seen more of its colourful charm rather than the negatives!! :L

    After today I want to change the self service machines in Tesco-just bought credit there last night, but the actual credit thing didn't come out, went to customer services today,explained it and they said there was nothing they could do !!!! Grr :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    I was pretty sure the arts centre was still open....

    The LA was an absolute dump I'm so glad it's gone, though maybe if I was of legal age when it was around I would have seen more of its colourful charm rather than the negatives!! :L

    After today I want to change the self service machines in Tesco-just bought credit there last night, but the actual credit thing didn't come out, went to customer services today,explained it and they said there was nothing they could do !!!! Grr :mad:
    There is something they can do. if the slip with the credit didn't come out then it would've popped up as a printer error on screen where the supervisor stands. When that's confirmed they should've refunded you or gave you the credit


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    jpcarlow wrote: »
    There is something they can do. if the slip with the credit didn't come out then it would've popped up as a printer error on screen where the supervisor stands. When that's confirmed they should've refunded you or gave you the credit

    There was no one around at the time 'cos it was the middle of the night so they said there was no way to prove it when I went in the next day :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    jpcarlow wrote: »
    There is something they can do. if the slip with the credit didn't come out then it would've popped up as a printer error on screen where the supervisor stands. When that's confirmed they should've refunded you or gave you the credit

    There was no one around at the time 'cos it was the middle of the night so they said there was no way to prove it when I went in the next day :(
    thats bs on their part. there's cameras for the fastlanes plus it would show up in the cash offices records of transactions fr that till from that day #advantagesofworkinginasupermarket


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    DylanII wrote: »
    The pedestrian crossing should be obliterated. Its like all the fu#k tards showed up every time I try to go over it. It's like they plan to ensure there is always one really slow walking person on it. Ugh!!!

    Same problem, almost every time I use it some f*cktard in their car shows up who doesn't seem to understand they are supposed to stop at it. Ugh!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    The LA was an absolute dump I'm so glad it's gone, though maybe if I was of legal age when it was around I would have seen more of its colourful charm rather than the negatives!! :L

    I used to go there when I was 16 -17 because they didnt care, It was a dank but it was our dank, Way better than mantra


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    I used to go there when I was 16 -17 because they didnt care, It was a dank but it was our dank, Way better than mantra

    I was about 10 when it was around so....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 265 ✭✭unclejunior


    aaabbbb wrote: »

    After today I want to change the self service machines in Tesco-just bought credit there last night, but the actual credit thing didn't come out, went to customer services today,explained it and they said there was nothing they could do !!!! Grr :mad:

    I've used the self service machines in tescos twice since I came back. Each time I scaned the items through and finished paying for them a member of staff would come over and bend down beside me to pick something off the floor, the first time a coin and the second time a receipt, to see if I had scaned all the items through? I mean wtf? Only in Maynooth would shop keepers make such insinuations.

    So ya, the mentality of locals here could do with changing.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 265 ✭✭unclejunior


    I'm sorry I should refrain that; the mentality of the local peasant population could do with changing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    I'm sorry I should refrain that; the mentality of the local peasant population could do with changing.

    You are aware that you are completely unfunny, right?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 265 ✭✭unclejunior


    DB21 wrote: »
    You are aware that you are completely unfunny, right?

    I wasn't trying to be. Why are you local?


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    aaabbbb wrote: »

    After today I want to change the self service machines in Tesco-just bought credit there last night, but the actual credit thing didn't come out, went to customer services today,explained it and they said there was nothing they could do !!!! Grr :mad:

    I've used the self service machines in tescos twice since I came back. Each time I scaned the items through and finished paying for them a member of staff would come over and bend down beside me to pick something off the floor, the first time a coin and the second time a receipt, to see if I had scaned all the items through? I mean wtf? Only in Maynooth would shop keepers make such insinuations.

    So ya, the mentality of locals here could do with changing.

    Yea, you're the only person I know that that's happened to. I hate to sat it but I don't think that it's Maynooth that's the prob...


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