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Daemos · 25-09-2012 06:55PM

wonton wrote: »

a burger king or kfc would be lovely.

If KFC came to Maynooth I would die 5 years earlier from being in there every single day. Seriously

purebeta · 09-10-2012 05:01PM

Not so Subtle advertisement there.

Paczini · 09-10-2012 06:46PM

purebeta wrote: »

Not so Subtle advertisement there.

Well, I would call it an obvious advertisement :P

smileanna · 10-10-2012 10:16AM

Least it got your attention

smileanna · 10-10-2012 10:16AM

Would you like to suggest some other ideas???

TheBody · 10-10-2012 10:23AM

In before the spam ban!!

WanabeOlympian · 10-10-2012 03:03PM

A professional running track.
A Starbucks/costa coffee.
A café bar open till late with cool music sessions.
A small football stadium with seating so we can go watch our teams play.
Open the new library.
Dunnes 24 hr again.
A 24 hour café.
A 24 hour library service (like universities abroad and i think some other colleges in ireland, really handy with deadlines?)
Canteen to provide dinners up till 6/7 rather than 2 or 3pm.
A smoothie stall in college.
Free parking and no clamping. A free multi storey carpark so there are always spaces no matter what.
An olympic size swimming pool.
A hover craft to carry us over to the south campus.
A NASA gravity simulation training unit.
An express helicopter service into town, or to and from pubs..
A bouncey castle in every building.
Ok too far!

Paczini · 10-10-2012 03:15PM

WanabeOlympian wrote: »

A Starbucks/costa coffee.

There is costa upstairs in Phoenix

WanabeOlympian wrote: »

A 24 hour library service (like universities abroad and i think some other colleges in ireland, really handy with deadlines?)

As far as I heard the new library will be open 24hours

WanabeOlympian wrote: »

A smoothie stall in college.

There are smoothies in Chill

Well.. we just have to wait for the other inconveniences to be solved now

aaabbbb · 10-10-2012 03:22PM

A shuttle bus to/from the campuses and around the town/estates would be amazing esp on really cold winter evenings :L

Alt_Grrr · 10-10-2012 03:35PM

WanabeOlympian wrote: »

A professional running track.
Canteen to provide dinners up till 6/7 rather than 2 or 3pm.

They did a trial of that in the canteen last year I think, but they didn't really advertise it and they did it over one week only, so it was an experiment designed to always turn out negative.

WanabeOlympian wrote: »

Free parking and no clamping. A free multi storey carpark so there are always spaces no matter what.

I have my doubts about the usefulness of a Multi-story car park, in Ireland people tend to prefer on street parking. But it would free up car parks for new developments.

WanabeOlympian wrote: »

A NASA gravity simulation training unit.

Sadly that doesn't exist, NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, etc all use ether swimming pools with adapted space suits to neutralize buoyancy or an air plane with the seats taken out that flies in parabolic arcs, which for a few seconds simulates microgravity. (these are also known as vomit comets)

aaabbbb · 10-10-2012 04:03PM

Alt_Grrr wrote: »

They did a trial of that in the canteen last year I think, but they didn't really advertise it and they did it over one week only, so it was an experiment designed to always turn out negative.

The phoenix opens till 9 now, granted its only the small bit but still....

TO_ARTHUR! · 10-10-2012 04:17PM

WanabeOlympian wrote: »

An olympic size swimming pool.

Would love one of these. It can get a little cramped, at times in the one we have.

Plus a big slide going into one too!

Alt_Grrr · 10-10-2012 04:26PM

aaabbbb wrote: »

The phoenix opens till 9 now, granted its only the small bit but still....

well that's another one off the list so.

Daemos · 10-10-2012 04:28PM

Alt_Grrr wrote: »

Sadly that doesn't exist, NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, etc all use ether swimming pools with adapted space suits to neutralize buoyancy or an air plane with the seats taken out that flies in parabolic arcs, which for a few seconds simulates microgravity. (these are also known as vomit comets)

Well thank you, Dr Killjoy

WanabeOlympian · 10-10-2012 04:33PM

Thanks guys! Still holding out for the hovercraft! :-D

Alt_Grrr · 10-10-2012 05:51PM

Daemos wrote: »

Well thank you, Dr Killjoy

Hey, nothing stopping you from going on a parabolic flight like NASA... but it is pricey, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Gravity_Corporation

XxMCRxBabyxX · 10-10-2012 08:55PM

I have heard rumours of a multi-story car park being built at some stage but I don't know when

DB21 · 10-10-2012 09:23PM

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

I have heard rumours of a multi-story car park being built at some stage but I don't know when

Been rumoured since I was in First Year :pac:

XxMCRxBabyxX · 10-10-2012 09:24PM

DB21 wrote: »

Been rumoured since I was in First Year :pac:

True tha!

Thing is this is one of two rumours that I could have heard from a reliable source. Though now that I think of it, it was the other rumour that I heard from him

banquo · 10-10-2012 11:07PM

There will not be a multi-story car park on campus in the foreseeable future, (unfortunately.)

For reasons too numerous to mention

purebeta · 11-10-2012 12:05AM

It would be really ugly for one!

aaabbbb · 11-10-2012 12:11AM

purebeta wrote: »

It would be really ugly for one!

Ugly , but practical ! :P

K4t · 11-10-2012 07:28PM

Will be difficult to be any uglier than the arts block or rye hall..

aaabbbb · 12-10-2012 12:06AM

K4t wrote: »

Will be difficult to be any uglier than the arts block or rye hall..

Or the old part of the library , it shines of 70's/80's architecture in all its grey tacky glory!! :P

PictureFrame · 12-10-2012 10:42AM

aaabbbb wrote: »

Or the old part of the library , it shines of 70's/80's architecture in all its grey tacky glory!! :P

True that! I actually love the inside of the library though

Novella · 12-10-2012 04:16PM

A multi-story car park would be so good! I almost missed a tutorial on Wednesday morning 'cause I was driving around looking for somewhere to park and eventually I had to use pay and display parking.

I'm generally in college around 9-ish so finding somewhere to park isn't an issue, but this was after 10 and everywhere was full.

Eric Cartman · 18-10-2012 03:20PM

they should just build one where the SU carpark is, 4 levels , could easily fit 100 spaces.

banquo · 18-10-2012 05:25PM

Eric Cartman wrote: »

they should just build one where the SU carpark is, 4 levels , could easily fit 100 spaces.

You'd think that. Could never happen though. You'd never, ever get planning permission.

Duddy · 18-10-2012 06:30PM

K4t wrote: »

Will be difficult to be any uglier than the arts block or rye hall..

Ah now, Rye Hall has a lovely personality once you get to know her.

I want a Subway. and a 7 seater taxi to take my 40 stone weight out of there every night and bring me back in in the morning.

Dr. Nguyen Van Falk · 18-10-2012 06:57PM

http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/nuim-multi-storey-parking-call-1-4387474

an extra 72 spaces have been created this year which is news to me, and an extra 72 after the library done which is a start anyway. but in order for a multi-story car park to have an impact it would have to hold well over a 100, closer to 500, which would cost around 10 million, the collage are spending most of there money on capital buildings, there's not that much land to build something that big, and some think that continued growth will just bring more cars anyway

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