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New Businesses opening in Dublin 15

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    The empty unit that they've been working on on the same row as Rudys has signs up saying that an internet cafe is opening soon. There's also a sign around the side of it that mentions tanning I think but I didn't see it that well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭former total


    Saw the sign for the Internet Cafe. That's a bizarre business to be starting in 2016. Better than a vacant unit, but not by much.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Saw the sign for the Internet Cafe. That's a bizarre business to be starting in 2016. Better than a vacant unit, but not by much.

    Not in Dublin 15.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    January wrote: »
    Not in Dublin 15.

    People in Dublin 15 don't have smartphones?

    It's an incredibly dated business model, I wish the mad feckers well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    They'd have smart phones, but the vast majority of people from, around my area especially. Don't have access to PC's or laptops. Even things like printing isn't easy for them. I think it will do well in Blanchardstown.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭rockatansky


    January wrote: »
    but the vast majority of people from, around my area especially. Don't have access to PC's or laptops.

    I'm sorry but I find that hard to believe, a printer maybe, but not a laptop.

    Best of luck to them but I will be very surprised if it is still open in 6 months time. You just don't seem them around anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    January wrote: »
    They'd have smart phones, but the vast majority of people from, around my area especially. Don't have access to PC's or laptops. Even things like printing isn't easy for them.

    It's a shame there's no library in Blanchardstown where all these services can be accessed... Oh wait.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,355 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    All we need now are a money exchange, a turkish barbers and an asian massage house and it will be just like a neighbourhood version of Dorset Street..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    I'm sorry but I find that hard to believe, a printer maybe, but not a laptop.

    Best of luck to them but I will be very surprised if it is still open in 6 months time. You just don't seem them around anymore.

    Agreed. While I've been stuck once or twice not having printer facilities, even that has become rarer. I can always check in at airports, hotels, trains, shows, concerts etc using my smartphone these days instead of carrying a printout. CVs/ college assignments etc rarely need to be printed anymore also.

    Saying that, considering D15 surely has up to 100000 people living here, I'd say one Internet cafe is probably justified....for the short term anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭Murt10


    Planning permission applied for a new off licence in Westend Park beside the AIB in the Centre.

    Brave people. Lidl are at the other end of Westend Park right beside them and are open until 10.00 pm every night except Sunday (9.00pm).

    They are going to find it hard to compete on price and Lidl are getting into upmarket French wines in a big way.

    I doubt the rent on their premises will be cheap either.


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    There's also Molloy's just a couple of minutes away on Clonsilla Road and they have a good selection of beer, so they'll be tough competition too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Murt10 wrote: »
    Planning permission applied for a new off licence in Westend Park beside the AIB in the Centre.

    Brave people. Lidl are at the other end of Westend Park right beside them and are open until 10.00 pm every night except Sunday (9.00pm).

    They are going to find it hard to compete on price and Lidl are getting into upmarket French wines in a big way.

    I doubt the rent on their premises will be cheap either.

    I wouldn't agree, Lidl is the last place I go to when going buying alcohol, and I don't shop for it based on price.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I wouldn't agree, Lidl is the last place I go to when going buying alcohol, and I don't shop for it based on price.

    Agreed. The only immediate competition is the offy within the main building itself. Lidl would not cross my mind either when shopping for alcohol. Anyway, ballsy venture and best of luck to them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,896 ✭✭✭Polar101


    dodzy wrote: »
    Lidl would not cross my mind either when shopping for alcohol.

    That sounds a little bit strange - they don't just sell their 'own' brands you know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Polar101 wrote: »
    That sounds a little bit strange - they don't just sell their 'own' brands you know.

    I'd buy Lidl alcohol if I happen to be shopping there anyway. No way am I going to queue up though just to buy a bottle of wine if there is an offy up the road.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Polar101 wrote: »
    That sounds a little bit strange - they don't just sell their 'own' brands you know.

    As well as the hassle of queuing, their selection of other brands is brutal.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    Sure what's the story with Ongar and this new halal shop? Would do a great bit of business from me alone :D

    Though on another note, I've lived in Ongar for 7 years now and rarely venture into the village, especially not since I've heard of the rapings and the Dunnes Stores fiascos.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    1123heavy wrote: »
    Though on another note, I've lived in Ongar for 7 years now and rarely venture into the village, especially not since I've heard of the rapings.

    Care to elaborate at all?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    Care to elaborate at all?

    Just over a year ago a young Polish girl (about 16 if memory serves me right) was raped by a group of men in Ongar village.

    That's what I know of so one can only imagine what else has happened that we haven't heard of.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    1123heavy wrote: »
    Just over a year ago a young Polish girl (about 16 if memory serves me right) was raped by a group of men in Ongar village.

    That's what I know of so one can only imagine what else has happened that we haven't heard of.

    A gang rape in the middle of a busy Dublin village, that's never been reported on by the media, nor have the Gardai ever released any statement regarding...

    Incredibly irresponsible to be fabricating such tales on a public forum, you should be ashamed of yourself.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    1123heavy wrote: »
    Just over a year ago a young Polish girl (about 16 if memory serves me right) was raped by a group of men in Ongar village.

    That's what I know of so one can only imagine what else has happened that we haven't heard of.

    Well no, you know of one confirmed report, but that doesn't mean that it automatically extrapolates into multiple unconfirmed rapes. If there are proper crime statistics to support your supposition that's one thing, but baseless speculation is nothing more than scaremongering.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    Zaph wrote: »
    Well no, you know of one confirmed report.

    Confirmed report? Confirmed by whom?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I'm pretty sure the gang rape of a minor would have made the news and local bush telegraph. Never heard of it myself. Is this a genuine story?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    A gang rape in the middle of a busy Dublin village, that's never been reported on by the media, nor have the Gardai ever released any statement regarding...

    Incredibly irresponsible to be fabricating such tales on a public forum, you should be ashamed of yourself.

    Well they were hardly doing it outside Domino's pizza.

    Nothing to be ashamed of for reporting fact.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    1123heavy wrote: »
    Nothing to be ashamed of for reporting fact.

    Fact eh, so you witnessed said attack? Any particular reason why you or the alleged victim didn't report the incident to the Gardai?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    Fact eh, so you witnessed said attack? Any particular reason why you or the alleged victim didn't report the incident to the Gardai?

    You seem to be under the impression that everything gets splashed onto the front pages. It happened and I remember there being quite some talk about it, many people stopped allowing their kids into the village alone etc. I'm a grown man and as I said, I rarely venture into it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    1123heavy wrote: »
    I'm a grown man and as I said, I rarely venture into it.

    They're raping grown men now also?

    This monstrous rape gang really need locking up, it's a shame the Gardai haven't been notified on any of this.

    Maybe the community in Ongar could form a posse?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    They're raping grown men now also?

    This monstrous rape gang really need locking up, it's a shame the Gardai haven't been notified on any of this.

    Maybe the community in Ongar could form a posse?

    I didn't say they're raping grown men. I said due to the high crime rate and such despicable incidents having taken place, walking through Ongar village doesn't exactly make for a nice evening stroll on any night. Therefore I avoid for safety fears.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    Patww79 wrote: »
    At the rate Dunnes gets robbed in broad daylight you're probably safer out of it anyway.

    Most certainly, unless I have what I need to cook I order a takeaway to avoid going Dunnes in Ongar, it's like the wild west out there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    I have not heard a thing about it and I'm on the Main Street every single day. I also know the local heralds (aka the shopkeepers) who are great for the updates, and never heard the like.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    The 2015 Ongar rapings aside.

    I know someone who went to the new halal shop today and said it was great. I like the spices and other things these places sell. Anyone here been as well? I might try venture in some day to witness it all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    1123heavy wrote: »
    The 2015 Ongar rapings aside.
    .

    Ah yes, let's pretend you didn't just disparage a community by stating "as fact" that it's prone to the odd gang rape or two.

    Spoofing online is one thing, but when it's at the cost of a communitie's reputation that is quite something else indeed.

    Once again, as a grown man, you should feel shame for trying to paint such a repulsive lie as fact.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Confirmed report? Confirmed by whom?

    Yes, apologies, incorrect choice of words from me there. I should have said it was one incident known to the poster, although nobody else seems to know anything about it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    It wasn't a gang rape though? AFAIR that rape, (the one shown on crimecall?) was one man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    As well as the hassle of queuing, their selection of other brands is brutal.

    For the price conscience craft beer consumer, they have some very good beers


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    Quite solid evidence was provided for the Ongar rapings of 2015. Trying to deny them is trying to deny fact, and I wouldn't think the victim's families would appreciate people denying them just because they never heard of them.

    Now can someone please provide me with some more information on the halal food shop and what they think of it? I'm trying to decide whether to go into the village to see it or not. Many thanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    oblivious wrote: »
    For the price conscience craft beer consumer, they have some very good beers

    I find it hit and miss though, with a very limited selection. But that's how they operate i suppose.


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    Lots of interesting topics coming up on this thread, but lets stick to discussing new businesses opening in D15


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    Gaspode wrote: »
    Lots of interesting topics coming up on this thread, but lets stick to discussing new businesses opening in D15

    Yes please. Now can someone please provide more info about the new halal store in Ongar village? Reviews?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    1123heavy wrote: »
    Now can someone please provide me with some more information on the halal food shop and what they think of it? I'm trying to decide whether to go into the village to see it or not. Many thanks.

    No Halal food is good enough to take the risk of getting gang raped surely? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    Gaspode wrote: »
    Lots of interesting topics coming up on this thread, but lets stick to discussing new businesses opening in D15

    I agree fully on principal, and I do not wish to drag this thread any further from topic, however someone has repeatedly claimed "as fact" that there has been multiple gang rapes in Ongar.

    As this thread could be found in the future by someone researching the area, I feel it's important to stress to those possibly considering Ongar, that no gang rapes have ever been reported to the Gardai, nor have any gang rapes been reported on by any media outlets.

    There's good and bad in many areas, but it's wholly irresponsible and unfair to the community to just fabricate the bad wholesale.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭Murt10


    eviltwin wrote: »
    I'd buy Lidl alcohol if I happen to be shopping there anyway. No way am I going to queue up though just to buy a bottle of wine if there is an offy up the road.

    That depends. Big article in the Sunday Business Post last Sunday.
    Since Superquinns stopped doing their big winesale after being taken over by Supervalue, there has been a huge gap in the market.


    In September Lidl are puttig on a major french wine sale. Bottles around E35 each. The papers wine critic reckoned some of these were a steal at that price.

    Won't be buying any at tbat price myself, but each to his own.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Murt10 wrote: »
    Since Superquinns stopped doing their big winesale after being taken over by Supervalue, there has been a huge gap in the market.


    In September Lidl are puttig on a major french wine sale. Bottles around E35 each. The papers wine critic reckoned some of these were a steal at that price.

    Won't be buying any at tbat price myself, but each to his own.

    Didn't see the article, but Superquinn/valu still do wine sales? I've bought plenty at them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭eire1


    Anybody got any ideas what is opening in the old school book shop? I drove past today and noticed that the old entrance had been bricked up and a new one put in facing out onto the car park.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭jeffk


    eire1 wrote:
    Anybody got any ideas what is opening in the old school book shop? I drove past today and noticed that the old entrance had been bricked up and a new one put in facing out onto the car park.


    The wool shop that use to be in newsread beside supervalu


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭1123heavy


    Is it just me or does anyone else notice that some of our fellow habitants have difficulty following the one way system outside the Dunnes Stores entrance? I ventured into the village yesterday afternoon and it was like standing in the middle of a bumper car platform.

    And I don't even know where to begin with the attempts at parallel parking I witnessed on the main street outside the pharmacy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    Anybody try that new restaurant/presecco bar in village opposite the Greyhound?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Typer Monkey


    py2006 wrote: »
    Anybody try that new restaurant/presecco bar in village opposite the Greyhound?

    Yeah have had dinner and brunch there. Found both very good, particularly the dinner menu. I'd recommend


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