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    #4862
    g1983d
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭g1983d


    Castle street is becoming very empty and run down looking, I thought the council had some powers to take over empty units if they were not being maintained ?


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    #4863
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Why’s that?

    Shop was closed today... black bags covering windows and sign on door saying closed for stocktake.

    ... passing by after 4pm and the stock was being loaded into a van...can't count stock if the shop is empty


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    #4864
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Panda Killa wrote: »
    Shop was closed today... black bags covering windows and sign on door saying closed for stocktake.

    ... passing by after 4pm and the stock was being loaded into a van...can't count stock if the shop is empty

    Oh no, that's not good. Sad to see them close, I liked that shop. Not nice for the staff.


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    #4865
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Oh no, that's not good. Sad to see them close, I liked that shop. Not nice for the staff.

    Yep, hopefully I'm wrong, always get a few bits in there


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    #4866
    adam88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭adam88


    Panda Killa wrote: »
    Yep, hopefully I'm wrong, always get a few bits in there

    That’s a shop that could fit well into rock st and enjoy cheaper rates and rents


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    #4867
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Does anyone know if the new toddler are of the playground is opened yet? It’s looked finished for a couple of months now but they have had it closed off. A few time that we were there the barriers were open and kids playing but a council worker came along and asked everyone to leave and closed the barriers again. I don’t know what the delay is.

    Apparently they are gong tot be upgrading all the playground but no sign of it yet. The baby/toddler swings are in awful condition with huge cracks. I hope they replace them soon.


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    #4868
    g1983d
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭g1983d


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Does anyone know if the new toddler are of the playground is opened yet? It’s looked finished for a couple of months now but they have had it closed off. A few time that we were there the barriers were open and kids playing but a council worker came along and asked everyone to leave and closed the barriers again. I don’t know what the delay is.

    Apparently they are gong tot be upgrading all the playground but no sign of it yet. The baby/toddler swings are in awful condition with huge cracks. I hope they replace them soon.

    It was open today


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    #4869
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    g1983d wrote: »
    It was open today

    Yeah my husband brought our little boy down and said it was all fully open now.


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    #4870
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Yeah my husband brought our little boy down and said it was all fully open now.

    Where are you talking about?


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    #4871
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Maliah Bald Reptile wrote: »
    Where are you talking about?

    There was a new section added onto the playground in the town park. It’s more an area for toddlers with some new climbing frames etc.


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    #4872
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    Unfortunately, Art & Hobby was all locked up this morn when I passed by


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    #4873
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Panda Killa wrote: »
    Unfortunately, Art & Hobby was all locked up this morn when I passed by

    They just confirmed the closure on their Facebook page. Awful.


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    #4874
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    I read that Dan Healy butchers in St. Brendan's park is closing due to retirement. They are next to the Burger Shack and I saw a post on the Burger Shack page a few weeks ago saying they would be doing a refurbishment this year, so perhaps they are going to expand into the butchers unit!

    How long has that butchers been open? It seems like they have always been there, so must be at least 30 years?


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    #4875
    Pirates Ale
    Registered Users Posts: 428 ✭✭Pirates Ale


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    I read that Dan Healy butchers in St. Brendan's park is closing due to retirement. They are next to the Burger Shack and I saw a post on the Burger Shack page a few weeks ago saying they would be doing a refurbishment this year, so perhaps they are going to expand into the butchers unit!

    How long has that butchers been open? It seems like they have always been there, so must be at least 30 years?
    That butchers is there as long as I can remember!
    Its surprising that none of the staff would want to keep it going, as it seems to do a good trade
    There is a unit between the Burger Shack and Sure alarms idle too, the BS use it as a store, so that could be in there plans too


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    #4876
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    So there are plans to turn the old Specsavers unit...and the petstore in courthouse lane into 1 casino....
    can't see too many local business owners being in favour of that....if you ask the ladies who work in Playland (the old Rambling House building) the type of people that frequent their casino...well lets just say they don't sing their praises


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    #4877
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Panda Killa wrote: »
    So there are plans to turn the old Specsavers unit...and the petstore in courthouse lane into 1 casino....
    can't see too many local business owners being in favour of that....if you ask the ladies who work in Playland (the old Rambling House building) the type of people that frequent their casino...well lets just say they don't sing their praises

    Castle street has really gone downhill in the last few years. It was always nicknamed Chinatown but it's looking more like Harlem these days. A place like that wouldn't help matters.


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    #4878
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    carchaeologist wrote: »
    Castle street has really gone downhill in the last few years. It was always nicknamed Chinatown but it's looking more like Harlem these days. A place like that wouldn't help matters.

    Ghost town or Tumbleweed Street would be a more appropriate name. If the council give a tacky casino planning permission, then they are really giving the two fingers to the people of Tralee!


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    #4879
    kn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,867 ✭✭✭kn


    ongarboy wrote: »
    Ghost town or Tumbleweed Street would be a more appropriate name. If the council give a tacky casino planning permission, then they are really giving the two fingers to the people of Tralee!

    Not going to happen. The Council have a policy against 'dead' shop fronts in the main retail areas.


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    #4880
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    I quickly read a headline in the kerryman while I was shopping that said something about the casino and that the owner said it wouldn’t cause anti social behaviour. Im not sure if its this unit it’s referring to? Anyone read the whole article?


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    #4881
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    kn wrote: »
    Not going to happen. The Council have a policy against 'dead' shop fronts in the main retail areas.

    Funny enough and many of the shops completely dead up there now.
    Even Bernard Casey had a pop at how the town is gone down at his last show in the INEC.


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    #4882
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    The building beside the Brogue won't be part of the bar..it's going to be a butchers and deli and is an existing butcher in town who will be relocating


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    #4883
    Clab mor
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Clab mor


    Panda Killa wrote: »
    The building beside the Brogue won't be part of the bar..it's going to be a butchers and deli and is an existing butcher in town who will be relocating

    Matt the butcher


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    #4884
    adam88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭adam88


    Good buzz around the town today. Felt a bit like killarney lol


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    #4885
    TigerTim
    Registered Users Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭TigerTim


    Heard that Stoker's Lodge was closing/closed. Any truth?.

    T.


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    #4886
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    TigerTim wrote: »
    Heard that Stoker's Lodge was closing/closed. Any truth?.

    T.

    It's gone .. rumour is thattl it's been trading for quite a while without a license ..so it's either closing to renew...or it's gone completely...time will tell


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    #4887
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    That’s awful. It’s been an awful start to the year for the town.


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    #4888
    kn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,867 ✭✭✭kn


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    That’s awful. It’s been an awful start to the year for the town.

    Worst for sure since the depths of the recession. But I think its most reflective of changing shopping habits. I know if I'm looking for clothes etc I turn online first and then only check it against the price in Sports Direct in store etc. And almost in every case its cheaper online. Now the deliveries are becoming more of a pain with them needed it to be signed but if your not at home they will phone and ask if its OK to leave at the door.


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    #4889
    Adiboo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Noticed a patch of 'unslippy' pavement outside Byrnesworth's in the Square. This must be the trial in new surface the Council announced a while back. Much nicer to walk on when wet I think anyway.


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    #4890
    kn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,867 ✭✭✭kn


    Adiboo wrote: »
    Noticed a patch of 'unslippy' pavement outside Byrnesworth's in the Square. This must be the trial in new surface the Council announced a while back. Much nicer to walk on when wet I think anyway.

    Noticed it as well. Really needed in wet weather down there. The Council have come a long way from denying there was no problem down there whatsoever as good as implying it was all in our imagination. Only to come out recently to admit that there are I think 27 was the number of claims in in relation to falls on the square.


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    #4891
    g1983d
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭g1983d


    kn wrote: »
    Noticed it as well. Really needed in wet weather down there. The Council have come a long way from denying there was no problem down there whatsoever as good as implying it was all in our imagination. Only to come out recently to admit that there are I think 27 was the number of claims in in relation to falls on the square.

    At the rate businesses are closing in the town centre due to rent, rates and insurance they wont need to worry about anyone slipping in the square


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