The Tipp Town Thread

Paddico

New restaurant in Tipp town.
Lovely food there last Saturday night

Xenophile

Wishing the best of luck to the new restaurant, it would be great to have a good restaurant in the area !

johnb25

Paddico wrote:

New restaurant in Tipp town. Lovely food there last Saturday night

What's it called & where is it?

tipptom

Bit expensive for me

callaway92

tipptom wrote: »

Bit expensive for me

Nice name

Xenophile

https://www.tripadvisor.ie/Restaurant_Review-g190754-d10481860-Reviews-Prime_74_Restaurant-Tipperary_County_Tipperary.html

PacMan

Its beautiful.
The Manager is called Claire, and is such a wonderful and professional person. I do hope that Tipp Town residents gives it the support is really deserves,
.

cml387

Was that not a pub years ago? The front looks very familiar?

blackbird99

was a pub back in the 70's as far as i know

blackbird99

view of the inside if link works https://www.google.ie/maps/@52.4739184,-8.1606417,3a,75y,209.16h,75.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3QY_mmRULIUAAAQvvf-zjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Paddico

A minimum of 37000 euro to half pedestrianize 25 meters of Kickham Place and make it one way.
Now there’s calls to reverse this

http://www.nationalist.ie/news/home/232148/retailers-call-for-reversal-of-tipp-town-plaza.html

Black_Ninja

Paddico wrote: »

A minimum of 37000 euro to half pedestrianize 25 meters of Kickham Place and make it one way.
Now there’s calls to reverse this

http://www.nationalist.ie/news/home/232148/retailers-call-for-reversal-of-tipp-town-plaza.html

Mattie McGrath stated last week he learned the project has run to over €300,000!!!

Paddico

Black_Ninja wrote: »

Paddico wrote: »

A minimum of 37000 euro to half pedestrianize 25 meters of Kickham Place and make it one way.
Now there’s calls to reverse this

http://www.nationalist.ie/news/home/232148/retailers-call-for-reversal-of-tipp-town-plaza.html

Mattie McGrath stated last week he learned the project has run to over €300,000!!!

Disgraceful if true. 100 projects that could be done in Tipp ahead of this one

Paddico

Tipperary Town in the sunshine

Expunge

Is that the White Elephant Excel Centre that many people in Tipp Town are calling for the council to bail out (again)?
How's it going now?

Paddico

Its the Excel Centre alright but its actually a gem in the town like Tipperary. Lovely Cafe, meeting spot, cinema/theatre, gift shop and now the town Library is going in there.
Never heard the white elephant bit or request to bail it out.

Where did you hear it?

Expunge

That place has been lurching from crisis to crisis for years. Court cases over a decade ago with one of the builders who wanted to appoint an examiner to the company.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/troubled-heritage-centre-agrees-terms-with-builder-1.368123

The cinema technology became obsolete and that was to close a few years ago.

As usual with these things, the state had to ride to the rescue in the form of Tipp Co. Council to take a hand in running it.

And then we had the outcry when it was to be closed for 6 months this year to facilitate the building of the Library in there. 1,200 people signed a petition, apparently. Pity they all wouldn't go in there and buy a cup of coffee and a cinema ticket.

It's a fantastic facility but I don' think our local authority should be in the business of propping up coffee shops and cinemas. There are private companies who will do it (if it's viable)

Tipp Co. Council could start with the disgraceful street surfaces of Tipp Town before it goes moving libraries into someone else's ill-conceived vanity project from nearly 20 years ago.

digzy

Expunge wrote: »

That place has been lurching from crisis to crisis for years. Court cases over a decade ago with one of the builders who wanted to appoint an examiner to the company.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/troubled-heritage-centre-agrees-terms-with-builder-1.368123

The cinema technology became obsolete and that was to close a few years ago.

As usual with these things, the state had to ride to the rescue in the form of Tipp Co. Council to take a hand in running it.

And then we had the outcry when it was to be closed for 6 months this year to facilitate the building of the Library in there. 1,200 people signed a petition, apparently. Pity they all wouldn't go in there and buy a cup of coffee and a cinema ticket.

It's a fantastic facility but I don' think our local authority should be in the business of propping up coffee shops and cinemas. There are private companies who will do it (if it's viable)

Tipp Co. Council could start with the disgraceful street surfaces of Tipp Town before it goes moving libraries into someone else's ill-conceived vanity project from nearly 20 years ago.

Excellent post. Agree with all of that.
It's al lot easier be a keyboard warrior moaning about the place instead of actually patronising the excel as you mentioned.

Tipperary is an excellent town in terms of facilities. Two things killing it are lack of employment and the n24 running right through it.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Expunge wrote: »

That place has been lurching from crisis to crisis for years. Court cases over a decade ago with one of the builders who wanted to appoint an examiner to the company.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/troubled-heritage-centre-agrees-terms-with-builder-1.368123

The cinema technology became obsolete and that was to close a few years ago.

As usual with these things, the state had to ride to the rescue in the form of Tipp Co. Council to take a hand in running it.

And then we had the outcry when it was to be closed for 6 months this year to facilitate the building of the Library in there. 1,200 people signed a petition, apparently. Pity they all wouldn't go in there and buy a cup of coffee and a cinema ticket.

It's a fantastic facility but I don' think our local authority should be in the business of propping up coffee shops and cinemas. There are private companies who will do it (if it's viable)

Tipp Co. Council could start with the disgraceful street surfaces of Tipp Town before it goes moving libraries into someone else's ill-conceived vanity project from nearly 20 years ago.

The cafe is great, I go there quite often for wraps/coffee/scones.

The cinema is it's own worst enemy though, I've had nothing but negative experiences with the place. High concentration of noisy scummy people every time I've been there, the screens are small, the sound is rattly, the place can be freezing, the popcorn/coke combo large size is the same size as the small in every other cinema...I mean its popcorn, it costs literally a few cents.

I've been in the main cinema (1) for various functions/meetings etc and that's great too, It's a pity the cinema side just appears to be run shoddily. I'd like to support it but with the negative experiences I've had there it's easier go to Limerick.

digzy

Hunky Monster wrote: »

The cafe is great, I go there quite often for wraps/coffee/scones.

The cinema is it's own worst enemy though, I've had nothing but negative experiences with the place. High concentration of noisy scummy people every time I've been there, the screens are small, the sound is rattly, the place can be freezing, the popcorn/coke combo large size is the same size as the small in every other cinema...I mean its popcorn, it costs literally a few cents.

I've been in the main cinema (1) for various functions/meetings etc and that's great too, It's a pity the cinema side just appears to be run shoddily. I'd like to support it but with the negative experiences I've had there it's easier go to Limerick.

Tbf people are entitled to go wherever they want.
As the poster said, maybe some of those 1200 who 'signed the petition' on social media with their faux outrage ought have physically supported the place....

flutered

tipp town is slowly dying, fone and charity shops abound, many members and ex members of the town council need stripping of their fancy pensions for their past and continued neglect of the place

Harcrid

Couldn't agree more about the road surface. Pass through town every day and I can't believe the whole town has not been resurfaced yet. It's awful.

Black_Ninja

Supposedly there is an allocation of funds to resurface the road through Tipp Town from the Dunnes Stores roundabout to the graveyard on the Cashel road.

Irish Water are holding it up as they have to replace some lead piping in the town. Work is due to start in June and last up to 6 months so it'll be early next year before anything done.

Einstein A. Gogo

What's happened to the pubs in Tipperary? Was there on Monday and many were closed. Even a big one, kielys.

flutered

Einstein A. Gogo wrote: »

What's happened to the pubs in Tipperary? Was there on Monday and many were closed. Even a big one, kielys.

the recession, how many buisneses closed to be replaced by fone and charity shops, lack of spending money, the price of drink, a bottle of sspirits is 20-25 lids, two or three can have a might night at home in front of thir tv, what would the same money purchase for twwo or three in a pub, the having to watch whatever a bored barperson was watching, which perhaps the punter would never watch at home

Samsgirl

Investment is badly needed to bring people into the town.
I have to go Limerick / Waterford to buy clothes for my kids. Dunnes is okay but sometimes they don't have a good range.

Penny's would be great!

Einstein A. Gogo

Why would anyone invest in the town if the locals won't shop locally? Why have all the shops closed? Because everyone is going to Clonmel or Limerick to shop!!!

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Einstein A. Gogo wrote: »

Why would anyone invest in the town if the locals won't shop locally? Why have all the shops closed? Because everyone is going to Clonmel or Limerick to shop!!!

The rates in the town are a huge issue as to why most of the smaller shops have closed. Parking is another issue as is the appalling permanent traffic jam. Building the likes of Tesco and Dunnes on the edge of the town has also added to the exodus.

High unemployment rate.
No factory in the town.
Piss poor facilities of any kind.

It's not a case of people "not bothering" to shop in the town, it's any number of those factors.

flutered

i failed to buy a voda sim card there last week

digzy

flutered wrote: »

i failed to buy a voda sim card there last week

Jesus, you're just bursting with positivity aren't ya

Samsgirl

Einstein A. Gogo wrote: »

Why would anyone invest in the town if the locals won't shop locally? Why have all the shops closed? Because everyone is going to Clonmel or Limerick to shop!!!

Vicious circle. Local leave to shop as there aren't any good shops there. Old fashioned boutiques aren't suitable for kids clothes or even young people in general.

If the shops were there, locals would support them.