Shop ST

Jammyd · 25-03-2005 7:27pm #1

was just wonderin did any1 notice the great job thats been carried out on the building on shop st trading as zerep.. I only wish they could do that to the rest of the street like patrick streets refurbishment in cork. taaffe's (i think thats how its spelt) looks s**t and really makes the street look rundown

Jammyd · 29-03-2005 5:12pm

seeming so no 1 else wants to reply i just thought id say hello to myself.. hi

dwayneburke · 29-03-2005 9:01pm

i agree :-)

Robbo · 30-03-2005 8:10am

Needs more gentrification and mobile phone shops.

fun bus · 27-04-2005 4:59pm

I for one agree-theres plenty of beautiful stonework all along shop st-tear down the plaster and let us see it! Galway is a medieval town-it should try to show that off-just like kilkenny does

Rredwell · 29-04-2005 7:39pm

Robbo wrote:

Needs more gentrification and mobile phone shops.

What, as opposed to our traditional shops like McCambridge's and Powell's (OK, so I know it's William Street)? We've already lost Tyler's (one of the oldest shops in Galway) to O2 (not to mention Moon's up the road and its eponymous Corner). The last thing we need is a Galwegian Grafton Street. <Shudder>

derv · 11-05-2005 3:18pm

Robbo wrote:

Needs more gentrification and mobile phone shops.

there's 3 within a 20metres of eachother!!

simu · 11-05-2005 4:59pm

Yeah, I hate mobile shops! It's not like you'd be buying one very often anyway so I don't know why they have to be in the busy streets.

LegacyUser · 12-05-2005 10:41am

Rredwell wrote:

The last thing we need is a Galwegian Grafton Street. <Shudder>

Well, with the price of rents in the city (particularly Shop Street), and the rate at which they're increasing, I think it's unavoidable that the big players will move in — they're the only ones who will be able to afford to be on Shop Street in years to come, unless the premises is family-owned.

Also, don't know if we've lost Moon's Corner — it might have adopted the parent stores name, but everyone I know still calls it Moon's Corner (I wonder what teenagers refer to it as???).

Rredwell · 14-05-2005 10:23pm

Buckfast wrote:

Also, don't know if we've lost Moon's Corner — it might have adopted the parent stores name, but everyone I know still calls it Moon's Corner (I wonder what teenagers refer to it as???).

Well, this teenager, for one, calls it Moon's Corner and Brown Thomas Corner, alternately.

fun bus · 31-05-2005 2:00am

my (non-galway) friends always have a go at me for calling it moon's, but as far as im concerned it still is. u cant change local history like that!
same for lydon house bakery (where zhivago is on shop street now)

Robbo · 31-05-2005 3:25am

Rredwell wrote:

What, as opposed to our traditional shops like McCambridge's and Powell's (OK, so I know it's William Street)? We've already lost Tyler's (one of the oldest shops in Galway) to O2 (not to mention Moon's up the road and its eponymous Corner). The last thing we need is a Galwegian Grafton Street. <Shudder>

Would a rolleyes smiley have avoided this misunderstanding?