Thurles

HcksawJimDuggan · 21-02-2018 10:21PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Big fine fella fantastic head of dark hair early 50s. Would be good looking if he was tidied up. May have a dog on a lead.
Tapping young fellas for fags non stop .
He’s great craic till he suddenly snaps. Then he’s a vicious thug. And he has the memory of an elephant even when pissed. He’s terrified some of the younger wastrels around the town . He’s wrecked all the houses he was given by the council so he’s homeless now.

Jasus I have yet to come across that gent. Sounds like I'm in for a treat.

the_pen_turner · 21-02-2018 10:37PM

anyone remember fransie . and his house on butler avenue

splinter65 · 21-02-2018 10:39PM

the_pen_turner wrote: »

anyone remember fransie . and his house on butler avenue

Lord have mercy on Francie. In the end he was just standing at the trolleys outside Tesco shouting “**** off” at everyone passing.
With his radio tuned to TippFm.

jooksavage · 22-02-2018 07:53AM

splinter65 wrote: »

You can blame all the wooly left wing hand wringing do-gooders who wagged their fingers at the government and told them to close down all the psychiatric hospitals and let people look after themselves.
Now we have “care in the community”. It’s a joke.

Not really the thread for this but that's not true. First of all, care in the community isn't the brainchild of "wooly left wing hand wringing do-gooders" - it's driven by volumes and volumes of medical research. Three generations of my family have worked in the psych services (mostly in Clonmel) and they all say things have improved no end in 30 years. My wife works in the community and would attest that incidents like the one above are rare. God forbid we go back to the days where we start packing away family members because "their nerves are at them".

splinter65 · 22-02-2018 11:49AM

jooksavage wrote: »

Not really the thread for this but that's not true. First of all, care in the community isn't the brainchild of "wooly left wing hand wringing do-gooders" - it's driven by volumes and volumes of medical research. Three generations of my family have worked in the psych services (mostly in Clonmel) and they all say things have improved no end in 30 years. My wife works in the community and would attest that incidents like the one above are rare. God forbid we go back to the days where we start packing away family members because "their nerves are at them".

I’m not taliking about people who are “bad with their nerves”
I’m talking about paranoid schizophrenics and people suffering with bi polar attending St Mary’s on a voluntary basis who may or may not be taking their meds.
I’m talking about elderly family members of these patients being expected to have them at home.
I’m talking about public service offices staffed with employees untrained in psychiatric nursing being treated as “drop in centers” by patients who have nowhere else to go especially in this cold weather.
That is the reality of care in the community in Thurles.

shmeee · 22-02-2018 12:29PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Big fine fella fantastic head of dark hair early 50s. Would be good looking if he was tidied up. May have a dog on a lead.
Tapping young fellas for fags non stop .
He’s great craic till he suddenly snaps. Then he’s a vicious thug. And he has the memory of an elephant even when pissed. He’s terrified some of the younger wastrels around the town . He’s wrecked all the houses he was given by the council so he’s homeless now.

He's an awful yoke, let's on he needs money as he is a chef and needs to buy ingredients.

He is always standing on side of road in square thumbing for a lift with a bag of cans. Barred from many shops in town for shop-lifting over the years.

I was at the ATM one night in Thurles lately and he came up and pissed right beside me, rotten bast**d. Pissed out of his brains.

Oops! · 23-02-2018 05:18PM

HcksawJimDuggan wrote: »

Any chance of a description so we know to avoid him?

The fella wandering around the place in a leather jacket and often sporting a black eye.

brightspark · 23-02-2018 05:18PM

The merger between the Thurles and Nenagh credit unions looks like happening soon

24-02-2018 11:56AM

brightspark wrote: »

The merger between the Thurles and Nenagh credit unions looks like happening soon

In the future you will possibly see the Clonmel Credit Union merging with both of those. It would be a pity to see the credit unions all turn into another bank tbh but at least their survival is guaranteed this way.

brightspark · 24-02-2018 12:50PM

Deleted User wrote: »

In the future you will possibly see the Clonmel Credit Union merging with both of those. It would be a pity to see the credit unions all turn into another bank tbh but at least their survival is guaranteed this way.

Yes, that's what I think will eventually happen, all the credit unions merge into one. Leaving us with just another bank/building society.

I think Credit Unions forgot why they were originally set up and now want to compete directly with banks, instead of fulfilling their original functions

jooksavage · 05-03-2018 07:35AM

Anyone think the Christmas lights will be down before Easter? 4 months up and no sign of them coming down. I'm not complaining - Iove Xmas lights and it's only a pity they didn't turn them in for the snow last week.

Grab All Association · 05-03-2018 10:37AM

They left them up for 3-4 years once.

splinter65 · 05-03-2018 11:20AM

jooksavage wrote: »

Anyone think the Christmas lights will be down before Easter? 4 months up and no sign of them coming down. I'm not complaining - Iove Xmas lights and it's only a pity they didn't turn them in for the snow last week.

I wouldn’t imagine it’s a priority for the council this week.

jooksavage · 05-03-2018 03:55PM

Grab All Association wrote: »

They left them up for 3-4 years once.

Really? When was this? Did they just turn them on every year and they worked after sitting there for month?

Grab All Association · 05-03-2018 06:43PM

Around 2007-10 I think. They were up for years. Many were broken. They eventually bought new lights.

HcksawJimDuggan · 10-03-2018 07:30PM

brightspark wrote: »

Yes, that's what I think will eventually happen, all the credit unions merge into one. Leaving us with just another bank/building society.

I think Credit Unions forgot why they were originally set up and now want to compete directly with banks, instead of fulfilling their original functions

Any word on how the Nenagh vote went this evening?

splinter65 · 10-03-2018 07:35PM

HcksawJimDuggan wrote: »

Any word on how the Nenagh vote went this evening?

What’s going on in the premier hall?

HcksawJimDuggan · 10-03-2018 08:58PM

splinter65 wrote: »

What’s going on in the premier hall?

Not sure. Thurles vote on merger was not due to be held until Monday. Just saw on Twitter that Nenagh voted against the merger though.

Purple Mountain · 10-03-2018 09:04PM

splinter65 wrote: »

HcksawJimDuggan wrote: »

Any word on how the Nenagh vote went this evening?

What’s going on in the premier hall?

Fine Gael convention.

brightspark · 10-03-2018 09:22PM

HcksawJimDuggan wrote: »

Not sure. Thurles vote on merger was not due to be held until Monday. Just saw on Twitter that Nenagh voted against the merger though.

I think if either vote against the merger it can't happen.

I was hoping to go to the meeting, but as they are holding on it Monday I won't be able to make it.

It was decent of Nenagh to hold the meeting on a night when more people would be able to go.

Grab All Association · 27-03-2018 10:50PM

State of the art LIT tennis courts which I’ll be honest I can’t wait for and apparently Costcutter on Friar Street is becoming SuperValu (again) I don’t know if that’s true as I’m on holidays.

the_pen_turner · 27-03-2018 10:52PM

i heard about the super value thing a while back so it could be true

the_pen_turner · 27-03-2018 10:52PM

have they started doing the car park off the square. they were digging something there today

Grab All Association · 27-03-2018 11:01PM

I preferred the L&N before Musgraves bought them out. That’s how McKevitt’ ended up with the Friar Street store. SuperValu would buy competitors and then lease/sell the stores to “franchisees”. Most recently Superquinn stores. What was very unusual was they saved SuperValu Poppyfields Clonmel but not SuperValu in Nenagh.

mikep · 28-03-2018 11:02AM

I'd be delighted to see a SuperValu go into costcutter, I had heard it was closing down so at least this will avoid another large abandoned building in the town.

lisasimpson · 30-03-2018 02:15PM

Id love to see supervalu go in there too. The good supervalu stores can have a good deli and bakery counters.

splinter65 · 30-03-2018 07:32PM

Rumor has it that Heatons Elvereys and Joanne’s and Stakelums Ladies Fashions are all gone from the Sqaure.

lisasimpson · 30-03-2018 07:36PM

Elverys moving to shopping centre.joannes is retirement hadnt heard about the other 2

Purple Mountain · 30-03-2018 10:17PM

I had to pass through Thurles today. Has anyone noticed the duck family on the mall?
Literally the parents and their babies crossing over and back the road outside Lar na Pairce.
Traffic had to stop and swerve them.
They're going to get killed.

Grab All Association · 30-03-2018 10:21PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Rumor has it that Heatons Elvereys and Joanne’s and Stakelums Ladies Fashions are all gone from the Sqaure.

Heatons are planning to extend the store upstairs. Most likely renamed SportsDirect. They may close temporarily as I believe there’ll be an lift installed too. Plans submitted to NTCC

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