Shops/Businesses opening/closing INFO thread

biko · 11-06-2018 8:41am #1

This thread is for information about shops, restaurants and other businesses you have seen opening or closing.

It is not for hearsay ("someone told me X or Y is about to close") but for your own personal observations.

It is not for speculations on why a place closed/opened

Please be civil at all times to other boardsies and to the proprietors of the business.

Please don't chat, remember this thread is for information to others only what shops you have seen opening or closing.
It is not for questions, chat or discussions

Thargor · 15-06-2018 9:28am

Why is there a new thread?

youngrun · 15-06-2018 10:24am

Thargor wrote: »

Why is there a new thread?

Old one closed down...

15-06-2018 10:40am

Link to previous thread

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056961961/82/#post107265373

ben.schlomo · 15-06-2018 11:13am

Thargor wrote: »

Why is there a new thread?

Because people went off topic, rambling about stuff not related to the topic.

iPear, buy,sell, repair. Opening on abbeygate St opposite Olga's.

martinkop · 15-06-2018 12:14pm

Anyone know where new American Golf shop going? Saw jobs advertised for positions in Galway but where is the shop going?

westgolf · 15-06-2018 1:09pm

New shop unit seems to have opened beside matt o flaherty chemist in Barna. Hotel Home is the name on the window but looks like a gift type set-up. Only spotted it because pedestrian lights were red so open to correction on type of business.

15-06-2018 1:17pm

Le Paradis Club on Dominic Street will be closing to be replaced by a reopened Taylor's bar according to the Connacht Tribune.

xckjoo · 15-06-2018 1:22pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Le Paradis Club on Dominic Street will be closing to be replaced by a reopened Taylor's bar according to the Connacht Tribune.

Cool. Hadn't even heard it was sold. Here's the link: http://connachttribune.ie/new-owner-to-restore-landmark-taylors-bar-to-its-former-glory-101/

Who's this Johnny Duggan lad? Does he own other places around town?

15-06-2018 1:25pm

He runs an Pucan according to the media.

biko · 15-06-2018 1:49pm

xckjoo wrote: »

Who's this Johnny Duggan lad? Does he own other places around town?

Deleted User wrote: »

He runs an Pucan according to the media.

Source http://connachttribune.ie/ex-bank-goes-from-boom-to-bunks-689/

and the new business will be operated by Shay Livingstone and Johnathan Duggan, who already run the Connacht Hotel and An Púc

but let's not focus on people, this thread is for information on shops closing/opening

smurf492 · 16-06-2018 4:07am

Deleted User wrote:

Le Paradis Club on Dominic Street will be closing to be replaced by a reopened Taylor's bar according to the Connacht Tribune.

Delighted... Return the west to some of its former glory as opposed to the seediness that has developed...

16-06-2018 7:44am

I should say that the article doesn't say that the strip club is closing - it might move somewhere else in case anyone is worried.

Mrs OBumble · 16-06-2018 1:52pm

smurf492 wrote: »

Delighted... Return the west to some of its former glory as opposed to the seediness that has developed...

Its being done by the lad responsible for An Pucan's makeover.

Former glory or glorious new future remains to be seen.

cfeeneyinterior · 16-06-2018 6:57pm

Home gallery in newtownsmith are closing\moving to an undisclosed location.... https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155595840130835&id=181524435834

GerardKeating · 17-06-2018 7:17am

As posted on Facebook

“Tony Kealys has reluctantly and sadly made the decision to close our Galway store as it has not traded as well as expected.

As a result we are having a closing down sale. All display stock must go! Call into the store in Briarhill Business Park, Ballybrit for more information.

The store is open Friday & Saturday 9.30am - 6pm and Sunday 12pm -6pm only until further notice.”

flazio · 17-06-2018 10:27am

It's a pram shop in case anyone was wondering.

joeKel73 · 17-06-2018 11:50am

Meubles furniture store officially opened in Ballybrit last weekend, not sure if they'd been open before that.

Includes a nice large cafe on the top floor - very welcome option for anyone working in the Ballybrit/Parkmore area.

ben.schlomo · 17-06-2018 1:10pm

J o e wrote: »

Meubles furniture store officially opened in Ballybrit last weekend, not sure if they'd been open before that.

Includes a nice large cafe on the top floor - very welcome option for anyone working in the Ballybrit/Parkmore area.

Three or four months open at this stage, a very late grand opening.

flazio · 17-06-2018 1:44pm

Probably belongs in the City just crazy thread but I don't like how they get to use a traffic information sign to advertise themselves.

17-06-2018 2:28pm

flazio wrote: »

Probably belongs in the City just crazy thread but I don't like how they get to use a traffic information sign to advertise themselves.

Let me tell you a story about CityLiving.........

joeKel73 · 17-06-2018 4:16pm

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Three or four months open at this stage, a very late grand opening.

Was the cafe open for a while too? Pass it every day but hadn't heard of it until the big sign went out on the dual carriageway.

zell12 · 17-06-2018 4:20pm

Advertising works
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ben.schlomo · 17-06-2018 4:51pm

J o e wrote: »

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Three or four months open at this stage, a very late grand opening.

Was the cafe open for a while too? Pass it every day but hadn't heard of it until the big sign went out on the dual carriageway.

It was due to open ages ago but when we were in there about two months or more ago there was no sign of it.

Mrs OBumble · 17-06-2018 6:25pm

off topic

Thargor · 17-06-2018 6:32pm

Off topic

biko · 17-06-2018 9:27pm

Please stay on topic

Whereisgalway · 17-06-2018 10:38pm

Off topic

cfeeneyinterior · 23-06-2018 9:24am

May as well unfollow this thread now so. It was one of the few active threads on here and now it's just bullet points and no discuss for some reason. It's getting quieter and quieter on here these days for this reason...

westgolf · 23-06-2018 5:19pm

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

May as well unfollow this thread now so. It was one of the few active threads on here and now it's just bullet points and no discuss for some reason. It's getting quieter and quieter on here these days for this reason...

What I've noticed is that the forum tends to go quiet and then one of the regular posters puts up something. This normally leads to a series of posts as people put up openings n closings they have noted but not posted about n then it calms down again.

Gadgetman496 · 27-06-2018 10:24am

City Direct Bus has closed its Depot on the Rahoon Road.

Their new location is

City Direct Bus Ltd.
Lough Atalia Road,
Galway City,
Co. Galway

H91 CDD8

Tel: +353 (0)91 564 776

jenno86 · 28-06-2018 9:30am

Paddy Poutine on Dominick St has been "closed for maintenance" for well over a month now.

Redo91 · 28-06-2018 1:07pm

jenno86 wrote: »

Paddy Poutine on Dominick St has been "closed for maintenance" for well over a month now.

Jesus was it open a month even?

sammyjo90 · 28-06-2018 2:45pm

My sister would know them very well and they are indeed closed still for maintenance. Been told a lot of work is needed to put in proper toilet facilities.

Mrs OBumble · 28-06-2018 3:17pm

sammyjo90 wrote: »

My sister would know them very well and they are indeed closed still for maintenance. Been told a lot of work is needed to put in proper toilet facilities.

When was the planning granted?

28-06-2018 7:36pm

'PLANS TO BE LODGED FOR €250M DEVELOPMENT AT CROWN CONTROL SITE IN MERVUE
The anchor of the project will be a ‘business campus’ style development that will accommodate over 3 thousand workers.

Also included in the plans will be several hundred residental units, a 170 bedroom hotel, and a public square similar in size to Eyre Square'
https://galwaybayfm.ie/plans-to-be-lodged-for-e250m-development-at-crown-control-site-in-mervue/

This strikes me as overdevelopment - I can't imagine the traffic heading to it for nine am.

Mrs OBumble · 28-06-2018 8:39pm

Deleted User wrote: »

This strikes me as overdevelopment - I can't imagine the traffic heading to it for nine am.

It's a huge site, and currently a massive hole in the ground doing nothing for anybody.

On three different bus routes already (one from a regional town, ) one of which is tipped to increase in frequency.

There's a housing shortage. Businesses are struggling to find suitable office space, and also hotel rooms for visiting workers. Hopefully many people living there can walk to work either in the park itself or in the Mervue or Ballybrit industrial areas.

I'd worry about the big open space ... could become a magnet for all sorts of interesting activities.

bodhrandude · 29-06-2018 2:21pm

A new French cafe/bakery opening soon in Terryland called C'est la Vie, next to the Paul Byrons Shoe Shop and EZ Living.

xckjoo · 29-06-2018 2:51pm

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

It's a huge site, and currently a massive hole in the ground doing nothing for anybody.

On three different bus routes already (one from a regional town, ) one of which is tipped to increase in frequency.

There's a housing shortage. Businesses are struggling to find suitable office space, and also hotel rooms for visiting workers. Hopefully many people living there can walk to work either in the park itself or in the Mervue or Ballybrit industrial areas.

I'd worry about the big open space ... could become a magnet for all sorts of interesting activities.

Why?

D Trent · 29-06-2018 2:54pm

xckjoo wrote: »

Why?

Skateboarders

In fairness I'd much rather skateboarders than what I saw In front of Collins barracks dublin passing on the bus yesterday.

Lots of 'winos' skulling cans with their shirts off on the nice green.

beardybrewer · 29-06-2018 2:58pm

The last thing we need is open-spaces for users to shoot up in front of everyone. Studies have conclusively proven playgrounds breed anti-social behaviour. Obviously we need more heavily planted, secluded areas like Terryland Park for safety and for the sake of the children.

D Trent · 29-06-2018 3:06pm

beardybrewer wrote: »

The last thing we need is open-spaces for users to shoot up in front of everyone. Studies have conclusively proven playgrounds breed anti-social behaviour. Obviously we need more heavily planted, secluded areas like Terryland Park for safety and for the sake of the children.

Bit drastic no ?

Maybe more patrolling Gardai and a security guard or two

westgolf · 29-06-2018 3:17pm

Was courts service not looking at moving out to this site at one stage ? Holding area in the basement and courts at ground and first floor type setup.

PLL · 30-06-2018 11:25am

Salthill Social received a closure order from a health inspector and is closed. Instagram page has completely evaporated too. I was really looking forward to trying there, marketing was good and they did a free kids meal with adult meal.

Probably a good thing we didn't frequent there though, my other half is a chef and he said to get an immediate CO there has be serious health risk violations.

https://www.galwaydaily.com/news/one-galway-restaurant-closed/

Mrs OBumble · 30-06-2018 2:03pm

D Trent wrote: »

Bit drastic no ?

Maybe more patrolling Gardai and a security guard or two

Neither of which will be provided for an office / apartment complex.

My concern is that the the developer knows what they want to build there, but doesn't want to tell the planners until they have permission for the first part, or apartment buyers until they have purchased.

Not good practise.

Mervue already has plenty of open space

westgolf · 30-06-2018 2:19pm

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Neither of which will be provided for an office / apartment complex.

My concern is that the the developer knows what they want to build there, but doesn't want to tell the planners until they have permission for the first part, or apartment buyers until they have purchased.

Not good practise.

Mervue already has plenty of open space

If he builds it as big as his press release says it will need all the open space for the numbers of people he is suggesting between homeowners living and employees working there.

Mrs OBumble · 30-06-2018 9:00pm

Aran sweater market has opened in the building site at the bottom of Quay St. Glass floor by the counter lets you see some of the historic basement.

01-07-2018 8:59pm

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Mervue already has plenty of open space

Your logic is baffling sometimes

gordongekko · 05-07-2018 2:12pm

Coffee club beside cps is now open and the unit 2 doors up is being worked on and will be opening as a cafe

Pen Rua · 05-07-2018 2:18pm

Bótown (a new burger place on Dominick Street)!is opening on July 6.

https://www.facebook.com/188517818629029/posts/233803897433754/

TerrorFirmer · 05-07-2018 2:52pm

Pen Rua wrote: »

Bótown (a new burger place on Dominick Street)!is opening on July 6.

https://www.facebook.com/188517818629029/posts/233803897433754/

Being co-run by crime/court reporter Frank Greaney, randomly enough!

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