Tralee thread

Erik Shun · 14-05-2019 03:05PM

bobdcow wrote: »

any reason for this? I didn't visit often but I have fond memories of my 1st taco fries there!

The official reason is the skyrocketing insurance costs... but since Xmas they had been shutting on Monday and Tuesday quite a lot , so maybe just a downturn in business is also contributing to this decision

ongarboy · 14-05-2019 04:29PM

according to the Tralee Do you know page on Facebook, Abrakebabra are actually opening again tomorrow - the manager posted an update...must have gotten a reduced insurance quote in the meantime!

I have to admit, I do love their taco fries!!

The same page says Ela Maria boutique next to Shaws is closing down. I'd have thought that would've been a better location than Rock Street where they were for years. What with Caballs closing and Val's long shut and Dunnes across the way, there will be tumbleweed blowing through the street soon.....

Erik Shun · 14-05-2019 05:16PM

ongarboy wrote: »

according to the Tralee Do you know page on Facebook, Abrakebabra are actually opening again tomorrow - the manager posted an update...must have gotten a reduced insurance quote in the meantime!

I have to admit, I do love their taco fries!!

The same page says Ela Maria boutique next to Shaws is closing down. I'd have thought that would've been a better location than Rock Street where they were for years. What with Caballs closing and Val's long shut and Dunnes across the way, there will be tumbleweed blowing through the street soon.....

Ella Maria's rent was up for review I believe...so that again could be a factor

Ciarrai76 · 14-05-2019 10:37PM

Thankfully the road works in Boherbee/Castle Street are nearly finished. They are currently resurfacing all the areas they dug up as they only had temporary tarmac down and they are now properly relaying it.
I was speaking to a man working for the contractor who was brought down from another job up the country. They should have been finished over a week ago! He pretty much said it hadn’t been managed properly, there was a lot issues and a lot of complaints. He couldn’t believe that no meeting had been set up with businesses and residents at the start to inform them of what was to be done etc. He said that’s what they usually do. And that more information and updates should have been given too. He was very nice and apologetic for all the problems it had caused. Obviously the work had to be done and he showed us a photo of the state of the old pipes and how bad they were. The amount of dirt and gunk inside them was shocking.
It will be great to have the road cleared once they finish this section.

stop animal cruelty · 14-05-2019 11:39PM

I heard the Aqua dome is set to close its doors also??

Ciarrai76 · 14-05-2019 11:44PM

stop animal cruelty wrote: »

I heard the Aqua dome is set to close its doors also??

No they’re not closing. They just celebrated 25 years in business today! They have mentioned they could be forced to close due to the increasing insurance costs, mainly due to the claim culture. Hopefully they won’t have to close though.

adam88 · 15-05-2019 04:43PM

Either something is done soon or Tralee is going to end up like towns in the midlands. For a town the size of Tralee it should be bustling with activity. Years of mismanagement on the part of the town council and allowing buildings run into disrepair, just look at castle street for example.

Ciarrai76 · 15-05-2019 05:51PM

adam88 wrote: »

Either something is done soon or Tralee is going to end up like towns in the midlands. For a town the size of Tralee it should be bustling with activity. Years of mismanagement on the part of the town council and allowing buildings run into disrepair, just look at castle street for example.

The council can't quite grasp the connection between their ridiculously high rates in the town and the reason why there are so many empty units.

Ciarrai76 · 15-05-2019 05:52PM

Finally the sections of the Oakpark road, which were resurfaced in November 2018, had the road markings painted yesterday. It only took them 6 months!

ComputerTech · 15-05-2019 06:07PM

Well said Adem88 ... "NOW" is the ideal time for the people of Tralee to get off there ass and elect some NEW BLOOD into the Town council ...with the local election only a week or so away.
The Bridge Street end of the town will soon end up looking the very same as the other end with shop closing ... nothing being done ... like of the Old Dunne Store left for years to to fall apart and STICK SOME GLOSSY IMAGES ONTO THE WINDOWS AND FOOL PEOPLE .... THE VERY SAME WITH THE Old Paint shop on the corner of Castle St and so on.
Get the same old faces off the council .... bring in the young bright and intelligent young men and woman of Tralee .... give them a chance after all THEY ARE THE FUTURE

Ciarrai76 · 15-05-2019 06:14PM

ComputerTech wrote: »

Well said Adem88 ... "NOW" is the ideal time for the people of Tralee to get off there ass and elect some NEW BLOOD into the Town council ...with the local election only a week or so away.
The Bridge Street end of the town will soon end up looking the very same as the other end with shop closing ... nothing being done ... like of the Old Dunne Store left for years to to fall apart and STICK SOME GLOSSY IMAGES ONTO THE WINDOWS AND FOOL PEOPLE .... THE VERY SAME WITH THE Old Paint shop on the corner of Castle St and so on.
Get the same old faces off the council .... bring in the young bright and intelligent young men and woman of Tralee .... give them a chance after all THEY ARE THE FUTURE

As I was reminded today by someone, there was recently an article in the Kerrys eye about the amount of times the current elected councilors turned up for meetings etc and how they were rated. It would be a good thing for people to read again & remind themselves who is working for the town/people and who can't be bothered!!

As for the Tralee chamber alliance, I'm not too sure how much work they do for the town. I get the feeling unless you are a business member (ie paying a fee) they don't want to know!

Erik Shun · 15-05-2019 06:33PM

Chamber alliance... bunch of useless gimps.
Tralee town council..for the most part... completely ineffectual .. have no power.
KCC officials and bureaucrats have the real power...
do a regeneration of the Mitchels/Boherbee area... give lovely new houses to the travelling community..build a 600k house and counting opposite the canal...and dump 2 "hostels" in Boherbee full of drunks, junkies and some families (who should be nowhere near that scum!)...and then turn around and tell us all what a wonderful job they are doing....

theaceofspies · 15-05-2019 08:42PM

Erik Shun wrote: »

Chamber alliance... bunch of useless gimps.
Tralee town council..for the most part... completely ineffectual .. have no power.
KCC officials and bureaucrats have the real power...
do a regeneration of the Mitchels/Boherbee area... give lovely new houses to the travelling community..build a 600k house and counting opposite the canal...and dump 2 "hostels" in Boherbee full of drunks, junkies and some families (who should be nowhere near that scum!)...and then turn around and tell us all what a wonderful job they are doing....

What they taketh with one hand "i.e. rates from the working class private sector classes and their ilk" they squandor on themselves and their 'clients'. Rates and pay parking is the death knell for business in Tralee. Once a proud business town is now a shell. Taskforces are formed and announced with fanfare in local media and talk the talk but avoid the elephants in the room as nobody wants to rock the gravy boat.

Rows Grower · 15-05-2019 09:18PM

Have ye any positive news at all, at all?

Tralee sounds like it's the most depressing place to be lately, either that all the moaners that live there post here.

Ciarrai76 · 15-05-2019 09:21PM

Rows Grower wrote: »

Have ye any positive news at all, at all?

Tralee sounds like it's the most depressing place to be lately, either that all the moaners that live there post here.

Tell us what great things you have to say? Or are you just on to moan at us all for having a conversation which you don't like?

Its local election time, so we are discussing the issues that are affecting the town. It can't all be flowers and roses, there are issues which need to be dealt with.

keane2097 · 15-05-2019 09:25PM

Tralee is in roaring form compared to the vast majority of towns around the place. Always suffers by being compared by myopic locals to Killarney.

People would want to visit the likes of Clonmel, Castlebar, Bray, Dundalk etc and compare it to similar sized towns around the country. I think it deserves a lot more credit and praise but some places in Ireland just have populations who never have a good word to say about them for whatever reason. Limerick is the same. Other places are the opposite, you could step in dog**** in Killarney and they'd tell you how lucky you were that it was from a Killarney dog.

The stretch around Bridge Street never really did well but knocking the block at the end might give it a bit of life.

Rows Grower · 15-05-2019 09:26PM

[QUOTE=Ciarrai76;110193725]Tell us what great things you have to say? Or are you just on to moan at us all for having a conversation which you don't like?

Its local election time, so we are discussing the issues that are affecting the town. It can't all be flowers and roses, there are issues which need to be dealt with.[/QUOTE]

I don't live anywhere near Tralee.

Morebypasses · 15-05-2019 10:09PM

keane2097 wrote: »

Tralee is in roaring form compared to the vast majority of towns around the place. Always suffers by being compared by myopic locals to Killarney.

People would want to visit the likes of Clonmel, Castlebar, Bray, Dundalk etc and compare it to similar sized towns around the country. I think it deserves a lot more credit and praise but some places in Ireland just have populations who never have a good word to say about them for whatever reason. Limerick is the same. Other places are the opposite, you could step in dog**** in Killarney and they'd tell you how lucky you were that it was from a Killarney dog.

The stretch around Bridge Street never really did well but knocking the block at the end might give it a bit of life.

Agree 100%. I did not grow up in the town but bought a house here 20 years ago and my kids go to school in the town. I find a lot of Tralee people talk down the town too much. Its almost become trendy to do so and if you have something positive to say you almost get a dirty look!!!!
In relation to town centre its not all the council's fault. The reason shops are closing are not down to rates but the fact that not enough punters spend money in the town centre. We buy online or dare I say it go to manor.
It does not help either that developers are sitting on the shopping center next to Dunnes and Dunnes themselves refuse to sell. Its private property and the council's hands are tied.

Adiboo · 15-05-2019 10:10PM

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

Its local election time, so we are discussing the issues that are affecting the town. It can't all be flowers and roses, there are issues which need to be dealt with.

Speaking of, could someone dumb down the vote system "1,2,3etc" for me? I want to be sure I don't waste a vote, or best way to make effective voting.

Ciarrai76 · 15-05-2019 10:26PM

Adiboo wrote: »

Speaking of, could someone dumb down the vote system "1,2,3etc" for me? I want to be sure I don't waste a vote, or best way to make effective voting.

I'm not an expert at the voting system, but I basically always give the 1 to the person I really want to vote for, that I want to be elected as they will get those votes first. When you give 2 & 3 to the next, you basically give them the opportunity to get the 'quota' from the person you gave the number 1's to when they reach their quota.

I've probably explained that all wrong...apologies, but that's how I understand it!
I don't think you even have to give anything after the 1, sometimes I don't if I don't know who else I want to vote for,

Quackster · 15-05-2019 11:19PM

I have to agree that Tralee folk have a habit of dumbing down their town and it is very probably due to living in the shadow of Killarney. I travel a fair bit all over the country and think Tralee stands up very well against other similarly-sized Irish towns.

On the issue of derelict properties, it's an issue everywhere, even in the centre of Dublin where you'd think they'd be snapped up by developer's in a jiffy. Ultimately it's a consequence of our very poor property laws and the only way to sort it out would be to delete the right to private property from the constitution. Now what hope of the good citizens of Ireland voting for that?!

marno21 · 15-05-2019 11:37PM

Tralee should really have been included in the National Planning Framework as a regional centre. If Sligo, Letterkenny, Athlone, Drogheda and Dundalk are I fail to see why Tralee isn't.

Tralee also suffers from isolation transport wise (and Killarney is starting to suffer similarly). Both primary roads out of Tralee are slow traffic riddled messes and going to Limerick/Dublin or Cork require transitting many bottlenecks (Abbeyfeale/Newcastlewest/Adare or Macroom/Killarney).

SecretsOfEarth · 16-05-2019 12:31AM

It really infuriates me to read and hear constant negativity surrounding Tralee (note: this is not an attack on posters here - measured, objective observations are necessary and spot on!).

People, most particularly a large percentage of those from Tralee, seem to get no end of satisfaction from spouting about how awful Tralee is. If it's so awful, you have a few options: 1) go somewhere else, where everything is fantastic all the time with no issues, or 2) see the issues, get involved and find proactive, positive ways to enhance and develop our town.

Mindless moaning often prevails over constructive discussion - actions really do speak louder than words.

Ciarrai76 · 16-05-2019 01:53PM

SecretsOfEarth wrote: »

It really infuriates me to read and hear constant negativity surrounding Tralee (note: this is not an attack on posters here - measured, objective observations are necessary and spot on!).

People, most particularly a large percentage of those from Tralee, seem to get no end of satisfaction from spouting about how awful Tralee is. If it's so awful, you have a few options: 1) go somewhere else, where everything is fantastic all the time with no issues, or 2) see the issues, get involved and find proactive, positive ways to enhance and develop our town.

Mindless moaning often prevails over constructive discussion - actions really do speak louder than words.

I agree, there are some serious moaners about this town, and I hate hearing bad press about it. There have been comments on this Kerry board about Tralee that are unnecessary and from people who don't even live here! How can someone judge a place when they don't live here, or have had one bad experience!? I've had people on here slate me when I've tried to be positive about it! As I always say, its my hometown, I was born & lived here for most of it (lived elsewhere too, so can see both sides of things), so I won't apologise to anyone if I want to defend the place!

Tralee has come through a bad recession and is slowly, but surely, coming out of it and there are a lot of people trying hard to change the town and make it a better place for everyone. I run a business here too, and I want that business to do well, so I don't like to see a place being spoken about negatively as that can potentially affect my life if people don't come to our town and spend in our business, and all the local businesses in town. We have to defend it for our livelihoods!

oeb · 16-05-2019 02:54PM

Adiboo wrote: »

Speaking of, could someone dumb down the vote system "1,2,3etc" for me? I want to be sure I don't waste a vote, or best way to make effective voting.

This is a reasonable explination - https://www.thejournal.ie/how-does-prstv-work-2619448-Feb2016/

bobdcow · 16-05-2019 06:50PM

I'm from Tralee too and left for a few years, couldn't wait to come back - I think its a great town and am delighted my kids are being raised here :-)

And on a positive note, it looks like Abrakebabra will be back open tomorrow!

Ruraldweller56 · 16-05-2019 07:43PM

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

I agree, there are some serious moaners about this town, and I hate hearing bad press about it. There have been comments on this Kerry board about Tralee that are unnecessary and from people who don't even live here! How can someone judge a place when they don't live here, or have had one bad experience!? I've had people on here slate me when I've tried to be positive about it! As I always say, its my hometown, I was born & lived here for most of it (lived elsewhere too, so can see both sides of things), so I won't apologise to anyone if I want to defend the place!

Tralee has come through a bad recession and is slowly, but surely, coming out of it and there are a lot of people trying hard to change the town and make it a better place for everyone. I run a business here too, and I want that business to do well, so I don't like to see a place being spoken about negatively as that can potentially affect my life if people don't come to our town and spend in our business, and all the local businesses in town. We have to defend it for our livelihoods!

I'm from kind of half way between Tralee and Killarney but class myself as more of a Tralee man.

I work close to Dublin and hear about how dicey Tralee can be.

If I wish to see fighting and flaking I'd go to Killarney. Killarney is for some reason praised as a great town (not saying its not but if I wanted to see a fight that's where I'd go).

I don't know why Tralee is as misrepresented as it is.

Ciarrai76 · 16-05-2019 10:12PM

bobdcow wrote: »

I'm from Tralee too and left for a few years, couldn't wait to come back - I think its a great town and am delighted my kids are being raised here :-)

And on a positive note, it looks like Abrakebabra will be back open tomorrow!

I think they reopened this evening. Good news for the staff.
I noticed recently that they now also have the bagel factory in there. I used to get my lunch in the bagel factory in Dublin. I must pop in for one for my lunch!

Ciarrai76 · 16-05-2019 11:25PM

I just saw this video of Tralee filmed by a drone
https://www.facebook.com/traleemylove/videos/822098894837656/

I spotted the old apartment building just off basin view, on the road betweeen there & princes st. I noticed it when passing recently that It’s derelict now and access is blocked off. Why has nothing been done with It? It must be derelict over 10 years at least. What a waste of land/housing etc.

StrikingOut · 16-05-2019 11:38PM

To the best of my knowledge Kerry Group own that and use it for storage

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