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Cw85 · 26-02-2021 03:48PM

You'd wondering how there is so much business to go around for all these phone repair shops. I bought a phone from one about a year ago and wound't take card, cash only so that says a lot in my opinion. It can't be cheap for that premises the rent alone on daft a while ago was in the region of €2,000 a month, i find it hard to see them making €500 a week to cover that let alone electricity, heat, rates and wages.

OptimusTractor · 26-02-2021 04:08PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

There must be 10+ phone and gadget shops around town now.

One on the way in Tullow as well.

votecounts · 28-02-2021 03:39PM

https://twitter.com/thejournal_ie/status/1365999722494853121

Hope she is found safe and well.

BattleCorp · 28-02-2021 05:24PM

votecounts wrote: »

https://twitter.com/thejournal_ie/status/1365999722494853121

Hope she is found safe and well.

Reports are that it hasn't ended well.

byhookorbycrook · 01-03-2021 09:24PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

Reports are that it hasn't ended well.

Sadly, you are correct.

iwillhtfu · 01-03-2021 09:28PM

Not directly related to Carlow but I see the man involved in that kayak incident in Athy still hasn't been found. You'd have to think at this stage are the going to be finding another down in Milford.

Sounds like a terrible incident altogether with the child being saved.

https://www.independent.ie/news/he-used-his-energy-to-save-his-son-and-keep-him-afloat-man-34-missing-after-river-kayak-accident-due-to-be-father-again-40148239.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR3UVhlEd53x00pz2Rzr7Fxg0lNwQEMqkIC-StWJGINRnF2St2OFXuh49xE

03-03-2021 04:10AM

Does anyone know what you would have to do to join the civil defence as a volunteer in Carlow?

Notmything · 03-03-2021 09:10AM

https://www.civildefence.ie/join/

Not a lot of info but a link to contact them on.

Agent Coulson · 05-03-2021 12:27AM

Oak Park trails got a 200k grant for improvements.

iwillhtfu · 05-03-2021 04:46PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Oak Park trails got a 200k grant for improvements.

Watch that being wasted rapidly on consultancy fees. The one positive of covid they can't have their overly indulgent catered meetings. :rolleyes:

Beechwoodspark · 05-03-2021 05:39PM

Drove through Carlow few mins ago

I notice that Billy Bunters on the kk road is closed up completely again.

Only open a short while.

Before that it was Burger King but again closed without warning last year.

Was a handy stop to get a bite to eat when I had to go to bagenal stown area dropping deliveries.

Nokia6230i · 06-03-2021 12:14AM

Coxs Take-Out (formerly Next Door I think) Off-Licence on Barrack St. Hasn't been opened in 3-4 days; hope it's just a temporary blip as I get some of my craft ciders from there.

Nokia6230i · 08-03-2021 08:09PM

Another Barrow Blueway motion proposed by Cathaoirleach of Carlow Co. Co. today; seconded & passed.

George Nkencho proposal brought forward by PBP wasn't seconded.

08-03-2021 11:40PM

WTF a George Nkencho proposal in Carlow that woman needs to get a grip on herself.

BattleCorp · 09-03-2021 10:06AM

PespiChallenge wrote: »

WTF a George Nkencho proposal in Carlow that woman needs to get a grip on herself.

What was the proposal?

Beauchamp Bagenal · 09-03-2021 03:40PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

What was the proposal?

Wallace wanted the Council to forward a motion to the Gov to have this shooting death investigated or something.
She's one of those mouthpieces who's voice gets louder with every breath and is part of the Proles Before Profit cult that are are holed up in St Patricks College.
Most of her previous motions are along the samelines.

Speaking of Pats, according to Malcolm Noonan, the Visual is getting another 500k bailout. As Noonan is too embarrassed to be seen in Kilkenny, he's been scutching around Carlow trying to latch on to anything newsworthy.

Carlow is doomed my friends, walking around it Sunday, phone/vape/pound shops is all that's left. What closed last year may not even open back this year.

Nokia6230i · 09-03-2021 03:59PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

What was the proposal?

Cllr. Wallaces motion was to call for a public inquiry into the shooting of George Nkencho > https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2021/03/05/carlow-councillor-calls-for-public-inquiry-into-shooting-of-george-nkenco/?fbclid=IwAR36ZiLtpG01fMa00U0QPX1DywLh8kilGjmrKDZFcHqFKwFdP_EtWYdTrGA

JaCrispy · 09-03-2021 04:14PM

Nokia6230i wrote: »

Cllr. Wallaces motion was to call for a public inquiry into the shooting of George Nkencho > https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2021/03/05/carlow-councillor-calls-for-public-inquiry-into-shooting-of-george-nkenco/?fbclid=IwAR36ZiLtpG01fMa00U0QPX1DywLh8kilGjmrKDZFcHqFKwFdP_EtWYdTrGA

Socialists and hard left politics, the scurge of modern times.

BattleCorp · 09-03-2021 04:23PM

Beauchamp Bagenal wrote: »

Wallace wanted the Council to forward a motion to the Gov to have this shooting death investigated or something.
She's one of those mouthpieces who's voice gets louder with every breath and is part of the Proles Before Profit cult that are are holed up in St Patricks College.
Most of her previous motions are along the samelines.

Speaking of Pats, according to Malcolm Noonan, the Visual is getting another 500k bailout. As Noonan is too embarrassed to be seen in Kilkenny, he's been scutching around Carlow trying to latch on to anything newsworthy.

Carlow is doomed my friends, walking around it Sunday, phone/vape/pound shops is all that's left. What closed last year may not even open back this year.

She was never going to get a vote from me. Even less so now.

Bog Man 1 · 09-03-2021 10:37PM

Beauchamp Bagenal wrote: »

h and is part of the Proles Before Profit cult that are are holed up in St Patricks College.

Are they part of the teaching and administrative structure in the College ? Or what is the ethos of the college ? Just worried they might be communists .

Ivefoundgod · 09-03-2021 10:40PM

Wallace is a terrible councillor and politician but she has absolutely nothing to do with Carlow College. Communists? WTAF?

Notmything · 09-03-2021 10:41PM

Bog Man 1 wrote: »

Are they part of the teaching and administrative structure in the College ? Or what is the ethos of the college ? Just worried they might be communists .

They have a few left leaning lecturers alright. I can think of at least two who would have drank from the "white men are bad" bottle and believe in the redistribution of wealth to the poor/minorities at the expense of those who earned their money.

Notmything · 09-03-2021 10:44PM

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Wallace is a terrible councillor and politician but she has absolutely nothing to do with Carlow College. Communists? WTAF?

She graduated from there, a few of her likeminded supporters including one who has run for the dail or the council also are graduates.

Ivefoundgod · 09-03-2021 10:52PM

Notmything wrote: »

She graduated from there, a few of her likeminded supporters including one who has run for the dail or the council also are graduates.

Ah ok so students that graduate from somewhere have clearly had their politics shaped by their college? Such as the well known communist leaning Carlow College?

I'd direct your eyes on their ethos, Carlow College has a religious ethos and only changed from being a seminary in the 90s. How you think there is some far left communist cult up there is beyond me but its frankly laughable.

https://carlowcollege.ie/explore/leadership-structure/ethos-statement/

Bog Man 1 · 09-03-2021 11:03PM

Notmything wrote: »

They have a few left leaning lecturers alright. I can think of at least two who would have drank from the "white men are bad" bottle and believe in the redistribution of wealth to the poor/minorities at the expense of those who earned their money.

They were passing the collection box around the diocese to renovate the college when they were sitting on a nice nest egg . Whatever happened to the money the Bishop got for the land at the back of the county grounds . I think it was land left to the church by a parishoner .

St Patrick's College, secondary school in Carlow, has also seen its large shareholding of 628,000 shares drop in value from highs of €11.7m to around €314,000.

College president Fr Caoimhin O'Neill said the shares had been a nice earner for the school.

"We purchased them for £20,000 in 1969 and they had proved to be a wise investment that yielded good dividends," he said.

Bog Man 1 · 09-03-2021 11:11PM

I always thought they were studying the Humanities . I have heard some of their lecturers and thought they were quite interesting but I also met some of the college graduates and they were useless and you would be hard set to get half a days work out of them .

Humanities, those branches of knowledge that concern themselves with human beings and their culture or with analytic and critical methods of inquiry derived from an appreciation of human values and of the unique ability of the human spirit to express itself. The humanities are distinguished from the sciences.

Notmything · 09-03-2021 11:29PM

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Ah ok so students that graduate from somewhere have clearly had their politics shaped by their college? Such as the well known communist leaning Carlow College?

I'd direct your eyes on their ethos, Carlow College has a religious ethos and only changed from being a seminary in the 90s. How you think there is some far left communist cult up there is beyond me but its frankly laughable.

https://carlowcollege.ie/explore/leadership-structure/ethos-statement/

As a graduate of the college (in the last 5 years) i can honestly say that some lecturers very definitely try to influence students political views towards the left side of the irish spectrum. In particular the idea that multinationals/capitalism/for profit are bad and should not be accepted by society. There was a clear bias towards left leaning beliefs and values, to the extent that if you challenged the lecturers beliefs you put your grade at risk.

FWIW i was replying to the assertion that Wallace had nothing to do with the college, i pointed out she had graduated from there. I had many of her lectuerers so not at all surprised at her beliefs

Nokia6230i · 10-03-2021 12:20AM

Notmything wrote: »

As a graduate of the college (in the last 5 years) i can honestly say that some lecturers very definitely try to influence students political views towards the left side of the irish spectrum. In particular the idea that multinationals/capitalism/for profit are bad and should not be accepted by society. There was a clear bias towards left leaning beliefs and values, to the extent that if you challenged the lecturers beliefs you put your grade at risk.

FWIW i was replying to the assertion that Wallace had nothing to do with the college, i pointed out she had graduated from there. I had many of her lectuerers so not at all surprised at her beliefs

One PBP member ran for LE in Kilkenny last May; unsure if any of other lecturers're PBP members but 2-3 other lecturers're 100% in the bracket of your description; one has been elevated in their position in last year or two going by local media appearances.

Was a bit surprised a few years back to learn of an LGBT Soc. in the college; wonder when/what year it started or if it's still ongoing and if much of a "demand" for it?

Anecdotally Cllr. Wallace when a student there she wasn't particularly politicised; then she'd an oppo to confront Enda Kenny on Tullow St. when he was on walkabout; best guess is that was ahead of 2015s Bye-Election; there's a pic of her pointing her finger at him.

Any update on the lad due to be deported in late 2019/early 2020; they, the college, got behind him, held a protest @ Dept. of Foreign Affairs backed by USI & at least 2, maybe 3-4 Lecturers spoke at it; bus load went up to it.

Disappointed to hear you feel/felt your grades might be down-graded/at risk if you didn't ascribe to group-think that your lecturer doesn't share; if you felt it then it's safe to say others did & do too.

Real Life · 10-03-2021 10:15AM

Nokia6230i wrote: »

One PBP member ran for LE in Kilkenny last May; unsure if any of other lecturers're PBP members but 2-3 other lecturers're 100% in the bracket of your description; one has been elevated in their position in last year or two going by local media appearances.

Was a bit surprised a few years back to learn of an LGBT Soc. in the college; wonder when/what year it started or if it's still ongoing and if much of a "demand" for it?

Anecdotally Cllr. Wallace when a student there she wasn't particularly politicised; then she'd an oppo to confront Enda Kenny on Tullow St. when he was on walkabout; best guess is that was ahead of 2015s Bye-Election; there's a pic of her pointing her finger at him.

Any update on the lad due to be deported in late 2019/early 2020; they, the college, got behind him, held a protest @ Dept. of Foreign Affairs backed by USI & at least 2, maybe 3-4 Lecturers spoke at it; bus load went up to it.

Disappointed to hear you feel/felt your grades might be down-graded/at risk if you didn't ascribe to group-think that your lecturer doesn't share; if you felt it then it's safe to say others did & do too.

I doubt you'll find a college in the country without an LGBT society, why wouldn't there be or why wouldn't there be demand for it?

Nokia6230i · 10-03-2021 03:55PM

Real Life wrote: »

I doubt you'll find a college in the country without an LGBT society, why wouldn't there be or why wouldn't there be demand for it?

My bad; I meant in the context of Carlow College being a college Catholic in its ethos having an LGBT Soc.; I was suitably impressed being honest.

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