SeanieW1977 wrote: » Just sick of the same crap from the same people in waterford & people scratch their heads wondering why we don’t achieve anything by comparison to other cities. That said, this waterford 2040 video by the council is top class - Michael Walsh is a fair operator , has to be said
imacman wrote: » No far from it , I know some staff in CIT and the merger has been a shambles with loads of IR issues and fudges. Things have remained the same on the ground in CIT with just a rebadge in place and the staff in IT Tralee are very unhappy with the CIT domination of the merger.
Harry Palmr wrote: » Blimey it's a bit of grudge for you! And you're guessing of course so maybe not the best approach.
914 wrote: » Absolutely nothing in that gives me any confidence in the TUSE, they were asked to trust the process. Basically told to shut up as we know best by our representatives. I fear our worst fears. Since the establishment of DTU and MTU, are both those TU's now toe to toe with DCU, UL, UCC etc???
Harry Palmr wrote: » http://www.thefuse.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/TUSE_press_release_20210416.pdf FUSE really arrived too late to be of much value I fear. It needed to be up and running and getting the ear of media and politicians well before the last election and better still the one before, forming during the current admin when the biggest decisions are being taken means there's very little leverage available.
mart 23 wrote: » Under EU regional areas the Mid-West consists of Clare, Limerick and All of Tipperary since 2014.
914 wrote: » https://irelandsoutheast.com/ And from the IDA The Mid-West region consists of Counties Clare, Limerick and North Tipperary. Limerick is the main cultural and economic centre of the Region and is Ireland's third largest city. Which would place Clonmel on the south East. To be fair Clonmel is closer to Waterford then some of the villages in West Waterford.
mart 23 wrote: » Clonmel and Thurles are both in the Mid-West
914 wrote: » The farce continueshttps://www.tipperarylive.ie/news/clonmel/625174/great-news-for-tipperary-university-status-for-clonmel-and-thurles-agreed.html At least the south east will go from 0 to, 1 University City and 4 university towns. Spoiled for choice we will be down here. I know the campuses in Clonmel and Thurles will be a farce but still makes a mockery of the whole process
Dunmoreroader wrote: » Our Souteastern brethren are obviously doing their talking in the smoky backrooms and Marlborough street conference rooms(via Zoom, Teams etc.) rather than on Boards.
Harry Palmr wrote: » I did that look across boards but I also did a twitter search for this topic in Kilkenny, Wexford, Carlow and bar the odd moment usually linked to a radio interview it's largely unnoticed. Could be all happening on facebook of course
azimuth17 wrote: » It is of some interest to look at the university for the south east across the south east county Boards pages. The only place that seems to have any interest or discussion is Waterford. I see no real inkling of anything in Wexford. Kilkenny or Carlow. A university for Waterford has long been driven by public activism because we had a university level facility in De La Salle and it was closed by Fianna Fail. Waterford has some historic idea of what we are missing, somewhere in the local consciousness. In the rest of this region people are content with hurling (how many All Irelands have you?) or tractors (What horsepower would she be?) or whatever their political representatives can wheedle out of the system. Satisfied with crumbs. Its the chicken and egg scenario, people don't miss what they have never had and in many ways , WIT has successfully filled the third level void for many years, without thanks or support from any other county or political rep in this region. All its hard work and success did, was make other counties envious. Its a tragedy of Greek proportions based on the crab syndrome. Wexford and Kilkenny probably think that a full spec campus for their towns can be conjured out of thin air next year. Blame the brain drain!
imacman wrote: » I have always felt we needed a full university in Waterford and I have been opposed TU since 2012 but I am a pragmatist and there is no way it can be stopped now. I think the majority of Waterford public don't understand the difference between a TU and University and aren't massively interested anyway. All of our local TDs are behind it so I can see no base of real resistance to the TU. We will end up with the TU no matter what we do so when that happens we need to it be Waterford based and driven.
SeanieW1977 wrote: » It doesnt change the fact it is wrong. 5 cities in the republic, only 1 doesnt have a University. This TU is being rolled out to every pub and cross roads all over the country. So tell me how we will benefit here. Infact it will do the opposite, disproportionately drive us further into the mire. Generations will continue to emigrate, unemployment, income levels will remain lowest in country. Decades of poor public represenation & sensationalisting / scandalising by local media have brought us to this point, I have said what i said about FUSE Rochethe lot not going to keep on about it - but if this is our last stand, we are doomed.
imacman wrote: » I think the FUSE and the likes of David Cullinane are now convinced the the TU is the only way forward for a university of any type in Waterford . That's fair enough and no matter what we think about it the South East TU will come into existence in the next year. What's important now is it becomes a Waterford led TU with a headquarters in Waterford and Waterford people as key leaders in the organisation.
SeanieW1977 wrote: » This is the same mary roche thats on the board of waterford area partnership?
SeanieW1977 wrote: » Re the motion, talk about closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
