Boherbee as well.
Where abouts where you, I was up around boherbee and thought it was good and walked down after and thought crowd was good
The crowds on the street looked poor to me. Admittedly I didn't see all of it but what I did see seemed disjointed and had a bare look about it.
In general I thought it was good, they were stopped for periods but luckily where we were standing that wasn't a bad thing, had music or something each time.
Not a bad job overall by the organisers
Any thoughts on the parade this evening? - I watched it from boherbee, near aras an pobal - it seemed to be very bitty, the first float just drove by and then more were just in front of us, stopped in the road. The longest stoppage was approx 10 mins. It was late starting approx 8.40 and didn't finish past us until 10.20. The kids were getting bored by the end. The marching bands were good though, well rehearsed and good music.
Today's weather was lovely, thankfully! Hopefully it will stay that way for the rest of weekend!
Last year a gang of us were sitting outside the polish cafe in the mall with coffee and apple pie 😀.
Town was very quiet this afternoon due to all the rain! It did seem to dry up a bit after 6pm, so hopefully people came out!?
Hoping to head in on Sunday, so fingers crossed the weather improves! I remember the Sunday of the festival last year was a gorgeous day!
A decent men's clothes shop would be nice. Sick of going into department stores in and seeing a floor full of women's and kids and 2 racks for men( slight exaggeration, it's probably 3 racks) 😁
That was quick! I'd imagine it's quite a large floor space as Argos customers only really saw the front section as most of it was stockroom such was how the product operated. I wonder would Lane Bros expand into it to give them visible road frontage? They're quite hidden at the rear...
It's the guys who own the polish deli next to argos
Passed by Argos just now and their To Let sign has "Terms Agreed" stuck over it.
Are they the same lads who had Mizzoni pizza originally? It would be nice to have them back up at that side of town, plenty of parking there for them.
I heard that the petrol station at horans is changing .
The shop will be mizzoni pizza rum by the polish lads in the deli and petrol pumps being run by a different tenant.
I'd chance the boys next door to John Dough's, is it the Tech Co? Sorry I don't know how much it would cost.
Just after cracking screen on my samsung phone ,where in Tralee is best for this repair and roughly is it expensive to repair??
There's a To Let sign gone up on the Iceland unit! No reopening for them so!
Sign outside says let
I saw what looks like the disassembling of the canopy of the closed down petrol station in the Horan Centre carpark. Are they getting rid of the petrol station for good?
I suppose with Corrib Oil down the road and Kelloil and Circle K at Clash nearby, that end of town is already well covered.
I was reminded today that Manor News in Manor West is now in the Easons stable, but I don't know if it's a franchise (like the one in Listowel) or owned outright by Easons. I think this has been the case for at least two or three weeks but there's been no change to the signage.
It was a terrible article - showing a picture of Quinlans Bar but talking about Quinlans fish shop and only later referencing the bar. What could have been a very good article was just awful to read.
Yeah, I don't know why he had to mention Tom Ross's death in it. Its very badly written.
The article that completely ignored Listowel, which has the same problems as the other towns, and is more significant than Ballybunion. The reporter's Garmin must have been on the fritz. 😜
That article is very poor really, and trying to link the death of Tom Ross to the decline of the Town centre is total nonsense.
He spent his life inside in such buildings doing that type of work, in good and bad times!
Apparently the old Shindig shop next to Shaws is being converted to apartments too as has the old Osborne bar on Edward Street.
I suppose its a good thing to have more residents living in the town centre and goes some way in addressing accommodation shortages but does that erode the town centre's function as a retail and hospitality destination if former shops, bars and restaurants are gradually being removed from the landscape like that? Caballs is made up of about 4 buildings so that's a fair stretch of retail frontage gone for good on Bridge Street. A better mix would be ground floor retail with overhead apartments.
Caballs it is and they will be taking in Old Billy Nolans shop aswell.
I was reading that today. There's a few errors in it. It says Vila closed, which isn't true, it only just opened opposite Vero Moda!? I thought Hogans decorating store closed this year, not 2022?
It does say that a toy shop that closed is due to be turned into apartments, which I am assuming is Caballs?
Article about the centre of Town from the Examiner.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41200435.html
My money would be on Pepco/Dealz.
It appears that Tesco is looking to take over at least some of the stores out of Examinership for its Express brand. Don't know if the Horan Centre would be one of them - its on the small side I reckon, not the best location wise, but at least has the advantage of being right in Dunnes' face to take some turnover off them.
PS I have been in smaller Tesco Expresses' in London & Belfast so it is possible. Just not with the bakery in the Square one.
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