Anyone recommend a good roofer to re roof a bungalow please? Thanks very much!
Usually buy stuff in HN or Soundstore. Find the same with Curry's. Have often walked out. Never enough staff to bother you.
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Officially announced this morning!
https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/terrific-tralee-dolphins-a-new-greenway-and-triple-chocolate-oreo-lasagne/a636469202.html
Any chance they'll sort out some parking or traffic management while they're at it?
More expansion of Mounthawk approved.
Hopefully it will see an end to the prefabs
I don't work for the council and having spent more than half my working life in the private sector, I know exactly how it works.
Hopefully this is true ,
Brilliant for the town and North Kerry .
Imminent apparently
Soundstore for the win, hn work off commission and currys don't seem to care if your standing around there all day
Rarely shop in Harvey Normans, much prefer Soundstore. Lovely helpful staff.
To be honest, I found that to be the case almost any time I've been in to a Harvey Norman, anywhere. Bad attitudes, overly confident, scant knowledge, just eager to make a quick sell.
He was probably pretending that he worked for Harvey Norman and had been sent by Currys to pi55 people off. 😝
Anyone getting a bad vibe off of Harvey Norman in Manor? Salesguy today copped some major attitude when asked about some products and we walked out on him. Another clerk there thought it was o.k. to say, basically, I only know about my department when we asked him where something was.
Just a bad day, or a trend?
Any more updates on this? Location in the Technology Park etc? Haven't seen anything official yet but would be great for the town if it goes ahead
In regard to Mark Leen's idea , I feel that Tralee does not have the population to sustain an Event Centre , and while I admire his spirit and love for the town , it is simply not viable .
This presents a major problem for the privately owned Rose of Tralee company , in that they have no other choice but to stay in the MTU for their tv shows or try to mend their bridges with The Brandon Hotel and hire their conference centre if RTE were to be agreeable .
However , I feel that the recently formed Feile Tra Li festival was a resounding success and regardless of what the Rose company do , this festival should be built on and developed in to what we used to have in the 80's and 90's . It now has been proven that Tralee can have it's own festival , independent of Mr O Gara's bully tactics .
A " not for profit " festival should be developed and overseen by some of the level headed business people , who have a passion , foresight and plan for the town festival . A "not for profit " style festival would allow it to apply for the many grants that are available from the likes of Bord Failte , the arts dept , heritage and culture depts , etc , allowing the group to employ a manager to co-ordinate and run the festival under their supervision and control . Once this is in place , I believe that Sponsorship will return , providing that the right people are running it . Tralee needs it's festival , but not with the dictatorial , annual and now semi annual crying from the Rose company . The Rose festival has now been reduced to a tv show , that only benefits Mr O Gara , I believe that Feile Tra Li can stand on it's own and grow , with or without him .!! His choice !!
I hope that common sense will prevail and that an independent Festival will rise out of the ashes .
I think its fair to say public sector employees are more than well looked after when compared to other types of jobs.
Regardless I don’t think money is all of Tralee’s problem. Money can and will be sorted through funding applications and grants or other sources.
The problem is the correct personnel with a drive and a passion to look for that funding so that good can be done and that comes down to our district councillors and middle to top level management in the council.
I believe the head of Tralee MD actually lives in Killarney so you can come to your own assumptions there.
What part of the council do you work in?
Being self employed i don't have the luxury of getting a pay rise regardless of how bad i am at my job.
Wage increases are at a national level and agreed by government. The council cant just wake one morning and decide to give themselves a pay rise. I suppose you don't get or look for pay rises in your job.
But they'll claim they don't have the money for any of it. Yet there's never an issue with money to increase their wages in there.
https://m.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/terrific-tralee-dolphins-a-new-greenway-and-triple-chocolate-oreo-lasagne/a636469202.html
KerryCoCo has been a joke for a few decades with all the hare-brained schemes they've wasted money on. I joked years ago that each time they lost money on something, they would extend the paid parking zone to compensate, and that it would eventually reach Abbeydorney. I think the Jeanie Johnston was probably the biggest howler. All the work that went into it, and it ended up being a tourist attraction on the other side of the country.
The Wetlands really needs more, its too basic. The kids area is for toddlers, its not got anything for kids older than that. Tralee needs another playground as it is. The town park playground is too small for the town. They should have done more with the playground area in the Wetlands. Everything is let run down and go to waste. I don't like going to the playground the park with my son. We end up bringing him to Fenit most times. And even that needs more upgrading done to it.
The council are a joke. The steam railway, the Ballybeggan racetrack (I know privately owned, but wasted). There's nothing really promoted in the town. You wouldn't even know there's a crazy golf at the Aqua dome, I had totally forgotten about it! I don't know why this stuff isn't promoted more. I read the other day there's some sort of car racing track outside the town, can't remember where. Is there even paintballing anymore? Its so hard to promote the town when the locals barely know what's there and the council or the chamber just sit back and don't do much. Even the greenway is badly promoted!!
I would love to see a small live music venue in Tralee similar to Mike the Pies in Listowel. I'm not talking about some lad belting out Wagon wheel and wonderwall in a pub, MTP's had a bit of vision and were responsible for giving the likes of the Fontaines their big break. I guess the greyhound is the closest we have but there is a lot of potential there for some good bands.
This would be achievable.....Mark Leens idea is nonsense.There are only two indoor arenas with similar capacity on the island.One in Dublin 13000 and one in Belfast that holds 10800 .Next is INEC with 4000ish.Anything else is roughly 1000 capacity.That is the reality.We do not have the population to warrant that kind of a venue.
Yeah, the council are a bit of an anchor around the town's neck. The skatepark was 15 years in the making with the council saying there was no demand. As soon as the gates opened they realised that it was already too small for the demand and now needs to be upgraded. They're a nightmare.
Yes, the common denominator in a lot of these cases is the Council!
Wow! when you list all of it out like you did, Kerry Co Co have a lot to answer for really. The steam train, the carriages are more than likely falling to pieces, the engine is in pieces in the shed (as far as I am aware). A kids adventure place and zip lining would be a fantastic idea around the wetlands.
Siamsa is the countries National Folk Theatre and can’t make a summer season commercially viable in a purpose built state of the art venue.
Across the road in the Brandon Celtic Steps are filling out the conference centre every night with a low budget pop up set and stage and banquet seats all on the flat.
It all down to operating costs. If anyone thinks a 5000 seater venue is commercially viable 50 weeks of the year in Tralee they are off their heads.
Would I love to see something like that built ya of course but in Tralee we have a habit of letting things fizzle out and almost rot away. The Aqua Dome barely keeps its head above water, there’s a fine crazy golf area that is completely run down due to lack of investment, the steam railway was left to rot in a shed, the Jeanie Johnston went to Dublin or somewhere and never came back, the wetlands lacks investment and imagination any other county would have zip lines, kids adventure areas, camping etc incorporated into it. We have a fantastic marina area at the basin but no watersports and the lockgates don’t work for people to access, it’s also not marketed at all.
Mark Leen is probably a dreamer, and the idea will most likely never come to fruition, but I still think its nice to see someone stepping forward with a dream. He clearly has a bit of passion for his town, which cant be a bad thing.
I dont get what Siamsa Tire has to do with this, they can hardly host the Rose Selection nights, nor have they the capacity to attract any big acts.
There's so much potential in that area.
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