Limerick Businesses Closed V 3.0

Perhaps do yourself a favour and read what I say in full before making ridiculous claims.

For sure. But all of those shopping centres come with the added convenience of not driving around for ages trying to find a free parking space, that's something our city centre doesn't offer anymore.

I don't think anybody expects or would even want village conveniences in a city but if we are not going to prioritise places to park cars we should expect other city conveniences such as joined up cycle lanes and proper timely public transport

Just thinking about parking and something that never really registered to me before, entering the city from different routes, I come in from Corbally direction and have easy and early enough access to parking to not enter the city in my car, i.e. grove island parking, sheep street, milk market and then the euro carpark near the "doc's" ,although I'd nearly classify that entering the city at that stage and while traffic in Corbally is crap and lacking access to other routes it's one nice benefit.

For most other routes in you don't have that early access to car parks unless you ,a) park on the street as you get near the city or b) go around another route to access a car park or c) enter the city , yes there is car park in the city and they are needed but there is a lack of outskirt parking for the city. I know the talk about park and rides etc. and this would help this somewhat but i'd also class that as slightly further out access, akin to parking at Tesco express in Corbally and getting the bus in.

the likes of costellos yard was lost coming in from tipp side , you need to go dock road to get to a car park from Mungret /Raheen.

Pretty much everyone I know gets absolutely sick at the idea of walking "all the way" from Cleeves or Strand into "town".

Mix of laziness and small town mentality.

Same people think the London Underground picks everyone up at their door and drops them directly to the shop/work.

This is grim 😢

Evolution Cycles on Patrick St. has closed.

"Bites the dust" sounds like went bankrupt or wasn't making money. Retiring after what was it 50 years or something shouldn't sound so dire.

I might be remembering wrong but Tony Clarke had two shops open at the same time before both I think on Thomas St. The one that closed now was school books and the other which closed years ago was the one with books people would generally call "great". Maybe you loved school books back in the day but it's a bit of an odd one you would have to admit.

Just looked @ google maps for may 2009 Carlton coffee 13 thomas street sandwich shop is 12. must be well before that so

The French Cafe Anacotty Business Park closed (The irregularity of the roadworks going on there didnt help it)

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0AhmckLXRNz9Lcv2GzGgoquDdTweA9VpEPjWS9DpPaXsfaVUBapGx1h6XdGqTUoTil&id=61556033260415