New Shop Maynooth

Especially at 12.15am. Would they not let you in?

2nd thing you do is head to boards.

1st thing you do is set up a Boycott Roost page.

Then at 12.11am you set up a boards account to promote it.

Has L'Art du Chocolat closed?

It's listed as "Permanently Closed" on Google Maps.

I don't live in Maynooth. I'm just curious.

That has planning for a cafe and has put the commencement notice in for that planning, so thats extremely unlikely. It's probably upstairs somewhere

I'd say that's Maynooth Montessori which is down the road at the side of The Leinster Arms/Mantra/Red Door

I bought a power bank in it but they wouldn't take card, only cash.

Peter Melrose had a great piece (I'm not sure if it was linked already) explaining how some of the ring road sections aren't going to help relieve traffic issues any time soon. (Also some thoughts on local democracy that I would tend to agree with.)

https://petermelrose.substack.com/p/where-is-the-ring-road

My own feeling on the ring road is that unless you put some modal filters or similar measures on Main Street when it's complete, the congestion in the village will continue.

Any ring road will help to some degree. The opening from Lidl to Griffin Rath will do something for traffic, it will have less cars travelling down to Maxol. That is some kind of relief, not huge, but it will help.

What we need are measures to get across the town. Motorway to college (Moyglare, Parsons St), MTFC to MEC (Parsons St), routes to Tesco (Moyglare, Parsons St). Those are the areas that need resolution, a ring road that doesn't address those isn't really going to make a meaningful impact.

I go from the Rathcoffey Road, through Main Street, to Tesco and back at least 3 weekdays a week, around lunchtime (going to the gym).
It's the quickest way generally. Going towards Tesco is quicker than coming back.
Going the old Dublin Rd, backroad to the Celbridge Rd, in around Maxol/cutting through Lawrence Ave, up to the link road and its 4second long green filter light that lets about 3 cars through before turning orange, coming around past Newtown shops, onto the Rathcoffey Rd, is absolutely not quicker than just going through the Main St, under normal circumstances.

If there's some kind of clusterfuck and traffic is backed up all the way to Tesco roundabout (or to Bond Bridge on the opposite journey), then I'll go that way.

Opening up the Mullen Park route should make it quicker if I have to go that way, no more joining the queue of traffic to go towards Maxol to get onto the Celbridge Rd.

Great piece.

Some of the things he talks about are exactly the reasons why even this Mullen Park-Griffin Rath section took so long to open, most obviously, the (permanent) county council and the lack of binding requirements in the planning approvals for these developments.

Anyone know anything about the armed garda unit around the Meadowbrook area yesterday? Haven't heard/seen anything about it.

anyone been to the eurogiant last few days? is it still going? much stock left?