Clonmel Thread

No surprise. I know of another boxer trying to start a fight at a St Patrick's Day parade couple of years ago. Thug. Club takes untrained thugs and make them trained thugs.

No surprise to see Mattie and the Murphy clown with her. They'd sell themselves anywhere for a photo opportunity

Don't think they would have asked permission TBF.

Is anybody going to tell them to move on 😁

Would you be able to share the link to the survey?

I hadn't heard about them at all! Is there no space in any of the sites for them or do they not want to be in a site?

They are related( but dont associate) with other families, so would not move on to a site.

Generally, they keep to themselves and are kid of "anonymous". But their most recent stay up near the Cahir road roundabout was fairly "full on". For instance, they broke through the big gates and then used a digger to break through the mound of clay( even though there are huge concrete "lego bricks" in it), so that they could park their caravans there and drive in and out at will.

Lifestyle are rumoured to be moving to the Showgrounds shopping centre

There is a big new development proposed to go in around Jysk/Supermac's. A number of large retail units but no room for drive thru on the currently published plans which is what McDonalds are looking for. Part of the problem is the Mr Price building is staying which limits the ability of a drive tru to be seen and accessed from the road. They looked at a number of other locations around the bypass (e.g. where the motor stores and golf store is) but there isn't any place available that is suitable. I heard they were looking at options along the Waterford road but not sure they found anything. If they have decided to close the Gladstone street branch then they will likely leave the town.

On Lifestyle sports I heard they are looking to move because their current location is on the wrong end of O'Connell Street. But it isn't the showgrounds they are supposed to be looking at as all the units there are too small for their needs. It is the new proposed units near Tesco/Supermac's/Jysk. Apparently several tenants are already lined up for that if it gets permission and they are one.

Lifestyle on o connell st closed off upstairs recently and are only using the space downstairs and it still feels fairly spacious.

I don't know about the zoning/planning in where jysk is but in other towns clothing retailers weren't allowed in such out of town units. TK maxx in Waterford used to be in Butlerstown retail park and were made move elsewhere.

Where is the sports hub?

Lifestyle I’d say will close in Ireland and go just online like river island I’d say, any one I’ve been too, like Clonmel, always has very little stock in the floors.

I see the old kambost restaurant down the quay is having work done to it, anybody any idea what’s going on or they just prepping it to sell/lease?

The showgrounds was built as a shopping centre with a number of units inside and is reasonably close to the town centre compared to the poppyfields. Often out of town retail park units are limited to bulky goods like jysk, DID electric, EZ living furniture etc and it would be unusual to see a clothes shop there but different sites have different conditions when their planning is granted so who knows?

In Tipperary town there's Dunnes stores and a few shops, chemist etc but not too far away from there Mr Price was being told to move, I can't remember how that ended or if it's still ongoing.

Maybe lifestyle will go beside jysk, it will be very convenient if it does. It would also be handy if there was access to the train station from that side, both for pedestrians and for parking.