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some welcomed additions to wexford shops!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭WexfordWarrior


    "Cream" Cafe opened on Henrietta street, "B2" womens clothes shop now opened inbetween hassests pharmacy and ersk and a new post office opening in the old card king beside ulster bank where its changing from the post office that is in railway news redmond square.

    "Name it" also coming back into the space where gekko was on main street AND South 51 reopening in December under new management.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Any update on when Ken Blacks is gona open? It'll save the hassle of a drive to Carlow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Lola92


    I heard today from a friend on facebook, I have no confirmation of that though!


  • Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 3,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭St Senan


    zerks wrote: »
    Any update on when Ken Blacks is gona open? It'll save the hassle of a drive to Carlow.

    Friday the 18th at 2pm.


  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭WexfordWarrior


    chaz bar reopening again in a few weeks under new management.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


    Any further developments with regards the amusement place on the quay?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    Yep, it's being set up as we speak. It was used as art galleries during the festival then the workmen moved in and are working away at the moment. Banner announcing its imminent opening hanging above the windows.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    oldyouth wrote: »
    Outskirts :(

    Heard that the Danby Lodge & Farmers Kitchen are very close to Receivership


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Mocrie14


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Heard that the Danby Lodge & Farmers Kitchen are very close to Receivership

    Does that mean Drinagh Court Hotel is in trouble too?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    The good-Ken Blacks is open so no trips to Carlow for pressies.

    The bad-all the lazy feckers that can't use the empty parking spaces at the back of the car park and abandon cars right at the doors and block up the whole place.


  • Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 3,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭St Senan


    zerks wrote: »
    The good-Ken Blacks is open so no trips to Carlow for pressies.

    The bad-all the lazy feckers that can't use the empty parking spaces at the back of the car park and abandon cars right at the doors and block up the whole place.

    Was down there yesterday cars were just abandoned on the grass verges the place was packed. The lay out is not good people were entering and exiting through the same doors and railings. The shop is stocked with good quality brand name toys not like the Cheap quality Toys the previous shop there had stocked.


  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭WexfordWarrior


    seen work going on in barker2 on main street where the old oneills sweet shop was.wooden floors being laid and an industrial heater to dry out plastering was in full flow so new shop opening i reccon :) lots of work going on in cornmarket too last night with lights going up on trees and surrounding buildings from n.i.b to mackens and around. happy christmas :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Lola92


    seen work going on in barker2 on main street where the old oneills sweet shop was.wooden floors being laid and an industrial heater to dry out plastering was in full flow so new shop opening i reccon :) lots of work going on in cornmarket too last night with lights going up on trees and surrounding buildings from n.i.b to mackens and around. happy christmas :)

    The newsagents opposite the train station on the corner is relocating.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭Zhane


    Lola92 wrote: »
    The newsagents opposite the train station on the corner is relocating.

    Thats going where the Bag Shop used to be. Then used to be Deegans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    seen work going on in barker2 on main street where the old oneills sweet shop was.wooden floors being laid and an industrial heater to dry out plastering was in full flow so new shop opening i reccon :) lots of work going on in cornmarket too last night with lights going up on trees and surrounding buildings from n.i.b to mackens and around. happy christmas :)


    Your getting your sweet shops mixed up it was Nolan's not O'Neills. Nolan's great and O'Neills not so great.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    lots of work going on in cornmarket too last night with lights going up on trees and surrounding buildings from n.i.b to mackens and around. happy christmas smile.gif

    That not the Bull Ring? ;) Merry Christmas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    vicwatson wrote: »
    That not the Bull Ring? ;) Merry Christmas

    Your correct it amazes me the amount of people can't tell were the cornmarket ends and the bullring begins


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Mocrie14


    Lola92 wrote: »
    The newsagents opposite the train station on the corner is relocating.

    So is anything going in where the newsagent currently is ie opposite train station?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Lola92


    Bazbu wrote: »
    So is anything going in where the newsagent currently is ie opposite train station?

    Nothing that I know of so far, I will post if I hear anything.


  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭WexfordWarrior


    im not sure if RAILYWAY NEWS is completely relocating is it?? i thought it was just the post office...

    yes bullring/cornmarket theres about 10metres in the difference :) lets get technical.

    and yeah Nolans, even writing it i was trying to think... its been a while in fairness.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    I'm fairly sure Railway News is continuing and the Post Office is a branch off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    im not sure if RAILYWAY NEWS is completely relocating is it?? i thought it was just the post office...

    yes bullring/cornmarket theres about 10metres in the difference :) lets get technical.

    and yeah Nolans, even writing it i was trying to think... its been a while in fairness.

    I think its just the post offfice and its cornmarket down the gut and into bullring though since they took the gut out of wexford its been hard for people to tell the difference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Lola92


    Spoke to my boyfriend about this last night (he is involved in the project). The post office and newsagents that were opposite the railway station are both moving to the space opposite the chocolate box where the card shop used to be. As far as he knows there is nothing confirmed to go into the vacant spot by the station yet.


  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭WexfordWarrior


    yeah i think lola is right because the other night i seen a sign for a newsagents etc all opening within that space as well... thats a bit of a pity too though because that north end of the town now is starting to suffer a little bit...if dunnes pulled out of there itd be curtains for that area! Fusciardi's chipper gone, Music shop space gone and just covered with wexford bus stickers even though i seen someone in there working the other day... . may be a chance of somthing else moving in there... the old fdb place gone, cinema gone, paco gone from there, hughes and hughes, so its on tender hooks there at the moment only for unique hairdressers opening there a while ago...

    i also seen the guy who i think owns the railway news doing stuff in the shop in town so id say thats a definate...well at least its only a move and not the business gone.. hope it all does well there and the unoccupied shops get let asap.

    "in other news".... barker2 shop is going to be "jeans depot" so thats a nice little ADDITION! :)

    all we need now is old dunnes site taken over, tesco's old site sorted out and somthing done wiht corrys on the main street! id say there is birds roosting inside that place at this stage! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    Back in 1980 The Capitol Cinema reopened after been closed for 4 years The Cineplex in Redmond Square should also be reopened but sadly it wont Dunnes in Redmond Sq will stay there and chances are never be done up like they planned.

    Wexford really needs a good music store not that ****es For Music place been a real void since BPM closed down.

    As for Corrys HA HA sorry have to laugh but he wont let anyone touch that place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


    McLoughlin wrote: »
    Back in 1980 The Capitol Cinema reopened after been closed for 4 years The Cineplex in Redmond Square should also be reopened but sadly it wont Dunnes in Redmond Sq will stay there and chances are never be done up like they planned.

    Wexford really needs a good music store not that ****es For Music place been a real void since BPM closed down.

    As for Corrys HA HA sorry have to laugh but he wont let anyone touch that place.


    Too right mate. Trying to find something in Whites in like searching for a lost treasure. Nothing is correctly categorised or anything.

    Would love something like HMV to open (which it never will of course) but nice to dream.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Bendihorse


    Did Dunnes stores vacate that big unit on main street?

    I think they should move back there. I cant believe where it is now is new? Its def up there with the worst Dunnes iv ever been in.

    That or move the clothes and homeware back to mainstreet and do a proper grocery at the other end.

    Redmond Cinema should reopen as a boutique cinema. Wexford seems to be home to LOADS of artists and is visited by lots of culture seeking tourists.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    Bendihorse wrote: »
    Did Dunnes stores vacate that big unit on main street?

    I think they should move back there. I cant believe where it is now is new? Its def up there with the worst Dunnes iv ever been in.

    That or move the clothes and homeware back to mainstreet and do a proper grocery at the other end.

    Redmond Cinema should reopen as a boutique cinema. Wexford seems to be home to LOADS of artists and is visited by lots of culture seeking tourists.

    Dunnes closed the main st some years ago and clothes and homeware didnt do that well plus the place is in a bad state upstairs is unusable and Redmond Sq was new and modern over 20 years ago but when you look at it now it was badly designed mainly the car park should be near a main entrance, Dunnes on the Main St will be left idle till Dunnes themselves decided to invest money into it but after failures such as ferrybank in waterford it won't happen soon. Dunnes Redmond Sq would have been upgraded years ago before but people objected to the planing process from memory it wouild have been a 4 level building carpark, grocery, drapery and staff areas

    As far as i can recall the owner developer of the Savoy Cinema/Cineplex had plans do do up that whole area but recession happened. Yes wexford has LOADS of artists but not allot of good ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Farmers Kitchen are very close to Receivership

    Rumours about it being closed, but it's not I've passed it by over the last few days and it's trading away.

    Rumours rumours


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    These rumours of closures are very damaging. The restaurant traders in town are getting together to launch a "stop rumours" campaign.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


    RadioRetro wrote: »
    These rumours of closures are very damaging. The restaurant traders in town are getting together to launch a "stop rumours" campaign.


    And how would this work exactly? Are they going to be totally transparent with everybody?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    Haven't a clue, just passing on what little info I know.


  • Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭fitness fan


    Jeans Depot open on Main Street where BArkers 2 was. Nice clothes great opening offers - jeans for 20 euro . All Crosshatch brand !!


  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭WexfordWarrior


    yep... jean depot opened, name it opened as well and i see work going on in the shop that used to have wexford bus posters and branding on the corner of redmond square beside the dragon heen...

    post office on the north main street now opened after railway news relocated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


    I hear that this new amusement place is just going to be filled with slot machines ala Mint.

    Ah well, another waste of space.


  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭WexfordWarrior


    best of luck wexford12... not sure about new casino place... originally on plans it was for an amusement arcade, if its another place like mint i dont see the point but on the signage it has poker, roulette etc... hardly just computer game versions ??? maybe....

    denis collins gallery opened and a permanent fixture for the next few years anyway on the quay front where keanes auctioneers had moved to for a while... corner of bean and berry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    South 51 re-opening under new management this weekend, I'm told. Most of the staff let go have got their jobs back.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    RadioRetro wrote: »
    South 51 re-opening under new management this weekend, I'm told. Most of the staff let go have got their jobs back.
    Excellent for the staff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


    Well still no work has commenced on the pathways on South Main St (they are to be extended, making the road narrower but allowing for chairs outside the pubs and possibly attracting a cafe or the like).

    The Drinagh Court Hotel seems to be holding up, so maybe the rumours are false. Though I was there only recently and it was pretty dead. Who knows.

    As I mentioned above, I've heard from a few local businessmen that the new amusement place will be Mint Mark II, which is a huge pity. I had hopes for a mini Dr. Quirkey's Good Time Emporium. How people can spend hours looking at computerised roulette machines is beyond me.

    Anyone know if that Haven place is still open on the Quay? Haven't been down that way in a while on a crawl, so has there been many changes to the pubs? I know Chaz Bar was re-opening anyway.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭Zhane


    No, Haven has gone. Its now the private party area for Mooneys. Which is such a shame because its was a really nice bar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


    Ah well. Probably be the first of many, there has been a huge turnover of pubs in that area in recent times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭wexford12


    best of luck wexford12... not sure about new casino place... originally on plans it was for an amusement arcade, if its another place like mint i dont see the point but on the signage it has poker, roulette etc... hardly just computer game versions ??? maybe....

    denis collins gallery opened and a permanent fixture for the next few years anyway on the quay front where keanes auctioneers had moved to for a while... corner of bean and berry.

    Thanks for that WexfordWarrior my post was taken down and I was Banned for a little bit because i put my name of my business up. Ah well it seems someone else has to say what the business is not me as its deemed advertising .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


    wexford12 wrote: »
    Thanks for that WexfordWarrior my post was taken down and I was Banned for a little bit because i put my name of my business up. Ah well it seems someone else has to say what the business is not me as its deemed advertising .


    You got banned for that? What a load of balls


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    Well still no work has commenced on the pathways on South Main St

    They're doing the necessary pipework at the moment, the place is a hive of digging, replacing, filling-in activity.

    The bricks for the new surface are in Colman Doyle's yard behind his shop at the bottom of Bride Street, you can see them on their pallets even when the gates are closed.

    There was a lot of activity in South 51 yesterday afternoon with new equipment still in bubblewrap observed inside.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


    RadioRetro wrote: »
    They're doing the necessary pipework at the moment, the place is a hive of digging, replacing, filling-in activity.

    The bricks for the new surface are in Colman Doyle's yard behind his shop at the bottom of Bride Street, you can see them on their pallets even when the gates are closed.

    There was a lot of activity in South 51 yesterday afternoon with new equipment still in bubblewrap observed inside.


    Apologies. I thought the digging up/pipework was the usual lark that you see every other day, not the beginning of the pathways.

    I'd say the stuff in bubblewrap must be the new kitchen equipment. I heard a lot of it was taken away.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    No apols necessary, I thought so too until I asked as I live close by and had seen the blocks.

    Music blaring out of S51 yesterday avo and a lot of activity inside, load of empty equipment/drink boxes folded flat and piled up outside in Cinema Lane. No, I wasn't going through them, just passing by and looked at them! For reporting here purposes, natch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    South 51 reopened today.

    Oh, and just to repeat, I have no connection with the place, wasn't even a regular.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    Mr. Price shop front in place in one of the units in the Retail park at Kileens (the one where Woodies and Aldi is). I don't think it was open yet though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Poochie05 wrote: »
    Mr. Price shop front in place in one of the units in the Retail park at Kileens (the one where Woodies and Aldi is). I don't think it was open yet though.

    What's Mr price ? - discount store?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    I was in Wexford on Friday and, apart from collecting something from Argos and a book from V de P, I was unimpressed with what was on offer. Apart from overpriced Greenacres and Barkers there's little enough in the town now. As always the wind on South Main Street was enough to cut you in half. The Farmers Market had about four stalls. I arrived back in Redmond Square just in time for a bus home so cut out my last call - to Readers Paradise (usually a waste of time anyway) and was back in Enniscorthy little over an hour and half after leaving. At least the shops in Enniscorthy are centrally clustered, albeit on a hill, but the town is certainly better presented than Wexford at the moment - still little or no business being done though. :(


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