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Creedon's Cities

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  • 30-07-2012 9:42pm
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    xii
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    Starting well.


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    Neeson
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    Not so well now!


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    SarahBeep!
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    I think its going well :confused:


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    Neeson
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    SarahBeep! wrote: »
    I think its going well :confused:

    I was referring to the crime.


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    RikkFlair
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    Milk Market ghost coming up :)


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    SarahBeep!
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    Neeson wrote: »
    SarahBeep! wrote: »
    I think its going well :confused:

    I was referring to the crime.

    Nothing people dont already know.


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    Conor Bourke
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    I'm enjoying it. I only lived in Limerick for 18 months and despite its faults, I loved the city from almost my first night there. So far the show is making me very wistful for Limerick :/


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    xii
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    The city looks well on camera, lets hope they don't go up Patrick street.


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    xii
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    I love the Soviet story.


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    SarahBeep!
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    xii wrote: »
    I love the Soviet story.

    Ive never heard it before, its great!


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    xii
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    Here's more

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Soviet


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    Spudmonkey
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    Nutters here....


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    road_high
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    Limerick looks great. Lots of positive people and things gong on. Makes me want to pay a visit soon :)


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    xii
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    He did speak highly of Limerick, but I thought the program over focused on one part of the city (Thomandgate) with few shots of the city center,it would also have been more representative of the city if he popped out to the other suburbs where the kids don't have pseudo Mohawks.


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    liammur
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    mfitzy wrote: »
    Limerick looks great. Lots of positive people and things gong on. Makes me want to pay a visit soon :)

    Well if you do, I saw an offer on grabone for the carlton castletroy hotel 4* for €39. Lovely hotel. Limerick does offer fantastic value for visitors.


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    road_high
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    xii wrote: »
    He did speak highly of Limerick, but I thought the program over focused on one part of the city (Thomandgate) with few shots of the city center,it would also have been more representative of the city if he popped out to the other suburbs where the kids don't have pseudo Mohawks.

    He did though :confused:. He was in Moyross (?) playing soccer and then rugby with kids for nearly half the programme!


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    Gallee
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    Not a bad reflection on our City. We need any half positive stuff so this did help.


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    Raiser
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    WTF was the long ghost hunting section all about, ectoplasm FFS - Were they really that stuck for footage?!?!?!

    - Limerick looked well, it's a real shame how it has been and continues to be so horribly mismanaged by the fcukheads in the City Council and also of course that the Gardai gave up on Limerick decades ago.....


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    parasomnia
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    Hi,

    As a native of Southill & Rosbrien and former ex (D)Hell employee, expat and beyond and back again, I thought the program was OK, it focused too much on the obvious,
    I would have like da guy to visit the Mid Regional or maybe a stop to the Crescent SCC, what about LIT or UL, da never got a mention.

    He's da head off my Brother who is a manager with a Tesco in da midlands I won't mention.

    My Tv has a built in PVR so I recorded it, works like a charm on the telly but encrypted to view on me Laptop. As my Son is 14 yrs old living in Germany, I will put aside time to make RTE into a codec I can send.

    If anyone knows a solution or an idea, please let me know.


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    TEMPLAR KNIGHT
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    "They identified the anomaly as an...ORB" that was a classic haha, city looked well though in fairness!


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    parasomnia
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    ol' Lim always looks her best coming from da river straight flowing, driving in from da Airport.

    In my Opinion, Lim can = looks a City, give a good chip fight on Broad st, next to that beautiful St.Marys

    I live next door.


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    Berty
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    A bit of meh.

    Too much Moyross, too much Northside suburbia and not enough Limerick. We don't all play rugby and do community work you know. The market trustees must be annoyed. A pitch black market which showed us nothing of it other than a few nutcases chasing ghosts.

    Limerick City, we have a river that's about it. We don't make enough use of our river by facing business's at it. We are a Georgian city but he didn't bother with that. People's park, Georgian area, Limerick walking tour(Frank McCourt etc), Current Industry(we still have some you know) and maybe the fact Limerick has become a great place to meet, eat and socialise.

    The missus said "That programme was made for auld ones suppin' tae" and she's probably right.


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    jocksandsocks
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    limerick looked well but the show was terrible

    ghosts in the milk market,WTF like?? would have being much better showing the milk market on a saturday morning.
    the whole moyross thing was terrible.gave the impression it was the only housing estate in limerick and that everything going on in moyross is positive.
    as for the rugby they could have told the kids before hand who keith earls was at least

    i really enjoyed the boat maker though


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    RikkFlair
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    The last section where he was in period costume went on too long IMO, could have easily halved that and squeezed in a piece about another aspect of the city.

    All in all I thought it wasn't too bad.


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    Poxyshamrock
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    Beer Baron wrote: »
    A bit of meh.

    Too much Moyross, too much Northside suburbia and not enough Limerick. We don't all play rugby and do community work you know. The market trustees must be annoyed. A pitch black market which showed us nothing of it other than a few nutcases chasing ghosts.

    Limerick City, we have a river that's about it. We don't make enough use of our river by facing business's at it. We are a Georgian city but he didn't bother with that. People's park, Georgian area, Limerick walking tour(Frank McCourt etc), Current Industry(we still have some you know) and maybe the fact Limerick has become a great place to meet, eat and socialise.

    The missus said "That programme was made for auld ones suppin' tae" and she's probably right.

    Couldnt have put it better myself.

    Creedon when talking about Moyross: "I grew up in the city centre myself"


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    wingnut
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    Just caught up on RTE Player.

    Pros: Limerick Soviet piece, King Johns Castle looked well.

    The Milk Market stuff was utter BS - of all the things in Limerick they gave a large segment to that!!

    Parasomnia was right UL / LIT have a lot going on and should have featured (though it is a 'city' feature and UL is not in the city center)

    Rugby piece was good but kids at Keith Earl's own club guessing he was from Dublin did not make a good impression!

    Might have been nice to talk to some of the older traders / characters in the city.


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    DaveNoCheese
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    parasomnia wrote: »
    Hi,

    As a native of Southill & Rosbrien and former ex (D)Hell employee, expat and beyond and back again, I thought the program was OK, it focused too much on the obvious,
    I would have like da guy to visit the Mid Regional or maybe a stop to the Crescent SCC, what about LIT or UL, da never got a mention.

    He's da head off my Brother who is a manager with a Tesco in da midlands I won't mention.

    My Tv has a built in PVR so I recorded it, works like a charm on the telly but encrypted to view on me Laptop. As my Son is 14 yrs old living in Germany, I will put aside time to make RTE into a codec I can send.

    If anyone knows a solution or an idea, please let me know.

    Have him try the RTE player, assume it works outside of the country?
    Here's the link for the Limerick episode - Creedon's Cities - Limerick

    Missed this the other night so will catch up myself this evening.


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    NinjaK
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    thought it was terrible, he is an annoying guy


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    #29
    Jofspring
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    Was ok. Rugby is far from the working mans sport in limerick like they made out. Maybe 20 to 30 years ago. Nothing working class about the top schools were it is predominately played not to mention the cost of going to Munster matches. Only a handful of working class rugby clubs in the city. Soccer is the working class sport in limerick played predominantely in the more disadvantaged areas and areas that would be considered more working class.

    The market thing was stupid. Thought it was just a moth flying past the camera myself ha.

    To be honest it was still better than a lot of previous programmes done about limerick. As mentioned by a few others there is a hell of a lot more to the city than what got the major amount of time.


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    bigpink
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    Watched it and thought it was very bad,im sick of hearing about Moyross,they most have a p.r guru there cause there always has to be be something in the media about it.And Munster rugby yes its big for the the city but yawn

    Its the way they market Limerick to tourists and Munster rugby seems to be a marketing tool

    So much this programme could have looked at even made a mini series


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    Silentcorner
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    Jofspring wrote: »
    Was ok. Rugby is far from the working mans sport in limerick like they made out. Maybe 20 to 30 years ago. Nothing working class about the top schools were it is predominately played not to mention the cost of going to Munster matches. Only a handful of working class rugby clubs in the city. Soccer is the working class sport in limerick played predominantely in the more disadvantaged areas and areas that would be considered more working class.

    The market thing was stupid. Thought it was just a moth flying past the camera myself ha.

    To be honest it was still better than a lot of previous programmes done about limerick. As mentioned by a few others there is a hell of a lot more to the city than what got the major amount of time.

    Can't argue with any of the above, I can only say tho rugby outside of this city is only played by a certain class, and it ain't the working class, we are unique in this country on that one ( a bit like Wales or NZ ), and it is the only sport where we can claim superiority...for now...

    It was a bit of a poor affair, no need to be showing the CCTV in operation, in my opinion, that Hourigan one didn't have to be hauled out either, if you were never in Limerick you couldn't help but be aware of "the crime issue" which in a programme of this nature was uncalled for, let's face it RTE will never leave that one go...

    I couldn't help but grimmace at that tagline near the end..."I think limerick and limerick people deserve a break"...after giving half an hour to dissadvantaged areas...and then re enacting a war in King Johns...b**tards!!!


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