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Limerick City of Culture

  • 04-01-2014 06:21PM
    #1
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭


    Incompetent Irish political gombeenism part 9653.

    So first a buddy of the chairman Pat Cox is made ceo with no public competition. Then the artistic director resigns due to being hamstrung. Shane Ross in his role as public accounts Committee member has raised concerns and minister for state Joe Costello has labelled the project a "shambles".

    So what could have been a good news story and a boost for the region has been sullied by incompetence, mismanagement and shleeveenism.

    Business as usual.
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  • #2
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    I feel your pain OP. :(


  • #3
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Limerick city has been hurting badly for a long time now. The new walkway is nice but to be honest the main streets are embarrassing to look at with all the closed shops and frozen scaffolding. Not to mention the nasty rep it has because of some bad apples ruining it all.


  • #4
    Orlaw3136
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Orlaw3136


    You can take some hoors to culture but you can't make them think.


  • #5
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    Limerick city has been hurting badly for a long time now. The new walkway is nice but to be honest the main streets are embarrassing to look at with all the closed shops and frozen scaffolding. Not to mention the nasty rep it has because of some bad apples ruining it all.

    It's gonna hurt for a while longer with Cat Pox heading this thing


  • #6
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    Limerick city has been hurting badly for a long time now. The new walkway is nice but to be honest the main streets are embarrassing to look at with all the closed shops and frozen scaffolding. Not to mention the nasty rep it has because of some bad apples ruining it all.

    The walkway is pretty class looking but there's sod all down there to warrant strolling along it, bar Clohessy's and the restaurants at the other end. It's a depressing, ugly town for the most part, Patrick St is a dump and it's the first thing people coming in from that side of the city see.


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  • #7
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Limerick is hosting a yogurt festival?


  • #8
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    limerick tunnel is a great piece of engineering.


  • #9
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Limerick, you're so shady.


  • #10
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Just make Galway Ireland's permanent City of Culture and be done with it.

    We know how to throw a party up here. :)


  • #11
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Lapin wrote: »
    Just make Galway Ireland's permanent City of Culture and be done with it.

    We know how to throw a party up here. :)
    Yeah, how was this city of culture thing decided, because Limerick is probably the worst choice right now in terms of cities.


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  • #12
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Muise... wrote: »
    Limerick, you're so shady.


    Some kids did a song for the thing, and say Limerick could be 'rough' in one line. Yer wan, the CEO asks if it could be changed as its not the image they want to project.


  • #13
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Nodin wrote: »
    Some kids did a song for the thing, and say Limerick could be 'rough' in one line. Yer wan, the CEO asks if it could be changed as its not the image they want to project.

    that's what I meant by shady.


  • #14
    An Coilean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


    Another issue I would have with this is that they got a grant of €6 million from An Roinn Chultúr agus Gaeltachta for a cultural festival, and not a sign of the Irish Language anywhere involved. It would seem that the language has nothing to do with culture here.


  • #15
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    An Coilean wrote: »
    Another issue I would have with this is that they got a grant of €6 million from An Roinn Chultúr agus Gaeltachta for a cultural festival, and not a sign of the Irish Language anywhere involved. It would seem that the language has nothing to do with culture here.

    Why would it? Limerick is not in the Gaeltacht so the money came from the Cultúr wing of the Roinn. :confused:


  • #16
    Orlaw3136
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Orlaw3136


    So just what is this national city of culture bollox anyway ?

    From the press release announcing it back in 2012.

    "An EU study in 2004 found that the designation of European Capital of Culture served as a catalyst for the cultural development and transformation of the chosen city, and it is aimed to replicate these benefits on the national stage through this initiative."

    So, basically, it denotes a city where any form of culture is utterly absent. Meanwhile the locals (yokels ?) think they've been awarded a prize as opposed to having been identified as uncultured yobbos.

    Thank god we've heaps of spare money to spend on this sort of thing is all I can say.


  • #17
    An Coilean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


    Muise... wrote: »
    Why would it? Limerick is not in the Gaeltacht so the money came from the Cultúr wing of the Roinn. :confused:

    You don't think the Irish language has any relevance to Irish culture outside of the Gaeltacht?


  • #18
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Muise... wrote: »
    that's what I meant by shady sunny and wonderful and appointed in an unorthodox but totally above board manner.

    Absolutely.

    The CEO was being paid 700 Euro a day as a consultant before they got the job, according to the news programme at one today.


  • #19
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    A pox on Cox:mad:


  • #20
    Orlaw3136
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Orlaw3136


    An Coilean wrote: »
    You don't think the Irish language has any relevance to Irish culture outside of the Gaeltacht?

    Well, not that is has none whatsoever. Just fcuk all.


  • #21
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    An Coilean wrote: »
    You don't think the Irish language has any relevance to Irish culture outside of the Gaeltacht?

    I think it has as much relevance as Hungarian has to carpentry.


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  • #22
    An Coilean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


    Muise... wrote: »
    I think it has as much relevance as Hungarian has to carpentry.

    What do you think culture is then?


  • #23
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Muise... wrote: »
    Slim, you're so shady.

    There ye are ......fyp!


  • #24
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    An Coilean wrote: »
    What do you think culture is then?

    If I speak french am I french ?

    Would just add I would think it's more Architecture, Music Anything particular unique language may be a common denominator . Are peoples in south America still Spanish and Portuguese ? Although I would say Irish is a beautiful language like many others


  • #25
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    An Coilean wrote: »
    What do you think culture is then?

    more bacterial than predetermined, for a start.


  • #26
    Orlaw3136
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Orlaw3136


    An Coilean wrote: »
    What do you think culture is then?

    Something that lets me get away with not observing basic societal norms and a certain amount of laws when it suits me...oh wait you meant the other sort...eh.........poems ?


  • #27
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    An Coilean wrote: »
    Another issue I would have with this is that they got a grant of €6 million from An Roinn Chultúr agus Gaeltachta for a cultural festival, and not a sign of the Irish Language anywhere involved. It would seem that the language has nothing to do with culture here.
    For the vast majority of Irish people the Irish language holds no significance. I include myself in that. I personally feel that money spent promoting the Irish language is money badly spent. I'm not deliberately trying to offend anyone, I just think that it's time to stop flogging a dead horse.


  • #28
    An Coilean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


    Orlaw3136 wrote: »
    Something that lets me get away with not observing basic societal norms when it suits me...oh wait you meant the other sort...eh.........poems ?

    Right, so poetry in English is culture, poetry in Irish not?


  • #29
    Orlaw3136
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Orlaw3136


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    For the vast majority of Irish people the Irish language holds no significance. I include myself in that. I personally feel that money spent promoting the Irish language is money badly spent. I'm not deliberately trying to offend anyone, I just think that it's time to stop flogging a dead horse.

    ...or at least consolidate it with Welsh or something.
    An Coilean wrote: »
    Right, so poetry in English is culture, poetry in Irish not?

    It depends on whether I can get a grant for it.


  • #30
    An Coilean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


    Orlaw3136 wrote: »
    It depends on whether I can get a grant for it.

    Why, is €6 million not enough?


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  • #31
    LOSTfan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭LOSTfan57


    Muise... wrote: »
    I think it has as much relevance as Hungarian has to carpentry.

    Hungarian Carpenters would find Hungarian highly relevant when they learn about Carpentry.....


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