Xenophile wrote: » Will you support the Irish soccer team as O'Brien sponsors them very heavily and will you urge your friends to stop supporting the team?
Yorker wrote: » if it is a franchise it is hurting DOB and people have right to protest just like the farmers can blockade the meat factories. If it is not franchised they could not use the topaz brand. there are many with no work who are being forced to pay water charges
Yorker wrote: » I was not addressing you when i said topaz is a franchise as it was claiomed it was not linked to DOB . you change the subject when you are shown up. the farmers were blocking suppliers does not endanger jobs LOL. ha ha . getting the farmers dole lol
Meathlass wrote: » Your analogy with the farmers doesn't really stand up as they were blocking the suppliers to the factory (the farmers themselves) not the customers (the large multiples). Protestors could perhaps prevent the suppliers to Topaz from delivering goods/fuel. Anyway this is a thread about Clonmel, not IW so .... On a totally unrelated topic is anyone going to the Comedy Festival in O'Keefes next weekend? €50 for a 4 night ticket package seems a very good deal.
Meathlass wrote: » Huh? I live in Clonmel. Sorry, didn't realise I had to show 4 generations of Tipp ancestory before I could comment on this forum. My original point still stands. I don't have a problem with Denis O'Brien or Topaz and I don't have any issue with protestors with placards standing on a public footpath or road informing customers of the issues they have with the above. If I as a consumer, having weighed up the information available to me, still decide to shop in Topaz I should be allowed to do so.
Yorker wrote: » why don't you shop in meath
Meathlass wrote: » I don't have a problem with people protesting but they shouldn't be allowed to block customers from entering the forecourt. As a consumer I should have a choice about where to shop.
darragh o meara wrote: » That's takings things a bit too far, by all means boycott Denis O Briens businesses and I'd be a firm believer of that btw!!, but please remember that a lot of the Topaz garages like the ones in Clonmel are a franchise and are owned by a local family, who I may and have done so long before Denis O Brien came on the scene. They have to make a living for themselves and their staff, protesters in this case aren't hurting DOB, they're hurting ordinary decent people who are just like them. If someone looses a job because of this, water charges will the least of their worries.
Loughc wrote: » A friend of mine was trying to get into Topaz to get a bottle of water for his 4 year old in the back and the protesters blocked him and told him to drive somewhere else. When he refused they started shouting and banging on his car, his son was very shook up and upset by it.
andrewdeerpark wrote: » That is correct. We have to assume after the lease was left lapse what is happening with the stock in the store and local warehouse? How much is paid for, what is on credit, is it all accountable for? Some of the staff were Pansea employees but not all (rumor mill), how did that work? DID wanted to buy outright. I am amazed why they just do not setup in another site in town (they have their pick of em) and forget about the current arrangement. We can only assume the whole thing is a mess...
Royco wrote: » I see coopers are branching out to the stonehouse as a steak house be interesting to see how that goes. I wish them the best of luck nothing ventured nothing gained
Deleted User wrote: » On the subject of food, the BEST ham and coleslaw roll in the WORLD is to be got in Daybreak, Clerihan. Their coleslaw is just yummmm. (Sorry, I'm on a diet and food is all I can think of)
DT100 wrote: » I was passing court an ri today...the people on the protest had music...guitar,fiddle...singing......Where will it all lead?
Deleted User wrote: » We might get Devs comely maidens dancing at the crossroads!
Yorker wrote: » wasn't it the same people who had both? DID Clonmelhttp://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Business/Did-Electrical-Clonmel-451474 PLEASE NOTE: This Registered Business Name is owned by the company Pansea Limited and the Premium Report information will pertain to this company Pansea Limitedhttp://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Company/Pansea-Limited-127209#report-2
tippspur wrote: » You'll pay a lot more for your roll in there when Applegreen take over.
F34 wrote: » I'll miss their breakfast rolls by far and a way the best in town imo