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  • #722
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Does anyone know when the works are starting on the square ? I see a lot of markings all over the place .

    Also, what exactly is being done? Are they pedestrianising part of it , widening footpaths ?


  • #723
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Almost everyone I talk to in Thurles doesn’t remember this, but I do like it was yesterday.

    When Dunnes Stores first opened in 1996/7 they had a vending machine outside the entrance selling cans of St Bernard Cola for 20p. At the time Coca Cola was 50p a can from the vending machine in the train station and everyone back then didn’t care about branded products. It was sickeningly sweet cola. Who here remembers it?

    Or when Lidl first opened it’s doors on the 5th of June 2002, the majority of their products were own brands from Germany. There was no English writing on most of the products at all.

    I remember the vending machine. It was kind of a novelty at the time.
    ExMachina1000 wrote: »
    I drive through thurles every now and then. I find that square to be similar to the driving seem around the Arc de Triomphe. It's a roundabout but you get the idea

    In my family the square is called the Arc De Thurles or Arc De Tribump :D


  • #724
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Subway- I notice the barrel lock on the door Was drilled by a locksmith. Martin Healy the owner has a planning notice affixed to the window. Her other restaurant in Nenagh still hasn’t opened either.


  • #725
    Oops!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Oops!


    Martin Healy owns nothing, if you read between the lines you'll see who owns what.


  • #726
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    He claims to be the owner to the local authority.
    Presuming you mean Lowry?

    I thought Healy was more Labour e.g the Alan Kelly Apple Store (Labour/Kelly supporters claimed he was bringing Apple to the O'Connor site. A Mr. Price opened!)

    Anyway the PP application is to extend the opening hours from 08:00 to 00:00 so she's semi-closed down.

    In other news, work has started on the old Sweeney's bakery site regarding the Primary Care Centre that'll be leased to the HSE.


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  • #727
    lisasimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭lisasimpson


    Oops! wrote: »
    Martin Healy owns nothing, if you read between the lines you'll see who owns what.

    How much of thurles does he own at this stage, the watermill, the munster hotel??? All sitting there nothing happening where as he seems to sort any properities in Nenagh


  • #728
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Wasn't the Watermill supposedly being turned into apartments? God be with the days when it was HQ. Such a great spot!


  • #729
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Mizzoni Pizza opening on Friar Street where shimla was.


  • #730
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    That's going to do Apache some damage I'd say!


  • #731
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Ya I’m a fan of Mizzoni anywhere iv had it, another take away though, they all can’t survive. Any word on McDonalds ??

    It would be great if we had a nice Italian restaurant in the town where you could go for pasta or pizza


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  • #732
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    That's 3 takeaways now on Friar Street - Kebabish, Mizzoni and Apache along with Naomi's Cafe which will be moving to where McKeon's shoe shop used be.

    Wasn't there an Italian restaurant in Park Avenue for a while? Went there once as it was abysmal. We were waiting half an hour for our order to be taken and a full hour for our food to come out. Then to add insult to injury it was very expensive for mediocre food.


  • #733
    mikep
    Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭mikep


    That one started well and then went rapidly downhill.

    There was also an Italian at one stage where Yi Thai is now, also started well but went downhill quickly too...

    A good italian would be a great addition..


  • #734
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Jim Ryan has a post on Facebook about subway reopening.


  • #735
    shmeee
    Registered Users Posts: 8,562 ✭✭✭shmeee


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Jim Ryan has a post on Facebook about subway reopening.

    So much for it closing. Classic Thurles Town rumours.

    Reopening on the 29th June, signage on the door.

    Good to see places reopening.


  • #736
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,651 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    shmeee wrote: »
    So much for it closing. Classic Thurles Town rumours.

    Reopening on the 29th June, signage on the door.

    Good to see places reopening.

    What happened to all the stuff on done deal?

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #737
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    This is a submission she made to the council regarding extending the opening hours to 12am.

    How is it not unviable to reopen now



    Edit: One of the employees claims new ownership


  • #738
    Oops!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Oops!


    How did you get your hands on that?! :D


  • #739
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Oops! wrote: »
    How did you get your hands on that?! :D

    The planning submission?

    It’s made public on eplan

    http://193.178.30.68/idocswebDPSS/ViewFiles.aspx?docid=625983&format=jpeg


  • #740
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Subway reopening deferred until the 29th of July now


  • #741
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tastyt


    I hear someone has bought Morris bar down near the castle , anyone hear any more?

    Rumour has it it’s reopening as a bar / restaurant


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  • #742
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    There was planning permission granted for that building in 2009
    demolition of existing outbuildings, conversion of ground floor public house and residential to retail and extend the retail to the rear all at the ground floor, conversion of the first and second floors from residential to offices including extension of offices to thre rear at first floor, alterations to the shop front and all associated site development works

    This has obviously expired now. I’d guess the licence was sold.


  • #743
    corwill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭corwill


    Is there someplace in Thurles I can bring cardboard for recycling? The mother has put me to work clearing out while I'm visiting.


  • #744
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    corwill wrote: »
    Is there someplace in Thurles I can bring cardboard for recycling? The mother has put me to work clearing out while I'm visiting.

    There’s no recycling centre in Thurles unfortunately. I believe there’s one in Cashel.

    There’s no harm finding a secluded spot somewhere and setting it alight, it’s not like it’s plastics.


  • #745
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,505 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    corwill wrote: »
    Is there someplace in Thurles I can bring cardboard for recycling? The mother has put me to work clearing out while I'm visiting.

    Ryan's on the mill road will sort you out. Not sure how much it would cost but not a lot I would gueass


  • #746
    corwill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭corwill


    Sure feck it, I'll tip down to Cashel, any excuse for a spin out of the house on a soft day.


  • #747
    Mmm...username
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Mmm...username


    Has it been really difficult to find housing in thurles for a while?
    I recently moved back to Thurles and I'm staying in an overcrowded house while looking for somewhere to rent,it's been 2 months now and either there's nothing around or the estate agents keep telling me to ring back or they'll call me and then the property I wanted to view is gone . Feeling very hopeless about it 😔


  • #748
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Ya the town is badly in new of new housing, tough when planning permissions are constantly challenged


  • #749
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    I heard it from the horse's mouth that Taffy will be taking over Bowes pub at some stage soon.


  • #750
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tastyt


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    I heard it from the horse's mouth that Taffy will be taking over Bowes pub at some stage soon.


    From Taffy himself ? That’s good, it looked from his message on Facebook that he was leaving the town .

    Huge potential in Bowes with its location and outside space


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  • #751
    mikep
    Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭mikep


    tastyt wrote: »
    I hear someone has bought Morris bar down near the castle , anyone hear any more?

    Rumour has it it’s reopening as a bar / restaurant

    The interior of that premises was shipped down to a pub refurb in wexford town so I'd say the interior is empty.


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