Thurles

infogiver wrote: »

The parking is for staff and customers.
It's a public office, open to the public!

Thanks, ya had that it was a public office - that wasn't my point.

Samsgirl wrote: »

It's also Library HQ for Tipperary.

Thanks for that.

Apache Pizza due to open Monday.

Card machine isn't in yet so cash only.

Deliveries to roll out in a few weeks.


In unrelated news Stars of India did a post drop of their menu with a discount voucher.

marvin80 wrote: »

There's a discussion going on in the thread below about the possibility of creating a greenway from Clonmel to Thurles along the old train line.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...7670861&page=2

tipp_gunner is the driving force behind it - be great to see some support for it:

Here is the twitter page he has set up - please support

https://twitter.com/Tippofftrack

And here is the facebook link again. Share, like and feel free to post to

https://www.facebook.com/tippofftrack/

I'm a bit lost as to the idea?

Is there much of the old route in place? Much of the old stations and areas where the lines were are now private property.

I was looking at the satellite google maps and you can see the line here and there, most of it seems to be ditches, only looked around the south side of the Horse & Jockey. Passes through a Quarry if I'm right.

Great idea btw, but seems an awful amount of infrastructure is required.

jooksavage wrote: »

There are a couple of bridges around Moycarkey side. The old line is cutting through large dairy farms now - won't have much luck establishing a route through there. I love the idea though - maybe the route can meander a bit from the original line. Even then, there's a big demand for agricultural land - might be hard getting as much as an acre set aside.

If its anything like here in Roscommon, there'll be serious opposition to that from landowners. They managed to build a greenway from Mullingar to Athlone on a disused railway line, but it looks like the progress could be halted west of the bridge unless they can sort something.

shmeee wrote: »

The line will be going through some of the best agricultural land around and will come up against strong opposition.

Again as you said, maybe go away from the main rail line and use whatever land is possible, and get as close to the old line as allowed.

There's some impediments along the way but it's an idea definitely worth looking into.

Imagine being able to walk or cycle on a Greenway through the beautiful roaming countryside in Tipperary - unbelievable.

shmeee wrote: »

On a day like today, it would be glorious.

Nothing better than driving home in the evening through the Tipp countryside and the sun basking down. It's stunning!

Absolutely - and as Tipp gunner has said its a greenway so it doesn't have to religiously follow the path of the old railway. Where it can yes great but not being able to is not a barrier to the greenway development.

Should we ask for these comments to be moved to the specific thread that has been set up? Edit - not sure of the process to do this hence asking.

Following on from the question does thurles benefit. By lunch of the armagh draw the hotels in thurles templemore nenagh and roscrea are booked out on the saturday. The roll the tipp footballers are on the last two years long may it continue if they draw at home to teams north of the country. Thats not what you see too often

Tyson Fury wrote: »

Yeah but there's not exactly loads of rooms, probably won't be more than 10,000 at the football with maximum 4,000 from Armagh imo. Worrying that they are all booked up and explains why the rugby world cup isn't coming to Thurles.

Why aren't there any concerts on in Semple Stadium?

Holycross has a country music festival which draws between 10 and 20,000 surely the stadium should be able to offer something similar.

The number of rooms is fixed, and suitable for the normal market so ya there might not be huge numbers of rooms but thats not the point. What is there is all booked up - so it has a positive effect.
Struggling to see how you found a negative!

No one is worrying - saying its a great thing.
World cup wouldn't have been confined to the towns north of Thurles listed, would also have Horse and Jockey, Cashel, even KK is just a 40 min spin - way less than world cup fans would often have to travel. Lim and Portlaoise short train hops away.

Concerts - they did when they needed the money, perhaps they are comfortable where they are now.
Double edged sword - yes it would give back to the town but also takes over the town. Perhaps they are conscious of that.

Tipp_gunner we need you on the board of semple stadium.
Those two examples would have been perfect gigs.

Looks like they missed out with ed sherran too.

Tyson Fury wrote: »

When the stadiums for the rugby world cup were announced the reason Thurles wasn't selected was because lack of accommodation. If hotels in North Tipp are all booked up over a qualifier in the football then this backs up the opinion of the RFU.

Both Limerick and kk have suitable accommodation and as a result have been chosen as host cities. That's the negative. I would have thought it was quite obvious.

Cashel is another example, the rock is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Ireland yet the town doesn't benefit much as 90% of the people visiting the area won't stay overnight in the town due to lack of accommodation.

You originally asked did Thurles get a benefit from match days.

You got an answer to say yes, it does, for example hotels are booked up and the knock on benefits of that.

You didn't seem to want a positive so then you introduced a different element.
One of the reasons stated around the rugby was accommodation - but am sure that was discussed at the time.

So in terms of what the benefits to Thurles of match days the fact that Limerick City and KK City have more accommodation than a town.
Yes it is obvious that cities would have more accommodation than a small town - wasn't obvious in terms of what you had asked. (or why one would conflate such different points)

Those and other cities sell out for big events too, otherwise would be pointless to have the rooms there.

So again dont see how you found a negative.

It seems that there are benefits to Thurles from match days.

Its a wider argument (and different discussion) as to whether Thurles needs more hotel rooms.
From a business based perspective would need to know what is the average occupancy on a standard mid week / standard weekend. There is space and buildings and hoteliers there if the market is there.

1. Does Thurles benefit from match days?
Question for people who live work and own businesses based in the area and it a question based on past experience.


2. Does Thurles need more hotel rooms?
Business based question as to whether economically feasible - so question based on estimation of future trends and needs.