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Reasons to be positive in Waterford?

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  • #52
    Chiparus
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    Winterval was a great success , hopefully to be continued


  • #53
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    A stranger at the ATM remarked to me about the shame to see the hotel on the hill closed .

    As I looked over at the Hotel , I saw a '' to let '' sign at the corner where Halifax used to be .

    Why does this read like a bad paperback novel about a private eye taking in the scene? :pac:


  • #54
    south
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭south


    I hear Home Store And More might be opening a shop in Waterford.


  • #55
    guitarist14
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭guitarist14


    mozattack wrote: »
    Positives = some good looking Polish ladies around nowadays

    I'm young, unemployed and without a lot of hope in Waterford. We can bang on about politics and jobs all day, but this just made me laugh which I think is the positivity this town needs. We all need a good ****ing laugh really.


  • #56
    decies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,475 ✭✭✭decies


    Sun is shineing, birds are chirping, days are longer, temperature is rising.


  • #57
    Cabaal
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    Off-topic posts deleted.
    Any more off topic political debates and I'll be banning people!

    Please can we have a positive thread,


  • #58
    mike65
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    It s lovely morning and that alone helps.


  • #59
    Motivator
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    Cabaal wrote: »
    Off-topic posts deleted.
    Any more off topic political debates and I'll be banning people!

    Please can we have a positive thread,

    Gway boy.


  • #60
    BBM77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭BBM77


    I am in my final year of college as a mature student, after four years doing an excellent honours degree in an excellent college…WIT


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  • #61
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Off-topic posts deleted.
    Any more off topic political debates and I'll be banning people!

    Please can we have a positive thread,
    :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Znb8dRascg:)


  • #62
    realworld82
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭realworld82


    i see redlane are closing up in town


  • #63
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    http://www.wlrfm.com/news-and-sport/waterford-news/174318-newsroom-get-your-hair-done-at-half-price-and-help-a-good-cause-in-waterford.html


  • #64
    Jason Todd
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    realworld82 wrote: »
    i see redlane are closing up in town

    Yeah, they decide to expand the Tramore store or something like that. They had something about it on the Facebook page.


  • #65
    decies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,475 ✭✭✭decies


    Magnum bloke giving out free rose tesco ardkeen this morning, well thats a positive


  • #66
    moose3844
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    This has to be positive, The city needs it...

    Today the Government has announced that Waterford and Limerick City's are to pilot the Living City iniative. The aim of the scheme is offer tax breaks for owners of historic urban buildings to renovate with aim to occupy as living accomadation or for business purposes. This is particularly welcome in Waterford City as there is a huge number of buildings that could benefit from this scheme.


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  • #67
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    moose3844 wrote: »
    This has to be positive, The city needs it...

    Today the Government has announced that Waterford and Limerick City's are to pilot the Living City iniative. The aim of the scheme is offer tax breaks for owners of historic urban buildings to renovate with aim to occupy as living accomadation or for business purposes. This is particularly welcome in Waterford City as there is a huge number of buildings that could benefit from this scheme.


    It could be positive alright, there are an awful lot of houses up on the manor road that im sure have been there a very very long time that are in need of purchase and renovation, theres a few houses accross from Deeveys aswell that i would love to see been renovated they are powerful buildings that need new life, one is the old B+B and the other is just beside it.


  • #68
    mike65
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    Welcome to yesterday

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83202148&postcount=48


  • #69
    dzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭dzilla


    mike65 wrote: »
    Welcome to yesterday

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83202148&postcount=48

    So you posted it yesterday, get over yourself


  • #70
    mike65
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    :pac:


  • #71
    Cabaal
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    Came across this, mind you not read it all yet

    http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-a-new-pilot-scheme-could-breathe-in-cities-with-high-unemployment-796187-Feb2013/
    Column: A new pilot scheme could breathe life into cities with high unemployment

    The ‘Living Cities’ scheme is all about urban regeneration and the aim is to revitalise retail in Waterford City – and Limerick – through a series of tax incentives, writes Ciara Conway TD.


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  • #72
    mike65
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    :mad: (how many times does this story need reporting?)


  • #73
    moose3844
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭moose3844


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Came across this, mind you not read it all yet

    http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-a-new-pilot-scheme-could-breathe-in-cities-with-high-unemployment-796187-Feb2013/

    Great news for the city Cabaal


  • #74
    Cabaal
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    mike65 wrote: »
    :mad: (how many times does this story need reporting?)

    6 times...nah only kidding, its more the TD's column on it rather then the story itself.

    Having read it now I think she adds nothing to it as she says nothing meaningful at all in the column.


  • #75
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Cabaal wrote: »
    6 times...nah only kidding, its more the TD's column on it rather then the story itself.

    Having read it now I think she adds nothing to it as she says nothing meaningful at all in the column.

    How about FESTIVALS i know we have Spraoi and the like but other European Countries have several festivals throughout the year in the likes of Germany and France, Its always seen as a thing to lift public moral but the councils know that it generates money.

    So if you had an idea to NAME a FESTIVAL and when it should be and what it should be about what do you think it could be?

    Id go with some like CRYSTAL FEST, a nod to waterford history we could have the usual food sellers and maybe some live street music and maybe some glass cutting on the street foam parties World Record attempts and the like, there could be giveaways and so on and so forth,


  • #76
    Motivator
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    Getting back on track with this thread, what exactly is the story with Genzyme? Are they expanding their complex or just redeveloping existing buildings on site?


  • #77
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Motivator wrote: »
    Getting back on track with this thread, what exactly is the story with Genzyme? Are they expanding their complex or just redeveloping existing buildings on site?

    Just investment in current jobs i think theres a bit of renovation goin on too!


  • #78
    Motivator
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    spankmemunkey wrote: »

    Just investment in current jobs i think theres a bit of renovation goin on too!

    That's good news alright, it would be a great boost to the city if they are to expand their plant in the near future.


  • #79
    spankmemunkey
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    Motivator wrote: »
    That's good news alright, it would be a great boost to the city if they are to expand their plant in the near future.

    It is good news, you cant continue your journey if the road ahead hasnt been laid yet!


  • #80
    Partizan
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    Receiver appointed to Waterford Manor Court Hotel

    http://www.insolvencyjournal.ie/ij_news_more_details/appointment-of-receiver-waterford-manor-hotel-limited


  • #81
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Partizan wrote: »
    Receiver appointed to Waterford Manor Court Hotel

    http://www.insolvencyjournal.ie/ij_news_more_details/appointment-of-receiver-waterford-manor-hotel-limited[/QUOTE]

    This isnt really positive news is it?


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  • #82
    Motivator
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    spankmemunkey wrote: »
    Partizan wrote: »
    Receiver appointed to Waterford Manor Court Hotel

    http://www.insolvencyjournal.ie/ij_news_more_details/appointment-of-receiver-waterford-manor-hotel-limited[/QUOTE]

    This isnt really positive news is it?


    Maybe if the owner treated customers a bit better then he might have had more luck.


  • #83
    iseegirls
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    Did Next have two stores in City Square, or were they connected together in that the customer could walk in one door and out the other?

    Just wondering if Jane Norman will have the same two entrances.


  • #84
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    iseegirls wrote: »
    Did Next have two stores in City Square, or were they connected together in that the customer could walk in one door and out the other?

    Just wondering if Jane Norman will have the same two entrances.


    No i think they were at other ends of the shopping centre!


    Regarding the Manor Court Hotel where is that?


  • #85
    Professey Chin
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    spankmemunkey wrote: »
    Regarding the Manor Court Hotel where is that?

    Out the old back road to kilmeaden


  • #86
    mufcboy1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,970 ✭✭✭mufcboy1999


    Would love to say things are looking up for Waterford but in truth there simply not, we can keep dreaming but it's getting worse.

    If your lucky to have a job it's more than likely min wage which in theory is barely worth your while considering how much you get taxed and how much you'd get on the dole and possible additional benefits.

    I feel trapped in this county and this country and I hate the place because of this.


  • #87
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    mufcboy1999 wrote: »
    Would love to say things are looking up for Waterford but in truth there simply not, we can keep dreaming but it's getting worse.

    If your lucky to have a job it's more than likely min wage which in theory is barely worth your while considering how much you get taxed and how much you'd get on the dole and possible additional benefits.

    I feel trapped in this county and this country and I hate the place because of this.

    I was posting the same not 2 weeks ago, but you have to try and find positives, I would like to leave too but i cant so search for whats good!


  • #88
    cartell_best
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    Reasons to be positive in Waterford?

    I spoke with a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago who went out on the beer just around Christmas. He got in to such a state that he ended up coming out of a pub in a near comatose state. He was in such a mess that his left arm was black and blue the following day and he openly admitted that all he could remember was throwing a few shapes in whatever pub he was in. That state led him to collapse into a state on the street. Now lads, this chap isn't the biggest drinker on the planet. It wasn't until the following day when he checked his phone to see what mischief he got up to that he realised what had actually happened.

    Seemingly, he was so bad that some soul in Waterford had seen him collapse into a heap and took his phone to try to help him and phone one of his mates. The girl that took the phone is an absolute saint. I hope ye don't question "what kind of friends" does he have or "how could he get in that state". Sh*it happens, especially when we all have a skin full, ye know yourselves. But the one thing I knew about Waterford and he confirmed? Is that the people here are sound! That girl that took his phone, not only spoke to a friend of his that was living in Dundalk (I know, Dundalk, but even in his drunken state, that was the first name he could think of in his inebriated state), made sure he got home and the only question he had when he spoke to me was who the fook was that girl?, that went out of her way to do such a task?. I have to agree because, I can be a pessimist at the best of times and if that had happened in any other city in the country, it would more or less have ended up with the with the chap ending up with a night in the cells.

    Sound!


  • #89
    mufcboy1999
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    spankmemunkey wrote: »
    I was posting the same not 2 weeks ago, but you have to try and find positives, I would like to leave too but i cant so search for whats good!

    im the same i cant leave due to being pretty much broke, taught a min wage job would help get me out of here but its proven not much better than the dole. Id advise anyone against taking a min wage job unless you enjoy it because your just going to be slaving for pennys.

    id love to search for whats good but its fairly hard mate:)


  • #90
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    mufcboy1999 wrote: »
    im the same i cant leave due to being pretty much broke, taught a min wage job would help get me out of here but its proven not much better than the dole. Id advise anyone against taking a min wage job unless you enjoy it because your just going to be slaving for pennys.

    id love to search for whats good but its fairly hard mate:)

    Well you have to keep going, I would like to expand much more on the topic of being at home for long periods but i dont like to give away too much personal info on a public board.

    Its a slow Death basicly, try keep busy if you do end up at home, did you buy a house, if not i dont see why you cant leave! you know you can take your social welfare with you to a foreign country? Although it is hard to do it is possible, again i dont want to reveal too much.


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  • #91
    Max Powers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    mufcboy1999 wrote: »
    Would love to say things are looking up for Waterford but in truth there simply not, we can keep dreaming but it's getting worse.

    If your lucky to have a job it's more than likely min wage which in theory is barely worth your while considering how much you get taxed and how much you'd get on the dole and possible additional benefits.

    I feel trapped in this county and this country and I hate the place because of this.

    if you have no hope, you have nothing.

    There is always a way, just before you jump the ship to the USA, (this is meant to be a positive thread so I cant understand some other poster talking about things closing down) there is hope, you must be able to see the good things happening down in the V.T. There are free retraining options, im sure there are people in worse positions than yourself, if you are posting here, presumably you have a roof over your head, food in your belly and a laptop to look on here.
    If you move to another country, you will miss a lot of the things you have here, not just the blaas, countries such as the US which we all kinda look up to in a way have far worse labour practices, less time off, a bit less personal.


  • #92
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Max Powers wrote: »
    if you have no hope, you have nothing.

    There is always a way, just before you jump the ship to the USA, (this is meant to be a positive thread so I cant understand some other poster talking about things closing down) there is hope, you must be able to see the good things happening down in the V.T. There are free retraining options, im sure there are people in worse positions than yourself, if you are posting here, presumably you have a roof over your head, food in your belly and a laptop to look on here.
    If you move to another country, you will miss a lot of the things you have here, not just the blaas, countries such as the US which we all kinda look up to in a way have far worse labour practices, less time off, a bit less personal.

    Yeah and Australia have big nasty spiders! Guy i know got into his van for work and looked around and found a Red back just behind his head! took a photo and got out of his van and waited for the man who can!


  • #93
    Max Powers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    • We (Waterford People) done an amazing job in funding the setting up of the Solas centre.
    • The Ryan and Ethan appeal for the 2 kids from Tramore needing expensive treatment, saw mother of kids on WLR saying thanks to people of Waterford.
    • Cystic Fibrosis kids rooms campaign for WRH, there seems to be a good few events happening in support of this worthy project also. Just normal Waterford people pledging €, cycling to donegal and doing other stuff. I dont know how far they are but think they need about 200k

    All in all, examples like above renew my faith in my local comrades and is something we can be positive about especially if you gave a few quid.


  • #94
    Max Powers
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    There is a good bit of positivity in relation to various civil construction works that are due to start soon in the Munster Express, page 3 I think. If all get going, they will hopefully create a few jobs and will definitely improve the look of the place.


  • #95
    tonc76
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    Max Powers wrote: »
    There is a good bit of positivity in relation to various civil construction works that are due to start soon in the Munster Express, page 3 I think. If all get going, they will hopefully create a few jobs and will definitely improve the look of the place.

    Don't have the paper but presume it mentions the Glanbia plant at Belview and the New Ross Bypass? Any others?


  • #96
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    Theres suppose to be that big development where waterford crystal is, if its done right it can be seen as a positive!


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  • #97
    Max Powers
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    tonc76 wrote: »
    Don't have the paper but presume it mentions the Glanbia plant at Belview and the New Ross Bypass? Any others?

    Tonc, its not related to those things, its civil works around the quays, waterside, the mall, waterside and other stuff around the city that are all positive.


  • #98
    Max Powers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    everyday hero here in Waterford. Take a bow Harry.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hero-harry-has-saved-his-sisters-life-more-than-20-times-29292497.html

    LITTLE Isabelle doesn't need a superhero in her life – she already has her eight-year-old brother who has saved her life at least 20 times.

    Now 18-months-old, Isabelle was born at 28 weeks and her prematurity is responsible for her having 'apnoea of prematurity', which regularly causes her to stop breathing for at least 20 seconds.

    Harry saved her life after putting into practise the basic life-saving skills he learnt with the Irish Red Cross T-Bears – aka the Teddy Bears. The course teaches those aged between five and 10 first aid.

    "He is very calm and was sure of himself because of the practice he had done using mannequins. I am a Red Cross leader in another group but I haven't saved anyone's life and Harry has," said Maria.

    The family were in their Waterford home when Isabelle stopped breathing for the first time.

    "She had cried a little then gone silent and turned blue. Harry was holding her and he tapped her foot and called her name. Then when she didn't respond, just like in his training, he breathed twice into her mouth and she came round.

    "She would have passed away but for his quick thinking."

    As a result of the condition, there is a special alarm in Isabelle's cot.

    Maria said that more often than not Harry is faster out of bed when he hears it and, "he has saved her life at least 20 more times".

    "He is an amazing son and brother and I am very proud of him."

    Harry is delighted with a certificate of merit award he received from the Irish Red Cross.

    "I am really happy I was able to save Isabelle's life and maybe if you join the Irish Red Cross you would learn how to save a life too."

    Harry's T-bear group was trained by Maria's brother Derek Condon (39), while her other daughter Molly (5) also knows basic first aid.

    Darren Ryan, chairman of the Irish Red Cross Youth Working Group said: "Harry's heroic actions show that first aid training for young people can really make a difference."


  • #99
    Sully
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    The former Brunch restaurant which closed in Georges Court is being re-opened as "No. 9" serving Breakfast, Lunch & Tea. The same people who manager Eat Me Sandwidch Bars, Lily O'Briens, The Chocolate Cafe, The Ship Restaurant in Dunmore East and Chez K's are running this restaurant.

    Also Clark's Shoes in the City Center is being refitted at the moment, which is a positive sign. We also have Penny's extension, so that's good to see investment in the City Center.

    Local Business Groups have launched 'Friday After 5';

    - Free parking from 5pm in all City Council Car Parks, the Aldi Car Park and Tracey's Hotel Car Park.
    - Free on street entertainment
    - Promotions in participating shops.
    - Family Friendly
    - Restaurant & Pub Offers.
    - Shops Opening Late.

    https://www.facebook.com/WaterfordCityCentre?fref=ts


  • #100
    Sully
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    Also in the positive news today;

    - Unemployment dropped in Waterford*
    - Betapond announced a 2million investment (The company emerged from Waterford and has grown to include offices in London, Dublin and San Jose, California.)


  • #101
    Max Powers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    Sully wrote: »
    Also in the positive news today;

    - Unemployment dropped in Waterford*
    - Betapond announced a 2million investment (The company emerged from Waterford and has grown to include offices in London, Dublin and San Jose, California.)

    Betapond, never heard of them but great news. What are the new unemployment figures?? (WARNING: we all know its a figure that is too high, even with a drop, this is a positive thread)


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