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  • #842
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,505 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    johnb25 wrote: »
    Anyone know if the Sawmills on Mill Road is open? I tried ringing several times but no response. Left a message on the phone but no reply.

    not sure but the last few times i passed things were moved around a bit and you could see people in the yard.


  • #843
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tastyt


    I see planning is re submitted for the housing estate up at Mitchel street / Bohernamona rd . Not sure what the problems were with the first application but good to see it hasn’t been shelved .

    Houses badly needed around the town


  • #844
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    I’ve just been thinking about Subway and Apache Cafe.

    So we enter the first lockdown and the franchisee of Subway decides not to reopen. A planning application is submitted to Thurles Municipal District saying that the business is unviable unless the opening hours are extended to 12am. A poster appears in the window saying reopening the 27th June, later replaced with a poster saying the 27th of July. It doesn’t reopen and later a To Let sign goes in the window, despite the letting not listed online (I looked for over two months to find it) Now Apache Pizza opens.

    Had people and traders in thurles known subway was not reopening, I’m sure there would have been objections submitted to later opening hours. A pizzeria would attract a different type of customer in the late evenings than a sandwich shop. The kind of customers that piss up against shop fronts.

    What do you think?


  • #845
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Good news about the new cycle/ walkway from town park to willows and then lady’s well . Badly needed


  • #846
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    tastyt wrote: »
    Good news about the new cycle/ walkway from town park to willows and then lady’s well . Badly needed

    Badly needed is right!

    Has anyone else noticed the lack of hangers-about along the river behind Dunnes? There was a time you couldn't walk down there without coming across a few groups of gougers along with the winos and I'm not talking about Presentation students!

    Have they all moved to the new park? I know a number of people who won't go through the park because of them.


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  • #847
    dabbler2004
    Registered Users Posts: 1,273 ✭✭✭dabbler2004


    I think it's going to be slow going to get to Ladies Well. €60,000 to extend the cycle/walkway by the length of a field seems excessive to me.
    Unless there's an insurance cost as part of that figure maybe.


  • #848
    HcksawJimDuggan
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭HcksawJimDuggan


    tastyt wrote: »
    Good news about the new cycle/ walkway from town park to willows and then lady’s well . Badly needed

    Where was this announced? Can’t find any info about it and you’d usually expect some of the politicians to be taking credit for it.


  • #849
    dabbler2004
    Registered Users Posts: 1,273 ✭✭✭dabbler2004


    HcksawJimDuggan wrote: »
    Where was this announced? Can’t find any info about it and you’d usually expect some of the politicians to be taking credit for it.

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10208082203930802&id=1770894190

    It's the Lions Club that the funding has been allocated to, the link is for Jim Ryan's Facebook post.
    I thought it had stated €60,000 originally but the figure in the article now reads €120,000


  • #850
    HcksawJimDuggan
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭HcksawJimDuggan


    dabbler2004 wrote: »
    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10208082203930802&id=1770894190

    It's the Lions Club that the funding has been allocated to, the link is for Jim Ryan's Facebook post.
    I thought it had stated €60,000 originally but the figure in the article now reads €120,000

    Thanks for that. I don't have a facebook account so I missed it. Will be interesting to see how its managed at the back of the Willows. The wall dropping down from the willows is right up to the water so not a whole pile of room to develop a walkway & cycleway unless its an elevated boardwalk type structure.

    More good news this morning re funding announced for a new market quarter. Would be a great addition.

    http://tippfm.com/news/funding-approved-new-market-quarter-thurles/


  • #851
    mikep
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭mikep


    dabbler2004 wrote: »
    I think it's going to be slow going to get to Ladies Well. €60,000 to extend the cycle/walkway by the length of a field seems excessive to me.
    Unless there's an insurance cost as part of that figure maybe.

    Also it would be under water for a good bit of the year...

    Any ideas where the"market quarter" will be??


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  • #852
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    I can't really make out where the market quarter is going from this picture:

    175913975_10208101059562181_2586572339032954324_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=3kZmvlSCxAsAX8vaP66&_nc_ht=scontent.fdub4-1.fna&oh=1ab2cde8949d8b2e21edc622db2bd143&oe=60A154F3


  • #853
    HcksawJimDuggan
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭HcksawJimDuggan


    Its walking into the new car park from the pet shop/cathedral direction on the left hand side. Those buildings on the right are there already but are quite dilapidated. St Patrick's college in the background.


  • #854
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Money for this project was already set aside by Thurles Town Council before abolition. I presume this money was spent by Tipperary County Council. New car park concrete is already starting to crack. Spaces and footpaths were meant to be stone paving. Embezzlement eh?


  • #855
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Does anyone know when Elverys in the shopping centre will open again?

    I got clothing there which turned out to be too big but it was just before the lockdown and they've been closed since. I'm hoping they'll let me exchange them for a smaller size.


  • #856
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Thurles officially a university town today . Can only be good news really, more students , definitely will attract more to the town and the sports facilities being built on the Thurles campus sound brilliant.

    On the flip side , where are these extra students going to live and what are they going to do to pass the time? It is indeed great news but this needs to be followed up with investment into housing and some sort of student experience


  • #857
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    tastyt wrote: »
    Thurles officially a university town today . Can only be good news really, more students , definitely will attract more to the town and the sports facilities being built on the Thurles campus sound brilliant.

    On the flip side , where are these extra students going to live and what are they going to do to pass the time? It is indeed great news but this needs to be followed up with investment into housing and some sort of student experience

    I had a room available to rent when I first bought my house back in 2017 but changed my mind. They've been ringing me every week asking about it even though I asked them to remove me from the list.

    Pity the student village is gone the way it is. An unchangeable mistake as far as I can see.


  • #858
    Oops!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Oops!


    Lets call a spade a spade.... The student village was a disaster from the start. All well and good everybody announcing these sort of things but a waste of time without the infrastructure to back it up.... And infrastructure is one thing Thurles does not have for anything...... A lame duck of a town that has been badly let down over the years.


  • #859
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Oops! wrote: »
    Lets call a spade a spade.... The student village was a disaster from the start. All well and good everybody announcing these sort of things but a waste of time without the infrastructure to back it up.... And infrastructure is one thing Thurles does not have for anything...... A lame duck of a town that has been badly let down over the years.

    Why do you think the student village was a disaster?


  • #860
    dudeeile
    Registered Users Posts: 2,146 ✭✭✭dudeeile


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Why do you think the student village was a disaster?

    I had to google student village as I wasn't aware there was such a place. Turns out I cycled past it on a Saturday morning about 3 weeks back and there was a lot of yelling and the swinging of billhooks. No damage was done just handbags but I wouldn't want that ****e going down in any estate I'd be living in, poor students stuck with that if there are any in there.


  • #861
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,505 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    is that beside centra on stradavoer. if so thats a dump . its run down and dirty as hell


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  • #862
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Yea it’s been a while since any student set foot in there , only known as the student village by name now.

    I wouldn’t let my dog in there with some of the lads the council have let into the place . It’s a disgrace


  • #863
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    It’s not the council. It’s HAP, but Arlington Novas are buying up houses there and refurbishing them. Hopefully things will get better. I worked for a housing association and I know the Arlington Novas doesn’t tolerate ASB like the county councils do.


  • #864
    Oops!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Oops!


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Why do you think the student village was a disaster?

    Because it wasn't long before the landlords figured out there was more money in other clients than students.....


  • #865
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Yeah it has become a warzone of sorts. I live close to it and there's always something going down on a daily basis. The place is probably the roughest around town at the moment.

    Quite a few of the houses in there are for sale too. Nearly every time I pass by I see a new for sale sign.
    Oops! wrote: »
    Because it wasn't long before the landlords figured out there was more money in other clients than students.....

    I don't think it's the fault of the landlords. I'd say what happened was they just sold the houses to the council and that's why there's not 1 student in there any more.


  • #866
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Jysk for the old Lidl store. Dependent on planning of course.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jysk


  • #867
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    See attached


  • #868
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    See attached

    They also took over the old Lidl store in Youghal.

    Don't go their expecting it to be IKEA.


  • #869
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,505 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    They also took over the old Lidl store in Youghal.

    Don't go their expecting it to be IKEA.

    Is it more t like the range


  • #870
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Went in to that dirty Tesco store today. With the clothing department moving downstairs there's now even less range of goods for sale. The same old Joey O'connor/Quinnsworth floors. I usually go to Tesco in Nenagh or Clonmel if I need anything because Thurles is always out of stock. Should've moved it outside the town years ago and sold the store to the council for parking.


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  • #871
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,650 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Went in to that dirty Tesco store today. With the clothing department moving downstairs there's now even less range of goods for sale. The same old Joey O'connor/Quinnsworth floors. I usually go to Tesco in Nenagh or Clonmel if I need anything because Thurles is always out of stock. Should've moved it outside the town years ago and sold the store to the council for parking.

    Should have but haven't they been denied planning permission multiple times in the past?

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