Thurles

drunkmonkey wrote: »

There's a nice coffee in that coffee shop beside Executive menswear. When's the square meant to be done up?

Haven't been in there myself.

Work on the square is due to start in December I think. What a time to be doing something like that! Same kind of craic as redoing the road/roundabout near the Anner just as the schools start up again.

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I read also that the council have bought the old driving range land and there's supposed to be a new Business Development Centre built there.

Anyone following Jim Ryan's thread about the 10% property tax increase around Tipp? Fvcken sickening :mad:

I wonder how much they we paid for it and who sold it to them.

That area is surely prone to flooding as it is close to the river and if they build it up then the flood waters are going to go elsewhere!

when did willy keenahans (spellign could be cat bad) electrical place beside monakiba burn down. only noticed it today

splinter65 wrote: »

I’d say it was just arson. Somebody tried to set fire to some nearby trees a few days beforehand.

when did it happen

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

They shouldn't have had another this year really. It was popular last year because people were starved of it and a lot of the bands that played last year are playing again this year which is kind of crap.

The idea of reaching out to a certain audience (i.e. people in their 40's who had gone to the Féile as teenagers) is not a good idea the second time around, it gets stale.

They're trying to use what I call the Home Alone tactic. The second one was a carbon copy of the first one and while that worked, this won't.

The target demographic can only justify a jaunt like that the odd time, what baby sitting arrangements, work commitments and the devastating effect of a hoolie on the body at this age! If you went last year, you might be tempted to keep the powder dry for something else this year.

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Exactly.

Too much of something is never a good thing. You need people to want it badly which is what happened last year.

I did say before that I hoped it was on every year but I'm seeing the error in my thinking.

Ah it might have worked if they changed the line up or had a big headliner. Madness just having pretty much the same as last year.

Could be insomnia

More than a teen disco, it's intercert night.

Grab All Association wrote: »

So <15 year old girls. That's absolutely disgusting. An unrelated incident happened outside Hayes and an ambulance was called. Two Gardaí attended the scene and those men scarpered quickly out of Liberty Square. The second the Gardaí left the square, the cars all came back and resumed very slowly driving past small groups of girls beeping their horns. I've only ever seen this type of creepy carry-on in my ex GFs hometown of Pompano Beach/Fort Lauderdale/Miami Florida by gangs looking to traffic girls.

A fair amount of incidents for someone to witness that’s just passing through the square. Ya must have been lurking around yourself for a while!!!

Tipperary’s Chief Superintendent promises a better service, specialist units and more resources for the county under the new operating model for An Garda Síochana.

The new Operating Model will enhance the investigation of crime through the delivery of a greater range of specialist services in local areas.

These specialist services include the investigation of sexual crime, domestic violence, cyber crime, and economic crime.

Will the same gullible people in Thurles actually believe this tripe, or will we stand up and fight to retain one of the last few services we have left?

lets look back at some of the broken promises made over the years

closures

1989 Irish Sugar gone. 1991 GMX replaces it in Stradavoher

GMX 2002. Land bank for the new pharmaceutical company coming soon. IDA and Shannon Development are on it and are committed to delivering this for the town.

Modern industrial estate sold but look, shiney new Tipp Technology Park, something something FDI.

BSN 2006. Land bank Archerstownfor the pharmaceutical company coming soon. IDA and SD are still on it and committed to delivering this for the town.

2007 decentralisation bring the Garda Vetting Unit to the town Tipp Technology Park. No new jobs are created doing this.

Erin Foods 2008. Land bank Archerstown for the new pharmaceutical company coming soon. IDA SD are still on it, we swear believe us! A lot done, more to do remember? we are committed to delivering this for the town,

Liam Carroll 2009 Yeah you're screwed. Adios Shannon Development

2014 Daft agricultural land Archerstown for sale/to let Shannon Commercial property.

2014 Revenue is apparently caught trying to sneak out of the town to a larger building in Cashel just before the local elections. The people finally back down and Noel Coonan denies this is true.

2015 the last remaining commercial premises is occupied by the Department of Social Protection, and it turns out Revenue were after all going to leave. FG 0 Thurles 1

Hospitals
Close Thurles District Hospital but there's a centre of excellence A&E nearby in Cashel Nenagh Limeriick <

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Cork?
'We will reopen beds in the Hospital of Assumptions'
'I don't recall promising that"

Care in the community for metal health. lets drug em and let em loose down the square from 10am until 4pm. "Sorry we have to reschedule your appointment as the psychiatrist isn't here today. Can't you not get a lift from someone?"

I Enda Kenny will come back with good news for the town!
Coonan. "Here it is, Thurles Primary Care centre, it'll do this and that"
"Didn't make the cut, but I added two ares of my own to the successful towns"

Local Government

Household charge, funding your local services.
Putting people first- Abolish and amalgamated the councils and loot the money raised in these towns and spend it elsewhere in the county (Google it, it really says it). Meanwhile lets not replace the former Thurles Town Council street sweepers. Send the JCB digger, Ford Transit pickups and other vehicles purchased by Thurles TC to Nenagh. The rain will wash the dog sh!te away anyway.

Policing
At the moment there's not enough patrol cars to service the town and surrounding areas. We're down at least 12 patrol cars in Thurles alone since 2010.

Templemore District merged with Thurles to make up for the depleting fleet of patrol cars so we won't really notice it. a 2006 Avensis and 2007 Mondeo which reached the 300k mileage limit just weeks later and were withdrawn.

Lets send Thurles Hyundais. They are problematic with gear boxes and clutches, no Hyundai dealers nearby too so it's truck bed removals to nearest dealer. They'd be more likely to catch on fire than catch the likes of Dublin gangs in their 245bhp Golf GTI, RS and BMW's. Cars built for the likes of third world countries. An Garda Siochana responding on foot to incidents in the town.

Closures, downgrades. It started with the smallest rural stations years ago and currently happening with the small towns Roscrea, Templemore. But that won't be it. late 2020-21 the mid sized towns are next Tipperary, Carrick, Cahir will follow. 2025 the largest. it'll be Thurles first as were the easiest target of the big 3 they like to bend us over and ....... us first. either Nenagh or Clonmel 10 years later.

how is the post office working out. how are people reacting to it

Any time I've been in there recently there's been droves of people around. I wanted to go into Costa each time but the queue was something to behold so haven't bothered. Great to see them doing that business though.

I agree with the car park becoming an issue. Wouldn't it be great if they had those red/green lights above the spaces so you could see an empty space from a distance? Then you have the people who reverse out of a space and it takes 3 goes to do it and half the time they're not watching out for pedestrians.

shmeee wrote: »

I don't hear anyone complaining.

The shopping centre below is buzzing daily. Walked through it yesterday at about 3.30pm and couldn't get over the crowd around, Costa and Quigleys both very busy along with the shops in the Centre.

Dunnes have seen a surge in customers also I know.

But......

Parking is going to be a huge issue in the coming 6 weeks.

Customers take for-****ing-ever to find a spot, they arse around the first floor "looking" for a space instead of just driving on up to the upper levels and free the exit and the tailback back out towards the roundabout, this was on a Wednesday afternoon in November too. All levels have, lifts, escalators, Disabled and Parent / Child parking spaces.

Lots of older people don’t like driving up the ramps. In fairness the staff should have been told that they had to park on the upper levels to let customers park on the ground floor.
Then you have Joan from Killenaule on her weekly shopping trip to town who spots Colette with 2 kids and €200 worth of shopping returning to her people carrier so she decides she’s going to just stop dead and wait for Colette to pull out of that spot.
Colettes got to put the 2 kids in their car seats, put the shopping neatly into the boot beside the Wellington boots and the fold up chair she bought in Lidl, bring back the trolley, return to the car and take her own coat off and put it on top of the shopping because she’s sweating now, go back into the shopping and get out two packets of smarties because the kids are crying now and she can’t listen to them, check her phone and iMessage back her sister about the price of the bouncy castle, get into the drivers seat and pull the rear view mirror around and look into it at the crows feet by her eyes and the lipstick smudged on her teeth.
All the while the queue is building up behind Joan who is determined that she’s not moving until Colette is gone

CorBlimey! wrote: »

Hello everyone,

I know there is a specific job's thread but I said I would ask here because this seems more active...

Does anyone local to Thurles know of any part-time, full-time work going? Whether in retail, restaurants or pubs? Or where would be the best place to hand in CVs?

I have been applying online, but no luck so far in the past couple of weeks and I was hoping some people may know of places that take on staff regularly, where my CV won't be just binned.

Also, as a side note, I have absolutely no experience working in pubs, is there any point in me putting in my CV in any of the pubs? I'm not sure whether to rule them out, but considering the town is full of them it may be worth a shot.

Thanks in advance. I hope mods are okay with me posting this here.. :P

Try Subway. They seem to have a high turnover of staff. LIT students working school terms etc

I see demolition work is starting at the old Erin foods site monday 3rd.

Yes plant started moving to the site yesterday... Tomorrow is the official "Turning of the first sod".

tastyt wrote: »

So what exactly is going in there with Lidl ? and is that also the place where the new road will cross the river or is that further down?

Yes, but that’ll be dependent on funding from the government. Before abolition Thurles Town Council had funds set aside for this but unlike the Square and town park, failed to sign a binding contract. All the town reserves were stolen when amalgamation happened.

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I'll be taking photos of Erin Foods as it is now for posterity. Can't for the life of me remember what Phoenix Yarns looked like before Dunnes went in there.

was on the "Love Thurles" FB page recently

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Dunnes opened around '96/'97.