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    #32
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,497 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Bond-007 wrote: »
    Is there really a need for 3 Dunnes Stores within 1 mile of each other?

    Yes, its called a monopoly :)

    Thats why when Tesco looked to setup shop they killed it off with planning rejections so it moved to Callan,


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    #33
    Firetrap
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    What's the story with Tesco? Are they going to set up shop in the city? I've lost track.


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    #34
    road_high
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    Very impressive but only when all the shops are open! Seems to be a lot of shops 'opening soon'.
    The Dunnes Stores aina't a patch on Kieran St though. Would much rather a Tesco. Car park well done but bit pricey at 1.50 an hour?...


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    #35
    JohnC.
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    Is Virgin open yet? Or a proposed date if not?


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    #36
    djpaul
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    Kahless wrote: »
    Is Virgin open yet? Or a proposed date if not?


    1st of December;)


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    #37
    djpaul
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    Firetrap wrote: »
    What's the story with Tesco? Are they going to set up shop in the city? I've lost track.

    rumour has it that it's goin to be in Citymart (old cattle mart).


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    #38
    Deliverance XXV
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    I walk past the shopping center every day and still have not ventured inside yet.

    Now I hate to judge a book by it's cover but that green tower-like-structure that's supposedly meant to resemble copper looks awful.
    It looks like cheap wood.
    If they had made that with the same materials as with the rest of the center it would have been absolutely stunning. But that's just me. I'm no architect/engineer/designer. :)
    Someday should I free up a half hour for myself I may have a peep inside.


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    #39
    Nightwish
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    Half an hour??? 10 mins more like.


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    #40
    Deliverance XXV
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    Nightwish wrote: »
    Half an hour??? 10 mins more like.

    Not the first time I've been told that ...

    I stumbled in today, but despite the lack of shops it really has some potential.
    Looks classy inside.


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    #41
    PhilipMarlowe
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    Ventured in today for the first time too....
    Very impressed with the feel of the place.
    It's obvious that it opened too soon, pity that there isn't more open but it will no doubt be reasonably cool when it's more complete.


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    #42
    kleefarr
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    djpaul wrote: »
    rumour has it that it's going to be in City mart (old cattle mart).

    Kilkenny People today says...

    "Set back for mart shopping centre"

    ".. is to be refused planning because of traffic concerns."


    What a crock of shyte!!! Where were the concerns about the traffic at McDoghnut junction??? Traffic lights instead of roundabouts??? Please! :mad:

    All they need to do it make an entrance one end and an exit the other.


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    #43
    Our man in Havana
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    kleefarr wrote: »
    Kilkenny People today says...

    "Set back for mart shopping centre"

    ".. is to be refused planning because of traffic concerns."


    What a crock of shyte!!! Where were the concerns about the traffic at McDoghnut junction??? Traffic lights instead of roundabouts??? Please! :mad:

    All they need to do it make an entrance one end and an exit the other.
    The anti Tesco mafia strikes again! :mad:


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    #44
    Firetrap
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    Feck sake. I'll probably have my arse slapped here for libel but I can't help thinking McDoughnut junction was a brown envelope job. Why else would you have a shopping centre/apartments/other stuff opening into an already gridlocked part of town?


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    #45
    Our man in Havana
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    You have got to wonder at times. The mart was/is never as bad for traffic.


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    #46
    Firetrap
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    It's probably the local vested interests at work again. I notice quite a few of the tenants/future tenants of McDoughnut junction are already in Kilkenny. Of course, they couldn't possibly let Tesco or Marks & Sparks in!! No way.


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    #47
    djpaul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭djpaul


    Bond-007 wrote: »
    The anti Tesco mafia strikes again! :mad:

    Typical!!:mad: Kilkenny is thrown back into the dark ages again because the
    wrong people running our beloved city still think the earth is flat!:(


    Wake Up Wan**rs!!!!..... 3 DUNNES STORES???? all of em Sh**e!


    Time to move to carlow where the real shopping is:o


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    #48
    zootroid
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    can understand the traffic thing, as greens bridge simply cannot take the volume, but why they haven't started on the inner relief road is beyond me. the plans were there 5 years ago!!

    http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/cdp/cdpvol3/vol3/variation2.htm


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    #49
    PhilipMarlowe
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    Why they don't build the new bridge between the comer road (where the new ring road hits it) and the freshford road (near the hospital/talbots inch) and then complete the ring is beyond me. Free up the traffic that doesn't want to be IN the town.


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    #50
    BeatNikDub
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    Firetrap wrote: »
    Feck sake. I'll probably have my arse slapped here for libel but I can't help thinking McDoughnut junction was a brown envelope job. Why else would you have a shopping centre/apartments/other stuff opening into an already gridlocked part of town?


    My thoughts exactly.

    I feel CityMart has much more to bring to the city shopping wise on the basis of Tesco's and Mark and Spencers alone.


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    #51
    BeatNikDub
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    djpaul wrote: »


    Time to move to carlow where the real shopping is:o

    indeed


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    #52
    decies
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    Come to waterford where the real shopping is ;)


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    #53
    MontgomeryClift
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    Well I visited McDonagh Junction for the first time, and last time, today. As I expected, it has awful tacky shops, and is an awful big empty place in general. It's like a patch of Dublin has been dumped in Kilkenny, even down to the street outside.


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