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    #1112
    Masala
    Registered Users Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭Masala


    Eamonn. This is my first post on this forum and as a compliment to you - I wanted to go on record that you do a GREAT HAIRCUT!!! Top stylist at a great price!!

    Always like the banter and whilst I haven't been in your new premises yet...always got the best of attention when I came in.

    Don't take the above poster serious as the saying goes 'you can't please all the people all of the time' !!!! just put it down to a 'Bad Hair Day'. We all have had them...but hair grows back and a bit of gel works wonders. There's always one....!..he probably wanted it short and then regretted it!! Forget it now!!! Just concentrate on that coffee machine.... I like my coffee beans as well!!

    Another 'Thumbs Up' from me and hope to get in soon...

    Ps... best of luck in the new premises.

    Masala


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    #1113
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Cheers dude, its that sort of attitude that made me give up working 'for the man' in dublin and doin lots of commercial gigs, to move my family to killarney and start up my own place, which took three years from time of moving. And lovin every bit of it. Hope u like the new gaff... Its quite big(very) unlike my last workstation!


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    #1114
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0119/1224287860394.html

    ahhh... The town hall, ey? Mr o leary ey? As a new businessman in the town, do u think i got any thanks from them from havin the stones to open a large salon in the main street in a prime location wit a wife and five kids to feed... Erm.. No. I got a letter the day after i opened lookin do a years rates, thats over two grand. And after two weeks, i got a reminder notice. Also they told me if i didnt change permission from restaurant to retail they wil try to close me down. Theres gratitude for u, for opening in a recession. I dont sweat it, they're obviously not in the real world. Anyone in business has to put up wit the same nonsense. The town hall should be on their knees thanking all businesses for being open at all, and doing everything to help us. Unemployment in killarney has increased, since end2008, INCREASED BY....... 98%!!! (that does NOT even count seasonal touristy related employment type stuff)


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    #1115
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    siblers wrote: »
    Going back to hairdressers (im male btw :P) i go to new strands just below dunnes, My prices are: children schoolgoers 12. everyone else 15.Top stylin products. ur best ever haircut or else its on me free gratis for nowt.


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    #1116
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Seen a few people askin "where was i before". Well, moved into sean taaffes in aug07 and set up a barbers in there. Note. There is no longer a barber there.girls hav a million tricks to improve their appearance. We guys have one. Our hair. Even a bespoke suit and snakeskin shoes handstitched by filipino virgins (if thats ur thing) makes no difference if ur hair is pants. Anyway did three years in taaffes so as to be trusted and established by guys in town, wit the view to finally opening the top barbers in kerry and beyond. i worked in two top barbers in dublin. I hav trained many barbers. I've done work for tv movies magazines theatre modelling agencies. Now i'm based in my dream location, downtown killarney.


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    #1117
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Posted twice. See below.


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    #1118
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Want to know where the name claude monte came from, anybody know or offering a guess. I can tell u, and i think its hilarious, tho it doesn't take much to make me laugh


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    #1119
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    dmeehan wrote: »
    I usually go to Julies on high st, and donw the lane before they moved. They charge €14.50

    FUNNILY ENOUGH, when i left un-named barbershop no1 , a certain barbers offered me a job which i agreed to. told me to call in that morning. Got in car wit my wife and my gang of small children, anyway got in car drove half hour to killarney 2meet, thinkin wer talkin re start date wages etc. Got there, wife drove around town for a bit. What barber told me was, WOULD HAVE had a job except took on a guy the day before. So there u are, i was supposed to join certain barbers but was shafted and i decided i'd set up my own, I guess i'm grateful to them so?


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    #1120
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Error


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    #1121
    superfives
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭superfives


    Xclusiv Barber wrote: »
    That last post kind of up there twice. Sorries. Big fingers. Small phone pad.

    I'm guessing none of those 700-800 clients have been in to you this morning, good god man lay off the constant posting! And talk about libelous, you've attacked 3 other businesses in less than 24 hours! I understand your a new business and want to get positive things out about your business, but attacking other businesses like this and constant posting isn't the way to do it!


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    #1122
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    someones in attack mode today. I hav to lie down. U hav a very cynical way of saying 700-800 superfives. Put the handbag down!! I've only joined boards.ie. I was in hospital this morning and was wiling away the time and posting my thoughts on lots of old posts about me dating back as far as november where guys wer askin each other about me and my shop. so i thought i'd answer those posts meself. Sincere apologies as i seem to hav offended u terribly my good man. I thought the idea was to post as much as u like within reason. I'm merely catching up on questions asked over many months. Ul find i'll only be in and out after that. Perhaps a moderator can inform me if i'm over-posting, as u suggests in which case i'll stop posting. Regarding my posts they are true incidents involving ME so they can hardly be libelous. Dude, its called SATIRE. Life is hard enough dont take it so seriously If you know me which i'm guessing you dont u wud already know my tongue is always firmly planted in my cheek. I'm not a brand new business, i'm newly relocated to my own place. I haven't attacked anyone, i've merely humourously relayed accounts of what lads hav told me about their experiences in my former place of work, plus i've dispelled a lie about me that i'd moved away in order for said place to pinch my customers, again relayed to me otherwise how would i hav known (alls fair in love and war,thats cool, free market an all,.... i'm merely dispellin the lie) plus i told a story about how i drove to killarney for a job interview wit my family in the car for a job the interviewer FORGOT she'd promised me and gave to someone else. Or what, i dont know, i was told to drive to salon for a meeting and one hour later there was someone taken on yesterday. Hey, i'm not bitter, i'm just not that into f*c*king people around .i'm too old now. I take it you dont want to know where claude monte got its name then. (joke, dude.) why not call in and check us out yourself. And im a nice guy, honest!


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    #1123
    siblers
    Registered Users Posts: 12,538 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    Get a blog.


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    #1124
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Nice one


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    #1125
    kennypowers
    Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭kennypowers


    QUOTE=Sikpupi;68875649]yea...but Eamon could talk for Ireland!! Needs to concentrate on the haircut..

    It also looks like he could type for Ireland.Still,gives a decent hair cut and seems to be passionate about what he does.


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    #1126
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    kennypowers wrote: »
    QUOTE=Sikpupi;68875649]yea...but Eamon could talk for Ireland!! Needs to concentrate on the haircut..

    It also looks like he could type for Ireland.Still,gives a decent hair cut and seems to be passionate about what he does.

    cheers. Post FF Ireland will need multitaskers!


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    #1127
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Only joined thread. replyin to months of things YE lads askin each other about ME, replying meself to them all, in one go like. You dont HAVE to read them!! They will be of interest to some. Plus this thread is quiet today and i had a crappy long hospital appt to kill time. Hope superfives is feeling better after his long lie down.


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    #1128
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Five shops closed down in killarney in last few days.......


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    #1129
    Screaminmidget
    Registered Users Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Screaminmidget


    Which ones?


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    #1130
    Halo Kitty
    Registered Users Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Halo Kitty


    Killarney town is suffering without doubt....Hotels closed till March... Bars not opening till late afternoon and shops closing at alarming rate....what is left...and Is there an answer to overcome all these problems....i notice another application for an opening of restaurant In Plunkett St ..


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    #1131
    jrochie
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭jrochie


    Town is really turning into a ghost town. Tourist season really can't come quick enough for the whole town to inject a bit of life into it again, can't imagine it'll be easy for many of the existing businesses to stay alive until then though.

    Its such a shame to,5 years ago Killarney was such thriving town, great for shopping, eating, drinking, pretty much everything. It's happening everywhere, but from what I've seen Killarney is suffering more than most.


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    #1132
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Xclusiv Barber wrote: »
    Five shops closed down in killarney in last few days.......

    razzle dazzle, roxy, the 2euro shop on beech road (owned by roxy), urban, scarlet ribbon.


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    #1133
    jrochie
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭jrochie


    Xclusiv Barber wrote: »
    razzle dazzle, roxy, the 2euro shop on beech road (owned by roxy), urban, scarlet ribbon.

    Has Scarlet Ribbon actually closed? It seems to have been closing for the better part of 12 months!


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    #1134
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    jrochie wrote: »
    Town is really turning into a ghost town. Tourist season really can't come quick enough for the whole town to inject a bit of life into it again, can't imagine it'll be easy for many of the existing businesses to stay alive until then though.

    Its such a shame to,5 years ago Killarney was such thriving town, great for shopping, eating, drinking, pretty much everything. It's happening everywhere, but from what I've seen Killarney is suffering more than most.

    you are correct. Killarney IS suffering more than most. Must get some more up to date numbers, but about a year ago in the good old 'we're only slightly fu[k€d' days killarney topped a NATIONAL poll of all towns in the percentage INCREASE in unemployment. The level of increase?.... 98%. And that was a YEAR ago. Want to know what towns, across all ireland, were second and third? 2 kenmare, 96%increase. 3 killorglin, 94%


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    #1135
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    jrochie wrote: »
    Has Scarlet Ribbon actually closed? It seems to have been closing for the better part of 12 months!

    very true. Sometimes opening in afternoons alright! But I've been watchin it for a few days i can see down into it when i'm on my roof. No, sadly for the nice but eccentric lady who ran it, its gone, its been picked clean inside.


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    #1136
    Halo Kitty
    Registered Users Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Halo Kitty


    .i wonder has out of town shopping and free parking got some part to play on killarney town.... or is it the high rents and rates demanded on business....


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    #1137
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    Halo Kitty wrote: »
    .i wonder has out of town shopping and free parking got some part to play on killarney town.... or is it the high rents and rates demanded on business....

    rates for sure anyway. i can only speak for myself but the rates are an absolute fu<ker. The town hall don't care, pay us or else.


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    #1138
    siblers
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    Halo Kitty wrote: »
    .i wonder has out of town shopping and free parking got some part to play on killarney town.... or is it the high rents and rates demanded on business....

    Don't think deerpark has too much of an effect but Killarney is just totally dead when the schools are open, there is no one around at all but when the shcools are closed for holidays there is huge increase in numbers around town. Remember working in roxys in Killarney the week after say easter holidays and it would just be absolutley dead. What you'd make in a day during school holidays would take about 3/4 days when the schools are open.


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    #1139
    jrochie
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭jrochie


    Well whatever about the rates, but the high rents can't be completely to blame as I know a few landlords in the town who have helped out their clients and dropped the rent. Then again I also know of a couple of landlords who it would seem would rather have an empty and no rent than to drop what they charge.

    I'd say the out of town shopping is a big problem, I do a bit of work in tralee occasionally and see quite a few killarney people shopping over there. I think the biggest problem is that people just aren't spending, especially in Killarney, which is resulting in shops closing, and much less of a choice in the shops that are open. Its a vicious circle because when the shops don't have a wide range of stock its stops people coming in to shop even if they have the money!


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    #1140
    Halo Kitty
    Registered Users Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Halo Kitty


    Surprised that the business community have not got together and held a meeting with the Town Hall...or have they.... I am sure alot of place could not afford to pay their rates...


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    #1141
    Xclusiv Barber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Xclusiv Barber


    jrochie wrote: »
    Well whatever about the rates, but the high rents can't be completely to blame as I know a few landlords in the town who have helped out their clients and dropped the rent. Then again I also know of a couple of landlords who it would seem would rather have an empty and no rent than to drop what they charge.

    I'd say the out of town shopping is a big problem, I do a bit of work in tralee occasionally and see quite a few killarney people shopping over there. I think the biggest problem is that people just aren't spending, especially in Killarney, which is resulting in shops closing, and much less of a choice in the shops that are open. Its a vicious circle because when the shops don't have a wide range of stock its stops people coming in to shop even if they have the money!

    spot on on the rent, its not a huge issue, it'll hurt the landlord more than the tenant. In the main, rents have dropped way down


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