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Businesses that have closed and opened in Carlow

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    #152
    patrickc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,895 ✭✭✭patrickc


    ShayK1 wrote: »
    Has anybody any info on the Theatre that's supposed to open in Spring this year?
    I just saw the sign when I walked passed the court house this evening. I think its part of St Pats college but I don't know.


    st pats just donated the land thats all.it'll be later than spring its a wee bit behind.


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    #153
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    they will also have the use of the facility when not in use by anyone else free o' charge.


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    #154
    nagero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭nagero


    wheres me jumpa wrote: »
    Regarding Ace Electronics, what the hell was that store? I looked inside one day and it was one of the least stocked shops I have ever seen.

    Last time I looked in to that shop all they were selling were replica firearms. Just what we need easily available after the shootings recently. :rolleyes:


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    #155
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    nagero wrote: »
    Last time I looked in to that shop all they were selling were replica firearms. Just what we need easily available after the shootings recently. :rolleyes:

    They're airsoft guns.
    PRetty popular sport really.


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    #156
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭testicle


    SV wrote: »
    They're airsoft guns.
    PRetty popular sport really.

    They are still replica firearms.


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    #157
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    testicle wrote: »
    They are still replica firearms.

    Yes I know that, my point was meant that it's not like they're just sold here or have only been selling recently.


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    #158
    country_gurl
    Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭country_gurl


    new shop opening in the fairgreen where sasha is, seems to have nice mens stuff in the window. jean international or something along those lines.


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    #159
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    are there sparkle jeans?


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    #160
    country_gurl
    Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭country_gurl


    with pink polka dots. right down ur street aynon. they'd suit u


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    #161
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    oh gawd! im there!


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    #162
    HugoIrl
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭HugoIrl


    New 'phone doctor' shop opened at the lights on kennedy ave/st


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    #163
    nagero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭nagero


    There's a Paddy Power getting it's last coats of paint and shop-front opposite Reddy's on Tullow street.


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    #164
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    nagero wrote: »
    There's a Paddy Power getting it's last coats of paint and shop-front opposite Reddy's on Tullow street.
    oh god, not another fecking bookies! how many more will carlow take?


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    #165
    ShayK1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,602 ✭✭✭ShayK1


    nagero wrote: »
    There's a Paddy Power getting it's last coats of paint and shop-front opposite Reddy's on Tullow street.

    great, another one!!


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    #166
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    but how many are actually in carlow? and does any one here use them?


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    #167
    ShayK1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,602 ✭✭✭ShayK1


    I'm going to take a generous guess of 5 ? and no, I don't use them.


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    #168
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    im going to count this later today, cos its getting flipping annoying. only use the maybe once a year, like putting a fiver on the grand national.


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    #169
    stick-dan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭stick-dan


    The reason they all set up is because you are all the unemployed joes now spending their last few shillings trying to become overnight millionaires. Sad state of affairs in my opinion. Detest the establishments myself as well as casino's.But sure as long as there are people who are willing to waste their lives betting on their horse to come in and rid them of depression there will be bookie offices. Is there no regulating authority that decides how many is enough in a town?


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    #170
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    nope. all that they care is that they are creating a small amount of employment(like 5 or below), and have another business they can tax.


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    #171
    stick-dan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭stick-dan


    Which is the times that we are in you can kind of see where they are coming from but there are also a lot of ethical issues that come along with this. These establishments in the more severe of cases can cause gambling addictions and tremendous heartache to families. There should be some regulation on these. Any business seems to be accepted nowadays in town, you see so many bookie offices and casino's now that are only after springing up. Anyway i don't want to detract from the subject at hand and derail the thread so i'll just say.

    Yeay to the new employment, BOOOOOO to gambling!


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    #172
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    BTW i would like praise a certain thing that doesn't usually get praise.

    the chiropractor down besides Leos, couldnt really walk with the pain in my back i picked up in work, one session with Michael Mahony M. Chiro and its down to a dull ache, back with him again today!

    thanks mick!

    aynon


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    #173
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    stick-dan wrote: »
    Which is the times that we are in you can kind of see where they are coming from but there are also a lot of ethical issues that come along with this. These establishments in the more severe of cases can cause gambling addictions and tremendous heartache to families. There should be some regulation on these. Any business seems to be accepted nowadays in town, you see so many bookie offices and casino's now that are only after springing up. Anyway i don't want to detract from the subject at hand and derail the thread so i'll just say.

    Yeay to the new employment, BOOOOOO to gambling!
    here here!


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    #174
    Villain
    Registered Users Posts: 15,944 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    stick-dan wrote: »
    Which is the times that we are in you can kind of see where they are coming from but there are also a lot of ethical issues that come along with this. These establishments in the more severe of cases can cause gambling addictions and tremendous heartache to families. There should be some regulation on these. Any business seems to be accepted nowadays in town, you see so many bookie offices and casino's now that are only after springing up. Anyway i don't want to detract from the subject at hand and derail the thread so i'll just say.

    Yeay to the new employment, BOOOOOO to gambling!

    Good point, but how many pubs do we have in Carlow?


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    #175
    stick-dan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭stick-dan


    Villain wrote: »
    Good point, but how many pubs do we have in Carlow?

    Too many to be honest. And at the point you are making with that comment i would totally agree!


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    #176
    Atlantis Casino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Atlantis Casino


    Hi

    paul from Atlantis casino here.
    ,
    Dan, can you please take a look at posts 99-104.

    We are the only casino in Carlow and a casino is a lot different to a bookies office in regards to employment.

    A bookies will have in the region of 6 staff, we currently employin the region of 30, The money these staff earn is circulated in the town via rent, restaurants, shops etc etc

    The casino is more on the carlow social scene than sheer gambling.

    We have strict policies in place to ensure the wellbeing of our patrons ( like our self exclusion policy )

    also there is strict monitoring by management to make sure no individual getting in above there heads, for example we do not have a credit card facilities.

    If anyone has any private questions please pm me.


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    #177
    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users Posts: 4,478 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    Im surprised at another Paddy Powers opening. I would have thought that most bookies would be closing / consolidating their store count these days.

    Regarding casinos, there certainly is a lot of them around the county. I have heard of some of them being make shift casinos where Im sure people do get themselves into trouble.

    Having a respectable casino is no bad thing, it adds variety to Carlow, and the number of people it can attract means there is certainly a need for it in Carlow.


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    #178
    eddiehead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭eddiehead


    Spot on Paul.

    Whatever about bookies, but I think you'll find that the Casino was established on the back of the poker boom a few years ago, it didn't just swoop in to exploit the unemployed masses. Playing poker is a completely different kettle of fish to backing horses, football etc. Its an enjoyable game, even when you do lose you don't mind so much because you had good craic and then when you win sure its brilliant altogether.
    The casino is an attraction and like Paul said before it can/does attract crowds for tournaments which can only be good for the locality. Tarring them with the same brush as a bookies opening up in the midst of a recession is more than harsh tbh.

    Sorry for going OT but "BOOO to gambling" my ar$e, people are more than capable of looking after themselves


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    #179
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    gambling can become alot like alcohol, for the most part, people can look after themselves, but there is a few people out there that can get in over their heads, and no offense to the club/casino owners, they want to make their money, and alot of the time allow it to continue.
    the same with pubs, people getting served alcohol many pints after the last one should of been served. but thats not to say there are one or two pubs that do stop when they should like casinos. but personally i have no time for gambling, esppecially the "quick buck" brigade. dont mind having one game of poker with my mates once a month, but ppl who are gambling every night are getting in over their heads and not knowing it.


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    #180
    aynon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭aynon


    Atlantis Casino wrote: »
    Hi

    paul from Atlantis casino here.
    ,
    Dan, can you please take a look at posts 99-104.
    i, personally see nothing wrong with those posts, dan would of told us at the time if there was anything wrong. we are entitled to our opinions.
    Atlantis Casino wrote: »
    We are the only casino in Carlow and a casino is a lot different to a bookies office in regards to employment.

    what about the casino on tullow street, the one beside the road house? think there is 2 or 3 more cant think of anymore off teh top of my head.
    Atlantis Casino wrote: »
    The casino is more on the carlow social scene than sheer gambling.
    no doubt, but there is a group of people who include these together(gamblers anonymous.)
    Atlantis Casino wrote: »
    We have strict policies in place to ensure the wellbeing of our patrons ( like our self exclusion policy )

    also there is strict monitoring by management to make sure no individual getting in above there heads, for example we do not have a credit card facilities.

    If anyone has any private questions please pm me.

    in reality,can i see this in action at some point?


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    #181
    stick-dan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭stick-dan


    Hi paul, i have reread the posts aas you requested and i don't seem to see anything wrong with them, if you would like pat to take a look at them aswell by all means do, but it isn't an attack on your specific casino, just casino's in general. But by all means as i said myself, ask pat to have a look.

    Also with regard to my post, i do apologise if it seems like i am attacking you and at the end of the day i know you are only trying to earn a living but I have experience with friends getting over their heads in such establishments and they didn't have the benefit of staff telling them when to stop. Can i ask you if a man raids his family savings and brings in cash leaving his family broken, how can you regulate if he is over his head.

    *( pat this is no doubt gonna head off topic so act appropriately and treat me as a poster in this one.)


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