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Comerman · 30-12-2016 7:32pm

road_high wrote: »

I'm glad they did. They're doing a great job with the Visitor Experience to be fair, only a shame they didn't when it was a working brewery!

I agree but when it was in operation it was all about the "cost per litre" cut the workforce to the bone and it still wasn't cheap enough so shut it down was the solution.

catbear · 30-12-2016 9:11pm

Comerman wrote: »

I agree but when it was in operation it was all about the "cost per litre" cut the workforce to the bone and it still wasn't cheap enough so shut it down was the solution.

Technology and mechanisation is going to make more work disappear in the future too. The challenge is to continue figuring out ways to fairly redistribute the remaining workload so no one feels comparatively under or over tasked.

road_high · 30-12-2016 9:55pm

Comerman wrote: »

I agree but when it was in operation it was all about the "cost per litre" cut the workforce to the bone and it still wasn't cheap enough so shut it down was the solution.

Brewing in the middle of Kilkenny didn't make sense really, was more economic centralise all in Dublin.

Comerman · 31-12-2016 9:40am

catbear wrote: »

Technology and mechanisation is going to make more work disappear in the future too.

When I started there we had 3 men and one computer in our department and when I left there was 1 man and 4 computers

Comerman · 31-12-2016 9:48am

road_high wrote: »

Brewing in the middle of Kilkenny didn't make sense really, was more economic centralise all in Dublin.

The new bridge was supposed to have an "off ramp" into the brewery to ease the traffic through Irishtown but Diageo had other ideas anyway.They wanted to build a €650 million "super brewery" in Leixlip and that was one of the the reasons given for closing KK but when KK closed their paln was revised and they decided to put €153 million into James gate instead.

catbear · 31-12-2016 7:52pm

Comerman wrote: »

The new bridge was supposed to have an "off ramp" into the brewery to ease the traffic through Irishtown but Diageo had other ideas anyway.They wanted to build a €650 million "super brewery" in Leixlip and that was one of the the reasons given for closing KK but when KK closed their paln was revised and they decided to put €153 million into James gate instead.

I think they were trying to realise the property values of all the sites and move production to one greenfield site as you said.

In 2008, I was at the new bridge public consultations in the Ormonde Hotel (you know the ones that f all people attended but then later pissed and moaned about not being consulted etc...) and the main corporate driver was the then developer of the Mart site.

The only vocal critics who spoke up as I remember were Coilín O'Driscoll and Malcolm Noonan.

Sky King · 31-12-2016 8:28pm

Any idea when CAS is due to open?

I had a search online but couldn't find up to date information.

citykat · 31-12-2016 10:30pm

http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/RSSLatestNewsAndAnnouncements/Kilkenny-Central-Access-Scheme-Information-for-Residents.48572.shortcut.html

Feb 2017 as of August.

FunkyJunky6969 · 06-01-2017 2:03am

citykat wrote: »

http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/RSSLatestNewsAndAnnouncements/Kilkenny-Central-Access-Scheme-Information-for-Residents.48572.shortcut.html

Feb 2017 as of August.

Is it IMC Cinema or some other Cinema chain that's moving to the old mart site ?

imacman · 06-01-2017 4:01pm

FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »

Is it IMC Cinema or some other Cinema chain that's moving to the old mart site ?

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/kilkenny-news/63433/Multiplex-cinema-for-old-Mart-site.html

you can see the planning details here

http://planning.kilkennycoco.ie/FileRefDetails.aspx?file_number=1576&LASiteID=0

FunkyJunky6969 · 06-01-2017 4:04pm

imacman wrote: »

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/kilkenny-news/63433/Multiplex-cinema-for-old-Mart-site.html

you can see the planning details here

http://planning.kilkennycoco.ie/FileRefDetails.aspx?file_number=1576&LASiteID=0

Cheers thanks we really need a new one. The one on Gaol Rd only has 4 screen's unfortunately

Captain Havoc · 06-01-2017 6:18pm

FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »

Cheers thanks we really need a new one. The one on Gaol Rd only has 4 screen's unfortunately

I remember the days when we only had one screen in town.

FunkyJunky6969 · 06-01-2017 6:20pm

Captain Havoc wrote: »

I remember the days when we only had one screen in town.

Ah yes the Regent Cinema on William Street that's not yesterday !

road_high · 06-01-2017 9:55pm

FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »

Ah yes the Regent Cinema on William Street that's not yesterday !

1998 I think?

FunkyJunky6969 · 06-01-2017 11:34pm

road_high wrote: »

1998 I think?

Yes I think your right. Hard to believe there was a Cinema there now.

catbear · 07-01-2017 9:33pm

road_high wrote: »

1998 I think?

Feels like a lot longer than that! I must just be getting old. Best movie there was my first, Star Wars in 78! I remember stumbling out of the cinema in a daze and in childish innocence looking up at the starry sky thinking "he's out there, Darth Vader is out there!".

Went to see the last screening in the Savoy before it closed around 87 I think. I'm sure it was a rerun of Ghostbusters. The Savoy was actually pretty good for rerunning movies that had been out a while, I remember seeing 2001 a space oddity there years after it had first been released.

Anyway enough of this trip down Alzheimers Lane.

road_high · 07-01-2017 10:43pm

I remember passing the building site to from the bus to school. Was a real
boom time in construction at that time, stuff was flying up everywhere.
It was an unsurfaced car park before that.

pegasus1 · 08-01-2017 12:41pm

catbear wrote: »

Feels like a lot longer than that! I must just be getting old. Best movie there was my first, Star Wars in 78! I remember stumbling out of the cinema in a daze and in childish innocence looking up at the starry sky thinking "he's out there, Darth Vader is out there!".

Went to see the last screening in the Savoy before it closed around 87 I think. I'm sure it was a rerun of Ghostbusters. The Savoy was actually pretty good for rerunning movies that had been out a while, I remember seeing 2001 a space oddity there years after it had first been released.

Anyway enough of this trip down Alzheimers Lane.

StarWars was in the cinemas in '77...
The Savoy Cinema is still open!
Are you sure you don't mean the ambassador or the Adelphi?

catbear · 08-01-2017 4:02pm

pegasus1 wrote: »

StarWars was in the cinemas in '77...
The Savoy Cinema is still open!
Are you sure you don't mean the ambassador or the Adelphi?

The savoy was a cinema in Kilkenny that is now the Watergate theatre.

I could be wrong about the year but movies tended to come out in Ireland months after their USA release.

Mankbag · 08-01-2017 7:21pm

catbear wrote: »

The savoy was a cinema in Kilkenny that is now the Watergate theatre.

I could be wrong about the year but movies tended to come out in Ireland months after their USA release.

Star Wars was definitely 1977 in the Savoy. I saw it there too. Around Easter, I suspect. Doesn't mean that they mightn't have shown it again the following year.

Mankbag · 08-01-2017 7:22pm

pegasus1 wrote: »

StarWars was in the cinemas in '77...
The Savoy Cinema is still open!
Are you sure you don't mean the ambassador or the Adelphi?

You do realise it's Kilkenny we're talking about here?

catbear · 08-01-2017 8:59pm

Mankbag wrote: »

Star Wars was definitely 1977 in the Savoy. I saw it there too. Around Easter, I suspect. Doesn't mean that they mightn't have shown it again the following year.

Maybe it was Easter 78. According to this IMDB link it was released on the 27th Dec 77 in ireland
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/releaseinfo

The Savoy may have shown it too but I definitely remember seeing at the Regent.

Mankbag · 08-01-2017 10:25pm

catbear wrote: »

Maybe it was Easter 78. According to this IMDB link it was released on the 27th Dec 77 in ireland
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/releaseinfo

The Savoy may have shown it too but I definitely remember seeing at the Regent.

Oh, interesting. I certainly saw it in the Savoy.

catbear · 08-01-2017 10:30pm

At that time films could come back around a few times, even years after their initial release. I reckon that pretty stopped though once video players arrived.

FunkyJunky6969 · 09-01-2017 2:28am

Mankbag wrote: »

You do realise it's Kilkenny we're talking about here?

I agree let's bring in back to Kilkenny !

Threadhead · 16-01-2017 10:08am

I saw Star Wars in the Regent during the cinematic rereleases which were in 1997 so maybe you could be thinking of that?

Regent closed in July 98 (Lost In Space was the last film shown in there) and the Omniplex opened in August 98.

FunkyJunky6969 · 18-01-2017 2:49am

Update CAS Bridge to be open by early April and will be a two way system. Finally some new information.
Has anyone else heard anything new ?

catbear · 18-01-2017 12:23pm

FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »

Has anyone else heard anything new ?

I hear the new star wars films are ok but after Jar Jar binks I was out.

Spocker · 18-01-2017 1:54pm

catbear wrote: »

I hear the new star wars films are ok but after Jar Jar binks I was out.

This should bring you back in nicely

- you are all welcome

catbear · 18-01-2017 2:17pm

Spocker wrote: »

This should bring you back in nicely - you are all welcome

No, that link has definitely finished off any linger doubts. I'm done with the franchise.

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