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    #1712
    murdig
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭murdig


    kn wrote: »
    Wow. The Town really needed another coffee shop......

    The one in town does brilliantly, will be interesting to see if they can recreate that success in manor.


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    #1713
    Quackster
    Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 5,779 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quackster


    murdig wrote: »
    The one in town does brilliantly, will be interesting to see if they can recreate that success in manor.

    Yeah, no shortage of gullible people willing to pay any price for a coffee, just to buy into a brand!

    At least we haven't been invaded by Starbucks. Yet.


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    #1714
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Quackster wrote: »
    Yeah, no shortage of gullible people willing to pay any price for a coffee, just to buy into a brand!

    At least we haven't been invaded by Starbucks. Yet.

    I happen to like their coffee, so I must be very gullible, or I can just choose where I Want to eat & drink, just as you can!


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    #1715
    Quackster
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    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    I happen to like their coffee, so I must be very gullible, or I can just choose where I Want to eat & drink, just as you can!

    Nothing wrong with their coffee but nothing special about it either. Each to their own I guess.

    At least they're paying good rates to the council for a premises that size! :D


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    #1716
    Wang Kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 361 ✭✭Wang Kerr


    One of their neighbours will be pulling out and moving to Manor too in the very near future.


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    #1717
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Just spotted the baby with the pint viral post today also included a clip from Tralee in 1997 at the start. Recognise anyone??

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0202/849582-scarcity-of-single-women-in-kerry/


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    #1718
    Quackster
    Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 5,779 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quackster


    Wang Kerr wrote: »
    One of their neighbours will be pulling out and moving to Manor too in the very near future.

    Is there room in Manor for anything else?


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    #1719
    beertons
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    ongarboy wrote: »
    Costa Coffee to open a second outlet in Tralee at Manor West SC in a new unit to be built next to Carpetright. Planning permission for the cafe has been submitted to the council with a decision due in April.


    They're doing that up my way too. A second shop being built in the car park of a retail park beside the big ball. They'll do well, because the parking is free. I had a coffee there once, never again.


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    #1720
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    I was up in Manor yesterday but I can't quite figure out where beside carpetrite it's planning to go? I noticed a bit of extra space just before the pedestrian crossing, is it there?


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    #1721
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    ongarboy wrote: »
    Just spotted the baby with the pint viral post today also included a clip from Tralee in 1997 at the start. Recognise anyone??

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0202/849582-scarcity-of-single-women-in-kerry/

    I was in college in the RTC then so I recognised a couple of people.


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    #1722
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    ongarboy wrote: »
    Just spotted the baby with the pint viral post today also included a clip from Tralee in 1997 at the start. Recognise anyone??

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0202/849582-scarcity-of-single-women-in-kerry/

    There was bit on the 9 o clock news tonight about it


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    #1723
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    I wasn't up in Manor yesterday but I can't quite figure out where beside carpetrite it's planning to go? I noticed a bit of extra space just before the pedestrian crossing, is it there?

    Yes, I came across the planning doc on the council website. It's that space between the pedestrian crossing and the gable end of Carpetright according to the details. It will be a brand new building.


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    #1724
    Wang Kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 361 ✭✭Wang Kerr


    Someone started a thread in After Hours a few days ago about it too


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    #1725
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    ongarboy wrote: »
    Yes, I came across the planning doc on the council website. It's that space between the pedestrian crossing and the gable end of Carpetright according to the details. It will be a brand new building.

    Ah right. I was wondering as there are trees & plants etc there. I guess they will remove it all.

    Was there not talk a while back about the old Randles until being leased & something going in there? No sign of anything happening so maybe it fell through?


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    #1726
    kn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,867 ✭✭✭kn


    ongarboy wrote: »
    Just spotted the baby with the pint viral post today also included a clip from Tralee in 1997 at the start. Recognise anyone??

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0202/849582-scarcity-of-single-women-in-kerry/

    Yeah. Donie Jones standing outside the pub.


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    #1727
    Sully34
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Sully34


    I see planning permission has been granted to build a four bedroom house between the chalets and piebald sanctuary on the canal

    "If you build it they will come"


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    #1728
    Wang Kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 361 ✭✭Wang Kerr


    Sully34 wrote: »
    I see planning permission has been granted to build a four bedroom house between the chalets and piebald sanctuary on the canal

    "If you build it they will come"

    The only thing I will say is....That since the council became proactive in spreading traveller families around town, and not having them condensed in one area, the issue of feuds and instances of armed battles has fallen away to nothing


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    #1729
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    I see there's a new holistic Therapy centre opening in Boherbee.


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    #1730
    CiarraiAbu2
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭CiarraiAbu2


    Sully34 wrote: »
    I see planning permission has been granted to build a four bedroom house between the chalets and piebald sanctuary on the canal

    "If you build it they will come"

    Should that whole place not be converted into one big park and link it into the wetlands and the canal.


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    #1731
    CiarraiAbu2
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭CiarraiAbu2


    Can't see the planning online


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    #1732
    fuerte1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭fuerte1976


    Dunno how planning is being granted there.. After all, the old dump is very close if not underneath it...


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    #1733
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Lidl is opening tomorrow in Edward street. They did a nice job of the front of it, it makes the street look well. I got a leaflet in the door this morning which has some weekly €10 off vouchers on it.

    I still think the traffic will be crazy around there once it's open! They badly need a feeder light at that Edward street/JJ Sheehy junction, when turning right from Edward st there's no feeder light, whereas there is on the other lights. It's really hard to turn & ive seen a few near misses with people taking a chance! Plus do we really need another supermarket in town, let alone two of each!?


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    #1734
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    UP to 20 new jobs will be created this week when the new Lidl supermarket opens at its Edward Street site this Thursday.

    The building is complete and they’re stocking the store at the old Heiton Buckley site, with the finishing touches to some landscaping and paving work taking place before the opening.

    Their second store in Tralee – the other Lidl is located on the Castlemaine Road – will result in an investment of approximately €6.5million in the area.

    Between 15 and 20 new positions will be created while their current store will retain its 23 staff. This is the German supermarket giant’s 150th store in Ireland.

    The outlet is almost 2,800 square metres over two floors and will have 131 car parking spaces and 27 spaces for bicycles

    http://traleetoday.ie/20-jobs-created-new-lidl-opens-thursday/


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    #1735
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Plus do we really need another supermarket in town, let alone two of each!?

    I guess they've done their market research to say Tralee can support another supermarket. I think another reason supermarkets do so well is the decline of the corner shop. When I grew up in 70s/80s there was just a small Dunnes on Bridge St and an even smaller Quinnsworth in the Square where Carphone Warehouse is yet my street (Strand Road) had 8 grocery shops between Knockmoyle and High St but only 2 remain.

    Shop across from Caherina Cottages (now closed)
    Renees (now Morans)
    OSullivans Walshs Terrace (closed)
    Mays (still open as Bons shop)
    Millers/Moriartys (now a TV install/repair shop)
    Nammocks ORahilly Villas (closed)
    Shop next to Huddle (now launderette)
    Lyons on Chapel St (closed)


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    #1736
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    ongarboy wrote: »
    I guess they've done their market research to say Tralee can support another supermarket. I think another reason supermarkets do so well is the decline of the corner shop. When I grew up in 70s/80s there was just a small Dunnes on Bridge St and an even smaller Quinnsworth in the Square where Carphone Warehouse is yet my street (Strand Road) had 8 grocery shops between Knockmoyle and High St but only 2 remain.

    Shop across from Caherina Cottages (now closed)
    Renees (now Morans)
    OSullivans Walshs Terrace (closed)
    Mays (still open as Bons shop)
    Millers/Moriartys (now a TV install/repair shop)
    Nammocks ORahilly Villas (closed)u
    Shop next to Huddle (now launderette)
    Lyons on Chapel St (closed)

    When did Lyons close?


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    #1737
    Adiboo
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    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Lidl is opening tomorrow in Edward street.

    No, it's opening Thursday 23rd.


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    #1738
    Quackster
    Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 5,779 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quackster


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Lidl is opening tomorrow in Edward street. They did a nice job of the front of it, it makes the street look well. I got a leaflet in the door this morning which has some weekly €10 off vouchers on it.

    I still think the traffic will be crazy around there once it's open! They badly need a feeder light at that Edward street/JJ Sheehy junction, when turning right from Edward st there's no feeder light, whereas there is on the other lights. It's really hard to turn & ive seen a few near misses with people taking a chance! Plus do we really need another supermarket in town, let alone two of each!?

    Those vouchers will be useful for shopping in Tesco! (Although I'll be confining myself to the small Tesco while the strike continues.)

    I fully expect a similar Aldi leaflet to drop through the letterbox in the next 24 hours - they're not going to let the new Lidl opening go unchallenged!

    I don't agree that Lidl will snarl up traffic in the area but I would agree those traffic signals, as they are, are far from optimal.


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    #1739
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    When did Lyons close?

    Gosh, mid 80s I'd say...I can barely remember it. I remember a mobile shop van used to go around Spa Road and a shop opening briefly in Cahills Park too. (I remember they sold A-Team stickers and posters - all the rage then!!)


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    #1740
    Quackster
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    CiarraiAbu2 wrote: »
    Should that whole place not be converted into one big park and link it into the wetlands and the canal.

    Nothing can be done with the old landfill until it's been properly capped and made safe which is a costly operation. Council applied for funding to do this quite some time ago but, as yet, it has not been forthcoming.


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    #1741
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Adiboo wrote: »
    No, it's opening Thursday 23rd.

    Yeah sorry forgot today was only Tuesday! I loose track of the days I'd the week while at home with a baby! Lol


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