Waterford Watch

JMT2016

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The Council are utterly useless at selling Waterford, always have been. It's like they are crippled by embarrassment with memories of things like the Dock strike in the 80s and just can't get past that and shake themselves up.

I'm really hoping the Waterford Greenway changes this - the council are off to a good start with this video - but it's out over a month and only has 655 youtube views as of today -let's get it viral people!!

Wanderer78

JMT2016 wrote: »

I'm really hoping the Waterford Greenway changes this - the council are off to a good start with this video - but it's out over a month and only has 655 youtube views as of today -let's get it viral people!!

i know the photographer, hes doing a great job

Harry Palmr

JMT2016 wrote: »

Serious lack of publicity from the wonderful achievement of the Viking Triangle winning The Great Place award, beating off two lovely places in England, Greenwich Market London and Leicester Market to win the prize.

The much hated Waterford Today has a half page feature on page 15.

Finnbar01

Wanderer78 wrote: »

i know the photographer, hes doing a great job

Who is he/she because they are doing a sterling job!

BTW, always wanted to become a photographer, unfortunately I'm really crap at it.

Wanderer78

Finnbar01 wrote: »

Who is he/she because they are doing a sterling job!

BTW, always wanted to become a photographer, unfortunately I'm really crap at it.

http://www.johnfoleyimages.com/

fairly sure its johns handy work.

practice practice practice! crap myself as well but theres some photography clubs in waterford that should set you right

JMT2016

http://www.coca-cola.ie/newsroom/press-releases/holidays-are-coming-coca-colas-christmas-truck-tour-returns-to-ireland

For those interested, Coca-cola truck visited all cities in Ireland except Waterford. Might be worth noting for winterval next year.

TheQuietFella

JMT2016 wrote: »

http://www.coca-cola.ie/newsroom/press-releases/holidays-are-coming-coca-colas-christmas-truck-tour-returns-to-ireland

For those interested, Coca-cola truck visited all cities in Ireland except Waterford. Might be worth noting for winterval next year.

It would probably have had difficulties negotiating the new and improved developments on the quay!

Wanderer2010

Waterford has been on the hit list for years now. I don't know what caused it or which bigwig was annoyed enough to stop any funding or recognition coming our way but its going on a while now. Even 10 years ago when Micheal Martin was approached about WIT becoming a university he was so dismissive towards this city, you could see it in every inflection of his body language and nuance of his words when describing Waterford, it was written all over his face how much he dislikes this city.
I would love to know the real story, who did we p!ss off and when, so that we are still facing the consequences of under-recognition even now...

Poor Uncle Tom

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Waterford has been on the hit list for years now. I don't know what caused it or which bigwig was annoyed enough to stop any funding or recognition coming our way but its going on a while now. Even 10 years ago when Micheal Martin was approached about WIT becoming a university he was so dismissive towards this city, you could see it in every inflection of his body language and nuance of his words when describing Waterford, it was written all over his face how much he dislikes this city.
I would love to know the real story, who did we p!ss off and when, so that we are still facing the consequences of under-recognition even now...

I think you are seeing conspiracies where there are none. I think our local politicians, from Councillors upwards are not carrying their weight when it comes to getting involved enough about the city's development. The city centre has been allowed to die and this has just been accepted with a shrug of the shoulders by the local public representatives over the last 15 years. It is very convenient to be able to point fingers at one person and say it's all his/her fault, well that's way too easy, imo., it isn't down to one person.

Simon Coveny's recent announcement should also be taken as being very positive for the city. Lets see what our elected officials will now do with this announcement, if they are actually working for our good they should already have ideas of how to take this and make it work for Waterford. Interesting times ahead in the very near future to see how our Councillors try to shape what the minister intends for us.

azimuth17

I agree with some of the points made, but the city council and councillors have been trying to get the KRM Michael Street centre on the go for years. they are spending €17m on the public realm whether you agree with the things being done or not. I don't think its fair to say that things have been accepted with a shrug? An appeal to Bord Pleanala by a member of the Socialist Workers Party effectively is holding up the redevelopment of the city. Maybe people should shrug at him?

Poor Uncle Tom

azimuth17 wrote: »

I agree with some of the points made, but the city council and councillors have been trying to get the KRM Michael Street centre on the go for years. they are spending €17m on the public realm whether you agree with the things being done or not. I don't think its fair to say that things have been accepted with a shrug? An appeal to Bord Pleanala by a member of the Socialist Workers Party effectively is holding up the redevelopment of the city. Maybe people should shrug at him?

Although this is a huge proposal, it is just one proposal, and it's on the go with a hell of a long time...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055299762

but, apart from voicing their support for this what else have they done? have they approached the objector to hear what can be done to get them on side? have they approached the developers/proposers to see if the overall development can be broken into more achievable smaller developments and phase the development? if this one development is going to transform the entire city shouldn't the council have a big say in it? why can't it be developed under PPP and lead by the LA under Section 8 to get works underway?

All of this (apart from the Section 8 vote) can be done without the councillors input, what are they doing about the city developments elsewhere while this is going on?

I stand by what I've said, I don't believe the councillors are doing enough.

Deiseen

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Although this is a huge proposal, it is just one proposal, and it's on the go with a hell of a long time...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055299762

but, apart from voicing their support for this what else have they done? have they approached the objector to hear what can be done to get them on side? have they approached the developers/proposers to see if the overall development can be broken into more achievable smaller developments and phase the development? if this one development is going to transform the entire city shouldn't the council have a big say in it? why can't it be developed under PPP and lead by the LA under Section 8 to get works underway?

All of this (apart from the Section 8 vote) can be done without the councillors input, what are they doing about the city developments elsewhere while this is going on?

I stand by what I've said, I don't believe the councillors are doing enough.

I think the council are doing a good job the last number of years. The problem is that the councillors before them were doing absolutely nothing so they are trying to catch up.

PTH2009

In the news for the wrong reasons

http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1229/841719-waterford-death/

Terrible thing to happen

Rip to the victim