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Three "landmarks" to be demolished

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    #32
    ben.schlomo
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    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    And our elected TD’s only come out with sound bites, extragavent expenses and nepotism

    Yawnnnnnnnnnn.


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    #33
    Mrs OBumble
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    cL0h wrote: »
    ....the Connacht Hotel, Odeon House, O’Connell’s Bar, An Pucan but they have tonnes of office and residental too, here and all over the country. Connacht Laundries is owned by the Comer-McHale consortium. The council and the city manager suck up to these people, not the other way around.

    ....city manager ... and his office has had no interest in calling these absentee landlords to task.


    Most of the sites they own are in use. That means rates are due on them. Presumably these rates are being paid. If so, then the owners are worth considerable inwards cashflow to the city. Pissing off people who are actually paying rates would not be a smart idea.

    It's not the Comer's responsibility to be providing social housing. There's plenty of vacant land and houses for that, if the government wanted to allocate money to it.


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    #34
    Ardillaun
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    cL0h wrote: »
    It's not weird at all. It's owned by the billionaire Comer Group who own a tonne of other property around town.

    I don’t think we disagree too much on this. Owners of such property should be obliged to maintain them. The Comers bought the burnt remains of the Shannon Oaks in Portumna and took years to do anything with that as the rest of the town went down the tubes.

    https://connachttribune.ie/locals-demand-action-on-dilapidated-shannon-oaks-hotel-009/

    Looks like we may be seeing some progress there at last:

    https://www.advertiser.ie/Galway/article/113328/council-grants-permission-for-re-development-of-portumna-hotel


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    #35
    Geuze
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    I have wondered why the Dawn Dairies site is on the VSR, but the Corrib Great Soutern hotel isn't?


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