Businesses/Shops opening in Cork city/suburbs.

beer enigma wrote: »

A few food items that I hadn't seen before but pretty much the same otherwise. I was really impressed with it yesterday, really wide isles loads of parking, small enough wine and beer section though which surprised me .

They reduced the alcohol section up in Grange too

Gap have announced a total closure of UK & Ireland stores, including Opera Lane.

Pen Rua wrote: »

Not quite a business opening, but the Peter McVerry Trust is taking over the old Permanent TSB unit on North Main Street and will operate it as a regional base. They've developed it to include 5 one-bed room units.

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/peter-mcverry-trust-open-cork-20437340

Peter McVerry Trust is one of the most successful of the homeless charities with an income of over €46 million a year. Although the CEO is only on a modest €120,000 (plus expenses) most of the staff are on over 70k.

It is very much a business opening.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Oh, is that Dali gone then?

I've never been to Dali, but it was supposed to be a decent club, which I think Cork needs more of.

yeah Dali is gone, think it went after the first lockdown or thereabouts
I went there a few times and enjoyed it! It was definitely needed in Cork so was a shame

Rfrip wrote: »

yeah Dali is gone, think it went after the first lockdown or thereabouts
I went there a few times and enjoyed it! It was definitely needed in Cork so was a shame

Dali was claaaaaas - the soundsystem in there was epic. Such a shame that there's no proper outlets for electronic music in the city, they seemed to have a really good thing going there before the pandemic, and the city really needs venues like Dali in my opinion. Hopefully they can find a new home.

Regards the Pav, from the article it seems like Benny is modelling it on the Stella in Rathmines in Dublin, which is pretty cool, but it wont appeal to young people. I'm pushing mid 30's so I welcome it, but again shame to see a space for younger people lost. The gentrification continues.....

the beer revolu wrote: »

I often wonder how many jobs would be lost if we solved homelessness and poverty!

A huge amount. Unfortunately homelessness is big business and if it were actually fully resolved it would lead to huge job losses, hence it's a vicious circle.

sporina wrote: »

i'd say there are way more homeless than there are employed working in the field though

You’d actually be very surprised. Add up all the charity workers, council workers, HSE/Tulsa social workers etc - it adds up to a huge amount of jobs.

Before the current homeless ****show the govt. was giving 30,000 per homeless person to homeless 'charities' - 150 million per year. Almost 100 different charities nationwide. Dozens of well paid CEO's, dozens of auditors, bookkeepers, payroll, but most importantly sales and marketing to raise:( more cash. Unfortunately charities are a business in Ireland. There are some great charities out there but a lot are run for the benefit of the directors.

captainshamroc wrote: »

Before the current homeless ****show the govt. was giving 30,000 per homeless person to homeless 'charities' - 150 million per year. Almost 100 different charities nationwide. Dozens of well paid CEO's, dozens of auditors, bookkeepers, payroll, but most importantly sales and marketing to raise:( more cash. Unfortunately charities are a business in Ireland. There are some great charities out there but a lot are run for the benefit of the directors.

In 2013 €50,000,000 a year was being spent on homeless services.
In 2020 it was €250,000,000.

A very large proportion of that is on charity CEO salaries, wages, admin, fundraising etc
It's turned in to a massive gravy train.

Bear in mind that this is entirely dependant on the "homeless crisis" continuing indefinitely.

Karmella wrote: »

Yeah it’s being renovated - opening again on Thursday I think.

Great that they are doing it but won’t be able to find anything in there for a few weeks as they completely change the layouts

That's not an accident.
If you know exactly where everything is, you don't cover the whole shop and buy extras.

If, on the other hand, you are searching for something you will come across all sorts of other temptations to buy.

New hotel on McCutain St opening this week - Tiniest hotel rooms in Cork at city's new and shiny microsleeper (irishexaminer.com)

Gone for a month, curious how this will look after

Fermoy wasn't a revamp, they bought the site next door and built a completely new shop and the demolished the old and retained the old site for parking.