Tralee thread

Thanks for such a prompt reply. Perhaps you can say when this unit came to be? Is it within the past 10 years?

My friend quoted an instance where somebody he knows from the town who suffered a heart attack in 2010 and was

carted off to Dublin by ambulance in the middle of the night.

It's a small unit so capacity can be an issue, in any CCU, not just Tralee if all the beds are occupied by patients who cannot be safely transferred to a general medical ward and you need specialised cardiac treatment and care you will be taken to the nearest available bed. The Bon's does not have 24hr cardiology cover, maybe that's where the person who thought there was no CCU in Tralee got their wires crossed.

Thanks

They have only 4 beds in it as far as I remember I could be wrong I wasn't the best when was in there. They take you to cork as well for stints to get put in

There are a lot of notices in the car park, there is a multi story next door, train station has parking 50 meters away. I don't think the lesson here is to shop at aldi...

yes one hour. i also know of a lady last week who for whatever reason spent over an hour in the shop and was clamped

I can understand why they placed a time limit on parking but 60 minutes is a little tight. My wife & I drive to Tralee about every three or four weeks to do a large shop so we often spend quite a bit of time in the shop. Ninety minutes would have been fairer.

If we thought we had to watch our time then we wouldn't bother & would go to Aldi instead. Other people might feel the same.

60 minutes does seem rather tight but I think the vast majority of Lidl customers probably get their shop done in 30 to 40 minutes (the store seems less designed for lingering than say a large Tesco or Dunnes) so if 90 minute or more parking was allowed, it would encourage shoppers to do errands around town or even get a lunch in after their Lidl shop and prevent other shoppers from getting parking if the carpark is consistently full unnecessarily.

Yes you'll hear people say they'll never shop there again but the cost to Lidl of losing that minority of customers is probably far less than the loss of customers who frequently can't park there due to the carpark being occupied by "Lidl shoppers" having their lunch in Benners or The Grand or nipping into Penneys.