Newbridge Chat Thread

Edit: the junction You mention is woeful even before these protestors came along. The queue for McD’s can hold up almost the entire junction.

McDonalds moving the entrance to the drive through closer the road didn't help matters .

On a separate note , I believe there were a large number of cars broken into last night - College Farm, Roseberry Hill and White Oaks were estates that were mentioned. Not a nice thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning .

Yes, the badly written placards they had was "against modular homes" IMO the Ukranians are very lucky not to have to live beside these people - most of whom have been on benefits all their lives and never contributed to society

answer this truthfully -

If the modular homes were for people on the local housing list - do you think there would have been even a hint of a protest?

I'll answer that - Not a chance.

You answer your own question with your own answer. Of course there would have been a protest. There already has been. That waste of vote SF invisible TD was jumping on the bandwagon a couple of months ago.

Yes, Newbridge has unsociables but so has every single other city/town/village throughout the country, or at least we are led to believe.

You seem to blame the drug dealing and ASB on those protesting outside McD’s on one estate. There is good and bad everywhere.

Damien, while I agree with You about the infrastructure or total lack of, and school places, doctors etc, I think You are going a bit overboard comparing us to Tallaght.

Our elected TD’s are (except imo Cathal Berry ) practically invisible.

watch what happens in the towns with free parking - the free spaces will be full by 10 am and the same cars will be there at 5pm.

Any decent business absolutely HATES free parking. I managed a business in Watford many years ago and they introduced free parking on Saturdays. Business dropped immediately as there was no parking available as all the staff and people using the train to go elsewhere used the spaces. Within 3 weeks it was cancelled.

Naas seem to have it right - some free parking, but all the prime spaces that are used by shoppers who prefer to pay €1 than spend 20 minutes searching for a space, are still being charged for.

But blanket free parking is a business killer and has been proven time and time again to be such. Liffey Valley is a classic example, retailers are reporting increase in trade since parking charges were introduced as shoppers can now park near the doors and don't have to park 500m away past all the staff cars and cars of workers in Dublin who get the bus and left their cars there

How do ye feel Frasers is getting on?

Hilarious.

Most of the cafés are not open on Sunday.

However The Market Kitchen in Michael Murphy's furniture shop does open on a Sunday - from 10.00am. Does a great fry.

To me it was like the expensive section in some SportsDirects USC I think it's called. With some extra brands. Also they had a homewares section and cosmetic counters. They'd want to have a good sale I'd say.

Planning permission has been submitted by Aston Limited for the provision of approximately 790 metres of new Distributor Road, including a new bridge over the River Liffey, forming part of the Newbridge South Outer Orbital Road (NSOOR) linking the Great Connell Road to the section of the NSOOR permitted under ABP Reg. Ref. 30

Hi everyone,

Me and my Partner are currently house hunting. I am pretty much settled on a nice Semi D in Ballymore, however my other half is very interested in the Station Walk Development in Newbridge.

We currently live in Dublin and have one car on its last legs. She works in Leopardstown and has to commute twice weekly, myself in D2 three times per week.

Has anyone got any advice on how Station Walk is like? How is Newbridge like as a place to live? I heard that Antisocial behaviour could potentially be an issue.

Lastly, does anyone have advice on the commute to Dublin?

Thanks all in advance

Thank you so much for your answer. I didn't mean to suggest that Station Walk had issues of Antisocial behaviour - I had heard Newbridge Town had these issues. As we're currently living in Dublin City Centre we're really looking for a more quiet life after 6 years there.

After what you've said it seems like we'll have to give Newbridge more thought

Moved from Dublin to Newbridge in 2014. You often hear these reports of ASB but in 9 years I've never encountered it personally....a bit of a long time for that to have been an aberration I'd have thought. Of course the town has its issues but none more than anywhere else. I'd imagine you see worse in Dublin City. That being said, I find it a little rough around Eyre Street at time owing to a McVerry Trust centre located there. But no serious incidents I can recall either.

Station Walk would be perfect for commuting to D2. You've the choice of going to Heuston or via the Tunnel heading to Grand Canal Dock. Just depends on whats the best service for you. My wife did the same commute to Leopardstown. She'll be needing a solid diesel, especially if it becomes more than 2 days a week. It'll be about 220-230km per week

On the whole I'd endorse Newbridge. More services and amenities than Ballymore. More connectivity.

The Close/Curragh Grange is on the opposite side to where I live. But from what I know, this is a well established estate. My Daughter is now well into Her teens and we have never had a problem with Her upbringing.

Newbridge is a great town imho with good transport links to Dublin. In addition an hour South on the M7 and one is only a short drive from Limerick.

However, there are hundreds of new houses being built here, with (sadly ) no thought gone into infrastructure. Availability of school places is a problem , not to mention getting a family doctor.

I can only speak highly of our town, and in case You ask, we DON’T have an ASB problem, or at least I have never experienced one.

Feel free to ask if You have any other queries.

Pic from pole they are on.

I'm sure money is the reason why it's a UK company, and if asked, they'd probably say that they are monitoring the speed and numbers of cars (quantity), not the (licence) numbers of cars.

As for the GDPR, the answer is probably in the link below but I don't have the time or inclination to read it in full. 😉 The legislation would be the same, coming from the same source, but I don't know how they'd interact since Brexit.

https://brexitlegal.ie/gdpr-data-protection/

6 at the back of Naomh Uilig school also encroaching into the playground in Rosconnel

WTF is it about people letting off fireworks?

Far too often now. Our poor dog is demented with them. Neighbour’s young children being woken up.

Its beyond a f***ing joke now.

Location, location, location. That whole street has plenty of unsavoury people at all times of the day.

It doesn't have big windows facing out onto where the 'characters' congregate.

I’m with Damian 100% here.

Personally, we’ed prefer driving out the 5kms to The hangman.

Not denying it’s more expensive, but Dubh’s fare isn’t a patch on The Hangman’s imho. There are 3 others that are really good restaurants but again one has to leave Newbridge to get to them:

Harte’s, Fallons, The Brown Bear.