New Shop Maynooth

Ah mate its a disgrace up there at the moment. Brain dead planner is what we have in the county. Surely to god the College Campus shouldn't be allowed to empty out onto the Moyglare Road. Either that or it should be a no right turn. In other words they would have go up via the new schools or through Mariavilla.

I've been saying to herself for years that Maynooth is a rat race at this stage. I'm from here my whole life but would have no bother selling up. It just keeps getting worse. If the congestion keeps deteriorating nobody will wanted to live in the place.

There's more modern/larger/purpose built units in Moyglare Hall and also planned in Mariavilla though. There's definitely the demand to have a convenience store, chipper, hairdresser, pharmacy style row of shops out that way.

As for traffic - the ring road won't make everything wonderful. But it will reduce some of the through traffic.

There needs to be a proper effort to join up cycle paths, widen footpaths, un-do the damage done by five decades of closing up walkways in estates due to people being scared of lurking teenagers and make the town vastly more cyclable and more importantly walkable.

There are people in Maynooth living in houses that are beside each other that are 1.1km distance away due to dead ends. Loads of other examples where a closed up walkway - or a missed opportunity to have one - has made a specific, realistic journey (a specified gaff to shops/school/whatever) many times longer than it needs to be. And that's why people drive.

We also have footpaths on major roads that are less than a meter wide in places, in some cases less than a metre wide on both sides of the road at the same time.

Modern and purpose-built in theory but the shop is about the same size as the one in Moyglare village, has no loading bay and maybe 3/4 parking spaces to be shared with the apartment(Not sure if it's one or two apartments) above it on top of being in a poor location for passing custom. I don't see anyone wanting to open a shop there a creche has more chance of success but will have problems with access/parking and planning too I'm sure.

It was open when we moved to the area in 2008, then closed for a bit and reopened as the Village Store, and then closed after a year or 2. MH was half done at the time - in as far as The Walk/The Green (they were built by 2008, and mostly occupied by 2009). It was long closed before the second half of the estate filled out.

I thought there was always planning for a creche unit there.

It reopened briefly about 4/5 years ago but never had much in it other than milk, a few ice creams and a few sweets if I remember properly it possible had takeaway coffee too. The coffee shop at the GAA struggles too during the week even the pizza guys abandoned the Moyglare road the potential is there but the demand never materializes .

The creche unit was never build the rumored location has planning for a shop and 1/2 apartments so I think a change of use would be required.

Just seen it mentioned on Maynooth notice boards on Facebook and people are full of praise for it, sounds like it's really good. Must go and investigate this week

Respectfully i disagree. If its lashing rain i think its a decent walk up from kingsbry or carton court. Agreed about the dry weather.

Had Falo today. Three of us all agreed its was a very good pizza. Gra pizza comes a close second.