Limerick improvement projects

There's only one Volcano Wings in Limerick though. Nowhere else comes close for hot wings.

High St. itself is all food now so I would say they wont mind. It's how it affects access to other streets is the thing.

But if what 95 reported is all there is then it's far too early for me to be getting worked up about it.

Well we will have the cafes and vape shops as a reason to visit the city.

It's wasn't a problem with the city centre that "pushed" people and businesses out to the retail parks. People chose to go to the retail parks for the big chain shops.

The truth is most people didn't care about the likes of Barry's (a shop I used often and remember well) or the other hardware shop across from it. Most people were more than happy to flock to the big retail chains with their massive advertising budgets and often later opening hours.

The click & collect were a brilliant idea. Killed by illegal parking sadly.

Those cafes you are so derogatory about look an awful lot busier than those old hardware stores were.

And a city can add bars, restaurants, smaller shops like book and niche clothes shops and shoe shops to the cafes and vape shops.

One thing and only one thing created the traffic problem in the city. People buying way more cars and it's not sneaky vested interests like you think.

In my lifetime my road went from a few houses with cars to 2 cars per house. The city streets were never designed to take that.

The only way to fix the city centre for people who think only the big retail chains can save it is to rip the whole place down and turn it into a retail park.

Mostly I have seen 2 models for a modern city centre. The UK approach of trying to modify the centre and making the whole place look like ring roads and off ramps like Belfast, Leeds or Leicester.

Or the mainland European approach of a low traffic old town built around hospitality (and I don't just mean tourist areas)

Would it not just be easier to just close High St. but only as far as Mother Mac's and part of Back Lane.

Seeing as this is about cycle lanes you could also fix up some of those adjacent laneways for cyclists. I already use them myself on the bike rather than High St.

That is all about your age.

Everything except the cinema is still there. Not actually Lobster Pot or Kranks but plenty of other fast foods way more than before and added to that way more restaurants and a vastly improved offering in the market and Wickham Way.

It's 100% about your age.

Sorry, misread about the cinema.

8pm screening of Aftersun in the Belltable was sold out on Monday night

The Belltable is a great amenity, Limerick could certainly do with a few more like it. Not sure of the exact plans for the Opera Centre, but it would be nice to see some arts centre/theatre/community space in there. In fairness, the Rugby Museum should be a night addition to the city. Just need more like it.

A cinema in town would be nice, but a mere novelty I feel. Too many big multiplexes in the suburbs. Maybe a niche offering like The Lighthouse, which offers drink, could do well. Same applies to the bowling/sports type offerings.

In general, Limerick frustrates me as a city. So much potential, which we all allude to, but its never capitalised on. Always seems to be a city fighting for it's identity. Currently it's a city of compromises, trying to appease everyone, but it needs a defined plan going forward. And I tend to agree with others posting here - renovate existing buildings (especially some of the gorgeous Georgian ones), get people back to living in the city, redevelop the streetscape (looking at you Catherine St.), lower rents and taxes for shops/pubs/cafes, less traffic, and more pedestrians. Everyday should be like Saturday in Limerick - people walking the riverfront, market buzzing, cafes busy, etc. One can dream...

How is the hallowing-out inevitable?

Well there was a time where we had a huge store on the corner of Sarsfield St and O'Connell St, that's vacant now and it was one if not the biggest in size.

This nonsense about a supposed lack of parking in Limerick city centre just has to stop. There is an abundance of on street parking, surface and multi storey car parks in the city centre. Equating to around 5,000 spaces in total. We don't have a problem with a lack of parking spaces. What we do have is a massive issue with an excessive amount of traffic and ignorant lazy parking in the city centre. The domination of the car and the massively disproportionate amount of space afforded to cars has turned the city streets into grim ugly, noisy, polluted and dilapidated spaces. This is the unfortunate reality and it urgently needs to be addressed if Limerick is to have any chance of growing and improving to any significant degree.

In relation to High Street, there is no issue with closing off the section from William Street to Upper Denmark Street to traffic. It's just a point duplication route anyhow and the same access is available via Gerald Griffin Street and Cathedral Place in any event.

Hold on, you said "commercial vacancies" and then you reply with an education premises.