Random Waffle Thread

Living Homes & Interiors're applying for P. P. to Carlow Co. Co. for Unit 6, Carlow Retail Pk., Hanover; New 1st Floor for retail use along with internal alterations, layout changes. Also for a new rear-facing first floor window.

Whenever e-scooter legislation is passed, and read an article online today that it might be this year, then a local company wants to launch a similar scheme they already operate in Europe & Malaysia here.

Be good to see a successful rollout of the e-Bikes to begin with for sure.

Babylon Flame Grill & Kebab "Opening Soon" on Tullow St. in unit most recently occupied by Georges Deli & Coffee House; beside & in between Denis Shelly Lgal Costs Accountants and Gold Rush Casino/Gaming Arcade.

Also on Potato Mkt. Go Fonez has opened beside Food Time/Detail; it was most recently also a phone/gadget/tech shop up to maybe 2-3 weeks, a month ago.

Carlow County Development Partnership Ltd. (CCDP) are having a "Pop Up Sale" tomorrow & Thursday from 10am-4pm of items from their Be Kind Project warehouse (old Perrys Cash & Carry unit) in the Exchange/an Malairt on Potato Mkt.

Unusually it's "Cash Only" & "Rude or Abusive Behaviour will not be tolerated" are on signs at the entrance today; you'd wonder why...................in BOTH cases.............!!!???

Will you get a receipt? Can they stand over quality of good they're selling? Does the purchaser have same standard consumer rights as if you purchased a sofa in a local furniture store?

Cos cash and no receipts leaves no trace......... "Oh you didn't buy it from us"; we've all seen this at various fairs over the years.

Whole thing is dubious & I've seen comments, before they were deleted, which our local politicians should query the veracity of; corporate governance when in receipt of Govt. funds to such amounts is just a bit important like................!!!!

Have also seen PMs & if there's even a whiff of credibilty to them then CCDP need to be examined; sadly our local media don't do investigative journalism & our local politiicians & the hangers-on, leeches, backslappers on and off line are all hand in glove with each other anyway.

Any clown who goes in there tomorrow & Thursday and buys something, which was for free today, Tuesday, and will be for free again on Friday will not get any sympathy from me; with a bit of luck there'll be woodlice in a table or fleas in a sofa or a vase will smash soon's they bring it home.

Have no idea why CCDP are doing this, they got 3.1 Million in 2020, 2.8 in 2021 (Charities Regulator website), have 19 f/t & 83 p-t employees not to mention they use CE & TUS scheme workers; they, apparently, have a well below market rates deal from our council, whom they're hand in glove with anyway, for the use of old Perrys Cash & Carry warehouse for a branch of their tree, Be Kind Project.

The whole "Circle Economy" is broken when, items you're giving to CCDP, FOR FREE, on understanding they'll be given to a person who is legit in need of, the vase, the sofa, the planter, the bag of clothes, FOR FREE, then turn out to be sold on instead; no matter their justification.

Anyone giving to these shysters, shams, from here on in should give their heads a wobble; make use of Freecycle groups on Facebook, use Adverts, Jumbletown etc. & do your own due-diligence to ensure the recipients don't do what CCDP're doing here & sell them on; would love to know have the donors of each & every item being sold tomorrow signed a consent form regarding same........

But enjoy the sale folks; it's for a good cause etc.

I seen photos of the friary when it was up for sale. A fantastic building and as you’ve mentioned, very impressive lands at the back.

Would be a shame to see both that and the sacred heart building going to emergency accommodation? - I haven’t heard they are but wouldn’t be surprised.

I’m not sure - I always referred to it as the sacred heart.

I heard the clink crowd bought the friary ., and as they are heavily involved with accommodating Ukrainians, you’d have to assume that’s what it will be used for.

maybe they might rebuild chesty Murray’s across the road ????

hmmm ..

man decides he wants to knock down one of the oldest buildings in town and just goes ahead and does it .

now it’s a gaping hole ‘car park’.

And the fact that it’s been ordered to be rebuilt and yer man isn’t bothering his hole…. And getting away with it …. is the most frustrating piece imo https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2022/03/24/questions-raised-over-delays-in-rebuilding-chesty-murrays-shop/

It wouldn’t happen in kilkenny / Dublin etc?

I agree though,. Once the inevitable happens with the capuchin friary and sacred heart- that’s when the ‘coulda, shoulda, woulda’ conversations will happen.

Otterholt for sale https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2023/07/28/21-bedroom-carlow-hostel-up-for-sale/?fbclid=IwAR17CJQS4vzYvG-K5EA_Kn073lEEo2XAk7HihkuvLUKy1L9jn-bmS_Lak0s

My Home link with pics & more spec https://www.myhome.ie/commercial/brochure/otterholt-kilkenny-road-carlow-town-carlow/4717190

Med Bar opening hours this week're Thursday 7pm, Friday/Saturday/Sunday 5 O'Clock

Nationalist article on reopening here https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2023/08/01/revamped-carlow-bar-reopens-on-tullow-street/?fbclid=IwAR0YCQhkp2umTdfd8OchvoqqO3AA15MFCOmdeDvBa0xM_-d0xJupqqOfRhE

Anyone remember when Milverton House on Montgomery St. was a Direct Provision Centre please?

Am trying to find out a bit more about it; I think it might've been run/owned by Victory Church who used preach out of Delta Centre in Strawhall Ind. Est. I think?

Unsure if Victory Church're still active in Carlow anymore.

Just wondering when Milverton House began taking in residents, SMs I think, and when it ceased, why etc.?

Online all's I can find is records from 05 & it seemed then to've been closed in 06 & 07; it's from an Oireactas PQ.

Guessing they, Victory Church, just wanted rid of the building & sold it?

Am unsure, which of the two blocks of apartments the DP Centre occupied; was it the one closest to the river or the redbrick one?

Or are they newer structures & was Milverton House actually a "Big House" on the footprint of where both buildings are now please?

Any help do please reply/comment or PM me; thanks.

Am just pure curious is all.

VDA've shut its doors in Carlow permanently; had only opened back in May last year.

VDA?

No worries, I'd very rarely be in town so had no idea who you were referring to

Will take your word on it; I'm a tea person.

What I will say, and looking around Carlow, there's a lot of "coffee" shops, houses but, and again I'm not a coffee drinker, but with no such limitations on the amount of such places in the CDP, the amount of places, like your petrol stations, your fast food joints etc. to get a takeaway or sit down coffee, means the VDAs're gonna struggle against your garages & multinationals & supermarkets whatever about differences in taste.

But fair play to anyone who takes a chance on opening up such units; employment created, rent being paid on a premises, commercial rates etc.

When last week we had the "closure" of a certain premises due to disinformation, misinformation (not from the Carlow Forum it must be noted) to point the premises had to issue a statement of clarification, it's a pity the same backslappers incl. many of whom will be door-knocking in the Springtime & who were more than happy to do a VDA Carlow social media post at the time, didn't actually follow through on their "support" for such a venture; social media likes, content creators, influencers, social media gurus, s/m posts by Cllrs. don't pay the bills.

I did think the location was a good one; but to go back to my point, you can go in & get a coffee in Gold Rush Casino beside it, Supermacs, Cafe 500 & numerous other places within 3-4 mins.; the junction had high footfall with it being a school & college route, opp. the post office & Carlow Co. Dev. Partnership Ltd. having a premises there, a car park, Castlegate apartments etc. but clearly not enough of a footfall turned in often enough.

As it happens another business has shut its doors on Potato Mkt.; Go Zone another tech shop which, in turn, had replaced a similar business in same unit; can't remember name right now. Go Zone only lasted maybe 2-3, 3-4 months if even that?

Someday soon we'll have tech shops in Carlow selling coffee..................