Random Waffle Thread

What closed down last week?

County Carlow Military Museum "Military Vehicles & Military Show" event is on tomorrow, Sunday the 10th of September from 10am-5pm in asscoation with Irish Militry Vehciles Group on the grounds of St. Dympnas Hospital on Athy Rd.

Adm. €5 Adults, €2 Senior Citizens/OAPs, €3.50 Teenagers (13-17) & Under 13s're free.

The council really need to widen the slip road between palatine road and Dublin road for the town bus. Many a close call with it lately. Recently I was driving that road and the bus nearly hit one of those disabled persons large van/car type vehicle. The woman driving the vehicle had to go right into the left ditch as the bus was traveling at some speed from the Palatine road out towards the Dublin road. Poor person wheelchair bound in the back got some fright I'd say. Luckily their wheelchair was well secured or there could have been an injury. Bus driver going too fast along that road too.

Finally, after at least one false dawn back at start of July when the initial planning notice was printed in our local paper before again being republished at start of this month, the notice has gone live on the councils website for the Shamrock Sq. Ltd. 39 apt. development at junction of Green Lane/Pollerton Rd./Staplestown Rd.

Decision's due by / on Sunday the 12th of November

Submissions in by Sunday the 22nd of October.

Capuchin Friary on Dublin St. is currently being kitted out inside; specifically in the Oratory; the stained glass window/s in & above double door were removed.

Two criminal damage incidents in the paper this week; in neither case are any of the victims, multiple on one case, single in the other, compensated by either the defendants or their relevant organisations, trade unions, NGOs etc. one of which is local & as close as makes no difference to Carlow County Development Partnership CLG/Ltd.

One is Rohingya Action Ireland in Carlow on the go from since 2008-2009 like CCDP; hand in glove & the others are ITM & Pavee Point on the go fora number of decades for whatever reason judges make few compensation orders (in unlikely event they were to be complied with, fulfilled in any case; attachment orders I think they'd be called; like knocking €5-10 off someones dole weekly til it's paid up; be a long time in these cases due to rhousands of euros worth of damage but it's symbolic nonetheless but inevitably the ICCL would oppose it and also oppose their NGOs/Charities from taking responsibility even though they get money for these people from various sources anyway)

https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2023/09/22/sulky-driver-who-struck-car-was-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-road-carlow-court-hears/

Yet our Cllrs. will still fawn over Rohingya Action Ireland to use one example; they'd no issue with the DV case in which the Green Rd. guy was named; Rohingya Action Ireland & CCDP kept his sentencing out of the paper following his Circuit Ct. guilty plea in July 2019; the paper covered the plea hearing extensively; he played the PTSD card & Rohingya Action Ireland reunited him with his wife.

So disappointing; in DV cases this is not the direction Womens Aid or NWCI or RCC etc. would advise but Rohingya Action Ireland who say one thing one the radio & practice another in private are loved by our local politicians & their fanboys & girls who're too lily-livered to ask questons of the various local quangos, NGOs, charitable organisations, charities etc. about their practices, about where the millions they get annually is going etc.

Local Elections're coming; they can s**t or get off the pot on issues like this; the sitting councillors can all be contacted by email & in person at the hustings; squeaky bum-time for them & their cheerleaders.

Carlow Garden Equipment should be an answer to your query.

Ground is due to be broken, sod to be turned, on Barrack St. & Dublin St./Coxs Lane sites tomorrow morning for Carlow County Councils rollout of social housing.

Carlow taked about on This Moring on ITV.

The IT is offering a degree in social media influencing.

https://www.tiktok.com/@thismorning?lang=en

Ukrainian Culture Market is on THIS Sunday the 1st of October from 11am til 5pm in the Exchange @ Potato Market in Carlow town centre.

Organised by Ukrainian community, Ukrainian cafe & Methodist Church.

Bake Sale for Ukraine, Ukraine music, national food, workshops for the kids.

Fairly average prices these days in town, €9 for a cocktail is actually cheap enough. Its not all the pubs though, Diageo and Heineken have upped their prices several times in the last few years which is why pints are €6 most places. Guinness is €5.50, not long ago it would have been €4. Until the breweries drop their prices I'd say we'll have to get used to it. I don't go out at all really either so makes no odds to me generally unless i'm at a wedding or some sort of event.

Any idea what is happening to the Capuchin Friary ??

Spot on; features on page two of this weeks paper albeit it refers to "The purported new owner of the Friary, a well known businessman....."

Carlow F&RS said that it had not been asked to carry out a fire inspection at the Friary...............A spokesperson added that the fire service would monitor the situation if the building becomes occupied.

Am wondering does this mean there was, or wasn't, a fire safety certificate in place when the Capuchin Friary Monks were on site & it wasn't in compliance with fire safety regulations such as Fire Safety Acts 1981 & 2003 (as named in the article) along with various pieces of building control legislation?

Property was put up for sale in May this year through Thomas M. Byrnes Auctioneers/Estate Agents on Dublin St. & sold in August.

It's a 3 storey Victorian building incorporating an earlier campus dating back to the 1700s & it is designated a protected structure; much like the Freemasons it's unlikely many of us will get to see much of it or ever have beyond the Oratory due to it having been private property for decades, centuries even; it was a bank before the Monks came to town also so again that would've been ground floor only for customers.

But the building already has seven en-suite bedrooms; were there 7 Monks remaining when they vacated it & sold up? Or 14 or somewhere in between?

Multiple storerooms which will be needed for luggage I'd imagine, kitchen & a dining room (may need to be knocked through if adjoining depending on how many're going to reside there) and the former chapel (Oratory is what I'd call it).

Dublin St. is becoming Ukrainian St.; this will be third such accommodation centre there; am surprised no enterprising Taurus type shop has opened up; Taurus was in Castlegate; the end unit there & sold mainly non-Polish but Eastern Europe products; maybe Moldova & Polonez fill that gap sufficiently though.

Good to see new life coming to Dublin St. anyway; two big hospitality & retail units need occupying now too; Coolanowle & Hanleys for Men right beside each other; one's for sale, other's for auction; can't remember which is which.

Local TD calls for funding for St. Clares Hospitality Centre/Soup Kitchen in Budget 2024 https://www.carlowlive.ie/news/home/1314445/local-td-asks-taoiseach-for-funding-in-budget-for-volunteer-run-soup-kitchen-in-carlow.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1cKWTPLiqucNehO_6WK59D5NTQK_g512QfSD0fwe9cTNx7psY2MeHYj8o

Now imagine we'd a TD in Govt., in an actual Govt. party whose policies've led us to needing a soup kitchen in the first place & whose party could actually do something to eradicate the need for such centres..................oh wait now.........!!!

People in this town, county & constituency have horrifically short memories; it'll be shown next May at local election time & sure as I expect "Team Jen" to get back in because she has her syncophantic odious fanboys & girls on & off line locally who won't call out her being a TD in a Govt. which causes austerity & can reduce, eradicate it even depending on their policies which she supports; our local media too need to get tougher; there's no reason not to; they've no other competion so she'll needs our radio & print media; BEAT is no good for constituency TDs.

Joint worst FF TD in Carlow in my lifetime.

I wouldn't care who the accommodation is for to be honest myself.

The whole thing is just games for a couple of local millionaires buying up the town and making more money and they don't care who goes into it all they care about is who will actually guarantee the rent payments go into the their bank accounts and right now that is the Governemnt & EU funded refugees.

A decade ago the Polish were being blamed for the lack of accommodation and for getting everything for free.

Back in June of this year ABP approved SETU Carlows dome; a condition was it had to be deflated from May-September; depending on how that's interpreted it means 3, 4 or even 5 months.

https://www.planningalerts.ie/list?cref=cw57FA80884BC69F702333073EFD001094

"SETU said there was precedent for year-round air domes, citing Connacht GAA’s facility. On this point, the inspector for An Bord Pleanála said a permanent structure would be more appropriate if SETU wished to have use of a facility all year round."

https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2023/07/07/setu-gets-green-light-to-install-carlows-first-air-dome/

So SETU had another go this past couple of weeks to amend the ABP condition for all year round use https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360215/0

Submitted on Friday the 29th of September; Invalidated Tuesday the 3rd of October..........!

No f*****g about with the planners on this occasion; were SETU Carlow being a bit sneaky in this or'm I missing something?

Ducketts Grove would cost millions to renovate & restore and I doubt it would generate those millions back from being a tourist attraction.

It was bought by career building public servants that then moved on and left the council with a millstone . While I admire the building it serves very little useful purpose for the people . The Gardens are a credit and a nice place to wander but the edifice serves no purpose except as a backdrop to nice garden and countryside . The rebuilding cost would be €1000 / sq ft . The resources and energy to restore it would far outweigh the potential benefits . The rebuilding and development would not fit in with the carbon neutral future being proposed to us . How would the thousands of punters needed to make it economically viable be conveyed to it in a Carbon neutral way . The sites use as a leisure shopping area is probably not going to generate the footfall in the online world . If someone made a Netflix drama featuring it as a backdrop it might lead to footfall .