well what about the developments popping up in the shannonside ?

Shannon will come into its own much better once the roads are done.

Once Limerick – Galway is all Dual Carraigeway (DC)… not long now, Crusheen – Gort and Gort – Oranmore are both probobly starting next summer. And once Cork – Limerick is DC… and with the Limerick Tunnel… its an hour tops from Cork to Shannon and from Galway to Shannon. That’ll make Shannon more important than it is, because it’ll be accessible in a sane amount of time from a much larger area 🙂

Tuborg, I thought I post a few more images to your previous post on the two developments by Robert Butler on O’Connell Street and Henry Street. Even though I share your views as to what happened to no’s 103 and 104 O’Connell Street, still my curiosity as to what effect will these two developments will have on the Post Office Lane and even to Lower Cecil Street? This part of Lower Cecil Street has great potential on both sides of the street.

@justnotbothered wrote:

The problem is the City Council is made up, for the most part, by extremely unambitious “journeymen” politicians who get dazzled by any buzzwords the developers throw at them.

Thank you! I’ll buy you a pint if I ever run into you mate!;) Nice to see someone around here is actually using their brain!

And why the hell do you think these halfwit, cowboy “developers” are getting away with all of their horseshit little projects/developments also eh? It doesn’t take a neurosurgeon to figure that one out! These aresholes are only interested in making a quick cheap buck out of anyone they can fool with their bollocks “luxury” apartments!:mad: They don’t care about what the street, or the city looks like, they only care about what money they can con out of know-nothin’ fools who don’t do their effin homework properly! I deal with scum like this almost on a daily basis, so I know their game very well indeed!

As justnotbothered said, these”journeymen” are a huge part of the problem in LCC! They’d green light anything, just as long as there is some money to be made out of it! And this is why you end up with so much rubbish in Limerick… and how many times have we’ve seen this over the years?

I’d like to kick their effin arse let me tell ya!:mad: 😡 😡

@CologneMike wrote:

Regional Conference Centre:confused:

Hmmm…….. If Dublin has the National Conference Centre and since it could be located near Shannon Airport well why don’t we call ours the International Conference Centre instead! 😀 Man this Dublin mind-set that everything outside the capital has to be downsized to it!

This is exactly the mind-set in Dublin! Downsize, or better still (in their opinion of course) – nothing at all! This is how they operate/do business there! The bottom line here is that Dublin, Ireland’s beloved Capital:rolleyes: , are supposed to get the best and biggest of everything, and everywhere else outside of the Capital…well gets sweet F all! It’s true! If anything major is happening in Ireland then Dublin has to have it! My own grandfather (on my father’s side) came from Dalkey and told me this himself for many years! Why? Because Dublin is supposed to shine as Ireland’s capital and be on top of everything! This is why I know for a fact that when seriously big developments do start to appear in Limerick in the future they won’t like it one little bit! There’ll be a lot moaning no doubt!:D

Oh, congratulations Limerick for their victory over Clare and reaching the all-Ireland semis’!:D

QFT Mike. Some awful irrelevant contributions recently..
Ps…any chance of laying off the bold print (even just a little bit):)

@CologneMike wrote:

Healthy Debate

Any chance of raising the bar a bit when posting, constantly heaping the same tirade of abuse when commenting on any topic brought up here is uncool! Seriously, is this an “Agony Aunt” page to offload personal frustrations for being irish or a forum dealing with “well what about the developments popping up in the shannonside ?” I think if people have something to contribute then why can’t it be positive in nature and constructive in it’s criticism. Other wise this thread will just take a nosedive.

sorry for having an opinion and here was me thinking this was a forum with which you are free to express your opinion. Here’s the thing though, as the above poster has pointed out there would no need to be negative if negative things weren’t happening. The irish construction industry and these cowboy builders are ruining my local area building anywhere and everywhere they see land. I just took a walk today and some of the buildings and houses they are building are in the most awful unsuitable places which in turn is creating eyesores. But the thing is these guys don’t care as long as they are making money.

There is no thought put into the construction or the effect on the local enivornment and its ruining the area and im sure its not only in limerick its happening. If im complaining about it its because it matters to me and i would think a lot of other people too would care about their environment. The stupidity and greed of these people is what makes me most angry. There should be laws in place that state certain areas are off limits for building for the good of the environment or else ireland will become a concrete jungle like the u.k. We are repeating the bad planning and building practices of the 1960’s and 70’s.

Doesn’t matter what anyone is saying, and as tfarmer also pointed out justnotbothered, everyone here is entitled to voice their own opinion and has the right to express themselves anyway they see fit!

It’s true, I don’t live in Limerick, so I don’t have to put up with their half-assed caveman approach to what they call “architecture” but I can understand people like tfarmer who are obviously frustrated and quite angry about what these halfwits are doing to his local community! They see any available plot of land and then off they go! Lets just build another red brick piece of crap and pass it off as “luxury” apartments, or whatever else for a few hundred grand! They might as well print suckers all over the advertisement boards!!! People like Michael Daly are getting it right, but unfortunately, there are one too many cowboys running around Limerick who jumping on the bandwagon and the end result will be a very dull, boring and uninteresting city centre in the years to come! It’s blatantly obvious that these morons don’t have a clue what they are doing…and yet everybody just sits back and looks on:confused: Well, between LCC and these “property developers” you’ve got a beautiful future!!! Like I said, they’d green light anything, just as long as there is plenty of money to be made out of it!

People can bury their heads in the sand all they want and choose to ignore the truth! It’s their funeral in the end!

@CologneMike wrote:

Very true Jack, ignoring negative posting could be the threads funeral in the end.

By “raising the bar” I meant of course in the interest of the thread itself.

The truth is by taking a negative attitude in expressing your opinions it just turns people off from engaging in discussing new topics any further! Look at the crap you hurled at jimg, it certainly wasn’t very positive in nature?

By the way topics on Limerick scumbags, Dublin journalists, Munich women, Shit holes etc, etc. are best dealt with on the Limerick Boards. Here it’s all about Bricks and Mortar!

By constructive criticism I meant one argues his/her case as to why he/she disagrees with any given topic. Reacting for example to the “Conference Centre” by dismissing it out right by calling it “farcical” in your very first line just kills off engaging with you in a discussion on it’s merits!

Hey instead of generalising be specific about what area and developments you are talking about otherwise nobody knows exactly what you are on about.

Mike, with all due respect, why do you feel you have to explain every little detail to us? Hmm….is there some other problem here, or what? We’re not ten years old you know! We perfectly understood everything you spoke about the first time round! You don’t have to keep explaining every single word to everyone like they have special needs or something! Please stop trying to patronize people here Mike with all of this condescending immature crap! You can’t stop people from venting their own opinions and frustrations, no-matter how hard you try! That’s what it means to have a two-way discussion, or a fifty-way discussion for that matter! People are perfectly entitled to spaek their minds! You would think that people on this forum would be mature and grown up enough to understand that! We can all still be friends and agree to disagree without attacking each other!

You conveniently “forgot” to include when I explained to jimg what I really meant by that statement also! Again, I was not talking directly to jimg! I specifically explained that!

Bottom line here is that I’m a very out-spoken, no-bullshit kind of guy! I like to tell it how it really is! I don’t like crap and I don’t like people who pretend to be something they are clearly not! It’s just a pity more people on here don’t tell it how it really is!!!

Mike, you do not solve problems by burying your head in the sand – you have to face them and deal with it! I’ve never run away from anything or anyone in my life, that’s how my mother raised me, and that’s the way I am! While some people are discussing “bricks and mortar” ?(red bricks I’m assuming:rolleyes: ) and back lanes and alleys, some of us are looking at ways of building beautiful buildings and bringing some real architecture and a real sense of style and quality to Limerick City! You have absolutely no idea as to some of the lenghts I am going to to try and achieve this!!! Are these the actions of a guy who hates Limerick, Ireland, etc, etc! The frustration comes from when we are subjected to people in Limerick (elsewhere in Ireland too, I know, but we are discussing Limerick here so that’s all that matters) who are who are clearly braindead when it come to construction and quality architecture! And it rolls right off their backs! Why? Because they don’t care, and because there is plenty of money to be made out of rubbish!! Hundreds of grands for what? I wouldn’t board my fucking dog in some of those “luxury” apartments/complexes!!!

People need to come together here and discuss why, and how Limerick should really change/look! Wouldn’t that be interesting!? Talk about what really needs to be done to bring Limerick in line and make it a city that people love and care about! By using all the negatives and positives of course! Limerick City (and I’ve said it a million times) has fantastic potential, big open broad streets, great location in Ireland, and of course, the beautiful Shannon river straight through the middle … but, this is a city that has been, and is continually let down terribly over the years!:(

i can understand the frustration to be honest in here. Some posters are getting fed up of negative threads but on the other hand some posters are annoyed at the lack of progress in certain areas(myself included). These are both understandable viewpoints but im sure its something that can be ironed out between the members.

The thread is going way off topic to be honest and its probably best to put an end to the bickering now. The problem is probably from my point of view is that whilst there is a lot of building going on in limerick ie bricks and mortar as the above poster puts it there is no real thought or effort put into the effect on the surrounding environment

Its like a mind control building project where every new development is begining to look the same and is being constructed at a record pace in large numbers. Every piece of spare land around me is being swallowed up and no open space is being left. Unfortunately there is no one who will take these concerns seriously and no outlet to express these, It seems the powers that be will never allow that.