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we don’t comment about how cork as european culture capital was the biggest joke of 2005
Oh, and p.s. i believe you just did comment on it, dumbass! cork deserved what it got, and unlike you, we don’t consider three pubs and a ceilà agus craic (however it’s spelled) the right to be given such a proud title.
nuh uh jammd! i ain’t being brought back into the “which city is better” situation, sorry. but i do agree with dave123 on a number of items and agree with theblimp in regards to go to a galway forum. but don’t kid yourself, firstly, it wouldn’t be very hard for galway to become western europes fastest growing city since it’s only in the last 5-10 years that people outside of ireland have heard of it’s name and secondly i think that galway lacks alot of infrastuctre that a modern city really needs. anyway, just forget everything i said….. moving on from all that, i read in the paper that another carphone warehouse is to open in cork, this time in ballincollig (new shopping centre presumably). and as regards for glanmire, definetly new roads and transport links will have to be added, the area is full of traffic as it, not to mention the amount of cars from all of the new houses and other developments being built, god bless the suburban rail, at least it’s getting people off the roads.
hey! my mechanic is a surgeon…well sort of, hes got a sign over the garage door saying ‘free colonic irrigation while you wait’. i went in to get my transmission sorted recently and both me and my car came out feeling fresh and revitalised!
hehehehe, pier39 I told ya that you should do stand up comedy 😀 Ohh, heard on the news that there was supposed to be abit of a fuel shortage, fill up your cars before they charge €2.50 a litre.
This is Queens Old Caslte, just so you have a rough idea of what it looks like, can’t find a better picture just yet. It looks fine in that picture ‘cos it’s dark, but the paint job looks scruffy in the last few weeks. I wouldn’t imagine it to be a listed building (not the grade whatever number it is that restricts you from doing fu*k all to it anyway) but I would imagine that a paint job would do no harm, who ever it is that is in authority
Ohh, I’m so confused… mechanics, planners, neurosurgeon, I’ll come back later. p.s. thanks lex, but when is the completion date?
When is work on City Hall due to be completed? I like what they’ve done so far. What is it that will be housed in there, offices?
Is there some sort of council dedicated to clean up old buildings? I noticed a few days back that the Queens Old Caste looked absolutley rotten. For such a beautiful building, they make it look awful. Surely some organisation can force Argos or Virgin to paint it or do something to it anyway. It spoils the area!
Why would someone lodge an appeal against such a gorgeous building. It would completly transform the area…. I wouldn’t change a thing about it.
Wow, that picture of Lapps Quay looks fantastic, hard to believe that it isn’t a plan on a few sheets of paper any more (someone should post it in the Most beautiful building in Cork forum!). I definetly think that multicoloured lights should be used to illuminate city attractions more at night. I think that the white canopy on the bus stop would look nice if it was lit up with different coloured lights.
Thanks ewan, that means that R&H Hall is still one of Ireland’s tallest, shame it’s so fu*king ugly though. And what about the airport… update….ryanair… take control….. old terminal… If the airline does not use the existing terminal…. what use will it be put too, office or will it continue to be used as a terminal. I think they should shove all the charter airlines in there during the summer. Don’t want them running the new terminal with their long delays and such!
When is it that Vibes and Scribes are planning to move? Also, just coming back to the airport, great news that someone like Subway is going into the airport. I heard ages ago that WH Smith were to open up in there, but I guess Hughes & Hughes beat them to the punch. Have we an update on wheather or not Ryanair will take control of the old terminal? It would be fantastic if they did. Was I right in presuming that R&H Hall is Ireland’s third tallest building…. I can’t find any sort of Top Ten list anywhere on the internet.
Noticed aswell in the Echo that Jet2 are starting a new service to Newcastle from €14 one way inc. taxes from mid October. This is also the airline that briefly operated the Cork-Belfast flight before stopping the service early this year. For more info. check out the Jet2 website. 🙂
sw101, thanks for that, but no need to go to any more trouble, I just wanted a rough idea of it’s height. If it is 55m at it’s highest, does that make R&H Hall Ireland’s third tallest building (after Liberty Hall 59m in second place)??? Some people don’t regard it as a building…. but what else could it be called only a building!
Sorry for typing my third message in a row, but I prefer it rather than editing a previous post and doing this, that and the other to it, but what is the height of R&H Hall, it’s quite tall for Irish standards, or else it just looks taller cos it hasn’t any windows, but all the same…. is there an official height on it?
Was very impressed with the progress being made with County Hall, I saw it yesterday for the first time in about two or three months. The bottom third of the side facing towards Ballincollig was done in the new glass they are putting on it. Very modern, although, anything would look modern compared to what it was. Ireland’s tallest building should become Ireland’s nicest, lol. I can’t wait to see what it look’s like when completed. It will be like a completly new building.
I don’t think it’s art deco…. it’s too “modern”, but it seems to be in the same sort of style. I’ve never been in the church so don’t know what the interior is like, but I’ve never seen a church like it anywhere in Ireland.
What surprised me more about TK Maxx then the one in Sligo is that there is also one in Letterkenny. It must have been a godsend for the local people of Donegal. And there is a huge difference between H&M and Dunnes, the main one being that there isn’t a H&M on every corner in Ireland and H&M do more trendier type stuff. And whoever mentioned Matalan (I can’t see where it was written) I thank you. I go over to England every year around Christmas with my cousins to stock up on stuff from Matalan. Clothes, electronics and most importantly…. big tubs of sweets. I wish Woolworths were still in Cork, why did they have to close!! Also, the main reason I am obsessed with TK Maxx is cos I can’t afford to go to Brown Thomas every day of the week, like someone my age can afford to buy FCUK jeans for €90 a pop whenever they feel like it. I spend my money on other things, like saving for a car 🙂 We’ll see who’s laughing when I drive past Brown Thomas in a 1967 rust coloured Ford Fiesta.
It isn’t a shame that Limerick is getting a H&M. I was just pointing out that it’s a same Limerick and Galway get some stores before Cork (especially TK Maxx, there is even one in Tralee!). Don’t know where TK Maxx are going (that’s if they do come to Cork, you’ll have to ask securityman). Mahon Point is getting on quite well. Debenhams is very popular and trade has leveled out over recent months in the other stores like Jane Norman, Bershka and Lacoste. I like the shopping centre, it feels so spacious and really bright, but I think I will stick with the city centre for the time being.
