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Yea, why foreign retailers locate to places like Galway and Waterford first is beyond me. I can accept Dublin and Limerick, but why Galway? Cork caters for a big catchment area and it’s only in the last year that foreign stores locate here! It’s about time too. Cork is soon to get a PC World and Dixons, but they have been in Limerick and Waterford for years. Whats the hold up? Did Cork have a shortage of retail parks or something? daniel 7, Homebase were due to come to Cork a few months back, but since B&Q and Atlantic Homecare opened up and Woodies got a new store, I guess they decided to hold back. But on the otherhand, alot of the stores in Mahon Point are believed to be found only in Cork or Dublin, Debenhams located it’s first store outside Dublin in Cork, so that has to count for something. I think we are picking out the stores we don’t have, rather than the stores that we do. (p.s. hope TK Maxx and H&M come to Cork too).
I’ll support anything that will replace the current city jail. It’s absolutley horrible. Went there before on school trip. It’s so old and dated and the cells don’t even have toilets in there (only chamber pots). Nobody deserves to be sentenced to a place like Cork Prison. Half the windows are bust and by the looks of it, the place hasn’t been painted in years. It’s obvious no money is put into the place, but I do remember seeing an extension being built to provide a new “school” for the inmates. A school with iron bars, it sounds like mine. Alcatraz High! :rolleyes:
Is anyone able to post a picture or painting or anything of the old City Hall, I have no idea what it looks like.
I didn’t know that Cork was waiting for TK Maxx and Foot Locker to open. I’ve never been to the Crescent shopping centre, but has it been extended or has a shop closed to make way for H&M. It’s such a shame that they are opening in Limerick first, but no doubt they’ll open in Cork soon after (Cornmarket Street maybe???) Why do I have a feeling that Ballincollig will turn into another Douglas Court, just newer. Next time a shooping centre opens in Cork, Dunnes should be banned by the city council!
Oh and I really like the roof top garden, shame it wont be seen from the ground, and copper cladding sounds different.asdasd, Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I’ve never heard of Kilkenny being called a city. And new cities are created almost every year in the UK, if they don’t have a charter, it’s simple, the Queen gives a new city it’s charter, just becasue the charter isn’t hundreds of years old doesn’t mean that it is invalid (e.g. Wolverhampton). Also, I think going by cathedrals is too old fashioned for todays society, Cloyne, a villiage with less then a 1000 people has a cathedral but I wouldn’t call it a city. Anyway, getting away from that, has the Shannon rail link been given the go-ahead or is it in planning stages? It ‘s such exciting news, and it will beat Dublin to the punch of having a airport-city rail link.
I think it looks a really nice building, but what is with all that timber or whatever it is on the outside. It looks as if all the windows are boarded up. It would look miles better if it were to be removed. I like the shape of it and it would be a nice feature to the area’s skyline. The BMW sports car at the rear of the park in the second picture isn’t so bad either. :rolleyes:
I don’t usually write messages in this forum, but just for the people who don’t know, Ireland has five cities Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford. Different countries have a different population quota to be recognised as a city. In the UK, there are over 100 cities, even though their quota is higher the ours, the country is alot more urbanised then us. But, in Australia, the population needed to retain city status is only 15,000. If that was the case here, every back wash of a villiage would be looking for city status, which I am totally against because places like Sligo, Killarney or Clonmel don’t have the proper services of a city like Dublin, Cork or Limerick.
What was the original name given to the building that is occupied by Vero Moda. It’s stunning, but could do with a clean.Maybe if postal codes were initiated it would help solve the problem. Has it anything to do with bouderies. Surely old ones must have existed to define seperate areas.
Anyway, moving on from the matter. I hear Cork is too get more security cameras in city buses to prevent any vandalism.
Fair enough. But at least altuistic was mild about it. I don’t like harsh and over the top reactions to a post that really didn’t mean much to anybody. Thought everyone could have an opinion in Ireland. My mistake.
I’ll edit it. I don’t see a reason to delete the message all together. Will you be deleteing #328? After all, it was the start of this whole debocle.
I’m not slagging the Waterford off. I just dislike the city. I’m sorry if that offends people, but I’m sure people from Waterford, Limerick or any other place dislike Cork. They’re allowed have an opinion too.
