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won’t this reenforce the drift of the city centre to the southside? Nobody will think of O Connell street as the city centre any more but Stephen’s green. A missed opportunity to extend the city centre a bit. I suppose stephen’s green is where everybody wants to go but by having Grand Central say in Parnell Square or somewhere like that we could get more footfall into other areas in the city centre.
Tribes in Cork was (still is maybe?) a good late night coffee shop. Don’t think anti social types go in for coffee shops thouhgh, they prefer pubs or suprmacs.
Good luck with it anyway.
@crc wrote:
I’m not an authority on this, but I think it’s called the ‘English Market’ due to the ethnicity, rather than the language, of its patrons and/or sellers.
To back up this claim, I noticed that there is a sign in Grand Parade pointing to the market. The sign is in Irish and says “Sean Mhargadh na Sacsan”.
There are also several Royal Standards and insignia around UCC, particularly on the old building in the Quad.
The english market was for the protestatnt acendancy, who I suppose still saw themselves or others saw them as english.
The poorer catholic Irish went to the Coal Quay market. Still a bit of a market there on Saturdays and it’s still the poor relation of the two markets.
@lexington wrote:
🙂 With excavations now winding up, CainWhite have moved on site at Rockfell Investments’ Cornmarket Street development to begin foundations piling procedures. Footpaths to the front of the site, on the Cornmarket Street elevation are being dug up and other procedures on site are gearing up from the commencement of the primary construction phase. Small delays associated with excavations did materialise but a tower crane could be seen on site, according to workers, within a month. Frank Ennis & Associates are responsible for the 170,00sq ft of retail space and 65 apartments over 66 space basement parking which constitutes the project.
not too impressed with that I have to say, Doesn’t exactly respect the grain of the street,
are they granite kerb stones in your picture Graham? would be good if they could be recycled for some other scheme
I think you’re in the wrong place buddy. People round here don’t usually wish for more McDonald’s & get misty eyed over the new Tesco. Is the architecture any good? I’m all for free speech, but still!
It would be fantastic to see a concert venue in Limerick and great to see it in the City as well, not out in the burbs!
Also makes sense to look at bus lanes on the older roads that have been bypassed. Limerick has been a bit slow to put in bus lanes. Don’t think there’s many cycle lanes either esp. obvious ones like out to the university.
Hardly any around the Uni ……
Do trains like roads facillitate commuter sprawl. I mean look at greystonse sence i t got the dart. If you accept the logic of people living all over leinster then I suppose rail is the best way to transport people into Dublin. However the improved road network has facilitated the spread of Dublin into the surrounding counties and improved rail will do the same. Of course other factors like councillors who like rezoning and cheaper housing with big gardens are pull factors.
I’d agree with that but ony up to a point. Some stores lend themsleves more to the suburbs like hardware etc, stuff that you need to put in the boot of your car.
As for Limerick in the old days it was a compact city with people living in or near the city. Now like every where else the population is in the suburbs or beyond in their one off bungalows with poor transport links to the city centre. The plebs associate the city centre with high car parking charges and are often happier to go the Cresent SC or wherever.
Of course this is a pity and a threat to the city centre, one only needs to look at some US cities to see how the economic and social life of some city centres has been killed by white flight to the suburbs and inner city neglect. Don’t think it’s as bad here but we need to be careful.
see that woman that had moved to co. meath for a better quality of life and commuted into smithfield everyday. 2 hour commute each way. some quality! she should’ve bought an apartment in smithfield itself. not everbodys idea of a good place to bring up the kids i suppose
Court house in tralee
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/kerry/tralee/courthouse.html
I cycle between Dalkey and Leaporsdtown and there are a good few cycle lanes, including the crappy one from Whites Cross and its amazing the amount of people who go the wrong direction on them. I don’t think they’re even aware of what they’re doing. It’s esp. prevalen when the cycle lane is part of the footpath. The latter never work very well, pedestrians are always walking in them blissfully unaware. They’re actually quite dangerous.
yes UL is much nicer than belfield! the setting by the shannon is superb. They have eaten up alot of the greenery though. Every time I go back there, there’s another lawn gobbled up by an ugly car park. Lots of students now drive apparently. No cycle lane, bus lane between UL and the city centre despite all the new roads around there recently, Very dissapointing. The bus service was never great in my time there, what’s it like now?
