Jammyd

its badly needed hopefully they will have high rise. Galway needs to start building up instead of out.

@A-ha wrote:

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).

was just wondering what you ment by “why galway?”and then i realised u must have ment because we are the fastest growing city in western eurpoe, we have a larger catchment area than limerick aswell as more of the foreign multinational stores like footlocker etc aswell as many indigenous outlets on our well known shop street also we are the largest urban centre on the west coast ( with regards to limerick which is about the same size give or take shannon) we just got our first of 2 m&s stores with four new huge centre’s after recieving planning permission with debenhams anchoring one. galway has nearly everything cork has with the exception of a few which are on the way anyways and in some cases have stores that cork doesn’t even have eg the only louis copeland store outside of dublin aswell as the only bt2 store.. also 90% of our stores are located in the city centre or on its periphery unlike limerick which is gone retail park crazy and suffering from the doughnut effect with everything being located around the city outskirts and cork which had to build a large american style mall on its fringes to attract some decent stores to there city.. sorry for the long post but it really annoys me when i hear people from limerick or cork city making comments that galway isnt worthy of having decent shops or putting it down just because its smaller than cork just because it only really developed into irelands third city in the last 20 years. we don’t comment about how cork as european culture capital was the biggest joke of 2005..