Not necessarily true.
What’s a Pat Fitz?
If the Pat Fitz
Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick the mucky fuckers.
Sounds like an epileptic leper.
HIV+ also
over €291 a square foot!!! FFS
First and foremost, you have to decide how much space was needed. How many boardrooms? How many offices?
Having attended meetings regularly at the old Aras Mumhan at one point, the biggest problem there was the lack of toilet facilities. There is a reasonable amount of parking space. There is a decent sized two storey house. If for any reason an excessive crowd had reason to turn up, then the Parkway Shopping Centre or the Lidl Carpark are only a short walk away.
We are living in a climate where people can build a bungalow to 1800 square feet to a builders finish for less than €100,000. An 1800 square foot bungalow connected to the old Aras Mumhan via an external corridor, or built on as an extension would surely have accomodated the needs of the Munster Council and indeed save on land costs.
As it is, the original Aras Mumhan will probably be sold for peanuts and the cost of the 3.5million facility has been covered using funds that might have been put to better use with our youth.
Afterthoughts?
Who exactly are they going to house in this 12,000 square foot building??
How many vacant buildings are available already in Limerick that could have been used??
What is the asking price for the old Aras Mumhan building??
Spot the QS!!
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i would like to see a cost comparison exercise on both options. i also assume the munster council carried out a detailed life cycle cost comparison and went with the more economically efficient option in the long run
Of course they did. For fuck sake, it shows how big a clown this fella is when he is suggesting that they build a bungalow onto the back of the old offices was the best way forward. The blinkered cunt
some of the stuff been posted here is in very poor taste
All that matters here is that the Munster Council are surrounded in opulent luxury befitting their status as officers of the pre eminent provincial council in the country.
you would throw up a nice bit of an office for yourself with that money
assume this covers the land purchase price or did it?
where in castletroy is it?
I think it’s there on the main road coming in towards town. Near Chawkes shops
Not the half built thing full of bare concrete and exposed reinforcement steel I hope.
Great night for Pat Fitz tonight
As a founder member of the Doon Soccer Club - Bridge Rovers FC, he will no doubt have rejoiced to the news that Limerick FC are now a Premier League Club again
Ironic that within a week of the new €3.5 million Munster Council offices opening, the Castletroy Park Carlton Hotel is bought by Pat McDonagh for €3.5 million.
The question is if you had 3.5million in the morning, which would you purchase??
By Alan Owens
Published on Monday 8 October 2012 08:00
GALWAY businessman Pat McDonagh has agreed the sale of the Castletroy Park Hotel for a figure in the region of €3.5 million and will take over its operation later this month.
The Supermacs Ireland LTD boss, who attended Mary Immaculate College, will take over operation of the four-star, 107-room hotel on October 23 and has assured the approximately 90 staff that there will be no job losses.
Current hotel operators Carlton will not be retained after the handover however, but Mr McDonagh has stated that the hotel “will be honouring all customer deposits, bookings, memberships and vouchers”.
The multi-millionaire businessman said, in a joint statement with the Carlton Hotel Group, that once the sale closes he will “take over the operation of the hotel”.
“There will be no job losses and business will continue as normal at the hotel, with no interruption in trade,” said Mr McDonagh in the statement.
Mr McDonagh added that he plans “to reinvest in the hotel and will continue to grow and develop the business”.
Staff were informed of the imminent handover at a meeting last Wednesday, which was conducted by senior staff from the Carlton group, and told that they were to be retained once the sale was completed and Mr McDonagh assumed control of the hotel.
“Staff were given an undertaking that there was no threat to jobs, that everything was fine,” said a source in the hotel.
Current hotel manager Denis Deery is the only one to lose out, and will not be staying after the handover, and instead will be working with Carlton head office after a new manager is appointed.
The hotel, which was was opened by President Mary Robinson in 1991, was owned by CPH Investments Limited, a subsidiary of parent company Fordmount Property Group Limited, which has been in receivership for some time.
Bank of Scotland Ireland held a charge over the hotel and sanctioned its sale for a figure in close to €3.5 million, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
Are the offices built right opposite a halting site?