This Chinese idea seems utterly bizarre and the most concerning thing is no Chinese companies have signed up for it yet, let’s hope it’s being privately invested. Regarding the Chinese buying Foynes port, that is fantastic news. We need to create more links with the go-getters in China and preferably we sell them the country altogther and they can run it properly.
you have no recollection of the recent visits by chinese diplomats or kenny going to china?
If it involves completely demolishing Athlone and rebuilding (and preferably renaming it and wiping any reference to Athlone from the history books for all eternity) then its a great plan altogether.
Great to see Ruairi O’Bradaigh and Daithi O’Conaill’s masterplan coming to fruition. 
Years ago when there were some people on the farmyard who could actually write literate stuff somebody came up with a classic post describing what a shithole Athlone was. I’m pretty sure Cahill deleted it. Quelle surprise.
Its no great surprise that the bould Leeaaam has a love for Athlone. Sure some of the photobucket images were of Athlone at dawn.
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Don’t worry about it mate, not comething you’d concern yourself about.
There are at least 3 choppers in the sky here as I look out on Ballybrit. They have been coming and going since about 12.30pm.
I see Gerry Chawke is re-opening Searsons…
Just did some work on the following projects
well known company building a warehouse to increase distribution approx 3000 sq ms with a capacity of between 3000 and 4000 pallets
company in cork city (multinational) increasing distribution capacity by about 2500 pallet positions
food company i know of had some very expensive gravity flow racking that they had to dismantle because the flow of product through their building was so fast that they simply didnt have time to put the goods on pallets before shipping
did some work for a large foreign document storage company who recently bought a customer of mine out
i have fitters starting work next week on the next phase of a revamp and expansion of a company in the drainage and filtration industry.
lots going on in my view. people have gotten to the point where they are getting over their fears and are making investment decisions based entirely on how their business is operating and pushing aside irrational fears over what might happen
time to stop watching prime time vincent browne and other admittedly excellent but depressing shows and just get on with things
this whole thing is a load of sh1te i imagine. a ploy to boost property values in the midlands and no more. if it was a serious project it would be located near raheen industrial estate giving a real counterbalance to dublin in the midwest and easy access to shannon and foynes plus providing a push to redevelop the cork limerick road which is a disgrace
+1 pal.
What line of business are you in?
is that really irrational ?..to me it sounds like you just summed up the celtic tiger era…nobody planned for the rainy day…how does a company know whats going to happen in the future?..
Eh? How does a company ever know what’s going to happen in the future? Calculated decisions are made, mostly generated by internal departments and professional advice. the point paedo97 is trying to make is that companies are no longer constricted by total fear that the economy is going to collapse and are beginning to be a bit more ballsy with their business ideas which in turn is creating employment a. Maybe some of the economists and accountant heads on here can tell us how they find businesses and the general economy are developing in the past year or so but to my rather amateur knowledge it does seem to be growing anyway - in certain industries at least. I’ve had a couple of jobs offers over the last number of months without even looking for work so it would be my opinion that the economy is coming out of recession, although at a pretty slow pace. I think most companies will be a lot more cautious now with their approaches but some see good market opportunities and are progressing with that - the very best of luck to them.
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I’ve no idea what’s going on in the economy but I’m really pleased with the new shirts I’ve bought since reading briantinnion’s views on how we should present ourselves.
the mid west??? what the fuck- the closer to Dublin the better- midlands> midwest.
the only people that give a fuck about the self proclaimed mid west is those fuckers there- the good people of the mid east dont have this inferiority complex that the mid west has
Totti,
Dont be such a cunt. I suggest you edit that post.
excellent idea. lets continue to cram all development into the greater dublin area creating ferocious pressure on current infrasructure and also concentrate development in areas where the cost of land to develop new projects or build such extra infrastructure as may be required is disproportionately high.
its got nothing to do with an inferiority complex and everything to do with common sense something you are clearly not troubled by.you may have an all seeing eye but the messages are clearly going into a vacant space behind the eye