Jelly and ice cream all round
I donât know this place at all - tell us about where it was, why it was good and anything about the owner who has died? I canât place it but I am not in the city much the past few years.
I would bet most of the tourists coming to Limk donât give a shit about rugby
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They should be doing something like Hunters are doing with the games downstairs. Wouldnât be my cup of tea but there is a market for it. I was never there, but I gather there just wasnât enough to it, not to mind town being like night of the living dead and the strength of the Crescent. A sports museum should have been a small aspect of a cafe/bar/entertainment place
Most of the tourists youâd meet in Limerick are yanks or Germans whoâd know nothing about Rugby.
Limerick is too small for a niche museum really.
I met a few from Northampton before their game last year and theyâd gone in, but you couldnât be relying on that kind of crowd coming over a few times a year for a match to keep it going.
The feedback I got from anyone who went in was it was a bit meh. Interactive section was good. Rest was shite. No one said theyâd be in a rush back. A one and done job.
It was destined to fail really. A pity Limerick could do with something to draw people in. Hopefully someone can come up with something clever to make something work in there.
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The tipp lads wouldnât get past the first floor. Theyâd assume it was done after that
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The tourist interest in Limerick city seems to centre around the castle and the medieval parts I sense from when Iâm on the piss down there during the summer
It was on the corner of Denmark street and cruises street. Opposite the Korean restaurant with the bus outside if you know that.
It was a simple auld place but they did smashing sandwiches in freshly made pitta kind of bread. It was going a long time and doing well any time I was in there.
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To be fair to the council they are trying to make something out of Nicholas Street and Treaty City Brewery are doing great things over there with little markets and festivals and stuff.
Thereâs definitely more needs to be done and more to be made of the river.
But retail is dying and thatâs not a Limerick thing. Working from home is killing restaurants and cafes and the fucking price of them. Again not a limerick thing. They need to get people back living in the city. Itâs the only solution. Retail etc will look after itself if people are there.
The council are the worst offenders for dereliction of the lot. Donkeys years bolloxing around with the opera centre which is a massive chunk of the city centre and theyâve the cleaves site as well with massive potential and they looking at it and doing nothing.
Talking about doing this and that with Arthurâs Quay and the land around the train station. None of which they own and the massive sites they do own making no progress
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I think for the Yanks Limerick is mainly a start/finish/stopover and they are just told to go to the castle area, Locke, Dolanâs etc. and are happy enough with it as itâs not really the focus of their holiday. They think they are going well off the beaten track when they wander around/across from the hotel into the likes of Flanneryâs on Shannon Street.
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Itâs a base to explore around Clare and Adare etc.
Which is fine. Itâs up to Limerick to come up with ways to make money off them.
A cruise port in the docks would be a start
We could charge a tenner to visit the pile of scrap metal and they would probably pay it.
There should be no opera centre, it should be accomodation. Students and families.
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Surely whoever thought of the rugby museum in the first place did some research ? Or did they just assume everyone loved munster rubby
Throw up a few more murals and we could do taxi tours of dâisland
We drove through there the other day and my missus saw this place with barbed wire and that security fencing.
I never knew there was a prison over here?
Thatâs the primary school.
Who are they keeping out?
Thatâs to keep them in.
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JP said do it and it was done. Got planning to change the front of the building which no one else would have gotten.
Maybe a Ryder cup museum. A load of golf simulators emulating great Ryder cup courses or something. Yanks and Paddies would lap that shit up
They wonât say it out loud but the reason the council donât want to build all apartments there is theyâd have to give them to perennial dolers and the place would be like high rises in the Wire within a decade.
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Would love to see it for Mary I students. Itâs not too far for LIT or UL either really.
Why so?
If the council build them they would go to people on the housing list or there would be war