Could you make a six-story international restaurant out of it I wonder.
You could keep the bacon and cabbage lads on the ground floor but rising up you could have Korean, Mexican, Italian etc., It could of course be converted to a hurling museum eitherā¦
Great demand in Limerick for competition to Finnegansā¦.
In this isolated incident I donāt see that Moran has done much wrong to be honest. Looks like heās been financially prudent to me which is no bad thing.
It should have been possible to smooth out or agree the costs and terms of the agreement without it blowing up publicly. That it didnāt suggests to me that Moranās ego got in the way. He could have been financially prudent in private. That he was the only member of the council that didnāt show up to the meeting only reinforces this.
Give it to the Troy studios people so we can make sit coms and motion pictures in Limerick. Get The UL involved to tack some sort of degree to it. Bada bing bada boom.
Was the business case that the IRE would have a limited lifespan to end 2027, i.e., anyone who wanted to visit it would have done so by then & it wouldnāt be sustainable into the future? Iām struggling to understand the dynamics here. Yet PJ was demanding a clause that the council could never sell the building? What was the intention on all sides from 2028 onwards? Mayor Moranās stance seems to be prudent & sensible in this context. Other councillors lining up to apologise to PJ to try to get a crumb from his table is frankly pathetic.
Touch of the Marie Antoinette about JP here,
600k is obviously pocket change to him but the council couldnāt afford that for what was frankly a shitty tourist experience dedicated to a game that a tiny percentage of tourists care a cent about