The tourist interest in Limerick city seems to centre around the castle and the medieval parts I sense from when Iām 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.
Thereās definitely more needs to be done and more to be made of the river.
But retail is dying and thatās 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. Itās 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 theyāve the cleaves site as well with massive potential and they looking at it and doing nothing.
Talking about doing this and that with Arthurās 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, Dolanās etc. and are happy enough with it as itās 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 Flanneryās on Shannon Street.
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Itās a base to explore around Clare and Adare etc.
Which is fine. Itās 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 dāisland
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?
Thatās the primary school.
Who are they keeping out?
Thatās 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 wonāt say it out loud but the reason the council donāt want to build all apartments there is theyād 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. Itās 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
Limerick city centre was fucked long before the Rugbee Building.
BTW I never said it was going to transform Limerick.
So now we have a lovely nice new building instead of old empty buildings.
Very disappointing news. Its numbers were 60,000 which isnāt to be sniffed at. Granted thatās less visitors to the city than the day Munster beat the all blacks but still.
Weāve got a castle and a river. Until we can figure out how to market Costelloes to the world, thatās what we need to work with.
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Not a hope. I believe nothing bigger than 3000 tonnes can pull up at the docks.
Foynes, thoughā¦ā¦
Is it because the river is too shallow or because the port canāt take it, because the second one can be fixed obviously.
I was thinking it might be an issue.
A lot of those cruises you get off into a smaller boat to go in anyway
Too shallow. Iād be friendly with a lad who does inspections on various ship cargoās and heās rarely in Limerick as he says the bigger ships canāt come in that far.