Doesn’t look so bad. We need all types of housing really. Apartments will suit a lot of people. For a while anyway.
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A shkyscraper would only get blown over with all the shtorms anyway hai.
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You’re stone mad on skyscrapers. Why in the name of god would Galway want or need a skyscraper?
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1 it needs lots and lots of housing if, as the council have expressed a wish for, the population is to increase by 25%.
2. It is already gridlocked most of the time.
3. Hence folk need to be located within walking distance of as much as possible
4. There is a limit to the amount of land available squished between the sea and the lake
5. So, like Manhattan, the answer is upwards
Those flats look ok on the designers view (if you want your city centre to look like a 1980s university ) from the penthouse, but awful from street level, and that is when they are new.
They should be 30 stories minimum and have an appealing design.
At present they are neither one thing nor the other.
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The year is 2101. It’s 150 years since Mayo have won the All-Ireland. Galway beat them by one point (65 to 64) in the 2101 All-Ireland football final, played on Saturday evening, May 6th. At the same time the world fascist government has ruled that the county of Mayo is to cease to exist, it is to be annexed by Galway. This is the final year of Mayo and the Mayo football team.
The Popular Front For The Liberation of Mayo also called “Too Many Black Septembers” decides to launch a resistance campaign. Some people call it terrorism. They decide on the target. The twin 110 storey skyscrapers of the Connacht Trade Centre, standing alongside glistening Galway Bay. The West Of Ireland is the 22nd century equivalent of what the Mediterranean had been 100 years before, due to climate change. Mayo olives are Ireland’s biggest export.
On a beautiful, sparkling September morning, bearded men, led by 24 year old Jamie Sloyan, the great grandson of a well known Mayo football supporter of the 2010s, hijack two flights leaving Monsignor James Horan International Airport at Knock and fly the planes into the two towers. Over the next hour and a half, both towers collapse.
The era of skyscrapers in Galway is over and on TFK, a poster refers back to @flattythehurdler’s post from 2025, and says “that’s why we didn’t want a fucking skyscraper in Galway, you idiot.”
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I think you’re being a bit too simplistic. Skyscrapers are really expensive to build and can’t be built everywhere. It’s why skyscrapers don’t fully cover Manhattan, they’re built where there’s rock foundations I believe.
The optimal way to increase population density is buildings between 4-8 stories high. Anything I read on the subject repeats this again and again. You build a neighbourhood that height. You then need to get all the necessary services or infrastructure for the community built in as close as possible - 15 mins cities.
I can’t see any reason why Galway would need a skyscraper.
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They are actually surprisingly cheap to build. Manchester makes the figures work and rents are cheaper than Ireland if they are for renting, and sale prices are cheaper too.
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This is ireland it wont be cheap unfortunately
If a skyscraper was proposed for the back of your “pals” new house i wonder what he’d think 
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Well he’s out at drum cross, which is out in the sticks, so it would be stupid, but once it looked nice like the renaker towers for instance, he wouldn’t mind at all.
Be great. Once they built the infrastructure to go with it like a coffee shop.
PS after liking your inaccurate and snide post @spidey can FRO.
Your pal is very touchy
Yes but isn’t Manchester about twice as big as Dublin?
Pure Galway, hippies walking around with wooly hats on. Its the hottest day of the year FFS
My baby (eldest) is going to college in Galway
We got her a place to stay yesterday, hope it’ll be the making of her, I d say it a great college town??
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It certainly was in the late 90s. The general location of the accommodation can have an impact on the college experience id say. Hopefully she’s not too far out from the campus.
Galway was always a great riding town.
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Distillery road which is handy out,
She was in for the campus accommodation but didn’t get it, apparently it may come up again in August so we’ll see then.
Sure that’s effectively in the campus
Not everyone will be enthused by this news. You’re a gas ticket.
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