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And a pint at 7amCapel st, where you could buy a dildo, some foam filler, a table saw, strings and some secondhand books in a single stroll.
And you could get your hair cut
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And a pint at 7amCapel st, where you could buy a dildo, some foam filler, a table saw, strings and some secondhand books in a single stroll.
And you could get your hair cut
I bought the pants I use for gardening in one of those army surplus stores just off Capel St in the late 90s sometime.I used to there intentionally to check out the charity shops. I visited the army surplus store and the various hardware shops a lot. There's also a music shop where'd I'd buy strings and plecs. There's a popular music shop specialising in trad instruments. Other specialist shops include the catering industry place, a petshop and the sex shops. Then there's the bars including Nealons and Pantibar. It has a lot going for it. For now.
Drogheda is a great example of this - half the main street is derelict, the other half is mostly pound shops. 3 or 4 shopping centres in the town itself, mostly empty, plus a few big retail parks on the outskirtsOne thing you notice in the sticks more than dublin is that orbital shopping centres turn the innards of towns into rubble unless the towns are wildly proactive (see westport), and if you don't adapt you leave people living among ruins (see most towns on the n17).
Drogheda is a great example of this - half the main street is derelict, the other half is mostly pound shops. 3 or 4 shopping centres in the town itself, mostly empty, plus a few big retail parks on the outskirts
Wexford town somehow escaped this
And a pint at 7am
I think any bulk/heavy item store is by defualt banished to m50 proximity at this point.
Bit of a look at capel st on google maps and it seems to be bookies, food places, pubs, newsagents*
*i suspect this word is reduntant too.
One thing you notice in the sticks more than dublin is that orbital shopping centres turn the innards of towns into rubble unless the towns are wildly proactive (see westport), and if you don't adapt you leave people living among ruins (see most towns on the n17). Nobody is going to capel street for a big shop or a set of armchairs or some of that rattan crap to decompose in their back gardens. The reason to go to cities in the traditional sense is in decline - you'd go for the variety, and you still get that with gigs and social in dublin, but for the rest variety is inevitably hoovered up by 4-5 chain stores.
I'm not sure i'd ever in my life drive to dublin just so i can drive down capel street, but i might eat there.
I do agree that it'll be a hummus jedward style place soon enough, but i don't think it's really in need of cars to sustain it's current setup either.
I love itunblocking drains is a satisfying job, even if it's a foul drain.
Don’t forget the tribunal….people advocating for a nuclear power station in ireland
who do you think is gonna build it
who do you think is gonna wade through environmental red tape
who do you think is gonna do some sweet background deal that we end up paying for
outlier chance somehow the catholic church will own it
or whoever the media king of the moment are
mild nuclear meltdown after a twenty year four times over budget build with minimum six scandals, someone from the competition authority losing their job and somehow someone else will own it.
we* (*i mean the politicians and powermongers) cant be given life and death things to be doing
Let the Chinese lads build one first over therePBH did a short documentary on it a while back that made a very realistic case for the fact that even if we decided to build one today, the process would take something in the region of 50 years to complete. Personally I think the time and money would be infinitely better spent going HAM on solar, wind & wave power.
i think this was itPBH did a short documentary on it a while back that made a very realistic case for the fact that even if we decided to build one today, the process would take something in the region of 50 years to complete. Personally I think the time and money would be infinitely better spent going HAM on solar, wind & wave power.
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