È ridicolo – non abbiamo niente qui ‘: Co Kildare Village per perdere il suo ultimo negozio
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/06/03/its-ridiculous-weve-nothing-here-co-kildare-village-to-lose-its-last-shop/
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È ridicolo – non abbiamo niente qui ‘: Co Kildare Village per perdere il suo ultimo negozio
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/06/03/its-ridiculous-weve-nothing-here-co-kildare-village-to-lose-its-last-shop/
di Otherwise-Winner9643
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Anyone else think this article is ridiculous?
*The owner of the shop, Alan Jordan, who lives locally and whose children have worked in the store, said closing had been a difficult decision that was not taken lightly.*
*“The business has been growing and expanding, but unfortunately the premises is no longer fit for purpose,” he said. “It has been outgrown by the size of the community, it can’t provide the range of products that the community deserves. On three occasions over the last 12 years we have tried unsuccessfully to secure alternative sites in the village.”*
*One of these sites, located across the road from the shop, remains vacant. “We would have built a 4,000 sq ft store there with 44 car-parking spaces … But that didn’t come to pass; a group of local people weren’t in favour.”*
… *Katelyn Dunne (19), who lives in Johnstown and works in the local Chinese restaurant, said: “They were saying that you can’t store everything in the shop, but you don’t need everything in it, just the essentials: food and bread.”*
So the locals objected to then moving to a bigger premises, are complaining about them shutting down, and want a private business to stay open to sell just bread & milk? If they wanted it, why object?
This is a very strange story. The shop is closing because there’s… too much demand? Are the residents who objected to the new shop the same ones complaining there’s no shop left?
Strongly suspect there’s some weird local politics bluff element to this.
There is a shop around the corner in Kill. There is a Tesco, aldi etc etc 5 minutes away. This is affecting about 20 people.
Are they really going to mourn the loss of a ***Centra*** though?
Also, not trying to be unsympathetic here, but there is a Brand Max 1.4km away; and the Monread SC Tesco and Aldi are less than 3km away.
The village, Johnstown, is 1.2 miles from Naas, so they’ll have to travel…
Either way, its the usual story of “planning goes in, someone objects, nothing gets approved and people screaming and shouting “why is nothing being built to make the area better”
Nonsense kinda stuff this. The people want it and dont want it.
They should organise a full blown dance off to settle it.
Sounds like the shop owner is selling up and just talking shite to justify cashing out while the property bubble is high.
Weird. The shop owner says he has to close because his shop is *too busy*.
The residents say they’re nothing left and they’ll starve to death and die… It’s a 7-minute drive to the big Tesco in Monread and a 4-minute drive to the Eurospar in Kill.
“Last shop in the village”
Is very deceiving connsidering how this “village” is basically a neighborhood of Naas in 2025.
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A 4 minute drive to Naas.
If the Chinese start selling a few sliced pans then the whole thing will be sorted.
Looks like the shop owner got nimby’d by the locals for an expansion and said fuck em, the shop probably wasnt making enough to justify keeping it open.
Many’s a brawl in the car park at Rapture.
Residents: Why don’t you get more stuff!?
Shop keeper: Yeah, let me get more storage. *applies for planning permission to extend the shop!
Resident: No fcuk you!
Shop keeper: Fcuk you too so!
Another little story nugget proving Ireland lost the plot…
The owner is out of his mind in general, an absolute control freak and profoundly miserable. The store near me has a massive turnover it’s like a revolving door of new faces every couple of weeks.
Worked in one of his stores for only two weeks and quit as soon as I found something else. Despite owning multiple Centra’s and Supervalues and having over 200 employees.
He insisted that all shift changes went through him not the manager of the store I worked at. So if he’s closing a store doing well it’s not surprising, he needs to control and it’s a power play out of spite.
Tomorrow a vape shop will open
It reminds me of the peopel complaining about not enough houses and then rejecting houses when they are been built in their area
Lots of headless chickens in Ireland
So they are complaining the shop they blocked from growing and expanding is moving away, and now they have no shop… Kind of like the housing crisis this, complaints blocking construction, and then complaints that nothing is being built.
>One of these sites, located across the road from the shop, remains vacant. “We would have built a 4,000 sq ft store there with 44 car-parking spaces … But that didn’t come to pass; a group of local people weren’t in favour”
….what did they expect? We have to stamp out NIMBYs
Imagine naas is swallowing up business
They tried to expand, locals wouldn’t allow it, so now the locals have no shop. GG Locals.