Just looking at the satellite view on google maps which I’d put at 5 years old and would be missing 7 or 8 big developments that have been built with in the town boundary since then and more currently under construction. More if you go further out.
If you are looking for work not retail, hospitality or healthcare you’ll be doing a decent commute everyday. It’s very much as the report mentions a “sleeper town ” badly let down by the IDA and investment from others and very much suffers from second town syndrome with Dundalk.
The town centre is falling into the ground and there seems to be no real plan or leadership for the town. I’ve heard the calls for making Drogheda a city for years but not what that will change if it happens. There are some in politics who care for sure but it’s horrible what has become of the place.
Hahahhahahaha
Dream on.
> Mr Murphy argued that if a central administration is not set up, there will be vast areas of residential development, but nothing else.
> “The risk is that if we don’t get that (city status), Drogheda will develop massively residentially, but do we have the facilities for them? Do we have the job opportunities for them? Or do we become a sleeper city, where they sleep here overnight and then they’re on trains and buses into Dublin in the morning?”
From experience, he’s right. We have a lot of new housing developments, but very clearly have fuck all increase in basic nessessities, like doctors and so on. The central area of the town is a bomb site, that needs some level of a vision that isn’t being provided.
How likely is it that Drogheda will actually get city status?
Drogheda is so desperate to prevail over Dundalk that this is what it’s come to
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Some serious inflation here, a 60% increase in 6 years!
https://preview.redd.it/g06tlmo7qv2b1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=03310965cd91bfb48a24629ddd09751f90cc582e
Oh shit.
Just looking at the satellite view on google maps which I’d put at 5 years old and would be missing 7 or 8 big developments that have been built with in the town boundary since then and more currently under construction. More if you go further out.
If you are looking for work not retail, hospitality or healthcare you’ll be doing a decent commute everyday. It’s very much as the report mentions a “sleeper town ” badly let down by the IDA and investment from others and very much suffers from second town syndrome with Dundalk.
The town centre is falling into the ground and there seems to be no real plan or leadership for the town. I’ve heard the calls for making Drogheda a city for years but not what that will change if it happens. There are some in politics who care for sure but it’s horrible what has become of the place.
Hahahhahahaha
Dream on.
> Mr Murphy argued that if a central administration is not set up, there will be vast areas of residential development, but nothing else.
> “The risk is that if we don’t get that (city status), Drogheda will develop massively residentially, but do we have the facilities for them? Do we have the job opportunities for them? Or do we become a sleeper city, where they sleep here overnight and then they’re on trains and buses into Dublin in the morning?”
From experience, he’s right. We have a lot of new housing developments, but very clearly have fuck all increase in basic nessessities, like doctors and so on. The central area of the town is a bomb site, that needs some level of a vision that isn’t being provided.
How likely is it that Drogheda will actually get city status?
Drogheda is so desperate to prevail over Dundalk that this is what it’s come to
JUSTICE FOR SLIGO
After Carrick on Suir city, right?