So what would you do?

Good one.

Given that 8m was lashed out on the Schwartz design for Grand Canal Square, I’d spend the 16m on implementing a comprehensive IAP for College Green which should also include Grafton St. imo …

I reckon such a plan would effect maximum roi in terms of enhancing the city centre (got me business hat on;) … now there’s a whole kettle of crap in there, luas and all, but sure you all know my opinion on that !

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I might be looking for a jackpot of 20 mill before i’d be giving the city 16 😉 with a further 20 to give to charity & ease my social conscience.

@GrahamH wrote:

…from an architectural perspective with the €16,185,749 jackpot?

I’d like to build a costly big feck-off yoke that says I’m-here-now-look-at-me-amn’t-I-great; something brash and shiny – something that symbolises The New Ireland – in other words it doesn’t have to be useful or mean anything at all, just as long as its not Old Ireland – and then, wait for it, drop it in the middle of O’ Connell St…. Ooops just remembered somebody’s done that already 😮

Okay 2nd preference…What about a marble elephant to adourn the front of Leinster House once the “temporary” car-park is removed? Pink or white – you can take your choice, just as long as it’s fixed in place to prevent throwing, and comes complete with trapdoors underneath to enable Govt ministers to infiltrate an unsuspecting electorate should the need arise…

1 Marble Elephant for Leinster Lawn FTW! 🙂

At 4 million a pop i can’t imagien a better way of spending the money

@sw101 wrote:

At 4 million a pop i can’t imagien a better way of spending the money

Deadly 😀

jesus that actually looks better than just the one spire. hah and given the location, they could do a ballymun on it by building 7 and naming each one after a signatory of the proclamation! Pearse Spire? Connolly Spire? feckin hell, let’s do it!

ah no, someone won the jackpot last night. Damn it. Gonna have to wait a bit longer to get the main street we truly want 🙂

@sw101 wrote:

At 4 million a pop i can’t imagien a better way of spending the money

I’d build one in the back yard and put the TV ariel on top so I could watch RTE2 and Channel 4 properly. Although it would probably be cheaper to get satellite TV instead, or destroy the hill behind my house that disrupts the signal

I was never much good with money.

Or just buy a house closer to the transmitter? Or even better: move the transmitter closer to your house.

sw, out of all the ideas mooted for reinforcing the linear nature of O’Connell Street, this has to be the winner by a mile. It’s so obvious in hindsight – why didn’t we think of it?

The simplest ideas are always the best.

@sw101 wrote:

At 4 million a pop i can’t imagien a better way of spending the money

That looks fantastic! I think you have next years April Fools scam sorted already!

Zurich may have needle park but Spike St would be far superior!

€16m hmmmm

Would take a lot of thought alone on a carabean island that……

Jim Larkin looks like a tree-hugger.

I would start a fund to 1 .demolish liberty hall and 2 . sink the railway bridge ( to Tara St ) undergoround . Ok €16m wouldnt touch that project I know , but maybe if I put an accumulator on Euromillions as well…..