Re: Re: Dartmouth Square Disgrace

Interview in yesterday’s Sunday Tribune with Noel O’Gara:
http://www.tribune.ie/article.tvt?_scope=Tribune/Tribune+Review/Interviews&id=51051&SUBCAT=Tribune/Tribune+Review&_ticket=Y9SEAOWM4BEFURUSKOO9ANWPOIA9CHVTWRRLIXOICNVMBNKACK3243QFIR0AAMTECYLGBHSI7W2EIOPNPQSEANYDDGSGW4YMHONDLHBR9LLDPIXO0XQFIRY4X9SEAOY9CHYITRRLXNNAGPSEASO9CHYOTRRLJNNAG0SEARN9CHYSTRRLNNNAHQSEAOWOS82EG1C

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Interesting to note Mr O’Gara’s ambivalent feelings towards the whole concept of leases- in favour when it suits him (see link posted by Andrew Duffy) and opposed when it doesn’t.

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Graham,
I think the reason why the square is so well preserved – you note the windows – is that it has one of the longest established and best informed residents’ associations in the city. I remember, when I lived around the corner on Leeson Street, talking to the guy who owned the Reel World video shop and he said that his building (I think you took pics for the Vitrolite thread) was List 1 (as was). Now only the most hardcore conservationist could argue that his little two-storey terraced building should be List 1, and even then with difficulty. It was, as he saw it, a case of preservation in aspic, i.e. no change whatsoever would be considered by the conservation bods in the area. It might have worked a treat for this Square, but it’s an attitude that sets alarm bells ringing for me (and I’d probably be more sympathetic than many).