Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

@GrahamH wrote:

Dear oh dear, the fire damage is much more severe than I had imagined. It looks like many of the columns are indeed beyond reuse. Questions really do have to be asked about how the fire got such a hold and so quickly over the building – what detection measures were in place?

Well ‘none’ might be the sad yet obvious answer to that question Graham…Considering that the initial alarm was raised by a passer by at 5am..Unless of coarse they’d just forgotten to change the batteries..We still have to wait & find out the conclusions of the garda forensic team to discover whether the fire started in the cathedral itself or in the building to the rear where the oil burner was located or whether it was in fact arson. But yours does raise another question..Should all historical buildings like St. Mel’s not have state of the art fire detection & sprinkler systems mandatorily installed?
BTW would yourself & Gunter not throw your names in the hat for the job..Devin could be your gofer.:D