Beautiful Night fiasco
- This topic has 34 replies, 15 voices, and was last updated 22 years, 3 months ago by
.
- Posts
Yeah – it’s much easier to say traffic and disruption fears have forced the event to be ruled out rather than we do not possess the security capability to contain the type of protests seen in other parts of the world during summits and G8 meetings.
It would seem that very strict measures were being taken to ensure that protests were eliminated. I think, as mentioned earlier, this declaration of May 1st as Eurpean Day (Not exactly sure what it is called) is a method of quashing the May Day demonstrations which we associate with this day.
The real reason as suspected: Beautiful Night concert axed by Cabinet over fears of riot
why belfast? why on earth during our presidentancy would we go to a foreign country to celebrate this?
FIN….don’t be so harsh…….and don’t worry we’ll have a great time in Belfast!
they can’t blame everything on the supposed riots how many people were supposed to go to that concert they’d probably be well more then any protestors
is there still supposed to be fireworks or anything in town…
what ya think of the elevations light show thing ?
(is light _the_ current medium?)sorta but sorta limited what ya can do we the designs
http://www.dublinelevations.net (off hand i think)
starch,
while i’m all in for inculsion of our lost brethern the fact remains that belfast is in a foreign country to that which has the honour of being president for this great occasion. and i have no doubt u’ll have a great time. i love belfast. great place to visit. kinda like kilkennt but the women wear shorter skirts. 🙂Chewy, in my mind its an underresourced police force that is to blame. Thats why the concert wasn’t moved to another location as they still wouldn’t be able to police it.
As well as the dublin elevations there is a firework display on Sandymount strand:
On April 30, Dublin’s skies are due to light up again, with a spectacular fireworks display along Sandymount Strand by award-winning French pyrotechnics company, Groupe F, famous for its Millennium illumination of the Eiffel Tower.
The fireworks extravaganza will start at 9.15pm and viewing will be on the Beach Road between Leahy’s Terrace and Marine Drive, Strand Road between Marine Drive and St Alban’s Park and Strand Road from St Alban’s Park towards Merrion Road.
The reason it was cancelled is for fear that it would become a target for terrorists. We live in uncertain times and major events such as this are an obvious target. Thats the only reaosn it was cancelled. Traffic disruption was never an issue.
So it goes to Belfast. Note: Belfast is part of the United Kingdom. The Republic of Ireland is a seperate country???????.
So the Republic holds the Presidency but the British get the farewell party. Only in Ireland, the Republic I must state. The Republic of Ireland (I have to educate you here I think) is not alone made up of Dublin. It is a country that also has such places as Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and many, many towns far away from Dublin.
Of course they can’t hold it in another part of the Republic as the Irish republics philoposy is it has to be in Dublin, anything, or not at all.
And I guess the reply here would be well nowhere in the rest of Ireland could hold it, why is that I ask, because everything has been developed in Dublin, quite a discrace and very, very wrong.
Federal Government for Ireland, (Republic) NOW……“We live in uncertain times and major events are targets”
therefore we should cancell the olympics all big football matches my birthday party etcc ?
using terrorism as excuse to hide incompetance is the last straw
Well done Belfast and the BBC saw a highly organised and planned to the T street / river Irish party that altered between 2 venues – the stage at City Hall and the other on the Lagan. The stage at the Lagan looked great, like it was floating on the river. Great stages and a great night of music showing Belfast at its best.
Yeah, meanwhile we went to all the expense of hosting the presidency and got nothing but a ‘riot’ to show for it. (Which was disgracefully over-hyped by Sky News.)
It was painful to see the spectacularly revamped O’Connell Street lying idle on what should have been a golden opportunity to show it off. Town was empty.
The official celebrations in Merrion Square were a bunch of tents with tourist officials handing out holiday brochures, and cheesy-looking bands stomping around a makeshift stage in Liederhosen.
Dublin seriously dropped the ball on this one.However, well done to ourselves as well for hosting such a great ceremony at the Aras in the Phoenix Park welcoming the new member states. What a great advertisment for Ireland in Europe. Everything looked great….the Aras, our President, the ceremony and the weather itself. And there was such a pleasant infomal yet formal air about the occasion.
(Gas how biased Sky is regarding it’s anti Europe stance. It never showed any of the coverage live from the Phoenix Park yet when the bit of a riot broke out they were there right away with the camaras.)
Ah Sky – where would we be without them?
Did you see that Master of Ceremonies introducing the various people – a Father Ted caricature or what!Didn’t the Aras look fantastic – all hail the steadicam!
Very proud watching it on BBC News, even if they built it in the first place!
The temporary porch attached to the pillars was very tasteful – not that it was needed in the end.It’s the (limestone?) portico contrasting with the white that makes the building look so elegant – it was added by Francis Johnston (of GPO fame) in 1815 or 1816 I think. Fantastic proportions, and the dentil detail really sets it off.
And the white chimneys look so good too – even the chimney pots are painted, and it all ties in with the ceremonial white ‘colour scheme’ of the park, with the white railings, the white gas lamps, the magnificent white entrance gates etc.Which is more than can be said for the State Drawing Room where all the Prime Ministers were greeted – always hated this room – so vulgar, drab and frumpy.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
