developments in cork
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14/01/06
Cork Airport passengers up 21%CORK International Airport has reported that 2.729 million passengers used the airport during 2005, a rise of 21.1% on the previous year.
The London market rose 27.1% – accounting for 67% of the overall British market. Overall, 1.57m passengers travelled on British routes.
@pier39 wrote:
theres your problem right there. hehe. only messing.
was going to say that myself but said i wouldn;t :p
I think Shannons traffic is still larger due to the huge increase of Ryanair traffic in the last year, a doubling of US military traffic(which i’m not sure is included in the 3.3 million as they are transit only and not terminal passengers – could be wrong though) and new routes to the US from different airlines (Continental/American and US Air) along with new European routes outside of Ryanairs expansion, In Sept Shannon had well exceeded 2.5 million for the first 3/4 of the year.
Is there an article that actually states that, because what i posted above is all that was on the examiner site and that would be major news but have seen it nowhere else ?
I presume thats why it was in the newspaper. I’ll have a look for the article and get back to you tomorrow. I looked it up on the internet, just to double check, and Wikipedia said the exact same as the Echo and Examiner. Oh, and Re: County Hall from one of my earlier posts., what’s the update on it?
p.s. don’t forget to tune into RTE 2 Monday night at 9.30. I believe Knocknaheeny (did I spell it right?) is being featured in the Des Bishop Show., should be funny.
Maybe you;re right. but i wouldn’t trust wikipedias info to be fair. Firstly they list Shannon traffic based on 2004 numbers. TRaffic in Shannon hsa grown immensley this year. The also say Shannon is the main transatlantic airport in ireland and Cork acts as one of Ryanairs main European hubs so its a arseways anyway. There’s only 4 routes listed out of Cork with Ryanair on their site and one of them is Dublin as opposed to 20 routes from Shannon. The only piece on examiner.ie is what i posted. Just curious anyway..no biggie.
Have a look at this though from Nov 25th..
http://www.shannonairport.com/AR_Shannon/Live/Lv_Pres_View_NewsItem.asp?intStory_ID=95
and the Wikipedia stuff below.
Shannon Airport (IATA: SNN, ICAO: EINN) is Ireland’s main transatlantic airport. 2.4 million passengers travelled through Shannon in 2004, making it the third busiest airport in Ireland. Shannon is situated in County Clare in the mid-west of Ireland, just 15km from Limerick City. The airport is operated by the Dublin Airport Authority. This company also administers Dublin Airport and Cork International Airport. Shannon Airport mostly handles transatlantic flights and flights to Britain. Shannon and Dublin are the only two European airports with U.S. border preclearance facilities
Cork International Airport is one of Ireland’s principal airports, situated on the south side of Cork City in an area known as Ballygarvan. The airport is currently operated by Dublin Airport Authority. Cork Airport handles scheduled and charter flights to domestic and European destinations as well as cargo services and general aviation. As the airport had over 2.730 million passengers pass through its doors in 2005, it makes it Ireland’s second busiest airport, after Dublin. Aer Lingus and Aer Arann are the largest operators at Cork Airport by number of aircraft movements. Aer Lingus and Ryanair are the largest operators by number of passengers. It acts as a main European hub for both Ryanair and Aer Lingus.]
Re Shannon Airport, the troops are included in their passenger numbers apparently, as are all those passenger en route to the US from Dublin who have to do their gov mandated stopover in SNN. A bit of a joke really, but hey, whoever said stats was an exact science!
More relevant to this thread, the design of Shannon Airport’s terminal building won an RIAI architectural award a few years back. A bit utilitarian for my liking, but I guess that is subjective. It certainly was an improvement on what they had before. I certainly hope that the guys in Cork can keep their new terminal in good nick…I often wonder do they have cleaners up there given the rubbish that is usually strewn around the place.Cork City Council has granted permision to CorkCounty Council to build a new freestanding County Library headquarters building comprising of a six storey element with a two storey wing enclosing a landscaped courtyard over a basement arranged around two smaller courtyards all to the west of the existing Cork County Hall building, which is a protected structure.
The County Hall redevelopement is nearing completion and I’ll hopefully have some images in the next few days.@kite wrote:
🙁 A source in the local newspaper told me at lunchtime today that the reason Lex may have dropped off this thread may be due to a 4 way dispute between a Government Dept.,the CSD,the Webmaster, and himself.
LOL, you’re having a laugh aren’t you. That’s complete and utter rubbish.
Care to reveal your source on that – wouldn’t be the Irish Examiner would it?@Paul Clerkin wrote:
LOL, you’re having a laugh aren’t you. That’s complete and utter rubbish.
Care to reveal your source on that – wouldn’t be the Irish Examiner would it?🙂 Glad that is cleared up. Like i said, the reason i had my doubts about the story was that neither CSD nor yourself made any reference to it.
Lex is still missed though (whatever the reason)@Paul Clerkin wrote:
who / what is CSD?
🙁 CSD are a lobby group in Cork opposed to high rise housing in the Bishopstown area.
They have a website where you can get more info on them at http://www.corksouthwest.com
Sorry about the misinformation regarding Lex. i was only telling it as i heard.all, did you note that where all the work is being done on the former Guys premises in Cornmarket St, that the digging has apparently resulted in residents in the area being relocated due to safety fears? (I am reduced to the Evening Echo as a source becuase Lex has absconded – whew! I am backed up by the Examiner).
Come back Lex, all is forgiven
in fairness some of the pictures on http://www.corksouthwest.com/visuals.htm are shocking :O
@Maskhadov wrote:
in fairness some of the pictures on http://www.corksouthwest.com/visuals.htm are shocking :O
In what way? You should probably know some of those are false or manipulated like the one of the proposed Jurys hotel is false and others are outdated.
@ewankennedy wrote:
In what way? You should probably know some of those are false or manipulated like the one of the proposed Jurys hotel is false and others are outdated.
😮 I agree that the photo of Jurys is manipulated, but Victoria Mills out of date? maybe you are right..VM was out of date the day the plans were drawn up.
What is that dogbox like structure in the Shandon photo?, i thought that was manipulated as well until i passed there today and saw it for myself. Any wonder planning in Cork had a bad reputation?@kite wrote:
😮 I agree that the photo of Jurys is manipulated, but Victoria Mills out of date? maybe you are right..VM was out of date the day the plans were drawn up.
What is that dogbox like structure in the Shandon photo?, i thought that was manipulated as well until i passed there today and saw it for myself. Any wonder planning in Cork had a bad reputation?Thats Coppinger Court by Magee Creedon. Personally I think it is one of the better designed projects to have met the city in recent years. Quite rightly it picked up an RIAI award for best sustainable building. It may be worth taking a looking around, if you can, the development before judging it. Its a great playful and sensitive design given its difficult location. http://www.riai.ie/gallery.html?type=regional&year=2004&item=6
I agree with you on that one, POM, Coppinger Court is a good building……..
BTW, went and had a look at the Guys site today, you get pretty good views of it from the top of Paul Street Car Park and it looks like the problem in relation to the adjoining houses is one of the old warehouse gable old belonging to the fomer Guys factoryfalling away from the terraces behind. I don’t know if the problem is that the wall is bring the houses with it or the houses were being propped up by the wall…..anyway, the Marian Shrine thing on the wall is in trouble as it appears that the Guys wall was built up to accomodate it……
TV crews were down there as well…….
Anyone know who the engineer is on site?
@POM wrote:
Thats Coppinger Court by Magee Creedon. Personally I think it is one of the better designed projects to have met the city in recent years. Quite rightly it picked up an RIAI award for best sustainable building. It may be worth taking a looking around, if you can, the development before judging it. Its a great playful and sensitive design given its difficult location. http://www.riai.ie/gallery.html?type=regional&year=2004&item=6
:rolleyes: Yep, that project looks great in the above mentioned website as i am sure it does in real life from Shandon. Its a pity that the roof looks like a protruding wart when walking along the quays.
@corcaighboy wrote:
More relevant to this thread, the design of Shannon Airport’s terminal building won an RIAI architectural award a few years back. A bit utilitarian for my liking, but I guess that is subjective. It certainly was an improvement on what they had before. I certainly hope that the guys in Cork can keep their new terminal in good nick…I often wonder do they have cleaners up there given the rubbish that is usually strewn around the place.
I can’t believe your talking about architecural awards in Irish airports and the state of them. You have one of the nicest airports on your door step. Chek Lap Kok is fantastic. It’s really spacious and the roof is really groovy. Has it won any architectural awards? They say the old Hong Kong airport was spectacular to fly into, but don’t know anything else about it….. or it’s design.
@Radioactiveman wrote:
The County Hall redevelopement is nearing completion and I’ll hopefully have some images in the next few days.
Thank you.
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