Dublin? Where?
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Ah, yes those dizzying years cruising along on the crest the Eurovision wave until the UK slashed it from under us in 1997.
Interesting that some of the best architecture built in this country during the boom years was RTE’s Eurovision sets, not least 1997 for those who recall, for those who don’t, just look to Latvia this year who blatently ripped it off – suffice to say, not not very well.
23/5/2005
Arrrggh – those flippin College Green trees in the way again!! And this time 100 million people looking at them! 😀
Even so it was still our best effort in recent years, and the first ever live backdrop RTÉ have ever provided for Eurovision as far as I’m aware! Only a bit too live – for most of the link the 14A was sitting at the pedestrian lights completely obliterating the BoI :rolleyes:
Just typical, you stand at those lights for a solid minute every single day, and the only time they instantly change and hold the traffic up is in full view of half of Europe! – when they’re needed to keep it flowing!Also Trinity’s floodlighting useless as per usual. Indeed some of their lights are facing downwards lighting the grass cause the hinges have gone! If I was that OB director now I’d have brought a handful fo bricks along – not to prop the lights up, but to chuck at the manager of the Maintenance Dept at Trinity College 😡
(I think it’s best for all concerned that we gloss over how I acquired that image :D)
I was in company having a meal 50 metres from where it was being shot and the gang nearly ran out to heckle our Dana, of all the angles and settings that could have been used for Eurovision this was as you say the worst of both worlds. Although in some ways it was refreshing that they didn’t use Georges Quay with the loopline thrown in for effect. The perfect setting would have been use of the Plaza on O’Connell St taking in the Spire in some way with Ann Summers as the main background. :p
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