O’ Connell Street, Dublin

$omething to do vvith an egg and a french keyboard?

@GregF wrote:

See that the botchers and the butchers are digging up parts of O’Connell Street. Making a right mess too as they arse around meddling with underground pipes.

They are also in action too on Dame Street, botching and butchering right on the new plaza beside City Hall and that incongruous odd looking new building.

that’s why you have underground trenches….

jimg,

“Sraid Ui Connaill Iochtarach” is not “makey-up bollocks”.On the contrary O’ Connell is a make-do translation from the IRISH surname “Ui Connaill”.Just as “Teach Saggard” isn’t a botched translation of Saggart Village.It is the opposite.Saggart village is a botched translation of “Teach Saggard”.
Iochtarach means lower.
Sraid means street.
Although I do understand your point that O’ Connell street never had an Irish name.
In fairness though that sign should be removed.It is litter, vandalism.

i think the idea of them putting up their own sign was to hurry up the council in replacing it with a proper 50/50 sign.

@Cathal Dunne wrote:

Would you not use the on-screen keyboard? They would have the S and W on it.

Would suggest highlighting and stealing someone else’s ‘s’, with ctrl-c and ctrl-v

You can have one of mine, I’m feeling generous: sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

@alonso wrote:

the vhat novv? Onscreen keyboard? the S is back novv but no double u

I’m using Windows XP so this is how you access the onscreen keyboard on mine;

1.Click “Start”
2.Click on “Control Panel”
3.Click “Accessibility Options”
4.Click on “On-Screen Keyboard” which should be on the left-hand side

The on-screen keyboard will then ppear and you will be able to type as many of these wwwwwwwwwww as you want!

@lauder wrote:

I really cant see why we shouldnt copy the London signs, they are brilliant and clear and always visible, in most cases you find it difficult to identify what street you are on in Dublin. Dublin City COuncil should get on to Boris in London and get some of those street signs.

The idea that the solution to a problem is to copy what someone else did is rubbish. We have a system, we just don’t apply it correctly. Let’s apply it correctly, fill in missing signs, and then we’ll be doing OK. No need for new designs. Irish is already given prominence on Dublin street signage (it appears first), there is no need to make any changes.

@lostexpectation wrote:

david norris on hook on newstalk talking about making the gpo into the new abbey theatre, he says there is room, and that he got bolten street architecture students do it as the final year project, anyone familiar with bolten street find out more about that and if we can see on not much on their site.

Bad idea. There needs to be a really good cultural institution in the docklands.

@lostexpectation wrote:

david norris on hook on newstalk talking about making the gpo into the new abbey theatre, he says there is room, and that he got bolten street architecture students do it as the final year project, anyone familiar with bolten street find out more about that and if we can see them, not much on their site.

I think this is a ludicrous idea. Definitely a no no. There is way too much fucking around with historic buildings.

BTW, Norris cushy job as a senator as well as the rest in the talking shop is a waste of taxpayers money, especially in these credit crunch times and a Taoiseach already robbing the good people.

Since the Abbey Theatre is as important to this country as the Globe Theatre is to England, surely rebuilding it in its original form would be the most sensible option, to give people an idea of where one of the most important chapters in our cultural history took place.