Rubbish – St Patricks Day
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Apparently 45 people were arrested last year. It would be desirable to have them closed at least til families have left; as you say the place seems to have taken on a decidedly sinister tone post-parade, even as early as four o’clock there were ‘incidents’.
Even if they don’t close I suspect there’s gonna be a serious Garda clampdown this year anyway, if it’s any consolation…
Hello there,
I have just moved into Dublin, Actually I can see the spire from my window. I just wanted to say hello to everyone out there. I have moved over here from Canada. I have worked in architecture for quite a while now and have thought of opening my own firm up however, my background in history is compelling me to write a book first! So here I am to introduce myself. I was given a heads up actually to meet some people that a friend of mine knows from Kildare!
If you know of anyone in Celbridge Kildare, please let me know. I know my friend gave me their names and addresses however, for the life of me and all this packing I can not find a thing.
Hopefully there is someone out there that will be able to assist me.
I am looking forward to St pattys day ( dont make fun of me) I loved it back in Toronto and am soo excited to be where it is truly a day of drinking!
Seeing as I am new here and very lonely! I am 24 years old, renting a loft in the city, yes I am single! No job as of yet as I am looking forward to finding my footing before I settle with a job. I dont want this to sound like a dating line, but I am tall, long blonde hair, and I think I am quite fit! SO if any of you know of great places to go and see please do let me know! As of now I have been enjoying tours on my own! Would love to find someone to sit and have a guiness with! (must admit I miss my labatt blue!) Also clubs? I dont know where to go that is good?
Hopefully I will hear from someone with some advice. I would also like to update my laptop with a few of your programs as I have found a few cad programs to be different so far.
Thank you soo much
Jill@Jill in Canada wrote:
I dont want this to sound like a dating line
Yeah you kinda fell down on that with the next line 🙂
Phil will be along shortly now – he knows all the best nightspots, and how to shut em down 😀 😉@Jill in Canada wrote:
I am 24 years old, single… tall, long blonde hair, and quite fit!….Would love to find someone to sit and have a guiness with!
Wh-wh-wh-wh-why of course! Th-th-th-there’s a nice place just across from where I work…(gibber)
ok I know it was cliche, but its nice to see people whom I can actually discuss my work with! Obviously I would love to meet people who are willing to be nice to a Canadian and take her out to see the sights!
To change the subject completely, any thoughts on the request/demand to remove the LUAS wires across O’Connell Street 😮 to allow higher floats through?
The argument is that RPA has raised this as an issue ages ago, but had the Patricks Festival commitee objected at that stage would the wires be any higher now? It’s claimed three days are required to remove and reinstate the wires. If this is the case the limitation is understandable, I’d prefer the LUAS on Friday thanks. But if it’s a case of “how many corpo men does it take to dig a hole”…
What is current practice abroad where trams are in operation?It wouldn’t have been a case of making the wires higher at design stage as the type of floats that are problematic are 3 storeys tall plus headroom. Adjusting the permanent height to that level presumably wouldn’t have been an option…
Just on the title of this thread again, the city centre was far from clean today, indeed it seemed dirtier than usual.
College Green looks particularly awful at the moment wth the roadway outside Trinity dug up all over the place. There was a lot of litter around too and combined with a large ‘dumpster’ in the middle of the flippin footpath, it was none-too pleasant.
The state of the roadway on Lower Grafton St is also a disgrace – it still hasn’t been upgraded since all that work on the Spar there months ago.
And Grafton St was still packed with goods vechicles past 10 in the morning which is ridiculous – we really are the laziest people going.As for the usual suspect of Upper O’Connell Street today, just appalling:
Saying that, a lot of attention has been paid to Lower O’Cll St to clean the place up.
@Graham Hickey wrote:
It wouldn’t have been a case of making the wires higher at design stage as the type of floats that are problematic are 3 storeys tall plus headroom. Adjusting the permanent height to that level presumably wouldn’t have been an option…
I saw one float with an inflatable cow on the top that was about 8 metres tall, when it came to the overhead wires a rope was used to adjust the height temporarily. Just brilliant 🙂
Too Bloody right Graham.
As your pic so elequently states its not about the Street but it`s something deeply embedded in our culture that appreciates wallowing in CRAP.
But on a more serious note if the Photographer had turned a little to one side on the central median where the Pic was taken from he/she would have been able to inspect the JC Decaux AdFrame which DCC presumably had erected there to facilitate making announcements to it`s adoring citizenry.
For quite a while this wonderful piece of late 20th C street furniture contained a poster for a Pat Liddy exhibition in City Hall which had long passed its Hang-By date.
Having become totally pixxed off with seeing this long outdated notice still on display I wrote a letter to Madam at the Irish Times questioning DCC`s committment to this entire Boulevardization process,at least North of the Mason Dixon line (O Connell Bridge).
The rapid reaction from City Hall proved to me that God did actually exist,but lived in fact in Fleet St rather than Heaven.
Sadly however God appears to require regular updates as the Frame now contains a rather fetching Advert for Christmas on Ice in Smithfield…….Last Christmas of course…!
It`s somewhat simplistic of me I know but can I take this as evidence of any given level of Official Interest in the concept of a “Living City”…….Living in the last Ice Age perhaps !!! 😮Alek, I remember the Liddy ad. I used to wonder if it was possible for it to still be there by the time that Tara Street building was actually built. Although, now I am not sure if that building is to go ahead or not!
Was only just thinking of those signs yesterday – why isn’t the information on the Reflecting the City site up on these signs?!
So much for keeping the public updated – this information should be on the signs on the median and on the hoarding that surrounds the street storage area outside the Gresham.There used to be one of these displays outside the Sony Centre median section that was removed for the works to take place – why hasn’t this been re-erected and updated on the barren wasteland of the Upper Median? Some info in the GPO wouldn’t go amiss either – indeed consultation with An Post should be carried out for a small display of what is proposed, as well as the basic historical information contained in the IAP – an O’Connell Street through the ages display. This could be located in the main foyer of the GPO in place of the stacks of crap so often piled up behind its windows.
The other item that somehow jars my well trained Archi-eye is the very engaging blockhouse which has been revealed on the centre median due south of Abbey Street.
Having gone to some extent to facilitate a Circular theme with the O Connell St project…IE: The Spire,The New Litter Bins……and even the Circular Torc at the base of the spire,our City Council then emits a wild whoop and pulls the tarpaulin back to reveal ………a VERY functional looking structure indeed resembling an outside toilet cubicle circa 1930`s Local Authority Housing.
A very good description of the device was thrown into my mind the other night when watching a very old episode of “Till Death Do Us Part”…..When pool oul Alf Garnet had to rush for the ” Kharzi” as he delicately put it….
Did the City Council`s artistic theme budget run out before they got to here..????Hundreds arrested in wave of public disorder
18 March 2005 13:42
Gardaà have said extra patrols will be on standby over the weekend following a spate of street violence and drunkenness that led to hundreds of arrests throughout the country yesterday and overnight.The disorder stretched the resources of gardaà and the emergency services, and has prompted one MEP to call on the EU Council of Ministers to address the problem of binge drinking.
The number of people arrested for public order charges in Dublin over the course of the St Patrick’s Day festivities now stands at 252.
The figure applies to the period from 6 am on St Patrick’s morning to 6am this morning.
There were several violent incidents on the DART yesterday including an assault, vandalism and fighting. Two trains had to be taken out of service after windows were smashed.
Gardaà and the ambulance service were also called to break up a fight between around 25 people on an evening train.
In Cork, gardaà from the Bridewell made over 60 arrests arising from drunk and disorderly behaviour.
And in Limerick city, more than 60 people were also arrested overall with seven taken into custody after a fight broke out at a bar in the city centre.
22 people were arrested for public order offences in Waterford city in relation to the St Patrick’s Day celebrations, while four arrests were made in Tramore in the county.
Accident and Emergency Departments reported a big rise in admissions. Tallaght and Beaumont hospitals in Dublin are said to have dealt with 400 patients overnight.
Fine Gael MEP Avril Doyle said binge drinking was one of the most urgent challenges facing European health ministers. She said the ready accessibility of alcohol must be looked at very seriously.
That is unreal! I heard something the other day about off-licences being closed for St Paddy’s day from now on. I dont know if that would work, given the Irish tendancy to search out booze when it cant be had! (eg, Good Friday)
Has anyone noticed how many views this thread has had? It is over 36,000. It is fifth most viewed thread in this discussion forum! What brings people to it? Putting ‘Rubbish’ (as in the filth left over afterwards) and ‘St Patricks Day’ in to a search engine? Or, people who think St Patricks Day is rubbish. I would say it is the former.
Wasn’t this the thread where a transfer of hits from The Spike of something happened by mistake?
Yes, that number of arrests is crazy, esp 252 just for Dublin. On the radio a Garda spokesperson siad it was 45 last year, another said 70 – but either way 252 knocks them off the scale. Unless the Garda were being less lenient this year which could have increased the number substantially.
As for the Luas sub-station Alek Smart, it’s not finished yet…
Talking of things transport
@Marko on the [url wrote:
http://www.platform11.org[/url%5D site:] The word is one train lost 25 windows basically 2 total coaches, but it was a new unit so they where caught on CCTV, nice new digital 4 cameras per coach CCTV
Have a look at the sample shots http://www.tokyu-car.co.jp/eng/rs/cctv/config.html
As I said in another thread IE made no effort at all to protect there stock or passengers yesterday it was a free for all
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