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    • October 30, 2001 at 12:38 pm #705123
      Rory W
      Participant

      OK – the Corpo is now repaving where they were excavating for the Spire of Dublin – is this just for the upcoming Christmas pedestestrians or has something more sinister happened.

      Either way it’s a bizarre waste of time and money digging up the street before filling it in again only to dig it up again!!!

    • October 30, 2001 at 1:50 pm #717057
      urbanisto
      Participant

      I think the Corpo plan to remove the base of the Pillar (done), the Anna Livia fountain and the toilet block before Christmas and repave. Work on the Spire will start after that and be completed in April. The repaving etc will start then.

    • October 31, 2001 at 1:48 pm #717058
      Rory W
      Participant

      They have almost finished repaving the area from the spire site down towards Easons, nothing else seems to have been done (esp the Anna Livia).

      Why dig it up in the first place if all they were going to do is repave now before digging it up again and then repave again

    • October 31, 2001 at 4:45 pm #717059
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      so they’ll have somewhere to put the Christmas Tree?…the corpo’s decision making process is an absolute mystery.

    • November 1, 2001 at 3:46 pm #717060
      Michael OMaoileoin
      Participant

      Where is the Anna Livia fountain going to be installed?

    • November 1, 2001 at 4:19 pm #717061
      MG
      Participant

      Possibly beside Pearse Street Garda Station

    • November 2, 2001 at 2:39 pm #717062
      PaulC
      Participant

      Actually I notice that they have started some digging near the Garda station on Pearse Street – I am not sure if this is perparatory work for the Anna Liffey Fountain or not though.

    • November 2, 2001 at 3:01 pm #717063
      GregF
      Participant

      ………….and they have tape around the fountain cordoning it off.

    • November 5, 2001 at 1:48 pm #717064
      PaulC
      Participant

      Actually the fountain will be moved in the next 10 days and will be moved to the Croppy Memorial on Wolf Tone Quay near Heuston Station.

    • November 5, 2001 at 2:03 pm #717065
      dc3
      Participant

      Croppies lie down, most likely.

    • November 5, 2001 at 2:16 pm #717066
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      Oh no, I live on Parkgate Street, and have to walk past the fountain at the end of Sherwin Bridge every day… its a magnet for drunks and druggies.

    • November 8, 2001 at 9:43 am #717067
      GregF
      Participant

      The fountain is now definitely in transit …..the sculpted figure is gone and the blocks are numbered.

      [This message has been edited by GregF (edited 08 November 2001).]

    • November 8, 2001 at 10:21 am #717068
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      construction on the monument won’t start until April and won’t be finished until September next year, why does everything have to take so bloody long! ? we’ve been talking about the spike for years now.

    • November 8, 2001 at 12:25 pm #717069
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      Has it been offically decided when the “Bitch in the ditch” is to go?

    • November 8, 2001 at 5:54 pm #717070
      iuxta
      Participant

      i had heard that it was to move to a new location in Merrion Square.

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