Spike Vs Anne Summers
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Work is commencing on the paving of O’Connell Street today around the area of the GPO and Easons/Penney’s as the bus stops have been moved down further.
They’re finally getting their fingers out.Anyone concerned about the building on Moore Street where the 1916 rebel leaders agreed to surrender.
Demolish it to pave the way for redevelopment?……..or incorporate it into the new proposed redevelopment?
Preferable to preserve of course, but any argument hinges on how it would affect the proposed scheme.
Like the Ntl Gallery Mill Wing and the townhouse debate.Raise the whole ILAC complex while you are at it. Moore Street is not a market in the normal sense – its filthy and shabby, a monument to urban ignorance.
Hopefully a good modern design could incorporate this historical structure into its complex.
Moore St. is very much a real urban Dublin market and I think most of the traders there would disagree with your opinion. Real markets, from the many I have been to, are filthy affairs – sure, it could do with some better cleaning but I wouldn’t like to see it turn into some sort of polite Temple Bar market.
Go to Mainland Europe – see a clean, inviting and quality street market. Not the crap that you find on Moore Street.
I see that there is a planning permission sign for satellite dishes to be mounted on the roof of that old Bank of Ireland between Clerys and Ann Summers. A Bookies is due to set up shop here soon, I believe, so if you don’t think its appropriate for this location maybe an objection would be an idea?
Its an English chain of commercial (i.e. not very sleazy) sex shops which aim at the mass market.
I can’t belive the arrogance of that chain, that they flaunt their ‘wares’ blatently through their expansive windows without the slightest consideration for the st, esp after the controversy over it’s opening.
Now I’m not one to be easily offended, nor a typical ‘Liveline, its a disgrace’ contibuter, but an exercise in a little more modesty woundnt go amiss.
true, i dont want my eyes assaulted with a plethora of dildos, it takes away from the giant metal one in the middle of the street!
Really how can a few dildos take away from O’Connell street? Ann Summers is the sexshop equivalent of an Enid Blighton story and its customers are cherrycheeked and middle class in the main, it also looks and smells a damn sight better than Supermacks et al. so why not?
Also on the subjest of environmental impact studies; do they consider the insulting smell of fast food ‘restaurants’ in their inquiries?I completly agree with pvdz as long as people don’t think that’s a souvenir shop…
Also in our days and cities is much better to assume that shops like that really exist and are serious lucrtive business instead of hiding them in “street basements”. Some people might feel “ofended” but, at least here, and because of that reason the shops’ fronts never show the “offendable” objects!
Smells eminating from fast food shops are actually considered in planning permissions, although I’ve yet to come across a fast food chain that has had an EIS carried out.
Even harsh flouresent lighting spilling out through windows is taken into condiseration.How are Mc Donalds and Burger King etc on the st then? Well as everyone knows, Ireland did’nt have a planning system in the 70s.
Anyone ever get that smell of stink emanating from the fast food outlets on O Connell Street from time to time. Smells like rotting carcasses or something…..to accompany the filthy greasy slime that cover their pavements outside.
And how is it, tell me, how is it, that piles & piles of commercial waste, including the steaming remenants of Big Macs and the like, are allowed to be tossed out onto the sides of all city centre streets at 3.30/4.00pm everyday?
It has to be the most ludicrous aspect to this city (and in the overall scheme of things, thats pretty major)
Can you just imagine this happening on the Champ Eleyses, or Oxford St or Trafalgar Square?
When I pass it all every evening on O Cll St, Westmoreland, Nassau & so forth I’m absolutely mortified at the idea that even being Irish accociates me with this type of crap.It is the most disgusting practice that the city could possibly execute on itself and sends out the worst signal to all tourists and visitors.
And as Greg F says, THE SMELL!!!
i’m not defending this, but the bins are always overflowing at that hour, the council need to empty the bins hourly 24/7 ….. they stop well before midnight as far as i can tell, does anyone know the exact hours ?
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