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Originally posted by Peter FitzPatrick
I see that the chimneys at poolbeg have new flashy lights, very bright, kind of takes attention away from the spire from vantage point on the outskirts of the city …Email from the ESB:
New chimney lights have been installed on Poolbeg Chimney No. 1 and are
under test at present. The previous lights were over thirty years of age,
were failing regularly and were in need of replacement as spare parts could
not be obtained.The Poolbeg chimneys are on the flight path from one of the runways at
Dublin Airport. Because of the height of the chimney, the lights are
aircraft warning lights rather than helicopter warning lights, which are
visible on lower chimneys in the Dublin area, including our own Combined
Cycle chimneys in Poolbeg. The new lights have to comply with the latest
aviation authority standards* for chimneys of that height (680′) and are
brighter than the old lights.Aviation standards dictate how the lights are set up and their intensity.
ESB is required to comply with these standards. The lights will be lit day
and night. There are three light intensity settings – day, twilight and
night, which is lowest.It is proposed that similar lights will be fitted to Chimney No. 2 in the
next few weeks once testing and commissioning is finished on Chimney No. 1* ICAO Annex 14, Volume 1, Third Edition July 1999, Chapter 6, Table
6.3Regards,
Denis McCabeWho cares what the plebs think anyway? What do they know? The usual response of Dublin howiyas to a work of this scale is to moan about the cost, complain that it should all have been spent on hospitals instead, and criticise it as the personal work of a politician they don’t like e.g. why is Bertie sticking up this pole in O’Connell Street.
Somtimes, to be fair , they say it could be spent on the homeless instead.
(We should try and solve the homeless problem, I think, so we can build bridges and roads with less noise from the usual suspects.)
yeah, I saw the lights driving down the coast road through Clontarf on the way home from work last night and boy, are they bright!!!! When I got to my house in Baldoyle and looked up at the sky from the back garden, I could clearly see the light reflecting off the clouds, even with all the light pollution between Baldoyle and Poolbeg. They really do look pretty cool. I wonder if the ESB are putting the lights on tower 2? A good few of them flashing at night would look great, IMO 😀
yeah they will be installed on the second chimney in a couple of weeks according to the article a couple of posts back…
Originally posted by PaulC
Just imagine that Dublin Council made the announcement tomorrow morning that the Spire is to be taken down and dumped. What would the public reaction be?
I would say there would be uproar from all sections. And I bet there would be a lot more that 50% of Dubs sorry to see it go.….there’d be a bit of an uproar alright but it would fizzle out, I’d say. The lamentable ”floozie in the jacuzzi” has been totally forsaken by all. In hindsight, it was a good attraction and focal point in a way, despite it attracting the riff raff, drug peddalers, etc …. Would it be a good idea to have it re-modelled and re-instated again further up the street, which seems rather empty and bare?
Does anyone know when the cleaning will take place. The Spire looks a stae at the moment – very grubby. Is the idea to flloodlight it dead and buried?
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We need more money in sport, why do you think we have no medals in Athens yet. Bertie should stop wasting the possible funds on ugly and purposeless things like the Spire on O’Connell street.
Ollie Kelly, Dublintom mcgurk was giving out about our performance this morning & saying ‘look how the dutch have done, they’re a small nation …’
small geographically maybe, but holland’s population is 16m+, you can’t compare this against our 3.9m …
I though the initial deal was to light up the whole Spire with flood lighting.. will this ever happen? If/when they do this they could get rid of that stupid avaiation strip of light halfway up, it spoils the spire’s linearness.
Another thing that bugs me is the abrupt metre of light at the top.. they should change it a red glowing pulse, maybe stick a smoke machine up there to give it the added effect of a giant fag in the middle of the street. They could use it to promote the smoking ban by luring punters out of the pubs to spark up.
Here’s some more of those slow shutter photos. They’re by Barry Mason link
I agree about the light in the middle. I think that the lights at the top should also be altered so that there is a gradual tapering of the amount of light emmitted. I must say that I am getting used to it as it is though. It makes it instantly recognisable from afar at night. Who took those photos. They are, I think, the best photos of Spire I have seen.
Originally posted by phil
They are, I think, the best photos of Spire I have seen.Barry Mason, link above.
Thanks for that Morlan. I did not see that link when I first looked at the photos.
Phil
I really like the spire but my main problem with it is that it is too small. When I llok at it I want it to grow up more out of the ground. Look forward to seeing the completion of O’Connell St.
Pictures are beautiful.
They are really great photos……got any more of the city?
I think everyone now appreciates the O’Connell Street makeover despite all the hoo haa by the disgruntled at the start. That old story about the waste of 4 million on the Spire and what about the homeless seems to be forgotton.
They’re are no genuinely homeless people left in Dublin. There is a bed for everyone – be it in a hostel, B&b or whatever
And who the hell wants to win medals in the Olympics? Does it put butter on anyone’s bread in ireland that Cian Whatsisface got a gold for jumping a few fences?
The thought of losing out on the Spire to pay for more of that is moronic. I hope it wins the Stirling prize, but I guess the Gherkin is unbeatable
Originally posted by Sue
They’re are no genuinely homeless people left in Dublin. There is a bed for everyone – be it in a hostel, B&b or whateverAnd who the hell wants to win medals in the Olympics? Does it put butter on anyone’s bread in ireland that Cian Whatsisface got a gold for jumping a few fences?
The thought of losing out on the Spire to pay for more of that is moronic. I hope it wins the Stirling prize, but I guess the Gherkin is unbeatable
Sue you are genuinely shortsighted and selfish. I hope to never meet you.
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