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yep i noticed this too. Also I had assumed the one opposite Ringsend garage was to be redeveloped but it reopened a few weeks back too.
Missing crane may delay U2 Tower
DUBLIN Docklands Authority is seeking to remove an old maritime crane from the Record of Protected Structures (RPS) to facilitate the development of the U2 Tower, a local environment group has claimed.The authority has applied to Dublin City Council for the crane, believed to have been built on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay at the start of the last century, from the RPS. However, councillors last night voted to postpone the application on the grounds that the crane had “gone missing”.
Although the crane is on the current RPS, it was removed from the quayside sometime in the last 10 years. A report from senior council planner Patricia Hyde to councillors said the crane was removed “some considerable time ago”. However, the planning department does not know who removed it.
The planning department recommended to councillors yesterday that they delete the crane from record. However, councillors voted to defer any decision so legal advice could be taken on whether deletion from the RPS would prevent legal action being taken against whoever removed the crane without permission.
“This crane was part of the history of the docks and was an important symbol of our industrial past,” Labour councillor Kevin Humphreys said.
“We need to ask the Docklands Authority and Dublin Port who removed it, and we can put in a freedom of information request if needs be, but we should not consider taking it off before we have clarification of the legal position,” Mr Humphreys said.
Damien Cassidy of the Ringsend, Sandymount and Irishtown Environment Group said the Docklands Authority needed the crane taken off the RPS in order to facilitate the construction of the U2 Tower at Britain Quay and the bridge over the river Dodder.
The Docklands Authority was not available for comment last night.
© 2008 The Irish Times
Only in Ireland….
is x near baggot street lower – with the mews being Lad Lane? Only other guess would be Fitzwilliam Lane
so i have no photo of it but can someone tell me where the folowing can be seen on a plaque on the front of a building on a very busy city centre street:
“public lighting and water meter station”
Two injured after crane collapses in Dublin
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhqlidkfeyql/Two people have been injured after a crane collapsed at the Point Village site in Dublin.
It happened at around 8.30am today.
The extent of the injuries is not yet known.
Three units of the fire brigade are at the scene along with two ambulances and a paramedic’s team.
this thread has a few relatively recent pics from yours truly
https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?p=84159#post84159they’re currently lifting the frames for the upper tiers into place so it’s really really taking shape in the last few weeks and now looks like a stadium rather than any random site. The best view, and the one that nearly ends with me cycling into the Dodder every shagging morning and evening, is from Ringsend Bridge across down the river. Great stuff
@StephenC wrote:
I disagree, I think the public domain is great. Its just hasnt been followed through with a concerted effort to improve the retail offer and introduce other uses.
I think that’s a fair point and the redevelopment of the street’s offer must address this.
the O’Connell vs Dame Street debate should be irrelevant if policy was implemented. I believe the goal should remain the copperfastening of Christchurch – Parnell as the civic spine meaning both are “Main Street, Dublin”
are we just naming boozers now? P.Ryan of Baggot Street? 🙂
I reckon Ha’Penny inn is a good bet though… can’t think of many green pubsonly 11 bus routes on O connell Street!
when was henry street pedestrianised? I don’t think i recall traffic on it in my lifetimeanyway city centre malls really are a silly silly concept. I wonder if you could accommodate the same retail floorspace and retain that urban grain?
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world’s great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire’s glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song’s measure
Can trample an empire down.yeh i think that’s what Charlie said to CIE alright. Either that or “Fuck off with your buses. I am a man of fcking culture – PJ get me my coat, I’m going to Paris to buy some fcking shirts…” etc etc (it sounds funnier if you have Dermot Morgan’s voice in your head saying it)
ah hutton c’mon Summerhill and Broadstone are miiiiiiiiiiiles away from O Connell Street and therefore nowhere near the mythical land of An Lár. Surely you can’t expect all buses to strain their way up Parnell Sq and THEN go all the way up Granby row to Broadstone! crazy talk! As your photos show Broadstone is performing a very important role channeling rainwater and giving litter some decent private open space.
As for Temple Bar – the Arthouse, Project Arts Centre (still there?), Cultivate, recording studios, Temple Lane, IFC, music venues like Dorans and the Music Centre ~(button factory me arse), the food market, tonnes of specialist retail and restaurants, and the IFC. It’s a very very different place in the 9 to 5 than at night but sure Joe Duffy and The Star don’t write about that. Also, while not fully pedestrianised it’s the only pedestrian dominant place of that scale in Ireland, i’d proffer, open to correction. So while it doesn’t have an Abbey, a Gate or a National Concert Hall (which it was never intended to ) it’s the number and mix of uses which make it unique – still – despite all the boozers and the easy tabloid slurs. It contains a critical mass of variety, if that’s not an oxymoron, which add up to a cultural quarter. Don’t forget that while the stag and hen parties are staggering all over the shop at 4 am there are people tucked inside less “public” buildings writing songs, recording, painting and making movies etc 24/7.
it was my understanding, and i’m open to correction, that a massive concrete block would have been built on both sides of the Liffey that looked suspiciously like a giant bus garage for buses like.
I see you’re still calling it a drinking den. Christ almighty have you actually been in it at all?
yep Charlie was a slieveen of the highest order and a scab on the face of irish public life, but saving Temple Bar was a great deed for Dublin. Any fucking ignorant prick who calls it a “drinking den” should be thrown in the Liffey, not literally of course – but taken to task in some way. The fact that Temple Bar has not a car in sight either seems to have escaped our old friend sue…
