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Its unfortunate to think that the changes in taxation will encourage the IRFU to LEAVE Landsdowne Road, not stay there… I realise there are lots of downsides to staying there, but imho the advantages outweigh them greatly….
“The two major bodies representing rugby and soccer are involved in behind-the-scenes contacts with the Government on proposals for a new stadium. “
What ever happened to all the private submissions ?!? Have they been written off already ?!?
If you go to Galway Co Co link above, there seems to be a very good listing of guidlines/reports etc (including that discussed above) in the “Useful Publications/Resources” section…
(Pity Galway CoCo couldn’t have made that document into a pdf instead of having individual pages in gif format…)
Instead of looking for a “template” surely one should consider enlisting the help of an architect ?!?
How can one really expect to find a template that magically fits into one’s already purchased site ?!?
Could this (which to me seems a pretty good example of what we should be demanding in our countryside) have be built from a template ?!? Me thinks not !!
This is a pretty bad picture but at it’s the best i could find at short notice… Sarsfield house is the white office block in the centre of the picture… it looks better in reality…
Really hate the way everyone in the media jumps on Limerick… ok so there are certainly serious feuds between certain familys etc which is obviously not good, but this does not make it a city where ordinary people risk being abducted or having their camera stolen !!! I’ve been around the Pery Sq area many many times and never had any hassle at all.
As for that building JS mentioned, it might be Sarsfield House which is where the Collector General’s Office is based… if I recall the Revenue Commissioners’ moved out of it and moved to new offices in Charlotte’s Quay. Was not aware that Sarsfield House was listed though…
Good piece on todays 1 o’clock news about it… link to realplayer file here
now THAT is a crane… must be costin’ ’em a fortune now that it will be sitting there doing nothing over the christmas…
I know the structural concept of a cantilever bridge such as this is much different from the suspension bridge that is the Millennium Bridge, but i still can’t help but see the similarity between the two… i.e. steel ties supported by shallow inclined v-shaped piers…
But maybe its just the picture… and i suppose it is premature to judge it on this one picture alone… still from initial impressions i can’t say i like it even if i don’t know why…
Would also like to see a view of it with Calatrava’s proposed bridge in the background…
Re the stereotypes: well have been living in Sweden for two years now… have lots of friends who have a great sense of humour, but even they admit that as a country it is pretty dry… anyway that’s not the point… point being that we as a nation have to get our act together…
there is just this one small problem with the Swiss, Swedes, and Danes – they have no sense of humor…might be why everything in their countries works since they don’t know how to make fun of it
I kindof resent this fact… ok yes most Swedes don’t have much of a sense of humour… but just cause we do is no excuse… “argh ya our infrastructure is crap but we get locked yyeehh and we’ve got guinness yyeehh and we have the craic yyeehh”
The people in charge, ie architects, engineers, planners etc etc are serious people and take their jobs seriously… just because we have a sense of humour as a race of people gives us no excuse for having a shit transport system…
Granted we were a poor country for a long time, a fact that is probably forgotten about now, but still we have to get our act together…
Kinda like the ‘stiffy near the liffey’… not much dignity but what the hell !!
I recall an ex-boss having an aerial map of the Limerick city area hanging on his wall – however the jail and barracks were blacked out, unlike Oceanfree/Mapflow were they are freely visable… Does anybody know if there was ever an actual restriction on publishing pictures of such ‘sensitive’ locations ?!?
Recently purchased a copy of Craig’s “Dublin 1660-1860” – fantastic stuff and highly recommended…
Love finding second hand-books so don’t like giving this away but what the hell… a database from lots of different second-hand booksellers can be found at http://www.abebooks.co.uk I’ve used it a lot recently and have found it to be very very good.
Still can’t find a copy of “The Destruction of Dublin” though 🙁 I thought I had sourced not one but TWO copies of it, only to find out that they had just been sold… DAMN YOU OUT THERE WHO GOT THEM FIRST !! 🙂
mmmm yes we’re not the ‘worst’ but for a capital city in europe it is a tad embarrassing when you have to tell visitors that there is no rail link to the airport, that you have no idea how long it will take them to get to the airport depending on traffic, that there is no metro/tram system, that everything involves car/bus gridlock etc etc
but no point complaining… LUAS is a start… and when one sees the cost of Ardnacrusha back then, one really has to think that it is worth borrowing now and build the damn metro NOW… the city will benifit from it for over 100 years so its worth going out on a limb and increasing the national debt…
maybe we need a brave figure to put their neck on the line and say ‘bollix to all the bregrudgers, we are going to build the thing now… tomorrows generation will benifit from it so they can help pay for it too…’
Nationwide did an interesting piece on O’Connell Street and the infamous trees recently… you can watch it here (streamed using realplayer)
He seems to have been badly advised so he should be giving out to his architect/engineer and not making incredibly stupid statements…
But if people can paint castles pink…
There is some info on it here
have a mag-lev train running in a straight line from the airport to a city centre terminal that would also serve tourist airships for a slow luxurious scenic trip round the country. Or rebuild Brunel’s pneumatic railway.
Ok I don’t want to be the typically pessimistic here but the term “ah for f#ck sake” quickly comes to mind…
On a practical note how the hell is one to get a “straight line”, presumably above ground, from Swords to the city centre ?!? And remember we are a small country who can’t even get there act together and build a metro, not the mind the years it took to get the port tunnel underway (which btw cannot be compared to the pretty small Lee tunnel). The only place i have heard where a “mag-lev” train is being used is in the Ruhr Valley in Germany – and to think that we can make one viable here is just not worth taking about. An ordinary damn train/metro/tram service would do fine, and the chances of us seeing one in the next 10years look pretty damn slim now without bringing magnetic levitation into it !!!
As for all this talk of Brunel, well as you can gather from the tag i am a fan, but the more you read about this guy the more you see that he was not the ‘total hero’ that LTC Rolt made him out to be. Of course he achieved fantastic things, but he was driven, to a large extent, by his ego. And in this day, where ‘consultation’ is the buzzword, there is no place for a “Brunelesque” approach.
As i near the end of my rant 🙂 I would like to point out the fact that ‘Public Private Partnerships” are of course bringing in foreign capital, however we Irish have to get used to the consequence of tolls… something which may take some time…
I agree and think the spire will be a success due to its originality and elegance… it has the potential to be a defining feature unlike the two new bridges for example which, although good in their own way, are in no way significant on a european/world scale…
But a “120-metre high pint of Guinness”, now there’s an idea !! And we could have bungy jumps where u would pay more to go deeper into it, giving u more time to gulp as much as possible… the corpo would make a fortune from all the kiwis coming over !! 😀
