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For the firemen? Wow. Was there a Clery’s connection?

Also, I got a picture of the cycle lane on OCS Lower which I’ll post later from home.

@Rory W wrote:

Crow Street Temple Bar

I was going to suggest Crane Lane- up the side of the Dolphin Hotel, facing towards City Hall. Or possibly Sycamore Street, at the side of the Olympia?

@djasmith wrote:

Can you not see the shape of the sword above within the red shape?? Landen and Decies roads form the ‘blade’, with Lally road acting as the ‘point’. To the left of the image you can see Thomond road and Muskerry road forming a handle….. It takes imagination but it is certainly there!

I’m guessing you’re thinking of something like a pirate’s cutlass?

Or was it something a little more exotic, like this late 19th century beauty from the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

😀

@alonso wrote:

considering what happened to the original Jesus, maybe a bit of protection was deemed necessary!!!

If you look closely at the second last picture in Graham’s first post (#2736), it seems someone has already been using the case for spitting target practice.

Or could it be someone drawing a particularly abstruse parallel between the treatment of Jesus during questioning by the Council and the treatment of the protesters during the Reclaim the Streets rally a couple of years ago? (Mark 14:65)

On second thoughts, it was probably just some gurrier with an aversion to authority and a lack of respect for the property of others. This is Dublin, after all.

The days are usually fairly full. Some days can run until after 6 too, though I don’t think it’s all that common. If you can get there on the first morning, or send a representative (not me, I’m afraid), you might be able to get a slot that would facilitate you attending in person, but timetables are prone to slippage.

What dates were you given for the OH? Still 18th to 21st? I heard this evening from another appelant that the start was put back by a couple of days- he’s going to be on holidays, so will miss the whole thing and, like you, is looking for a stand-in. Any truth, do you know?

From today’s Irish Times:

‘Distractions’ to blame for slower driver reaction times

David Labanyi

The amount of time it takes an average driver to respond to a hazard can be almost twice that assumed in the new Rules of the Road, according to an unpublished report.

A study on braking distances for the Road Safety Authority (RSA) found that despite improvements in the braking capacity of cars during the 12 years since the old rule book, driver reaction times have increased, largely due to more distractions.

An RSA spokesman said the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) in England had been commissioned to study how long it takes a car traveling at a certain speed to come to a stop.

In 1995 the stopping distances associated with different speeds assumed a reaction time of 0.66 seconds.

However, when the TRL researchers examined whether this reaction time was still valid, they found it only applied to drivers who are highly alert and aware of the need to react.

For all other drivers, the reaction time should be assumed as being between 1 to 1.5 seconds.

To explain the significance of this difference the TRL report says a driver travelling at 30km/h is expected to be able to bring a car to a stop within 10.8 metres on a dry road, based on the 0.66 second reaction time.

However, if reaction time is increased to 1 second, the stopping distance increases to 13.3 metres, or by almost two car lengths. At 100km/h in wet conditions the difference in stopping distances increases from 122 metres to 132 metres.

Mr Farrell said drivers were increasingly distracted in their cars due to music, passengers, hands-free phones and roadside advertising. This was resulting in slower reaction times he said.

The TRL report also notes that meeting the stopping distances in the Rules of the Road – which are the same as those recommended in Britain – requires a severity of braking that most drivers would be uncomfortable with.

Mr Farrell agreed that, the stopping distances published in the Rules of the Road do assume emergency braking, although this is not specifically stated in the document.

Asked why the Rules of the Road used the shorter, emergency reaction time, Mr Farrell said the published braking distances “give motorists an idea of how long it will take them to actually stop under emergency conditions”.

A motorist’s reaction to a hazard has two elements: their perception of the hazard and how quickly they respond, or brake. These two factors are those which can suffer the greatest impairment due to alcohol, fatigue, drugs or poor weather conditions.
© 2007 The Irish Times

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/motors/2007/0829/1187332774462.html

@Rhabanus wrote:

YES!

@Praxiteles wrote:

YES

@descamps wrote:

yes

@Mrs descamps wrote:

Yes

@samuel j wrote:

YES

@ake wrote:

Yes!

@Gianlorenzo wrote:

YES YES YES

@corcaighboy wrote:

Yes

@kite wrote:

Thank you for the opportunity to allow me to vote YES on this poll Prax……

@Fearg wrote:

@Gianlorenzo wrote:

YES YES YES

YES

Yes.

(Am I too late? Does it seem bandwagony?)

It’s Cork Street / Dolphin’s Barn afaik, JC. Presumably StephenC’s suggestion was close enough.

Mentioned previously here: https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=3822&page=2

Take it outside lads: http://www.politics.ie

😉

Agreed.

Also, I was being a little tongue-in-cheek with the GFA. A quick Google (or http://www.blackle.com as we’re all using now, of course :)) for 1998 + republican + Ireland yielded little else, but Yes, it’s a long shot at best. And to further undermine the theory, I have a suspicion the building was completed earlier than 1998 for some reason (and not just because Casey says ‘mid 1990s’ ;)). When I lived nearby in 2001 it seemed more than three years old, for sure- timeless, you might call it. So the choice of 1998 would then be even odder, and presumably intended to commemorate an anticipated anniversary rather than an event yet to happen.

I’m open to correction/mockery on all of this.