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“at Civic Offices, Wood Quay”
“Introductory words by …., Dublin City Manager”Well who would have believed it?
Glad to see this morning that the Kiosque is back in operation.
Seems to be a coffee shop all right.
Always room for more traffic signals in Dublin.
Just by the way the latest traffic lights being added around Dublin are set in light grey coloured boxes, rather than the usual black. Indeed I dont think I had seen a grey enclosure before this year.A second passing thought – why have so few business premises abandoned displaying street numbers?
Might be an idea to look hard at the terms of the Guinness bequest of St Stephens Green to the State, and what it might have said about about future usage, if anything.
Well before all this winds up in the High Court, a la Carlton site, Carrickmines etc. Amazing that there is as yet no comments much on the impact of this plan on perhaps the finest square in Ireland.P.S. The Green park area is managed by OPW – and is in Parlon Country
– is this perhaps part of a plan to achieve decentralisation by making the St Stephens Green area a no go area?I’ll take a couple of trucks of topsoil from the flowerbeds
Airports / Western European Capitals without direct rail links.
Luxembourg (no rail), Luqa, Malta (no trains at all anywhere on Malta),
Prague (bus to metro link there, is this Western enough)Doubtless some of the Baltic States also, plus Lisbon, already mentioned.
There is something in what you say in that Media analysis is very poor in ireland and memory seems painfully very short.
They seem happy to just run the press statements, and take comments, “it is good” ,”it is bad” , but analysis is lacking and is substituted by “balanced” comments, from vested interests in the main.
RTE last night were authoritatively stating that Dublin Airport was the only capital city airport in Europe without a rail link. Now without straining by brain I could immediately think of at least three EU other capital airports in that situation, and there are doubtless some others.
Thoms Directory 1961
“International Meat Company LTD” 2 Upper Grand Canal St, Dublin
Dublin Meat Packers, appears as
St Anne Ballymun –
(this is / was behind the new CIE garage, on the Airport edge Road, several hundred yards to the S)It is even cheaper in Reads, Nassau St, if you want to shop early for Christmas.
Yes it is very good to have that new book.
The Marchetti’s have also been all withdrawn from service by the Air Corps, after c 25 years in use.
– perhaps you are thinking of the Pilatus training aircraft GregF ?
“What about the Central Bank in Dame Street? I know from one source that a lot of its operations exist out in Sandyford…”
Dame Street is the Headquarters, Sandyford is the printing plant.
If we wanted the pictures why did we not buy them originally, or when sold off eventually?
This way we buy a job lot. It is probably not a planned purchase, just an accidental addition to the collection.Not as if Ballagh’s, le Brocquey etc are hard to find in Irish public collections anyhow.
And it would be fairly hard to argue that this is or perhaps ever the cutting edge of modern art either.“and is being made under the Heritage scheme.”
That means that the taxpayer gives them credit, so we really donate it to IMMA but that never gets into the kudos.
Stephenson, Gibney and Associates, in 1967.
(I wonder did “House of Wax” ever play there in cinema days?)
“nice RIC heads”
Not so, two members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police are outside the police station.
Frank Taylor wrote:that removing safety guidelines from roads such as white lines, traffic lights and kerbs may cause drivers to slow down.Quote:Doubtless this is also the real, and hidden reason for the near complete absence of useful roadsigns in much of Ireland.
I am amazed that no one has added the Dundrum Bypass to the list of our lesser roads.
One lane, in each direction, relatively short but costing 28m euro I believe, with car park exits to the new centre on one side slowing traffic, awkward entrances and exits, lanes do not align in village and speed restricted as well.
Trying to think of a nice one.
A good, if somewhat reverential, illustrated lecture, on Scott with the extra interest of persons who had known him in the relatively small audience.
His daughter, present for the lecture, is finishing a documentary on Michael Scott, likely to be shown on RTE next January so keep your eyes peeled for that.
