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There is no precedent for a local authority financing or part financing to the extent SDCC is for the building of a sports stadium for one code.
Anyway this is getting off topic. Just felt i had to challenge Panda’s offensive comments.
I somehow don’t think that the protestors of Dublin 4 are your general GAA demographic.
As for Tallaght the GAA are correct – why should taxpayers money go into a stadium that excludes our national games. Shamrock Rovers have conspired to ruin themselves and there’s no point in blaming the GAA for it.
In relation to the Bertie Bowl, Lansdowne Road and even the proposed Long Kesh stadium the GAA have always been extremely supportive so save us the anti GAA rant.
the second word must be Green.
I wonder does the first word have something to do with the opposite of dominiks’s place as ‘refelected’ in theliffey – this would be close to Newmarket. Though i can’t think of an eight letter word to fit this.
Bottom Marks from me!!
The graceful symmetry has been completely destroyed. Why they couldn’t just leave it be.
…and unless i am mistaken Commerzbank house, guild street, ifsc is the modern office block at the top…
all of those reasons are readily surmountable. The benefits greatly outweigh the cost and it could be a nice feature in itself. the only caveat is that in not be lower than Butt bridge otherwise it will further restrict the greatly reduced ability of boats etc to sail up the river.
some brave soul should start a campaign to boycott product advertised on the bridge. If advertisers get a notion that they may be losing trade as a result of using the loop line as a clothes line for their wares then they’ll remove them pronto. This is the only way to get through the them.
PDLL, you have to compare like with like. In terms of economic success we compare very favourably to the likes of Germany but only over the last 10 years, in terms of infrasturture we currently compare poorly. But this is partly a chicken and egg debate. We have acheived an astonishing economic turnaround and are now working on the infrastructure. If we had built motorways in the 70’s and 80’s there is a chance the tiger would never have arrived. It was McSharry’s cutbacks that kickstaarted the economy not a cash splurge. Instead of constantly moaning can’t we at least concede that we are moving in the right direction and can’t we give the politicians and planners the time they require.
I also don’t agree with the notion that we elect morons any more than other nations.
This is not to say that mistakes have not been made – the M3 route is a travesty – but given prosperity didn’t reach us until 10 years ago i don’t feel we’re doing too bad.
Finally if you really want to know how europe did so well within a short period after the war – it was the Marshall plan and not anything the German’s or French did.
This is far from the only stretch built in this period. There was a time that our friends across the border would mock our roads – not any more. Driving from Dublin to Belfast quickly proves that.
Within ten years we’ll have motorway / dual carriageway from Dublin to Cork and Galway. Perhaps this isn’t quick enough for you and perhaps we’re not the industrial powerhouse of Europe that Germany was but one thing we are not and that is pathetic. We are a country will full employment and working flat our in terms of infrastructure.
actually i go west more often – and now i have motorway to beyond mullingar – suppose though you wouldn’t consider that progress.
Correct Boyler, i too am proud to be Irish and cannot stand the anti Irish, aren’t we crap, other countries are so much better vitriole that springs forth on this suite every few posts.
This country’s principal acheivement is that it has survived the malevolance of its neighbours and its isolated position on the western seaboard of Europe.
On the subject of infrastructure this country is unrecognisable from that of ten or twenty years ago. Back then we had no cash for big projects unless you took it from the schools, the hospitals or the 250,000 unemployed. Anybody who cannot see the acheivements in the intervening period is blind or bigoted.
So much crap has been allowed on eden quay precisely because hawkins street house is there. I agree that apollo house and an post are offensive too but neither are as bad as hawkins st house because neither are anything like as big. Let’s not forget the Screen too. All in all the ugliest few acres in ireland.
I honestly cannot comprehend for one second (and i’ve tried) how anybody could see the slightest redeeming factor in hawkins street house. Some people like the loop line, some the screen college green, but how anybody can think this building acceptable is beyond me.
fabulous photos alright. how anybody could have built O’connell bridge house in the middle of that scene though..shudder..
we already have Wolfe Tone, would have thought finally a statue of Pearse himself should be considered.
If the Dutch lived in Ireland it would be the richest nation in the world,
but if the Irish lived in the Netherlands it would probably have sunk.please try to remember where you read this as i look a good laugh. what vacuous nonsense.
another thing they could do about the maynooth line would be to open a new station just where that line joins the northern line. Call it Connolly north and run a covered conveyor belt walkway into connolly proper. the distance is about a quarter of a mile and hey presto you can have as many trains as you want from maynooth / dunboyne. Of course nobody who can do something about it has ever thought of it…
