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Is it my imagination or is that fountain not quite level? I’m tempted to bring a spirit level to work some day just so that I can check it on the way home. Maybe it’s just that the slope on the rest of the street, running down from Mercer St. Lwr, gives it that impression.
I would say that the Convenience Store located at the bottom of the slope weren’t too happy with the fountain when it was on. The water used to run down to the gully outside their shop and customers used to tramp it into the shop.That’s that then! – All the trees at the top of O’Connell St have been cut down. I was walking over Parnell St and had to look twice before I realised what had happened. I got a bus on Parnell Sq and it looks strange, as it headed down O’Connell St, being able to see straight down the full length.
I can’t wait to hear the frenzied debate on the likes of ‘Liveline’ today!
I see that Eircom have installed WiFi in their payphone at the edge of the new boardwalk on O’ Connell Bridge. I don’t think I would fancy ‘surfing the net’ sitting on the boardwalk at that particular location!
I notice that the old bus stop signs have started to creep back onto O’ Connell St.
They’ve plonked one right in front of the GPO and another for the number 10 outside the Centra on the other side.
Looks very ugly!I think they should have tried to keep the area between Abbey St and Henry St clear of all this clutter. It looked really good just after it was finished with no signage at the sides or motor bikes, for that matter, in the central median.
Carrolls is deversifying, they have a B&B on Gardiner St now too! In a few years it’ll probably be 6!!
“A new Criminal Court Complex will be developed at Parkgate Street, Dublin 8 by way of a Public Private Partnership. This will take approximately 3 years to develop and construct and will be on an OPW site. When completed it will mean that the State’s Civil and Criminal Courts will operate from separate complexes.”
I found this at Finance.ie, dated 18th November 2004.
There is a planning application in the ticket office window for some alterations externally but I’m not sure of the details. Perhaps they haven’t finished yet! I will have a look later on this evening!
When I saw this post I got goose bumps as I was just discussing it with someone the other day. We wondered if perhaps they might have been the first in the City??
Does anyone else get the feeling that the articles in the property supplements are, in most cases, just a re-hash of the developers/ auctioneers/ estate agents advertising blurbs??
I’m sick of reading what seems like journalistic opinion but is instead a promo for a “fantastically” located “spacious” one bed ground floor flat in a new development in Ballyfermot (Sandyford etc., etc.).
I think they just copy and paste out of the press releases. There is usually very little, if any, criticism of the terrible replicates style of apartment that is going up all over this city!
They have had to put railings up around the table. Takes away from the starkness of having the table isolated on the central median!
I think that stray balls were causing trouble for motorists!!!
There is also a sign now warning players not to throw balls at cars!You really should post a warning before including something as funny as that, I nerly fell off my chair laughing. I’m still getting funny looks as I type this!
Seriously though, a bit of colour, similar to this Lego creation, might brighten things up out in the drap depressing hole that is City west. If it worked we could Legoise Parkwest and Eastpoint too!! 🙂
Has anyone had a game of table tennis yet at the new installation north of ‘The Spire’ yet. Bats are available in the tourist office down from The Savoy. Think its part of an art project looking at the positive side of Communism!!
Yeah, I was down at the NCI yesterday and there is definitely a much better feel about the place.
Last year I’m sure I spotted a tumble weed blow by as I walked down Mayor St.A bit off the topic, I wonder will the move of the DITs out to Grangegorman affect life in the city.
The Kevin St, Aungier St area definitely won’t feel the same without the students. :confused:@Graham Hickey wrote:
Can they do that?
The title of this thread is the best, can’t help but laugh every time
I love it too, always have a chuckle everytime I see it!,
It sums the situation up perfectly!
A planning notice has gone up on the former Bank of Ireland beside Clery’s.
It is for a Bookies office with associated signage etc.
May be of interest to those of you who are usually so vocal on the quality of development on O’Connell St. (Doc Quirkey’s springs to mind)
The date on the notice was the 4th of August ’04I read the planning notices and it seems as if they are going to expand the offices out level withfront of the building and get rid of the public plaza. It also mentions something bout fences, possibly a reaction to the trouble they have with the scateboarders (I’ve seen the security guard running after them a few times). A pity I think, I like the openness of the space there!
I really like the new lime green livery on the Dart/ commuter trains (second last picture) and also just in relation to the Georges Quay towers I think they look well from a lot of vantage points around the city!!
