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Bill Cullen worked as a paper/delivery boy in Findlaters before moving onto his successful car dealership career (I seem to remember from his autobiography!)It can’t be closed all that long!
New SPARS are popping up all over the city centre too!
I spotted the tell tale ‘New SPAR opening here soon’ (Groan!) signs on Talbot St, Parnell St and Abbey St (opposite Jervis)!
I’m sure there are lots more too!I believe that they were testing the roadworthiness of a section of the paving!
I remember reading something about it at the time!!Everything looks better from a distance so perhaps views from 250m will obscure the un-savoury elements that exist in the quarter!
I dunno!,
I was listening to the debate on electronic voting in the Dail yesterday and it sounded more like a ZOO, so why shouldn’t the conference centre be like a barn!!!
(Especially since Fianna Fail will probably hold their Ard Dheis there next year!!):D
I see that church behind the Abbey is for sale. I always thought that this church would be one of the limiting factors to the Abbeys expansion on the present site. I supposed that it would be hard to convince whatever church it was to give up their place of worship! I wonder if the church listed?
Have you noticed that a new pub has opened in the former AIB building on the junction with Abbey St.?
I also noticed a planning application for a new pub (well they say cafe/bar!!) in the old Man U shop on D’Olier/ Westmoreland St.
What with the existing bar on the corner here (Redz! – Yrrrggghh!) and that new pub beside Wolfe Tone Pk at Jervis St I think this proliferation of new pubs is reaching epidemic proportions!!
I’d suspect that an extra few K would be tacked on to the asking price!
Although I do agree I did feel sorry for whoever lives in those cottages between the Four Courts and Capel St. I hope they all have net curtains.
I remember going up in that glass lift in Smithfield a couple of years ago. We were all standing gazing out as it passed up by the windows of Chief O’ Neills hotel when suddenly we were face to face with a poor girl undressing in one of the bedrooms. I dunno who was more embarrassed!!
How much has the value of their houses increased because of their proximity to the Luas.
Lets sum the compensation they are claiming with the increase in value of their houses and whichever is greater either side pays the other!!!!!!!!!I’d suspect they plan to floodlight as part of the general O’Connell St upgrade and will compleate it sometime in the near future!
I was walking home at about 3 in the morning when the top section was lying on the ground. A crowd of girls pleaded with the security guard and he lifted the fence and let us crawl under to touch the tip! We were all so euphoric afterwards I remember even though we didn’t know each other! Could have been the drink I suppose!
From todays Irish Times:
Liffey kiosks are ‘visual vandalism’, council told
Frank McDonald, Environment EditorThe architect of a planned European-style book market on Grattan Bridge has appealed to the public to suspend judgment on the project until it is finished.
Capel Street art gallery owner, Mr Gerald Davis, has complained to Dublin City Council that four new kiosks intended as elaborate book stalls were “totally out of place” and amounted to “visual vandalism” of views of the Liffey.
However Mr Dave Richards, of Gilroy McMahon architects, said the kiosks were “like a piano with its lid down” at present. “They have to be seen with their panels opened out and awnings down.”
Mr Richards said he was “pleasantly surprised” by the reaction so far, even from wisecracking Dubliners. “In general, people are delighted to see this type of thing happening here.”
The kiosks were prefabricated in Spain as part of a €2 million project to turn Grattan Bridge, which links Capel Street with Parliament Street, into a contemporary version of an inhabited bridge, such as the Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
City architect Mr Jim Barrett said the proposed book market on Grattan Bridge was the latest phase of the city council’s plan to enable people to enjoy the river.
The €2 million budget included a major reconstruction of the bridge deck, new granite paving for the footpaths and a set of benches with wooden seats and toughened glass backs.
The kiosks are due for completion by St Patrick’s Day. The first one to open on a pilot basis will be a book sales outlet for the Hugh Lane Gallery.
Mr Richards said the idea was to recreate something which the city used to have – the bookstalls on Bachelor’s Walk and Wellington Quay which brought a touch of the Seine to the Liffey.
© The Irish Times
I lke the sculpture of the person climbing the canal side of the building but I think I read somewhere that it’s actually fibre glass. Is this true I wonder?
Just a question on the SOM proposal. Will the sloped public area on the roof not be extremely dangerous?
I can just see people careering all over this in wet or icy weather. And what about access for the disabled? This would be almost totally inaccessable for a wheelchair bound person. (I know I wouldn’t like to be perched at the high end with bad brakes.)
This was actually my favourite design. I liked the ideas but I don’t know how they will work in reality.The STW was like a shoebox and the internal layout of the apartments and hotel bedrooms looked as if it was an effort to squeeze in as many as possible. They are all box shaped and exactly the same.
Overall I was disappointed that car parking was allowed in the scheme.
For a second when I saw the SOM proposal I thought it was a glorified multi-storey carpark.
I think with the DART so close by they should promote that for access to the centreI stood at the STW model for a while on Saturday and the first word out of the mouths of a lot who passed was ‘boring. In fact one person even apologetically said, “I’m sorry but this is boring!”
