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Here are a few pics I took in the Clarion hotel during a recent stay in Limerick. Pics taken with phone cam so resolution and quality is not great:

I find it strange that people oppose high rise buildings when we’ve had the equivalent of two 70 story buildings over 200 metres tall in Ringsend which are visible outside of Dublin in neighboring counties. The “chimney stacks” are not exactly attractive yet they are there!!! If we can have the equivalent of 70 story towers over a fifth of a kilometre tall in the city, why can’t we have some inhabited buidlings???

Funny you should mention the radio broadcasts from the GPO. Main lock on the door in my house is actually the original lock to the Radio Eireann studios or whatever they had back then. Fine big lock and fantastic looking key.

Thanks a million for explaining all that Devin. All makes sense now. And I did need to see that pic from post 38 to get my bearings. To be honest, I never even new there used to be a street where the Ilac is now. Presumably this would have linked Dominick and Liffey Streets???

Anyway, regarding where I got the image from: I recorded the program from digital TV onto the hard drive of my DVD recorder, then copied it onto DVD, loaded up the dvd onto my PC and using my editing program, took a frame grab and posted it on here. Quality of picture and sound is excellent as the original film footage was restored. There are many fascinating scenes in this program of Moore St, Smithfield and surrounding areas. I actually have a good few other screen grabs saved to my PC as I have created DVD covers and images to print onto the DVDs themselves to make them look better as I intend to keep this program for archive purposes. I could post up more here if anyone is interested although I’m not sure what the story with doing that is, copyright wise.

Graham

OK, very small pic I know. Apologies. I took this snapshot from the fascinating program about the Moore St Traders originally broadcast way back in 1974 but shown again last week. Credit for this pic is with RTE. Now the pic is of the site now occupied by the Ilac Centre. Question is, the building toward the top left of the pic with the dome, is this Arnotts or possibly Jervis hospital. I first thought it was Arnotts but I think there are too many windows, bay wise. And it looks like the Guiness buildings behind it so this would not be right. Jervis seems to the candidate then? Anyone have any ideas? Sorry for possibly going off-topic. I don’t really think this warranted a new thread.

Thanks

Graham

Although slightly unrelated, has anyone noticed the distinct lack of water in the Liffey at low tide during this recent dry spell? When passing over the Liffey on the LUAS at Heuston the past few mornings, the liffey is looking more like a small stream with mud and trollies and cones everywhere (and a nasty smell!). Maybe the rain forecast this weekend will alleviate things somewhat.

That’s exactly my point. The chimney stacks are all we have to show in our skyline. And while I’d admit it would make a huge difference to the Dublin skyline if the chimneys were removed (and I would kinda miss them deep down), it’s a pity that our skyline is 2 big chimneys and a big pointy spike – BTW I do love the Spire 😉 Whilst flying into most medium to large developed cities around the world, the first thing that strikes you is the skyscrapers. When I flew into Perth, Australia a few years ago, the view of the city skyline was amazing. And when flying into Toronto, the view was equally spectacular. The plane was nearly on the ground before I even noticed the CN Tower, simply because my eye was drawn to the huge cluster of 50-60 story buildings. Even from the plane, I could tell that I was arriving in a modern and thriving city just from the style and architecture of the buildings. If I was arriving into Dublin by plane for my first time and all I could see was 2 big chimney stacks and a huge low-rise urban sprawl, I reckon I’d assume it’s a fairly non-developed non-descirpt large town.

Now a dozen or so buildings around the same height of the Poolbeg chimney stacks really would look the biz down in the docklands and would also take ones eyes from the chimneys stacks as they are quite ugly, IMO. Some tastefully designed skyscrapers along with the standard glass clad type sky-scrapers would suit the area so well. In fact, they could maybe even help the chimneys blend in a little with their surroundings. And as I drive down the coast road to work and see this proper city skyline, I know I’m driving through a prosperous and developing city – Developing upwards instead of outwards.

Hi Lotts
Just replying about the 3 lanes of traffic into 2. Only 2 lanes from O’Connell Bridge are for going straight ahead. The other two are right turns only.

Graham