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Cullen might be a bit of a cunt……..He was on Primetime last night pompously waffling on about road develpment etc……..We definitely need the roads, basic infrastructural roads connecting our major towns (I won’t describe them as cities)….Left to the Greens, etc we’d be all riding bicycles on dirt tracks aka boreens…..but Cullen looks as if he would be willing to plough the roads through Tara and such ancient sites etc. Where’s the common sense, especially when he’s willing to squander E50 million on the unuseable electronic voting. Half-wit Irish again.
Can’t trust any of them really; Fianna Fail are willing to build, build, build; but they have any old shite thrown up as well as ploughing through historical archaeological sites (ignorant of architecture and culture) like Fine Gael and the PD’s, where as Labour, the Greens, Sinn Fein etc….are willing to not do anything at all, (besides complaining) keeping the country nicely stagnant and innactive (ignorant of architecture and culture).
The bridges are great…..it’s a start …..better than the 1980’s (we have’nt got any money and were designed by road engineers)
purely functional and plain Matt Talbot bridge and Frank Sherwin bridge which adorn the Liffey. The Dundrum bridge is similar to the one up near Drogheda which looks well when lit up at night.It’s good however that we are finally getting a Daniel Liebeskind piece for the country. It will be some architectural recognition for the city and will in a way be beneficial to the tourism business.
So far we have a Calatrava, now a Liebeskind….who else can we add to the shoping list……..a couple of Brits ….Foster and Rogers, etc…..etc….Would be great if any of the Irish city and town councils employed Diarmuid Gavin to design some public parks around the country. His modern style of gardening, using the whole gamut of native and exotic planting, chrome, timber, water, sculpture, lighting etc….would be a breath of fresh air especially in more modern urban housing, appartment and office schemes, and the Dublin docklands too of course. Go on Peter Coyne of the DDDA get him on board to design a much needed park for the people down the docks. His TV popularity would be a great USP (unique seling point) too, but I bet ye’d rather settle for Gerry Daly.
He could be our own modern Irish version of a Capability Brown.Anyway, the Hill 16 end could be finished off well if it has permanently installed a fair sized scoreboard, video screen and flag masts to fly banners of the county or Provinces colours as well as the dear old Tri-Colour itself centre stage!
A capacity of 80,000 when complete…..imagine had a fourth stand been built …the capacity would have exceeded 100,000 I’m sure. What a leviathan of a ground.
Saw Corks skyscraper aka the seat of bureaucracy the other night on the news….looming in the background as the local FF candidate hung on for his life as he swung outta last years English Grand National Winner. …..jaypers, when is it ever gonna get that much needed makeover…..what a horrible building!
Here’s a model of the completed stadium….there is not enough room to develop a 4th stand due to the close proximity of the railway line.
Jaypers,…that scheme looks good AlanD. I don’t know why the Sligo clique can be so pedantic. Definitely a case of visual illiteracy on the councillors behalf.
The Father Mathew statue near the Sacred Heart is an awful looking thing too …and I say that not just because it’s connected with religion…but because it is a rather mediocre piece of sculpture. Humble I suppose like Father Mathew himself.
Originally posted by notjim
this is a bit of a change of topic but i always thought that we should make a huge glass (or perspex) dome to fit over larkin at christmas, then it could filled with artificial snow and giant fans which would switch on for a few seconds when you put a euro (for the poor or whatever) in a box. leaving it to fall gently on our hero.They have something like that further up the street in the guise of the encased Sacred Heart statue ….I’m sure if ye shook it, snow would appear too.
WOW ….15 storeys…..jaypers will the local hospital be able to cope with all the nose bleeds and light headedness that it’s going to cause.
Ah Jasus …sad is’nt it when we consider 15 storeys as being a skyscraper. Land of the leprecauns!
It will only sink into the thick wooley heads when the island of Ireland is covered from head to toe with regular 2 storey boxes and it will be only then that we will have to discover that the only way is up.Anyone see Top Gear last night……where they raced each other to Monte Carlo. Clarkson in a beauty of a car, an Aston Martin and the other two went by public transport; that being the Euro Star port tunnel and the French public rail transport system. Coras Iompair Eireann are light years behind….but at least they’re getting there…they’re no longer sitting on their hands!
However, well done to ourselves as well for hosting such a great ceremony at the Aras in the Phoenix Park welcoming the new member states. What a great advertisment for Ireland in Europe. Everything looked great….the Aras, our President, the ceremony and the weather itself. And there was such a pleasant infomal yet formal air about the occasion.
(Gas how biased Sky is regarding it’s anti Europe stance. It never showed any of the coverage live from the Phoenix Park yet when the bit of a riot broke out they were there right away with the camaras.)
Given that the crusties are supposed to be in favour of protecting the environment, I would’nt put it passed them however if they vandalized the trees and street. Such is their somewhat twisted and anarchic ideology. If that will be the case thay are no better than the gurriers who wantonly snap in half the newly planted tree saplings in housing estates.
Anyone see the plant containers that have been placed around the city….ie O’Connell Bridge, the Boardwalk, High Street. They have these new ‘Hanging Gardens of Babylon’ quirky looking 3 tiered things planted up with ivy and perennials as well as the regular box containers. Placed in proper street locations could look really good however. A great way of greening the city too.
