GregF
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Ah fuck the cu*ts …..sure I bet the final yoke aka building will fall way short of what was proposed. I hope I am wrong for the sake of Dublin and the docks.
Have’nt been up this way in a while ….Has Dunne Stores then demolished that fine red brick Victorian building here
Poor aul’ Breno is turning in his grave.
Also folks not only is the music that they play in these kips way too LOUD, it is also always absolutely shite as well!….Britney & Co etc….music for kids at playschool rather than adults in a nightclub!
Hearing that the name of the original winner’s were lost and could be not matched to the entry….this whole competition definitely reeks of something fishy………especially when there is a bit of nepotism involved in the end.
Bunch of f*cking monkeys who ran the competition. Have a banana……..I heard too there were once plans to level the entire city centre including concreting over the river Liffey making one huge road et car park for all. The City Fathers aka Frank Feely and Co nearly had their dream materialized at one stage too!
If that’s the way they maintain their HQ one can only imagine how they maintain their role as a union.
Frank McDonald and Garret Fitzgerald are discussing it on the Pat Kenny show at the mo this morning! LUAS aka FIASCO
Behan to get statue honour
02/10/2003; The Mirror; TOM TUITEBRENDAN Behan is finally to be honoured by his home city, almost 40 years after his death.
Dublin City Council has announced plans to erect a statue in memory of the playwright known as the Quare Fella who died in March 1964.
Artist John Coll, who created the Patrick Kavanagh memorial, will design the Behan statue which is to be given a place of honour at Binns Bridge, near Dorset Street.
The statue will see Behan, who would have been 80 this year, sitting on a bench on the banks of the Royal Canal.
Whatever about Wolfe Tone’s statue at St Stephen’s Green and the Four Provinces and Thomas Davis at College Green, I think it was intended to depict them in such a modern style of the time…..hence their distorted appearance. A classical statue to Tone maybe would have done the great man more justice and him substituted on Nelson’s plinth could have been the answer.
However the Molly Malone statue by Jean Rynhart with it’s quirky Post Modernism and bad bodily proportions is kinda odd. Maybe it was the sculptress intentions but all of her figures have the same features. No doubt Alan D will be on expounding it’s wonderful and unique merits.
The Joyce statue by Majorie Fitzgibbons is good and there is to be a new statue to that great drinker, rogue and man of letters Brendan Behan unveiled along the banks of the canal….like Paddy Kavanagh’s.Don’t forget too the comical little usher at the cinema by Vincent Browne……a one time lecturer of mine in COMAD.
What are you on about……what’s in Spencer Dock at the moment that’s so showy………Nothing! Is there any new building in Dublin that is used to represent the city on a postcard other than the timeworn regulars such as the Custom House and Four Courts…..No!…. but the Oliver St. John Gogarty pub with all it’s larger louts and co. Did we get here in Dublin during our building boom anything to match modern landmarks abroad ……..eh no! Temple Bar was mere infill in that it repaired in some sense a part of the city that was badly scarred. It’s merits however have not been physically echoed.
Silver is a trendy colour at the mo…however gold is everlasting. Would tie in with our ancient Irish history of Or …..aka gold!
The road widening policies by the Corpo aka Frank Feely & Co all those years ago have to be one of the most destructive acts that was done to the city centre (all well as other things), their legacy is permanent scarring that still remains today. (ie Parnell St, High Street etc….and all those street corners which were bluntly chopped off).
I think an act of repairing the city is much needed……and the curse of 100,000 snake bites on the culprits.
