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…….and the red light area is just up the road from it too where ye have strumpets of all varieties…..wea hey!
I agree……It was on around 1 am or something like that….it should have been on around eight instead to help educate the masses and drop Eastenders and all the other regular banal drivel.
The bridge looks brilliant and it is a great landmark……Let’s hope now they get their fingers out and build the other Calatrava bridge further down the quays.The heady days of when we won the Eurovision …alas only a memory now and never to be won by us again due to the blatant favouritism in the voting of most European nations.
…..Would anyone want to employ the likes of these people in future…..I don’t think so, if they get up to this now.
To put it another way too…… the lights are on to keep the burglars away.
There’s nothing more worse too than a dingy house with no lights whether it be in the countryside or city.Anyone see the footage on the news of the beautiful Russian city of St. Petersburgh over the weekend as all the head honcho’s of the world were invited there to celebrate it’s anniversary. It contains some of the most spectacular architectural jewels and the Russian government has rightly spent millions on their restoration……the Hermitage Museum, onion domed cathedrals, various palaces….etc….
Ok, there are still shoddy impoverished areas of the city which were masked from public view…..but fair play to Peter the Great for the wonderful achitectural legacy he left Russia and the world.
Peter, Tzar of Russia heavily taxed his citizens to fund his great building programmes…..a bit like our great leader Bertie today…..(Peter who was a bit uncouth like Bertie, even taxed the wearing of beards, he stood nearly 7 feet tall and had a nervous..t….t… tic, he liked the auld gargle and encouraged his ministers to do so too)…..however for such a coarse character credit can be given to him for westernising and modernizing Russia…..just like Bertie today ….ahem!
How unlike Sadaam Hussein, Peter and Bertie are …..for Saddam ‘robbed’ his country and citizens blind and had nothing to show for it when he was run out of office. What a decrepit kip Iraq is for a supposedly super rich state……unlike the marvellous architectural jewels that St Petersburgh and Dublin have….thanks to the great visionary political leadership of Peter and Bertie………ahem!See attached 2 images of stones from ancient times …..one in Greece; the Omphalos Stone…. and the other in Ireland; the Turoe Stone. The similarities are remakable.
Ian Adamson’s book is used by the British Unionists as they see it as a ‘justification’ for their existance in Northern Ireland. Adamson himself is a Unionist.
Adamson claims that one of the ‘original’ tribes inhabiting Ireland particularly Ulster were a tribe known as the Criuthni….in Scotland they were known as Picts…..in Wales and England the Pretani….hence the word Britain which came from it. He claims they were one of the first peoples to inhabit Ireland coming across a landbridge from Scotland.
He claims the Cruithni (the people of the Stone Age in Ireland) were driven out of Ireland to the extremes of Scotland by the Gaels or Celts (who brought the advent of the Iron Age and Bronze Age in Ireland).
Some Northern British Unionists today claim that the conquering and plantations of Ireland of the 1600s and after by the Ulster Scots was an act of them rightfully retaking their land back…. hence you see the likes of the mural in Loyalist areas proclaiming ‘Cuchulainn …..ancient defender of Ulster against Irish attacks ….2000 BC’.
However, all bonkers really how folklore, mythology and religion can get out of hand…for we here today in the rest and all of Ireland can be just as much part Cruithni, Gael/Celt, Norman, Viking, British or Irish as anyone else…..and placenames and surnames are the evidence.It was probably the Cruithni that built Newgrange and the likes in Knowth and Dowth….great emblems of our Stone Age.
(the surname ‘Rooney’ is supposedly of Cruithni origins )
This building is in a terrible state ….what a disgrace and the whole area around here…..well bar the new Calatrava bridge ….and the Blue Coat School…….and Collins barracks and Heuston Station.
What great anchors amid decrepit surroundings.
Any one see those flats now on Queen Street that are getting the makeover.Eire is a derived name of Eireann (coined by De Valera, for our new Republic, which was known as the Irish free State after we gained our Independance)……The name Eireann came from Eriu who was a Celtic goddess/queen and Erainn who were one of many Celtic tribes who came to inhabit this little island many eons ago.
Some of them are a bit conventional and some are a bit whacky …..but I suppose a whacky one would be the option to catch the eye and enliven this new dull area of the city.
I agree too……It was not a selling point for the country……the backdrop was forgettable. We should brand Ireland more professionally to sell it. It’s the likes of all these little things that add up affecting our image abroad…..and image is everything nowadays.
At least they did have the lovely Pamela Flood delivering the results of the votes and not quirkey old Anne Doyle or Eileen Dunne as they had on past occasions. Sharon Ni Bhealon….and Liz Bonin two more hot contenders.I had a closer look at this complex and I see how they have treated the old facade which is bloody awful. They left the bottom windows and ground floor of the facade hollow and it fits awkwardly up against the new addition. Why they did this is unexplainable.
