GregF

It looks as if the repaving of O’Connell Street is getting under way now……Alot of the pavements are sectioned off. They will probably leave the inaugural ceremony of the Spire and indeed the revamped street itself till this is all done or well most of it……which would be logical I suppose.

I see that some scaffolding has gone up around the Georgian building where Joyce’s short storey The Dead is set which is just across the way. Are they at long last finally going to restore this building. This area is an absolute eyesore.

I bet if the surrounding areas were improved and substantial buildings were built including the refurbishment of the georgian house where Joyce’s novel the Dead is set ….the bridge would’nt look obtrusive…..but would blend with its new environs.
Anyone ever do a spot of decorating where you do one room up and it makes a joining room look shoddy. This whole area of the city needs a total revamp. The bridge could be a great focal point and feature especially lit up at night. Think about it.

Anyone ever get that smell of stink emanating from the fast food outlets on O Connell Street from time to time. Smells like rotting carcasses or something…..to accompany the filthy greasy slime that cover their pavements outside.

Work is commencing on the paving of O’Connell Street today around the area of the GPO and Easons/Penney’s as the bus stops have been moved down further.
They’re finally getting their fingers out.

Anyone concerned about the building on Moore Street where the 1916 rebel leaders agreed to surrender.

Demolish it to pave the way for redevelopment?……..or incorporate it into the new proposed redevelopment?

Maybe they’ll chain themselves to the old timber frames as a protest…..
I believe the original window frames were there since Daniel O’Connell times, Parnell had the pleasure to gaze out of them…..Padraig Pearse often cleaned them when he had a part time job as a window cleaner…and they witnessed the 1916 uprising too. Maybe Trish Mckenna will raise this issue in the European Parliment.

As stereotypes go too ….I bet the last guy who gets the social housing will neglect his abode ….so the weeds will be up to the windows ……the manky curtains will be hanging out….the gates will be hanging off the pillars…..there’ll be a jallopy in the garden, everthing could do with a coat of paint….there won’t be bit bite or sup in the house and not a child washed either… …..poor craters! ….but Man Utd and Robbie Williams will be the order of the day….as well as anything on Sky TV.
Stereotypical….but true too….why is this always so…..is it the lack of teaching of ‘Civics’ in Irish schools. The ‘begging bowl’ culture is rife too…as well as the ‘robbing’ culture.

The more middle class and well to do we become …the more reserved, uppity and private we become. There was and has always been a neighbourliness among working classes……which goes hand in hand with the borrowing and cadging culture. Human nature I suppose.

See too that are are building a new Opera House in Cardiff…..puts Dublin and the bureaucratic thicks here in the ha’penny place. Shame on them all, the fools….robbers of the nation.

The shiney highly reflective pattern looks quite attractive I think…..but I suppose it is a case of having to like it.
I thought the pattern was to be Celtic in style.
Please will they ever finish the project by installing the lights and giving the whole thing a good clean. Pity the did’nt shot peen the whole thing and have that mirror effect over its whole surface….would be blinding on a sunny day.