GregF
Forum Replies Created
- Posts
Well that is what would be unique to this project….plenty of back garden space so as the ‘La De Da’ brigade can have barbecues in their marquees.
…or I’m sure other residential accomodation could be inserted at the bacck of them aka Mews etc….
Well let’s put up the taxes then so as we will have a more than adequate service. I’m sure McCreevy, (sleeveen and all as he is) & Co allots enough capital for what they can afford out of the annual budget.
4 miserly Euro for the Spire, surely you are not a begrudger too….aka in the Michael Ross camp. Don’t tell me you can’t see the bountiful benefits for the city and nation that this rejuvenation plan will bring.
My liver is falling out of me arse from the drink but I’m not complaining …I’ve only myself to blame. I cough up sputum regularly from smoking 80 a day….but I’m not complaining, I’ve only got myself to blame.
But sure maybe then I’ll join the hospital waiting lists and hopefully I’ll get a liver transplant before that young innocent child…..I could do with a coronory bypass as well …..and but of course I’m not gonna change my lifestyle. Why should I…sure can’t they do wonders today.
(By the way Ireland has one of the highest rates of heart desease and related illnesses in the world)
‘Responsibility’ is the keyword……a word that a part of society fail to understand.
Comprehendez!It’s mutual …I despair for you as well Alastair……why must you always be so pedantic.
I have a mate who happens to be a doctor….ye wanna hear the stories he could tell ye about the time wasters and injuries caused by sheer bloody neglect. Don’t nit-pick for the sake of it.Michael Ross sounds like one of those bleeding hearts….you know the type; they complain about the homeless etc…. but ask him to take one home with him do you think he would?
As about the health service….the health sevice is strained due to a lot of these dependancy culture hyperchondriacs going in complaining with the slightest of pains and taking up the much needed space and attention which is much needed by those who are seriously ill.
Remember just recently the casuality wards ask such wasters to stay away…and they did!
If we as a society cut down on the cigarettes, were more responsible drinkers, ate a decent diet and took some regular excercise it would cut the hospital waisting lists by half I bet.
Na, but such would rather sit on their fat arses drinking in pubs, eating sausage & chips, watching the English footy and smoking to their hearts content while they whinge about the Spire and money spent making their environment better. Beliitling f**kers.
Here’s to the Spire.
Here’s to the National Stadium. Maybe when it’s built such people should be made to go for a few laps around it to clear the muck out of their systems and veins.12 and 9 storeys Notjim….I’m having a nosebleed at the thoughts …but no one will never survive such high attitudes……heh heh ….only kidding! ………and yep indeed Graham Liberty Hall definitely needs restoration or a make over/upgrade especially if they are to build that new Tara Street train station across the Liffey
We should hang the present Dublin Lord Mayor from a Judas Tree with the likes of other such meely mouths, back-stabbers and cut-throaths etc….that take a long time and some amount of cajoaling in order to see the light.
I’d say they’ll use a great big super stretch cherry picker to get that beacon off the top and also to maintain the Spire from time to time.
Is’nt technology great this days and is’nt it great what some people can do……I bet the New York Fire department has even taller ladders to stretch into the sky than our Spire here.Ah…. that’s what is wrong with the Liberty Hall…I bet they replaced only the windows that were broken with reflective glass….. hence it’s lack of uniformity. I bet those warped window frames need replacing too.
Just to add …..but jesus are’nt appartment sizes here absolutely laughable….really. Even the most expensive and latest ‘La-De-Da’ ones on the market. Why are people so willing to spend their money on such mediocre dross.
Ever see abroad in Europe or the USA appartments with double doors, high ceilings, spacious rooms, etc… aka room to breathe and live. You see the like in the movies.
They are only convienences that they build here…….somewhere for someone to stay whilst they go to work.
(The height factor is a cause here too).O’ Connell Bridge House only recently got a make over …….and although an anchor point here on the bridge it is a great pity that it is’nt a bit more stylish. There is too much clutter on the top and the new glass is rather dull. I thought the make over would have been a lot better. Would the wanting Liberty Hll please get a make over too….how about some sexy reflective shiney glass for all, (people realize now how good the spire looks in the sunshine with it’s reflective surface….. the penny has dropped).
A restaurent on the top of O’Connnell Bridge is a brilliant idea …(any entrepenuers out there with lots of money to splash about in their hometown rather than abroad)….I bet the restaurent concept with a good marketing edge would be a tremendous success. Give that loopline bridge a makeover too. This area could really look great from the Ha’penny or Millennium bridge …especially at night if it were all lit up too.Good one Pete ….Come on, let’s all vote for the Spire……and have it up there with ‘A Nation Once Again’…….heh heh!
Good one Graham, If Freud was here he would no doubt relate it all to sex ……penis envy and fear on behalf of the young women, aspirational on behalf of young men, jealousy on behalf of old men who can get it up no longer, and Sex mad older women who’ve seen it all before and just can’t get enough!
When you say Paris is fairly low rise, most of the buildings however are either a uniform 5/6 storeys high. Such scale in general 2/3 storey Dublin would be seen as dizzying heights.
This is a topic which I always rant on about. I agree Dublin needs taller buildings …but not in historical low-rise parts of the city….but in existing open spaces and brownfield sites that offer such opportunities such as Dublin Docklands.
It is ridiculous the way every new building has to adhere and is given the stumpy, lopped off appearance. Tall visually exiciting buildings/structures should be built where they could be appropriate and appreciated, not run of the mill 2/3 storey regular hum drum. Substantial buildings should be the order of the day.
Dublin is a changing city, it should reflect this. It is not a Florence or Venice, which still remain overall, intact cities of the Renaissance. Hopefully the Dublin Spire will set a precedent and change this stupid mindset that exist among the ignorant and frightened.I hate the delay folks too …I would love to see it all complete as soon as possible……but I just thought there that maybe it appears slow cause they have so to complete all the infrastructural work first which would involve as we see digging up the whole street etc… Much better to get it all done rather than digging up again the newly paved foothpaths and streets….which seems to be a forte of theirs most of the time.
‘The money could have been better spent on the homeless and the hospitals’…seems to be the excuse so as to oppose the Spire.
Okay then how about McCreevy put up the taxes of the workers even more and dock the social welfare as well as the pensions so as to provide more than adequate funding for the hospital beds and the homeless.
Let’s say he’ll put up to 100 million or more Euro aside (as he did for the GAA) so as to provide for such causes …and buy everyone who is homeless a house or adequate permanent shelter taking all those unfortunates, drop outs and winos off the streets, (even though some of them are twice the height, weight and strength of meself and would buy and sell ye too)
Maybe too the ‘concerned’ could take in such poor souls and provide food and warmth in these terrible impoverished times….well that’s if they are so concerned.
Here’s to the raising of the taxes for such worthy causes…..
I bet all those shallow bleeding hearts would soon change their tune.Let’s hope this will pave the way with the going ahead of other such large scale projects that would greatly benefit the city and nation.
The proposed National Conference Centre, The National Stadium, the Metro, Caltrava’s second and more spectacular bridge on the Liffey, etc….which were once either met with complacency or shot down….by the ignorant.I think that the shopping mall connecting O’Connell to Moore Street was’nt a bad concept….On refection too the idea of the Abbey moving to O’Connell Street is good as well but I think that may be it should stay put and rebuild a newer and better theatre on the original site where it is now. It could stretch down to the Liffey as was suggested too …it could contain the old original facade within a new innovative design…(ie glass atrium containing the old facade or whatever). It could be a landmark and an another addition to the wanting River Liffey.
Anyone ever see the area around here and Marlborough Street at night with all the piss, vomit, winos and unfortunates of today’s Irish society. It badly needs a clean up.
