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it could be apartment complexes, which are planned and i’ve seen pictures of in irish times property section. Also possible & i don’t mean to be stating the obvious is that it’s the 50-metre Pool at Abbotstown, part of the National Stadium plan.
Sections of the new bridge are going to be winched into place from Saturday Sept 14 to Thursday 19 from the two opposing quays. Dublin City Council still say it will be finished by end of year, despite previous postings here.
Yes, walk down to Chapelizod from the war memorial gardens is particularly nice. You can also see the massive vaults on the church in Chapelizod, the scale of which you get no idea of from driving on the other side of it.
Another great park, which they’ve also done a considerable amount of work on is the Iveagh Gardens.
not quite on theme, but interesting nonetheless for all of us on the Internet
The signs look nice.
But as far as I can see, the only way to comprehend them fully is by learning off each of the these seventy numbered junctions they’ve created and also the names of all the roads in Dublin.
I mean who knows what the R806 or R815 are. I can see them on these map but I’ve never even seen them referred to as that before.
Also, it should read City instead of An Lar. These things are supposed to help tourists, not confuse them even more.I’m not convinced about the Bord Pleanala offices either. I would have expected a lot more of them considering they’ve had their hands in ruining many the scheme, which was of far more merit.
I vaguely remember Frank McDonald writing an article extolling the good points of the building but saying that they had a very limited budget.If they build the airport link on time, that will be sufficient. The extension to Shanganagh is hardly of vital importance considering it will serve (according to the DTO map) only Leopardstown, Galloping Green, Carrickmines, Loughlinstown and Shankill. Proper park & ride on either the DART line or at LUAS at Sandyford is sufficient here. The Blanchardstown extension is also relatively unnecessary considering the already existing Maynooth line, which should be upgraded to an every fifteen-minute service.
Also, has anyone else noted the fact that many of the major transport infrastructural projects, both LUAS lines, the completion of the M50 and so on are really only of use to the Southside. It’s about time the emphasis was placed on Northside. The airport rail link plus further down the line a line to Abbotstown and the stadium should now be the priorities.
Where did the picture come from BTW. I have to say it looks fantastic. All of that complex is gone very dirty & dingy looking.
When I went back by it again, glass seemed the likely conclusion.
It could be good because the internal roof structure is impressive.
At least it wasn’t one of the famous Bank Holiday demolitions.As I’ve said before. Every time, O’Nuallian writes a letter or makes a comment about the Spire, it should be accompanied by the flying saucer design that he suggested, to show just how batty he is.
I spoke to him one time and asked him was his design (a flying saucer on top of a replica of the stump of Nelson’s Pillar) a joke. He said it wasn’t.There was a piece in one of the papers in the last three weeks saying that the lightning would indeed travel through a rod in the centre of the Spire. The city council said that the possibility of lightning was always part of the considerations and the original design plan. And they said there was no possible danger. If only I could remember which paper I saw it in.
PS: When was the last time anyone saw fork lightning in Dublin. I think it must be wacky Michael O’Nuallain putting this about out of desperation.They are definitely planning to build an underground train station under O’Connell Street right now as part of the Luas works. It will be put in place at the junction with Abbey Street to link in with the future Metro.
No, I’m just worried that they’ll destroy one of Dublin’s finer buildings. That’s the way it went in NY and Paris, where they started to try and outdo each other with the scale of what they could vandalise
The glass screens on the seats have already been vandalised.
Graffiti is fast becoming a massive problem in this city. It won’t be long before a very famous building gets a very nasty makeover.Considering the plethora of objections Lansdowne receives for even staging a concert, it is just not feasible to redevelop it.
Could you imagine the residents of Dublin 4 putting up with a project of that scale, which would take at least three years. Also, the site is bounded by the river and the DART line and one busy road, meaning the only option, to have the capacity required, is to turn it end to end and build on top of the training pitch. Even then, the disruption would be too much.
Irishtown would be good but there’s nothing wrong with Abbotstown, partic if local Maynooth train capacity is upgraded enough or if a Metro link went ahead.
We need to stop thinking of Dublin city as a twenty or thirty-minute stroll from O’Connell St/Grafton St. It’s that kind of attitude, which makes having a football celebration in the Phoenix Park sound as if you’re forcing people to travel to a different county.one of the tallest in Dublin city must be the church on Thomas Street … it’s certainly the most visible
I think it’s on the Dublin side of the town up a hill. You can’t see much of it but you can see that it’s built in international style.
I lived in Temple Bar for two and a half years and by the end, i found it an unlivable place to be in. Too many nights spent stepping over fights, vomits, bins and rubbish eventually force you to move out. I don’t think Frank is being an ould lad. It doesn’t matter what age you are – it has become an impossible place to live.
He’s also right that it has actually significantly deteriorated this year. His points about the level of graffiti and repair of some of the main buildings are completely accurate. Graffiti, which plagues much nicer cities like Paris, is now going to turn Dublin into a complete and utter mess and seems to be a relatively new or returning phenomenon.
