lostexpectation

three cheers to the men that ran down that area for years, thank god they’re doing something now.

who is responsibility for the 1976 atrocity?
name and rank so we can put him on trial?

Don’t be so nice

Verdict FAILED

so eh what did those roads look like before the WSC?

I think the roads are too wide, certainly in the way they are used now., they don’t really go anywhere.

I love seeing photos of people in the black and white days walking around being people doing stuff going places its extraordinarily surprising that they did that back then too.

what with the box, its terrible, the previous display case was built for the shape of the statue, this one obviously hasn’t been, its too narrow and too short and heavy on his head. I presume the box above his head has some massive light in it or something,
yes and where the flowers and sign they, it looks like a fish tank for a 2 star hotel…

how could they it get so wrong??? they should just cleaned the old case

re millennium sculpture I think the religious had a point, it was the 200 anniversary of chirst supposed birth, that what we base our calender or, it could have some subtle christian influence rather then the meaning something and nothing to everyone blandness that is the spire.

@GrahamH wrote:

I couldn’t agree with you more Stephen – indeed I was about to get some pictures of these very stores.

Incidentally, before the event disappears into the annals of time, the opening of the new Dunnes a few months ago was the most extraordinary spactacle the city centre must ever have witnessed since 1916 – only this time it was a consumer war. I just happened to be passing and went in to see the new store, not knowing there was 50% off all stock until getting inside. It is impossible to describe what utter mayhem there was]thousands[/b] of people in there: a swarming sea of shoppers slowing rippling across four levels. The shelves were almost empty, there was stock thrown everywhere, the security guards were standing around pretty much helpless, the queues for the checkouts were at least 100 deep across the store, lasting well over an hour, and the escalators and lifts were completely jammers. It was actually frightening at times, with an every-man-for-himself atmosphere pervading the store. Absolute madness – it was fantastic to see such a consumer orgy in all its glory.

Spectacular marketing Margaret – gotta hand it to her.

mostly women though right? scary thing women looking for a dunnes bargains

@hutton wrote:

Yeah hang them, dirty bastards 😡 … Same types that showed up how the Carrickmines site was being obliterated by a junction that was contrived specifically to facilitate the Jackson Way rezoned lands. (Another BP approved project). :rolleyes:

Anyhow, Pat Kenny is currently doing a show on this on Radio 1 –

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/index.html

pk being hostile and dismissive, if bin laden was on he wouldn’t give him such a hard time

a brief mention of the wa museum moving to grafton street? any more info

http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=249&mid=861

I wonder if you took the classic tourist snap of the whole church above would you get the metropole in the shot

@GrahamH wrote:

The entire structure lostexpectation.
Obviously only the front part is the 1818 original, with the enormous side wings stretching down Henry Street and Princes Street constructed from scratch following 1916. Henry Street was the first side to be developed in 1924-26, followed by Princes Street and then the public office completed in 1929. However basement parts of the original building appear to still extend underneath parts of the rebuilt structure and out under Princes Street

The GPO Arcade is not the major cross-block in the middle as initial impressions may suggest, but rather the lower glazed block further west near the end of the building. See how Arnotts now feeds into it too. The top-lighting of all the 1920s stores is also evident.

yeat ta for the info but I asking how much of is being used by an post?