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but aspillj its a fabulous stadium, when i lived abroad i was for ever showing off about it, people are always thinking that gaa sports are a folk activity like croquet or that indian game where you hold your breath and its great to be able to point out the high standard it is played at, the overwhelming popularity of the irish sports and the quality of croke park. the U-shaped design is a consequence of its urban location, which is one of the best things about it. it looks great from inside and out. if only we had a horse track so centrally located.
by the way, i apologise if it turns out that that indian game is actually second only to cricket in south asia and played in a magnificant stadium by highly trained athletes.
actually, to be fair you changed my mind on the interconnector, i hadn’t understood at first how it ultimately fitted into the rest of the dart and heavy rail network. what i don’t understand now is what a thomas street dame street luas line will do that the interconnector doesn’t except give people at tallaght a choice and join trinity to its medical centres. is that the point, or am i not getting it?
only the first bit of the pearse street plan got the go ahead, that is, building between luce hall (the stw box) and pearse street. the planners report emphasised the value of the listed buildings on the street, i don’t know what the implication of this for the rest of the pearse street plan.
the discussion of the nassau street frontage arises in the context of the so called 2nd development control plan, but is very vague since all this land is zoned open space by the dcc.
i had thought it would never be built on because a previous plan to build there had fallen through, but, it seems it is now felt that emphasing the quality of the building and leaving gaps between buildings allowing a view through to college park, would make it more likely that such a plan would be successful.
i’m with devin on this, you know, eamonn casey once called me a heathen during a school visit and look what happened there. the way to seal a victory is to treat your opponent with tolerance.
like phil said, it is part of the physical historical record and like Rory W and i said, it is quite appealing in a quirky and pecularily intimate way. i am amazed anyone would want rid of it, the healthy attitude to diversity is to allow the accreattion of culture articifact, not to remove anything that is not culturally neutral.
on the other hand, going back to GregF’s originally point, it would be tempting to have it filled with water and made home to a couple of goldfish, it would then become a monument to our emergence from faith into irony. i don’t know what the taxi-drivers would think.
on a similar note, is that religous dancing lady still around or was she removed in the renovations.
encased Sacred Heart: the taxi drivers shrine, erected by Dublin’s taxi drivers to celebrate the marian year of 19 whatever, i have to say this is one of my favourite things on o’connell street, its so domestic somehow, its like something in someones house, only bigger.
this is a bit of a change of topic but i always thought that we should make a huge glass (or perspex) dome to fit over larkin at christmas, then it could filled with artificial snow and giant fans which would switch on for a few seconds when you put a euro (for the poor or whatever) in a box. leaving it to fall gently on our hero.
surely the area in front of the gpo is designed as a square and putting stuff in the middle would ruin the formal beauty of it, kiosk and seats and so on can go in the meridian to either side.
isn’t kilkenny the true and ancient capital?
hey, i have a better idea, lets make belfast the capital. i always belived that foreign affairs should be decentralized there, why not the whole lot, they could share stormont with the assembly.
ok good, we agree. i would support a decentralization programme that restricts relocation to a small number of centres, paying attention to the national spatial plan and local specialities and does not ignore the existing large cities.
by the way, i would have to argue with the claim that we are the most important it city in europe, we are doing well, but in r and d we are miles behind cambridge.
sorry, i should have been clear, ed walsh did wonders with ul, it is a great achievement and there is a useful role in third level education and in the science and technology community for ul and other universities build on that model. i often think nui maynooth should study ul and dcu.
he is an astute manager and very clever at branding ul and guiding into its current position. when it comes to policy however . . .
a) its a barking idea, we should be struggling to provide dublin with the infrastructure its needs rather than coping out and trying to make dublin a lesser city and hence a better fit for its current crappy infrastructure. if we move the capital to athlone we’ll have a completely crap capital and a kind of crap main city, we need to make dublin a great world city.
b) ed walsh has a huge influence on government thinking on third level education and science policy and this is the sort of radical and innovatative but not actually clever idea that typifies government thinking in this area. just because change is needed doesn’t mean any change is good.
i like the idea of putting up big DUBLIN neon signs, it sounds really cool. hey, why didn’t liverpool put up big DUBLIN neon signs during the war?
btw have you seen the amusing gas sub-station with deco style fin on the south dock, i passed it on the way to the crazy christian ship.
when i lived in england my absolute favourite thing was the long underground escalators, it would be completely packed and still every last person would stand to the left to allow people in a hurry to walk up. its beautiful.
my absolute least favourite thing was the smug mock outrage that they indulge in if someone gets it wrong. i was living in cambridge which is i think the world centre for this.
I amn’t sure about this Diaspora, I agree absolutely in traffic control and reducing traffic, but I amn’t always sure that complete pedestrianization is the best way of creating civic space. I feel Trafalga square has been diminished by the pedestrianization along the English NG side. In other words, making it bus and taxi only might be better, like I say, I amn’t sure. Of course, making it luas only would be even better.
