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..hope you got to see the new Glasgow Science Centre and the Mackintosh Museum…Glasgow has been turned round in the last few years and they have a very convienent circle Metro Line…some great old boosers as well.
Not exactly architecture but one of the worst / yuck sites for me in this city are the add plastered Dublin Buses, ever see the one for Guinness, now the passengers can sit in what is basically a black plastered moving add including windows !!. Visit London and one sees the Red London Buses here a significient number of the fleet are hideous mobile adds.
…and then for a post match jar into the vast arena of the Clonsilla Inn which currently holds more than Lansdowne Road itself.
The twin obelisks which signify candles on either side of the granite altar in Lutyen’s remarkable Great War Memorial Park along the Liffey in Islandbridge are top of the list for me.
They had rightly hacked into the old granite stoned Suir Bridge along the canal the last time I looked…i guess to facilitate building the new one ..I hope they reinstate the old bridge back to its old self before arriving at ‘next stop Fatima Mansions’
By the way kefu that afternoon walk around Kilmainham and its environs should I would suggest, also include after leaving the War Memorial Gardens that one enters the old swinging gates of the Park and walk up the old steps and view what has to be Dublin’s finest monument the Wellington Monument and then walk down Chesterfield Ave’ and have a few pints in Ryan’s of Parkgate St.
CRC- The best of luck to The Gypsies in EUROPE you had a great season. I’m really looking forward to seeing Bohs carrying the flag of the National League afar but St. Pats will be hot on your tails next season and despite Brian Kerr being a saint himself I feel the FAI should have gone for Bryan Robson. I really hope I’m wrong.
From one Dub (southside) to another and as one who can remember climbing the Pilllar as a child with my father.. yes I now believe in reincarnation …..the Pillar has returned in another form..well done Dublin CC and Londoner Ian Ritchie….at long last the city has a distinguishing landmark other then the nice but so little ha’penny bridge.
Yes, well said Luke, I can remember dribbling along the rightwing on GAA gamesday at the local “seco” (secondary school) and then the roar from the Brother or “Brot-er” pick up the ball Papworth or else !! God be with the days of our joyous National Games and the hatred for soccer taught in our schools.
………yes and the same ‘leisureless youths’ would then bore one to death singing ‘the town they love so well’ in the pubs as is the case after they riot and destroy.
While stuck in Dublin’s gridlocked floodlocked traffic for 3 hours yesterday evening and only trying to travel less than 4 miles I tried to amuse myself by surfing the radio stations. All I could hear at home was Mc Creevey and his cutbacks and in particular the news that the Luas will be late and may not run (with passengers) until 2004 into 2005 never mind the fact that Metro is in the bin. I switched to BBC Radio 4s PM news programme for a break from Mc Creevey and Brennan’s excuses only to hear a news item on New Delhi’s Metro system which was “progressing at a furious rate†it makes an interesting read.
Only if people are indifferent and allow it to happen….it gets better… now the magnificient ancient sence of containment that exists in the enclosed and so well maintained grounds of Kilmainham… this most unique open space/ inner city grounds and setting of Kilmainham and The Royal Hospital are for sale!! My word people would not be indifferent to this short and so blind prospect in any other European Capital City and right smack in its most ancient and historical district.
Really looking forward to boarding the 19a and attending / viewing the Helix…maybe even Dublin Bus will open their mysterious exit doors on said bus to mark the occasion !!
Saw very serious well advanced plans on last night’s UTV news for a Northern Ireland type National Stadium. It will have a retractable roof and cater for 40,000. Its been strategically planned to locate in Newry so as to cater for a Southern audience (o lucky us !!) as well, with pop concerts, Rugby Internationals etc.
But the best part of the story is that half of the land on the proposed site belongs to the guardians of our National Games the GAA. It will also be supported by local business and the British Lottery so therefore will cater for all sports. So as its been planned up North like the Odyessey Arena / Intetactive Science Centre, Leisure Centres, Waterfront Hall, Dundonald Ice Rink etc…. it will certainly happen and on time……….come back UEFA ………and visit Newry.
They all ready have the cliff-faced 4 Seasons down the road.
Height should not be an issue it simply should be the architectural quality and function of the new build which should be addressed in any concerns. It’s sad to see another old Dublin boozer hitting the dust as they are now an indangered species and all the new hip and slick joints possess no Dublin character at all.
I hope they open the exit doors on the Luas when it stops unlike the middle exit doors on Dublin buses. Why is it that our buses are the only buses in the known world that as deliberate policy fail to open the exit doors at bus stops and all have to enter and exit adjacent to the bus driver ??? Is it the undisciplined nature of Dublin bus’s passengers with more bunking on then fare paying passengers alighting ??
…but not as slim as an Irish National team playing on the sacred holy ground of ‘our national’ games… (keep or rather stay of our Irish grass)… Croke Park… National Irish Teams need not apply. All Ireland is as good as it gets for them thanks be to God ….as they really loose the run of themselves.
Yes the Great War Memorial Park is my favourite (and only architectural park) in the city. This the remarkable creation of Sir Edwin Lutyens laid out (just in time ) in the late 1930s along the Liffey and up until the late late 70s a halting site for stray horses. Thanks to Kevin Myers and a few others who campaigned for its restoration and above all its recognition. The walk adjacent to the park from Trinirty’s boathouse to Chapelizod is also remarkably the only public walk along the entire lenght of the Liffey that runs through Dublin and only exists due to the design of the Memorial Park itself. Great things/ public spaces could be created here on both sides of the Liffey its deserving of a little vision / tourism promotion and a lot of planning from DCC before its ‘developed’.
One can access the park via St. John’s across the road from Entrance to Clancy (Islandbridge) Barracks on the SCR or via the gates on Con Colbert Road.
Incidently, the Eastern Garden symbolises a place of prayer for the 50,000 spirits (greatest lost of Irish life since the Famine) of the Irishmen who served and fell with the Irish Guards and other regiments of the Great War and the Western Garden symbolises a place of recreation for the fallen soldiers. The 4 towers symbolise the 4 provinces of Ireland and are in fact small museums. The trees surrounding the park symbolise lines of soldiers but many were lost to Dutch Elm disease in the 70s- would certainly recommend you get on your bike and visit and enjoy the park and its river walk this weekend.
The new signage should have at least been given a chance.
These signs are not magic carpets and the Orbital Routes are essentially Victorian and Georgian versions of the M50 !! designed for horse and carts. 90% of said signs now in DCC sheds it’s a joke at our expence. Pity Minister Brennan did not stay another week gliding along the state of the art Metro system in Barcelona then all the signs would have been up and would have directed him home once he managed to escape the bedlam of Dublin Airport. This is Paddy Wackery at its best – it’s a wonder it’s not been beamed around the world on Sky News.
‘when they were up they were up and when they were down they were down and when they were 10% up they were neither up nor down’
What An Lar of laughs.
Looks like someone is looking for Owen Keegan’s head on a plate / sign.
Just on the subject of bus lanes/lanas. I thought I saw it all until I saw the bus lane along Grattan Cresent Inchicore where DCC have painted within the bus lane pay and display parking bays ( 7 – 19 hrs) with the result that the bus lane is now consists of both pay and display parking bays on top of the bus lane !! DCC with their magic buckets of paint , they should patent this idea.
