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@THE_Chris wrote:
No, the lowering of the speed limit is because since the Primary Route, the N8, is now not passing through the town, that road has now been reclassed as an R road. So a lower speed limit. Simple as that.
And no politico-locomotive consideration ?
@Micko wrote:
I drove through Watergrasshill tonight and the traffic was very heavy. Prob more on the old road than on the new bypass.
Anyone know what Fermoy was like during the week ?
Also, bringing down the speed limit on the old rod to 80kph is a farce. Why were the by-laws for speed limits on local roads brought in if they aren’t going to be used.
Traffic congestion in Fermoy has eased considerably since the opening of the by-pass. It is now possible to cross from one side of the town to the other withouit taking up to 20-30 minutes to do so.
On the other hand, the number of lorries passing through the town is still relatively high. The speed restriction on the old section of the road is being read locally as an “official” tactic to discourage traffic from using the old road and as an “incentive” to use the tolled part of the new road. So, the guardians of the peace in Fermoy are currently opeating something akin to another toll system on the old road – just like the robber barons on the medieval Rhine. We await, however, to see if the Blackwater will not produce its equivalennt of the Rheinmaedchen to help us ford its treppant floss.
Re Cork airport: Behold the Wikiality of the situation:
If I might destract from the discussion of Longford Cathedral for a moment, I would like to ask Rhabanus what he thinks of the following photograph. This is the interior of St Nicholas’ Church, Killavullen near Malow, Co. Cork. The Norman origin of the parish is evident in its dedication to St Nicholas of Myra whose relics are venerated in Southern Italy at Bari in the other Norman kingdom. The church was built in the early 19th. cenrury by a local architect, Br. Michael Augustine O’Riordan in the classical idiom. Since the parish was the birth place of a certain Richard Hennessey who settled into the brandy trade in Cognac, and since his descendants maintained contact with the parish, funds were available for the building of a fine village church. The interior, up to very recently, conserved its classical altar and typical picture of the crucifixion. Then, the beucholic idyll was ahattered: the altar and retable were demolished; the back wall of the church was partially demolished; the sanctuary was extended backwards by about 5 feet, a new back wall being buiklt and connected to the rest of the church by a glass enclosure. On entering the church to-day, one is greeted by a large well lit blank wall, unrelieved by any feature whatsoever – not even a crucifix. The overall effect is to convey the notion of Bhuddist dissolution of the person or individual into total abstraction by omitting any reference to form, category, substance or material. If Martin Mosebach is looking for the perfect embodiement not only of the denial of the Incarnation but also of its positive anthetesis in architectural term, then this is it. Praxiteles understands that the person responsible for this bit of vandalism is one John Lynch.
Continuing the Cork Airport saga, this letter appeared in to-day’s electronic version of the quondam Cork Examiner. This week, the excuse is that three planes landed at the same time. I cannot explain the date:ù
10 April 2006
Wet, walk and wait: airport a big letdown
CORK airport may be one of the newest in the world, but it must also rank as one of the worst.
On a recent flight from Madrid via Dublin, I landed in Cork in the rain. I had to walk about 200m, climb two flights of stairs (in crutches!) and wait over 40 minutes for baggage.
This was due to three planes landing at the same time, a floor staff member explained.
At the new airport in Madrid, there were no queues and there were landing bridges to all planes, regardless of how many arrived at the same time. There were escalators and even trains that ran from landing bridge to the exit terminal — all in five minutes — and our baggage was there before we arrived.
Was there no real planning for Cork airport, or did the Dublin Airport Authority win out on this issue?
Gerard Manley
13 Amberly Heights
Grange
Douglas
CorkWhy are you paying car tax for the maintanance of the roads if you are then charged AGAIN to use them?
Apart from one example that I will post, I will reply to this privately as I do not want to focus unwelcome attention on parishes whose obscurity has been a providential manner of holding on to their churches more or less intact.
And another project from HDB/Cram and Ferguson of Boston
On the positive side, here we have a development in Farragut, Tennessee that is perhaps a step in the right direction and an indication of where architecture is going in more plugged in Catholic circles. There are, however, elements that I would have reservations about: a day chapel AND an adoration chapel. Why cannot both be comdined into one chapel to be used for daily Mass and thereafter for Adoration thus allowing one the practical ability of renewing the Sacred Species frequently and the theological ability of maintaining a link between the Mass and Eucharistic Adoration. Also, I do not believe that it is appropriate for toilets to be included in the body of a church. These should be located in a sacristy, outside the church, or else in a separate building linked to the main body of the church. Perhaps Rhabanus can tell us more of these domestic habits of the Americans?
Sorry to disappoint Rhabanus, but St. Mel’s is one of the worst disasters to have hit. It was done by the then Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise and subsequently Cardinal Cathal B. Daly.
Having given some comparative attention to Armagh before and after its re-orderings, I thought it might be usefu to consider St. Mel’s Cathedral in Longford where a vandalism on Christianity, not seen since the time of Attilla the Hun, was practised by C.B. Daly. Below is the original sanctuary of the Cathedral. We have a shallow differentiation between the nave the presbyterium in which a Choir has been placed. The presbyterium is differentiated again from the sanctuary by another shallow step. The High Altar in the sanctuary is raised on three steps. It is believed that the altar was supposed to have been sored in the basement of the Cathedral as a gesture to the opposition to the destruction.
Someone was asking about construction photographs of St. Colman’s Cathedral. Here is a few to hand.
The first comes from an album of photographs of Ireland published by a Canadian (Finnerty, I think) in Chicago in 1898 and probably dates from ante 1894 (the palace, on the left, did not have the second wing added to it which was done by Robert Browne who bcame bishop in 1894)
A. Flannery made a complete mess of the translation of the documents of the Second Vatican Council. At best, they are patchy and depend largely on who did the translating work. They are worse than useless for any sort of serious work because you cannot rely on the text of the translation and have to check every single reference and, more often than not, you end up having to translate the relevant Latin yourself.
