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Cork COunty Cricket Club have appealled to ABP Cork City COuncil’s decision to grant permission to UCC for the construction of an Outreach and Access building on its lands at MArdyke Gardens adjacent to the new MArdyke Bridge.
The EchoBoy is Back!!!!
The Echo Boy statue which had been missing from Cook Street for so long has now been returned to the Streets of Cork.
It’s situated on St. Patrick’s Street, outside the old Cork Examiner Offices doorway and was unveiled today.
Since i’ve got this wrong before, here’s a picture to prove it 🙂
The leisure centre on the Old Mallow Road near Fitz’ Boreen is by Blackpool Bowl & Leisure Ltd.
It consists of a Family Recreation Centre, Health & Fitness Club & Day Care Centre compr. 6203sqm. over 4 storeys (ground & first being semi-basement) incl. 2 vehicular entrances, car parking for 154 cars, bicycle parking, service yard, ESB substation & switch room, associated plant, boundary wall & fence, associated landscaping & site works.
It was granted permission by CCC early in 2002.
Consists of bowling alley, gym, creche and (I believe) a swimming pool.Another example of unbuilt Ireland?
In 1995, UCC asked O’Donnell Tuomey Architects to draw up a development plan for the former Good Shepherd Convent and its lands at Sunday’s Well in Cork. The site was to accommodate a humanities campus for 1,500 students in Phase One. The project was ultimately abandoned but not without leaving us with these interesting ideas on transforming an institutional building.
The ultimate faith of the convent building is now anybody’s guess.
I’ve got no news on it i’m afraid. As I mentioned in a post a few months back, it was due to be put in place opposite the old examiner office entrance on St. Patrick Street. But something must have happened because on the appointed day- no paperboy.
But, maybe the less said about ‘d paper’ on here these days the better :pMy sources tell me that City Planners are investigating complaint (s ?) against Frinailla Ltd. with regard to their Lady’s Well development. They had issued letters to residents in the area informing them that they intended to demolish parts of their sizeable complex of buildings in and around Watercourse Road, out in Blackpool.
This would (i’m told) be prior to a decision by An Bord Pleanala which is due in August on the future of the site. The company have plans for a mixed use development of apartments, underground parking, retail, gym and creche.
See here for an image of the proposed development. Frinailla’s Lady’s WellAs far as i’m aware, the Hotel portion of Blackpool Park is long dropped after planning wrangles.
The crane now in place is working on a huge extension to the office space already in position. Apparently it is being considered for the Revenue relocation. Although i personally believe it is too far out for OPW to go for.A decision is due this Wednesday on Ellesmere Properties Ltd. ‘s seven storey Hotel, retail unit, basement carpark and Coffee shop at Lavitts Quay and Half Moon Street (Lex has previously posted images of same).
If i remember correctly, the general opinion on this site was that the architectural merit of the building fell far short of that required for this prestigous location adjacent to Cork Opera House.
Anybody got any ideas how CCC are leaning with this one? Further info. was submitted in mid-June.Unfortunately I wont be able to upload a copy of this second article due to prior commitments. Perhaps someone else could oblige.
It is basically the same article with a suggestion that the LADSOCL thread was shut down due to yesterdays article. Quotes from members of aforementioned pressure group welcoming the ‘shutdown’ and there are also extensive quotes from Lexington’s posting on THIS thread.
It does try to row back by mentioning that the ‘offensive’ postings were made by a minority of users.The owners of the Woodford on Paul Street have been refused permision by CCC to link the neighbouring Loco Cafe premises to the Woodford pub (which is a listed building).
The plans would have extended the Cafe area into the pub and provided extra toilet facilities. However, since no guarantee the plans would not lead to the extension of the pub, the plans were refused because they may have led to the creation of a “superpub”.At the risk of dragging this out and giving the publication and reporter involved added publicity, a further piece appeared in todays Irish Examiner basically repeating the same allegations. Again they suggest that a spokesperson for this website declined to comment.
no, thats the full article, baring the little bit of headline that was cut off.
That is complete and unedited.The full headline should read:
ANGER OVER ATTACK ON OAPS OVER CITY DEVELOPMENTInside Cork is a free newspaper in the Cork City area. The two articles look very similar which would suggest they came from a press release issued by the campaign group mentioned in both reports.
I’ve attached an image of the Irish Examiner article to this post.
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It is not online. It is contained in their “local news” section- published only in their munster edition.
I don’t see why we had to move from the LATSOC thread but anyway, here goes….
Saw the article in the Inside Cork this morning. It suggests that discussions might be ongoing with a view to transferring Cork’s GAA headquarters to a site near Blarney and opening up the existing site for redevelopment. Apparently the GAA are stuck for ways of re-developing the existing stadium due to the cramped nature of the site and some subsidence issues on the river side of the stadium. All very sketchy at the moment and of course denied by GAA themselves.
I for one would be against the movement of Pairc Ui Caoimh. It currently has the best public transport network you can get – i.e. it’s within walking distance of the City Centre. Moving it to a greenfield site at Blarney would be bad for Cork-based GAA supporters and for business in the city as a whole. The space is there to accomodate a new stadium but perhaps those involved would prefer the green field option with a handsome sum of money for the riverside site.
I’ve seen some cheap and nasty journalism in my time (usually though not within the pages of the Irish Examiner) but this mornings article takes the biscuit. Thsi is what is known as a non-story, clearly the journalist has grown tired of lifting stories directly from the site and has sought further ways to use it to fill space.
The language used on this site is in the most part impeccable and the arguments full and informed. What has happened here is that this journalist (or someone else mentioned in the article) has thrawled through the pages and picked out language used by SOME members. This is then taken out of context and used to somehow discredit the whole site.
We can learn a number of things from this incident:
1. Despite the high standards kept by all users of this sight and indeed the webmaster, we must ensure at all times nothing we say can be taken out of context in this way by irresponsible journalists.
2. I personally have been taken aback by the apparently poor editorial process within the Irish Examiner which would allow this article to be published without allowing comment from the owner and operator of this site. The journalist in question should be embarressed with this nasty, ill-informed piece and the way he was used to forward the views of one particular pressure group. His standing as a journalist as well as that of his colleagues has suffered because of this article.I notice the LATSOC thread has been stalled and another thread opened. I hope this is not as a result of the said article. We should be proud of the depth of debate opened up on that thread and should not leave this incident deter us.
Indeed Lex, from what I hear it won’t be around for much longer (at least in the form we recognise it). The question is, how many of the rumours are true with regard to this tri-partite deal. Anybody got some concrete information?
After London’s success, what about CORK 2016?
Sailing in the harbour? Football in Pairc Ui Caoimh, Table Tennis in Neptune? 🙂
Or am i dreaming? 😀@theblimp wrote:
Oliver Plunkett Street and Pembroke Street – those 4-5 foot poles inserted between footpath and street every few yards. Anyone know is this intended to be the ultimate treatment for these. I had been under the impression that they were only temporary until something more aesthetically pleasing replaced them, but they’ve been there for a quite a while. If they’re intended to stay then someone needs a good kick up the arse. Yes, I know they prevent parking but there are more attractive ways of doing this. On the subject of Pembroke Street, are the Imperial Hotel going to leave that makeshift timber entrance into their new cafe there forever?
My understanding is that they are to be replaced with ‘novel’ lighting fixtures which will change colour and apparently incorporate the light within a bollard type object- sounds strange but I dont know when we’ll get to judge for ourselves since despite all the paving being complete, no sign of said lights yet.
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