Rory W
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But Bewley’s do the worst coffee in Dublin – get some from somewhere like insomnia or gloria jean’s – far superior.
Thats the real reasonj why Bewley’s Cafe’s are suffering, people can now get decent coffee elsewher showing up the overpriced crap that Bewley’s served for years.
Absolutely fantastic – even better than when we beat them over here. The atmosphere was absolutely electric. Good game – well done lads
And I was there!!!!
Twickenham is not a bad little town, pity they couldn’t get rid of ticket touting scum £600 they were asking for tickets… never paid more than face value myself
more and more people wanting this utopia of a house in the country and then moving into an estate in a small town to achieve something of this.
I think its more the fact that housing is grotesquely overpriced in Dublin rather than actually wanting to live in one of the car friendly suburbs
And I see there is going to be a new ‘Centra’ next to wher Little Ceasers is being put (into Daly’s clubhouse! opportunity missed I think) on College Green. Pretty soon every shop in Dublin will be a multiple – Spar, Centra and Mace all with high prices, bad wine, minimum wages and a shed-load of porn on the top shelf. Boo to that I say!
Oh and I believe from the planning application that it is the aforementioned Redz that will extend into the former Man U shop. Crapola – another superpub, just what we need
It’s as if the facades of thetwo houses were removed and the horrible 60s windows simply slotted into place!
I thought that is what had happened – just a new facade stuck onto the old buildings
I can put up with the river side, it’s not that offensive. However what about the other side of this development , on Abbey street. It is the 1960s concrete look , so ugly
Two different developers Quartier Bloom (sout of Great Strand Street) – Wallace, Chapel House et al (North of Great Strand Street) – Danninger (Zoe)
Bloody hell that was quick!
Overnight the book stalls have appeared on Gratten Bridge. I might be able to get there at lunch and grab a photo.
Alan D – I agree there are some good new buildings – my point was that a lot of what was built here in Dublin from the late 50s onwards was dross that will never attain attractive building status – some great stand out work, but a lot of crap as well.
And if I quote from my own posting “which we are only really starting to drag ourselves out of” – our buildings are definitely starting to improve – for example no-one will accept the early Zoe style development anymore.
Fin – “irish slave labour”, please read Dublin 1660-1860 as to who built the Georgian buildings.
The cinema was called the Astor.
Nope that was the cinema next door (it became a rather dodgy video shop at one stage (private viewing booths – indeed). The Corinthian was refaced to become the Odeon. The odeon begat the Screen at O’Connell Bridge, which begat the Laughter lounge. The Astor was another separate entity altogether.
Going back to the roads issue – there was an alternative plan to run a road between the N2 (Derry Road) and N3 (Kells etc) that would have a spur off the other side of Kells to link it to the N3 before reconnecting with the N2 the far side of Ardee. Stretches of the N2 and N3 are only 15 miles apart at some stages and this would have carried the road far away from Tara and its Environs.
Needless to sy the NRA baulked at the idea – why build one road when you can build two.
Why would you want to hang on to something anyway that is so representational of the Empire?
Because without it we’d have bugger all else of interest in this town – after independence we had a short bust of excellence followed by a downward spiral of dross and mediocrity which we are only really starting to drag ourselves out of. Never forget these buildings were built by Irish craftsmen.
