Rory W

Wrap the arches in white razor wire – that’ll learn em

Originally posted by emf
I see that O’ Reilly’s Bar under Tara St Station is closing pending renovations to the station. Tenders are being sought for all the fixtures and fittings. Does this mean. I wonder, if the full redevelopment is going ahead???

I think so – there is a lot of work that is being done to the station for the DASH plan, and I believe this has to be carried out before they start work on the main bulk of the building programme. I lookforward to the reopening of O’Reillys (planned to go on the top floor of the new building)

Ah Brain fade…

Similarities between Taney and Boyne Bridges – Boyne bridge is about 4 times the size of the Taney bridge. Althogh both very impressive, the Boyne bridge is just fantastic – and Drogheda has lost a most of its thru traffic which is great.

Bridge looks great in the distance as you approach from the Slane/Drogheda Road.

As for Frazer Agnew’s cutural vandalism comment – hes just annoyed that poor Mick down south can get to his border quicker, it’s well enough away from the battle of the boyne site (not that there is a vast amount to see there). Akin to someone complaining about a development in Fairview damaging the Battle of Clontarf site!

And I think to myself … what a wonderful world

Yeah they look great now – hopefully the rest of the corpo flats will get the same treatment

Drinking in a car park is (a) illegal and (b) were you at Ireland V Argentina last year? It pissed like a monsoon for the entire game and people were delighted to get indoors to have a few whiskeys after the game. Why have 2 large stadia? Because one of them is a closed shop?

Isn’t it more civilised that we can walk to the game from the centre of our capital city?

OK look at a map of Ireland – where do all the rail lines lead to – Dublin. Where does the main roads in the country run to – Dublin. What is the capital of Ireland and has over 1/3 of its population – you’ve guessed it Dublin. My point is the infrastructure is just not there to support putting the stadium elsewhere in the country.

I suppose that as a rugby fan I have sentimental attachment to Lansdowne – but it really is a very handy place to get to. It takes 20 minutes to walk to from Stephen’s Green. As for building apartments etc on its site – does Dublin really need more souless apartments in D4 that you or I can never afford. No I don’t think so.

Do we need an 80,000 seat venue at Lansdowne – for maybe Ireland V England once every 2 years. But it’s no way near full now for Ireland V Italy (capacity 48,000) another 6 Nations games so I think 65,000 is enough (eircom park was only going to be 45,000 which the FAI were happy with). If you get the chance go to the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff and see what that is like (its practically in the middle of the city) and compare it with out of town stadia elsewhere.

Do you think the GAA would have built their stadium anywhere other than Croke park?

Build it and build it at Lansdowne!

Stephen C – I have one word for you “Ryanair”.

Here is the weatherspoon website in their design section. To be fair they seem to see design and conservation as part of what they do so fair play to them. And yes – no music allowed, and I didn’t see any of the fruit machines (I’m not sure if they are legal in pubs here anymore).

http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/pages/body01g.html

PS: I have heard it reported that the pint price for Ireland will be €2, so nothing wrong with that.