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@GregF wrote:
Fucking idiot driver above. Should be banned. Could have been a catastrophe, like the bus incident a few years back on the quays. Half the folk on Irish roads today just can’t drive.
I think he had a stroke or something like that – God’s own way of banning you from driving?
Time Team Special about the restoration of his (AW Pugin) house? Interesting enough although suffered from the usual problem of repeating the same point 4 or 5 times (in case you forget) – which tends to be a real annoyance in documentaries these days
Staying off topic for a mo – At one stage The Royal Hospital was considered as a site for UCD.
However Michael Tierney amongst others decided that Belfield was the best place for a ‘Catholic Arc of influence’ – St Vincent’s Hopital, UCD Belfield and Milltown to counteract the Protestant sphere of influence in the city centre. So the days of UCD staying in the city were numbered anyway.
On the whole An Taisce do a good job, sometimes they do themselves no favours but on the whole they are more a good thing than a bad thing. In order to maintain support amongst some of the few people in this country who take an active interest in the built environment they have to make some objections that may seem contentious, but on the whole they are a good thing – let’s leave it at that.
Given the huge population increases it weould probably make sense to continue the Dart to Drogheda (also mooted) this will also serve the new town of Bettystown/Laytown and also the proposed redevelopment of Gormanstown.
However for this to occur – the track must be made a triple or quad line from Clontarf Road to allow for efficient use of Enterprise/Commuter Services – it may then be possible to open the Dublin-Drogheda-Navan rail line as a proper service.
It is essential also for the interconnector to be built
Another idea would be to extend the Metro out past lissenhall and on to Balbriggan so that passengers on this line (incl NI passengers) could avoid having to go as far as St Stephen’s green (on the interconnector…) in order to connect with the Airport
@Devin wrote:
Millennium Monument
In fact, the absence of a statue of St Patrick in Dublin city is a national disgrace
Well he does have a Cathederal named after him (alongside Christ)
and a street
and that soccer club he founded – Athletic chap that he was:D
@Alek Smart wrote:
Indeed DC3 and the situation at Henry St/O Connell St/North Earl St is not helped one bit by the continued insistence of both the Dublin Citytour operator and Bus Atha Cliath in parking Ticket Sales Buses on the approach to and exit from this already dangerous crossing.
Well they could use the Kiosks on O’Connell street to sell them from… oh wait they haven’t installed them
Where’s the fucking Kiosks DCC?
@GrahamH wrote:
On a How Well Do You Know Dublin note, I still can’t figure out where that back alley with the man sweeping the roadway is – Temple Bar perhaps?
Crow Street Temple Bar
Yeah cool – if we lived in a dictatorship we could have big glass towers built by borderline slavery.
Yes we had a fast growing economy, but we were coming from borderline bankrupcy so it was a very small base that we were actually growing from (we were catching up with the rest of western Europe anyway) and rate of growth means bugger all when your economy is tiny anyway. Anyone old enough to remember the early 80s will tell you how much Dublin and the economy has changed.
Lots of ill tempered argument on this.
Nothing wrong with the statue, it is a piece of civic history (being recovered intact from the bombed-out remains of the street following the civil war) – so what if it isn’t as aesthetically pleasing as it something else there is noting wrong with it and it’s harmless (it’s not some 50m Antony Gomley having a piss that looms large – it’s two foot tall for goodness sake and in a part of the street that is not heavily trafficed). I don’t think religion has anything to do with this either – rather this is a civic history issue.
To remove this is akin to removing: the happy ring house advertising (don’t want to offend co-habiting couples now do we) or the Why go bald sign (… or the follically challenged) – leave these things alone, they are part of who we are as Dubliners and from a civic point of view should be cherished and not despised.
By all means get rid of all the new tat and temporary signs and harmonise the shopfonts, awnings etc and apply the rules of the IAP.
Well the uniform sorts are the “Keystone Kops” from Pease Street Garda Station and the Skull & Crossbones and hourglass are from St Werberg’s (always thought they were a bit morbid for a church especially when you are looking out at them from the queue from Burdocks!!) as for the non ******* ***** ones – a good question.
No 13 raises a smile though
@djasmith wrote:
Yes original windows and doors are a missing feature now around crumlin. Ive often been temped to call into an ‘original’ house when its just been sold on and ask for all the windows and doors if the house was being gutted, which more often than not it is. but ive never done it.
Speaking of walls they are an amazing asset to the estates. Not sure if anyone noticed over the past few months, but a house on the corner of Sundrive Road and Clogher Road had its curved original front wall damaged very badly in a traffic accident. The owners have done a most amazing job on restoring the wall to almost original condition and it really does look fantastic. Although one would know on looking at it that the quality just isn’t the same. In Crumlin all those lines are perfectly straight and level in the walls, the border where the bit of dashing crosses onto render is perfectly straight, and the curves leading up to the pillars are all perfectly formed. In this day and age with all our technology 70 years later, out builders just cannot seem to get this right. and It shows. none the less it’s a pretty good job. ill try and get a photo.
dAve.
Back then people took pride in their work – builders today are not the apprenticed craftsmen of old, rather they are the jack of all/master of none variety
At least the side facing the linear park has some relief on it now – originally was one big red blank facade (which looked awful)
What utter bollocks – we’ve had car stereos, roadside ads and – the best one – passengers for decades now. Why not make the point about mobile phones without empellishing it with this drivel
@archipig wrote:
I always hated that thing. Cant believe its being replaced exactly as it was. The colours look like a cheap Xmas lantern decoration. Should have had a competition to restore the facade and put in a new (modern) canopy. Oh well.
But many people love it – and let’s face it – today’s modern canopies are tomorrow’s dated monstrocity (remember concrete canopies in the 70’s – yuck)
PVC King wrote:I was talking about Wataford but significance of the flows of traffic from the South to the North are greatly overstated and Trucks from Belfast to Galway would always use a routing via Armagh, Cavan and either Athlone or Roscommon. What is equally understated is the decrepid state of the rail network excluding the DART]It’s ludicrous though when you travel down roads like the n52 which twists and turns and you meet a queue of NI reg’d trucks trying to cut across to the N4, you also meet Irish reg’d trucks which are using these unsuitable roads and being blocked in small towns. But it’s not just trucks but also cars.
As a rail commuter I agree whole heartedly about the decrepid state of the network and the area within the M50 should be high density. BUT – with the wholesale development that has gone on already and the lack of political will (and NImbyism) the genie is alreay out of the bottle and getting it back in is highly unlikely as is illustrated by the govt’s being hell bent on building the M3 commuter motorway and not even including the emininetly sensible outer ring road in T21.
