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So between that new hotel and “The Darndale Hilton” down the road at Clare Hall, they’ll pretty much have that area covered. We could be due a visit from Paris.
@StephenC wrote:
Good to see Martin Mansreagh highlighting Bordeaux’s LRT system at the weekend which uses overhead wires until it reaches the city cenbtre core and then a ‘contact mat’ technology which means the trams travel through without and overhad clutter.
Yes it was good to seem him mention this. It might be useful, though one of the problems with it, I believe, is that the mat can get waterlogged if the rain water, etc., does not flow away freely. I predict that this would be more of a problem in Dublin than in sunny Bordeaux. 🙂
But isn’t Mansergh such an awful apologist for this government. Every week, the same old twaddle justifying the latest bungling. I don’t know why the Irish Times bother employing him. I can hardly read him, as you know what you’re going to get. At least Garret had the decency to try and damn this new plan with the very faint praise it deserves.
@geran wrote:
but I couldn’t find any proper planning
Yes Geran, we’ve been looking for years too, but still no sign.
But seriously, you might start with the four county councils in Dublin:
http://www.dublincity.ie
http://www.fingalcoco.ie
http://www.sdublincoco.ie
http://www.dlrcoco.ieI couldn’t say at this stage how high it was. It might have been 5 storeys, hardly any more than that, though. It’s quite hard to say because the canal changes direction after passing under the bridge between upper and lower Grand Canal Street. The level of the bridge is a good bit higher than the ground level on the far side of the canal (the old yard of the slaughterhouse). So what might have looked like a two or three storey building as you cross the bridge might in fact have been a five storey building. I hope you get my drift.
It might have been the International Meat Company. (thanks to Google). That rings a bell – but unfortunately so does Dublin Meat Packers! 🙂
Edit – aha, I now see that dc3 has beaten me to it with that info. I had missed that post.
There was a slaughterhouse along the Grand Canal at Upper Grand Canal Street. I can’t remember what it was called – possibly Dublin Meat Packers as you say. It was pretty large and took up most of the site now occupied by the three large buildings south/west of Grand Canal Dock DART Station – Esat Bt, Accenture and Pfizer if I’m not mistaken. (But not, I don’t think, the site occupied by the apartments on the corner of Upper Grand Canal Street and Barrow Street). So, in other words, at the bridge between Upper and Lower Grand Canal Street, the site between that bridge and the railway track on the Lansdowne Road side of the canal.
The slaughterhouse was certainly open until the mid- to late ’80’s – I used to walk past it on a regular basis. It may even have been used in the early ’90’s.
@Thomond Park wrote:
The all time World Cup attendance record is held by a Stadium in Montevideo from a final in the 1930’s when over 140,000 people crammed into a stadium which would today have a seated capacity of 50-60,000]
[Pedantry]To my knowledge, the largest attendance at a world cup finals match was at the deciding match of the 1950 world cup between Uruguay and Brazil. This was at the Maracanã stadium in Rio. It had been built for the world cup – 10,000 people were involved in its construction! When finished, the capacity was 43,000 higher than that of the previous record holder, Glasgow’s Hampden Park. The official attendance at the final was 174,000 although some sources put the real attendance at up to about 220,000.[/pedantry]Landsdowne is the correct call and I really hope that the planners will be in a position to grant permission without too many modifications.
I agree. It is a pity that they couldn’t have turned the pitch around and made the capacity a bit bigger, but the two clubs have a lease on the back pitch which they were unwilling to give up. There was also a report done several years ago which concluded that the only circumstances in which the Irish soccer team would need an 80,000 capacity ground would be for a competitive qualifying match against England. Whether this is still true, and what the situation is with demand for big rugby matches, I do not know. The ratio of corporate seats to total capacity is also comparable to that of the new Wembley (about 19,000 out of 90,000)
The north stand would also seem like a suitable place to dedicate for away fans for a big soccer international against any of our neighbours.
Bare-faced bribery could be the answer to the problem of the low North stand (and the chances of the stadium being built)
Two 50 year tickets to every house in Havelock Square. These tickets to be for seats chosen by the residents and available for every event (matches and concerts). Sellable. Bequeathable.
That might amount to about 100-200 seats for every event. But worth a lot to the residents. Of course there was a time when such an offer might have been worth more than the houses themselves. Not now, of course, but still a tempting offer.
I think Baggot Street Hospital may have something like what you’re looking for – in the name written in big letters across the doorway. (I can’t remember what the full title is).
Passing by it today I saw the official name in gold letters above the front door – “Royal City of Dublin Hospital”
And I don’t think The Royal Hospital in Donnybrook has been mentioned.
I think Baggot Street Hospital may have something like what you’re looking for – in the name written in big letters across the doorway. (I can’t remember what the full title is).
And the Royal College of Physicians (Kildare Street), Royal Dublin Society and possibly even Royal Dublin Golf Club may have something for you.
