Simon
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The GAA decide to keep their Cathedral of Dreams while the Scottish FA endure this Irish nightmare and the rest of us dream on but unlike the Scots are not surprised nor shocked we just wonder how the canny Scots swallowed it from the start ?
We only rate 2nd to Calcutta as the slowest drivers in the world because we have been lead by the slowest goverments / learners of city transport planning ever in the world.
All they had to do was erect signs with the name of the nearest booser on them as Dubliners have always travelled these “orbital routes” with pubs in mind i.e. Take a right at The Black Horse continue until you come to Gaffney’s and then proceed until you see Mooney’s …if you come to a pub called An Beal Bocht you have gone too far so let me know and start over again.
The Old Ranelagh Triangle has gone rightly jingle jangle near and along the banks of the Grand Canal. The old spot tis gone forever and looks so lost.
Better than 3 crap hospital or ocean liner looking office blocks for the next 100 years, thank God this so greedy sheme hit an iceberg. Greg F.. you try way too hard at been one of the lads!! and at being an expert on everyone and everything.
Pity such a fine example of contempory Irish office development design stands out and lost in Sandyford instead of along the DDDA stretch were it could be seen by Dubliners and tourists alike.
MG, as you are the only one to have introduced your political opinions on Kilmainham Gaol, I must remind you that half of the nation’s Capital’s streets, bridges, statues, commemorative events (Easter Week etc) train stations, public buildings even this speculative office complex (Hueston) are named after “the terrorists†executed in Kilmainham Gaol.
Suffice to say this is an architectural forum one should leave one’s political opinions at home and debate the issue, I’m sure the site’s administrator would concur.
First thing that I would like to say is that Kilmainham/Inchicore is not just of historical importance in Dublin but in the whole history of the state.
Kilmainham is not the site for these office blocks,just literally five miles up the road you have Park West industrial site,why not here???It would be such a crying shame to a monstrosity of an office block erected in such a historicaly significent site.
