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Love The City. Designing Dublin.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »

“It’s much more a large town than a small city….”

Last week I sat down with the folks at Designing Dublin, to do a brief interview for their excellent NearFM Podcast. We chatted about Dublin now and Dublin then, everything from ghost signs to the Wood Quay protests, walking tours of the city and our random pub “drop inn’s” among with other stuff. My part begins at 9:39.

More information on their excellent project can be found in the vimeo clip below. Visiting their office space, and seeing the feedback from Dubliners, was a pleasure. I got a real kick out of the project and what they’re doing with it.

You can listen to the podcast over here.

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Dublin West Punks.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2011| 2 Comments »

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Spotted in Dublin Mid West.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2011| 1 Comment »

To prove anger lives on both sides of the Liffey these days, broadsheet.ie had this Cabra gem yesterday.

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Sin E (Literally)

Posted in Miscellaneous, Pubs on February 7, 2011| 15 Comments »

Another one bites the dust. Terrible news.

The Irish Times, 10th February 2011:

The owner, Ciarán Finnerty, told The Irish Times yesterday he could no longer afford to pay the rent on the Ormond Quay premises. He said while he was “heartbroken”, he was not prepared to trade recklessly and so had no choice but to put the business into voluntary liquidation.

A creditors’ meeting is to be held next Tuesday and he expressed the hope someone would step in by then and buy the business, which employs 18 people. “It seems hopeless, but we are still working flat out on the off-chance that we can save the name at least. I built the place up from the ground; there was nothing there before I opened it. I will be heartbroken if if goes but I will have to move on.”

Thanks to boards.ie user MemEmee

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You know it’s serious when you’ve set up a Facebook page.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2011| 3 Comments »

There are far too many rumours about this one for our liking. Yesterday, jaycarax linked to a boards.ie thread on the subject. When you hear randomers who don’t know a Twitter from a Google discussing it however, you start to worry. Is the Nitelink doomed? I hope not.

‘Save the Dublin Nitelinks’ Facebook page here.

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Seriously, don’t knock on my door…..

Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2011| 1 Comment »

Are they actually knocking on anyones door?

A John Curran T.D leaflet in the door, without a knock, is the extent of Fianna Fail’s engagement with my street. Not a single poster in the area yet either. Still, I’m happy enough, as I’d rather they not knock. Feel free to rob my porch door effort.

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‘Pearse Memorial Fund’ pin.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I’ve always loved this pin, which I picked up a few years ago. You often see the front, depicting the two Pearse Brothers, but rarely the otherside showing the name of the school operated by Patrick Pearse. They’re nice little pieces, produced by the mother of the Pearse Brothers following their execution as a means of providing funding for the Irish language school.

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Cheeky as they come.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2011| 4 Comments »

‘Round these parts, we call this ‘bad form’.

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Nitelinks to be scrapped?

Posted in Miscellaneous on February 6, 2011| 8 Comments »

My uncle is an inspector with dublin bus and he recently told me that after february there’ll be no more nitlelink buses on any routes. He said the cost of fuel and wages plus the added hassle with drunken people has led them to this decision – Boards.ie

Anyone have any more info on this?

If true, this decision will have colossal effects on Dublin’s night and weekend life.

Old Nitelink ticket

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Killing Bono (2011)

Posted in Music on February 6, 2011| 2 Comments »

Ultimate cringe. Film is out on April 1. More musing and thoughts to follow.

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Thomas Read’s. Is there hope?

Posted in Miscellaneous on February 4, 2011| 36 Comments »

What a shame that Dublin’s oldest shop, sitting on Parliament Street, was ever allowed fall into the condition it sits in today. Thomas Read’s was listed in the 1862 Dublin Street Directory over here, and Éamon Mac Thomáis noted in his priceless Me Jewel and darlin’ Dublin that “Thomas Read of 4 Parliament Street was established in 1670, and are one of the oldest cutlers in the world.”

It really is one of the most historic shopfronts in the capital, and has sat as it is now for many years, sometimes falling victim to graffiti and vandalism. Just think what could be done!

In 1997, The Irish Times noted that:

Through peaceful and turbulent times over the past two centuries it was the place to buy a good pair of scissors or a set of kitchen knives. All of its current stock, housed in glass cabinets, is still in place behind the shuttered windows. Mr Michael Smith, of An Taisce, said Read’s was another victim of the property boom, along with many other Dublin icons which had become casualties of the Celtic Tiger economy that was turning the city into a “faceless, nameless place”.

Is there any hope for Thomas Read’s? I’d not given it much thought until I walked past recently, and noticed graffiti scrawled across its wooden shopfront. Lets hope the shopfront is there for many years to come.

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Times have been tough.

Posted in Miscellaneous on February 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

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