Come Here To Me!

New Dublin Bus price-hikes from January 2012. €2.30 leaps by 35 cent to €2.65, and even schoolchild fares rise. Should be of interest to many here, get the jar out and start collecting coins again.

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After less than 72 hours, Gil Scott-Herron vanished from Middle Abbey Street, and the New York drycleaners remained closed.

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Cheers to Comrade ShaneO’C for causing the following clip to pop up on my newsfeed this morning. We’re big fans of Street Literature at CHTM! and the following is in a similar vein. Savage stuff.

I’ll be keeping an eye out for MissElayneous from now on…

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Cheers to Julian for this one, snapped on the northside quays near to the Four Courts. Reported on the sixth, it apparently resembles a swimming pool down there.

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…and this time, he brought his guitar. Here’s Ride On, the closing encore.

Christy showed up last night at the site, having dropped in previously for a cup of tea and promising to return.

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Great stuff from ADW, one of our favourite street artists here in the capital. A great tribute to the late Gil Scott Heron, located on Middle Abbey Street.

Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me,
Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know
That New York is killing me
Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee

Let me tell ya fast city ain’t living all
It’s cracked up to be
Fast city living it all
It’s cracked up to be
Yes seem I need to go home
And slow down in Jackson, Tennessee

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I noticed Fade Street trending on Twitter and was taken aback that RTE had commissioned a second series of such a widely slated product. This series seems to have been relegated to the RTE online player, but like all the haters I had a quick look and the girls are still living happy in their bubble, without a clue who or what the fuck NAMA is.

I thought about how out of touch the show was when I was standing on Dame Street reading some of the protest signs, including one which says ‘Occupy RTE’. Brainwave.

Bring a tent. General Assemblies will be held in the bar with no name every evening at six. Christy Moore has been invited to drop down.

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Amazing stuff this from Con Kennedy, giving the Irish a new currency we can all take pride in.

Of course, this isn’t the first great piss-take on the Irish currency. Who could forget Will St. Leger’s ‘Bertie Bills’, left at Molly Malone.

Like Molly and the people of Zimbabwe, we’ll all be pushing wheelbarrows of cash around soon.

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It seems that the doors were closed on Thomas Read’s and The Oak, two establishments on the corner of Parliament Street and Dame Street, earlier on today. The reason remains unclear. I’d a feeling something was up earlier when I spotted a few tweets on the subject, but you can’t believe something just because it was on the Tweet machine. If that was all truth Margaret Thatcher has died a dozen times over for example.

Some Tweets

To add to the feeling something was up, when I put the question out there looking for pointers, I heard that one of our own writers was sitting in Brogans pub and among him where the bar staff of the nearby establishments! The story there was that staff learned only a number of hours previously that the establishment would be closed within an hour.

Hopefully tomorrow we can post definite confirmation, and I’ll swing by The Oak during the day. The pub has an excellent history, as featured here in the past in jaycarax’s excellent piece ‘From The RMS Mauretania to Crane Lane.’

After a re-decoration in 1946, the name of the pub was changed to The Oak. Why? The oak panelled interior of the bar was made with wood savalged from the RMS Mauretania, the sister ship of the RMS Lusitania

The two establishments are part of the Thomas Read Group of bars and restaurants, under the control of receiver Martin Ferris of Ferris Associates for the past two years.

Estate agent Morrissey’s has been attempting to sell the premises for two years. Their PDF on the site is available to read here.

So, has The Oak been closed, sold or what is the case? Tomorrow will tell.

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In time, when and if they are released, I will post the other end of season videos from across Dublin.

This is the Shed End Invincibles (SEI) end of year video, as premiered last night in McDowell’s on Emmet Road. I’d forgotten about some of these great days out and moments, and it makes for an enjoyable watch. From respecting the passing of Saints legend Ginger O’Rourke to setting Tolka Park alight, it was a busy one in Inchicore. Thanks to the lads with the skills to put it together, more than I can boast!

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