Are they selling any signage or seats from the DK Stand?
The part that jumps out in that article is 'they have begun work on the preliminary design stage' and that the consultation process has yet to happen. Even if there isnt any objections (is there a GAA club in the area that will covet a slice of the pie...) that would suggest that finalising plans and goring through the planning application et al, it will be 12-18 months before the actual development build starts. If that takes 6-8 months depending on the type of construction used , we are still a good bit away. Makes taking cover from a spectator area still a bit premature i think when there are so many other areas to work on - unless the 900k grant was partly for this and needed to be used.
The upside is that nothing is set in stone on capacity or design and the can be tweaked eg to allow for future expansion.
Are they selling any signage or seats from the DK Stand?
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Yep, just the roof take away. Next stage is connaught side been demolished. Basically just make the ground less of an insurance risk
Having been in the Des Kelly in the last couple of years, that structure served no real purpose bar a bit of cover. Taking it down reduces the risk as it looked unstable in places (bit like the shed in FP 😀
Thanks for that. I'd like to buy a couple of turnstiles, crush barriers, seats, etc. from different grounds for the ultimate man-cave that I have planned!
It will be a sad day when the floodlights eventually go. They are only second to the poolbeg towers as an iconic part of the Dublin skyline.
The poolbeg chimneys being seen as "iconic" only highlights how dismally low our city's skyline actually is. If we had a proper skyline (see what Oslo did with their docks) nobody would give a toss about them and rightly so. They're a pair of disused industrial chimneys from the 1970s. They've no architectural or historical merit. They're not even unique to Dublin. Loads of cities across the west have them, and may have wisely demolished them already
The Dalyer floodlights are more deserving of protected status than the those chimney stacks.
I think what makes them a bit unique is how visible they are from so many places in the city (partly because we don't have a skyline as such)
They're maybe better known than you think too. I was on a tour to Chernobyl a couple of years back and the tour guide asked us why we were interested in going. I said one factor for me was that my first job was in Poolbeg and so I had some bit of power station knowledge. The tour guide recognised the chimneys when I showed them to him.
The Dalyer floodlights also aren't unique and many cities have demolished their equivalent already - though I think that's wrong as old-fashioned floodlights are a great landmark.
Unfortunately most of the land in Dublin is underutilized with 1-2 storey buildings stretching out as far as Wicklow Kildare and Meath. Hopefully any remaining sites can be put to better use with tall, dense buildings to ease the crisis.
Anyway I've dragged this thread well off topic, so I'll wrap it up now.
It is unique, in a good way. Joyce and Becket would still easily find their way around between the canals.
Tall buildings out in City West, Adamstown with rail into the city would make sense, maybe Blanchardstown. Anyway, leave the tall buildings to Cork, satisfies their edifice complex.
At long last, the damaged roof on the stand in Ferrycarrig is being replaced with new material in a very tasteful vivid purple! The roof now looks like it will bear the logo of local company, All in One Event Hire.
I'd say they are iconic for a lot of people who would come back to Ireland once every couple of years through Dublin Port. As you say, plenty of cities in Europe have them, but very few capital cities sit right on the edge of the coast, and have such chimneys as part of the pier. That walk from the chimneys to Poolbeg Tower would have a lot of happy memories for some Dublin people.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
People have a weird fetish about large chimneys. There's an Ikea in Croydon, south of London, that was built on the site of an old power station. For some reason its chimneys - and only its chimneys - were made protected structures. Even though the site is in a hollow, so you can't see the chimneys from any distance.
So that Ikea now has two large random chimneys on their own on its site, with a ring of Ikea's colours added on top (so much for being protected structures !).
Hadn’t been up in Drogheda since Pats last played there in 2017 (in a non behind closed doors game) and noticed a new feature to the ground. On the positive side, the 10 foot tall spiked fencing surrounding what looked like a generator behind the home dugout must make it the errr best protected generator in the league. On the downside, from pretty much anywhere in the away end aside from up against the rail at the very front, it’s almost impossible to see maybe 15-20% of the pitch in the corner closest to the changing rooms. Not sure if that’s been mentioned on here before but it’s pretty bizarre stuff throwing such a big fence there
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Is there the remotest possibility that the Dept of Sport might actually be able to fully fund capital projects with this NDP, if at last there is medium term planning rather than the short term buy votes to get reelected tendency. Part of the plan still includes the spatial strategy of old so a glimmer of a chance that purse strings could be loosened for regional projects. That said if you are not in ye cant win and after looking through all applications for 2021 SCEP only 9 clubs bothered putting in an application (not even for a lawnmower) and only 3 of those were granted. Some creative thinking on environmental progress could reap rewards, at minimum every club that havent yet replaced or retrofitted floodlights to LCD and the like would have a strong application. Has any club used Clann Creda financing does anyone know just out of interest?
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/202...elopment-plan/
https://www.echo.ie/work-on-fourth-s...art-in-spring/
It will be a fine ground when the work is finished.
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