Beautiful view, shame the pillar had to go really…
Mickey Twopints
Boom! Boom!
Jonjo
Great photo.
Scoops4all
“I need to buy a pineapple, I think I’ll park in the middle of O Connell St”
Cian
There were no pineapples in Dublin in 1964!
Brother Barnabas
and kiwis didn’t make an appearance until around 2012
The Old Boy
Well, save for slices in tins, to be applied to gammon steaks.
Pip
Would Leverett & Frye or Findlaters not have had pineapples for delivery to the servants’ entrance?
Terry Wogan’s dad was general manager of L&F, by the way.
scottser
james caulfield,1st lord charlemont famously built a heated garden at marino house to grow exotic fruits such as pineapples in the 1780s. apparently.
Cian
Exactly – So he wouldn’t have popped into O’Connell[1] Street to buy one.
[1] or even Sackville Street
Frilly Waters
look at the parking
brilliant isn’t it
and not a yellow line in sight
louislefronde
All they had to do was get rid of the statue of Nelson, not the bloody pillar!
For god’s sake, have Dublin City Council never heard of Oscar Wilde’s “Happy Prince” it would have been a fitting replacement with its theme of love, generosity, compassion and sacrifice for the greater good.
Naturally the usual suspects would have shouted “We can’t have a statue of a prince in a republic”…. but then I never met a republican who told his infant daughter not to read Cinderella or not to dream of meeting Prince Charming.
The Spire sucks, rebuild the pillar….
Cian
Calm down Louis, it was only a pillar.
I’m not sure why you are talking about Dublin City Council, ’twas the RA that blew up the pillar.
theo kretschmar schuldorff
Oscar Wilde’s gayness might have prevented his Prince being erected to the Column’s summit in 1960s Ireland, no matter how happy he was (but it is a beautiful story)
They’d have been more likely to swap Nelson out with St. JFK or perhaps P. Pearse (although his inability to be represented in any attitude other than profile might have defeated the statue-makers)
Cian
You don’t need to worry too much when the statue is 40m in the air.
dav
more homeless on the streets now than there was back then, progress by the blushirts..
Cian
The population has also changed. From 795,000 in 1966 to 1,345,000 50 years later.
‘Progress’ after 32 years of FF-led governments and 20 years of FG-led governments.
Mickey Twopints
After all the bickering around the referendum, I find reading a post from Dav sniping at the blushirts strangely comforting.
Bernie
So true Mickey, keep posting, Dav.
rotide
hhahaa
dylad.
That’s why you can never see the mountains in the city centre.
BTBarnham
No masts on 3 rock or pine tree forests
rotide
The lack of traffic is insane. You’d hardly get that at 5 am now
Brother Barnabas
sure what would you be up to on o’connell street at 5am, rotide?
Beautiful view, shame the pillar had to go really…
Boom! Boom!
Great photo.
“I need to buy a pineapple, I think I’ll park in the middle of O Connell St”
There were no pineapples in Dublin in 1964!
and kiwis didn’t make an appearance until around 2012
Well, save for slices in tins, to be applied to gammon steaks.
Would Leverett & Frye or Findlaters not have had pineapples for delivery to the servants’ entrance?
Terry Wogan’s dad was general manager of L&F, by the way.
james caulfield,1st lord charlemont famously built a heated garden at marino house to grow exotic fruits such as pineapples in the 1780s. apparently.
Exactly – So he wouldn’t have popped into O’Connell[1] Street to buy one.
[1] or even Sackville Street
look at the parking
brilliant isn’t it
and not a yellow line in sight
All they had to do was get rid of the statue of Nelson, not the bloody pillar!
For god’s sake, have Dublin City Council never heard of Oscar Wilde’s “Happy Prince” it would have been a fitting replacement with its theme of love, generosity, compassion and sacrifice for the greater good.
Naturally the usual suspects would have shouted “We can’t have a statue of a prince in a republic”…. but then I never met a republican who told his infant daughter not to read Cinderella or not to dream of meeting Prince Charming.
The Spire sucks, rebuild the pillar….
Calm down Louis, it was only a pillar.
I’m not sure why you are talking about Dublin City Council, ’twas the RA that blew up the pillar.
Oscar Wilde’s gayness might have prevented his Prince being erected to the Column’s summit in 1960s Ireland, no matter how happy he was (but it is a beautiful story)
They’d have been more likely to swap Nelson out with St. JFK or perhaps P. Pearse (although his inability to be represented in any attitude other than profile might have defeated the statue-makers)
You don’t need to worry too much when the statue is 40m in the air.
more homeless on the streets now than there was back then, progress by the blushirts..
The population has also changed. From 795,000 in 1966 to 1,345,000 50 years later.
‘Progress’ after 32 years of FF-led governments and 20 years of FG-led governments.
After all the bickering around the referendum, I find reading a post from Dav sniping at the blushirts strangely comforting.
So true Mickey, keep posting, Dav.
hhahaa
That’s why you can never see the mountains in the city centre.
No masts on 3 rock or pine tree forests
The lack of traffic is insane. You’d hardly get that at 5 am now
sure what would you be up to on o’connell street at 5am, rotide?
And you would get less traffic than that at 5am.