Temple Bar, Dublin this afternoon.
Further to buskergate.
Jim Ricks asks:
“Why is 1/2 of Temple Bar used as seating by private businesses?”
Anyone?
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They lease the space from the Corpo. It’s sad, but that’s privatisation of public space for ya.
Actually that’s rental of public space.
What would be better? A nice place to eat / have a pint on a sunny day or an empty stretch of paving?
I mean what’s the alternative, a publically owned cafe opening up? What’s the ‘public’ alternative and what is wrong with outdoor seating?
I love a good stretch of pavin’
The answer is ‘it doesn’t matter’ because real people should never ever be in Templebar
Nice one. I agree
Why the fliuch not?
Would an empty stretch of paving be an improvement? I love a bit of al-fresco dining/boozing when the mood/weather strikes.
You’d really hate Venice / any city on the continent. More of this I say!
Besides, you need planning and you pay a rate for it.
to give it a more european feel?
I think calling that half of Temple Bar is a slight exaggeration.
Supplementary question: why is there a methadone clinic in the middle of temple bar/tourist trap too?
Where?
Where should it be instead?
They should be distributed around the suburbs where the addicts actually live – not concentrated, as they are, by design, in the heart of the city centre, where coincidentally enough, dealers are having a field day.
They should put one in Kiliney. They could all be given special Leap Cards to go to and from the city.
Love it man *2 thumbs up and a grin*
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….the suburbs?
Swords. Put all of them in swords
There is no methadone clinic in temple bar.
Maybe they should focus on tackling and abating the problem of aggressive begging around there…a city wide problem at this stage
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YEA! Bigger problems in the world, in fact screw it, DCC should be focused on the middle east, sort that out. Issues should be tackled in order of their size and focused solely on until they are solved.
what a ridiculous thing to gripe about. Definitely scraping the barrel with this one.
You could ask the equally stupid question, why is so much of our city given over to private businesses. Businesses pay huge rates for whatever space they use. People generally see private business as a good thing.
To keep the junkies and scroungers at bay obviously.
One thing is for certain, those barriers are ugly as fck.
It’s bullet proof glass to keep the scroats from shooting you.
broadsheet is being very naughty :)
Overheard a few weeks ago in Temple Bar around 3pm on a Thursday: Garda approaches homeless (I’m assuming) woman staggering along drinking a can and carrying a bag of cans. ‘Do ya want me to take dem cans off ya? Well, do ya?’ ‘No’ ‘Well you’d better bring them back across to the north side so’
Hey there….. absolute and utter bulls&*t.
Actually hilarious.
not really.
What a stupid question? The cafes down there rent the space and pay significant rates for the privilege. And besides, if the seating wasn’t there, the place would be full of knackers drinking cans of Druids, I used to work down there, the seating has definitely improved it, it used to be a warzone
The more room in Temple Bar, for people who want to go to Temple Bar, the better.
THANKS FOR NOTHING OBAMA
i dont know , why is this country ridiculous?! an embarrassment.
They pay astronomical rates to DCC. May as well get something out of it.
Mr Ricks, are you sorry you asked?
Steady on Broadsheet. This guy was concerned that private business were encroaching too far into what he viewed as public space. It wasn’t a stupid question.
He knows much more about it now thanks to Broadsheet’s denizens.
The clever man asks a question. The fool will ever wonder.
Templebar was cool for a couple of months circa 1991, before the useless State intervened and turned it over to a gang of developers and publicans.
It’s embarrassing to see it mentioned in the Tourists Guides as ‘a place to go!’
I agree with you 100%. Temple Bar in general is not a place I chose to frequent unless I absolutely have to, but I was shocked to see the amount of space that’s being taken up by private businesses in the supposedly called public space when I passed through it recently. I also find it embarrassing to see Temple Bar mentioned as a tourist attraction. To add insult to injury I now hear there is a plan to remove cobblestones from some of the streets in Temple Bar thus wiping out any remaining pretence that this is an area with a unique character or any sort of historical interest.
pair of wankers
If they do this (remove the cobblestones from some streets) I really will have lost all faith in humanity.
They should hold a ‘Love Ulster’ parade down there while the cobbles are being ripped up.
Leave the cobbles in. Insist the Love Ulster parade licence is subject to marchers wearing heels .
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Well, the cobblestones only got put down in the 90’s. Don’t expect anything decent to happen here, it’s a great money pit for tourist cash and that’s all there is to it. It is better than when it was mostly given over to glue-sniffing and roguery, but it’s hackneyed and overpriced. There’s a product being done here – cheap diddly-idle music supplemented by high price food and alcohol, aimed at transient moneyed crowds in spending form. And all the evidence suggests they love it.