Dublin’s Great South Wall and Harry Crosbie
Siobhan Maguire, in yesterday’s Sunday Times, reported:
Businessman Harry Crosbie is aiming to raise up to €300,000 to smooth over the cracks in Dublin’s Great South Wall to make it safer for pedestrians.
Mr Crosbie is looking for a sponsor to pay for a safe pathway along the wall, which ends at Poolbeg lighthouse.
“You’ve got this beautiful walk so why don’t we open it up to the city? What we want to say to the sponsors is ‘we will put their name on it’ so the pathway could become the ‘Google Way’ or ‘Ryanair Way’,” he said. “I’m going to write to them all, it’s not a whole lot of money. It would be a lovely small gift to the city.”
Crosbie’s idea, for a twometre wide surface down the middle of the walkway, was inspired by a conversation with Gay Byrne, the broadcaster after a friend fell on the path and broke her nose. Both agreed the surface was uneven.
Seems legit.
Pic: Geograph.ie
Ah here!! It’s not like it is the lunar surface!
Yeah, but you can’t expect people to be looking out for trip hazards while they are tweeting. #priorities
Can somebody please stop this dangerous cretin.
He is some eejit isn’t he. How much does he still owe the banks these days ?
The Irish Water Way.
I was in floods of tears reading this
Jaysus Joe don’t be such a drip!
I’m wetting myself now
Pipe down there now, Joe, pet.
this post is draining
To paraphase Roosevelt – In the Great South Wall, Dublin has a wonder which is unparalleled. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great beauty of the wall. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.
..Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
ooohh la la la la
ooohhh
€300,000 for some Polly filler. why doesn’t he use some of his money he has hidden away.
You want him to stash bunches of fifty euro notes in the cracks? ;)
Can we not just mash him up and use his useless flesh to fill in the cracks ?
Why stop at just him? Use all of them!
It’s not ‘corporate social responsibility’ when they get free advertising….. it’s just advertising.
Let them cough up, if someone wants, but fupp renaming it.
Balls to this idea.
Ask the German Embassy for it. We could call it “Frankfurt’s Way”
…ouch
Perhaps some ‘activation’ scheme workers could do the job for free?
We could then call it Labour’s Way.
Ideally, they should put an airport style moving walkway there so that people will not have to put one foot in front of the other. They should then put barriers and glass panels up so that people cant fall in. Then crosbie could take over the running of it and charge a few quid to enter
Sure we’ll just rename everything after a company if they throw abit of money at it,
O’Connell street can be renamed McDonald’s street. it’ll be great, big giant M at the top of the spire and all.
All they have to do is throw 2million at the street and they can have the naming rights!
Sell, Sell, Sell!
The Google Way.
Is he having a laugh?
why does he always look like he has bad hay fever
Snorts!
There is no face more slappable than his.
Brian Hayes, surely?
It’s not even April 1 ;)
Nice trolling broadsheet ;)
Leave it alone ffs
Harry, shove your hand up your hole and pull yourself together.
Ropey fellas in wife-beater vests and dress shoes are doing the rounds this time of year, intimidating the elderly into doing unnecessary and very expensive woefully poor tarmacing of drive-ways, surely we should ask them for a quote, they’d have it done in no time, half the price.
Are the cracks in the pavement not just part of its character?
What company would want to be associated with a dead end pathway that leads away from civilisation and into the sea. Also when anything bad happens there, such as drowning or a murder, the brand will be associated with something negative.
Even as paid advertising it is a bad idea.
I’ve only thought about this for 5 minutes and I think this idea has more holes in it than Swiss cheese, I wonder how many minutes HC thought about it for and what his real motivation is.
You’re so clever.
“inspired by a conversation with Gay Byrne”. Jesus tonight.
Would it not be cheaper to send Gay Byrnes friend to Tabor lodge?
“Hey Harry…….we were doing a job in the area and we have a few lorryloads of tarmac left over…top quality stuff…….€300,000 would cover it”.
With good walking shoes/boots it’s not a hazardous walk at all. As are Dublin’s cobbled streets.
Two bored lads inventing publicity for themselves.
Some old fart can’t stay vertical so we have to destroy our historical sites…. Only in Ireland
I think it is hard to walk on and needs improvement
Demolish the two Poolbegs, grind them to dust and use it fill the cracks.
And while yer at it Harry, that Newgrange place looks like it might collapse too. The Google+ Newgrange circles …..
A lot of hate for Harry here but he’s brought a lot of good things to Dublin.
A good man can still have the occasional bad idea.
Brought a lot of things to Dublin, with other peoples money which he hasn’t paid back.
the path looks lovely .. and he wants to pretty much tarmacadam over the whole thing. i dont know who he is, but thats the kind of thinking you get from developer sorts. .. i ll go google him now … google way .. ryanair way, what a total joker.
I don’t like the idea of corporatising the world. Historic landmarks are being renamed to suit private interests. In Ireland we’re no strangers to the colonisation of renaming. None of our place names bear any relevance to their anglicised versions and now we’re happy to have businesses claiming our public spaces as their own.
Landsdown Road Stadium becomes Aviva Stadium replaces any history into the neoliberal franchise that Ireland has become
What I really hate is media and others just go along with it. They don’t get paid for it, but Lansdowne Road became the Aviva anyway – the Point became the O2 became the 3 Arena. Imagine if the Gaiety or the Olympia had been through 30 name changes in their time, it robs a sense of any permanence about the city and the rest of us need to stop aiding and abetting it.
It’s a few years since I was there but it was with 1000 other naked people for Spencer Tunick’s durty art photos and sure we were grand. it’s not dangerously uneven. Sounds like an excuse to get in the paper tbh.