Construction of the sea wall in Clontarf
They (local residents) said the wall was too tall.
And they were spot on, in fairness.
Olivia Kelly, in this morning’s Irish Times, reports:
A independent expert commissioned by Dublin City Council to review the height of the controversial Clontarf sea wall has recommended its reduction.
In a draft report seen by the Irish Times, Dr Jimmy Murphy of University College Cork, who was engaged by the council following objections from residents to the height of the flood defence wall, suggested it be reduced by 10cm-20cm.
Dr Murphy also said alternatives to the concrete wall, such as demountable barriers were viable, if costly, solutions.
…In a draft report submitted to the council in recent days, Dr Murphy said he did not find a “clear consistent design document and the information provided, as used to determine the wall height, sometimes differed between documents”.
Previously: The Clontarf Wall
Pic: 98fm
Ballsbridge is getting some nice glass inserts along it’s flood wall, it’ll keep the people happy as they walk down to the aviva for their rugger.
You maybe forgot that rugby is enjoyed and played by many of your revered sans-culottes :)
yeah but the boll!x€s sauntering between paddy cullens & the aviva along their flood walled path would be a tad more bourgeois , IMHO
Don’t ever change, dav. This place would be a lot more tedious without you :)
Isn’t there another sport played in that stadium?
.. and it’s owned by???
Is it not a joint venture between the IRFU and the FAI?
I’m open to correction obviously.
For now.. “The joint venture has a 60-year lease on the stadium;[11] on expiry the stadium will return to the exclusive ownership of the IRFU”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviva_Stadium
60 years?
Sure even Robbie Keane will have retired by then.
You can live by the sea or you can live in the sea.
Choose one.
Seals do both but that’s because they are contrary b@stards
:-)
all this fuss and it’s just over 10cms, laughable.
Yes but this is *Clontarf* we’re talking about here.
* Paging Finbarr Saunders *
+ fnarr
I’m sure Gerry good get something to blow the top off it.
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an expert suggested it could be reduced by 10cm? so DCC made a decision to err on the side of caution? sound decision making if you ask me
Damn council and their damn prudence!
“My view, my view!”
As if a view means nothing.
My home village is currently battling plans to put a huge waste incinerator in the immediate vicinity. Excuse me if I don’t get particularly aggrieved about the views from Clontarf
But you do, then, know the value of a view. Good luck with your battle. Every time a view gets blocked or destroyed by bad planning, evryone loses.
Good point, I guess I didnt see it as a general issue around planning. Bad planning is destructive in all forms. Good luck with the wall!
DCC – Making Plans For Nigel.
@ Nigel
This is rare example of prudent planning; Clontarf was badly flooded a few years ago, and sea-levels are only going in one direction…
Well done, Bertie wins the Internet today
They should get Pink Floyd to do a concert on it…
I’m willing to bet a shiny new dollar that though the wall might now be a necessity, that necessity is the result of any number of bad planning decisions and/or previous inaction. If not, then it’s the exception rather than the rule in that regard. Either way, the view is a sad loss. We shouldn’t celebrate people’s lives being made a little duller, or castigate them for bewailing the loss of a little beauty in their lives.
I take you point, needs of the many (not being flooded) trumps the perks of the few, in this instance.
Well, to keep the moral high ground I can at least blame man-made climate change.
Damn you! You built it up!
View, view! You can’t handle the view!
Just move the sitting room upstairs.
“sea-levels are only going in one direction”
You know this how Rob_G?
An embankment with walking and cycling facilities would do the job and would be an asset for the community.
A few houses along Clontarf Road would lose the sea view from their drawing rooms, boo hoo!
There’s no space for an embankment. You clearly have no idea what’s going on here.
I hope they are flooded. I hope for this more then world peace.
So when this goes all Athlone in a few years because they lowered the wall, the taxpayers are on the hook?