This morning.
East Link bridge
A marquee erected for the official re-naming [by president Higgins] of the East Link Bridge to the Tom Clarke Bridge to honour the first signatory of the Proclamation.
More as we get it.
Thanks Michael O’R
Everything. As It Happens.
Will the toll be removed in celebration… ?
should have been gone since Jan1 !
But sure…its Oyreland. Lets keep paying.
http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2015/1231/757004-eastlink-toll/
It’d be great if a mass boycott of the bridge could be organised to try persuade them to kill the toll off. But I couldn’t ever see people being so organised.
Hence forth, this bridge shall be forever known as the East Link toll bridge, tourists and visitors will ask for the Tom Clake bridge on their way to the ferry and will be told, there’s no bridge around here by that name… you can take the toll bridge though.. its just as quick.
If I ever die for Ireland & help radicalise youngsters to do the same, can you please name a more exciting bridge for me please?
You’ve already got Biffin’s Bridge
…JobBridge
We’ll name the end section of Lansdowne Road Nua after you.
It can be Cluster’s Last Stand.
Tom Link
or East Clark ?
I guess this means that the Tom Clarke / Dublin Airport re-naming campaign is over? Yeah I know, trying to ‘keep up’.
Were they going to rename the airport?!
I’d actually get out and march against that. It’s so ‘provincial city’ to name your airport after some bloke. Capital / global cities should have airports with their name on it.
“George Best International Airport” = SCAAAAARLET.
Yup, there was a campaign borne some years years ago and I’m glad it didn’t materialise;
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/suggestion-dublin-airport-be-renamed-for-tom-clarke-1.658027
I apologise to soccer fans but Belfast naming its international airport after a drunk and a womaniser was shocking in my view.
A womaniser?
If there were no bold girls there’d be no bold boys.
yes, like those other provincial cities New York, Chiago, Boston, Paris, etc. naming their airports after some bloke…
That bridge is legalised robbery. The toll was a terrible deal for the city.
And the no left turn off the north quays onto the Beckett bridge was done to push traffic heading to Merrion Square direction onto the East Link.
Should be made a issue with DC councillors in there next city wide vote begging jamboree in 2019.