For Your Consideration: Last Days Of The Flats

at

Screen Shot 2016-06-01 at 16.21.49

O’Devaney Garden, Dublin 7

In the round.

Mark Coughlan, of RTÉ’s Prime Time, writes:

Myself and a colleague in Prime Time, Conor Wilson, made a short online-only piece with some of the last residents of the O’Devaney Gardens flats complex, there’s only a few residents left living where there were once more than 270 families. Most of the flats have been boarded up or demolished. They talked to us about life and the history of the flats.

It was shot with a 360-degree camera, so viewers can look around the flats and get a perspective on the place that isn’t quite possible with normal flat-screen video.

If people open it in the YouTube or Facebook apps on their phone, the phone will act like a window onto the picture, so they can move their phone to pan around, or swipe the screen to move the shot…

Last Days of the Flats – A 360º short documentary (RTÉ)

Previously: Community Hearts Torn Apart

Thanks Mark

Sponsored Link

21 thoughts on “For Your Consideration: Last Days Of The Flats

  1. Fully Keen

    The funniest thing on most RTE shows at the moment is the over use of drone shots. It’s very funny.

    1. Ballyogan bag boyz

      Imagine how many camera interns they managed to let go because they got a new fancy drone.

  2. Turgenev

    And the Corpo wants Dublin to turn into a ‘mid-rise’ (up to 50 metres high) and ‘high-rise’ (over 50 metres high) city. Lots of fun demolishing the canyons 20 years from now.

    1. Kieran NYC

      Other cities around the world seem to be able to cope with high (or high-ish) buildings. Why do you think Dublin couldn’t?

      1. scottser

        A combination of corruption, greed, ineptitude and unaccountability at every stage of development I guess.

  3. Verbatim

    Lovely documentary, ( though shame about the click and drag feature that didn’t work). Great listening to the accents and how life used to be in Dublin. Pity DC didn’t know how to provide infrastructure to keep these communities going.

  4. Paddy

    I thought flat screen TVs would be the TV of choice for this particular program.

    Having said that, who wants to look around these flats? Maybe if they put Big Brother-like personalities in them (guilty bankers for instance) it might make it watchable.

  5. some old queen

    I lived around the corner from O’Devaney on NCR for years. One night my car got nicked. The guards caught the young fella up the road. He was from O’Devaney and had just been out of the joy for three days. They said there was a cycle of them being released, cars being nicked and them being banged up again. I know personal responsibility plays a part but there is something seriously wrong when this happens, and it was by any means just O’Devaney .

    That said, there were some absolute characters who would have you in stitches. Decent people who didn’t have a lot but wouldn’t see you short either. Real dubs.

    I am not sad to see it go. It has some serious problems but hopefully the people who lived their lives there will stay in touch with each other. I think they will. Good luck to you all.

    1. scottser

      The best snowball fight I had was with them youngflehs during the big snow in 2010 on me way to Tesco..

    2. Tish Mahorey

      “That said, there were some absolute characters who would have you in stitches. ”

      Ah yeah sure if they’re not robbers they’re just gas old characters aren’t they.

  6. Tish Mahorey

    Anna Nudder Ting…

    RTE happy to film the end of the flats but were never bothered documenting or reporting the misery they were when fully occupied and ignored by the police and authorities.

Comments are closed.

Sponsored Link
Broadsheet.ie