This morning.
Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin
Robyn writes:
Former Stena Line HSS terminal… Where once there was the fastest ferry on the Irish Sea, now there is just a frame and a crane. This is progress.
Previously: Stena Line confirms end of Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead route (Irish Times, February 4, 2015)
And yet the signs directing people to that ferry are still in place on the M50 gantrys and M/N11 gantrys.
I met a Norwegian man there recently who has followed said signs in the hope of catching a ferry to Britain…directed him to Dublin port but he couldn’t understand why the signs still existed but the ferry didn’t…
over to you TII.
Stella Line are offering ‘deadly’ rates, if its still of any use to him.
It’s just a rumour that was spread around town,
A telegram or a picture postcard,
Within weeks they’ll be re-opening the shipyards,
And notifying the next of kin.
Suede did the best version.
I’ve never heard it Ivan, I must investigate.
yeah that’s right. it was on a charity album, wasn’t it? can’t remember which one…used to remember stuff like that.
the 1995 Help one. And on an old Q cover CD…
that’s it
check out searchlight by the levellers on that same album
going download that album now – no harm in a bit of nostalgia on a Tuesday morning
That’s where I found the Suede version too – lovely eerie sound to it. Buying up compilation CDs for alternative versions of songs was a much-rewarded past-time. If there were DUB versions, even more so.
Diving for pearls right there, Bertie.
Wyatt or Costello though? I’m with the former.
Former for me too although both are aces
Yup. I’m a believer.
Then I saw her face…
“Where once there was the fastest ferry on the Irish Sea, now there is just a frame and a crane. This is progress.”
– fewer jobs working on ferries/ports, but more jobs working on planes/airports; swings and roundabouts, I guess.
Apples and oranges.
Not at all. It’s only very recently that the ferry was your only affordable way to the UK. Now you can fly anywhere in Britain for twenty quid. Of course the ferries will suffer while the airports thrive.
“Now you can fly anywhere in Britain for twenty quid”
Not on the days people really want to fly. Yeah if you want to leave mid week and come back mid week, but who does?
Business people.
Got a flip-top pack of cigarettes in her pocket…
The ship that replaced it requires more staff to operate! But less fuel
Was this the ferry that couldn’t sail at all if the sea was slightly rough? Not much point being the fastest if you don’t sail at all a % of the time.
The ship itself is being refitted to be used as static office space in Turkey.
Indeed it is, while the other two in the class found later service as dog food tins.
I find it amazing how it went from being the best thing since sliced bread, to “we prefer the old way” so quickly.
Really? Interesting
Really interesting.
Interesting? Really!
post Brexit surely the government are preparing to start up a new semistate freight ferry company to get goods to and from the continent cheaply ?
so people will just use the pre-existing Dublin-Holyhead service a few miles up the road *shrug*
Irelands Concorde.
With all the will in the world…..diving for dear life…..and Declan “Elvis” McManus’ version, which I first encountered on the High Fidelity soundtrack….
Tis easier for the lads fishing off the pier at any rate, without that swell. Although it was swell, the HSS and this makes me sad.
When it started it took just 90 minutes to get across. Problem was it uses jet fuel for its engines which is way more expensive than the dirty crap the marine industry uses. They had it slowed down to 2hrs in the end. A pity.
Just before Dun Laoghaire port’s epitaph is written, there are people working hard to secure a replacement service. A cheaper to run one than the (in fairness amazing) HSS. Might happen, might not but would be good for both Harbour and Town if it does. Looks pretty bleak down at the terminal at the moment, but in the short-term it will liven up for Beatyard at the end of the month!
Simon