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Harry Crosbie said he had received “significant positive feedback” for his proposal to refurbish the chimneys and create a lookout tower at Pigeon House.

Under his proposal, the lookout tower would stand as a separate structure next to the 207-metre tall chimney stacks. He said he had discussed the project with Marks Barfield, the company that designed The London Eye.

Last month he called for the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) to improve the look of the chimneys by painting them….

Over Bodger’s dead body.

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‘Lookout can rival Guinness Storehouse’ (Catherine Sanz, The Times Ireland edition)

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25 thoughts on “Look Out!”

    2. martco

      respectfully disagree, your eyesore is my icon

      time is their enemy in any case, concrete has a lifespan after all is said & done

      if you want something to knock right now go after Liberty Hall, now that’s a pox

  2. Captainpants

    Put fans in the bottom of the chimneys, and we can go flying in them like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

  4. bisted

    …In Pigeon House did Harry see,
    a stately pleasure-dome decreed,
    by Alp, the sacred riverrun,
    down to a snotgreen sea…

    2. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

      Ooooooh, gives me Junior Cert shivers.
      I typed Inter Cert but edited it to pretend I’m younger.

  6. George

    So ridiculous. I’fhad the idea to put a viewing tower in the chimneys then realized it won’t work but won’t let it go. Crap idea. There is a viewing tower in Ireland’s most popular tourist attraction, there is already a failed stand alone viewing tower in Smithfield. Why would anyone go to Poolbeg for this?

    1. George

      Should have said “I’d say he had the idea…”

      I really don’t see what the thinking is here. There are two towers doing nothing so let’s build a third?

      Is there anything to be said for another mass?

  7. Spaghetti Hoop

    Create a revolving bar and restaurant in the ‘look-out tower’. Always great japes had in those and the financial folk will love it. Or those partial to a bit of ship-spotting in the redeveloped port. Or Brent Geese on the Bull.

    1. George

      The “financial folk” will love a massive waste of money that is likely to be very costly to maintain?

  11. Mezcal

    Harry, I know, would you ever just disappear, you galoot. This is almost as good an idea as your Google and Facebook sponsored South Great Wall, you’re full of it, and always with an eye on what you can get out of it. Maybe just pay your fair share of tax?

  12. Dub Spot

    I vote we paint Gay Byrne and Harry Crosbie red and white, put them on eBay and flog them to the yanks as “Two Authentic Pillars Of the Old Dublin Establishment Landscape #SavePoolbeg#

  14. Michael Fehily

    Let’s hope it happens. Dublin needs an attraction like this . I always believed the chimneys themselves could be renovated in to a viewing tower . Elevator up on one chimney . Return down on the other . An observation/viewing deck on top of the taller chimney with a coffee shop/restaurant and gift shop etc . A bridge to connect the two chimneys .
    The negativity of the some of the comments above are just typical predictable negative responses .
    Dublin is a dump due to lack of investment.
    It needs an exciting attraction like this . I just hope the lefties in DCC give Harry to go ahead .
    Only for Harry Crosbie the Docklands would still be a derelict bomb site . Let’s support this idea . And get it done for Dublin’s sake .

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