The Central Cannot Hold

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From top: Central Hotel on Exchequer Street, Dublin 2, The hotel’s Liubrary Bar, The Exchequer around the corner and the nearby The Globe

This morning.

Charlie Taylor, in The Irish Times, reports:

Some of Dublin’s most loved haunts could be about to disappear with planning permission being sought to partially demolish the Central Hotel on Exchequer Street and to the nearby Globe bar and associated Rí-Rá nightclub.

An application has been lodged for a major new development that consists of the reconfiguration, partial sundry demolition, and expansion of the Central Hotel into a new 6,554 sq m five storey hotel with 125 bedrooms and a rooftop extension.

Among the associated properties at risk because of the planned development include the Globe bar, sister establishment Rí-Rá and the Exchequer.

But look what you get.

A bigger hotel!

Central Hotel, Globe and Rí-Rá at risk under redevelopment plan (The Irish Times)

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23 thoughts on “The Central Cannot Hold

  1. Jupiter

    The Library Bar is/was a great outlier in the ongoing mall-ificatiion of Dublin’s city centre. A cosy, odd little place. The new one will be horribly ironic or horribly corporate. Little by little, the charm of Dublin’s city centre is being eroded. Just leave it alone.

    1. goldenbrown

      that’s disappointing

      ’twas the best hidey hole Dublin I reckon

      clearly not up to the pace needed to survive in ze “Grafton Quarter” :(

    1. george

      There’s a massive hotel being built on Dame Street already. Hopefully this will be refused. Hotels are going to be hollow out the city.

    1. Graeme

      Its in the same wider building as The Central Hotel, they want to demolish the back building of the Globe (the smoking area in the alley way) and amalgamate a bunch of the buildings into the Central Hotel complex.

  2. Junkface

    Even bigger Hotels planned! Have they not learned from the pandemic? Putting all of your eggs in one basket regarding tourism business may not be stable for another 3 years or so.

    I agree, they are slowly ruining the character of Dublin, its all getting too corporate. They wrecked lower Manhattan with this stuff in the late 90’s and removed all of its charm, pushing any sources of inspiration into Brooklyn.

  3. Tom Wong

    The Library Bar was good, the Globe was good 20 years ago, the hotel itself is an overpriced kip
    This is the right call

    1. theo kretschmar schuldorff

      If you were there 20 years ago, I think it is us who may have changed.
      Library, Globe & Ri-Ra have been consistent, which is the point in retaining them. And they truly must be retained.

      1. Tom Wong

        I just think it’s a bit like Whelans
        I understand there is always some kind of market for nostalgia but ffs grow up, move on,

  4. Dr.Fart

    how the hell are DCC and an bord pleanala still allowing more be built? was it not last year or even early this year where they said they would stop any more being built? yet here we are

  5. Gavin

    Assume the frontage are protected buildings and they wont make same balls of it they did on the other side of the street.

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