Gulp.
This evening.
Temple Bar, Dublin 8.
Post-parade pints.
Hic.
Merchant’s Arch (Temple Bar in early stage of development)
Dublin, April 1984
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1984.
Merchant’s Arch, Temple Bar dominated by the then Central Bank in all its ugly, sunlight-stealing glory.
Brutal.
Saturday.
Dublin city centre.
A protest involving dozens of trad musicians, marching to save the Cobble Stone Irish music pub in Smithfield from development.
Previously: Cobbled Together
Saturday.
Temple Bar, Dublin 8.
Musicians bring a coffin to Merchant’s Arch while protesting to save one of the best known traditional Irish music pubs, the Cobblestone.
A petition against proposal to build a hotel beside the pub has received almost 20,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. The proposed development would see the demolition of a number of derelict buildings adjoining the pub and the construction of a nine-storey hotel.
Saturday.
Temple Bar, Dublin 8.
Context:
My 13 year old brother in the yellow T-shirt been dragged around temple bar by a grown man and into the pub on his back ! ! @TheTempleBarPub do you support this behaviour of your staff memebers abusing kids ? pic.twitter.com/4MTpJ3QQfE
— Jessica Nelson (@Jessnelson_x) July 28, 2021
Gnarly.
This morning.
Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Anyone?
Meanwhile…
Um.
The Liffey Boardwalk, Dublin 1.
Earlier: I’m In Here
This afternoon.
Temple Bar, Dublin 8.
World renowned fiddler Frankie Gavin and piper Louise Mulcahy lament the 1st anniversary of the Pandemic. The Temple Bar company today called for a Dublin City Centre recovery plan to help the city reopen when public health guidlines allow.
Where is your mask, Frankie?
OK.
keep it on.