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Not too many European capital cities would present the main entrance to their premier state building in such condition. Ireland’s framework to manage and control utilities is not fit for purpose.

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Lovely shopfront being installed on South Great George’s Street.

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11 months

Interesting new additional to my local Aldi.

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8 months

I imagine if you turned into Exchequer St looking for the M50, you need more than a few signs.

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10 months

Taxi parking begone

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5 years

It really can’t be said enough: the absolute state of College Green

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2 years

Where do you start with poor #Drogheda . If ever a town was more clueless about its treasures, it’s character and it’s attractions, it’s Drogheda. It rivals Kilkenny in its quality but it’s a shadow of the Marble City due to decay, dereliction and a plastic addiction.

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I don’t think I have ever seen Dublin look so cluttered and dishevelled.

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The case for a single unified bus stop style and signage.

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9 months

Obligatory shot from another European city that resisted the temptation to put its tram wires overhead slap bang in the centre of its historic core.

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1 year

Tell me again why this is a bus stop and smell traffic route rather than a beautiful stepped terrace beside the river to enjoy on a sunny day?

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Francis Street, just off the M50.

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3 years

Have yourself ( an admittedly pre-1916) clutter-free/no tacky signage/people looking after their buildings/lived in above shop O'Connell Street Christmas.... image by Don Carey

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Poor #DameStreet It’s meant to be the city’s Civic Spine, but its tatty condition would make you think otherwise. It’s traffic choked, with crazy under-provision for pedestrians, treeless, poorly lit, cluttered, little civic stature. And it’s buildings are increasingly shabby.

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2 years

One not-so careful owner.

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10 months

The Range Rover Discovery is the essential car for inner city living.

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7 months

GDPR nightmare

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#Waterford ’s Viking Triangle public realm manages to do what previously been impossible in Dublin. Shared surface streets, kerb free areas, pared back signage and low traffic areas. Recall the controversy over similar ideas for Cathedral Street in Dublin. The project got shelved

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3 years

While the focus is naturally on the state of Iveagh Markets it’s worth remembering Martin Keane’s other purchase in the area, Mother Redcaps, which too went from viable premises in mid-2000s to wreck. Certainly has a grá for the Liberties.

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2 years

Another Circle K anti-shopfront. This time on Westmoreland Street. Not that the previous occupant was much better. But plastic signage and windows covered in vinyls really do nothing to animate our city streets.

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2 years

Dublin’s South William Street to be fully pedestrianised

Dublin’s South William Street to be fully pedestrianised

Move opposed by owners of Brown Thomas Car Park and some other businesses

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5 years

A great shot of Henry Street in the 70s.

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3 years

It’s amazing to think that almost the who length of the north side Middle Abbey Street is empty. And has been for well over a decade. The Indo left Abbey Street in 2004. The failed Northern Qtr proposal was in 2008. Empty wasted space.

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A Venetian pallazzo in need of some attention. Surely one of the quays most iconic buildings.

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The dismaying sight of wands ganging up on a defenceless bin just off Grafton Street.

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2 years

Are you confused? College Green - public realm disaster zone. This is what happens when you try to cram trams, buses, bus stops, cars, taxi ranks, taxi parking, cycle lanes, cycle parking and lots of pedestrians (phew) into one small space. Badly.

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4 years

Lovely detailing revealed on this North Strand railway bridge now that the advertising has been taken down. Permanently one hopes.

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2 years

Some of the new housing emerging at O’Devaney Gardens. This is phase 1. Suburban in character.

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4 years

Lovely to see this on Capel Street corner.

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10 months

The latest amenity in Dublin 8 opens next week. The east end of the linear park at St James’s Walk features play and exercise equipment, an edible garden feature and a mini amphitheatre made from salvaged element of the old canal basin.

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1 year

A bit disappointed to see Dollard & Co convert into yet another pub. Just what Temple Bar needs. It’s a shame but Dublin struggles to sustain these big spacious cafes and food halls. Harder and harder to find around town.

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2 years

Bit of a missed opportunity. This is the perfect spot for some nice underplanting or a rain garden.

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2 years

After those dramatic new trees, the final phase of work to green Beresford Place and Memorial Road was completed over the weekend. (Work/ Photos by MCD Landscapes / Work for Dublin City Council Parks Service )

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5 years

Amazing photo this. It’s by Aerial Photography Mayo (so hope they don’t mind me sharing). It’s Moore Hall a now decaying stately home near Carnacon in Co Mayo. Credit:

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4 years

Clarendon Street’s revamp is almost there. The street looks so much better. Lovely use of granite. Hopefully it encourage more use of the street. It’s always been something of a ‘go thru’ street rather than a ‘go to’ street.

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7 months

Shopfront horror on Middle Abbey Street.

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9 months

Dublin, you are missing a trick.

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2 years

Kevin Street is a street begging to be tree lined. A bit of a road diet, widened footpaths and you could create an attractive boulevard linking Liberties with St Stephen’s Green.

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We’ve all been there. On Clarendon Street in central Dublin wondering where the nearest entry onto the M50 is (it’s 8km sway at Lucan) The official line is ALL this signage is necessary. Mandated and required by the sacred Traffic Signs Manual.

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2 years

Europe comes to Dublin. Outdoor seating without the fuss.

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4 years

Foster Place pleasantly free of its taxis. Bank of Ireland had just completed work on the Armoury prior to the crisis. Some lovely architectural lighting.

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3 years

Newly restored lanterns at St Audoen’s Church on High Street burning brightly.

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2 years

Civic pride.

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Barrow Street’s new towers with a slice of heritage. Although, amazingly, given the money poured into this area and the width of Barrow Street, no one can widen a footpath or plant a tree to relive the office cliff wall monotony. And that, is poor planning.

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Blooming gorgeous. Planting brings an overlooked traffic island to life.

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You’d be hard pushed to find a more dreadful and anti-pedestrian interface to the public realm than the new Distillers building at Smithfield. One imagines, given the building’s name, the design team workshopped it in a distillery. 🤨

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2 years

It’s remarkable to think that Tuesday marks the centenary of the Irish State, being the date in 1922 that the Irish Free State came formally into being. And yet we’re hardly aware of it. Seems a bit sad really. We’ve plenty to be proud of, despite all the faults of past 100 yrs.

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2 years

Atmospheric Dublin doors

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3 years

The contrast between #Utrecht ’s elegant terraces - all lived in, all beautifully maintained, on calm largely traffic free streets - contrasts dramatically with Dublin’s Georgian and 19c buildings. Dereliction seems unheard of here. Desirability drives use, upkeep and improvement.

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The Crann Or comes back into leaf at Central Plaza.

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Poor blighted #ParnellSquare - the city’s oldest Georgian square. A car park, bus park, shabby public realm, disheveled buildings. It’s rescue (library project) can’t come quick enough although it increasingly looks unlikely.

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4 years

A good week. Great project by Dublin City Council Parks Service to push out cars and plant trees! Marrowbone Lane goes Green.

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2 years

Yay! Here’s hoping. “Decluttering Dublin’s streets tops the agenda for new mayor”

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3 years

Poles and poles for miles and miles.

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2 years

Make tree pits and tree openings for the trees you’ll get, not the saplings you plant. That way you don’t get the endless lifting of concrete footpaths. It’s a lesson we can’t seem to fully learn in Dublin.

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Temple Bar ‘Public Space’? Not a public seat in sight. Where is the balance here? Is this area all for the TB beer merchants? 2020/21 were exceptional circumstances. Certainly stimulated outside use. But it has to be balanced against wider public use. And of course aesthetics.

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3 years

Skibbereen’s river is a triumph of concrete over nature.

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2 years

Memorial Road greening by Dublin City Council Parks.

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3 years

I must say I am rather partial to CIE’s Italianate pile on Amiens Street. Much as it may need a little tlc, its still a looker.

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2 years

The utter filth of much of the public domain in city centre today We’re back to high intensity use of city streets. Unfortunately fewer people seems to care about the filth they generate. It’s time to move to weekly/twice weekly washing of footpaths. Regular not reactive washing.

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2 years

Bridgefoot Street’s new row of plane trees look rather fetching.

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1 year

The new look Earl Place behind Clerys with the new office elements and a coming hotel. Minimum width footpaths, bollards, DYLs, treeless, bland galvanised lighting. What a disappointment.

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2 years

Some great shots of the new park at Bridgefoot Street, which is almost complete. A grand opening is set for the end of April. This will be a great park to explore details. Lots of quirky features and a wild, organic feel to it. (Photos by Dublin City Council Parks Service Insta)

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5 years

The demolition at Dawson/ Nassau corner offers a rather nice (and previously not seen) view in Dublin.

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2 years

Bleak Quay

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4 years

Newly revealed terrace of the Workman’s at Wellington Quay. Gas to think 14 years ago these were written off for replacement by Norman Foster’s ‘flying saucer’. Great to see so much of Dublin’s quays expertly revived in recent years.

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2 years

In a city of neglected & undervalued public realm, the Liffey surely is king. It rarely gets any attention & has no champion. And yet it defines our city. Historic ward markers are still hanging in there in places, although most have lost their cast iron nameplates.

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3 years

Brutalist bollards on Merrion Row. What’s actually needed here is widened footpath. And cycle facilities.

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2 years

Ireland is seriously fucked up - looking at the waste of buildings in cities, the lack of a culture of maintenance, the failure to resource conservation & enable community-led development. It’s bloody depressing. #BigCityPlan

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City square: the new look Wolfe Tone Square maturing into a lovely urban space.

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3 years

Merrion Row to be temporarily pedestrianised ? First things to go should be these yokes. Kildare towns brilliant instant public space shows how it can be done.

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1 year

Hasn’t taken long for the ground floor of this new development on Sth George’s Street to be destroyed with tagging. The ‘break-wreck-litter’ mentality in Dublin drives me crazy.

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2 years

The irony of Dublin being an eternal building site and yet also falling apart.

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Interesting development on Henry Street, once so resistant to living over the shop. Converting disused upper floors from storage to 8 apartments. And a handsome building to boot.

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5 years

Possibly time to consider a unified bus stop design for tour bus operators?

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2 years

The poor aul Plough.

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2 years

One of Capel Streets finest buildings, inexplicably empty for years, is now up for auction. An amazing space.

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2 years

A people space. The new look Wolfe Tone Square opens to the public. The refurbished public space is accompanied by a spot of ‘proper public realm’ on Wolfe Tone Street.

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2 years

Medieval Dublin. 1945, just after the Blitz I think.

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2 years

The handsome shopfront of Price’s Medical Hall & Pill-poppers Emporium on Clare Street has recently been beautifully conserved by MacLyn Joinery with the support of a conservation grant from @dubconservation

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4 years

A street transformed: a new row of *birch trees and under planting had really transformed James Joyce Street. Great to see semi mature trees, rather than saplings. It makes an immediate impression.

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6 years

Dublin: why don’t we do street gardens? Less space on streets for cars, more for people and greenery. And guess what, streets with cars down the pecking order are more pleasant places for everyone.

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3 years

Delighted to hear that Belfast’s iconic Art Deco Bank of Ireland building has been bought by Belfast CC with plans to develop it as a Museum of Belfast.

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8 months

Charlemont Square: everything you could need. Except street life.

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8 months

So much of Dublin’s antique granite paving has been lost over recent decades it’s always nice to come across features from a more craft focused time - a fanned corner on Nassau Street.

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2 years

Came across one of those clusters of signage that lift the soul last evening. Simple junction in an essentially pedestrian area - 10 signs, double signs, signs for signs. And… an obligatory empty pole. All designed in (the street recently refurbished). #DeclutterDublin

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2 years

This can’t happen soon enough. Traffic saturated Dublin city centre needs a break.

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Car lanes will begin to be phased out of College Green from next year as part of wider plans to remove traffic from Dublin city centre over the next three years, the Minister for Transport has said.

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A good idea - better cycling facilities - has turned #WerburghStreet into Ugly Street. If anything active mobility here has made walking even more unpleasant. The street has been strewn with plastic wands and signage to the point of ridiculousness.

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3 years

The immeasurable value of a beautiful old shopfront. I think Howbert & Mays did a lovely job here. Such a shame they’ve not yet been able to open properly.

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5 years

It’s alive. Dublin growing 1600-2019

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3 years

Mad to think nearly 20 years after Luas this area at Smithfield is still like this.

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2 years

Buddy can you spare me a dime? The handsome bronze doors of the Revenue Offices on O’Connell Street in dire need of a spit n polish.

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1 year

Yikes

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2 years

9 and 10 Ormond Quay. Wasn’t No 10 a fancy venue until just a couple of years ago. Both buildings are empty and forlorn. Dublin’s dysfunctional property market.

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How much value can you put on aesthetics? Striking how Griffith Ave’s existing mature trees allow this new housing scheme to already look settled in the streetscape. Imagine the difference with no/newly planted trees.

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2 years

Someone call Marie Konde #DeclutterDublin

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A new planted area pops up on Aungier Street.

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2 years

La Serenissima, Dublino

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2 years

Clerys monumental facade turns on the Christmas lights. The building’s refurbishment should be a significant boost for O’Connell Street, and importantly spur improvement on North Earl Street, including a revamped Earl Place.

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9 months

I’m of the view that Liffey Street Lower should have been pedestrianised - full stop. While the repave here is good to see, I don’t see the car lane allowing anything different to happen on the street. Given its location and shabby character, something different is needed.

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