Should/Shouldn't ESB Demolish Poolbeg Chimneys?

plein de force · 13-06-2010 3:03pm

No

yeah get rid of them
eyesores

dr gonzo · 13-06-2010 3:24pm

No

Im usually for the old buildings in these arguments but i dont think being able to see them from far away is great reason to keep them and i certainly dont want a set of chimneys to be the first and last thing people visiting Ireland see.

Theyre utilitarian, theyve served their purpose, now lets get rid of the bloody things.

Dempsey · 13-06-2010 3:27pm

They are iconic to dubliners alright but the rest of the country couldnt give a **** so demolish them!

drBill · 13-06-2010 3:56pm

Well I think we should level the whole site, build a shopping centre with outlying retail parks and apartments, creating about 8000 jobs during construction and 5000 long term jobs, enhancing the... - oh wait, this is 2010 not 2007.

Personally I can't understand this rush to tear them down, they're an inoffensive honest decent symbol of technology and progress from an earlier generation. And I like the way I can catch glimpses of them from so many parts of the city and surroundings. Once they're gone they're gone for good. To remove them would be to do the same thing to the city skyline as we've to the quays i.e turn the blandness up another notch.

Lone Stone · 13-06-2010 11:39pm

I would consider them a landmark to be honest :eek: always been there in the sky line where i live and well i think it would a shame to knock them down.

stovelid · 13-06-2010 11:42pm

robbie_998 wrote: »

But i can see them from my house in clondalkin

How did you manage to steal them?

Lando Griffin · 13-06-2010 11:49pm

No

They remind me of the Cork county GAA socks.

Paparazzo · 13-06-2010 11:55pm

Overheal wrote: »

http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/oct2006/poolbeg.jpg

.............

You Irish have no ****ing clue what landmarks are, do you?

I mean, the **** is this?

This is a landmark.

This is a landmark.

This is even a landmark.

This is a landmark.

THIS is a pair of ****ing chimneys. You have two just like them in Shannon. And about a billion of the ****ing things scattered around the world. I could go driving tonight and snap pictures of at least a dozen.

Next thing someone is going to come on here and argue that The Magpie in Clarecastle is holy ground.

Considering your picture of St Basils is called moscow-kremlin-5.jpg and only comes up when you google image kremlin as opposed to St Basil's Cathedral, looks like you aren't the expert in world famous landmarks you think you are

Nuttzz · 14-06-2010 12:21am

No

eyesores, knock 'em

Nulty · 14-06-2010 3:46am

No

They have a local iconicity to them and I like them but keeping them there just for that reason is illogical. They don't warrant protection. I'd like to know whats going to replace them though...

FlutterinBantam · 14-06-2010 9:36am

Amalgam wrote: »

I once sat at Sandymount just in time to catch the largest, lowest, slowest, most sinister, buttery brown, full moon pass behind them.

I don't know what's worse, a drab power station with some interesting vegetation and bird life on its wasteland, or more.. ****hole, shoebox flats.

I'll miss them.

God Almighty!!
I was sure you were going to describe a floating turd .......Thank God for that.:D

Tabnabs · 14-06-2010 10:16am

Iconic landmarks, I'd would be very sorry to see them go.

http://www.davewalshphoto.com/dave_walsh_photography/_MG_8368_ringsend_500.jpg

http://www.irishships.com/images/Photo%20Album/Lighthouse/Dublin%20port/poolbeg%20lighthouse%20%282%29.jpg

http://photo.icedcoffee.ie/images/pblog/20090705_0205.jpg

Dyr · 14-06-2010 10:28am

Keep them, We can run a giant elastic band between them and use it as a catapult to send any spud gobbling muck savage who wants them gone back to where they came from.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 14-06-2010 10:41am

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

A couple of chimneys isn't a bloody landmark.

Wrong...

General Zod · 14-06-2010 10:47am

Overheal wrote: »

http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/oct2006/poolbeg.jpg

.............

You Irish have no ****ing clue what landmarks are, do you?

I mean, the **** is this?

This is a landmark.

This is a landmark.

This is even a landmark.

This is a landmark.

THIS is a pair of ****ing chimneys. You have two just like them in Shannon. And about a billion of the ****ing things scattered around the world. I could go driving tonight and snap pictures of at least a dozen.

Next thing someone is going to come on here and argue that The Magpie in Clarecastle is holy ground.

STAY OUT OF MY FIELD, YANK!

General Zod · 14-06-2010 10:49am

The years have made me bitter, the gargle dims my brain
'Cause Dublin keeps on changing & nothing stays the same
The Pillar & the Met have gone, the Royal long since pulled down
As the great unyielding concrete makes a city of my town

pickarooney · 14-06-2010 11:20am

If they demolish Poolbeg it'll leave a little hole in the Dublin landscape.

Let's see if anyone gets the paradox/irony of that.

wattlendaub · 14-06-2010 11:22am

No

While they are somewhat iconic to the Dublin landscape/skyline, I think they should be knocked down.

They could replace them with a pair of wind turbines, I'd say that area gets a fair bit of wind!

14-06-2010 12:07pm

No

A quick question to those that want to keep 'em,
Would you be prepaired to pay for their maintenance?, they will need many thousands of euros spent on them to keep them safe!

Dyr · 14-06-2010 12:13pm

We could scrap that poxy spike in o'connell street and use the money we have to pay for maintenance on it to sort out poolbeg instead. We'd probably have a fair wad of changeleft over and all

goose2005 · 14-06-2010 1:20pm

ScumLord wrote: »

Imagine if they weren't there, do you think anyone would support the building of chimneys at Poolbeg?

no-one would support building giant pyramids in Egpyt either.

donvito99 · 14-06-2010 4:18pm

Redevelop (FULL STOP)

ScumLord · 14-06-2010 4:51pm

No

goose2005 wrote: »

no-one would support building giant pyramids in Egpyt either.

They would have at the time and would probably love to do so now they just can't because it's cost prohibitive.

These are just common industrial buildings with no significance other than the Dubs have become used to them. It's an age old tail of people becoming attached to the most peculiar things.

The site could be used for much better purposes other than a graveyard for defunct buildings.

They're not pretty, they're not useful, they have no historical significance and they'll cost a fortune to maintain when their not doing anything. Sounds like a perfect monument to the Ireland of the 90s I suppose.

minidazzler · 14-06-2010 6:44pm

Why do Dubs have such an obsession with phallic objects?

Archeron · 14-06-2010 6:57pm

Stick a viewing platfom and a lift on them and people will pay through the nostrils to go up them.

sagat2 · 14-06-2010 7:21pm

No

Based on some of the replies here I'm surprised there wasn't an armed uprising when the "iconic" Ballymun towers were knocked. You must be the same heroic preservationists that are keeping Plunkett tower still standing "Cause it's the first thing you see when arriving in Dublin airport" no doubt.

Here's another eyesore that was rightfully knocked and nobody missed.
http://www.fionnbarcallanan.com/Place/Old%20Gasometer%2078B-280D-25.jpg

_sparkie_ · 14-06-2010 7:23pm

i would miss them if they were knocked down

Sl!mCharles · 14-06-2010 7:32pm

I most certainly would anyway.

JohnMearsheimer · 14-06-2010 7:35pm

I really hope the ESB keep them. I love flying into Dublin airport and seeing the chimneys, lets me know I'm home or well nearer to Cork than I was anyway. Love the view of the chimneys at the end of the Pride video by U2 as well.

Teutorix · 14-06-2010 7:40pm

ESB close down a waste burning station rather than close a coal plant.

Jolly good show chaps.

Should/Shouldn't ESB Demolish Poolbeg Chimneys?

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