50 Lwr Abbey Street

ross_castle

Does anyone know what the situation with 50 Lwr Abby street is. Someone told me its was a designer's workshop but it looks like a squat to me. Does anyone know. It’s the place done from epicurean with all the spray paint on the door

JoeSchmoe

It was a squat but the guy who squated it has actually gained control of it/owns it (I'm not exactly sure of the precise legal staus) he operates it as an art gallery, offically, he makes pieces of "Found Art" ie he finds stuff around the city and puts them together to make "Art" hence the bicycle bits and the soother tree you see outside from time to time.

inside most of the building is in abad state of repair, bare dirty room and rotting floorboards, I've been to a few parties in it, you have to sign in for insurance reasons but after that anything goes. I think he has some rooms that are done up for him to live in.

It's a cool story and much better than there being a centra or something there instead, it probably worth millions even in it's delapidated state

Kersh

Is this just a few doors up from supermacs...?

ctrl-alt-delete

Kersh wrote:

Is this just a few doors up from supermacs...?

no right down the other end of that row of buildings,

i agree with the 2nd poster, much better than a spar or centra

DOLEMAN

Yeah, Dublin needs more houses/whatever like the Abbey Street one.

It's nice to see something in the city centre which is not about taking_your_money.

Monty - the one and only

moved

senordingdong

Squaters rights are that if you have been putting empty space to use (or squating on it) for seven years, you can lay claim to it.

BendiBus

Middle Abbey St is it not?

MorningStar

I heard his family owned the property and he inherited not a squat.

Bluetonic

senordingdong wrote:

Squaters rights are that if you have been putting empty space to use (or squating on it) for seven years, you can lay claim to it.

Adverse possession in Ireland is 12 years in normal circumstance.

drdre

this place looks so tacky from the outside.it looks weird.:(

mikemac

Bluetonic wrote:

Adverse possession in Ireland is 12 years in normal circumstance.

Correct! As a law student, I learned that recently

senordingdong

Bluetonic wrote:

Adverse possession in Ireland is 12 years in normal circumstance.

Yeah yeah....semantics.
Was I right with the rest though?

mikemac

senordingdong wrote:

Yeah yeah....semantics.
Was I right with the rest though?

You were in my opinion

http://www.odonnellsweeney.ie/news.asp?id=12&cid=59

Link explains it better than I can

Litcagral

ross_castle wrote:

Does anyone know what the situation with 50 Lwr Abby street is. Someone told me its was a designer's workshop but it looks like a squat to me. Does anyone know. It’s the place done from epicurean with all the spray paint on the door

Is that the house located between the Abbey Hotel and the Hidden Hearing shop?

I passed it yesterday afternoon and there seemed to be a mad party going on there!