O'Connell Street to be renamed

star.chaser

Heard on the radio yesterday that Dublin city council are in negotiations with MacDonalds to rename O'Connell street to MacDonalds street in a multimillion euro sponsorship deal. If all goes well, other streets might follow. :eek:

Heisenberg.

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Hagar

O Connell St in Limerick? There's no O Connell St in Dublin.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Which O'Connell St?

mikom

Well there's enough heroin addicts with the shakes on that street.
So I say go for it.

Kiera

Charlee Unimportant Yam wrote: »

Which O'Connell St?

In town, silly :rolleyes:

walshb

"Hey, can you tell me where I can find McDonald's street?" Yeah, sure, just walk thru McFlurry drive, take a right at McChicken avenue and straight ahead.

Three and a half weeks too early OP?

dvpower

What?
Sackville Street is to be renamed?
Over my dead body.

MayoForSam

OP is 4 weeks early with this story.

bleg

All your O Connell St are belong to us!

General Zod

I don't think this proposal is real.

General Zod

They should rename Henry St. to Handball St.

petes

walshb wrote: »

"Hey, can you tell me where I can find McDonald's street?" Yeah, sure, just walk thru McFlurry drive, take a right at McChicken avenue and straight ahead.

Reminds me of that ad for randoms!

Cookie_Monster

Insurgent wrote: »

Reminds me of that ad for randoms!

which wasn't even that random at all

jayteecork

This has got to be complete bs.

Imhof Tank

That was Vincent Brown and Ivan Yates yesterday morning. The other example they gave was:

The Tesco National Library

OutlawPete

First The Goalpost Pub and now this, why are you doing this to us God, why??

TheZohanS

OP do you have a link; or do I have to keel ju?

flowersagogo

OutlawPete wrote: »

First The Goalpost Pub and now this, why are you doing this to us God, why??

god is french.

SUNGOD

the OP was listening to newstalk yesterday about the naming of the vivas stadium and what would happen if we sold the rights to other landmarks etc purely a theoretical conversation, yawn yawn

stovelid

It would be good to just have numbered streets instead.

crispsandwiches

get out of here.

InKonspikuou2

walshb wrote: »

"Hey, can you tell me where I can find McDonald's street?" Yeah, sure, just walk thru McFlurry drive, take a right at McChicken avenue and straight ahead.

Reminds me of Buenos Aires. You can get around that city by saying turn left at the mcdonalds, then right at kfc. walk past the 3 burger kings until you come to a pizza hut and it's at the intersection with the 4 mcdonalds on each corner.

Rhyme

General Zod wrote: »

They should rename Henry St. to Handball St.

Head-the-ball street.

Jesus Wept

stovelid wrote: »

It would be good to just have numbered streets instead.

It'd be thrilling alright.

Proxy

Is this a case of someone hearing something which you might as well of heard on the bus and freaking out to get "the scoop" online? I'd sooner get my news off a taxi driver.

Other Theoretical Suggestions:
The GPO > The KFC
St. Stephen's Green > Ryanair Park (Sold in 2015 budget as part of Hangar Six resolution)
The IFSC > Oh wait, that was pimped out years ago...:P
Phoenix Park > The Coca Cola Field of Dreams
Croke Park > 123.ie Arena

All verified by my taxi driver, after he said DCC was trying to poison his water supply and asked me why wouldn't I stay in Galway instead of taking Dublin jobs, but that's another story....

ejmaztec

I thought that every single road in Ireland was going to be re-named "Sh1t Street" and that all waterways would be re-named "Sh1t Creek"?

tricky D

InKonspikuou2 wrote: »

Reminds me of Buenos Aires. You can get around that city by saying turn left at the mcdonalds, then right at kfc. walk past the 3 burger kings until you come to a pizza hut and it's at the intersection with the 4 mcdonalds on each corner.

We do this properly.... with pubs.

Jesus Wept

tricky D wrote: »

We do this properly.... with pubs.

True but do you know how to get from O'Connell Street to Grafton Street without passing any pubs?

stovelid

The-Rigger wrote: »

It'd be thrilling alright.

Let's not get carried away.

tricky D

The-Rigger wrote: »

True but do you know how to get from O'Connell Street to Grafton Street without passing any pubs?

The long way.

ejmaztec

The-Rigger wrote: »

True but do you know how to get from O'Connell Street to Grafton Street without passing any pubs?

An alcoholic would never arrive.

stovelid

Head is wrecked now trying to devise a route...

Mountjoy Mugger

The-Rigger wrote: »

True but do you know how to get from O'Connell Street to Grafton Street without passing any pubs?

By playing Monopoly?

OutlawPete

The-Rigger wrote: »

True but do you know how to get from O'Connell Street to Grafton Street without passing any pubs?

Rope tied from top of spire to Molly Malone cart, slide down :cool:

Jesus Wept

The-Rigger wrote: »

True but do you know how to get from O'Connell Street to Grafton Street without passing any pubs?

tricky D wrote: »

The long way.

ejmaztec wrote: »

An alcoholic would never arrive.

stovelid wrote: »

Head is wrecked now trying to devise a route...

Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »

By playing Monopoly?

OutlawPete wrote: »

Rope tied from top of spire to Molly Malone cart, slide down :cool:

You stop into every one of them.

OutlawPete

The-Rigger wrote: »

You stop into every one of them.

*Groan*

star.chaser

SUNGOD wrote: »

the OP was listening to newstalk yesterday about the naming of the vivas stadium and what would happen if we sold the rights to other landmarks etc purely a theoretical conversation, yawn yawn

It's the Aviva stadium. Vivas was a health insurer that operated here a few years back. Health insurer sponsoring a sports stadium, yeah, good one!

General Zod wrote: »

I don't think this proposal is real.

It is. They were even talking about putting golden arches at each end of the street.

DrumSteve

will they let you drive thru it?

phasers

This is a complete scam, I am not buying another Molopoly board.

Sure mine is still in pounds (The Euro was another momopoly scam)

I think this is a great idea.

Next up:

Quality Street

Barrys T Junction

Riddle101

This won't happen. No way could they be stupid enough to name a street after McDonalds. The greedy corporate ba*tards. I bet there will be a protest over this.

biko

Not April yet OP.

Ste.phen

dvpower wrote: »

What?
Sackville Street is to be renamed?
Over my dead body.

You whippersnappers!
It's Drogheda Street and it always will be!

Insect Overlord

This thread genuinely made me laugh (out loud, no less!)
Bravo.

aDeener

Ste.phen wrote: »

You whippersnappers!
It's Drogheda Street and it always will be!

beat me to it these young 'uns with their fancy new names, pfft sackville!!:pac:

bigeasyeah

aDeener wrote: »

beat me to it these young 'uns with their fancy new names, pfft sackville!!:pac:

Im my day it was a forest.

General Zod

DrumSteve wrote: »

will they let you drive thru it?

only at 30kmph.

sdanseo

stovelid wrote: »

It would be good to just have numbered streets instead.

Wouldn't work cos' we don't have a grid system - the streets wouldn't follow a logical order. Even look at the lower half of Manhattan where the streets are all mish-mash and they've kept the historical names. Probably nothing to do with the grid but try numbering them!

DrumSteve

General Zod wrote: »

only at 30kmph.

slow enough to take my order so.