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Dublin Airport to be renamed Lemass International Airport

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,513 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Doesn't make much sense to me. Is Sean Lemass that well known internationally?

    If anything, it should be James Joyce Airport.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭ro2


    Have the government got nothing important to be doing? At least they didn't call it the Aviva Airport.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    Dublin International Airport works fine for me, just fine indeed.

    Lemass was also a member of the regressive governments that came before his own "great leap forward", to such notions as direct investment and lowering trade barriers.

    To be honest I don't see a person we need to honour by naming our airport after, and it's probably best if we leave it neutral.

    One thing I do like in Dublin airport is that in different parts - particularly the new pier D - they have bits and pieces of quotes from Irish artists and writers and so forth. There's a good idea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭Sulmac


    I would be against the idea, simply because I don't like naming major pieces of infrastructure after people - living or dead. "George Best Belfast City Airport" is among the worst airport names in the world, in my opinion.

    That said, Lemass was probably our greatest Taoiseach and should be honoured in some form, but not like this.

    If anything it's a distraction for the government that detracts from the real issues.

    "Dublin Airport" is fine.

    edit: Also, forgot to mention, the cost of doing so would also be a factor - they'd have to change signs, update brochures, etc. Although not the point of this thread it's also a factor to consider.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    They should get a train to it first, either underground or overground before they rename it, its a disgrace having to bus your way or get a rip off taxi to go to town to connect to further public transport . Lemass would have wanted nothing to do with this bunch of idiots in the dail never mind having an Airport named after him.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    I agree, a "Molly Molone Memorial Quality Transport Link" would be appreciated...

    Crazy that to get to the airport from most of the suburbs, where most of Dublin's population is, one has to go into the city centre and then back out again, doubling the journey time.

    But we go off topic...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    It should be named after Stephen Gately


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Nijmegen wrote: »
    I agree, a "Molly Molone Memorial Quality Transport Link" would be appreciated...

    Crazy that to get to the airport from most of the suburbs, where most of Dublin's population is, one has to go into the city centre and then back out again, doubling the journey time.

    But we go off topic...

    Thats the case with most airports, even ones with a rail link. The airport is usually on one spoke of the transport hub of a city.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Shea O'Meara


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    It should be named after Stephen Gately
    :D


    Waste of time and money. As posted, hook up a rail track for god sake.
    The whole thing is a distraction tactic and a mild one. If they were very clever they would have suggested Dickie Rock or Bono. The debate and uproar would have covered all their other shenanigans for months.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,823 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    I would be also against this re-naming of an airport for a politican. It smacks of the arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. However, if a re-naming must be done I'd prefer it to be in the tradition of a pre-State notable such as Tone or O'Connel.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,026 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    Doesn't bother me at all.
    Lemass was one of our better leaders, so I have no objections with it being named after him. I can see many Irish heroes who would be more fitting but he's a fairly solid choice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,019 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    I'm kindof fond of "Dublin Airport" personally.

    I see no reason to change it.

    NTM


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Why not stick it out for sponsorship as well as every other goverment enterprise.

    Coca Cola International Airport
    Cadburys Diary Milk Dail Eirean
    Guiness M50 Motorway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Shea O'Meara


    Zambia232 wrote: »
    Why not stick it out for sponsorship as well as every other goverment enterprise.

    Coca Cola International Airport
    Cadburys Diary Milk Dail Eirean
    Guiness M50 Motorway

    Everything FFail do is sponsored, they just don't like to advertise it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    Thats the case with most airports, even ones with a rail link. The airport is usually on one spoke of the transport hub of a city.
    I travel quite a bit, and apart from a few of the former military airbases Ryanair fly out of, most airports I visit are at the very least on a well connected transport network. It takes me 40 minutes to get from one of Berlin's secondary airports to a suburb further off than Bray would be to Dublin airport, with a connection...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭nicebutdim


    Zambia232 wrote: »
    Why not stick it out for sponsorship as well as every other goverment enterprise.

    Coca Cola International Airport
    Cadburys Diary Milk Dail Eirean
    Guiness M50 Motorway

    Surely the Dail would have to be sponsored by a fertilizer company


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    nicebutdim wrote: »
    Surely the Dail would have to be sponsored by a fertilizer company
    Thought they were already covered by the drinks business already!
    Between the Dail bars and the many, many bars over 40% of FF TD's own, I'd say they are well sponsored unofficially!
    ...Its a nice little lobby group anyway!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭BluntGuy


    If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This proposal is unnecessary, Dublin Airport works absolutely fine - well, the name, not the airport itself. :D

    Something tells me though that this silly proposal will garner a lot of support, as people's paper-thin sense of nationalism rises to the fore yet again.

    There are far more fitting and sensible ways to honour someone's legacy than an expensive and unnecessary exercise in re-branding something that works perfectly well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,780 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    riverdance international airport

    FTW

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 932 ✭✭✭paddyland


    PURE publicity stunt to make Fianna Fáil look good. 'Remember Sean Lemass, wasn't he a great FF leader?' If Sean Lemass was the last 'great' FF leader worth naming an airport after, then they'd be better off keeping quiet. They haven't done anything in the last 50 years worth promoting themselves for.

    Why not name it the John O'Donoghue Free Loading Airport? Limousines to the left, everyone else f*ck off to the coach park three miles away...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,007 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Meh, I prefer Dublin airport.

    I don't see the point of renaming Dublin International Airport until it warrants having two airports.

    How many people were really thinking Dublin airport, which one when landing? So it seems unnecessary and I'm confused as to how it was decided to do so although I suspect Paddyland maybe correct.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,026 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    This post has been deleted.
    Quality.


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,858 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    It won't matter - people rarely refer to airports by a name other than one that describes its location (its very approximate location, in Ryanair's case). George Best Airport is better known as Belfast City, John Lennon Airport is Liverpool, Ben Gurion Airport is Tel Aviv, Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport will only ever be Santiago. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    It won't matter - people rarely refer to airports by a name other than one that describes its location (its very approximate location, in Ryanair's case). George Best Airport is better known as Belfast City, John Lennon Airport is Liverpool, Ben Gurion Airport is Tel Aviv, Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport will only ever be Santiago. :)

    You could add Casement/Baldonnel to that list as well.......probably.

    not to mention several Dart stations. How many people buy a ticket to Malin Station, or even know where it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Maserati23


    :cool:Just Call it "NAMA International" its catchy and seems to be a buzz word that seems to be associated with everything that is Truly Irish, I mean Heritage and forward progression have to be taken into account.

    I mean NAMA will never be forgotten and its so easy to remember. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,612 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Lets just not waste the money rebranding something that doesn't need to be rebranded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    Sleepy wrote: »
    Lets just not waste the money rebranding something that doesn't need to be rebranded.
    I recall listening to a talk by a famous businessman from the UK, who was lamenting the fact that he never got into the signage and paperhead business... He said he'd have been twice as rich for getting the government contracts to change around department and quango names and logos.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,956 ✭✭✭?Cee?view


    Hang on.

    Is it not already named after Michael Collins? Was it not called Collinstown Airport at one stage, and that name seems to have been dropped?

    Have a look at this from the DAA Website. "Collinstown Executive Car Park".

    http://www.dublinairport.com/to-and-from/car-parking/executive_parking.html


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    Blisterman wrote: »
    If anything, it should be James Joyce Airport.
    I don't know about that - The Prick with the Stick International Airport is a bit wordy.


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