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Councillors likely to reject land swap deal to create 1916 museum on Moore St

  • 06-10-2014 2:50pm
    #1
    MadsL
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    http://www.thejournal.ie/moore-street-vote-1648355-Sep2014/

    Councillors seem quite opposed to this. Is there any chance now to create a museum on Moore St. Whilst 14-17 Moore Street is now preserved, the question is for how long without any funds for preservation? Where else to site a commemoration/interpretive centre for the events of the Rising? GPO? Collins Barracks?

    Quite the clusterf*ck by the planners and developers.


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Ach, I'm sure they have their reasons.


  • #3
    MadsL
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    Delilah Young Archive wrote: »
    Ach, I'm sure they have their reasons.


    ..and what is your viewpoint?


  • #4
    nelly17
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    But is the council not in for a bumper pay day from Property Tax?


  • #5
    BoJack Horseman
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    I would think Colin's Barracks is the better location imo.


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    MadsL wrote: »
    ..and what is your viewpoint?

    That they must have their reasons for their decision.


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  • #7
    Nodin
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    BoJack Horseman wrote: »
    I would think Colin's Barracks is the better location imo.


    Yes, town really needs another shopping centre to create some ambience in the nations capital.


  • #8
    MadsL
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1103/656699-moore-street/

    Rejected 38 to 22. What now for Moore St? This is becoming a fiasco.


  • #9
    anncoates
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    MadsL wrote: »

    Rejected 38 to 22. What now for Moore St? .

    Shopping centre with a highly unique collection of phone shops and coffee chains?

    That said, I think Moore Street would be a perfect location for the museum.


  • #10
    Tombi!
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    They must be mad! We'd ruin whatever supermarket it is on the corner.
    Can't have anything like a cultural museum dedicated to a historical moment.


  • #11
    Duckworth_Luas
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    Why hasn't it being turned it into a Londis or a Tesco Express yet?


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  • #12
    padd b1975
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    Personally, I can't wait for 2017.


  • #13
    MadsL
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    http://www.herald.ie/opinion/moore-street-impasse-puts-1916-centenary-in-disaster-zone-30780148.html


    Now what?

    Personally I like to see a ministerial order authorising a compulsory purchase order to get this site out of NAMA/Chartered Land's hands and into a National Trust (An Taisce?) type of body with sufficient funding to create a museum and craft retail space at Moore St.

    Spending taxpayer money on a museum strikes me as more appropriate than funding a privately owned shopping centre via NAMA.


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