With this crap going on how do companies have belief in our future.

Horsebox9000

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/johnny-ronan-appeal-to-taoiseach-on-tower-height-falls-on-deaf-ears-1.3901185?mode=amp

Opinions folks?

I really believe that this should be given some priority. It's an extra 1000 jobs. Why are DCC so against progress and surely this must turn companies ofr

percy212

I am surprised Salesforce are going along with the nonsense. There are other cities. As for why DCC are against tall buildings, perhaps someone is afraid that we might suddenly have room to expand and house everyone at reasonable prices.

jimgoose

It's going to have to happen, it's the only sustainable way forward for Dublin City, in terms of commercial and residential property. How many floors have Facebook HQ near the BGE theatre, and Battlestar Google on Grand Canal Quay?

listermint

Horsebox9000 wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/johnny-ronan-appeal-to-taoiseach-on-tower-height-falls-on-deaf-ears-1.3901185?mode=amp

Opinions folks?

I really believe that this should be given some priority. It's an extra 1000 jobs. Why are DCC so against progress and surely this must turn companies ofr

Because it's not really an extra 1000. They are amalgamating all the other offices around Dublin they have to one. Same jobs. Playing with figures to get a result they want.

Guy:Incognito

listermint wrote: »

Because it's not really an extra 1000. They are amalgamating all the other offices around Dublin they have to one. Same jobs. Playing with figures to get a result they want.

There should be more of that.


How many government departments (not eleven just different departments but the same departments with multiple premises) are there spread around different parts of the city in rented offices. One big **** off building could probably house the lot and free up umpteen other buildings.

Horsebox9000

Why do the council push back so much on this stuff.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/johnny-ronan-appeal-to-taoiseach-on-tower-height-falls-on-deaf-ears-1.3901185?mode=amp

listermint

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

There should be more of that.


How many government departments (not eleven just different departments but the same departments with multiple premises) are there spread around different parts of the city in rented offices. One big **** off building could probably house the lot and free up umpteen other buildings.

That wasn't what I was responding to.

At all.

Guy:Incognito

listermint wrote: »

That wasn't what I was responding to.

At all.

But it was the part of your post I was responding too.

It's ok for some posts not to be about jobs.

The Tetrarch

Is that you, Johnny?

Horsebox9000

The Tetrarch wrote: »

Is that you, Johnny?

No I'm Jimmy

Dublin City Council seem to think the skyline of Dublin is some beautiful cultural phenomenon like the white villages in Greece or something like that.

In fact it is quite dirty and tatty along the Liffey. The city's skyline needs to be brought into the 20th Century, nevermind the 21st Century.

Even the much lauded IFSC is quite uninspiring really. I remember a great project a few years ago to light up Liberty Hall for charity one Christmas. It was cheap and innovative and had a little imagination. Hopefully they will change their minds about this. They are not curators of some wondrous beauty. They are bureaucrats without any evidence of taste.

SEPT 23 1989

1.4 Billion of debt dumped onto the people of the state because of this man the last time

jimgoose

Deleted User wrote: »

Dublin City Council seem to think the skyline of Dublin is some beautiful cultural phenomenon like the white villages in Greece or something like that.

In fact it is quite dirty and tatty along the Liffey. The city's skyline needs to be brought into the 20th Century, nevermind the 21st Century.

Even the much lauded IFSC is quite uninspiring really. I remember a great project a few years ago to light up Liberty Hall for charity one Christmas. It was cheap and innovative and had a little imagination. Hopefully they will change their minds about this. They are not curators of some wondrous beauty. They are bureaucrats without any evidence of taste.

I agree. I love the Facbook building, it reminds me of the Cylon resurrection ship:

SEPT 23 1989

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

1.4 Billion of debt dumped onto the people of the state because of this man the last time

I think it is a bit of a stretch there in fairness.

There was plenty of blame to go around. For starters the people who lent him the money. The professionals who were meant to be managing the system and monitoring risk.

smurgen

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I think it is a bit of a stretch there in fairness.

There was plenty of blame to go around. For starters the people who lent him the money. The professionals who were meant to be managing the system and monitoring risk.

Is personal responsibility only for the poor?