What's with the Table Tennis on O'Connell Street?

spiderbeast

Anybody noticed people playing table tennis in the middle of O'Connell Street, just across from Burger King.

What's this all about?

snappieT

I love it. I think some Dublin City Council just got off his face, and found himself playing TT, so decided to plonk a big concrete one in the middle of his project.

Community togetherness and all that crap

I'm just surprised it's not dwarfed in a sea of scumbags (touch wood)

Neuro

It was installed a few weeks ago as part of some sort of art exhibition. I think it's only there temporarily. Appartently you can borrow the table tennis bats and balls in the tourist office...

Slunk

Yeah I stumbled across it sunday night while drunk, had to check the next day cause I wasnt to sure. Haent actually seen anyone play it, still looks like its been built. Cant imagine playin table tennis in the middle of o connell street.

Smellyirishman

I see people playing on it all the time when I come home from college. I think its pretty cool. When I first saw it I was like "WTF, the wind, and the cars, and the..WTF" but it seems fine. Although the talent I have seen playing on it were....talentless :-D

pwd

why temporary? It's largely the lack of amenities that makes this country so ridden with alcohol and drug abuse.

flogen

apparently it's part of an exhibition where artists were asked to do something arty that captured the meaning of Communism and applied it to modern times in a useful manner (so in other words showing people the benifits of communism)

flogen

Tusky

I think its great...apart from the big fence around it...kind takes away from the look of it.

snappieT

Otherwise, think of the number of balls that would end up under a bus...

rabbitinlights

Pretty cool

pwd

Not so much communism as common sense. Give people something to do to entertain themselves apart from drink and fight and people and you'll have less people getting drunk and fighting people.
America is hardly a communist state and it has far more in the way of public sports amenities.

Flukey

It has been there a while now. This is not the first thread asking about it. Two guys had seen something similar in Berlin and brought the idea back here.