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Should we rename Orwell Road, Dublin 14

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,721 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Is the road actually named after George Orwell? There's nothing online about the origins of the name.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,307 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    They could rename it Орвелл-роуд



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    No it's named after the Orwell Wheelers but don't tell the Russians.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Red Paint Car Crash Road



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Subzero3


    This country is getting so woke. I hope the republicans come back so our policies can change again.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭bb12


    absolutely not. it's embarrassing and cringeworthy. can't believe elected councillors are wasting our tax money and time on idiotic motions such as this when there are far greater problems in our society to be solved.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭boardise


    Crackpot idea -typical of moronic councillors . Needless gesture that achieves nothing -when all sorts of practical help can be provided through the various aid agencies , Red cross etc. Hopefully residents tell them to take a hike.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    No, Orwell Rd is a great name.

    "a terrible war imposed by the provisional IRA"

    Our West Brit Taoiseach



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,882 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    County Councillors of the County in which the Embassy is located. Should we:

    A) pass a motion calling for the expulsion of the Russian Ambassador for the war crimes of his Government and the withdrawal of credentials for all the Embassy staff, an Embassy known to be a busy training venue for FSB and SVR agents.

    Or

    B) pass a motion to rename a road. A meaningless gesture that does nothing but bring major inconvenience to the three dozen or so private homes and businesses, whose address that road happens to be! Then we'll ask the residents to consider it and make them look like the bad guys when, for very legitimate reasons, they say no!

    Absolute nonsensical carry on by the Dundrum Area Committee of DLR Council. They should grow up, withdraw this tokenistic bulldust and apologise for the inconvenience.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,331 ✭✭✭✭elperello




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,882 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    That is some top class trolling by them all the same.

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  • Posts: 7,681 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I see eoghan Murphy did something right when in power and revoked a planning application for new buildings with a labyrinth of basement rooms and accommodation upstairs for the embassy



  • Posts: 257 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Honestly how is renaming a street going to make a bit of difference to a country currently getting shelled to death? A pat on the back from whomever came up with it? Well done I'm sure it's a great inspiration to the families in Ukraine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,882 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    He did in his eye.

    The head of Garda Crime and Security and G2 Military Intelligence sat him down in a darkened room and said, 'see this? It's not happening, sign here. Now, get out.'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,239 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    "to all those cities and landmarks and rivers around the World that are dyed or lit up green to mark St Patrick's Day every year, that they should go Blue and Yellow for this year."

    🤣🤣😂 jaysus , such virtue, knee jerk , ott , flag waving . A pandemic all of its own.

    I hope you were joking....


    And to the original question : NO

    Will the russians capitulate because some 'councillors/handwringers' changed the name of a road ? 

    😂

    

    🤣

    

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    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    there is no way the residents would want to rename the road to something so stupid, bet it doesnt actually happen.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    It will because the local gravy train politicians will have something to show when they get to go to the Ukraine, and twin the local area with some area in Ukraine ....

    Nonsensical woke, point scoring rubbish. Modern Ireland.

    Maybe more in their line to get the ambassador and his staff out of Ireland?

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    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    247469249_2017413731748359_7675802031635703098_n.jpg

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    if I lived on the road, I'd be getting some tools or spray paint to make sure it didnt last very long

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,395 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    Think I heard a resident saying the name Orwell Road goes back to the 19th century, probably the developers or merchants living in the area which would have been more rural then. Quaker connections I think he said?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,093 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Dear God no.

    This is the sort of big-brain thinking you can expect from social media addicts that change their profile pic to reflect whatever hashtag is trending and then posts 'thoughts and prayers' and proclaim, "See! I is doing something!" for upvotes and ass-pats

    It's a fatuous virtue signal every bit as dumb and pointless as the American's throwing a strop and calling French fries 'Freedom Fries' back in 2003. All this decision tells me is that the people we have in charge of our city have the intellectual capacity of children, particularly dim children, throwing their toys out of the pram.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 296 ✭✭Ham_Sandwich


    If we go ahead with this and Russia is able to secure the kind of deal that China & Saudi Arabia have that allows them to butcher and ethnically cleanse innocent civilians without sanction then we'll look really silly wont we.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    i don't know i just made it up😊 thanks for all the thanks folks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,557 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    The origins of the name have disappeared down the memory hole.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,331 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    The estimable Frank McNally (An Irishman's Diary) has a piece about the origin of the Orwell name in today's Irish Times.

    He references a book "On The Banks of the Dodder" by Ged Walsh which suggests that name derives from Scotland.

    Walsh says that one of Rathgar's most influential residents in the 1860's was Scotsman, David Drummond who was a Presbyterian.

    He surmises that the name was borrowed from Orwell Kirk an old church in Perthshire with a history of dissent.

    The root of the name is a Scot's Gaelic term meaning "green or fertile retreat".



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    In the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, an unnamed street leading to the Russian Embassy was officially named “Ukrainian Heroes Street” on Wednesday, according to the city’s mayor, Remigijus Simasius, who added that mail might not be delivered to the embassy if it did not use the new address. “Everyone who writes a letter to the embassy will have to think about the victims of Russian aggression and the heroes of Ukraine,” he said in a post on Facebook.

    Tirana, the Albanian capital, said it would name a street segment that is home to the Russian Embassy “Free Ukraine.” In Latvia, the Russian Embassy in Riga will now lie on “Ukraine Independence Street,” according to a local deputy mayor. And in Copenhagen, city officials will next week discuss changing the name of the street on which the Russian Embassy sits from “Kristianiagade” to “Ukrainegade.”

    In England, lawmakers have lobbied for the street address of the Russian Embassy in London to be switched to “Zelensky Avenue,” after the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.



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