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Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

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  • #32
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Watching it now. So sad and heart breaking. I have many happy memories of times spent there. It looks very bad.


  • #33
    lawred2
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    That's going to come down... Sad


  • #34
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,329 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    This picture is devastating. Roof and spire totally gutted:

    ..


  • #35
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,595 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117844987293487104?s=19


    Feckin ejjit


  • #36
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Listening to BBC five live and the presenter is saying a good bit of the roof is gone.

    CNN have a couple angles, one of them is showing the fire just gobbling it up. There's no saving it.


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  • #37
    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    The spire is on fire. Disaster. You expect these things to last for ever.


  • #38
    Sardonicat
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    Just saw a bit on RTE news. The spire is engulfed.


  • #39
    Zorya
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    First time in ages I have access to a television as I'm in a hotel and it's awful looking footage. That fire is huge, it looks like an inferno. Sad.


  • #40
    Grid.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,370 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


    Ahhh no....that looks terrible!!!:(


  • #41
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,643 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    The spire has gone :(


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  • #42
    thomil
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    Hurrache wrote: »
    CNN have a couple angles, one of them is showing the fire just gobbling it up. There's no saving it.

    Not so fast. If the stone work and structure remain intact, it should be possible to reconstruct it. Just look at the damage done to Cologne or Frankfurt cathedrals during World War 2. Notre Dame has the advantage that it’s not being subjected to exploding 500 pounder bombs.

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • #43
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    The spire has collapsed into the main body of the building - not good.


  • #44
    Sardonicat
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    WeIrishareEvil wrote: »
    Sardonicat wrote: »
    It's done a stint as a Temple to Reason.

    So much reason they put thousands to death by guillotine for the Goddess of Reason they installed on the altar.
    That wasn't reason, citoyen. That was terror.


  • #45
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,492 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    There is something beautiful and awe-inspiring about cathedral architecture. Perhaps mankinds greatest engineering feats.

    Whenever I go to a foreign city, I make sure to check out a cathedral if there is one. So peaceful to sit with my thoughts to myself even if I don't consider myself religious.

    Have yet to get to Paris, but Notre Dame was certainly on the bucket list.

    So sad to see.


  • #46
    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    Catastrophic. It is like watching a bulldozer tear down Stonehenge. Or a child splattering paint all over the Mona Lisa. Has anything so priceless ever been destroyed by fire before?


  • #47
    branie2
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    Awful!


  • #48
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Ara will ye all f off with politics.


  • #49
    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    Events like this show how bad RTE is to react. News on now but nothing about it.

    Edit. News ended and no mention in headlines recap.


  • #50
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,713 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Horrible. So much history with that building.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #51
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    WeIrishareEvil wrote: »
    As a mosque

    Are you proud of that?


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  • #52
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Your Face wrote: »
    Ara will ye all f off with politics.

    I haven’t see any. French news says it was an accident.


  • #53
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Imagine the anger if this turns out to be arson. I fear for France.


  • #54
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    thomil wrote: »
    Not so fast. If the stone work and structure remain intact, it should be possible to reconstruct it. Just look at the damage done to Cologne or Frankfurt cathedrals during World War 2. Notre Dame has the advantage that it’s not being subjected to exploding 500 pounder bombs.

    There's no saving it from the fire is what I was implying. I think a lot of the construction is wooden too.


  • #55
    Sardonicat
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    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    Horrible. So much history with that building.
    If those walls could talk.....


  • #56
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Events like this show how bad RTE is to react. News on now but nothing about it.

    Edit. News ended and no mention in headlines recap.

    Ah c'mon, Sky News were slow getting to it, even France 24 had a panel discussing politics while CNN had live coverage.


  • #57
    Spanish Eyes
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    Keanu Whining Meal wrote: »
    The spire has collapsed into the main body of the building - not good.

    You'd wonder what could have caused such a devastating inferno. There was probably a lot of wood in there though.

    Still hoping it was a blowtorch or some other accident and not something sinister.

    Iconic building with so much history, and grand architecture, more or less gone now.


  • #58
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    sad news.

    Je suis Quasimodo


  • #59
    Gael23
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    It is very much an unfolding situation so not on all news outlets just yet. Hard to see how severe damage can be avoided


  • #60
    WeIrishareEvil
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭WeIrishareEvil


    Just to point out that Norwegian Black Metal legend Vrag Vikerens who went to prison for burning churches now lives in France...


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  • #61
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,693 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Video of the spire collapsing, Terrible.

    https://twitter.com/ellievhall/status/1117849348048506882


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