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Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Keanu Whining Meal


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,203 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    That's going to come down... Sad


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,054 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    This picture is devastating. Roof and spire totally gutted:

    ..


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭hairyslug




  • Registered Users Posts: 10,142 ✭✭✭✭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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    The spire is on fire. Disaster. You expect these things to last for ever.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Just saw a bit on RTE news. The spire is engulfed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Zorya


    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.


  • Registered Users, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    The spire has gone :(


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭thomil


    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!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Keanu Whining Meal


    The spire has collapsed into the main body of the building - not good.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • 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?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Awful!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Ara will ye all f off with politics.


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


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,102 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Horrible. So much history with that building.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,417 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    As a mosque

    Are you proud of that?


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  • 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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,142 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Horrible. So much history with that building.
    If those walls could talk.....


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,142 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,835 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    sad news.

    Je suis Quasimodo


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,075 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


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


  • 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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  • It was on Rte news..


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