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Eyre Square redevelopment Again ?

  • 23-04-2014 1:00pm
    #1
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,199 ✭✭✭


    Hey folks I just heard this from mum and she was saying that it was in the papers that they are getting rid of the center of the grass area of Eyre Square so that Stalls and such can be put in for the Christmas Markets and other events ?
    Surely this cannot go ahead ? We've so little green areas in the city as it is ?
    No doubt it will cost a few million too for a job that shouldn't cost more than 100k.


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  • #2
    GastroBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    Yes, it was in the paper 22 days ago.......:D



    http://www.connachttribune.ie/galway-news/item/2569-plan-to-concrete-over-eyre-square-for-concert-space


  • #3
    antoobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭antoobrien


    muppetkiller wrote: »
    Hey folks I just heard this from mum and she was saying that it was in the papers that they are getting rid of the center of the grass area of Eyre Square so that Stalls and such can be put in for the Christmas Markets and other events ?
    Surely this cannot go ahead ? We've so little green areas in the city as it is ?
    No doubt it will cost a few million too for a job that shouldn't cost more than 100k.

    The proposal is to convert the square into support a concert space for the city of culture bid, so it will take a damn sight more than 100k to do.


  • #4
    Unrealistic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭Unrealistic


    antoobrien wrote: »
    The proposal is to convert the square into support a concert space for the city of culture bid, so it will take a damn sight more than 100k to do.
    Some anagram deciphering practise wouldn't go amiss. ;)
    Works would involve an excavation to a depth of around six feet, lowering a pre-cast concrete sub-structure and then pouring concrete,” Ms Flora Lopi of the UK-based Calico, Park Jet engineering consultancy firm told the Sentinel
    .


  • #5
    zarquon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,734 ✭✭✭zarquon


    Unrealistic wrote: »
    Some anagram deciphering practise wouldn't go amiss. ;)

    .

    April Fool?


  • #6
    Micilin Muc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    GastroBoy wrote: »
    Yes, it was in the paper 22 days ago.......:D

    http://www.connachttribune.ie/galway-news/item/2569-plan-to-concrete-over-eyre-square-for-concert-space

    The Kennedy Park area of the Square is deceivingly large, although I would have thought they could fit more than 6,000 people into it. Maybe if they remove the plaque they could squeeze in an extra couple of thousand people.


    galway_eyre_sq3.jpg


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  • #7
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,199 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    GastroBoy wrote: »
    Yes, it was in the paper 22 days ago.......:D



    http://www.connachttribune.ie/galway-news/item/2569-plan-to-concrete-over-eyre-square-for-concert-space

    Thanks :p doesn't sound as bad as I first feared but then again it is the County Council so will no doubt be a disaster.


  • #8
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    I, for one, welcome the concrete trucks. :pac:

    Hope they dig up some of those big ugly trees as well, waste of CO2, they are.


  • #9
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,659 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Does anyone of any other projects which Flora Lopi of the UK-based Calico, Park Jet engineering consultancy firm has been involved in?


  • #10
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,199 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    lol I got it now folks I'll shoot my mother :D


  • #11
    zarquon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,734 ✭✭✭zarquon


    muppetkiller wrote: »
    lol I got it now folks I'll shoot my mother :D

    You'll shoot your mother :eek: I hope that's an April's Fool too!


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  • #12
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,199 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    zarquon wrote: »
    You'll shoot your mother :eek: I hope that's an April's Fool too!

    We'll see....;)

    Although I did see some signs up in Eyre Square about planning permission so thought there might be some truth in it..


  • #13
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,659 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    muppetkiller wrote: »
    Although I did see some signs up in Eyre Square about planning permission so thought there might be some truth in it..

    Leftovers from last year's Christmas market.


  • #14
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    I think the Seamus Quirke playing pitches are this year's designated hand over fist waste of money / backhander to yer mates in construction, so I doubt there's anything up in Eyre Square right now.


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