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Phibsborough, Dublin 7

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    #932
    Beersmith
    Registered Users Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭Beersmith


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Its definitely a hostile junction, at a minimum they should change the light sequence to allow pedestrians cross diagonally and install red light cameras. But other than that its hard to see how to improve it in that the traffic volumes are not going to go down as its an important route to the N2 and N3. They can certainly slow traffic up but that just creates jams for even longer. Without proper reliable public transport Doyles corner is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

    There is diagonal crossing!


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    #933
    Shlippery
    Registered Users Posts: 2,255 ✭✭✭Shlippery


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    So the classic breakfast is gone I take it? :(

    Yea, a lot of their older brekkie/brunch items are gone, it's more prep'd deli stuff now with one of two special dinners each day. Kinda sad. I liked the carvery and the shameless avo toast!

    I think the renovation is excellent overall, but wish they'd kept some of the old items! They've big setup for wine on tap.

    Looking forward to when they can have full crowds in again - it'd be nice and cosy i'd say!


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    #934
    Michellenman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Had the stuffed sweet potatoes and quinoa salad for lunch today from Moncks Green and it was really delicious. Big portions too! Which means lunch for tomorrow is sorted too :D

    I did the order online and it was ready by the time I walked to collect it about 7/8 mins later.


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    #935
    niconline76
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭niconline76


    niconline76 wrote: »

    By the way, there’s an application notice for a cafe and a 17 new apartments block just at he barber/charity shop beside McDonalds opposite Tesco

    the application notice seemed gone a couple of days ago - do you know if this has fallen through?


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    #936
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,131 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    niconline76 wrote: »
    the application notice seemed gone a couple of days ago - do you know if this has fallen through?

    I don't think so, just the date for objections passed.
    It is reference number 3391/20.


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    #937
    tropple
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭tropple


    I see that Hendrons got pre-planning approval from An Bord Pleanala last week - is the next step for this to be lodged with DCC?


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    #938
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,845 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    tropple wrote: »
    I see that Hendrons got pre-planning approval from An Bord Pleanala last week - is the next step for this to be lodged with DCC?

    No, it stays ABP as its a large scale housing development. They just put the main application in

    You can get that level of approval and still fail to get planning.


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    #939
    deep_dish
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭deep_dish


    There are some builders putting new wooden sheets over the old branding around the empty bookies on the crossroads. I asked the builder if he knew what was going in but he wasn't aware. Fingers crossed it's something new, at this stage anything* would be better, it's an eyesore and such a waste of space.

    (* except for another bookies)


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    #940
    Halenvaneddie
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭Halenvaneddie


    There was a flour mill there many moons ago


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    #941
    dev_ire
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭dev_ire


    Does anyone know how to or how to see if there is any plans for bins along royal canal? I can't think of any around phibsborough stretch of the canal?


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    #942
    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    Waterways Ireland own the towpaths. They won't install bins as they'd have to empty them which is a huge cost.


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    #943
    dev_ire
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭dev_ire


    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »
    Waterways Ireland own the towpaths. They won't install bins as they'd have to empty them which is a huge cost.

    So rubbish just gets dumped on the ground and into the water?


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    #944
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    My cousin's granny lived there, great location, short walk from town and we used to go to some Bohs games - this was back in the 1990s .. maybe £2 in for a schoolboy!

    Nice little house too, nice and compact and cosy.
    I reckon would sell for a fortune now, location alone is priceless.


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    #945
    deep_dish
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭deep_dish


    Is the demolition of Hedigans / The Brian Boru, in place of a MetroLink Station in a few years, a done deal? I heard it a while back but never from a definitive source. I can see the Architect's Impression on the MetroLink website that there is going to be 'Retained Open Cut Track' right where the pub is now, but I'm not sure if planning has been signed off.

    It'd be a shame to see it gone, it's one of the best pubs in the area and has been around for generations.


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    #946
    tropple
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭tropple


    deep_dish wrote: »
    There are some builders putting new wooden sheets over the old branding around the empty bookies on the crossroads. I asked the builder if he knew what was going in but he wasn't aware. Fingers crossed it's something new, at this stage anything* would be better, it's an eyesore and such a waste of space.

    (* except for another bookies)

    Walked past it today and they were putting in new windows, the facade has been tidied up and painted too. No idea what is going in there, but it does look promising (ie doesn't look like a bookies / takeaway)


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    #947
    Beersmith
    Registered Users Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭Beersmith


    What is going on with that plaza area at the Broadstone dit stop. Makes no sense the footpath should be out so far as to deprive the road there of a continuation of the bus lane. Also just seems to be nothing but paving there. Working on it for years and it looks nearly done and ****


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    #948
    tropple
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭tropple


    Beersmith wrote: »
    What is going on with that plaza area at the Broadstone dit stop. Makes no sense the footpath should be out so far as to deprive the road there of a continuation of the bus lane. Also just seems to be nothing but paving there. Working on it for years and it looks nearly done and ****

    Agreed on the footpath, makes absolutely no sense. They are taking an eternity to finish it, I think it'll look well when finished and they have all of the trees planted, and the plaza links with the East Quad a bit further down - it's a very impressive space


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    #949
    Shlippery
    Registered Users Posts: 2,255 ✭✭✭Shlippery


    Beersmith wrote: »
    What is going on with that plaza area at the Broadstone dit stop. Makes no sense the footpath should be out so far as to deprive the road there of a continuation of the bus lane. Also just seems to be nothing but paving there. Working on it for years and it looks nearly done and ****

    That's been bothering me since the Luas opened there, at the time I'd assumed they'd open at the same time I cannot understand how something like that could take as long as it has and still isn't complete. I wouldn't mind if there was some elaborate landscaping being put into place... unless there's something about to blow our minds around the corner.

    It's a shambles!!! I'd some experience with hardscaping in Canada a few years back and there's no way a job would take that long..unless there's some politics / lack of planning holding it up behind the scenes!!


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    #950
    Beersmith
    Registered Users Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭Beersmith


    There has always been a few builders working there constantly it seems so yeah really weird it has took so long.


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    #951
    tropple
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭tropple


    tropple wrote: »
    Walked past it today and they were putting in new windows, the facade has been tidied up and painted too. No idea what is going in there, but it does look promising (ie doesn't look like a bookies / takeaway)

    Update: it's a new Sherry Fitzgerald office


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    #952
    Interested Observer
    Registered Users Posts: 13,021 ✭✭✭✭Interested Observer


    tropple wrote: »
    Update: it's a new Sherry Fitzgerald office

    Eh, wouldn't have been my first choice but it's better than the vacant bookies.


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    #953
    deep_dish
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭deep_dish


    Better than being derelict but not much of an amenity for residents of the area


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    #954
    eastwest
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭eastwest


    tropple wrote: »
    Update: it's a new Sherry Fitzgerald office

    Looks very well, like it had always been there. We were sitting in Lorettas having dinner tonight when we realised it was new, despite having been looking at it for half an hour!
    It might have been nicer if it was another high end eatery like our choice for tonight, but on the other hand it's a further vote of confidence in the arrea.


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    #955
    Interested Observer
    Registered Users Posts: 13,021 ✭✭✭✭Interested Observer


    Went over Broombridge earlier for the first time since it opened. It's a single lane bridge and cars are apparently only allowed over from the Cabra side towards Finglas, but there was a queue of cars waiting to come the other way. Are there no buses that use it yet, or is it just people ignoring the rules?


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    #956
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    eastwest wrote: »
    It might have been nicer if it was another high end eatery like our choice for tonight,

    High end Eatery !!! lol

    you must have shares in that place , your always bigging it up way more than the reality of the place ! and that's from somebody who actually likes the place.


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    #957
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    deep_dish wrote: »
    Better than being derelict but not much of an amenity for residents of the area

    I do know what you mean, but people in Phibsborough do buy, sell and rent houses; so having estate agents around is useful for residents.

    A non derelict building will generally improve things no matter what it is; it will create employment, both in the refurbished building, but also in other businesses around that the staff will use.


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    #958
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/phibsborough-residents-and-businesses-seek-change-to-busconnects-plans-for-village-1.4438899

    Looks like Bus Connect plans for Phibsboro may be hitting a roadblock.


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    #959
    Beersmith
    Registered Users Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭Beersmith


    Amirani wrote: »
    I do know what you mean, but people in Phibsborough do buy, sell and rent houses; so having estate agents around is useful for residents.

    A non derelict building will generally improve things no matter what it is; it will create employment, both in the refurbished building, but also in other businesses around that the staff will use.

    I've been involved in buying, selling, renting and never had to step into an estate agents physical premises. Thought those physical outlets would be a thing of the past. Can't imagine they are little more than a place of work for their staff and an advertising billboard for their brand. Never even heard of anyone going into them. So I'd agree it isn't really useful for anyone in the area.


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    #960
    Shlippery
    Registered Users Posts: 2,255 ✭✭✭Shlippery


    Beersmith wrote: »
    I've been involved in buying, selling, renting and never had to step into an estate agents physical premises. Thought those physical outlets would be a thing of the past. Can't imagine they are little more than a place of work for their staff and an advertising billboard for their brand. Never even heard of anyone going into them. So I'd agree it isn't really useful for anyone in the area.

    As someone who'd like to buy in the next year or so, I do enjoy looking at these windows and getting instantly depressed at price tags beside pictures.


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    #961
    Beersmith
    Registered Users Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭Beersmith


    Shlippery wrote: »
    As someone who'd like to buy in the next year or so, I do enjoy looking at these windows and getting instantly depressed at price tags beside pictures.

    I think most would just use Daft.ie way better than looking through windows


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