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WHY IS THE FRANCIS STREET ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT SCHEME TAKING SO LONG

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WHY IS THE FRANCIS STREET ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT SCHEME TAKING SO LONG

Francis Street is one of Dublin’s oldest thoroughfares, and is best known today as Dublin’s Art & Antiques Quarter. The street is lined with small shops and businesses but also has a diverse community living ‘over the shop’ on the street and in the adjoining areas.

An ongoing programme of investment by Dublin City Council is improving the quality of streets and public spaces of The Liberties. The Council adopted The Liberties Greening Strategy in 2015 setting out a series of projects to renew historic streetscapes and develop new public spaces; to increase tree cover and provide new parks and amenities; and to improve the quality of the environment through measures such as Sustainable Urban Drainage systems (SUDs) and the installation of energy efficient street lighting.

In June 2017 Dublin City Council announced a proposal to undertake a public realm improvement plan for Francis Street, Hanover Lane and Dean Street, Dublin 8. The proposal comprised improvements to the public realm along the full length of Francis Street, Hanover Lane and part of Dean Street to include kerb buildouts along with footway repaving, raised junction plateaus, kerb buildouts to formalise parallel parking and loading bays, landscaping, bicycle stands, carriageway resurfacing, raised pedestrian crossings and ramps, public lighting improvements and all associated ancillary works. In July 2021 it was indicated that the project would be completed within ten months however more recent statements claim that the work will be completed in Autumn 2022.

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ARDEE STREET AND NEARBY IN PIMLICO

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ARDEE STREET AND NEARBY IN PIMLICO

Because of a very heavy rain storm the lighting was unusual and the sky was really dark.

If you ask a Dubliner to name the areas of the city that begin with the letter P very few, if any, will suggest Pimlico.

Ardee Street was a centre of the brewing industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and in 1835 No. 4 Ardee Street was occupied by James Haigh, described as ‘engineer, millwright, foundry brass and iron works’.

Pete St John’s popular song Dublin in the Rare Old Times, recorded by many artists including Dublin City Ramblers, The Dubliners, and Flogging Molly, is in the voice of one Sean Dempsey, “born hard and late in Pimlico, in a house that ceased to be”.

Watkin’s brewery dates from the early 18th century, and was producing beer long before Guinness their near neighbour in the same trade at St. James’s Gate. There has been a brewery on the site since the time of the Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr in nearby Thomas Court. Subsequently the site came into the possession of the Earl of Meath’s, from whom Meath Street, Earl Street and even Brabazon Street (Brabazon is their surname) all take their name. The Earls of Meath also held the title Baron Ardee, hence the name of the street.

Pimlico is an inner city area of Dublin, Ireland on the Southside in Dublin 8. It lies between Thomas Court and Ardee Street. At the Thomas Court end of Pimlico is Pimlico Cottage. It is close to the St. James’s Gate Guinness Brewery and the smell of the hops once dominated the area.

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EVERYONE ON CAPEL STREET IS GETTING READY FOR DUBLIN PRIDE 2022

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EVERYONE ON CAPEL STREET IS GETTING READY FOR DUBLIN PRIDE 2022

My mother is 102 years old and she needs me to visit on Saturday (she has a list of things to do) so this will be my first year not to photograph the Dublin Pride Festival. As a matter of interest we both attended the first parade in June 1974 [by accident].

The restaurants and pubs expect to be very busy tomorrow [25 June 2022] especially as the street has recently been pedestrianised. The owner of Eatokyo has promised to keep a table for me.

The annual Dublin Pride Parade and Festival will take place on Saturday June 25th. The parade will start on O’Connell Street at 12.00pm and go to Merrion Square where the Pride Festival Village will operate until 7.30pm. The following road closures, including suspension of on street parking will be in place. Diversions will be in place. Pedestrian access will be maintained throughout.

Road Closures: Cavendish Row, Parnell Square East, Parnell Square North, North Frederick Street, North Great Georges Street 07:00 to 16:00 on 25th June 2022

O’Connell Street Upper and Lower will have a rolling road closure from 08:00 until the parade has cleared O’Connell Street and it is safe to re-open.

Suspension of Parking: Gardiner Row and Great Denmark All Day on 25th June 2022.

This means that if you have a permit to park on any of these roads you may park on an adjacent road outside the cordon. This has been agreed with Dublin Street Parking Services.

Note: Starting May 28 2022 cars will no longer be permitted to drive down Capel Street which is now
the longest pedestrianised street in the capital. Parking spaces have been removed and vehicles are now be banned from Parnell Street as far as the junction with Strand Street, however, deliveries will be allowed between 6am and 11am each morning. There is now a cycle-only zone from Parnell Street and Ryder’s Row at the northern end to Strand Street in the South.

FATIMA LUAS TRAM STOP

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FATIMA LUAS TRAM STOP 20 JUNE 2022

This tram stop is located at James’s Walk and it is an area that I visit infrequently.

Fatima is a stop on the Luas light-rail tram system in Dublin, Ireland. It opened in 2004 as a stop on the Red Line. The stop is at the southern side of St. James’s Hospital, adjacent to James’s Walk. Fatima is named for its proximity to Fatima Mansions, a public housing complex. It provides access to the suburbs of Dolphin’s Barn, The Coombe, and The Liberties. The stop has two edge platforms, and is of the same design as many Luas stops. After departing the stop, northbound trams turn left and traverse the grounds of the hospital on their way to Connolly or The Point. Southbound trams continue along an abandoned canal alignment, travelling towards Tallaght or Saggart.

In 2007, a proposal was announced for a Luas line from the city centre to Lucan. As of 2022, the project has not been officially approved, but under the proposal, the new line would share track with the Red Line between Fatima and Blackhorse. Fatima would therefore become a junction stop, with trams en route from Lucan to the city centre travelling due east along James’s Walk

The stop is also served by Dublin Bus routes 122, 17, 68, and 68A.

Fatima Mansions is an extensive public housing complex located in Rialto, Dublin. In the early 21st century, it underwent a substantial urban renewal programme with the assistance of public and private funding. All existing apartment blocks were demolished to make way for 600 accommodation units, consisting of social, affordable and private housing along with community, business and leisure facilities at a cost of €200 million. The blocks have since been renamed Herberton Apartments, but the area is still referred to locally as Fatima, which is the name of the adjacent Luas Red Line tram stop.

Work on the original complex started before World War II under the direction of Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council) but construction was held up due to material shortages. The first phase of construction was finally completed after the war and the first tenants began to move in during 1947: the development consisted of fifteen blocks, each of four floors in height. They replaced tenement housing for the area’s working-class residents, and provided a great improvement in living conditions. In the mid 1980s the area became notorious for its high levels of heroin use and drug dealing, which eventually led to the original complex’s demolition due to the drug problem’s severity.

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THE LUAS TRAM STOP AT DRIMNAGH AND NEARBY

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THE LUAS TRAM STOP AT DRIMNAGH AND NEARBY

Drimnagh is a suburb in Dublin, Ireland, situated on the Southside of the city between Walkinstown, Crumlin and Inchicore, bordered by the Grand Canal to the north and east. Drimnagh is in postal district Dublin 12.

Drimnagh derives its name from the word druimneach, or country with ridges. A Neolithic settlement discovered, and a funerary bowl found in a burial site. The site was demolished, but the bowl is on view in the National Museum.

The lands of Drimnagh were taken from their Irish owners by Strongbow, who gave them to the Barnwell family, who had arrived in Ireland with Strongbow in 1167 and had settled in Berehaven in Munster. The people of Munster killed the family except for Hugh de Barnwell, and it was this youth who was given Drimnagh as compensation. The lands and castle were considered safe, for they were far enough away from the Dublin mountains which held Irish strongholds.

Drimnagh was farmland until the mid-1930s, when some of the first tenement clearances brought city centre residents from one-room homes to terraced and semi-detached houses in a series of roads named after the mountain ranges of Ireland. The suburb consists of one area close to Drimnagh Castle and Lansdowne Valley, with three-bedroom private housing built by Associated Properties, and another area (the larger part) built by Dublin Corporation and consisting of three bedroom ‘Kitchen Houses’ and two bedroom ‘Parlour Houses’ and bordering the Grand Canal and Crumlin. The two areas meet at the parish church, the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, in the centre of Drimnagh, built in 1943.

The Dublin Corporation housing area was originally considered part of an area known as North Crumlin from its construction in the mid-1930s until the introduction of the postal code system during the mid-1970s.

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