BECAUSE OF EXTREME DRUGS RELATED ANTI-SOCIAL ACTIVITY
About a week before Christmas I met my next door neighbour and he asked me if I knew why the building beside the Luas Tram Stop was being boarded up .. . that is discussed below. Anyway, the following day I went to Trim, County Meath, for Christmas but on my return to Dublin I discovered that my neighbour had sold his apartment and had moved to Athy. Despite the fact that he had lived in his apartment for about thirty years no one appears to have known of his plan to move however I was aware that he was very upset by the riot that took place nearby a few weeks ago.
In the 1960s, Dublin City Council cleared Dominick Street of a number of the terraced houses that were in use as tenements and replaced them with eight blocks of five-storey flats, containing 198 units. With a renewed commitment to regeneration and the creation of sustainable communities, the decision was made to demolish these flat complexes and replace them with a mixed-use, mixed tenure scheme, within the 1.26 ha site.
The Dominick Street Regeneration Project has seen a small number of new homes built directly across the road from the old flats which are now derelict. The redevelopment project took at least two decades to complete and resulted in the replacement of about 200 sub-standard homes with about seventy two new units. The complex now includes 72 new homes, a community centre, a residential courtyard, ground floor commercial space, car parking and street improvement works on Dominick Street and Dominick Place. The design of the building aimed to separate the private world of the residents from the public nature of the city centre
Public access to the vacant Dominick Streets flats and an associated car park are now being boarded up to prevent constant and extreme drug-dealing and anti-social behaviour. Dublin City Council will secure the walkway and car park along the flat complex on Dominick street Lower following requests from local residents and gardaí (police).
The site will eventually be secured by hoarding at the front of the complex facing onto the Luas stop and the back of the complex will be secured by steel fencing.
This is my first upload for the year 2024 and it is also my birthday. I wish everyone a wonderful New Year.
I had intended to devote about four hours to photographing the streets of Trim in County Meath. After about two hours the weather became so bad that it was impossible to use my Canon 5DIII and I decided to walk back to base but I decided to use my iPhone 12 Pro Max but after about twenty minutes not even that idea was practical so I had to phone for a taxi.
The term “High Street” usually referes to the primary business street in a town or city. The name likely originated from the fact that these streets were often built on higher ground than the surrounding areas, providing a vantage point and making them prominent locations for commerce.
The term High Street is far less commonly used in Ireland than Britain [I am not sure about Northern Ireland]. Here, like in the United States, Main Street tends to be used instead. Neither of Dublin’s two main shopping streets (Grafton Street and Henry Street) carry this name, for example, nor does its main thoroughfare (O’Connell Street).
While Dublin has a street named High Street near Christchurch, formerly the centre of the medieval city, it is not a shopping street. The city of Cork’s main shopping street is St Patrick’s Street. The city’s oldest streets are named North Main Street and South Main Street. Limerick’s principal thoroughfare, like Dublin, is also O’Connell Street (the name is used in a number of other Irish towns in honour of Daniel O’Connell).
The term Main Street (Irish: An tSráid Mhór, literally “The Big/Great Street”) is used across various types of settlements; from densely populated inner suburbs of Dublin such as Ranelagh, to satellite suburbs of the capital such as Swords, and also in villages and small towns throughout the country. For example, the OSI North Leinster Town Maps book lists sixteen “Main Streets” and only two “High Streets” in its thirty-town index of street names. Similarly, the OSI Dublin Street Guide (covering all of Dublin City and County Dublin) lists twenty “Main Streets” and only two “High Streets”.
Some Irish towns do have a major shopping street named High Street (Irish: An tSráid Ard), including Killarney, Galway, Wexford, Ballinrobe, Westport, Bagenalstown, Macroom, Tuam, Wicklow, Trim, Monaghan, Kilkenny, and Kilrush.
Bantry, County Cork is an interesting variant; the main shopping street is called High Street in its western part and Main Street in its eastern part. The same is found in Athlone and Birr, County Offaly.
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