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HERE ARE THE iconic Poolbeg towers are you’ve never seen them before.
This photo from TheJournal.ie‘s favourite photographer Donal Moloney (see why here) has seen huge shares and likes on social media this morning.
You have to applaud the effort. He writes:
I dragged my bedroom mirror down to the Poolbeg area yesterday looking for an interesting image.
Replying to one commenter on his Facebook page, Donal writes that he carried the mirror all the way to the end of the South Bull Wall to the lighthouse there but only found this perfect picture opportunity as he walked back. “My right arm is now 2 inches longer than my left one,” he joked.
It’s certainly an interesting twist on a Dublin landmark, and Donal’s promised to show us some other mirror images he has been snapping around the country later today.
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I think the Poolbeg towers are an impressive industrial landmark visible all around Dublin, like Battersea Power Station London or the Harland and Wolff crane in Belfast they have become part of the fabric of Dublin. I think it would be awful if they were demolished
Impressive, Really? Come on….Comparing them to Battersea power station is ridiculous.
Why on the face of it, Battersea is a big bland red brick industrial building with large chimneys on it, for most of it’s existence it just belched coal fumes. And yet there is something beautiful about big monolithic buildings as well, and I happen to think the Poolbeg towers have something similar. Battersea power station is just a more established landmark in a larger more famous city, who’s to say if enough time passes the Poolbeg towers might become something similar for Dublin?
I wouldn’t call it bland, its the largest red brick building in Europe with beautiful Art deco fittings. Poolbeg is no Battersea, and never will be. Comparing the two is ridiculous
The area behind them is beautiful, it would work so well as a site for a modern art gallery. It could become the next centre for the city, one that embraces the sea. For a city with so much coastline we don’t have enough of that.
The only thing they remind me of is how much of a kip the Dublin docks were back in the 80′s.. It was a derelict waste ground with nothing to see but buildings abandoned and the burnt out shells of cars. If you took a drive down you were lucky to escape with the wheels still left on your car
And catherdrals could remind you of all the dodgy stuff the church got up to. Still pretty impressive buildings.
Come on David, don’t be stuck in the past!
Sorry, don’t see that photo as anything thing worth getting your knickers in a twist about! It’s OK end of!
Michael do you wear ladies underwear?
All the time! Very comfy they are too! Got the idea off Shelby Stanga, the man is a legend!!!
Those towers are a blight on the landscape.
Not when they enable people to get photographs as cool as that :P
I still think its an ugly eyesore. Should be demolished.
Seriously? I have grown up with with the Poolbeg chimneys looming in the background.
I left Ireland to work and they were the last images I remember as the plane flew past.
They were still there when I returned.
I love the towers, they could do with some attention but they are an endearing part on Dublin’s landscape.
Numpty, they’re a part of the landscape now, I find them beautiful. So many places they can be seen from in Dublin. So many great pics of them too.
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Well that’s kind of ironic because I thought the photo was an example of how beautiful rugged landscape can be hampered by industrialisation.
Sure they can’t take them down now.
€10k to put a light on the spire.
How much to maintain these eyesores?
Except ‘the rugged landscape’ is actually a man made tidal wall….and all of the area is industrialised as it’s the docks.
They may be iconic but they’re still monstrously ugly. Knock em.
Very PINK FLOYD album coverish
We live in an industrial age, in an urban environment. For an urban centre we have miles of beautiful, unspoiled coastline. But we also have areas where the industrial and environmental meet. And they can be just as beautiful as what nature has created. We live in a city, made by humans, a living, breathing, man made structure that is always changing. I embrace it, it’s a triumph that so many humans can live in such a small space together.
You’d love India then!
I love Dublin, what a city. Punches so far above it’s weight. No wonder tourists love it, it so buzzing.
“Buzzing” .. I get yea
No need for inverted commas, unless you’re getting at some boring commentary about junkies or whatever. That would be snoozey in the extreme.
Attach a sling shot ball to them.
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