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Updated at 4pm
WINDMILL LANE HAS been demolished. However, some parts of the graffiti walls have been saved.
The Windmill Lane studios are iconic thanks to a host of musicians who recorded there going back to the 1970s.
Van Morrisson, The Rolling Stones and Sinead O’Connor are among the famous acts but the studios were best known for recordings carried out by U2, especially the Joshua Tree album.
Ciara O'Callaghan / TwitterThe end of an era... Windmill Lane is demolished! pic.twitter.com/9KcAdVjOHp
— Ciara O'Callaghan (@OCallaghanCiara) April 6, 2015
The site was bought by Hibernia REIT in May of last year and it now plans to develop residential, office and retail units.
The demolition started in late February and has been ongoing since then.
The CEO of WK Nowlan REIT Management, Kevin Nowlan, said the developers are aware of the site’s history and plan to “take that into account”.
Over the years fans have visited the site and used graffiti to pay tribute to the bands. It’s understood that part of the graffiti walls will be kept in storage until it is decided where they should be put.
Hibernia REIT says it is considering the following options:
The studio itself was not destroyed over the weekend as it was moved to Ringsend some time ago.
Many people have been expressing their sadness and shock online:
Conor Gibney / Twitter@OCallaghanCiara shocked it really happened #U2 #dissapointed
— Conor Gibney 🇪🇺 (@ConorGibney) April 7, 2015
T / Twitter@DocLina @OCallaghanCiara @BrownBagFilms oh I feel sad looking at this! #windmilllane
— T (@mammymarvel) April 6, 2015
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Hackman and Borgnine made the Poseidon Adventure such a brilliant movie
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: “I’m Gonna nail ya for picking your foot in Poughkeepsie”
RIP Gene and wife. The French connections, two of the best ever.
A fantastic and brilliant actor. The Conversation is excellent, as is Mississipi Birning, Unfoeg8ven etc
@AnthonyK: indeed did he ever make a bad film – I don’t think so !!
RIP Popeye, a true acting legend.
“least likely to succeed”
There’s a fair number of people who earned that tag in school or college, and proved the experts very wrong indeed.
R.I.P. – one of the true greats
One of my all time favourite actors. He was simply outstanding. RIP
He despised the real Popeye Doyle, but used that in building up such a good portrayal of the character. A real actor, not some plastic hero.
“Listen to me you backwoods 5hita55 you. You got about two seconds to get the Sheriff out here or I’m gonna kick the God damn door in. OK?”
What a man and lady. God bless ye.
Night Moves is one of his less well known movies but one of my favourites of his
Another good film he was also in was ‘Narrow Margin’. I don’t know if it was a straight to DVD film?
@Daniel Kelly: yea narrow margin great movie, the first gene hackman movie I watched was target with matt dillon another great actor and a very good film IMHO.
“little ducks, there is trouble in Russia, so they called us. “
Cue “tributes” from so called journos who’ve been feverishly taking notes from Wikipedia
@Padraig O’Brien:
I thought he was great in “Enemy of the state” it’s a movie about Robert Dean who accidentally gets hold of a videotape that contains evidence of congressman Phil Hammersley’s murder. His life takes a drastic turn when he comes under the surveillance of NSA agents.
@KTH: brilliant research !!
RIP mr Luther
The article doesn’t mention his wife or did I miss that?
@SOCOMJON: Yes you missed that…She died with him…RIP to them both….
Brilliant as Mrs Doubtfire.
@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: Did you give yourself the 1 like?
By coincidence, Hackman’s 1975 “Bite the Bullet” is the TG4 Western tonight.
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