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The Kiosk, Adelaide Road, Dublin 2 Lisa Cassidy via BuiltDublin.com
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The hidden gems of Dublin architecture

Photographer and architecture graduate Lisa Cassidy spots the “beautiful, interesting, important or strange” in Dublin’s buildings and public spaces.
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WHEN YOU’RE WALKING around Dublin, do you ever look up and spot an unexpectedly decorative panel or an old shop sign, writing faded but still giving a hint to a building’s former use?

Architecture graduate Lisa Cassidy has made it her business to notice the hidden architectural gems in the capital city or as she puts it on her site, BuiltDublin.com, “the things that are beautiful, interesting important or strange in Dublin’s built environment”. Cassidy photographs her discoveries and posts them on the site for everyone to enjoy and share.

Cassidy told TheJournal.ie that she started the site because she loves writing and researching about architecture. “It’s a chance to talk about the city and its architecture. Architecture need not be any more mysterious to people than any other element of a city.”

Cassidy grew up in Dundrum but spent a lot of time in Rathmines with her grandparents as a child where they would point out little quirks and Victorian touches on the red-brick buildings that typify the Dublin 6 enclave.

Of the city’s many quirky and striking buildings, Cassidy said she always been “amazed” by the Central Bank and loves utilitarian buildings that are beautifully designed even though their use is a practical one. “The bathing shelters at Clontarf, for example,” she says, “They are quite simple but really beautiful when they don’t need to be.”

Dublin is an easy city to walk around because of its size, says Cassidy, “and it is very safe and heavily used”. She was at a talk recently where someone mentioned that there should be a way to reclaim areas that are beautifully designed and executed, like the Liffey Boardwalk, but the way it is then used after completion is not what had been envisaged. The speaker said that “it is our responsibility to start using it” and reclaim it bit-by-bit from anti-social behaviour.

“Since I heard that, I have been using the boardwalk a lot more – and I love it there,” says Cassidy.

Here are some of the buildings and architectural details that Cassidy features on her site. Go to BuiltDublin.com to see and read more.

(All images and words in the slideshow are kindly supplied by Lisa Cassidy).

Bathing shelter, North Bull Wall
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  • Bathing shelter, North Bull Wall

    Along the Bull Wall promenade, there are a series of structures including these modernist concrete bathing shelters, apparently designed by Herbert Simms in 1934* – Simms is best known as a very prolific Housing Architect for Dublin Corporation. The shelters are simple structures providing screening for swimmers to change, elegant and nicely proportioned and providing a generous public amenity. The pale golden yellow colour conjures some fantasies of scorching, endless summers, even making the steel blue sea look quite warm. (It’s not.)

  • Kiosk, Adelaide Road

    This is a little brick kiosk at the junction of Adelaide Road and Leeson Street. It was designed by Michael Moynihan (who also did the public toilets at St. Stephen’s Green) in 1929 as a water pressure station, public toilets and kiosk, and it’s currently home to a small cafe. The masonry (brickwork) is good, well-maintained and has visual interest like the 45º chevron pattern on parts of the two long elevations (or sides). The parapet – the stone extension of the wall that continues above the roof – has the city’s coat of arms displayed on it. Built for such a utilitarian purpose, the building itself is jaunty and pleasing to look at even without the striped cafe awnings and hanging baskets.

  • Our Lady Queen of Heaven, Dublin Airport

    The most beautiful part of Dublin Airport happens to be its best-kept secret. It’s somewhat hidden, tucked behind the Terminal 1 car park in the airport’s current configuration, but once you get inside the open-air atrium in front of the church, you’re as far removed from duty-free shopping and incoherently loud passenger announcements as could be.

  • Iveagh Trust Tenements, Dublin 8

    The Iveagh Buildings were developed by Edward Cecil Guinness, the first Earl of Iveagh, to provide housing and amenities for the city’s working poor. Edward was a great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, founder of the brewery and namesake of a bizarrely all-consuming annual advertising campaign, and his philanthropy in Dublin and London was intended for the public good. Dublin’s tenements were notoriously overcrowded and unsanitary at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, the Iveagh Trust is still active in Dublin as a charity focused on housing, as well as running a homeless hostel.

  • Utility building, Clontarf

    Sitting on the seafront by a major junction in Clontarf, the utility building is a curious, closed object. It was designed by De Paor Architects and completed in 2003, part of a programme of works by Dublin City Council and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland to rationalise and densify Clontarf village. The building provides a new home for the dilapidated pumping station that had been on the site, and also accommodates an electrical substation and a store for the Parks Department. According to the architect, the angular form of the building is expressing each of these three hidden functions – I’m not sure about that, but it’s certainly beautiful and dramatic as well as functional.

  • Extension to Virus Reference Laboratory, UCD

    Tucked by the side of the lake on the approach to O’Reilly Hall, the extension to the Virus Reference Laboratory is on a tight site between the existing Laboratory and the 19th century Ardmore House on UCD’s main campus at Belfield. It’s one of the good contemporary additions to the campus, completed in 2003 by McCullough Mulvin Architects. From the lake, it’s slightly elevated and perching like a pavilion on a small slope with steps leading up to the entrance, where a timber-clad arm reaches back to make a corridor to the existing building and shields a Japanese-style garden from view.

  • Tiled shopfront, K Doyle, greengrocer, Errigal Road, Drimnagh

    These two shopfronts are in a terrace of fairly ordinary, small, local shops on Errigal Road near the junction with Drimnagh Road. CONROY is a butcher’s, with its small cursive sign on a darker patch of tiles in the larger blue-with-a-bit-of-brown scheme, nearly aligned with the shop window below. K. DOYLE is a greengrocer’s, with its lettering set on a mint green band over the lower black tiles. Though both are eye-catching, it would be hard to beat the crispness of the mint/black grid. Yum.

  • Tiled shopfront, Conroy butchers, Errigal Road, Drimnagh

    These two shopfronts are in a terrace of fairly ordinary, small, local shops on Errigal Road near the junction with Drimnagh Road. CONROY is a butcher’s, with its small cursive sign on a darker patch of tiles in the larger blue-with-a-bit-of-brown scheme, nearly aligned with the shop window below. K. DOYLE is a greengrocer’s, with its lettering set on a mint green band over the lower black tiles. Though both are eye-catching, it would be hard to beat the crispness of the mint/black grid. Yum.

  • Bestseller, Dawson Street

    This is one of the most lovely shopfronts in Dublin, but if you’re not in the market for bibles or related gifts, it might not be a place you’ve stopped to admire the windows. 41 Dawson Street is home to the National Bible Society of Ireland and their bookshop, Bestseller. G.P. Beater made alterations to the building in the 1920s for the Hibernian Bible Society, so the tenants have a long history with the building. The two central panes of the window curve inwards to make a recessed entrance, where there’s a mosaic monogram for the Society set into the paving like a welcome mat. ‘Bible House’ is carved into the door’s surround, naming the building, and it’s one of the little details I’d missed before I stopped right outside. Up above the entrance, there’s stained glass with an art nouveau influence to it, throwing colour down on the window display when the sun shines through.

  • Mosaics, Dublin Corporation flats, Lwr Kevin Street

    These flat blocks by Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council) were a standard design which can be seen all around the city – the distinctive roof profile is a giveaway, as is the attached stair core with its round plan and lozenge-shaped windows. A few have abstract mosaic patterns on the balcony, but the ones at Lower Kevin Street and North William Street have extraordinary images like pixel portraits.

  • Undercroft of Wilton Park House, Dublin 2

    Geometric pattern on the undercroft of Wilton Park House, just off the canal near Baggot Street. The building was completed in 1984 (after a complicated history), by Tyndall Hogan Hurley, and it’s quite sober and serious, clad in granite and stainless steel panels…until the burst of colour hidden above the entrances comes into view.

  • Door hinges, Upper Lad Lane, Dublin 2

    Huge, tentacular hinges on a mews access door on Upper Lad Lane. They’re ridiculous and must make opening the door a delight every time.

  • Dormer window, Wynnefield Road, Rathmines

    Wynnefield Road is kind of a surprise. It’s just off the junction between Rathmines Road and Castlewood Avenue, near the post office, Tesco and Swan Centre, but as it’s at a slight angle to Rathmines Road, it can look like little more than the side of Slattery’s pub and then nothing. I’m a big fan of Slattery’s from any side, but the street also offers a small row of shops including good Lebanese and Palestinian food, as well as the decorated chimney of the former Trustee Savings Bank on the corner. Above the roofline of the shops, there are a series of gabled dormer windows with timber fronts. In various states of disrepair and weathering, they run through a spectrum of greens, from a yellowy sap green to nearly blue.

  • The Hill pub, Ranelagh

    Like a precursor to WordArt, the sign on the gable of The Hill pub in Ranelagh mimics the pitch of the roof.
  • Along the Bull Wall promenade, there are a series of structures including these modernist concrete bathing shelters, apparently designed by Herbert Simms in 1934* – Simms is best known as a very prolific Housing Architect for Dublin Corporation. The shelters are simple structures providing screening for swimmers to change, elegant and nicely proportioned and providing a generous public amenity. The pale golden yellow colour conjures some fantasies of scorching, endless summers, even making the steel blue sea look quite warm. (It’s not.)
  • This is a little brick kiosk at the junction of Adelaide Road and Leeson Street. It was designed by Michael Moynihan (who also did the public toilets at St. Stephen’s Green) in 1929 as a water pressure station, public toilets and kiosk, and it’s currently home to a small cafe. The masonry (brickwork) is good, well-maintained and has visual interest like the 45º chevron pattern on parts of the two long elevations (or sides). The parapet – the stone extension of the wall that continues above the roof – has the city’s coat of arms displayed on it. Built for such a utilitarian purpose, the building itself is jaunty and pleasing to look at even without the striped cafe awnings and hanging baskets.
  • The most beautiful part of Dublin Airport happens to be its best-kept secret. It’s somewhat hidden, tucked behind the Terminal 1 car park in the airport’s current configuration, but once you get inside the open-air atrium in front of the church, you’re as far removed from duty-free shopping and incoherently loud passenger announcements as could be.
  • The Iveagh Buildings were developed by Edward Cecil Guinness, the first Earl of Iveagh, to provide housing and amenities for the city’s working poor. Edward was a great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, founder of the brewery and namesake of a bizarrely all-consuming annual advertising campaign, and his philanthropy in Dublin and London was intended for the public good. Dublin’s tenements were notoriously overcrowded and unsanitary at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, the Iveagh Trust is still active in Dublin as a charity focused on housing, as well as running a homeless hostel.
  • Sitting on the seafront by a major junction in Clontarf, the utility building is a curious, closed object. It was designed by De Paor Architects and completed in 2003, part of a programme of works by Dublin City Council and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland to rationalise and densify Clontarf village. The building provides a new home for the dilapidated pumping station that had been on the site, and also accommodates an electrical substation and a store for the Parks Department. According to the architect, the angular form of the building is expressing each of these three hidden functions – I’m not sure about that, but it’s certainly beautiful and dramatic as well as functional.
  • Tucked by the side of the lake on the approach to O’Reilly Hall, the extension to the Virus Reference Laboratory is on a tight site between the existing Laboratory and the 19th century Ardmore House on UCD’s main campus at Belfield. It’s one of the good contemporary additions to the campus, completed in 2003 by McCullough Mulvin Architects. From the lake, it’s slightly elevated and perching like a pavilion on a small slope with steps leading up to the entrance, where a timber-clad arm reaches back to make a corridor to the existing building and shields a Japanese-style garden from view.
  • These two shopfronts are in a terrace of fairly ordinary, small, local shops on Errigal Road near the junction with Drimnagh Road. CONROY is a butcher’s, with its small cursive sign on a darker patch of tiles in the larger blue-with-a-bit-of-brown scheme, nearly aligned with the shop window below. K. DOYLE is a greengrocer’s, with its lettering set on a mint green band over the lower black tiles. Though both are eye-catching, it would be hard to beat the crispness of the mint/black grid. Yum.
  • These two shopfronts are in a terrace of fairly ordinary, small, local shops on Errigal Road near the junction with Drimnagh Road. CONROY is a butcher’s, with its small cursive sign on a darker patch of tiles in the larger blue-with-a-bit-of-brown scheme, nearly aligned with the shop window below. K. DOYLE is a greengrocer’s, with its lettering set on a mint green band over the lower black tiles. Though both are eye-catching, it would be hard to beat the crispness of the mint/black grid. Yum.
  • This is one of the most lovely shopfronts in Dublin, but if you’re not in the market for bibles or related gifts, it might not be a place you’ve stopped to admire the windows. 41 Dawson Street is home to the National Bible Society of Ireland and their bookshop, Bestseller. G.P. Beater made alterations to the building in the 1920s for the Hibernian Bible Society, so the tenants have a long history with the building. The two central panes of the window curve inwards to make a recessed entrance, where there’s a mosaic monogram for the Society set into the paving like a welcome mat. ‘Bible House’ is carved into the door’s surround, naming the building, and it’s one of the little details I’d missed before I stopped right outside. Up above the entrance, there’s stained glass with an art nouveau influence to it, throwing colour down on the window display when the sun shines through.
  • These flat blocks by Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council) were a standard design which can be seen all around the city – the distinctive roof profile is a giveaway, as is the attached stair core with its round plan and lozenge-shaped windows. A few have abstract mosaic patterns on the balcony, but the ones at Lower Kevin Street and North William Street have extraordinary images like pixel portraits.
  • Geometric pattern on the undercroft of Wilton Park House, just off the canal near Baggot Street. The building was completed in 1984 (after a complicated history), by Tyndall Hogan Hurley, and it’s quite sober and serious, clad in granite and stainless steel panels…until the burst of colour hidden above the entrances comes into view.
  • Huge, tentacular hinges on a mews access door on Upper Lad Lane. They’re ridiculous and must make opening the door a delight every time.
  • Wynnefield Road is kind of a surprise. It’s just off the junction between Rathmines Road and Castlewood Avenue, near the post office, Tesco and Swan Centre, but as it’s at a slight angle to Rathmines Road, it can look like little more than the side of Slattery’s pub and then nothing. I’m a big fan of Slattery’s from any side, but the street also offers a small row of shops including good Lebanese and Palestinian food, as well as the decorated chimney of the former Trustee Savings Bank on the corner. Above the roofline of the shops, there are a series of gabled dormer windows with timber fronts. In various states of disrepair and weathering, they run through a spectrum of greens, from a yellowy sap green to nearly blue.
  • Like a precursor to WordArt, the sign on the gable of The Hill pub in Ranelagh mimics the pitch of the roof.

Do you have a favourite building/architectural feature in Ireland? Let us know in the comments below…

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    Scundered
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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:31 AM

    Or maybe just stop over selling flights.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:43 AM

    @Scundered: It’s common practice with most airlines. It’s happened me twice but I was happy to accept the offer of a free upgrade on one flight and on another I took the next flight and got a voucher for another return flight within 12 months.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:46 AM

    @Scundered: that’s an option but if airlines stopped overselling seats, the price per seat would increase. I worked for AerLingus and some of the transatlantic services could sometimes be overbooked by as much as 10%. The majority of the time this wouldn’t cause any issue. But other times……

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:56 AM

    @Darren Doyle McCormack: But both Ryanir and Norwegian NEVER oversell seats and they dont need to increase fares..

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    Apr 27th 2017, 9:24 AM

    @iMoan Brutal: Thanks for capitalising never. Would never have got your point without it! Ryanair never sold business tickets that were fully changeable. The type of passenger who flies long haul would be more likely to change their plans than someone going on a city break to Europe. Ryanair and AerLingus have very different business models.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 9:33 AM

    @Darren Doyle McCormack: exactly, totally different business model. Also, very few ryanair passengers come from connecting flights, which reduces the chances of them not turning up. AerLingus are partners with JetBlue, British Airways, United Airlines and Flybe. If you are booked on an oversold flight, or you miss a connecting flight, you can get a later flight with a partner airline if they have capacity.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 9:55 AM

    @Darren Doyle McCormack: then don’t sell changeable tickets. Sorted.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:58 PM

    @Yer Man: Plans change. Business passengers may have a meeting that runs over or someone may be late due to an inbound connection. Life is not black and white.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:33 AM

    At least you’ve got a better chance of “winning” 10k compared to scratch cards!

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:43 AM

    Slap, €1000
    Punch €3000
    Dragging €5000
    Video of incident shared on social media €10000

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:51 AM

    @Matt Connolly: Having your past dragged up by gutter journalists: priceless.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 9:20 AM

    @Matt Connolly: It was worth it for the Memes.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 12:42 PM

    @Ben McArthur: and it wasn’t even him, they dug up dirt on the wrong guy

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:26 AM

    ok Michael O Leary -over to you.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:08 AM

    @Bennythekid: whats over to him? He doesnt overbook flights so its none of his concern.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:16 AM

    @deisecelt: don’t know where the Journal is coming from with this story the maximum amount of compensation allowed to be paid fur bumping a passenger is $1,350

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:30 AM

    @deisecelt: where did i mention anything about overbooked flights.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 9:53 AM

    @Bennythekid: I think it’s more a question of what do you mean by over to you michael. As it’s nothing to do with Ryanair. But if you’d read the article or comments you’d know that

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    Apr 27th 2017, 12:53 PM

    @Michael Hayden: double scores-25/50

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:37 AM

    So it’s ten grand or the slaps. That makes it really easy.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:39 AM

    And if no one wants it, will you be dragged from your fully paid seat?!

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    Apr 27th 2017, 10:25 AM

    @john Appleseed: you will be ejected from private property.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:39 AM

    I still don’t believe over selling seats is a legitimate business practice, in what other industry can you sell something twice and hope someone doesn’t pick up their purchase so as to lower the unit cost of the product?

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    Apr 27th 2017, 12:46 PM

    @RMcG: Its not exactly selling something twice. Its very common on medium/long haul flights, when a lot of passengers will be coming to the gate from many different connecting flights, and not just arriving at the airport’s departures area. All large airlines that offer intercontinental tickets will have partnerships with other airlines that cover similar routes. If you are on a flight that is oversold, you will be compensated for it, and given the next free space the airline, or a partner airline has. Its the same if you miss a connecting flight through no fault of your own, you will be put on the next available flight by that airline, or a partner airline. For example, I flew back to Dublin via Newark in February. My United flight into Newark was delayed by 3 hours, so I missed my connecting Aer Lingus flight in Newark, however I was put on the next United flight to Dublin a few hours later. If that United flight was fully booked, but 20 passengers were not going to show up, as their connecting flight was also delayed, then it makes sense for the airline to let me take their seats, rather than have 20 empty seats on the flight, and pay to put me up in a hotel until the next seat is available. Bear in mind, the cost of putting me up in a hotel would then need to be recouped by the airline, through increased ticket sales. Overselling allows airlines to keep planes as full as possible, and keep ticket sales as low as possible.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:15 AM

    Please tell me which flight is overbooked and l will book it now

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:23 AM

    @pat seery: it’s pure PR it ain’t real as the maximum they can pay under US law is $1,350

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    Apr 27th 2017, 9:32 AM

    @Boganity: Actually they can pay whatever they want above that figure if they choose to do so. There are 3 levels of remuneration depending on length of delay, how soon to your original arrival time the airline can get you there, whether you have to over night or not. Delta for instance allows its senior customer service personnel to offer up to $10,000 to ‘bumped’ passengers and that can be in cash or travel vouchers. Each airline has to meet the minimum requirements set by law, which to date do not include losing two teeth and getting yer nose broke.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:30 AM

    Spend the money hiring proper staff not thugs

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:12 AM

    @Stouts O Shea:

    They were the airport police and not UA staff

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:40 AM

    What is the guy they dragged off getting in compensation?

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:20 AM

    @Alan: don’t know but’ll it’ll have seven seven numbers and two commas in it

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:52 AM

    That dragged guy apology interview with CEO Munoz is worth watching for entertainment values, Comedy Central, winner so far for BS talk of 2017.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:24 AM

    They will be paying Mr Dao considerably more than 10k

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:39 AM

    Too late too late.!
    They are damaged forever.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:45 AM

    in vouchers,

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:21 AM

    @Maurice Slater: to be used off peak in days that don’t have an “a” in them

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:55 AM

    and a free slap

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    Apr 27th 2017, 8:13 AM

    Did Munoz mention the bunny wabbit?

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    Apr 27th 2017, 5:05 PM

    Surely this overbooking is just pure greed by airlines. Anyone who books a flight has to pay in advance so whether or not they show up the seat is paid for. Therefore the airlines are trying to get seats paid for twice. Obviously to business people this is good practice. Justice doesn’t come into it. Well I hope people will choose their airline more carefully. As for Ryanair I’ve never had a problem and I definitely have never seen anyone dragged off a plane

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    Apr 27th 2017, 4:36 PM

    The airline is trying to redeem some level of responsibility back after the PR nightmare of recent weeks. Buy all accounts their stock has taken a high hit and the shareholders are losing value on their stake. Desperation tactics.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 12:08 PM

    I’d sit there and demand 20k with my phone out lol

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    Apr 27th 2017, 10:56 AM

    Do you have to take a mandatory beating by armed gun crazy American police before you volunteer?

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    Apr 27th 2017, 9:01 AM

    Here a novel to make money and s the world book flights as late as possible an hope f a over booking.

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    Apr 27th 2017, 7:53 PM

    Reason I book my seat so can’t remove me
    Others try to save that 10e but worth it for peace of mind .

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    Apr 28th 2017, 12:25 AM

    Would rather get dragged off and sue them for 10 million.

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