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Two new locations added to line up for this year's Christmas light display on iconic Dublin buildings

There will be 14 light projections on buildings like The GPO and bridges like the Samuel Beckett bridge next month.

MORE THAN A dozen locations across Dublin will be transformed with unique lighting displays as the Winter Lights illuminations returns for a second year. 

Custom projections and displays first appeared across some of the capital’s most famous buildings and structures, including The GPO and the Samuel Beckett Bridge, in the run up to Christmas last year. 

This year Christ Church Cathedral and Smithfield Square have been added to the list of structures featuring the lights. 

The projections were installed for the first time last year across the city and will be on display between 1 December and the 1 January from sunset to 2am. 

“Dublin is a special place at Christmas time and this December the city will have an added sparkle with new lighting projections at Smithfield Square and Christchurch Cathedral and all across the city,” Lord Mayor Paul McAuliffe said. 

“I encourage everyone to come in to the Mansion House and then wander around the city during the month of December to experience the magical winter lights on our wonderful buildings including city hall. 

Dublin City Council worked with young people and community groups and artists to create the lighting designs under the theme of ‘community and winter in Dublin’”. 

Balybough Craft Group, transition year students at Synge Street Secondary School and Presentation Secondary School Warrenmount, as well as Henrietta Street School collaborated with artists to light up the Samuel Beckett Bridge, The Hugh Lane Gallery and the The Civic Offices at Wood Quay. 

The installations will be visible on:

  • City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2
  • Civic Offices, wood Quay, Dublin 8
  • Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 8
  • Covanta Dublin Waste to Energy Plant, Poolbeg, Dublin 4
  • The Custom House, North Dock, Dublin 1
  • The GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1
  • The Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square North, Dublin 1
  • The Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2
  • Smithfield Square, Dublin 7
  • Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2
  • Millennium Bridge
  • O’Connell Street, Dublin 1
  • Parliament Street, Dublin 2
  • Samuel Beckett Bridge

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    Nov 18th 2019, 11:34 AM

    Love this. GPO looked amazing last year.

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    Nov 18th 2019, 6:30 PM

    @Noel_Random: I agree….Trinity was fab too.

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    Nov 18th 2019, 10:22 AM

    Pity there all in Dublin

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    Nov 18th 2019, 10:28 AM

    @Joe Shea: Presume there’s nothing stopping local councils from doing something similar

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    Nov 18th 2019, 10:29 AM

    @Benny: it’s a little thing called money … U mite have heard of it

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    Nov 18th 2019, 10:46 AM

    @Joe Shea: well am sure the size of cork council can at least put 2 up

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    Nov 18th 2019, 10:53 AM

    @Joe Shea:

    Not a pity at all. Dublin has the largest population.

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    Nov 18th 2019, 12:19 PM

    I know ’tis is the season and all, but with the current climate emergency, is this excess energy consumption and light pollution necessary?
    Not being bah humbug here, it’s a genuine question!

    (Also please don’t reply to me with climate change denier stuff, I am a scientist.)

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    Nov 18th 2019, 12:42 PM

    @Accord Moan Eye: because it looks nice to the tourists and people coming to Dublin to spend their money this Christmas……..profits and looking good to the tourists are more important than light pollution

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    Nov 18th 2019, 4:40 PM

    @Accord Moan Eye: no!

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    Nov 18th 2019, 1:58 PM

    Dublin is a special place at Christmas and so is everywhere else, difficult for the Dublin mindset to understand that though.

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    Nov 18th 2019, 2:40 PM

    @Leonard Barry: Nothing difficult what so ever, bit of community spirit,put up a Christmas tree in the street,hang holly and encourage some festive lights by business owners. Local schools can carol sing and raise funds for local charities,it just takes a little effort and good will.

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    Nov 18th 2019, 6:04 PM

    @Honeybee: sounds so lovely

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    Nov 19th 2019, 12:11 AM

    Love my city when the light are on for Christmas Makes people kinder and I’ve seen it happening. A young well dressed woman asked a homeless man his size he told her and she came back with bag loads of warm clothes and a heavy jacket for him Now that is Christmas ,.❤

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    Nov 18th 2019, 9:51 PM

    Anyway …… elsewhere in Ireland a light bulb gets switched on in Limerick and a spotlight in Galway. Cork has gone all out and allowed a shop sign to be left switched on throughout the night.
    Jeez the crazy things the Dubs get up to

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