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DUBLIN’S MAIN LIBRARY is to move to Parnell Square as part of a €60 million development to create a new ‘cultural quarter’ for the capital.
The main library, currently based in the Ilac shopping centre, will relocate to a premises which will have a direct connection to the Hugh Lane Gallery through a new pedestrianised plaza.
The library will move to the old Coláiste Mhuire building, and two adjacent units, on the north-eastern side of Parnell Square. The building was vacated by the school in 2003 and is now owned by the Office of Public Works.
The building will also incorporate facilities for music and writing, and hopes to help regenerate the Parnell Square area – the capital’s oldest Georgian square – as well as revitalising the upper part of O’Connell Street as part of a larger ‘Civic Spine’ for the city between Parnell Square, O’Connell Street, Trinity College and Christchurch.
Council authorities hope that the regenerated Parnell Square area will become a popular meeting place north of the Liffey.
An initial €2.5 million in funding for the project is being supplied by an international property company, Kennedy Wilson, which will also lead the fundraising efforts to come up with the rest of the funding needed.
The existing library in the Ilac centre is open for 54 hours a week, but access is restricted based on the opening hours of the centre itself, while the constraints of the centre offer only limited space for expansion.
City manager John Tierney said the project offered “a powerful opportunity and catalyst for the redevelopment for this part of Northside Dublin”, while city architect Ali Grehan said it would be “the heart of the cultural life of the capital”.
A public consultation seeking suggestions and input on the plans will begin in the coming months.
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Forget a warning, a good kick up the hole is what they need!
Any many want to outlaw parents slapping their kids…yeah right
Ah but most parents put in the time and effort required to raise decent kids! The odd tap on the hand is usually enough to deter bad behaviour at a young age as well as sitting down and talking with kids about their behaviour and the consequences of their actions! Parents who don’t put in the time and effort raise toerags like those mentioned in the above article and by the time the kids reach their teens the damage is near irreversible! Giving kids like that a warning or letting them off with a slap on the wrist is not going to deter them but a good kick up the backside just might make them realise the error of their ways before they move on to commiting more serious crimes!
Was in Derry for the first time a few weeks ago and I must say it is a lovely little city with very friendly and welcoming locals. I was very impressed. It is an absolute shame that there are little arseholes like this intent on causing trouble and trying to keep the city, and the North in general, rooted in the past.
Parents don’t care. Too busy getting drunk in the pub.
See that’s the problem when you have kids rearing themselves .
All my mother had to do years ago was reach for the cutlery drawer…. The Fear of the wooden spoon emerging would make you soon behave! God forbid the little darlings nowadays could be threatened with the rattle of the cutlery drawer….
Go to meeting house square in Temple Bar any night and you’ll see how many parents don’t give a flying fcuk. Drunk and drugged out of their minds and causing mayhem. Gaurds only move them along and they are back 20 mins later. When they do arrest some they are told by parents to drop them home like they are babysitting service…
Parents need to be held accountable for the behaviour of the children they have. Some of these teens are wild to the point of being almost feral. Children found behaving like this need some seriously tough discipline, if the parents can’t do it give them to the army for a few months.
I honestly don’t think the army is the place for them. A borstal type system based on the Japanese penal system is what Id suggest.
Battle Royale ?
Not quiet but an interesting idea.
I’ve said it before, but the north is a mad kip. Riots, car-jackings. Kids gets stabbed and shot – always seems to be the North. Liz, you broke it, you can keep it.
I’m pretty sure that there are more parties in NI than SF but don’t let that stop you for blaming them for everything. In fact it’s the SDLP who are the largest party on Derry City Council so why not have a pop at them?
This would be a SF ward Brian
Yep Scarr you are completely right, things like this never happen South of the border …..like the disabled man threatened to be raped and set on fire by a group of youths in Dublin a few days ago?
Forgive me Journal, but why is ok to comment on this story but not on the horrific murder of a child in France?
Because there isn’t a court case under way.
Two youths were arrested and released on police bail?
The court case still hasn’t begun yet , once it starts then comments would close .
What’s this got to do with the Republic
The Republic of where exactly?
In fairness Co. Derry should be governed by the South. Hugh nationalist population and they play ball in the League of Ireland. Send in the Garda in Ford Transit Connects to sort out these gurriers. Be grand.
Playing soccer in the South is reason enough to leave them tied with the other 5.
good job guys…2 out of 40.And after arrests nothing will happen…
It’s the crèche generation. Kids raised by strangers. No sense of family or respect for anything. Been giving everything they want by parents trying to make up for lack of parenting. The future is bleak.
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