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Saturday 6 March 2021
Lets be honest, that sign is tacky.
The backlit sign has fallen foul of planning rules.
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TRANSPORT COMPANY BOLT is hoping to create over 130 jobs through the rollout of e-scooters in Irish cities.
Bolt launched a taxi-hailing service in Dublin last year and now plans to create a multi-model transport platform, where the public can choose between a car, e-scooter or an e-bike.
At present, e-scooters are currently not regulated in Ireland. There is no specific law covering them.
They are considered to be mechanically-propelled vehicles, which means that if they are used in public places users must hold a licence and insurance.
However, the current government is now planning on regulating their use.
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Yep…Could be classier than the botched Vegas look.
Was just going to post the same tacky
It’s tacky but stand on O’Connell Bridge and look up and down. Heineken is plastered on that yoke of a building in huge writing to the south and on the O’Connell st side there is a big sign for Nokia (altered slightly). How the City Council don’t sort out these signs either is beyond me.
(whispers) I think it’s supposed to be!
Is the Baileys one still on the building on Bachelor’s Walk?
To be fair, the Heineken one, while insightly, doesn’t disturb anyone. On Capel Street there are loads of apartments above the street-front units.
It’s a sign, Sean. They don’t have gender.
Character and integrity of the area …. It’s a road full of s*x shops … Not grafton street
Exactly Joey I actually think it fits in very well with Capel street. A tacky street. I worked on Capel street for years and have a lot of gra for it. Though it is tacky!
Bit more publicity for him/her. Job well done. Why else would you fight tooth and nail over a plastic sign if not to keep your name and, more importantly, face in the media?
Because fighting is better than letting the Nazis win – one of whom doesn’t even appear to know what a neon light looks like, and another who doesn’t seem to know which building he actually owns.
@ Paul J. I like Heineken a lot.
You equate people who may have objections to that particular sign with Nazis??.. golly…
People whose objections are based on the fact that it’s neon (it’s not) and that it’s attached to a building that they own (it’s not). People who seem to take great delight in raking Rory O’Neill or his drag person over the coals at every opportunity because he’s a gay figure who put his head above the parapet in the fight for same sex marriage in this country – yeah. They’re f*cking Nazis.
I think Godwin lives in Capel Street now…
” They’re f*cking Nazis.”…and you are a silly sausage.
Nazis??? What a stupid comment. The rules on that street are for all buildings now all things being equal why should any one premises get preferential treatment??
Well granted I don’t know that they walk around in uniforms giving the Nazi salute or spend all their days exterminating gays and Jewish people – I guess I just extrapolated from available data and this is where we arrived.
It’s not getting preferential treatment. There are dozens of other buildings on this street with signage which “project outwards”, but only one of them has been singled out for objection, and the fact that it belongs to a gay bar owned by a figure in the gay community – well I find that an extraordinary coincidence, don’t you?
Knew it wouldn’t be long before some hysterical child would show up on the thread.
Graham! You silly tart!
Yeah but in fairness none are 3.5m long with lights.
The council’s objection seems centered around the fact that the sign projects outwards, also the sign belonging to the shop next to the bar appears to be more, or less, the exact same length, and two doors further down, another projecting sign with lights for Restaurante Romano.
Durty Divil – thank you so much for your considerate, extremely well reasoned contribution to the debate. Please allow me to take a screenshot of it, so that I might lovingly file it in the folder on my desktop where I keep all the f*cks that I do not give.
I don’t know Graham maybe they went about planning the correct way and didn’t just stick it up and see what happens approach. I’m sure it will be appealed and some sort of comprise will be made.
It replaced a previously existing sign in the same location.
DCC continue to go out of their way to make our capital city feel like a one horse town.
I can’t see his appeal being successful, we were made take down a SONY sign on top of the building by DCC a few years back not far from Capel Street.
Anything to do with planning in this country is expensive and a joke – just look at the 90 year old that was fined even after she moved her mini dish!
I don’t think it detracts from an area that was already full of legal high shops, DJ lighting shops and S$x shops! It might actually brighten the street up a bit and make it a kitch place to live – look at the meatpacking district in NYC (it could have been a done a little more professional looking though!)
That said, if I owned the apartment it’s attached to, I’d tell them to take it down!! – he has some cheek attaching it to property that isn’t even his!
I know GBU closed down a few years back due to poor foot fall, if that’s the case and Panti bar is struggling, it might be more of an eyesore for the unit to be vacant or worse become another S£x shop!
Is it still a rough pub?
As a business owner, he should have been aware that shop signs / frontage that extend into the street require planning permission!
Even I knew that!
Look, it’s tacky and remove it FFS!
Karl
Whoever said it was a rough pub?
Yeah, the sex shop signs on the opposite side of the street are much more in keeping with the standards demanded.
Oh behave graham!!
Not as bad as the paedo-run temples in every parish around the country in fairness.
It’s nothing to do with his orientation, it’s simply about planning laws which apply to everyone EQUALLY, he did campaign for equality didnt he ?
@Tariq (Dick Cheney) . You’re a joker, especially as your pretending to be a follower of Mohammads Paedo cult.
Lets be honest there plenty of other things we allow in the city that are tacky; Take your pick of any McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Arcade, Sex shop……
Just hang a pair of knickers out the window
AlanH, I wouldn’t be entirely sure about that. One of the objectors sounds like he’s against more than the sign.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/church-with-18m-debt-loses-appeal-over-three-properties-1.2245857
Sigh. Its supposed to be reminiscent of Burlesque Revues and The Moulin Rouge sign. So yes. Well spotted. Have a medal.