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    Last edited by RDF; 14 June 2010, 00:55.

  • #2
    Originally posted by RDF View Post
    I am very saddend to hear that Parkgate street is been handed over to OPW.
    do you mean Infirmary Road?
    RGJ

    ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

    The Rifles

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    • #3
      Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
      do you mean Infirmary Road?
      Think he does...

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      • #4
        The DPP and his staff are moving in there- its handy for the Four Courts and the New Criminal Courts-

        Its not the first time the Defence Forces have had to make a sacrifice for others

        nor will it be the last-
        Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
        Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
        The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
        The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
        The best lack all conviction, while the worst
        Are full of passionate intensity.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Craghopper View Post
          Think he does...
          i was gonna say - there is a decent Chinese Takeaway on Parkgate Street and i wouldn't want the OPW taking that over!
          RGJ

          ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

          The Rifles

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          • #6
            Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
            i was gonna say - there is a decent Chinese Takeaway on Parkgate Street and i wouldn't want the OPW taking that over!
            First O Devaney Gardens, now AHQ!!! what next!!! lol

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            • #7
              FFS - i used to live in O'Devaney Gardens - what next?!

              Arbour Hill Church?!
              RGJ

              ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

              The Rifles

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              • #8
                Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
                FFS - i used to live in O'Devaney Gardens - what next?!

                Arbour Hill Church?!
                I know bud..Sure So did I..lol

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                • #9
                  Grew up in Married quarters Arbour Hill
                  Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
                  Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
                  The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
                  The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
                  The best lack all conviction, while the worst
                  Are full of passionate intensity.

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                  • #10
                    Not the church I got married there...............
                    :confused: ONCE YOU HAVE THEM BY THE BALLS , THEN YOU CAN WIN THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS ! :

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                      Grew up in Married quarters Arbour Hill
                      i still own a house in St Bricins Park - i grew up there just around the corner from you Hedge, did you go to school in Brunner?

                      i hate when the Army sell off land, lots of history gets washed away.
                      Last edited by RoyalGreenJacket; 13 June 2010, 22:49.
                      RGJ

                      ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

                      The Rifles

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
                        i still own a house in St Bricins Park - i grew up there just around the corner from you Hedge, did you go to school in Brunner?

                        i hate when the Army sell off land, lots of history gets washed away.
                        No mate

                        we moved when I was about 3

                        I do remember wediging a kid in the area, so badly that he had to head over to England

                        to work
                        Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
                        Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
                        The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
                        The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
                        The best lack all conviction, while the worst
                        Are full of passionate intensity.

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                        • #13
                          Whose history?
                          Most of the Army land is leftover from the British Army occupation at the end of the 19th century, when they required lots of large facilities to stage troops heading off on emperial conquests. For example, Elizabeth fort, in Cork(now the site of a garda station, but the fort walls are retained) was once the main staging post for troops going to the Colonial wars in America and Canada.

                          The Irish Army of the 21st century no longer needs hundreds of small packages of land to maintain, when in the modern environment, mobility, not presence is the key.

                          It made no sense at all to have a DFHQ located outside any main barracks in the country. Whatever about DoD.


                          Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
                            i was gonna say - there is a decent Chinese Takeaway on Parkgate Street and i wouldn't want the OPW taking that over!
                            Sure at least theres a chipper at the bottom of infirmary rd hill near the bus depot dont know what it's like now but it did have nice food yummmm

                            What good is in youth when it's ageing what joy are in eyes that cant see when there's sorrow in sunshine and flowers and only our rivers run free.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
                              i still own a house in St Bricins Park - i grew up there just around the corner from you Hedge, did you go to school in Brunner?

                              i hate when the Army sell off land, lots of history gets washed away.
                              RGJ

                              Go easy on how much you give out

                              about yourself, All types look at this site

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