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THE NEW MANDARIN

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A CHINESE RESTAURANT ON MALAHIDE ROAD

I don’t know anything about this particular restaurant other than than the fact that it is located on Malahide Road near Griffith Avenue.


Until this week I did not realise just how long Malahide Road is.


The R107 road is a regional road in north Dublin, Ireland with a length of 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi).It traverses a route from Fairview to Malahide, via Coolock, Balgriffin, and ultimately reaches the western edge of Portmarnock. Its main component is the Malahide Road.

OFFICE OF THE STATE PATHOLOGIST ON GRIFFITH AVENUE SWORDS ROAD

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ORIGINALLY WHITEHALL GARDA STATION

Whitehall Garda Station was built in 1935 and served the community for 77 years and is located at 252 Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland. On 30 April 2012 Whitehall Garda Station became one of the 31 Garda stations to close around Ireland, due to cut-backs.

Planning permission was granted to refurbish the vacant building to accommodate Dublin City Morgue (previously located adjacent to the Fire Brigade Training Centre in Marino) and to provide a state-of-the-art office for the State Pathologist on the same site. The redevelopment, which cost €2.4m completed in July 2016. The building retains its character and massing, along with most of its original features and details, which are of high quality throughout. It occupies a prominent corner position at the junction of Griffith Avenue and Drumcondra Road Upper and contributes strongly to the surrounding architectural character as a public building in an otherwise residential suburb. It relates to other similarly styled buildings in the Drumcondra area, such as No. 45 Home Farm Road, Drumcondra Library and the adjoining house at No. 239 Griffith Avenue.

BRIDGE STREET IN SWORDS AND A SMALL GREEN SPACE

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9 SEPTEMBER 2023

Some maps show the park as being Town Park but I believe that Town Park is a much larger public park attached to the Castle and some people have told me that the park on Bridge Street is referred to as the Green and there is a notice that appears to support this claim.

The actual bridge on Bridge Street is described as follows: “Single-arch bridge over river, c.1875. Rock faced limestone ashlar walls with margined rock faced cut-limestone chamfered stringcourses supporting benchmark-inscribed parapets having margined tooled cut-limestone “saddleback” coping. Single segmental arch with margined rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Ward River with overgrown grass banks to river. A plaque commemorates Peter Wilson (d. 1916) ‘Who Gave His Life For Irish Freedom In The Rising Of Easter Week 1916’.”

THE 8TH LOCK ON THE ROYAL CANAL AND NEARBY

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PHOTOGRAPHED USING A SIGMA DP3 QUATTRO

The 8th Lock on the Royal Canal is a well-constructed canal lock that forms part of a wider collection of locks, bridges and lock-keepers’ houses associated with the Royal Canal on its journey from Spencer Dock to Longford town. Displaying quality masonry skills and early eighteenth-century engineering, it attests to the importance of the canal’s role at the time of construction. Fully functioning, this lock serves recreational use today and remains an important element in the architectural and industrial heritage of north Dublin.

The 8th Lock residential project comprises five sections which are between four and thirteen storeys high and due for completion between October 2023 and March 2025. It is just 300 metres from the new Pelletstown railway station which I also visited today.

The 8th Lock complex, on the site of the former Ormond Printworks (I was an employee many years ago) on Ratoath Road, will eventually comprise 218 one-bedroom and 217 two-bedroom apartments, and 4,200sq m of commercial and amenity space. This will include public plazas, a healthcare centre, pharmacy, own-door offices and a gym. Some 255 car parking spaces, electric vehicle charging points, disabled parking and nearly 950 bicycle parking spaces will be provided at surface and undercroft levels.

The 8th Lock is the first large development In Ireland or in the UK to make use of a pioneering low-carbon product known as CarbonCure. This allows recycled CO₂ to be embedded into fresh concrete during mixing without compromising performance. To date CarbonCure Technologies has prevented over 174,000 tonnes of CO₂ being released into the atmosphere, with millions more set to be sequestered into the future. Ballymore is employing the technology with Kilsaran at the 8th Lock.

THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE PROMISED ADDITIONAL POLICING

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THEY HAVE ARRIVED WITH THEIR HORSES IN O’CONNELL STREET

Policing on horseback is ideal for high-visibility crime prevention. Mounted Gardaí sit several feet above the height of a crowd with the result that they have a good vantage point and can be easily recognised by members of the public. The Mounted Unit was established in 1998 and is based in the Phoenix Park. The unit’s facilities include stables, tack rooms, stores, paddocks and an all-weather training arena. The Unit provides support to Garda Districts in many counties on a regular basis.

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