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  • 02-05-2008 11:00am
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    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone know why they changed the sign on that building on O'Connell Bridge from Guinness to Heineken?? I know it's a long time changed now but I drive by every morning and it crosses my mind every time.. Anyone?


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    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    It's just an advertisement right, I guess someone else is paying the bills now


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    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    xzanti wrote: »
    Anyone know why they changed the sign on that building on O'Connell Bridge from Guinness to Heineken?? I know it's a long time changed now but I drive by every morning and it crosses my mind every time.. Anyone?
    It was 'SONY' for many years before that.


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    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Huh... Yeah I know it's an ad just thought it was a lot of trouble to take all those illuminated letters down off a building, it's not like just sticking one poster on over the other but I guess you're right..


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    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    To a lot of people O'Connell Bridge House is 'The Heineken Building' as if that's where their headquarters are or something.


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    ODS
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    It was 'SONY' for many years before that.

    And was "HARP" before that...

    Its a real block of sh1t anway - designed by Desmond Fitzgerald (brother of Garret) in the '60s - I just wish that it was this yoke that would get whacked, rather than Liberty Hall :(


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    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    ODS wrote: »
    And was "HARP" before that...

    Its a real block of sh1t anway - designed by Desmond Fitzgerald (brother of Garret) in the '60s - I just wish that it was this yoke that would get whacked, rather than Liberty Hall :(

    Yeah I like Liberty Hall, at least it's got character...


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    Wishbone Ash
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    ODS wrote: »
    And was "HARP" before that...
    Was it not 'HARP' after 'SONY' - hence the 'Harp Bar'?


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    John Mason
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    i remember when it said tenents :(


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    connundrum
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Was it not 'HARP' after 'SONY' - hence the 'Harp Bar'?


    I thought this was the situation? I remember Harp -> Guinness -> Heiniken.

    Wonder what the yearly advertising costs are for the sign :confused:


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    Jay D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Jay D


    I don't remember the Sony


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    Esel
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    I feel a strange urge to drink a bottle of Heineken, while listening to harp music on my Sony! :eek:

    Not your ornery onager



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    Flukey
    Registered Users Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    It was Tennents at one time too.


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    Wishbone Ash
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    irishbird wrote: »
    i remember when it said tenents :(
    Flukey wrote: »
    It was Tennents at one time too.
    Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember 'Tennents'.
    Jay D wrote: »
    I don't remember the Sony
    It was 'SONY' for much of the 1980s. I remember a girlfriend at the time used to pronounce it "sonny" which used to amuse me! That was circa. 1988.


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I remember a girlfriend at the time used to pronounce it "sonny" which used to amuse me! That was circa. 1988.


    Probably couldn't pronounce it properly with her mouth full :D


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