Ard Rí Hotel..

nkay1985

wfman wrote: »

Why isnt the owner of the site not paying for it all?

One of the pieces above seemed to suggest that the City Council are essentially paying to use it as advertising.

dayshah

wfman wrote: »

Why isnt the owner of the site not paying for it all?

Because a certain Mr. Lenihan and a certain Mr. Cowen made a feck of the country, and a lot of developers have declared bankruptcy.

jayboi

dayshah wrote: »

Because a certain Mr. Lenihan and a certain Mr. Cowen made a feck of the country, and a lot of developers have declared bankruptcy.

Lets not forget our old friend Bertie the most cunning of them all.

wfman

nkay1985 wrote: »

One of the pieces above seemed to suggest that the City Council are essentially paying to use it as advertising.

Thats a lot of money for advertising.would it not be better to use that money to advertise the tall ships in newspapers in other counties?
I know of someone that knocked a shed on his property.The city council called up and told him he had 2 weeks to remove the rubble ect.I dont believe they gave him anything towards the skip!

STIG83

Was looking at this today when i was in the city, has the clean up started yet?

wmpdd3

there are a few diggers at the entrance but no difference in the building.

brianthelion

I worked on the building of the Ard Ri back in the 60s I was an apprentice plumber.manys the good night we had in the Glen bar

Ledger

saw trucks going up there this morning too.

Jack burton

Yeah they are doing a huge clean up there.

I heard a rumor they found a mass grave for dogs and cats in the back

Ledger

Jack burton wrote: »

Yeah they are doing a huge clean up there.

I heard a rumor they found a mass grave for dogs and cats in the back

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:



any more info on that?

Jack burton

An no more info, just a rumor though so dont take it as gospel

Ledger

Jack burton wrote: »

An no more info, just a rumor though so dont take it as gospel

ah yeah. i hope thats all it is.

Straycat

Jack burton wrote: »

Yeah they are doing a huge clean up there.

I heard a rumor they found a mass grave for dogs and cats in the back

why?

flash1080

wfman wrote: »

Why isnt the owner of the site not paying for it all?

The City Council will end up paying for everything.

STIG83

I hope the K Team are send in to clean their mess or send them the clean up bill!!

Aquos76

Some very noticeable changes to the front of the Ard-ri this evening, they have started to board up all the windows, already it's a big improvement.

next

hope its spray proof

PatrickD32

Aquos76 wrote: »

Some very noticeable changes to the front of the Ard-ri this evening, they have started to board up all the windows, already it's a big improvement.

Huge difference.

next wrote: »

hope its spray proof

Its a grafitti artists wet dream all that cavass and location.

STIG83

Would they be better off to flatten it? If it going to get vandalized again?

Psychedelic

PatrickD32 wrote: »

Its a grafitti artists wet dream all that cavass and location.

The City Council should invite someone like Banksy or Gottfried Hellwein to do a custom piece for the 'canvas' on the Ard Ri. It'd be good publicity for the artist and an interesting thing to have in the city. Or even get a bunch of local artists to do it.

PatrickD32

Psychedelic wrote: »

The City Council should invite someone like Banksy or Gottfried Hellwein to do a custom piece for the 'canvas' on the Ard Ri. It'd be good publicity for the artist and an interesting thing to have in the city. Or even get a bunch of local artists to do it.

That would be the clever thing to do though, you know aswell as I do they never do that.

Could look really well from the quay, and most people who just spray **** and tag there name and all around dont usually bother ruin good grafitti also.

Blank canvas is guaranteed be wrecked.

nkay1985

Psychedelic wrote: »

The City Council should invite someone like Banksy or Gottfried Hellwein to do a custom piece for the 'canvas' on the Ard Ri. It'd be good publicity for the artist and an interesting thing to have in the city. Or even get a bunch of local artists to do it.

This would be a great idea. I'd imagine you could get someone very good for very cheap (if not free) considering the amount of international attention we'll have during the Tall Ships.

jayboi

Psychedelic wrote: »

The City Council should invite someone like Banksy or Gottfried Hellwein to do a custom piece for the 'canvas' on the Ard Ri. It'd be good publicity for the artist and an interesting thing to have in the city. Or even get a bunch of local artists to do it.

Lets not!

I've seen enough pictures of scary and dead children to last me a lifetime. Just put up something that either advertises the city, says welcome to waterford or along those lines.

dayshah

jayboi wrote: »

Lets not!

I've seen enough pictures of scary and dead children to last me a lifetime. Just put up something that either advertises the city, says welcome to waterford or along those lines.

Yeah, give Youth Defence control of it. It would certain grab attention.

Psychedelic

jayboi wrote: »

Lets not!

I've seen enough pictures of scary and dead children to last me a lifetime. Just put up something that either advertises the city, says welcome to waterford or along those lines.

Yeah I wouldn't like to see anything too dark or depressing like some of Hellwein's work, it would just need to be something nice to look at, maybe a little quirky even. They could even change to a new image every 6 or 12 months, as the building probably won't be knocked for a couple of years.

I'm gonna suggest it to the council anyway.

comeraghs

It's going to be used as an advertisement for future events happening in Waterford ... the ads will be projected onto the surface.


Patrickd32 ... I think you are being very unfair on the City Council, They've done a lot of great work in difficult circumstances over the last 2 or 3 years.

bogs

This is a result of the go getters/greedy b......s land grabbing so called gentlemen who bled the country dry speculators,filthy banks etc.

Psychedelic

comeraghs wrote: »

It's going to be used as an advertisement for future events happening in Waterford ... the ads will be projected onto the surface.

Anyone know how the projected images idea will work? Will the images be properly visible during daylight? Where will the images be projected from?

I know they are doing the projected images during the Tall Ships but after that I can't see how they will be able to do it as I assume this would cost money to use on a continuous basis, or will they just set it to project the images the week before Spraoi, Harvest Festival etc.

STIG83

I just hope the place will be well secured after its cleaned up and not go back to the state it was in before the Tall Ships.

gscully

I used to like it at Christmas when the windows were lit up to spell 'PEACE' or 'NOEL'.

Get some artists in to paint a mock hotel (perhaps the way it used to look) and have the 'windows' spell out something welcoming. Maybe it can be altered from time to time to give different messages.