Dun Laoghaire Thread. No traffic, commuting, transport chat.

Clonkeen College/these new apartments (and the area around them) postal codes aside though are still in no practical way in Blackrock. Its either Cabinteely or Deansgrange in reality.

Its 3.7km from Clonkeen College (as the crow flies, even longer on roads) to Blackrock village like. Its equidistant to Shankill or Sandyford, or 3km from Carrickmines or Ballybrack, yet nobody is claiming it resides in any of those for some reason.

There's a new build proposed for Glasthule as per the following image:

It's on the old garrage/florist place. It looks interesting. The residential units will probably cost half a million or the guts of a million each.

Looks good, but there'll be a fair few objections to it based on the height - nothing similar height in the village, though seafront has the apartments so that may be used as a defence.

Why should vigilantes like you get to take the posting rules into your own hands?

To be fair, you've got Rocwood in Blackrock and Westminster Lawns in Foxrock right beside each other, both being Stillorgan adjacent.

the forum building (Spar) is 3 floors and slightly uphill of this place. And Quinn's have permission to build a 4 storey extension (behind the main building) on the opposite corner.

A million different solutions are needed, from sentencing for serious crime against the person, to the basic instincts of some men and boys that everyday passive aggression against women and girls is OK.

I've a niece of 20 years of age, an absolute beauty just like her mother before her. I'm helping her with some bits of a dissertation at the moment and she rang me today about it and I asked her straight out what had she experienced in her time. What she told me about the unwanted attention, the groping, the persistent harassment, the deliberate threatening behaviour made my blood run cold.

Honestly I hadn't got a clue lads, not a clue. And the saddest part was she told me, matter of factly, because she is quite tall and went through a reasonably early puberty, she's had to deal with this since 12 years of age. 12 **** years old.

I don't know where we start...

I know this isn't the thread for it, maybe they all should be at the moment to shake people out of their ignorance like I was, but I can't help feeling that the extent of single-sex education we still have in this Country from ages 4 to 18 is a massive chasm of lost opportunity to develop respect and understanding across the sexes, just the time kids are learning everything important about how the World works.

Depends on your point of view I guess.

The Council haven't got a good recent record of having their SHD objections upheld.

No thought given to the residents of the area at all??. The home owners on Leopardstown Lawn and Silver Pines will have their garden light and privicy devestated.

They own their home and nothing more.

Actually, they won't.

You'd be amazed how high a building needs to be to block out the Sun, even in winter. Hint - 10 storeys at 50m distance isn't it.

Also these places are designed to avoid overlook as much as is practicable.

As the lads have said above, you're not entitled to a view.

Is anyone getting their water supply distrupted in Blackrock this morning as per Irish Water Care on Twitter. It's due to low water pressure in the area. My next door neighbour told me about it this morning while a job was being done on the house.

https://mobile.twitter.com/iwcare