It absolutely should be made into a museum for the public. They already did it with the Crumlin Road.
vape shop
It’s been derelict for a number of years now.
It could be restored and opened to the public. It would potentially, if managed correctly, certainly be an attraction for dark tourism at the very least.
It would be better than the political chess over it for the past 20 years
Seems like a great place to put a decently sized stadium.
My dumb ass thought they tore it down and built the Eikon on the site, I didn’t realise until now it was just behind it 🤦
Nature reserve. Everywhere else is student accommodation, shops and hotels.
A museum with a park beside it.
Cannabis farm. Prohibition is a royal scam.
Level it
They should make it a massive children’s daycare centre and call it Yon Creche.
Small amusement park for children maybe lol
We could have had a top class stadium there for football, rugby and GAA. One that had statues or portraits outside of the likes of Joey Dunlop, Willie John McBride, Cormac McAnallan and George Best. A place that we all could have been proud of to watch our sports teams. But no it got rejected because people are afraid of progress here
Didn’t they sell it a while back?
It should have been turned into a museum, I say *should* have been, unfortunately its history is too divisive and we(*our government*) will never agree on how to move forward with that so no point in wasting any more energy on it.
Flatten it and build shared housing and local amenities. If we wanna remember the history we can teach it in school or read about it online.
We could always tell Americans that it’s ye olde heliport once used by Fionn mac Cumhaill after he discovered the inter dimensional helicopter doc La Brun left behind in a very big cave many decades before. Unable to find an appropriate fuel source at the time, and therefore unable to return to the land of the giants, he saw out the rest of his days on the north coast picking fights with fellow displaced men of great stature.
Make a good Turkish barbers!
Biggest Multi Sports & Concert Complex in Northern Ireland, Ireland, where all sports finals could be held, & the biggest acts in the world could come & perform.
Airsoft / paintball site
Can’t think of many worse wasted opportunities for tourism as far as recent historical buildings that are still standing are concerned.
A proper museum here would be a goldmine. The place was known across the globe. You don’t need to ‘pick a side’ to tell its history. You just tell the history.
Off licence
In shops
It’s the ultimate escape room
Escape rooms
Anyone for another balaclava factory?
Used for people that leave their dog shit on footpaths. Double sentences for those that bag it then put the bag on a fence, tree or long grass.
Should be knocked down and turned into a mixed housing development with streets named after inmates. Billy Wright Blvd, Bobby Sands Way, Gerry Adams Close… /s
I still think it should be turned into some sort of museum. I’d absolutely love to get in for a look around.
Build a prison on it
Big Range
Restore it.. there are more than enough people to fill it, if judges passed proper sentences
A 70.000 seater Stadium was proposed which would have catered to Football, GAA and Rugby and attract international artists. The EU would’ve funded the majority of it and there was plans for Translink to provide rail services that would’ve connected Antrim to Lisburn via BFS airport and the stadium
alas…The DUP said NO!
Why? Because they didn’t want the area to be a “Shrine to Terrorism”
Start using them again for people who play music out loud on the bus.
Flatten it.
A museum.
Tell the stories don’t try and ignore them.
Don’t glorify it ,teach it as a warning from history.
The inside of the remaining block is being maintained, albeit at a lower level than I would hope. The only real value of it is as a Troubles museum.
The main issue debated (which ended the idea of the museum designed by Daniel Libeskind) is that it might glorify the past for certain groups (on both sides). However it does sound like there is hope for lesser development on the site in the not too distant future, to make it a viable place for tourism/educational visits.
I think it should be a museum and memorial dedicated to the victims of the Troubles. Even as a Loyalist, I think it’s an important piece of history. The extra space vs the Ulster Museum would really make it possible to tell the story from a bunch of different perspectives. You could take the former Republican cell block and dedicate it to the Republican perspective, dedicate the former Loyalist cell block to the Loyalist perspective, and the former administrative areas could be used to tell the story of the state forces and the civilian community on both sides.
Turn it into the one thing we need more of… student accommodation
Send all the vapers into it after last night’s post 😂😂😂
Do it up and use it for the already over crowded prison system
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It absolutely should be made into a museum for the public. They already did it with the Crumlin Road.
vape shop
It’s been derelict for a number of years now.
It could be restored and opened to the public. It would potentially, if managed correctly, certainly be an attraction for dark tourism at the very least.
It would be better than the political chess over it for the past 20 years
Seems like a great place to put a decently sized stadium.
My dumb ass thought they tore it down and built the Eikon on the site, I didn’t realise until now it was just behind it 🤦
Nature reserve. Everywhere else is student accommodation, shops and hotels.
A museum with a park beside it.
Cannabis farm. Prohibition is a royal scam.
Level it
They should make it a massive children’s daycare centre and call it Yon Creche.
Small amusement park for children maybe lol
We could have had a top class stadium there for football, rugby and GAA. One that had statues or portraits outside of the likes of Joey Dunlop, Willie John McBride, Cormac McAnallan and George Best. A place that we all could have been proud of to watch our sports teams. But no it got rejected because people are afraid of progress here
Didn’t they sell it a while back?
It should have been turned into a museum, I say *should* have been, unfortunately its history is too divisive and we(*our government*) will never agree on how to move forward with that so no point in wasting any more energy on it.
Flatten it and build shared housing and local amenities. If we wanna remember the history we can teach it in school or read about it online.
We could always tell Americans that it’s ye olde heliport once used by Fionn mac Cumhaill after he discovered the inter dimensional helicopter doc La Brun left behind in a very big cave many decades before. Unable to find an appropriate fuel source at the time, and therefore unable to return to the land of the giants, he saw out the rest of his days on the north coast picking fights with fellow displaced men of great stature.
Make a good Turkish barbers!
Biggest Multi Sports & Concert Complex in Northern Ireland, Ireland, where all sports finals could be held, & the biggest acts in the world could come & perform.
Airsoft / paintball site
Can’t think of many worse wasted opportunities for tourism as far as recent historical buildings that are still standing are concerned.
A proper museum here would be a goldmine. The place was known across the globe. You don’t need to ‘pick a side’ to tell its history. You just tell the history.
Off licence
In shops
It’s the ultimate escape room
Escape rooms
Anyone for another balaclava factory?
Used for people that leave their dog shit on footpaths. Double sentences for those that bag it then put the bag on a fence, tree or long grass.
Should be knocked down and turned into a mixed housing development with streets named after inmates. Billy Wright Blvd, Bobby Sands Way, Gerry Adams Close… /s
I still think it should be turned into some sort of museum. I’d absolutely love to get in for a look around.
Build a prison on it
Big Range
Restore it.. there are more than enough people to fill it, if judges passed proper sentences
A 70.000 seater Stadium was proposed which would have catered to Football, GAA and Rugby and attract international artists. The EU would’ve funded the majority of it and there was plans for Translink to provide rail services that would’ve connected Antrim to Lisburn via BFS airport and the stadium
alas…The DUP said NO!
Why? Because they didn’t want the area to be a “Shrine to Terrorism”
edit to add pics
https://preview.redd.it/dplr7sp9ojne1.jpeg?width=959&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb97d36811f662c4fb678711f33230e403cce254
Start using them again for people who play music out loud on the bus.
Flatten it.
A museum.
Tell the stories don’t try and ignore them.
Don’t glorify it ,teach it as a warning from history.
The inside of the remaining block is being maintained, albeit at a lower level than I would hope. The only real value of it is as a Troubles museum.
The main issue debated (which ended the idea of the museum designed by Daniel Libeskind) is that it might glorify the past for certain groups (on both sides). However it does sound like there is hope for lesser development on the site in the not too distant future, to make it a viable place for tourism/educational visits.
I think it should be a museum and memorial dedicated to the victims of the Troubles. Even as a Loyalist, I think it’s an important piece of history. The extra space vs the Ulster Museum would really make it possible to tell the story from a bunch of different perspectives. You could take the former Republican cell block and dedicate it to the Republican perspective, dedicate the former Loyalist cell block to the Loyalist perspective, and the former administrative areas could be used to tell the story of the state forces and the civilian community on both sides.
Turn it into the one thing we need more of… student accommodation
Send all the vapers into it after last night’s post 😂😂😂
Do it up and use it for the already over crowded prison system
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