It’s literally a big slab with some steps for access to the sea if you want to go swimming in Scotsmans bay.
There’s a small pier, (very small, it’s 30m I think) with a pointless statue and a wall that’s in a terrible location for a lookout spot.
They didn’t reopen the baths at all. They rebuilt the building but because of the “campaign” there was continuous objection as regards any usage that wasn’t specifically related to a sea pool. Shops, cafe’s, accommodation, etc all pushed out… Any design that might be seen as new or different to what was there 30 years ago was also shut down. So now it’s a building with a generic empty area that will be available as “an artist space”.
>People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett is chair of the Save our seafront Campaign. In a statement today he said “Today’s reopening of the Baths site is a victory for people power and protest”
Only RBB and his crackpot crew have the mental athletics needed for the gymnastics to take their campaign as a victory when they got literally nothing they wanted.
What an absolute fucking waste of time.
Dún Laoghaire County Council said there is potential for an open seawater pool on the site in the future, subject to planning approval.
It says during construction, a rectangular concrete void was left below the surface of the amphitheatre area allowing for the inclusion of a tidal pool. It has a concrete “lid” covering it at present.
The only bath your ma can fit in
Just wait for the uproar from locals if one teenager with a skateboard even dares to look at the concrete slab.
This looks… underwhelming
I don’t think it’s an understatement to say that this is pretty underwhelming. It’s great to see some money being put into our coastal amenities but this just seems to have been an expensive and somewhat rudderless restoration of the old baths.
There was (and still is) so much potential for the site. The old bathing areas between the baths and the harbour should also be restored.
The baths reopened is peak county council just without water, it looks like a skate park it doesn’t have a tree planted.
Quarry’s were delighted to get on board.
Just another place for the wino’s junkies and phantom shitters to hang around
It looks like a ‘design by committee’ in a lot of ways. The statute looks well out of place.
Despite this I think it will be popular with bathers and even better when the pool opens.
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If its not a pool then what is it to be used for?
It’s literally a big slab with some steps for access to the sea if you want to go swimming in Scotsmans bay.
There’s a small pier, (very small, it’s 30m I think) with a pointless statue and a wall that’s in a terrible location for a lookout spot.
They didn’t reopen the baths at all. They rebuilt the building but because of the “campaign” there was continuous objection as regards any usage that wasn’t specifically related to a sea pool. Shops, cafe’s, accommodation, etc all pushed out… Any design that might be seen as new or different to what was there 30 years ago was also shut down. So now it’s a building with a generic empty area that will be available as “an artist space”.
>People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett is chair of the Save our seafront Campaign. In a statement today he said “Today’s reopening of the Baths site is a victory for people power and protest”
Only RBB and his crackpot crew have the mental athletics needed for the gymnastics to take their campaign as a victory when they got literally nothing they wanted.
What an absolute fucking waste of time.
Dún Laoghaire County Council said there is potential for an open seawater pool on the site in the future, subject to planning approval.
It says during construction, a rectangular concrete void was left below the surface of the amphitheatre area allowing for the inclusion of a tidal pool. It has a concrete “lid” covering it at present.
The only bath your ma can fit in
Just wait for the uproar from locals if one teenager with a skateboard even dares to look at the concrete slab.
This looks… underwhelming
I don’t think it’s an understatement to say that this is pretty underwhelming. It’s great to see some money being put into our coastal amenities but this just seems to have been an expensive and somewhat rudderless restoration of the old baths.
There was (and still is) so much potential for the site. The old bathing areas between the baths and the harbour should also be restored.
The baths reopened is peak county council just without water, it looks like a skate park it doesn’t have a tree planted.
Quarry’s were delighted to get on board.
Just another place for the wino’s junkies and phantom shitters to hang around
It looks like a ‘design by committee’ in a lot of ways. The statute looks well out of place.
Despite this I think it will be popular with bathers and even better when the pool opens.