Why?

I took this photo on Con Colbert Road in Inchicore today at around 4pm. I was stopped at the traffic lights when I noticed this man, aged about 30 walking along with his can of beer and a shopping bag( containing perhaps more alcohol). HIS life - he can do whatever he wants! EXCEPT...
Not in the blurred photo (which I took out of my car window) was his little daughter, aged about 4 years walking behind him. This man was concerned only with himself and his alcohol and was oblivious to the safety of his little girl near a busy road.

Con Colbert was one of the revolutionary leaders of the 1916 Rising against British occupation which led to an Irish Republic. He was shot by firing squad. Is this what he died for?

Broadstone Station

Broadstone Station in Dublin 7 is the headquarters of Bus Éireann. This beautiful building was designed by John Skipton Mulvaney and is built of granite in a neo-Egyptian style. The station was opened by the Midland Great Western Company in 1847 and as you can see from my photographs the building was completed in 1850. It closed to public traffic in 1937. Broadstone station was one of Dublin's six original rail termini.

But sadly...

Bus Éireann have let this magnifcient building fall into a state of disrepair, The front of the building is covered in graffiti and there is broken glass and litter strewn around...

Erected 1850

Graffiti..beer bottles...litter...

The Station's once stylish front entrance

Advertising Eyesore

Described inVillage Magazine as the "ludicrous J C Decaux deal for those incongruous clunky outdoor advertising units in central Dublin that were facilitated in exchange for a notably small number of credit-card bike stands that have signally failed to materialise."
Apparently this scheme is run by J C Decaux, the huge international advertising agency in other European cities and apparently only with limited success. Yet Dublin City Council handed over a huge amount of lucrative advertising space to this private corporation. The ugly eyesores that now blight our city are making millions in revenue for J C Decaux, yet we have not seen a single one of their promised "free" bicycles. What a bad deal! Heads should roll in Dublin City Council - but don't hold your breath!