Regeneration

Quick question: why is it that in Dublin, urban regeneration often involves knocking buildings down when old beauty could be brought back to life with new purpose?*

Dubliners, by birth or adoption, should begin to look up and look around. There is much treasure lining up the inner city. To wit, the beautiful Victorian fruit market in Little Mary Street currently used as a wholesalers market.

      

* I know, I know, it is all down to dastardly developers but isn’t a girl allowed to make a rhetorical question with aesthetic intent now and then?