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category galway | environment | news report author Friday July 31, 2009 18:03author by Fred Johnston Report this post to the editors

AIB get their way

AIB plans to knock part of the mediaeval structure in Galway are approved

In spite of objections by An Taisce and Galway City Council's own Heritage Officer, Allied Irish banks have been granted approval by Galway City Council to demolish part of the mediaeval Lynch's Castle in the city's Shop Street in a move that only a few years ago would have been considered farcical and impossible. Oddly, The City Tribune newspaper's account of the matter (July 31st) starts with a paragraph that reads like a PR hand-out, stating how reconstruction will "see the consolidation of their regional operations and the doubling of staff numbers," which is a clear declaration straight from AIB. According to the newspaper, An Taisce consider that the application is "out of keeping with the surrounding townscape," and City Council Heritage Officer Jim Higgins echoed this.

But Galway's new City Council, ruled by a Faustian pact between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to keep awkward Lefties and opponents of development and The Salthill Airshow at bay, over-ruled even their own man.

Lynch's Castle is a Protected Structure. But this isn't stopping the bankers, who intend to remove buttresses and what they term 'later additions' to the edifice. A three-storeyed structure with glass facade will serve new premises and a bigger bank.

Those of us old enough to remember the devastation wrought by 'development' in Dublin's Wood Quay in the 'Seventies, culminating in the burying forever of the oldest excavated Viking settlement in Europe, may give pause at this latest act of planning barbarity in the soi-disant City of Culture, whose idea of culture seems increasingly to be based around a philosophy of knocking things down. Another department of Galway City Council has opposed development of the Western Writers' Centre in the city to the degree where the Centre pointedly refused even to apply for grant-aid this year. The Council's reported order that archeological and architectural features 'be retained and displayed on site' is ominously reminiscent of the 'Seventies argument which permitted artifacts at Wood Quay to be removed to the National Museum before cement was poured. Is this act of heritage destruction to be what we will remember the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael City Council in Galway for?

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   so this is where public cash is going...     Conor    Fri Jul 31, 2009 19:02 
   Bankers and polticians     Billy idle    Sat Aug 01, 2009 00:01 
   Galway City Council please clarify!     Fred Johnston    Sun Aug 02, 2009 18:59 
   More pictures requested     T    Tue Aug 04, 2009 21:54 
   organise to stop this     old codger    Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:42 
   heritage officer     galwegian    Wed Aug 05, 2009 17:23 
   Lynchs Castle Extension to be Demolished     bored    Wed Aug 05, 2009 18:18 
   follow up     bored    Wed Aug 05, 2009 18:23 
   question     info    Thu Aug 06, 2009 00:39 
 10   Reply to 'Bored' above: read the City Tribune article again     Fred Johnston    Thu Aug 06, 2009 03:24 
 11   It's happening everywhere     tinabraxton    Fri Aug 07, 2009 07:51 
 12   Cultural vandalism     paul o toole    Sun Aug 09, 2009 18:36 
 13   Galway's record on heritage     Fred Johston    Tue Aug 11, 2009 13:43 
 14   An Taisce Saves the Day - To     bored    Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:17 
 15   Puzzle     Le Duc    Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:24 
 16   heritage officers     bored    Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:36 
 17   Just a revamp.     Galway Businessman.    Wed Aug 12, 2009 23:15 
 18   No question     Fred Johnston    Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:08 
 19   We won't annoy Lynch.     Galway Businessman.    Thu Aug 13, 2009 13:15 
 20   You're wrong, my friend     US Patriot    Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:13 
 21   Ye Weren't Even Invented.     Pete.    Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:51 
 22   Let's keep an eye . . . .     Hurler on the Ditch    Sat Aug 22, 2009 19:30 
 23   Renovation as Vandalism?     Violet le Duc    Tue Aug 25, 2009 13:17 
 24   Copy of the An Taisce Appeal to An Bord Pleanala     Derrick the Driver    Wed Aug 26, 2009 13:22 
 25   Silence is golden?     Violet le Duc    Fri Aug 28, 2009 15:55 
 26   Galway to Tender for 'Vandal in Residence'?     Fred Johnston    Mon Sep 28, 2009 19:43 
 27   Not News.     On the Dole.    Mon Sep 28, 2009 20:16 


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