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dublin / arts and media Monday April 02, 2007 17:48 by ex Shanliss
Ballumun tower block
"Hotel Ballymun" is "a unique short stay hotel" which is open to the public between 31st of March to the 27th of April 2007. It is located on the top floor of the Clarke Tower, one of the last remaining tower blocks in Ballymun, an impoverished suburb in North Dublin which has been extensively "regenerated" over the last few years. The project was commissioned by Breaking Ground, the Ballymun Regeneration per cent for art scheme and it intends to "re-consider the utopian architecture of 1960’s Ballymun and encourage the practice of salvaging and re-imagining objects, spaces and resources from the past, which can be re-used inventively to meet contemporary needs." However, the project is not without its critics. One indymedia contributor has launched a brutally frank attack on the project and similar artistic endeavours in the suburb, likening them to "showing an episode of "MTV Cribs" in deepest sub-saharan Africa - as if to say, here is what we have in our part of the world, you have none of this, we bet you'd like it but you're poor so fuck you." New: an alternative view in photo story from hotel ballymun Related Links: Hotel Ballymun Website | Affordable Housing in Ballymun: affordable for whom? | Out of site, Out of mind -Travellers in Ballymun | Open Forum meeting about Traveller accommodation in Ballymun | Ballymun Locals Take Action Against Privatisation | VIDEO: "mmm skyscraper i love you..." McDermott Tower comes crashing down in Ballymun | Residents protest in Ballymun | From Ballymun to Los Angeles - public housing residents meet at the Project Arts Theatre
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national / miscellaneous Saturday March 31, 2007 16:58 by Fin Dwyer
Everything Must Go!
Concerns about the safety of Shell’s pipeline in Rossport are well known. But that’s not all that’s at stake. Not by 400 billion euro. The oil companies exploiting Ireland’s west coast have got some of the sweetest deals in the world and that doesn’t happen by accident.
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