Talk:Ballymun

DCU's address

DCU has a Whitehall address. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.98.242 (talk) 11:57, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

No, it has a Glasnevin address --87.198.17.118 (talk) 20:35, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

It has neither, its address is simply Dublin City University, Dublin 9, which could be interpreted as it resident in any of the districts in Dublin 9 -Glasnevin, Ballymun etc. 86.44.205.61 (talk) 00:04, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Stevenson, C., Hope against hope., 2nd DCU Conference, Solutions Focused Therapy, 15-SEP-06 - 15-SEP-06, School of Nursing, DCU, Whitehall, Dublin 9 This gives it as Whitehall. If it is good enough for the Uni then it should be good enough for wikipedia 86.40.208.160 (talk) 13:29, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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I'd love to know who wrote this piece on Ballymun! Its no reflection on the Ballymun of present! I suspect its someone from the Ballymun Regeneration limited who's still trying to flog some dodgy 'private appartments' for 250,000 euro and get some tennants for the dozens of vacant commercial units. As of April 2008, behind the new facade of the main street, Ballymun is a hidden ghetto for what an American would call the 'poor (catholic) white thrash' The place is still a dump! Except now there are even less green spaces. When I was growing up there, there was a wall 10feet high that ran from Santry avenue in Coultry, right around to Shangan and up to the Ballymun comp secondary school, that acted to insulate the middle class from the riff raff..... and guess what its still there and the people in those middle class neighbourhoods still try to get the access points blocked off.

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Builders consortium and methods

The flats were built by a consortium of builders "Cubitt Haden and Sisk". They were "system built", i.e. assembled from preformed concrete slabs slotted together. I believe the slabs were manufactured nearby in St Margarets. Gaps between slabs were then sealed with material. There were reports of gaps not properly sealed and drafts entering the flats at places in the towers. I lived in Ballymun and I also witnessed the delivery of slabs, cranes moving along special rail-tracks and lifting the slabs into place etc. I'm reluctant to edit the source, I merely offer this as something of interest to others. More research is probably needed. Stephen Moran (talk) 17:20, 19 May 2023 (UTC)