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Title: Trouble At Mill
Post by: Rat Catcher on March 16, 2019, 02:52:21 pm
https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2019/0315/1036716-fire-mill-drogheda/ (https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2019/0315/1036716-fire-mill-drogheda/)

Firefighters tackle blaze at derelict mill in Co Louth

Updated / Friday, 15 Mar 2019 22:56

By Sinéad Hussey
North-East Correspondent

Firefighters are tackling a blaze at the former Donaghy's Mill site in Drogheda, Co Louth.

The building has been vacant for a number of years and is derelict.

A number of units of Drogheda Fire Brigade are at the scene this evening trying to bring the blaze under control.

No one has been injured and it is not yet known how the fire started.

Trinity Street in the town has been closed and motorists are advised to drive with care.

The site has been the scene of several fires in recent years.

Donaghy’s Mill, beside the River Boyne, was a four-storey former mill built around 1820 and later used as  a shoe factory.

It was also home to pirate radio station Boyneside Radio in the 1970s.
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: Cool Boola on March 18, 2019, 12:21:48 pm
Get yer cloggs on ...there be trouble at mill
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: The Liffey Lip on March 18, 2019, 12:22:22 pm
Thy knows.
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: silverbullet on March 18, 2019, 04:35:14 pm
Bank Holiday times Suspicious fire times Vandals =New development. An Irish answer to an Irish problem 8)
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: Rat Catcher on March 18, 2019, 09:24:55 pm
They should be made restore it if that is the case, SB. They made that O'Callaghan cunt who owns the Mont Clare and the Davenport (among others including one in Gibraltar) reinstate the car park he demolished or burnt out a few years back.
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: silverbullet on March 20, 2019, 01:53:59 pm
They should be made restore it if that is the case, SB. They made that O'Callaghan cunt who owns the Mont Clare and the Davenport (among others including one in Gibraltar) reinstate the car park he demolished or burnt out a few years back.
Same goes for Archers Garage in Fenian Street  and the Chapelgate convent on Alphonsus Road.
The plans was, have so called vandals torch a site on  bank holiday.
Then claim the structure is too far gone to save.
Bulldoze it and put up a cheap building...and pay a €1000 fine to the council.
They weren't expecting a 4th year architecture student to have the blueprints for Archers Garage, and had to fully reinstate it.
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: Vikkiz on March 20, 2019, 10:05:19 pm
They should be made restore it if that is the case, SB. They made that O'Callaghan cunt who owns the Mont Clare and the Davenport (among others including one in Gibraltar) reinstate the car park he demolished or burnt out a few years back.
Same goes for Archers Garage in Fenian Street  and the Chapelgate convent on Alphonsus Road.
The plans was, have so called vandals torch a site on  bank holiday.
Then claim the structure is too far gone to save.
Bulldoze it and put up a cheap building...and pay a €1000 fine to the council.
They weren't expecting a 4th year architecture student to have the blueprints for Archers Garage, and had to fully reinstate it.
I’m delighted that this happened, the building had a preservation order on it and they tried to pull a stroke of a bank holiday. I think the “driveway” would make a beautiful hotel entrance, if only it wasn’t on Fenian Street
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: Cool Boola on March 21, 2019, 12:46:14 pm
Have to agree there.. Archers in Fenian Street drive in as superb.Worked across the road from it in the late 60s.Has that 60s look 
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: silverbullet on March 21, 2019, 04:11:26 pm
They should be made restore it if that is the case, SB. They made that O'Callaghan cunt who owns the Mont Clare and the Davenport (among others including one in Gibraltar) reinstate the car park he demolished or burnt out a few years back.
Same goes for Archers Garage in Fenian Street  and the Chapelgate convent on Alphonsus Road.
The plans was, have so called vandals torch a site on  bank holiday.
Then claim the structure is too far gone to save.
Bulldoze it and put up a cheap building...and pay a €1000 fine to the council.
They weren't expecting a 4th year architecture student to have the blueprints for Archers Garage, and had to fully reinstate it.
I’m delighted that this happened, the building had a preservation order on it and they tried to pull a stroke of a bank holiday. I think the “driveway” would make a beautiful hotel entrance, if only it wasn’t on Fenian Street
The facade and roof on the garage at the top of Whitworth Road ( which is now The Whitworth/Porter house) was sold on under preservation law to a business in the U.K.
It too was Art Deco like Archers Garage. .
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: The Liffey Lip on March 21, 2019, 07:22:57 pm
Was that the Old Cross Guns boozer? Had my first roaster in there back in the mid 80's....thick Cavan man with dandruff behind the counter.
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: silverbullet on March 22, 2019, 11:43:57 am
Was that the Old Cross Guns boozer? Had my first roaster in there back in the mid 80's....thick Cavan man with dandruff behind the counter.
No. The Whitworth is opposite the Brian Boru.
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: The Liffey Lip on March 22, 2019, 11:47:40 am
Poterhouse kip................roger.
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: Tony on March 22, 2019, 12:02:50 pm
Modern bakery use to be there, you could smell the fresh bread baking evey evening from the rooms in D wing.
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: silverbullet on March 22, 2019, 12:05:11 pm
Modern bakery use to be there, you could smell the fresh bread baking evey evening from the rooms in D wing.
I lived in the old Mill on Cross Guns Quay.
The bakery was still up and running in 2003 when I moved into Chapelgate.
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: Vikkiz on March 22, 2019, 08:49:26 pm
Modern bakery use to be there, you could smell the fresh bread baking evey evening from the rooms in D wing.
I lived in the old Mill on Cross Guns Quay.
The bakery was still up and running in 2003 when I moved into Chapelgate.
Was their an inquiry  8)
Title: Re: Trouble At Mill
Post by: silverbullet on March 23, 2019, 04:01:57 pm
Modern bakery use to be there, you could smell the fresh bread baking evey evening from the rooms in D wing.
I lived in the old Mill on Cross Guns Quay.
The bakery was still up and running in 2003 when I moved into Chapelgate.
Was their an inquiry  8)
Guards never knew who torched Chapelgate. The developer was pissed off the structure stayed intact requiring reinstatement.
I lived in the Italianate granite convent.  The cheaper modern ones were further up Alphonsus Road.