“Stop this horror..!” : Protesters pledge to fight tooth and nail to save Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre
http://irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2026/05/09/stop-this-horror-protesters-pledge-to-fight-tooth-and-nail-for-stephens-green-shopping-centre/
Posted by Odhran-J-McAnnick
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I wish people put as much energy into protesting the constant delays to our critical infrastructure than they seemingly are putting into “saving” a building that is already decisive and a mess on the inside occupying a prime location.
Building looks cool on the outside, awful on the inside place is a mess and could absolutely do with a nice renovation maybe they could come back with a better design
Most middle class protest I’ve ever seen. The thing looks like some cheap oversized garden conservatory.
The things that matter…
I honestly wonder how many of the protesters have spent a cent in there in the past year
It would be quite a typical Irish thing to demolish a beautiful building in favour of office blocks
Ah, the Villalobos family of Dublin
Delighted they have integrated and learned to moan & object
I kinda like the design of the new place.
The guy who put an ai image of it covered in plants was a really nice look
The same crowd led by Frank McDonald were out in 1988 trying to prevent the building of what they are now currently trying to save. Professional whingers.
I don’t think there’d be nearly as much outcry about this if the proposed redesign wasn’t so fucking dreadfully dull. There’s absolutely zero reason why it can’t be functional (which is apparently something the current Stephen’s Green’s upper floors are not) while still looking like a shopping centre. It’s so devoid of any inspiration or flair. There’s not going to be a redesign of this building for a *long* time, and *this* is what they came up with? Seriously?
This whole thing seems a nonsense. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but to my mind, it’s a fake historical template shopping centre thought up in 1980s England.
People can have perfectly valid points about the design of what will replace it, but to use the supposed cultural value of the current monstrosity to prevent the redevelopment is going a bit overboard
Ive got a lot of fond memories of the place, id hate to see it get knocked down!
It should be remodelled but the exterior should be kept the same. I think it would really work as a gallerie Lafayette style Luxury shopping venue if you could get the tenants. It’s better than no one being in there
I’m fully on their side. The building is beautiful as it is. The new proposal is awful. Hopefully this insane proposal doesn’t actually happen. It’s like replacing Frank Sinatra with Sam Smith.
The current monstrosity is just a fake attempt of what someone thinks it’s New Orleans. Tear it down and build the new red brick one, it’s fav