Stags Head Mosaic on Dame Street

Noticed that a while ago as well. It was an absolute disgrace that it was taken up in the first place, considering pictures of it were a staple of half the guide books ever written about Dublin and Ireland.
I wonder who did it, because it probably wasn’t the Stags Head themselves. They would have had no ownership over that patch.
I wonder was it taken because it got too slippy in the wet or something like that.

Probably some pipe laying and the mosaic was simply in the way. Just the attitude here of could’nt care less or who will notice or even care. Paths in general around town and the suburbs are a disgrace. Cracked concrete, filled in lumpy channels of concrete and tarmacadam. Try pushing a toddler in a pram around town or on either path of the SCR for example it would be easier getting round the jumps at Cheltenham.

Cool

Best bit of happy news in ages! Look forward to seeing it back in place.

I stepped over it while wandering drunkenly along Dame St over the weekend, and it struck me that it’s facing the other way ’round too.

But my memory is less than perfect…

Yes it’s good to see it it back, but the welcoming doorstep effect, as you say Zap, has been ruined by putting it in the middle of the pavement and the wrong way around! god!!!!!!!!! why do they always have to mess up these things??

It’s also been ‘tarted up’ with a white granite surround (which has turned dull grey after only a couple of weeks, leading to the edge of the alley. That wasn’t necessary. They should have just bloody-well put the mosaic back where it was; at the edge of the alley.

There’s some fine hand-crafted antique granite in the alley. The join of the new white granite to this old granite is poor.

I notice this all the time walking around town: While the quality of major public space remaking is generally very high – e.g. O’Connell St or Grattan Bridge (not including the kiosks) – the treatment of smaller street furniture details and historic paving is mostly abysmally poor and marked by a lack of finesse.

Witness the cement ribbon pointing of listed antique paving ouside St Ann’s Church, Dawson St and to each side of City Hall, the widespread use of imitation-traditional lamp standard columns to mount CCTV cameras, or the old city ward boundary stones on the quays, almost all of which are missing their cast iron nameplates.

Forgive me if I’m being a bit obsessive about the Stag’s Head mosaic, but I noticed something else daft about it’s new position and facing direction today:

It only ‘works’ as you are leaving the laneway (going away from the stag’s head), pointing you back from whence you came!

Try it and see.

Such a simple thing to get right and they get it wrong.

Look at it this way, at least it is back – still unfortunate though.