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"TheBeerNut":26j8y69w wrote: I think the plan was for something very similar where MM is but the Council insisted that they retain the facade. We're lucky Dublin's planning system in the 1990s was so rigorous, fair and civic-minded.[/quote:26j8y69w]
No, I'm talking about the Q-bar building! I don't mind the fronts of Messrs (both of them), they're original.

Sorry, that was just an aside. I don't know who built O'Connell Bridge House, nor how they sleep at night.

[quote:1ajzbg1q]I don't know who built O'Connell Bridge House, nor how they sleep at night[/quote:1ajzbg1q]

John Byrne (reclusive nonagenarian property developer) built it and he sleeps just fine on crusty heap of used fifties in a massive pile off Angelsea Road.

Quick google. Ireland's top 100[/url:mczwuunk] rich list from 2007:

[quote:mczwuunk]Number 45 (32) €218m

JOHN BYRNE

Byrne, 84, is best-known for developing the unsightly O'Connell Bridge House in Dublin in the mid-Sixties. He owns property worth €90m through Carlisle Trust in the Cayman Islands, although Byrne and the Ansbacher inspectors could not agree on what precisely the property developer owned.[/quote:mczwuunk]

"TheBeerNut":3gg1100i wrote: Sorry, that was just an aside. I don't know who built O'Connell Bridge House, nor how they sleep at night.[/quote:3gg1100i]

On a pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.

Works for me.