KEEP OR DITCH? THE POOLBEG CHIMNEYS

Rising 207 metres into the Dublin skyline, the Poolbeg Chimneys have been with us for 35 years. They have been in and out of the news in recent years following suggestions to demolish them. 

There is a lot of sentimentality around. Though none from an engineer on the Joe Duffy show who enjoyed building the chimneys, but is not attached at all. Others want to repurpose them as art.

Here is a bunch of reasons why they should not stay and a handful of reasons why they should:

 

Ditch them because…

• They don’t do anything.
• The demolition would be a fantastic event, with a thousand front row seats.
• Paintings featuring the two chimneys would become more valuable .
• They cost money to maintain.
• They are remnants of a finite polluting resource.
• Other stuff will get noticed.
  

Keep them because…

• Their colour scheme.
• They spell ‘Ringsend’ like nothing else.
• I haven’t painted them yet.
• They cost money to bring down.
• Some pilots like them.
• They elevate the eye from the industria below.
  

Six reasons each - it's a draw.  

What do you think should happen?