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A BUILD-UP of gas caused this morning’s explosion of a manhole cover on Dublin’s Baggot Street.
Two units of Dublin Fire Brigade were called to the scene of the explosion that happened shortly before 10am on the busy city street.
The Eircom manhole cover exploded and lifted a few feet in the air in a cloud of green and black smoke.
Dublin Fire Brigade have confirmed that they suspect a build-up of gas caused the dramatic explosion that was captured on video by a passer-by.
Emergency services say that they arrived at the scene after the smoke had cleared and made the area safe. Investigations are now being undertaken by utility providers.
The incident happened on the corner of Merrion Street and Baggot Street on front of the Lolly and Cooks café.
Staff member John described what happened:
A cloud of green smoke started pouring from the manhole cover and was getting thicket and thicker. You could really smell it, it was the kind that could burn your nose and was irritating. Then there was a bang and an explosion, the manhole cover flew a few feet off the ground.
The scene is blocked off. Twitter / eoinosTwitter / eoinos / eoinos
“After the explosion black smoke started coming from the manhole.”
He added that the explosion startled plenty of people in the shop.
“It was loud, absolutely everyone heard it. Somebody was sitting beside the window and when the bang went off they jumped back and hid behind the counter.”
People were walking by as the the manhole top popped off. Louise McSharry.
Louise McSharry.
Another onlooker Eoin Ó Súilleabháin made a similar description of the scene, describing how there was “dark green and rancid smoke billowing from manhole for a few minutes”.
“There were people at the junction and walking past at crosswalk as well as others watching on when large boom blew the cover in the air narrowly missing people walking by,” he says.
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Champagne socialists Joan Burton & Labour.
Also need the discount supermarkets & other things for low income households that Leo and Joan objected to in that area approved now. Thought they wanted more local jobs and quality of life so what’s the problem snobby Leo and Joan?
@Fiona deFreyne: Varadkar and Burton’s objections has more to do with getting constituency votes than anything else. Homes which are needed wherever they can be built these days and should not be dictated by petty parish pump politics.
@Franklin Roosevelt: fair enough- agree with that – funding is another question of course. But you started with a landlord put down. Not all are bad. I am an accidental one who shortly to inform a family who are 30% below market rate it’s time to go – would you take over?
@lavbeer: I don’t see how it was a put down? I was merely stating that FG are serving their donors, not the people who elected them. It’s more anti Denis O’Brien than anti-landlord.
Personally, if I was you, I’d sell the house and go on a trip around the world with the wife!
Having some passive income come in every month is nice and all… but you’re more likely to remember a holiday than incremental bumps in your income that might buy you a new car or a nice break to London.
@lavbeer: 50%+ tax? Can you walk me through those sums please? At what point is your *effective* tax rate over 50%?
And yeah, institutional landlords are largely the problem. And they are the big donors to the main parties.
Add in the fact many representatives in those parties are landlords too, so they believe their interests are aligned, when in fact, it’s to the detriment of the entire country in the long run.
@Donal O’Leary: wrecking the city with terrible development isn’t the answer. I don’t think this development will be bad but I agree that planning has been terrible in the past. It’s astounding that some of the ugly eyesores around us went through any planning process
Burton may be a TD for D15 but she lives in D7, Btw Leo has form long before he became leader of FG for objecting .
There was one of those doctor surgery that treated addicts up around his area and he had it removed,And shifted off elsewhere in D15.
After all there is no junkies in Castleknock like only in the less to do areas.
Fantastic!…what’s j b s objection?
And why is she allowed an opinion?
Did we not give her enough money for her pension?…..maybe we should all have a whip around?
@Martina Flynn Fitzgerald: she’s objecting because her house is 2doors away. There was 6or7 houses built about 3years ago on the other side of her house and she objected to them as well
@Sean Higgins: Lets hope when they next go to the polls the people will see them for what they are
If they had not objected would the houses be near completed now
@Donal O’Leary: All TDs are local reps on the eyes of the people. Of course this is what councillors are for. So 1. TDs shouldn’t get involved and 2. Their representations were ignored.
I laughed when I heard they objected until I seen were the development is. It is a ridiculous location for a block of apartments. The development is in the middle of a cluster of houses on a quiet dead end street. The site is large enough for 12-15 houses.which is more suitable . I’m losing a favourite place for a quiet pint as well
It’s very close to Woods End which are apartments, the Bell pub on the other side and I’d hardly call a road that has a hotel, a bar, an outdoor terrace and two restaurants a quiet dead end street!
And this ladies and gentlemen is why we have a huge homelessness problem, millennials that will never get on the property ladder and tourists that get shafted with Airbnb here. They object to 4 story more like 14 story apartments required alongside new laws for prosecuting those who develop poor quality units or breach health & safety. We also need regulation of land bank prices here.
Just shows that the system works. Can’t help feeling some people would have preferred they were turned down and that would give them something else to moan about about about about about moan I said.
@Whingy McWhingy: Probably only people living in that leafy area would have objected. As it is due to the demand for Dublin homes the developers would probably have the apartments sold long before they reached the completion stage.
Build desperately needed Social Housing ~ But not in ‘Our Area’ ah, Joan Burton, tiz a long way from Oxfamstown you’ve come with your head for figures !! as for Leo Varadkir, you are setting a precedent, for snobbery and a lack of social inclusion.
Didn’t anyone learn anything from Ghetto ising those who qualified for Council housing ?
Well Varadkar and Burton did make objections to the plan
so its not their fault its it got the green light, this is what they
will tell their local voters.
Funny that,
I thought there was a housing crisis presently in Dublin
ah but maybe this does not apply to Castleknock
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