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Nov
30
NUI Maynooth Fire Update
Filed Under 42 (Life the Universe & Everything), Photography on November 30, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Since the weather was good and I really needed some fresh air I took my proper camera down to NUI Maynooth to take some descent pictures of the devastation caused by last Friday’s Fire. It’s probably no surprise but there were a lot of people doing the same! I also met one of the dinner ladies who was on duty when the fire started, she’d come to have a look with her partner. She explained how it had started at the back of the building, apparently where workmen were felting the roof, and spread rapidly though the whole building.
I’ve added the best of my images from today to the Flickr gallery I started on Friday.
So what’s the story with it now? Will it be rebuilt or is it too early to say?
Right now all I know is that the sports hall has been examined to test it’s structural integrity (it seems to have passed) and that it’s closed till the 5th of January 2009 while a safe emergency exit is put in place through the remains of the foyer and while the water is re-connected.
As for the canteen, by the look of it it will have to be knocked and re-built. I imagine that will take quite some time. I heard someone say it will probably be about 2 years, not sure how accurate that is though.
Bart.