Flying Snail

A little more detail emerging this morning than what was in the original RTE article above. It appears that residents who took a legal challenge to the multibillion MetroLink rail project are set to accept an offer from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to buy their homes on Dartmouth Square. There's more detail on the agreement in this Irish Times article: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/12/23/tii-to-buy-dartmouth-square-objectors-houses-as-challenge-to-metrolink-is-dropped-2/

Judicial review into planned MetroLink rail line is withdrawn https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/1223/1550368-metrolink/ The application submitted by residents of Dartmouth Square was withdrawn following mediation. The Minister for Transport has called it, 'an early Christmas present for us all.'

Liffey Junction is in Cabra, I believe

Thats my understanding too As for the letters J, K Q, V, W, X Y & Z - I'm pretty sure they still don't formally exist in the Irish alphabet, but you'll see them crop up in loan words and the like - for instance on election posters you'll often see 'Vótail #1'

Swings and roundabouts Galtee ... I didn't have to worry about Latin at my school

Liberal use of the ol séimhiú there, not to mention the 'fada' - an accent you'll see above vowels (á, é, í, ó, ú). Also it might be helpful to know when you're making up signs or fonts that in the Irish/Gaelic font in this sign ... the first letter on the first row is a 'G', which is very similar to the first letter on the third row - which is actually a 'T'. The second letter on the first row is an 'A'. The first letter of the second word on the first line is a 'D' (with a 'séimhiú' over it) and as an aside ... and absolutely nothing to do with this thread - but you'll see on that sign that Kenmare translates to Neidín (pronounced something line 'Nay-deen'), meaning 'the little nest' . This has always struck me as a particularly pretty name. A lot of Irish names can be real tongue twisters, but to my ears Neidín sounds as nice and gentle as the image it invokes

The dot above the M in the first sign (and above the C in the third one) is actually our friend the 'séimhiú' - when Irish was modernised ini the 60s, the dot was replaced with the 'h'. sooooo .... 'Muileann Bhaile Na Ceathrún' would be 'Muileann Ḃaile Na Ceathrún' in GSR days* *again, there may be grammatical errors in my translations as my Irish is very rusty

I'd go with the first one - its easier on the eye than the second one, and closer to the GSR signs shown above.

On the name - Irish translations can be tricky, as the grammar is very different to English. 'Baile' (that's the bit that translates into 'town') is typically at the front as in 'Baile Átha Cliath'. Its also the reason so many Irish placenames that have been anglicised start with Bally. From the eircode finder website (which is run by An Post, the Irish postal service), 'Quartertown' is translated into 'Baile Na Ceathrún', so thats what I would use. Mill is translated as 'Muileann' as Galteemore said, and you'll put that in front of the town's name, so I think* it'll become 'Muileann Bhaile Na Ceathrún' - note this adds a 'h' (which is actually a special grammatical construct called a séimhiú) to Baile. * Its 30 years since I did Leaving Cert Irish, and I wasn't particularly good at it then, thats why if I was making a bilingual sign I'd probably just do it as 'Quartertown Mill / Baile Na Ceathrún'

That cover is a particularly fine fine effort at abstract art by AI. Its remarkable, the more I look at it ..... the less I see (less realistic things, that is)

Instantly recognisable!

The mill looks very well - as Patrick says the stonework looks well but I also think the timber doors and window frames set it off nicely

Hopefully, these kinds of delays to major projects will be reduced in future: Government to introduce emergency legislation to fast-track key projects ... The Accelerating Infrastructure Action Plan is aiming to cut red tape in order to deliver more housing, roads, water treatment plants, energy sub stations, hospitals and other critical infrastructure. It also contains measures to reform judicial reviews. These include the introduction of a test on the likelihood of a review being successful before leave is granted take one. ... https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1202/1546788-ireland-cabinet/

She was hardly making rock buns or rocky road? Anyway, I hope nobody chipped a tooth

The corrugated carriage shed based on Kenmare is in the August 1970 edition of Railway Modeller