New crossing bridges gap between communities

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 1999 / December 21 1999: New crossing bridges gap between communities

After generations of bitterness and bad jokes, north-south relations were strengthened yesterday by a structure designed to bring the two communities in Dublin closer together. Both traditions, northsiders and southsiders, joined in the chorus of approval which greeted the unveiling of Dublin Corporations's Millennium Bridge. The President, Mrs McAleese, would have been proud of it. The Lord mayor of Dublin, Cllr Mary Freehill, seems to share the President's penchant for bridges. "They hold a special place in the heart of Dublin and Dubliners", she said, before becoming the first person to walk on the new crossing which links Eustace Street in Temple Bar to a planned walkway to the Jervis Street shopping centre.

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