The Irish Times

"This is the future," said Harry Crosbie on the Late Late Show last year, about the Spencer Dock proposals, "that's what people are afraid of." People have every reason to be afraid of the "future". They've already seen it. It affronts them every day in the shape of the Wood Quay bunkers, the ESB offices, the modern apartments soon-to-be-slums, the out-of-town shopping monoliths, the ruined glens, the housing developments cheek by jowl with ancient town walls, the holiday homes that blight every seaside town. The problem for Harry Crosbie and his partners is that ordinary people don't trust developers.