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Source: www.speakup.com.br
Language level: C1 Advanced
Standard: British accent
U2 WERE HERE
In recent years Ireland has enjoyed an economic boom, even IF that stopped with the credit crunch of 2008. Yet life goes on in Dublin’s redeveloped docklands area. Here you will find the headquarters of financial and high-tech companies, such as Google, Facebook and Linkedin. The area also has plenty of new housing and there is a massive concert venue, the O2. Yet, as Loretta Lambkin of the Docklands Development Authority explains, the current economic crisis presents a challenge:
Loretta Lambkin
(Irish accent)
We also run a lot of events during the year, we have a huge event called the Docklands Maritime Festival, where we have tall ships and markets and street entertainment, so that we try and…enliven these areas all the time. So it’ll take a long time, and for Ireland to climb back out of the recession, it’s gong to take some time as well, and that has had a huge impact on us, but, you know, we continue to try and programme things to try and…and run things within our own capacities.
TOWER RECORDS
And it seems that even the legendary Dublin rock group U2 have felt the effects of Ireland’s current economic downturn:
Loretta Lambkin
U2 have always been synonymous with the Docklands area, they’ve always recorded all their albums down here. They started off in Windmill Lane, which most people would know. They now record most of their albums down in a studio in Hanover Quay. The plan was that we would build a building called the U2 Tower and it would be one of the tallest building in the city, and at the top of that, the top two floors, would be where U2’s recording studios would be based: hence the name the U2 Tower. Now unfortunately, given the current climate, the economic climate in Ireland, we’ve had to postpone the project. So it is very much a live project in our plans for the future: however, it will be a couple of years away at this point.
2 comentários:
Boa noite querido mano... passando para o boa noite e a divulgação, parece que consegui fazer um ding!
(risos)
Como não pergunte-me que foi as cegas.
Tu conheces o Snap Shot? descobri por acaso e estou apreciando bastante principalmente em questão de videos e imagens.
Olha lá no território para ver se gostas.
Um carinhoso abraço e fica com Deus e meu OBRIGADO DE CORAÇÃO POR TUDO.
Neat story. Pity about Ireland's economic woes, it is a country of fabulous, hardworking and resilient people. (I may be a bit biased, of course!)
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