The Pigeon House, Dublin

Today was a busy one, visiting sick relatives in Dublin City. This meant a round trip of about 120 miles so there wasn't much time for photography. However on the way I stopped for a few minutes to watch the Dubliners stoically getting in their Sunday pre lunch walks and jogs along the sands of Sandymount Strand, no more than 5 miles from the heart of the City. The rain and wind deterred nobody since the Irish are well conditioned to such vagaries of the weather.
Across the bay stand these two smokestacks at the Pigeon House Power Station. They have been standing there for the past 40 years and have become an important landmark in their own right. Now that the station is coming to the end of its productive life the power company announced plans to knock the chimneys down, causing a right old furore among the inhabitants, many of whom want them left there and indeed declared as a protected site.
This is somewhat amusing because I am old enough to remember that when they were first erected there was a hue and cry about how unsightly they were and how they were a blight on the landscape. People!...... there is no logic to their thinking, is there?