3Arena
One of the ten busiest music arenas on earth occupies the bones of a former railway goods depot.
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The fan-shaped bowl puts the furthest seat only 60 metres from the stage — 20 metres closer than its predecessor. The outer facade of the original Point Depot, a railway goods-handling facility turned cult venue, was kept when everything else was demolished in 2007.
What to look for
- The surviving outer facade from the Point Depot, the 1988 railway-goods-hall-turned-venue it replaced
- The fan-shaped seating arrangement that architects likened to the Colosseum of Rome
- The docklands waterfront position on North Wall Quay
On North Wall Quay in the Dublin Docklands; the venue has no corporate boxes, and alcohol is restricted to a designated area inside.
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More to see in Dublin
- Aviva StadiumOne 51,711-seat bowl jointly owned by rugby and football — two governing bodies, one ground, no separate home for either.
- Dublin CastleThe river that gave Dublin its name still flows beneath your feet — and the building above it ran Ireland for 750 years.
- Croke ParkThe fourth-largest stadium in Europe holds 82,300 people — almost entirely for sports most of the world has never watched.
- National Library of IrelandIreland's paper memory — manuscripts, photographs, and newspapers free to open on the spot.
- St Patrick's CathedralIreland's national cathedral has never had a bishop — that role belongs to the rival church 400 metres up the road.
- Spire of DublinA 120-metre stainless-steel pin planted on the exact spot where an IRA bomb in 1966 — and a controlled demolition six days later — erased Nelson's Pillar.