Belfast City Council gets it wrong - again!

BigAl94

For one I have to agree totally with this Belfast Telegraph columnist
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/frances-burscough/titanic-events-are-giving-me-that-sinking-feeling-16130377.html
Totally inappropriate, crass way to commemorate the death of 1500 people, what next - face painting and fireworks to commemorate 9/11?

belfastgirl23

Nor do I get building a whole tourist strategy round a sunk ship....

A.L.D.A

I wish someone would build a model of the boat and run it as a hotel etc. That would give an idea of the scale, design and workmanship. A feeling for history. Would cost a fortune but could draw them in like Disney Land.

What attracts tourists never ceases to amaze me. The place of Sherlock Holmes lodgings and death etc. etc. Truly bizarre.

So if the Titanic helps attract a few tourists don't knock it. Improve it!

Mistral001

Why are we commemorating it? Surely it is up to the relatives to decide how it should commemorated.

Perhaps Southampton, where it sailed from would be an appropriate place to commemorate the sinking. Or Nova Scotia, which is I believe the nearest place to the spot where it went down and where some of the people who perished on the titanic are buried.

Maybe the relatives will do that. I can imagine the TV reports if they do. The video clip will show the wind-swept hills of Nova Scotia where somber relatives respectfully lay reefs in a graveyard at headstones identifying the last resting place of ship's stokers and other long-forgotten people who perished on that ship. Then they will cut to Belfast where the ship, which was said to be unsinkable, was built showing face painting and fireworks.

D.A.

Not that no-one claimed Titanic was 100% unsinkable until *after* it sank:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_and_myths_regarding_RMS_Titanic

cooki2222

Typical something that brings money/trade/tourism/GOOD media attention to n.ireland and people complain!!

Some people are never happy!!!