Dublin Portal with New York reopens with reduced hours and blurring technology

Dublin Portal with New York reopens with reduced hours and blurring technology

Steve Humphreys

The portal connecting Dublin with New York has reopened with reduced operating hours and new blurring technology to help combat the inappropriate behaviour that led to its shutdown.

The two-way livestream installation was temporarily suspended just days after it debuted due to “inappropriate behaviour” that included incidents of nudity.

It broadcasts between North Earl Street in the city centre to the Flatiron South Public Plaza at Broadway, Fifth Avenue in New York.

The livestream restarted at 2pm on Sunday following the pause in operation, with new measures in place for crowd management and technology to blur the camera image if the sculpture is approached too closely.