Millennium Bridge (Dublin)

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River Liffey: Millennium Bridge in front & Grattan Bridge behind.
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River Liffey: Millennium Bridge in front & Grattan Bridge behind.

The Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, joining Eustace Street in Temple Bar to the north quays.

Installed in November 1999, to commemorate the new millennium (2000), the span was actually constructed fifty miles from Dublin - in Carlow - as a portal frame structure made up of a slender steel truss and resting on reinforced concrete haunches.

The Millennium Bridge is neighbour to the much older (and well known) pedestrian Ha'penny Bridge to the east, and Grattan Bridge to the west.

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Dublin Liffey Bridges, east to west
East-Link Bridge | Sean O'Casey Bridge | Talbot Memorial Bridge | Loopline Bridge | Butt Bridge | O'Connell Bridge | Ha'penny Bridge | Millennium Bridge | Grattan Bridge | O'Donovan Rossa Bridge | Fr. Mathew Bridge | Mellows Bridge | James Joyce Bridge | Rory O'More Bridge | Frank Sherwin Bridge | Sean Heuston Bridge
Outside city centre: Liffey Bridge (Phoenix Park Tunnel) | Island Bridge | Anna Livia Bridge | Farmleigh Bridge (Disused) | Lucan Bridge | West-Link Bridge