The Shame I feel about Dublin as my 🐐 capital (and other random cities in videos that Muldoons think is Dublin)

[Julio_Geordio]

Lamenting the closure of a kip. I suppose there’ll be articles lamenting the closure of Babylon in 20 years even though the food in there is inedible. Nostalgia does strange things to people

[Lazarus]

The Manhattan mob weren’t long moving on to Renards. Another kip

[TheUlteriorMotive]

https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/travel/2022/0829/1319398-capel-street-listed-as-one-of-the-worlds-coolest-streets/

A myriad of editors and contributors from Time Out have once again searched the globe, polling over 20,000 city-dwellers and consulting with local experts, to rank the coolest streets that the world has to offer.

Keeping food, fun, culture and community in mind, this group of journalists shortlisted the “vibiest streets” in each of the cities they surveyed in order to whittle down the offerings to the top 33.

Happily, Dublin’s Capel Street managed to make the trendy list, coming in at number 22 thanks to its delicious and diverse mix of restaurants and bars.

[TreatyStones]

I was strolling around the Georgian South inner core of the city yesterday, Merrion St, Merrion Sq, Mount St etc.

It’s an incredibly well preserved streetscape to be fair to it.

[Horsebox]

If you’re up of a Thursday Merrion square has a load of food stalls every week. Very pleasant way to spend a lunchtime sitting on the grass having a munch in the sunshine as I did a couple of days ago. That’s the Dublin I know rather than the Dublin 1 and Dublin 3 hellscape that muldoons like @Thomas_Brady only ever experience.

[Spidey]

Spencer dock in Dublin 1 has these food stalls on a Wednesday too

[Tim_Riggins]

I’d love to see a few events in Fitzwilliam Square but the residents keep it tightly controlled. Bring back lawn tennis.

[Horsebox]

I’ll take your word for it mate.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Tim_Riggins

I’d love to see a few events in Fitzwilliam Square but the residents keep it tightly controlled. Bring back lawn tennis.

I had a key for Fitzwilliam Sq years ago. Lived in a “mews” on Pembroke Lane. It is a scandalously underused green space in Dublins city centre. The residents don’t use it at all. I wonder is it a throwback to the time when the area was best known for night time prostitution.

[Biff_Egan]

@Spidey

Spencer dock in Dublin 1 has these food stalls on a Wednesday too

I got a savage rotisserie chicken there this week.

[TreatyStones]

Who maintains it?

[Fagan_ODowd]

Residents

[Spidey]

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

+1

Very odd of them. Most people head to nice parts of a city when they visit. The limericks seek out the poorer quarters where only the ragged people go

[briantinnion]

Capel Street is the new Stoneybatter.

[Bandage]

Complaining that they saw some drug dealing in the environs of the capital’s main train station. Sure you’d never see that in any other capital city in the world.

[Horsebox]

Up once a year and head to the inner city hellholes with big sunburnt red heads while we quaff champagne in a blissful leafy suburb laughing at them.

Fucking eejits.

[Tim_Riggins]

Apparently the LinkedIn development at Wilton Place has driven the last of it from the area.

Quite strange how the area got like that given how expensive the houses are around the area. I know the quiet nature of it and the back alleys would have made it ideal for that kind of commerce but still.

[Tim_Riggins]

One of my favourite streets.

Herbert Street leading down to the Pepper Cannister Church

[TreatyStones]

There’s a lovely vista looking down mount st towards the Pepper Cannister, with the big wide streets and the church in the middle.