Indeed. Safer for brazilians. Considering Brazilians here are routinely attacked for being delivery men i dont think it’s a like for like comparison.
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2 of my late bros worked off Rio on a rig
3/4 months,
Used be socialising after their respective shifts,
Dublin bears no comparison whatsoever to any of it
It’s like someone was asked to mark on a map of where all the scumbags in Dublin live
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Are you talking the entire area in the map?
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Isn’t that all of Dublin?
Bunny Culvin be proud. Hamsterdam
Pandemic, get yo pandemic
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The comments 
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On Grafton Street in August she tripped lightly along the ledge
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I’d say she was staying in The Shelbourne but didn’t like the minibar prices.
FFS
context? Were the tourists throwing shapes?
Shapes or not you shouldn’t be getting your head bashed in on a night out in the centre of town.That McEntee bollix should go back to standing behind Convey holding his umbrella nodding like a donkey.
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Can someone post this up so we can critic it only to come to the solution of nuking dublin
Reimagining Dublin: 29 big ideas to make the city a better place to live, work and play
From free public transport and €50 to spend in the city to more nightclubs, parks, markets and an underground, we asked Irish creatives, activists, entrepreneurs and thinkers for initiatives to revive our ailing capital
What are the initiatives that could improve Dublin for everyone? Illustration: Fuchsia MacAree
Nicola Brady, Katie Byrne and Pól Ó Conghaile
Today at 01:30
What can be done to save our capital city?
Give free sports classes in city parks
Philly McMahon
Philly McMahon, Dublin GAA player and entrepreneur I’d like to see more initiatives that tackle social inequality and make Dublin a better city for everyone. This would include more opportunities for people to get involved in sports and fitness, with free sports coaching for children and exercise classes in local parks. It would encourage people to make the most of city parks and to become more active, while recognising that people from disadvantaged backgrounds can’t always afford a gym membership.
Guardian angels to protect young women
Lisa Wilkinson
Lisa Wilkinson, owner of Manor Picture House and The Wicklow Escape I have a 19-year-old daughter, and the safety of girls out socialising is really at a crisis point. I think all the pubs should be forced to have full-time CCTV inside the bar, which they don’t all have. In London, they used to have a crew of people called the Guardian Angels, who would travel around on the tube, helping people in distress. If my daughter sees a really drunk girl, she tries to get her home safely. It’s that guardianship of young women that we need.
Turn Dublin into the first city of pollinators
Ciarán Mulqueen. Picture: Frank McGrath
Ciarán Mulqueen, property influencer I love the idea of reimagining Dublin as the world’s first ‘City of Pollinators’. We could transform every available small, unused urban space into a thriving microhabitat for bees, butterflies, and other critical pollinators. Think native plants and purpose-built habitats. We could design these pockets of nature as self-sustaining ecosystems, equipped with rainwater harvesting systems. Education-wise, we could develop an immersive, city-wide outdoor classroom where citizens of all ages can engage with nature and learn about the crucial role of pollinators, using technology like augmented reality for enhanced interactivity. We could also integrate green rooftops and vertical gardens into existing structures, establishing a biodiversity network throughout Dublin. Turning us into a city of pollinators is an idea that seamlessly weaves nature, education and innovation into the fabric of Dublin life.
Let’s build a children’s science centre
Luke O’Neill
Prof Luke O’Neill, Trinity College What better city than Dublin to host the most innovative, interactive and dynamic science centre in the world? Plans are afoot for a national children’s science centre in Dublin. Until now, Ireland has been the only member of the OECD and the only member state of the EU not to have a national children’s science centre. If Dublin really is to be the city of the future, we need a science centre for our children, to inspire future generations to be world leaders, in a world where science will be needed more than ever, and where scientific literacy will be essential to cope with the challenges ahead (there will be many) and will be the signature skill for our economy and wellbeing.
Give everyone €50 to go into town
Pól Ó Conghaile. Picture: Owen Breslin
Pól Ó Conghaile, Travel Editor, Irish Independent The ‘I Heart New York’ logo, created in the 1970s, was meant to spearhead a short-term campaign. It become a classic, helping to foster civic pride in a changing city. Local morale is key to Dublin’s recovery, but it’s taking a pummelling as grim narratives gather momentum. The city is struggling, but it’s not the basket case some media reports and keyboard warriors proclaim. A ‘Go into Town’ campaign would encourage people to re-engage by offering a €50 voucher to spend in tourism attractions or eating out in the city. It would be funded 50/50 by the Government and Dublin’s biggest businesses (hello, Facebook and Google), and be available to every adult in the county. Supported by a brilliant marketing campaign, logo and redeemable in a limited time frame, it would spark footfall, build back pride and help turn the negativity around. But, sorry, alcohol would be excluded.
Make housing a right
Sr Stan. Picture: Steve Humphreys
Sr Stan Kennedy, The Sanctuary Imagine Dublin as a city whose citizens all have, as a right, a well-designed, quality home that is secure, accessible and sustainable, that meets their needs and is affordable for their income level. For this to happen, our attitudes, values and beliefs about housing provision need to be radically reimagined, so that housing is seen as a need to be met, along with a seismic shift in our thinking about planning, design and infrastructure. We need a range of new housing types, using new materials and design, delivered by a range of housing providers, to meet the changing needs of our citizens.
A civic museum by the city and about the city
Donal Fallon
Donal Fallon, historian and author Across the road from The Castle Lounge (that’s Grogan’s to most of us) is the very beautiful City Assembly House, now home to the Irish Georgian Society. Look closely next time and you may notice the letterbox of the Civic Museum. Curiously, Dublin no longer has one. A museum created by the city and about the city, the old one included Admiral Nelson’s stone head and Thomas ‘Bang Bang’ Dudley’s key. A little bit of civic pride and a cultural space run by the city itself would be a great help in a city that needs both at the minute.
Make public transport free
Chupi Sweetman
Chupi Sweetman, CEO of Chupi jewellery Like many people, we moved to the countryside in one of the lockdowns. But after five months, we moved back to Dublin. What makes Dublin magic is how tiny it is. When people fly into Dublin to buy their engagement rings at our store, they’re blown away by how small the city is. But what makes Dublin problematic is the dreadful connectivity. Make public transport completely free, regular and simple. The actual cost to the taxpayer is minimal versus the impact of capitalising on what Dublin does best — community and connection.
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Elect a city night mayor
Craig Connolly
Craig Connolly, director, District Magazine The role of night mayor should be a priority in Dublin city. Our night-time economy is a major facet of what draws people to Ireland and it’s one of our main streams of revenue generation. However, we’ve seen a spate of restaurant and venue closures since the end of the pandemic due to rising rents and archaic licensing. There has never been less places for young people to go in Dublin and it’s never been as expensive to go out. A night mayor’s main priority should be to address these issues before irreversible damage is done.
Put culture at the centre
Andrea Horan. Picture: Steve Humphreys
Andrea Horan, owner of Tropical Popical What’s the solution to the eradication of cultural spaces? More cultural spaces. Dublin has been developed according to what is commercially rewarding to those who have been left to develop it. Culture isn’t a priority for the majority of people who want to make money, which is their prerogative, of course. But the onus is on the institution that is responsible for shaping and making our city to provide amenities and facilities for the people that live in the city. Put culture at the centre of everything we do and don’t just leave it to the market, because culture is worth more than that. And we need a big club.
Help refugees make friends
Leon Diop. Picture: Emmet Banahan
Leon Diop, co-founder/CEO of Black & Irish Dublin is becoming more diverse by the day. With increased numbers of refugees entering Ireland seeking asylum as well as the likes of international students attending our universities, we need to make sure that we do not create an ‘us and them’ situation. A solution to this could be increasing the amount of integration centres in the county, particularly in the inner city. Integration centres could be run by various inter-cultural groups to help refugees make friends and properly integrate them into Irish society. Ireland is entering a new age, and for us to thrive as a country while keeping the Irish culture alive, we must learn to integrate new communities into ours.
We should decriminalise drugs
Michael Pidgeon
Michael Pidgeon, Dublin city councillor Thousands of Dubliners are addicted to drugs, with a long-standing heroin epidemic and a growing crack problem. The criminal justice system hasn’t been able to deal with it — and it probably never could have. Rather than pointlessly criminalising drug users, I’d focus more on providing people in addiction with supports: housing, therapy, and medically supervised spaces to use drugs. These are the supports you can build on to deliver rehab and pathways out of drugs. This is how you turn lives around. The gangs’ financial power is built on our criminalisation model. Change that and we can break their stranglehold, save lives, and reduce the problems we see on streets.
Bring back 1990s clubbing scene
Lynn Ruane
Lynn Ruane, senator I am often nostalgic for the 1990s and early 2000s, The Temple Theatre and my last good night there, Lisa Lashes. Dublin’s nightclub scene has steadily deteriorated since my youth. Dublin needs a vibrant club scene where domestic and international DJs want to play into the early hours. As the Faithless tune goes, This is my church, this is where I heal my hurts… God is a DJ. Dublin is full of ravers, young and old, who miss their place of worship. On every dance floor I have ever been, all I have experienced is a collective expression of love and energy that cuts across all different types of people, classes and genders.
A proper underground…
Hazel Chu
Hazel Chu, former lord mayor and Green Party councillor I think we should build a proper underground system… and I don’t mean a train. I want an underground system for waste and utilities. In a city that has so much street clutter (like utility boxes, bins, signs and so on) and where we are trialling waste covers to prevent seagulls, why not put it all underground? Other European cities put their waste and utilities in accessible bunkers below ground. Let’s clear the street level, reforest spaces and make for better public realm, rather than have all the clutter. It would make the city cleaner, greener and much more liveable.
A city market for locals and tourists
Emma Brereton (left) and Tara McGuinness of We Love Markets. Picture: Shane O’Neill
Emma Brereton, founder of We Love Markets Dublin is crying out for a dedicated market space, for locals and tourists alike. I’ve been running successful public markets in the city for 13 years. Dubliners like myself want a permanent home for a market space, showcasing our local growers, artisan producers, creatives, makers and collectors. A space for producers to develop and trial their produce, an area for street-food trucks and an option to do pop-up flea markets. Successful public markets are the heart and soul of cities and neighbourhoods, infusing them with new energy, social and circular economic activity. We want markets permanently open.
Move businesses out of inaccessible buildings
Louise Bruton
Louise Bruton, writer I recently declared to my friends that I was writing a letter to the Government because I had a great idea. “Right,” they said dubiously. My great plan is to re-residentialise Dublin’s city centre by moving businesses out of the Georgian Houses that define the city to the peripheral empty office spaces, and turn them into homes and apartments. As a wheelchair user, I want a high percentage of accessible housing implemented in the refurbishments, but by moving beauticians, solicitors, architects, counsellors, dentists, tailors and opticians out of inaccessible buildings and into modern office buildings, we open up the service and retail industry to disabled people too, something we barely have now. I want to live in a city that I can actually use, not one that I have to observe from the bottom step.
Later opening hours for bars
Gareth Smith
Gareth Smith, owner of Michael’s restaurant We need to keep the city’s bars open later, like they do in most of Europe. It’s been proven that in places where pubs and bars stay open late, binge drinking actually decreases. It means people can drink at their own pace, without feeling the need to mill six pints before 11.30pm. It would mean people aren’t all spilling out onto the street at the same time, which would mean less tension and less pressure on taxis and public transport, too. I also vehemently believe we should have more all-night caffs, so you can get a mixed grill and a pot of tea at 3am.
Pedestrianise streets for dining
Gráinne O’Keefe. Picture: Kyle Tunney
Gráinne O’Keefe, chef patron of Mae When I think of Italy, France and Spain, I always remember the cobbled streets lined with outdoor dining tables that seem to spill seamlessly from the restaurants. I love the atmosphere, the sounds, the smells and the joint sense of community when dining outdoors. Of course, I am aware that pedestrianisation of streets isn’t a simple thing to do, but there are definitely lots of places in Dublin that could do it and do it well with minimal disruption to traffic.
Let’s support living above our shops
Tom Walsh
Tom Walsh, CEO Staycity There are so many streets underutilised upstairs… buildings already built in every city around Ireland that could be repurposed as housing. And they should be really desirable places to live, if the evidence of any other city [Staycity is in] is anything to go by. The shops downstairs need people to support them, but if the upstairs spaces are empty, it is really transient business that comes into the city, like tourists and workers from the suburbs, and then they leave again. If I wasn’t doing what I’m doing, I’d be trying to get some private money together, buy all upstairs spaces on a little street, and prove that you can make an incredibly beautiful living experience. It would just create a nicer mix, provide much-needed housing, and create little neighbourhoods in the city.
Cut red tape for new businesses
Barry Stephens, 147 Deli It would help a lot if Dublin City Council cut the red tape. Give people a dig-out with grants, cut rates, and encourage people with a business idea, because it’s really hard. Right now, if you’re looking at creating a new space, you have to jump through so many hoops and spend tens of thousands of euro… at least. In the UK, they brought in a scheme to rejuvenate the high street in 2009, where they encouraged butchers, bakers, candlestick makers to just get in and get their business started, to fill up the empty, derelict shops.
Turn derelict properties into arts spaces
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Aoife Spillane-Hinks
Aoife Spillane-Hinks, theatre director Over the last decade, Dublin has lost numerous artistic and cultural spaces to commercial development, pricing artists out of the city. Dublin City Council needs to reverse this process by taking ownership of derelict properties and converting them into arts spaces: theatres, music venues, artist studios, rehearsal spaces, galleries, recording studios, and so on. This way, the next Bono, Beckett or Eavan Boland has the space, time, and opportunity to flourish. Cities like Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow have made culture an integral part of their regeneration. Dublin City Council should do the same.
We have to reimagine O’Connell Street
Anthony Remedy
Anthony Remedy, promoter & DJ As the capital’s most important street for historical reasons, the Government and Dublin City Council should throw the kitchen sink at making O’Connell Street a success. It would make a lot of sense to transform O’Connell Street and the adjacent streets to both a tourist mecca and something locals can be proud of. Firstly, we need the area to be policed properly; people need to feel safe. I see O’Connell Street in the same lens as Times Square in New York in the 1980s. Run-down, dangerous at times, but still frequented daily by many. It’s actually a diamond in the rough. The area has so much going for it that people sometimes forget. The Garden of Remembrance, Chapter One, the GPO, the Spire, The Savoy, Hugh Lane Gallery, The Abbey, The Academy, The Gate, etc. So much history, both old and new, in one area. Linking this all together and filling in the gaps with a new, interesting and exciting mix of businesses would bring the city to the next level. The best street in the city is waiting there, in plain sight.
Use art to help people fall back in love with Dublin
Emmalene Blake. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Emmalene Blake, street artist We need an annual street art festival, like they have in most major cities around the world. A week-long festival, with live painting by the country’s best street artists on large prominent walls, making it possible for the public to watch the artworks be created. Smaller-scale temporary spaces could be set up in somewhere like Merrion Square for aspiring or up-and-coming street artists to get involved, and workshops for young people to take part in and learn different ways of creating street art. This could be the festival hub, with music, food, talks, walking tours and discussions on how to use art to help people fall back in love with Dublin city.
Provide safe injecting rooms
Kenny Eivers
Kenny Eivers, guide with Secret Street Tours We need safe injecting rooms. I think it’s long overdue. I’ve been homeless in Dublin and I now live in the city centre. I’m seeing people every day openly injecting or smoking crack. It just brings a whole bad element to Dublin. We need more guards on the streets and safe rooms for people to inject. There are pros and cons to it, but at least it gives people a safe place to go — they can sit down, have a cup of tea and a chat. There are drop-in centres like that, but they don’t allow people to use.
Let’s plant urban orchards
Viki Baird
Viki Baird, Stillgarden Distillery What would make Dublin better? Planting more fruit trees, just like we do at Stillgarden Distillery. There are plenty of trees around the city, but not many fruit trees. As well as providing food for wildlife and humans, the blossoms of fruit trees are an attraction. Fruit trees and their flowers have the potential to brighten a city’s aesthetic, as well as providing wild food. Behind our community garden in Inchicore, which already has some fruit trees, we have begun to establish our very own Inchic-orchard, and already see the benefits to wildlife and our visitors.
Reinvigorate our cultural eco-system
Seán Finnan. Picture: David Sexton
Seán Finnan, Dublin Digital Radio We need more participatory cultural spaces in Dublin. Spaces where people can hang out, meet people, learn new skills and, importantly, are democratically run with members directing the management of such spaces. These arts and community spaces should prioritise the development of community rather than the need to consume. Think libraries but with radio studios, music workshops, media skills sharing, performance and gallery spaces. These spaces could be the bedrock for a reinvigorated cultural ecosystem, an ecosystem that has been gutted by developer-led planning in the capital. These spaces should either be owned by the State or by co-operative groups so they can institute themselves into the city long-term and create islands of cultural expression and social cohesion in Dublin’s desert of rampant inflation and unbridled consumerism. Public affluence is needed over private luxury.
A public park for The Liberties
Kieran Rose
Kieran Rose, activist and city planner The Liberties is a high-density residential and commercial area with a serious lack of public open space and facilities for sports. Its population has increased significantly in recent years and will increase even more in the short term with the completion of major apartment developments at Grand Canal Place (beside Guinness Storehouse), Newmarket and Cork Street. Other large apartment schemes are planned by the Land Development Agency at St Teresa’s Gardens and Digital Hub, with major private schemes at Player Wills and on the Guinness lands. There is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to provide a great new public park and playing facilities for the Liberties and the city on the huge and underutilised City Council Depot lands at Marrowbone Lane. The depot uses could be moved to the suburbs as in the recently opened centralised depot for the northside in Ballymun. The recently opened Weaver Park and Bridgefoot Street Park are hugely popular, showing the great need for more public spaces in the area.
More LGBTQ+ community hubs
Moninne Griffith
Moninne Griffith, CEO, Belong To Increased availability of alcohol-free, safe LGBTQ+ community spaces for young people would greatly benefit LGBTQ+ youth living in Dublin. There are already very few dedicated spaces available to the LGBTQ+ community in the capital, most of which are bars and nightclubs. While these social spaces play an important role in our community, it can be difficult for LGBTQ+ people to come together safely in an alcohol-free environment. Notable exceptions include Outhouse, Dublin’s LGBTQ+ community resource centre, and the Dublin Pride Hub. It would be wonderful to see a similar space dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth, where they can meet friends, hang out, and be themselves without fear for their safety.
Street managers
Graham Hickey of Dublin Civic Trust
Graham Hickey, Dublin Civic Trust Dublin city centre needs dedicated street or area managers with planning or architectural experience to directly engage with businesses and owners on design strategies for coordinating and enhancing our historic streets and terraces. Street managers would work with businesses and property owners, assisting in planning and presentation issues relating to shopfronts and facades, and work with council area offices to improve and manage the public realm. It’s not rocket science but it does require tenacity and committed managers with the right expertise to balance the sometimes competing demands of businesses with the common good. This includes using planning enforcement for unauthorised shopfronts and signage, and supporting businesses to make the right investment decisions through the planning process. Coordinating street and café seating form part of this mix. We expect to see all these standards applied in carefully managed shopping centres — why not in the public street?
Fuck it, thats a potential list of COTY candidates. Nuke dublin, or allow the guards to batter scrotes.
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Fuck me. Ive rarely seen such a collection of cunts give as many assinine ideas as that all at once. You can stick a pin in Dublin if thats the best they can come up with.
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I’m all for saving the bees but to solve Dublin’s woes?
Reallty great ideas and a veyy impressive list of contributors
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