Things YOU love and hate about Dublin

devereux08

How in the name of god is dublin trying to be like London
what a dumb thing to say dublin has a character all of its own (people history etc)

kwalshe

Mairt wrote: »

Hate's first ... Trying to get good service in shops, cafe's, bar's etc from people with (at best) pidgeon english. I very it infuriating. Went shopping in town the other day and felt like a minority.

I hate the Spire - pointless (no pun intended).

I hate, absolutely detest the amount of junkie scumbags allowed to pollute our streets.

I hate that new building on Dame St. the glass and concret one beside the city hall.

(I'll add more to this list later I'm sure).

The things I love about Dublin are disappearing too quickly. I love being a Dub, I love being Irish and I to see how both are being diluted with all this 'multi-cultural' rubbish, and I hate it.

how did they let this happen... I looks like a community centre from a disadvantaged area.. it's rank

sunnyjim

I have some things I absolutely love about Dublin.

It's full of nooks and crannys you can make your own. I worked in the warehouse on Richmond Rd, and everything about it was seriously like a part of Dublin that never gave in to the crap that has seeped in. All the lads working there were the gems of Dublin. Talk of the Findlater family, Dublin in the sixties, the old way things were done... When I worked there, one of the guys celebrated his 60th year working there! He was also in the LDF during the emergency. The Star did a great article on him.

For some reason, everything attacehed with this business seemed to be old Dublin. Every drop off I did with the van driver showed me a part of Dublin I didn't know - Moore St, the back end of Parnell St, the tiny shops throughout Finglas and Cabra - where each was a family business.

I also love the brewery. I really can't get enough of it. If you've ever been there, free to walk around, you really can't believe how some parts of it are just so old. There are streets and alleyways in there that look like a foot hasn't fallen on them since photographs were taken in colour.

Even to walk back from the brewery towards the city centre brings Thomas St and the stalls. Turn right off it and your walking down towards francis street. I seriously love this street - all the cheapo bars, the cakes, random junk... The contemptous looks from the stall holders and locals (altough thats worn off now that I've been there a bit )

So many parts of Dublin that I can't even remember right now. Des got a lot of mine in his post! Although, I did shed a tear when the odl Artane Band Hall was burned down last autumn. It was housing a **** load of memorabilia that was meant to go to museums, including photos, uniforms of the band, old pics of Croke Park. ****in' yobs.

sig226

love being in town(around grafton street) at night. I've never experienced any trouble and only ended up making friends with strangers.

.....and wading through vomit! What a kip

Zascar

Things I love: Lots and lots of things, that's why I live here.

Things I hate: People who constantly bitch about Dublin and how **** it is, but still continue to live here. Here's a tip for you... If you don't like it F**KING LEAVE!

R.D. aka MR.D

I hate:

the prices, the way everyone has a superiority complex or an inferority complex, dublin bus, the pub opening hours, the basic costs.

i love:

the way the city looks in the summer when the sun is shinig, its actually pretty beautiful.
the oppurtunities its given me


And I am moving! finally got so sick of the hates above that its the only way to keep my sanity!

utick

Zascar wrote: »

Things I love: Lots and lots of things, that's why I live here.

Things I hate: People who constantly bitch about Dublin and how **** it is, but still continue to live here. Here's a tip for you... If you don't like it F**KING LEAVE!

i did leave, much happier now! dont hate me

anladmór

likes: when idiots like utick leave the place. the growing diversity and i find people generally very cool. leaving by the sea. st.pat's inchicore. leinster rugby. camden st. all the bands that come here.

dont like: weather i guess. not that it really bothers me that much, just be better during the summer if it was more predictable. it could be a bit more vibrant, sometimes it feels abit one dimensional.

overall i love the place and its the best place i have lived

REPSOC1916

Like : Hodges Figgis, Rathmines, Chapters, the relatively good whiskey served here compared to Ennis.

Hate : the scumbag junkies northside, the pretentious fascist **** southside, noise levels in Trinity Halls.

humberklog

REPSOC1916 wrote: »

Hate : the scumbag junkies northside, the pretentious fascist **** southside, noise levels in Trinity Halls.

Hate: People that reside in the city and use shockingly ignorant sweeping statements disregarding the nuances of the city and the offence such a statement could have on its very understanding natives.


Love: Dollyer...I went down this morning to see the sun-rise. Very impressive with sun rising in the east and the moon settling down in the west. Spectacular. Culews, oystercatchers, brent geese and heaveny spherical bodies obeying the glue of universal gravity. All was well in the world.

Harolds+

I'd love if all culchies and immigrants went home and stop ****ing the Dubs out of it or if they wish to stay, they have to wear a star of Da....sorry, a crest indentifying want county they are from so we know who they are and dont have to talk to them

I would like that very much : D

I would love to see social housing in Ballsbridge and Donnybrook (although the latter is dangerous as it is!)

pepsicokeacola

Harolds+ wrote: »

I'd love if all culchies and immigrants went home and stop ****ing the Dubs out of it or if they wish to stay, they have to wear a star of Da....sorry, a crest indentifying want county they are from so we know who they are and dont have to talk to them

I would like that very much : D

I would love to see social housing in Ballsbridge and Donnybrook (although the latter is dangerous as it is!)

is that meant to be funny?

i love dublin but some people piss me off, particulary the rare old times mentality of older dublin people. piss off for **** sake. depressing.