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Christmas Lights in Dun Laoghaire

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  • 01-12-2009 7:51pm
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    Whiskey Devil
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭


    :eek:

    I've never seen anything so cheap and tacky looking as those flashing multi coloured lights on Georges Street. Are they always that bad??


    Yes, I know there are more important things to be worrying about, I was just a bit surprised when I saw them last night.. :P


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    Cookie_Monster
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    they've been around for about 20 years now


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    Whiskey Devil
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Whiskey Devil


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    they've been around for about 20 years now

    You'd never know! :pac:


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    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    they've been around for about 20 years now

    Not true!


    remember the year they were too cheep to put them up?


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    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Agent Smith wrote: »
    Not true!


    remember the year they were too cheep to put them up?

    really?

    don't remember that


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    iSoap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭iSoap


    Walking in to Dun Laoghaire town is like walking 30 years into the past.


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    Pablo Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭Pablo Sanchez


    Evan Bray has ditched the tacky lights this year! Is Dun Laoghaire twinned with Blackpool by any chance? :D


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    Dun laoire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Dun laoire


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    really?

    don't remember that


    If i remember correctly it was to do with the the roadworks that were carried out a few years back. Caused mayhem and businesses down lower georges street were badly affected. When it came to xmas time they refused to pay so no lights went up that year. In fairness Dun Laoghaire never recovered after that.


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    hem
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    Pablo Sanchez wrote: »
    Evan Bray has ditched the tacky lights this year! Is Dun Laoghaire twinned with Blackpool by any chance? :D

    Blackpool doesn't do Christmas lights.


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    Dun laoire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Dun laoire


    iSoap wrote: »
    Walking in to Dun Laoghaire town is like walking 30 years into the past.

    to kind of steal a quote from Jimmy Carr

    "I grew up in Dun Laoghaire in the 1970's, if you want to know what Dun Laoghaire was like in the 1970's, go there now"


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    eclectichoney
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    It kinda has a cute old school charm about it though - the antithesis of shiny, fancy Dundrum!


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    Pablo Sanchez
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    hem wrote: »
    Blackpool doesn't do Christmas lights.

    I was refering to the 'tack factor' of blackpool.


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    Dun laoire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Dun laoire


    eclectichoney wrote: »
    It kinda has a cute old school charm about it though - the antithesis of shiny, fancy Dundrum!

    Don't get me wrong i'm not dissing my home town. We all want it to do well. Maybe throw in a Jack&Jones or a topman clothes shop and a River Island for the women would help. As far as shopping goes in dl shopping centre goes for blokes anyway, Motion picture is a no no and O'Connors seems to only ever have XXL sizes???? Anybody agree with me there?


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    Whiskey Devil
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Whiskey Devil


    Dun laoire wrote: »
    Don't get me wrong i'm not dissing my home town. We all want it to do well. Maybe throw in a Jack&Jones or a topman clothes shop and a River Island for the women would help. As far as shopping goes in dl shopping centre goes for blokes anyway, Motion picture is a no no and O'Connors seems to only ever have XXL sizes???? Anybody agree with me there?

    I was gonna post a thread about this last week after a mind boggling shopping trip in Dun Laoghaire... :D

    Motion Picture reminds me of the clothes shops I seen in Eastern Europe.

    O' Connors only sells oversized Jack & Jones rejects. Cheap yes. Cheerful no. Unfortunately, both of my arms and legs are the same length.. :confused:

    Shaws is about as interesting as it gets.. but that's not saying much. :(


    I ended up having to going to Blackrock which has a slightly better choice of shops..


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    lizzie09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭lizzie09


    They reduced the car parking charges in the DL Sc to 2e for 3 hrs until
    end January 2010

    How can they not understand that the rate normally charged of 2e an hour
    would attract no one to the centre?

    DL is a dead area at the best of times,.......very few decent shops...time for
    a new unput into the whole thing


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    beauty101
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    I got to college in SCD + have done for 2 years...I dread having a free hour because there is literally F-all to do there.

    The shopping centre is rubbish-how are businesses there surviving??

    They really should put in a Topshop/River Island/anything really! New Look only have the stuff that doesn't sell in their other stores.

    Don't even get me started on the lack of nice places to eat!!

    Those lights are a disgrace!


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