Fleet St. Dublin 8 or Dublin 2?

BigBrownBear · 21-06-2011 7:28pm #1

The sign on one side of it says Dublin 8 and the sign on the other side says Dublin 2.
Not the Temple Bar Fleet St. but the little part for busses only across from the pub that is/ used to be The Fleet.
How could it be D8?

Toby Take a Bow · 21-06-2011 8:20pm

That's got to be a mistake, pure and simple. Even the Fleet Street in Temple Bar is miles from D8. Well, not miles.

temply · 21-06-2011 8:29pm

FloatingVoter · 21-06-2011 10:25pm

D2 without a doubt. Some places in Temple Bar have postal addresses as D8 (it was covered in some thread here recently). Thats just technical, for all intents and purposes if you're city centre, southside and within glimpsing distance of the river and O'Connell St. you should be in D2.

P_1 · 21-06-2011 10:47pm

The 'border' between D2 and D8 is Parliament Street. Similarly, on the Northside, the border between D1 and D7 is Capel Street.

Esel · 22-06-2011 5:23am

...and some of D8 is on the northside!

latenia · 22-06-2011 3:34pm

I used a picture of that building with the street name blurred out for the 'Dublin picture game' thread here hoping to throw people off the scent. Since they renovated the Irish Times building they put in a new sign including the 'mistake' of Dublin 8 which leads me to believe there might be something more to this.

After all, if your job was making these signs you'd hardly make such an obvious error. Maybe there's some kind of sorting office issue with the old ESB buildings similiar to the Phoenix Park situation?