Why can't O'Connell Street in Dublin be more like Dame Street and Grafton Street ?

tinytobe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120862395#Comment_120862395

The 2nd one is sure the more elegant one. I also recall pictures of a very stylish and elegant hotel near the GPO prior to 1916.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120864544#Comment_120864544

I’m not from Dublin and haven’t been on O’Connell street in years but I’ve seen articles saying that exact thing that Gardaí need backup . It seems like it needs a Rudi Guliani approach . Get guards in there and send effers to jail . Though the courts here won’t do that.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120864382#Comment_120864382

You can refer to my post as ‘bollix’ and yet you are somehow comparing wanting an ugly monstrosity of a useless spike cleared away and Ann Summers leaving ? Erm…. Ann summers was there for how many years ? more then 10 I’m willing to bet and my recollection was that spiralling rents there was the reason they left. Not because any ‘brigade’ wanted them to leave. They have a couple of other shops in Dublin so it’s not like they ran off into the ether, so why didn’t your fictional “ concerned for Dublin City brigade “ have them leave other prominent locations there too ? 🙂. Henry St would be ‘quite prominent’ … Blanchardstown shopping centre has thousands of visitors daily, prominent too :)

johannmall

Nevermind trashy shops , I witnessed a young fella run for his life into penny's, chased by a dozen toe rags all dressed in the blanch 3 peice , with despicable young women recording it all ! Sadly our gardai can't lay a finger on them otherwise the likes of GSOC could have their job , it's so wrong & what the tourists must think of us !

riclad

I don't think a shop selling sports gear is down-market since the pandemic almost every street has a few empty buildings .