Do we really need Dublin?

i would prefer you to die than live in Dublin !

Well whatever about separating, one possible solution for a new island administration would be a kind of federal government made up of regions. And those regions could be Ulster, Connacht, Munster, Leinster and Greater Dublin. So Greater Dublin would become a region with same say as other four regions.

And another stupid post

Dublin became separate from the rest of the country the rest of the country is fûcked. Dublin would be paradise though.

the greater Dublin area has approximately 1.6 million people living in it…there are about 5.1 million people in Ireland.

roughly 31.4% of the population live in Dublin.

the country to be minus that tax intake of 1.6 million people. And the numerous businesses based here..hmmm

The country to be without Dublin airport and other critical transport links

hospitals in Dublin have people from all over the country occupying beds, so to be without those … ?

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What about the corpo tax from the MNCs in Dublin and the fact that we have about 1/4 of the total population living in the area. The issue is the amount of tax payers not the amount.

To be fair, unless you live along a few specific axes a few hundred meters either side of a Dart or LUAS line, you're not really that much better off than in any other urban area in Ireland. Dublin Bus isn't really that much better than Bus Éireann's city services in Cork, with similar reliability issues. This would encompass probably the vast majority of the city area. Availability and quality of housing is on par with other cities in the country and I wouldn't be so sure that available internet speeds in Dublin are that much ahead of other urban areas either. The city centre is just that little bit too large to be walkable, something not helped by decades of incompetent traffic planning that routes major thoroughfares right through the heart of the city. And whilst services like DublinBikes may be convenient, I've personally found that service far inferior to its "provincial" counterpart TFI Bikes, now available in Galway, Limerick, Cork and Waterford.

The only real advantages I see Dublin having, apart from easier access to the German Embassy in Dublin, which is more of a personal thing, are Heuston & Connolly station as well as Dublin airport and the ferry terminals in the port. What do all of these have in common? Exactly, they get you out of Dublin quick. Dublin may be large and its infrastructure may seem to be more advanced, but once you look under the hood, it's really just your typical Irish city turned up to 11.

But people in the country benefit from cheaper housing. It’s a trade off.

Because the facilities cost an order of magnitude more to provide outside Dublin.

Would you be happy for the tax outside Dublin to be raised to a level to provide those facilities?

lol, always amuses me how thin-skinned Dubs are, no matter how mild the criticism is.

they have such notions about themselves

Saying goodbye to a lot of corporate tax with the big pharmas in D15 and Grange Castle. As well as a lot of lebensraum.

**** me, Boards is gone to ****.

I'm a PS worker and my colleagues doing the same job down the country could afford 6 bed detached house for what I had to pay for a 3 bed semi d. So yes, we all pay the same tax but I'm much more in the red than the average country person purely down the cost to live up here.

Without Dublin the rest of the country is closer to 1922 not 2022.

The city is awful, you'd feel embarrassed for tourists coming over.

Maybe we could break it off altogether and send it over to the Brits, sure its only a little over a hundred years ago they were all out waving the butchers apron flag when Queen Vickie came to see them.

I'm in favour of whatever political arrangement results in culchies needing visas to come to Dublin. No more come and go as your please. We'll have a Dublin mayor elected by Dubs with real powers, spending Dubs money on Dubs. Government for the Dubs by the Dubs.

And they can have Garth Brooks concerts in any bog or muddy field they like, as many nights as they like.

We'll clean Dublin up when we have it back.

If we did it now we'd just get more blow-ins.

Start with Cork or Limerick or Athlone, all kips, see how ye get on after flattening it before you try it with Dublin.

Ya, all those low corporate tax rates would go far in sorting out all Dublin's antisocial problems. How many murders and violent assaults are committed in our capital compared to the rest of the country. 90% of our Garda resources are spent up there. Dublin is a big city with BIG problems. Outside of an All Ireland Final or a Garth Brooks gig most country folk avoid Dublin like the plague.

Didn't really engage with the point made, there. There are plenty of things in Dublin city to attract tourists (which @o1s1n named but a handful of), which is why a huge amount come and will continue to come as long as tourists are coming here. They obviously enjoy coming to the city, which may frazzle a few jaded countrymen's minds, but there you go.

Anyway, Ireland is so small that a tourist coming to Ireland for a week or two can easily both spend time in Dublin city and also go to other places around the country. It's not either/or.