"An hour from Dublin"

veryangryman · 21-02-2023 12:00am #1

When the advertisers mention your portlaoises and your Dundalks of this world, they hardly mean the GPO as the starting point?

If they mean the M50 then they should be shot. Nobody lives there

Padre_Pio · 21-02-2023 12:09am

"An hour from Dublin (county)"

ParkRunner · 21-02-2023 12:18am

That kind of selling point should attract a premium, the further away the better :-)

Charles Babbage · 21-02-2023 2:22am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058285193/an-hour-from-dublin

More people live in the vicinity of the M50 than near the GPO. However, people are interested in where their employment is, and there is quite a lot of employment around the M50.

You can drive through the tunnel from the Liffey to Dundalk in one hour.

magicbastarder · 21-02-2023 10:28am

i suspect estate agents don't have a reference standard of what 'an hour from dublin' is. 1h29m? let's round that down.

the city north hotel, overlooking the M1, is an outrageous insult to common sense though.

CPTM · 21-02-2023 10:45am

Standing there, waiting to view the place beside your coughing car when off in the distance you hear the Sherry Fitz chopper thrumming closer and closer..

Allinall · 21-02-2023 10:47am

It's nearly as bad as thinking there's more than one Portlaoise and Dundalk.

PopePalpatine · 22-02-2023 5:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058285193/an-hour-from-dublin

An hour driving at exactly the speed limit with absolutely no traffic, stop signs or red lights.

MrMusician18 · 22-02-2023 5:45pm

There are parts of Dublin that are more than an hour from Dublin.

Anyway the standard here is the nearest M50 junction in zero traffic conditions.

Wishbone Ash · 22-02-2023 7:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120268768#Comment_120268768

When the City North Hotel was newly opened I had to bring a group of people there by bus one night from the airport as their flight was cancelled. When I turned north on the M1, they all started shouting that I was going the wrong way. They thought it would be around the Druncondra area!

My house in north Co Dublin is about 30/40 mins drive from the airport yet houses for sale in the area are advertised as being '10 mins from airport". You wouldn't do it in 10 mins in a helicopter.

zell12 · 22-02-2023 7:14pm

"a stone's throw from X", "commuter's dream" 😉

Wishbone Ash · 22-02-2023 7:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120268841#Comment_120268841

The OP must be a GAA pundit!

Supercell · 22-02-2023 7:35pm

An hour from the GPO is around Donnybrook for a large part of the working day, good luck getting there during rush hour from the M50. Took me an hour the other day to get from Loughlinstown to Blackrock, traffic is an utter nightmare and getting worse as the population grows.