Why does the rest of the country dislike Dublin so much?

It has Croke Park..but maybe you’re from Mayo? ;-)

I think any anti Dublin sentiment is overstated….

In terms of Gaelic games I’m sure there is certainly levels of derision and distaste considering Dublin’s enormous success and long term decade plus long dominance of football , but that’s sport for ya…11 out of 13 all Ireland’s from memory…

lots of family friends from outside Dublin who love visiting, nothing but love for Dublin and the red carpet is rolled out in return when we ever get down their way…

I loved going to visit Dublin for a gig, event or shopping spree etc., but now so expensive for train and accommodation which I suspect is all high in all cities same with crimes

I do not hate Dublin or it's jackeen residents

because they think everyone's a 'culchie', yet most of the dubs I know cant even drive

There's a glut of coffee shops all over Ireland, everywhere you travel, including Kerry. 😛

This is true in my experience. Irish girls from rural areas are attracted to Dublin and Dublin men and this drives other men nuts.

The city being the cultural epicentre of Ireland with a vast array of amenities, museums, galleries, restaurants etc.. makes it more attractive. I often here country girls visiting Dublin that they love the Dublin accent.

Haha, nice one.

The D4 brigade can be infinitely more obnoxious than others in Ireland, possibly only equalled by the 'People's Republic of Cork' types.

That's another common aggravation, the lazy generalisation that, in Ireland, urban means Dublin and a resident of inner-city Limerick, for example, is a rural culchie. In reality, the entire population of County Dublin (including the rural population) is less than half of the total urban population of Ireland.

Your argument is based on the illogical assumption that somehow everyone outside Dublin, from a Cork city restaurant owner to a Donegal hill farmer, has some shared interest which is catered to by our national politicians, to the detriment of Dublin residents. It's a viewpoint that sees Mayo getting new roads approved when the Taoiseach at the time is from there and views it as 'them down the country' getting one up on Dublin, without taking into consideration that this new road in Mayo does bugger all to improve the lives of people in Cavan or Carlow. It's just the flipside of the 'them up in Dublin' rhetoric employed by certain populist gobsh!te TDs and neither deserve any credence.

In the GAA, if you have two neighbouring clubs or counties, the less successful one will hate the more successful one more than the other way around. The lack of hate on the part of the better team drives the lesser one nuts as it sends a message that the lesser team is not a worthy rival and not important enough to hate.

There's also a phenomenon where counties far removed from Dublin will hate Dublin more than counties closer to Dublin. The issue here is the persecution complex, scarcity mindset, paranoia and begrudgery of rural Ireland. The worse the land in an area, the more cagey and cute hoorish the locals are and the more they hate outsiders. They also think people in Dublin are idiots for being friendly and open with people.

It's also true that country women are attracted to Dublin men. The effects of a bigger genepool and more diversity, sees to it that men in Dublin are more "exotic". If you are a woman from say, Cavan, every man you'll meet in your home area will be called Brady, Smith or Reilly. You're going to have a far better choice in Dublin. This drives the Brady, Smith and Reilly lads nuts.

Lol, most Dubs are only a handful of generations away from "culchies". You'd swear they were Dubs since Viking times or some sh1t the way they go on.

Last time I was in Dublin, I didn't see so many 'Dubs'.

Every other person I passed on the streets were guests from other nations.

But Dublin in itself is disliked as it sucks up too many resources and generally has notions. Just look at the whole childrens hospital saga - had to be built in the city centre because Dubs brains go blank when then get past the M50.

It's ridiculous really, people going on about hating the council estate and D4 types. They have exactly these type of people all over Ireland, the strongest most D4 accent I ever heard was on a girl from Kinsale. I had 2 flatmates in London who went to private schools and were from Mayo and Westmeath but they had the full on rindabite accents.

And not everyone hates their capital, I lived in London for years and never met any English people who hate the place and I've friends from different parts of England.

I've had to go to Cork a couple of times in the last year for work, I had never been in the city properly before. It's nice enough, much of it dilapidated, and had some addicts and teenagers in tracksuits going around that looked the exact same as the Dublin ones. Also a man went down the South Mall topless on a sulky one evening which I found funny. So basically it's nice in parts and has the same issues as Dublin on a smaller scale, you could say the same about most urban areas in Ireland.

You see the best and worst of Ireland and Irish people in Dublin in my opinion, I try and focus on the positives and have a nice life here.