Ireland …. It just doesn’t feel like home!! 🙁

Some areas are buzzing and some (Mainly North quays and 1 street beyond) are complete kips. A large part of north inner city Dublin is a toilet.

Moore Lane

Harbour Court Lane

Bachelors Walk

North Lotts

How this hasn't been turned into Euro style "off the beaten path" cool spot is beyond me

Nothing to do with foreigners. Purely piss poor planning by DCC. A shambles of an organisation.

This made me laugh though. From 1971! They've done nothing

Lol

My first place away from home was on portland Street north. Loved it. Interesting folks.

Local was the Brian boru. Gobshite owners, but good staff.

Went up that are to meet a friend recently and it all seems so sterile. I don't know the correct word...but not the same.

Never had any issues and mad stuff happened, but I think it's lost a bit.

I actually think more food in pubs is an improvement.

There are still more bars than there were a few years ago in Dublin and more opening.

We seem to be reversing the trend of pubs closing in the capital, although rural ireland is a different story.

Number of restsurants and cafes is really high and that helps give the city a buzz.

There's lots of money swishing around despite rent and cost of living. Lots of people struggling too but many people in jobs like IT and other areas have plenty of money to spend. We've 3rd highest median salaries in the EU.

I think Tiktok does a lot to market restaurants and cafes also.

Most pubs do food nowadays whereas in the 90s and 00s, it was far less common.

I was surprised. I walked the whole length of Dorset and Capel St last Sunday evening and it was buzzing. Every premises had people in them.

Thomas St is really buzzing too.

Some data on our cancer screening rates.

Victims of **** government and policies.

Health service and housing is a disaster in many respects.

As for the fantasy that Dublin is some kind of foodie mecca because it has Capel street...eh no it s not. It doesn't even have one decent Chinatown area or Asian market. It also doesn't have any covered outdoor markets even though there are TWO waiting to be utilised and left go derelict for decades.

Large parts of Dublin city center are neglected the government needs to shape up.

Dorset street is a dump, rubbish often strewn everywhere.

Look at the sheer state of some of the LUAS stops, what's the one off Parnell street there with the boarded up flats...they should rename it alco central.

Connolly station walking down thru Talbot street and enjoy the sites of kids on escooters dealing and shops closed at 5.30pm on a main city centre street.....urghh..

Phibsboro can only improve from now ...hopefully the locals can stop blocking every bloody development that is proposed though.

I'm not saying it's perfect but it's improving all the time.

The Fruit and Veg market near Capel St is starting construction soon and should hopefully be a wonderful addition.

https://m.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/restoration-of-historic-fruit-and-veg-market-in-smithfield-to-start-next-year/a456712189.html

St Andrews Church is currently being redeveloped to a foodie market.

https://www.fm104.ie/news/buzz/historic-dublin-church-building-to-be-turned-into-food-market/

No news yet on Iveagh market but hopefully something can happen soon.

Approximately 17000 to 18000 residential units have been under construction in Dublin since late 2021, so we're at a turning point. It takes about 2 years for apartments to complete, less for houses.

Lots of these are finishing up right now such as Sandyford Central, Newmarket, Cooper's Cross etc.

I know these are too expensive for must folks but the only solution is supply.

.....and whats been happening with that supply!

...in order for us to catch up with demand, we need to be building at least 50 - 60k units a year, we re currently struggling to get to 30k, our main government parties seem to think steady as you go will get us to where we need to be, oh and they dont exactly agree with the 50-60k figures either, so we re actually completely fcuked regarding housing for the foreseeable anyway!

i follow the man as well, his and others analysis doesnt see things as rosey, its looking very likely for the remainder of this decade, in regards housing, we is screwed, steady as you go is gonna fail, and very badly, this means our government parties are also screwed, so be it i guess....

I’m sitting here now..and this is not reactionary but if I could get the fûck out of here I would… this is not my / our country, I don’t recognise political or many societal aspects of it. Fairness and prioritising us is now alien to those we vote for and pay to work for US. If there was a war in X country outside the EU we’d be told again we’d be taking a back seat again. Deprioritised again.

my parents are now in their 80’s… in good health overall, both still drive but, in their ’80’s…

where can I go in the EU ? The whole continent is in a state and that’s only going to get much worse.

I could get into the US… I’ve no criminal record and a lot of family there. I could apply. Not demand, apply, ask.

so who knows…. I don’t recognise here anymore, also….the country doesn’t have my / our back.

our politicians are influenced more by people outside the country then their own citizens who pay their wages. That now is undeniable….

if a husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend stops listening to you, stops you being their priority… you say adios… it’s not a situation you can stomach/live with 😏… same with the relationship between us/me and this damn country.

It’s true, Ireland doesn’t feel like home, it’s just somewhere I am.

Try find somewhere beautiful in France outside the cities to move to. No traffic, no scrotes. Warm weather. Laid back lifestyle.

Or Italy.

Stay off the internet sites that cover all the social problems and ignore them. That's my idea of blussm

I mean who would have thought that years of letting absolute scum do literally whatever they want with impunity, while apoligising for them at the same time and letting them roam around stealing bikes, recording themselves robbing cars and attacking people, dealing drugs and basically whatever they feel like could end up here. Oh yeah and paying them to do it.

They are all just great little footballer anglez with no faciliteez

if anyone is worried, its still good in D4 , lots of charm, no asylum centres, we dont need guns we just lawyer-ed up to the teeth, so the pen is indeed mightier than the sword