What delights you about Modern Dublin?

Drummerboy2

Right we had the thread about the negatives, lets hear your positives.

I'll start
• the Dart
• the Luas
• Lots of new delightful restaurants
• the new Croke Park

Just a few to start you off

lightening

Good man Drummerboy!

Clean Dublin bay (about time)
The beaches
The parks
Some really really good reasonably priced restaurants
City Centre atmosphere
Friendlyness (recently had a random fella give me a lift to work, he saw me trying to get a taxi)
The amount of ethnic food shops
Proximity to Wicklow mountains

Gaspode

I'd go with most of what was said above.
I'd add in:
- The great mix of nationalities that we have now. I know some some hate that but I like it.
- Educate together schools.
- Public Transport (admittedly I dont depend on it but whenever I do use it its always spot on, especially the trains).
- Its not Cork.

Degsy

The price of beer in off-licences has come down,as have things like dvd players which you can now get in Tesco.

lightening

Degsy wrote:

The price of beer in off-licences has come down,as have things like dvd players which you can now get in Tesco.

Comon Degsy, you can do better than beer and computer games!!!;)

chucks

Dublin Bus

I know people love to criticise it to their hearts content, but having done much travelling, I'm delighted to have a bus service as efficient, regular and cheap as this

Same goes for the rest of our public transport too

Degsy

lightening wrote:

Comon Degsy, you can do better than beer and computer games!!!;)

Listen mate..i'm a lazy,drunken sod but i've NEVE played compter games.What i'm saying is the price of many consumer durables has come down.Not that i own any consumer durables but competition in the marketplace has resulted in lower prices for many things.NOT pubs or restaurants where they charge whatever the bloody hell they want.

cruibin

deswalsh wrote:

- Its not Cork.

Thats shocking... but true...

Anyways... I did start the other thread.. but I do love Dublin, and the things that delight me far outweigh the things that annoy me.

Oh the joys of..
Green spaces
More public transport.
Abundance of places to see
Quality choice of eateries
diverse nationalities
Croker...deffo.
Teflon Bertie
Polish Girls
recreation facilities
City is cleaner than it was 20 yrs ago
I am not unemployed or in a dead end job
I live in a wonderful little street in the city... with lovely Dub neighbours, a few germans, poles , french, and some odd bloke from tuam.

Degsy

The birds in Dublin can be HAWT..especially the ones in leggings!:p

cruibin

Degsy wrote:

The birds in Dublin can be HAWT..especially the ones in leggings!:p

Yeah but they get cancelled out by the girls who think wearin a belly top with leggings means u need to have a big belly!

Poxyshamrock

The city has a brilliant buzz these days and things like the LUAS and O'Connell Street make it feel really like a proper European City. The Multiculturalism is brilliant and moore street is so interesting these days! i also love to see the amount of tourists having a good time in Dublin..brings a smile to my face.

shrapnel222

been living here for 3 and a half years now, and i have to say i love it. love the beaches, howth, poolbeg, the restaurants are getting much better (even compared to 3 years ago, when they were pretty poor), wicklow mountains are stunning, the loughs, the friendliness of most people far outweighs the number of eejits, the parks, 40 shades of green, the little georgian houses, the music, the guinness. the list is endless.;)

BendiBus

The boardwalk
The Grand Canal from Harolds X to the Liffey
QBCs
Any trip in central Dublin being walkable
Independent coffee shops with a diverse clientelle
Restaurants catering to all tastes & budgets
Free entry to galleries & museums
Old style boozers that live on surrounded by the contemporary (like Grogans)
Dawson Street
Sandymount
Trinity College
The sense of energy, the feeling that the city is really alive
Tranquility & chaos living side by side and both easily accessible

John Mason

the phoenix park

merrion square

all the fanastic muesums, restuarants, coffee houses.

the city has a great buzz and there is always so much to see and do

i was talking to a young lad at Electric Picnic and he was asking what Dublin was like before the celtic tiger - think about it, dublin has changed so much in the last ten years

i love Dublin city (but not as much as Wicklow )

Nolanger

- beautiful women (but most are non-nationals)
- lots of second-hand CD shops
- eveywhere is within walking distance
- friendly hassle-free people
- CineWorld's 17 screens
- those little IMP buses are gone

Anto McC

I'm Dublin born, bred and buttered and i love my City (just look at the sig). I'd also agree with everything that has been said already and add in:

The Quays - I'm quite close to them and i love nothing more than walking up and back down the quays, particularly this end which is being redeveloped with some fantasic architecture.

Also agree with Irishbird about this:

irishbird wrote:

merrion square

Again i'm quite close and it's easily the best kept park in Dublin but it's better on a frosty Winters morning than a lovely Summers day

BendiBus

Anto McC wrote:

particularly this end which is being redeveloped with some fantasic architecture.

Not sure I'd agree with you there. I think most of it is pretty bland. Grand Canal Dock looks OK but still could have been better.

Anyway that's for another thread.

On with the praise for our wonderful city

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Poxyshamrock wrote:

The city has a brilliant buzz these days and things like the LUAS and O'Connell Street make it feel really like a proper European City. The Multiculturalism is brilliant and moore street is so interesting these days! i also love to see the amount of tourists having a good time in Dublin..brings a smile to my face.

According to your bebo and profile here your a 16 yr old child, hardly qualified to talk about the 'new' Dublin now are ya

For me the good thing about Dublin these days...

Mmmmmmm, not a whole lot.

I guess for the Southsiders the Luas was a good thing.

The board walk should have been a fantastic attraction, but its overly populated by junkies.

The Spire, I guess some people like it. I don't.

Ah, thought of something... The Docklands re-development (north and south). The place looks fantastic now.

Dublin has lost alot of its charactor. I think thats a bad thing.

Poxyshamrock

Mairt wrote:

According to your bebo and profile here your a 16 yr old child, hardly qualified to talk about the 'new' Dublin now are ya

So....? alot can change in 16 years you know. I remember being in Dublin in 1997 and it was nothing like it is now. So the next time you decide on being ageist think before you act.

andrew

city centre athmosphere

chicken fillet rolls

big enough not to feel like a town but small enough for you to bump into someone you know easily

religious nuts

the number 16 bus

Zzippy

I don't live in Dublin anymore, not for the last 10 years, so when I'm up visiting I notice lots of changes.
Some of my favourites would be places like that new street with the Italian restaurants on north quays (forget the name), the Nitelink - brilliant for getting home and not being fleeced on taxi fare, Howth Head, the nightlife, the new Croke Park, the multiculturalism, and definitely Polish wimmins