Do you ever imagine Dublin being

markopantelic

a 24-hr city or like a 'city that never sleeps' aka New York?

Vim Fuego

No, I imagine staff costs are way too high to keep shops etc going into the wee hours. Our licensing laws would also have to change to something similar to New York - 4am closing there IIRC.

That#s not to say I wouldn't like it but I can't see it happening.

shrapnel222

i think the biggest difference here is scale, but to a certain extent, dublin already is. you can drink pretty much through the night, then go to the early houses, poker rooms/casinos are open all night, some gyms are now 24 hours, there are a few 24 hr tescos, superquinns. Basically, limited choices but still there.

tricky D

Not a chance. Used to work in casinos and walked a few routes home through and around the city centre in the wee hours - very, very quiet much of the time. Wouldn't encounter a single soul some nights.

dan1895

For a start you'd need a decent transport system throughout the night. not just a five euro nightlink once an hour

BigMonsterLove

I met a lad there recently who has spent the last 15 years living abroad and was only back in Dublin for a few weeks. We were sitting in a pub and he had a subway sandwich. I asked why he brought it to the pub and he says "Oh I want a snack when the pub is finished". I explained to him that Subway/Supermacs et al are open 'til all hours and it was unnecessary. He was amazed. He said that Rome was dead as far as getting food late at night.

eirebhoy

I think the best idea I heard for pub licensing was to for pubs to have 12 hour licenses. They can open whatever time they wish as long as it's for no longer than 12 hours. I think it's done in Tel Aviv or somewhere. Obviously they can't just open at 11 on Friday and 3 the next Friday. It would be done over a set period.

It just means if someone is drinking for 12 hours in one pub it's unlikely they'll get served elsewhere. And allows for that late pint if you want. Keep the city open and buzzing 24 hours.

carlmango11

Why are there laws in place for pubs and clubs to close at a certain time? Is it to stop people drinking 24/7?

Jay D

I imagine alright but sometimes need a very good immagination.

Ireland sucks donkey balls as far as rushing for nothing worthwhile is concerned

jimi_t

BigMonsterLove wrote: »

I met a lad there recently who has spent the last 15 years living abroad and was only back in Dublin for a few weeks. We were sitting in a pub and he had a subway sandwich. I asked why he brought it to the pub and he says "Oh I want a snack when the pub is finished". I explained to him that Subway/Supermacs et al are open 'til all hours and it was unnecessary. He was amazed. He said that Rome was dead as far as getting food late at night.

Rome is unbelievable in terms of getting food late at night, as are most major European cities. The vast vast majority of subways close at 9pm in this country, supermacs isn't much better. Was in Blackrock village @ 1am this week and there wasn't so much as a corner shop open - supermacs, chipper, eddies etc... all closed

Purple Gorilla

McDonalds in Swords is open till 4AM and Mizzoni's Pizza delivered me a Pizza at 3AM


...That's pretty much all I have to contribute

CianRyan

You could just hang out in Tesco all night, they don't sell alcohol after ten though.:rolleyes:

Bet really, Dublin is not a 24h city at all, it would be sweet if it was though.
It'll be a fairly long time before that happens though.

Purple Gorilla

I don't really see the point of it becoming a 24 hour city though... We don't get near enough the tourists/business that New York gets to justify it being open 24 hours

CianRyan

The tourism would only go up with the city becoming 24h.

Purple Gorilla

I don't see how though? What does Dublin City offer that would make tourists want to go around it after midnight besides pubs/clubs?

CianRyan

Well that's what's in the interest of our city council and government to establish.
Just keep the bars open later for one. Even set them back to when they use to close, we're actually going the other way.
It's madness. Especially in times like these, sorry to say it, but with the big R, places like the clubs and bars need to be open longer and there needs to be more buses on. with more people to use them they'll be able to afford having them on.
With that better transport around the city and suburbs people will be more inclined to use the service.


This all sounded better in my head.
I'm tired and i have to much stuff crammed into my head for the leaving cert.
Blah...

markopantelic

I don't see how though? What does Dublin City offer that would make tourists want to go around it after midnight besides pubs/clubs

?

what does new york have to offer really? i mean its pretty boring for actual 'touring' stuff to do, weather isn't grat although seems a interesting place to live because of the population and mix of cultures(which are also long established)

irishguy

24hr pubs, leglise gambling, drugs and prostitution. Instant 24hr city...it worked for vegas

jimi_t

irishguy wrote: »

24hr pubs, leglise gambling, drugs and prostitution. Instant 24hr city...it worked for vegas

Yeah, and now they have their own CSI show

CianRyan

CSI Dublin would be the best thing ever.
Soooo many junkies.

Polar101

CianRyan wrote: »

CSI Dublin would be the best thing ever.

Not sure if they'd solve any crimes, or if the guilty would be punished, though.

Anyway, I'd be happy with a city where the public transport didn't end at 11:30.. even if it weren't 24h, a little longer would help.

jimmay

jimi_t wrote: »

Rome is unbelievable in terms of getting food late at night, as are most major European cities.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought on the continent especially in Spain they eat very late. I could have sworn I remember the folks telling me they were out about midnight (somewhere in the Spainish region) and there were loads of people eating and kids swarming about.

Back here I agree, the closing hours are a joke. I was in the pub few weeks back and to think a grown man of nearly 35, I was with had to literally run down the road to get into the offo before it closed at 10 pm is shocking. I don't know how that law got passed! Yep transport is crap aswell.

Even leisureplex in coolock used to be 24 hr for years now closes at 1am I think.

iSoap

Yeah, I think it's in the department of transport's interest to run the buses and Darts 24 hours, and that doesn't have to mean every 10 minutes through the night, they could be spread out. Having to order a taxi or pay €5 for a night bus once the clock strikes 11:30 is pretty ridiculous. It's like a 15th century curfew.

Also I didn't know McDonalds on Grafton Street was 24 hours :S

sagat

As somebody who live in New York I can testify that Dublin in many ways is fairly 24 hour, at least it was when I lived there, almost everything closes here around the same time it does in Dublin, exceptions are the occassional Deli's, diners, bars and mass transit. In Dublin you have plenty of eateries and Spars open all night so really it's not too bad. What Dublin needs to do is allow the bars to stay open as long as they want and have regular DART and bus service through the night.

Where Dublin actually outshines NYC is the 7 day nature of the city, many times I've had lads come over here arriving on a Monday or a Tuesday looking to go out only to find everywhere is empty after 9pm. In Dublin no matter what the night or the time of year there's always plenty of people out in Temple bar or elsewhere around town getting sloshed.