Have you got anything good to say about Dublin?

JumpShivers

What are the nice things that you like about Dublin?


There has been so many threads here bashing Dublin and so many posts in other threads that also bash Dublin.
What are the nice things that you like about Dublin? Let’s keep this a positive thread for people to post things they like.

I like: The variety of pubs and restaurants. Nice Parks and Green Spaces. Some Dubliners.
It’s not all hustle and bustle like Paris or other Mega European Metropolises. The crime rate ISN’T that bad compared to other places

Canard

I'm not sure if this feeling stems from Dublin being relatively small or if it's because you tend to be in the same general area of a city anyway, but I love the nostalgia you can get walking around it. I was just thinking of it today around the IFSC area where I went to a few fun events a year or two ago, and every corner of the city brings back nice memories of some kind for me.

Ihatecuddles

I love it! Especially at Christmas, all the lights and bustle

'2 for a fiver de wrappin' paaaaper'

wexie

JumpShivers wrote: »

The crime rate ISN’T that bad compared to other places

Like where? Bogota?

Chance The Rapper

The luas is handy.

dundalkfc10

The road to Dundalk

Joe Duffy..

The junkies on O' Connell Street. Great craic.

Mint Sauce

I would say the M4 out of it, but even that was a fucking nightmare last time i was down.

Sulla Felix

Very few Cork people there.

bobrawn20

It has a lot happening and lot of variety. The different cultures are nice and the different scenes. It has excellent public transport in comparison to the rest of Ireland.

Grayson

Canard wrote: »

I'm not sure if this feeling stems from Dublin being relatively small or if it's because you tend to be in the same general area of a city anyway, but I love the nostalgia you can get walking around it. I was just thinking of it today around the IFSC area where I went to a few fun events a year or two ago, and every corner of the city brings back nice memories of some kind for me.

I loive the buildings on the southside. There are evenings I'll just go for a stroll around dublin 2. Dublins at it's best on a warm clear summers evening or a frosty winters eve. (Pretty much any time it's not raining)

ringadingding

Every single tourist I've ever known to spend a weekend in Dublin has raved about it.

It's a safe capital to live in, with no more, or less scumbags than anywhere else.

I never understood the Dublin bashing, it's a cracking spot.

darkpagandeath

Joe Duffy.. wrote: »

The junkies on O' Connell Street. Great craic.

The ones that busk are better :P

wazky

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Very few Cork people there.

One is too many though.

Grayson

And I forgot to say, It's not Cork!

Nib

That place where... no, oh that thing that... no.

Nothing, it's a fucking shit hole.

Grayson

wexie wrote: »

Like where? Bogota?

It's one of the safest places in the world. Dublin, not bogota.

ctrl-alt-delete

mauzo! wrote: »

I love it! Especially at Christmas, all the lights and bustle

'2 for a fiver de wrappin' paaaaper'

I remember the days of 'rapping paypor 5 for 50, lighters 5 for a pound'

fleet_admiral

ringadingding wrote: »

Every single tourist I've ever known to spend a weekend in Dublin has raved about it.

It's a safe capital to live in, with no more, or less scumbags than anywhere else.

I never understood the Dublin bashing, it's a cracking spot.

I had a row about Dublin with a culchie in arklow that got very heated, he hates us so much that he was gritting his teeth and spitting while talking (which 99.9% of culchies do anyway, being inbred). What really annoyed me about him though is that he works in john of god in stillorgan.
Not only do we subsidise everywhere outside Dublin but people like him who despise us dont mind working here

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

ringadingding wrote: »

Every single tourist I've ever known to spend a weekend in Dublin has raved about it.

It's a safe capital to live in, with no more, or less scumbags than anywhere else.

I never understood the Dublin bashing, it's a cracking spot.

Most places in Ireland are cracking spots, if you give them a fair shot. The problem is that there is a propensitity in this country to make belittling, snide digs at areas not our own. It's a fairly recent phenomenon that only will lead to division and derision growing.

bobrawn20

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I had a row about Dublin with a culchie in arklow that got very heated, he hates us so much that he was gritting his teeth and spitting while talking (which 99.9% of culchies do anyway, being inbred). What really annoyed me about him though is that he works in john of god in stillorgan.
Not only do we subsidise everywhere outside Dublin but people like him who despise us dont mind working here

And it's people like you that have the rest of the country hating Dubliners.

Skill Magill

There's loads good in Dublin,

1. The pheonix park with its zoo and herds of deer
2. The Botanic Gardens
3. Glasnevin Cemetry
4. All the museums (free too)
5. Trinity College
6. Iveagh Gardens
7. Merrion Square
8. Templebar
9. The liffey and its bridges
10. The Point
11. Croke Park

I could go on..

Ruu

More or less the same thread here..

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90143123