Grafton Quarter

Birneybau

Gerrup the yard with that crap. Not alone were the lights turned on the 10th November, some wonks put this up.

Birneybau

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Tabnabs

Just, no.

You know what they call a Grafton quarter with cheese in France?

Riesen_Meal

Saw this on Twitter earlier....

"Quarter" indeed, peak notions....

Simmer down

Visit the Grafton Quarter. Where Burger King is only a stones throw away from Mc Donalds.

Birneybau

Morkeshing exec-Well this seems to be going down like a lead balloon. I know, let's get some no-mark "influencers" down here tagging their inane Instagram posts #GraftonQuarter

w/s/p/c/

Poor Henry Street only has "Welcome to Dublin One" on their lights!!

Grafton Quarter, what a load of bulls*it!

Simmer down

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

Poor Henry Street only has "Welcome to Dublin One" on their lights!!

Grafton Quarter, what a load of bulls*it!

Henry Street "Do you wanna buy a Quarter"

Birneybau

Simmer down wrote: »

Henry Street "Do you wanna buy a Quarter"

Nah, just a one-er please

neris

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

Poor Henry Street only has "Welcome to Dublin One" on their lights!!

Grafton Quarter, what a load of bulls*it!

but Henry street has the culture & real Dubs. "wrapping paper 5 for a euro", cheap knock off aramani perfume that salt of the earth Bernie from the flats sells from her pram thats been passed down from generation to generation, the Arnotts window, the pick pockets & shop lifters,

hotmail.com

The process of turning Dublin into America continues.

Sierra Oscar

Mr.S wrote: »

I really don't get the fuss around this.

Grafton Quarter has been on DCC tourist maps for a few years now, it's not exactly a new thing.

It promotes the area, what's the harm? It's not like they are renaming Grafton Street.

Can't understand all the outrage myself either. These terms have been used on tourism literature and so on for ages now.

These lights are also funded by businesses in the vicinity of Grafton Street, not just those on the street itself. It's not that surprising that they have been pushing for 'Grafton Quarter'.

Dublin Town businesses, who are funding the lights, are divided into the Creative District, Dame District, Grafton Quarter, Talbot District and Dublin One.

Dublin City Council and its councillors (some who notably have been jumping on the social media bandwagon by criticizing this) are delighted to be saving hundreds of thousands of Euro by making businesses pay for the lighting.

lfen

Little to be worrying about if this kinda thing gets your goat!

Birneybau

lfen wrote: »

Little to be worrying about if this kinda thing gets your goat!

Many things can get on one's goat, simultaneously. Hard to grasp I know but some people are multifaceted.

JupiterKid

This has notions written all over it...

...every five buildings in a given city is labelled as a "quarter" these days. Galway has a "Latin Quarter"

Fact is - Grafton St is pretty much a shadow of its former self. Practically no high end independent retailers now, all chain stores, mobile phone shops and fast food outlets.

NasserShammaz

What a pile of shi#t. No doubt the arseholes who came up with this boll#x think its brilliant...

Some PR marketing Dickheads got their heads around a table and this is what they delivered.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

NasserShammaz

Birneybau wrote: »

Morkeshing exec-Well this seems to be going down like a lead balloon. I know, let's get some no-mark "influencers" down here tagging their inane Instagram posts #GraftonQuarter

I think there was a "Team" of part time or wannabe influencers employed on the rebrand. It stinks of that level of vacuous stupidity

andekwarhola

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Can't understand all the outrage myself either. These terms have been used on tourism literature and so on for ages now.

These lights are also funded by businesses in the vicinity of Grafton Street, not just those on the street itself. It's not that surprising that they have been pushing for 'Grafton Quarter'.

Dublin Town businesses, who are funding the lights, are divided into the Creative District, Dame District, Grafton Quarter, Talbot District and Dublin One.

Dublin City Council and its councillors (some who notably have been jumping on the social media bandwagon by criticizing this) are delighted to be saving hundreds of thousands of Euro by making businesses pay for the lighting.

Sorry, but I shall be beholden to no one in my unfair sniggering at 'Talbot District'.

John_Rambo

Don't see the problem. Destination Marketing has been very very successful in the country. I remember being guffawed and sneered by locals at when the Wild Atlantic Way was first mooted.

Look at it now. They're tagging it in their social media and are very very boastful about their WAW.

Other cities and countries can forge ahead with this sort of marketing with confidence and aplomb, but there's a real fear and lack of faith among some Irish people. Anything "cool", or mainstream European is mocked at as having "notions" or being "American"!! Same happened when Dublin's Chinatown was mooted, hecklers and snipers sniggering behind their keyboards.

It's a good way of sectioning up the city from a tourist (non commuter, not local) perspective.

RebelButtMunch

John_Rambo wrote: »

Don't see the problem. Destination Marketing has been very very successful in the country. I remember being guffawed and sneered by locals at when the Wild Atlantic Way was first mooted.

Look at it now. They're tagging it in their social media and are very very boastful about their WAW.

Other cities and countries can forge ahead with this sort of marketing with confidence and aplomb, but there's a real fear and lack of faith among some Irish people. Anything "cool", or mainstream European is mocked at as having "notions" or being "American"!! Same happened when Dublin's Chinatown was mooted, hecklers and snipers sniggering behind their keyboards.

It's a good way of sectioning up the city from a tourist (non commuter, not local) perspective.

It's marketing of the traditional Christmas lights ffs

ra0044

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

It's marketing of the traditional Christmas lights ffs

Christmas lights that are paid for by the businesses in that area to encourage people to come in to the city to shop.

Christmas lights have always been about marketing really. Make everyone happy and jovial. Build a bit of Christmas cheer blah blah blah. Oh and while you are hear spend a load of money.

If the council or Bord Failte want to spend public money on them and make them culturally significant or highlight the buzz word of the day by showing diversity, understanding, building a multi something environment etc they can. People will then moan about the waste of tax payers money.

I like the lights and just ignore the bits I don't. Much like how I ignore bits of the city I don't like and concentrate on what I do

Beechwoodspark

Is the Nollaig Shona Duit sign def gone? Please say no

I take the little ones into dublin every Christmas and that’s one of the “highlights” we look out for

Beechwoodspark

Sorry now but Nollaig Shona Duit was a simple, festive, welcoming and uniquely Irish Christmas message.

I can’t believe they’ve gone and got rid of something that was a unique selling point for dublin and Ireland in general.

whisky_galore

"Quarter" and "Hub", two of the most hackneyed words in urban areas these days.
If a tourist or shopper can't find Grafton St without it being "Quartered", fvck them.

Xmas stinks of commercialism enough without a clichéd morketing exercise in neon lights.

Culchie_85

Bizarre thing for people to be moaning about.

The names are used to promote tourism and give distinct characters to different parts of Dublin City.

They're not forcing you to use the names.

lawred2

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Sorry now but Nollaig Shona Duit was a simple, festive, welcoming and uniquely Irish Christmas message.

I can’t believe they’ve gone and got rid of something that was a unique selling point for dublin and Ireland in general.

I did like that sign.

I've no really issue with the quarter thing but why did it have to result in the other sign being jettisoned?

Dyr

What Dublin desperately needs is more bloody tourists.

I noticed that when I got off the Luas at Connolly and walked down towards Parnell and third to use a restroom

GLaDOS

whisky_galore wrote: »

If a tourist or shopper can't find Grafton St without it being "Quartered", fvck them.

It's not just Grafton Street, that's kinda the point.

Hoboo

Bambi wrote: »

What Dublin desperately needs is more bloody tourists.

I noticed that when I got off the Luas at Connolly and walked down towards Parnell and third to use a restroom

Apart from comedic talent, you could also do with a map.

MarkY91

The Grafton quarter sign is grand. It's just a little sad to see the nollaig shona dhuit sign gone. It's been there as long as I remember.

Keyzer

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Can't understand all the outrage myself either. These terms have been used on tourism literature and so on for ages now.

These lights are also funded by businesses in the vicinity of Grafton Street, not just those on the street itself. It's not that surprising that they have been pushing for 'Grafton Quarter'.

Dublin Town businesses, who are funding the lights, are divided into the Creative District, Dame District, Grafton Quarter, Talbot District and Dublin One.

Dublin City Council and its councillors (some who notably have been jumping on the social media bandwagon by criticizing this) are delighted to be saving hundreds of thousands of Euro by making businesses pay for the lighting.

The Talbot District should be immediately renamed to the Talbot Sh1thole and carpet bombed, immediately.

D3V!L

Keyzer wrote: »

The Talbot District should be immediately renamed to the Talbot Sh1thole and carpet bombed, immediately.

Just gates at each end would suffice.

hotmail.com

Bambi wrote: »

What Dublin desperately needs is more bloody tourists.

I noticed that when I got off the Luas at Connolly and walked down towards Parnell and third to use a restroom

Sure we're at the stage where Irish people are calling toilets rest rooms.

D3V!L

hotmail.com wrote: »

Sure we're at the stage where Irish people are calling toilets rest rooms.

Gender neutral rest rooms I'll have you know ! :rolleyes:

Somedaythefire

It's weird, but not really a big deal, certainly not enough to get angry about.

whisky_galore

GLaDOS wrote: »

It's not just Grafton Street, that's kinda the point.

Call the rest of the streets Grafton Street so, makes the same amount of sense.

LineOfBeauty

I like that quarter implies that there is more to the Grafton area than just that 1 street. Some lovely pubs and cafes in and around there and if they can piggyback off the "Grafton Street" reputation then more power to them.

John_Rambo

whisky_galore wrote: »

Call the rest of the streets Grafton Street so, makes the same amount of sense.

No.


We're not going to start renaming streets because people are offended by the creation of mini districts that are handy for tourists to navigate. As line of beauty points out it simply lets tourists know that there's more to the area than just Grafton street.

whisky_galore

John_Rambo wrote: »

No.


We're not going to start renaming streets because people are offended by the creation of mini districts that are handy for tourists to navigate. As line of beauty points out it simply lets tourists know that there's more to the area than just Grafton street.

I wasn't being serious. You may have missed that. Do tourists have to be spoon fed everything? I managed to navigate cities without it needing to be cut up into twee little quarters for me.

John_Rambo

whisky_galore wrote: »

I wasn't being serious. You may have missed that. Do tourists have to be spoon fed everything? I managed to navigate cities without it needing to be cut up into twee little quarters for me.

Sorry, I thought you were being serious.

There's a huge cohort of tourists that will not navigate cities without a tour guide, let alone a dedicated tour map denoting specific areas and what those areas are called.

andekwarhola

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Is the Nollaig Shona Duit sign def gone? Please say no

I take the little ones into dublin every Christmas and that’s one of the “highlights” we look out for

Has it actually gone. It's on Wicklow Street isn't it? That Quarter sign looks like it's on Grafton Street

Dublin Spur

what are the other 3 quarters called?

Standman

It's not worth the outrage - It's just a bit wanky. I'd put this at a 7 on my wankometer and 0 on the outrageometer.


Another annoying example is The Italian Quarter in Sligo, presumably named so because it's a street which has an Italian restaurant on it.

Zubeneschamali

Culchie_85 wrote: »

They're not forcing you to use the names.

But they are: you can't say "Grafton Quarter Me Hole!" without saying Grafton Quarter.

is_that_so

D3V!L wrote: »

Just gates at each end would suffice.

Yeah, baffled as to how this got called a district. Once you step off it you're lost!

is_that_so

Dublin Spur wrote: »

what are the other 3 quarters called?

Talbot, Dame and Creative apparently. Can't say I know where any of them are.

Sierra Oscar

For anyone interested, this document has a map on page 2 of what is considered the Grafton Quarter by DCC.

Beta Ray Bill

Mr.S wrote: »

I really don't get the fuss around this.

Grafton Quarter has been on DCC tourist maps for a few years now, it's not exactly a new thing.

It promotes the area, what's the harm? It's not like they are renaming Grafton Street.

It's an excuse to put the price of everything up.

And then people being people, just pay the extra and wonder why they've no money.

Gentrification

It's a bad idea.
It has nothing to do with tourism.

Beta Ray Bill

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

For anyone interested, this document has a map on page 2 of what is considered the Grafton Quarter by DCC.

Had a read of a good bit of that.
What a load of rubbish.

To think someone was paid (probably hundreds of thousands of Euro) to produce that would sicken your hole.

All it is, is: "Here's a bunch of stuff that would look nice"

In a nut shell Pedestrian Zones everywhere, lots of plant boxes, lots of trees, lots of benches.

NasserShammaz

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

For anyone interested, this document has a map on page 2 of what is considered the Grafton Quarter by DCC.

Like everything else in Ireland at government or local governmentlever it all just optics, flounce bull****...

Just words......bloody expensive words vomited out by a bunch of arse$oles. Pissing away other people's money.