Grumpy Moore Street Traders

bobbyss

Feeling like a vitiman c fix I was picking ten mandarins at the stall. There were plenty of green and rotten ones I noticed. 'If you want to pick your own go to a supermarket' she said but her tone was 'Fock Off outta here' . She lost a customer.

I may have ended up with five green ones had she picked them. Anyone else find the Moore Street Traders charming?

Pkiernan

I found the Asian traders there to be really nice.

Steer clear of the auld dublin slags would be my advice.

Bio Mech

If your life career was selling cheap rotten fruit and veg in Dublins smelliest street would you be happy?

tdf7187

Ah heyore leave it out

Rufeo

Are they still on the go. With supermarkets with lots of fresh produce?

Been through there lots of times but never bought anything.

Your Face

That street could do with a good power wash.

Leg End Reject

Your Face wrote: »

That street could do with a good power wash.

The traders too.

JohnnyFlash

You didn’t order a carton of Russian fags off them.

When I moved to Dublin I was looking forward to going to Moore street to experience the auld Dublin warmth and wit that the traders are famous for.

Well that was a lie. Horrible aul hags the lot of them.

whisky_galore

The wit and charm of auld Double N.

bobbyss

In fairness to them any time I have been through the street around their stalls, it is is very, very clean.

Once got bunch of bananas there but by time i got home everyone of them had turned black.

the purple tin

Why do they always shout 'Luvalee for de dinner' after they shout out whatever they are selling, strawberries, bananas whatever. I don't really fancy bananas for dinner tonight thanks anyway.

the purple tin

Bio Mech wrote: »

If your life career was selling cheap rotten fruit and veg in Dublins smelliest street would you be happy?

That street never seems to get any sunlight either, and de auld vocal chords would be banjaxxed with all the shoutin.

pauliebdub

I have no idea how they are still in business considering there's a Lidl on Moore st that also sells fruit and vegetables. The whole street is so run down and unattractive.

NickNickleby

tdf7187 wrote: »

Ah heyore leave it out

I say, a posh street trader!

leeev ih rouh!


Vitamin C how are ye! There's probably quite a few undiscovered vitamins lurking beneath those stalls. No thank you very much.

Airyfairy12

How are they still making a living from selling the odd few bananas and gone off oranges. It must cost them more to buy the fruit and veg and pay the insurance costs to actually run the stall.

NickNickleby

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

How are they still making a living from selling the odd few bananas and gone off oranges. It must cost them more to buy the fruit and veg and pay the insurance costs to actually run the stall.

hahahahahahaha.

inSHURDence, wots dah?

Airyfairy12

NickNickleby wrote: »

hahahahahahaha.

inSHURDence, wots dah?

Theyed have to rent the space even if they dont have insurance, you cant just set up a stall to sell what you want.
Street markets all over the country that have been going for years and years every saturday are no more because of the rents and insurance to set up a stall.
I could only imagine what the costs are like in Dublin.

Atlantic Dawn

The smell of pure rotten fish and general disease and decay around the entrance to Ilac centre on the street is absolutely sickening to the stomach. I've not heard any "cigarettes or tobacco" shouted in a few weeks, has the blind eye shown over the years been revoked?

NickNickleby

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Theyed have to rent the space even if they dont have insurance, you cant just set up a stall to sell what you want.
Street markets all over the country that have been going for years and years every saturday are no more because of the rents and insurance to set up a stall.
I could only imagine what the costs are like in Dublin.

I'm sure its a lot more organised now, but going back decades I had a distant relative who had a 'stall' (pram) around that area, and the main obstacle to setting up the stall was trying to break in to the community. If ye weren't wanted or known, and didn't have the muscle in the background, you were out.

Collie D

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

How are they still making a living from selling the odd few bananas and gone off oranges. It must cost them more to buy the fruit and veg and pay the insurance costs to actually run the stall.

Smokes. Vast majority if not all of the few remaining stalls are selling them under the counter.

Collie D

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The smell of pure rotten fish and general disease and decay around the entrance to Ilac centre on the street is absolutely sickening to the stomach. I've not heard any "cigarettes or tobacco" shouted in a few weeks, has the blind eye shown over the years been revoked?

It’s a bit more discreet than that although still very obvious. It’s like an episode of The Wire. Pay one guy and walk around to another for the smokes which are hidden in various places.

Deebles McBeebles

Collie D wrote: »

Smokes. Vast majority if not all of the few remaining stalls are selling them under the counter.

Is that true? I've heard it before but rarely up that way to test it for myself.

I know dey do be doin' a greah trade on de loiters alroigh.

Outlaw Pete

I seen one of them punch her husband (I presume) around last year. Almost knocked him out with the first punch and her second put him down. Hurling abuse at him about how she had enough of him.

B.A._Baracus

They're a bunch of inner city / from the flats scumbags. Wouldn't have anything to do with them.

corner of hells

I'm originally from the city and some of my mother's extended family were and still are street traders , they'd have been her cousins.
Most are licensed traders , with the licences in the family for years.
They all made good livings with one of her cousins sons going on to set up a fairly well known solicitors practice, her other son being a Garda.
Income wise , I'm not sure about the Moore street traders but the Henry street traders at Christmas make a minimum of 10k a month in December.
My mothers side were mainly involved in selling fresh flowers.
None of us are or were scumbags or criminals.

Thelonious Monk

pauliebdub wrote: »

I have no idea how they are still in business considering there's a Lidl on Moore st that also sells fruit and vegetables. The whole street is so run down and unattractive.

It's just a few quid on top of their dole so it's prob not hard to at least break even

Guy:Incognito

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Theyed have to rent the space even if they dont have insurance, you cant just set up a stall to sell what you want.
.

Whatever about just setting up ,judging by the knock off crap sold at Christmas, they most certainly can sell what they like.

Thelonious Monk

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Whatever about just setting up ,judging by the knock off crap sold at Christmas, they most certainly can sell what they like.

It's disgraceful that those horrible stalls are allowed, on one of the main shopping streets. Not a good look.

olestoepoke

Bio Mech wrote: »

If your life career was selling cheap rotten fruit and veg in Dublins smelliest street would you be happy?

Such snobbery

olestoepoke

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

It's disgraceful that those horrible stalls are allowed, on one of the main shopping streets. Not a good look.

Why don't you just stay far away over the Southside of the city and keep your snobbery to yourself?

Thelonious Monk

olestoepoke wrote: »

Why don't you just stay far away over the Southside of the city and keep your snobbery to yourself?

Would be hard given my house is in Dublin 5

Titclamp

That street is a **** hole. Used to cool back in the day. Now its like a 3rd world slum like Mumbai. Dodge as fcuk too.

Say there's prostitution rings going on through there. And all sorts of counterfeit goods.

elperello

Sophisticated forward looking cities all over the world cherish their traditional outdoor/indoor markets but not in dear old Dublin.

Wake up Dublin City Council.

SEPT 23 1989

I prefer to see these girls trading than grotty second hand mobile phone and hair extension shops

Jonybgud

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I prefer to see these girls trading than grotty second hand mobile phone and hair extension shops

...been through a few times, nothing out of place, likewise, nothing to bring me back there.

To be an asset or a local institution it needs to have a quality or attraction for shoppers or tourists, under counter sales of tobacco just don't cut it.

At this stage whats left there is just pathetic and should be closed down, the sketches in Mrs. Browns Boys didn't even succeed in giving the place an air of enigma or mystique, just a very poor Eastenders rip off.

Outlaw Pete

I'm sure some many of them are decent folks but they've always had that reputation when it comes to handling their apples and pears. I've often seen some Avocados that I would have bought I knew well they wouldn't have sold me the ones I wanted and so I popped into Lidl instead. How they survive there I don't know as they can't be making much.

Anytime I'm down there I'll invariably see them being asked have they any cigarettes by older Polish guys. They near lift them out of it with their response.

It's the ones selling the flowers that bug me. They almost close off the entrance to some of the streets off Grafton St. Like Harry St for example.

Littlehorny

Worked in Fyffes in Smithfield year ago and the women would go through boxes of out of date stuff at the skips and pick out what wasn't totally rotten and sell it so they were getting their produce for free.

Don't know where they source their wares now but from a public health standpoint it shouldn't have been allowed back then.

JohnnyFlash

[Deleted User] wrote: »

When I moved to Dublin I was looking forward to going to Moore street to experience the auld Dublin warmth and wit that the traders are famous for.

Well that was a lie. Horrible aul hags the lot of them.

The legendary Dublin wit is just that; a legend. Lot of the ‘True Blue’ Dub sorts are some of the unfunniest pain-in-the-hole creatures you’ll meet in the country.

TheW1zard

Ye still would though

elperello

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

I'm sure some many of them are decent folks but they've always had that reputation when it comes to handling their apples and pears. I've often seen some Avocados that I would have bought I knew well they wouldn't have sold me the ones I wanted and so I popped into Lidl instead. How they survive there I don't know as they can't be making much.

Anytime I'm down there I'll invariably see them being asked have they any cigarettes by older Polish guys. They near lift them out of it with their response.

It's the ones selling the flowers that bug me. They almost close off the entrance to some of the streets off Grafton St. Like Harry St for example.

Ah hands off the poor petals:).
They are one of the last remaining vestiges of the real Grafton Street.
Most of it is sold out to multi nationals and totally lacking character.

L1011

"no pickin' at dem prices" has been the standard on Moore Street since forever.

Which is why nobody with sense shops there.

PCeeeee

L1011 wrote: »

"no pickin' at dem prices" has been the standard on Moore Street since forever.

Which is why nobody with sense shops there.

I've never bought anything on Moore St. but can I ask are they cheaper?

fryup

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

The legendary Dublin wit is just that; a legend. Lot of the ‘True Blue’ Dub sorts are some of the unfunniest pain-in-the-hole creatures you’ll meet in the country.

example A...

mcgragger

[Deleted User] wrote: »

When I moved to Dublin I was looking forward to going to Moore street to experience the auld Dublin warmth and wit that the traders are famous for.

Well that was a lie. Horrible aul hags the lot of them.

Moore street of old is long dead. Long Dead.
In fact the old charm of Dublin City is also gone. It's not a nice place anymore

It's sad.

The Master.

NickNickleby wrote: »

I'm sure its a lot more organised now, but going back decades I had a distant relative who had a 'stall' (pram) around that area, and the main obstacle to setting up the stall was trying to break in to the community. If ye weren't wanted or known, and didn't have the muscle in the background, you were out.

This is the reason the "Christmas markets" on Henry street are so woeful. Cheeky charlieees and fake new york Yankee hats. If someone wanted to set up a stall doing nice cakes or handmade stuff they would get torched out of it by these horrible people.

EasyG

Salt a de erth dey are.
Moore street is gone tf. Smelly fish, mobile phone repairs and african braids....

elperello

mcgragger wrote: »

Moore street of old is long dead. Long Dead.
In fact the old charm of Dublin City is also gone. It's not a nice place anymore

It's sad.

Agreed but it didn't need to be that way.

Official indifference and big business calling the shots has destroyed a lot of the character.

gmisk

fryup wrote: »

example A...

The only thing most people care about is what bathroom they would use...

L1011

PCeeeee wrote: »

I've never bought anything on Moore St. but can I ask are they cheaper?

Headline prices on small bulk could be cheaper than a supermarket but you get what the seller hands you - rotten or not.

If you have concerns about supermarkets buying practices but still want decent value, use a decent independent greengrocer and it'll still be cheap. I've a very good one locally but their opening hours are very short unfortunately.

KungPao

EasyG wrote: »

Salt a de erth dey are.
Moore street is gone tf. Smelly fish, mobile phone repairs and african braids....

All money laundering operations? Have to be.

Those phone shops’ turnovers must be in the hundreds per month, but I have a feeling their receipts say something different.

Depressing street all the same, such a bad vibe on it.