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Would you prefer to live on Sheriff Street or in Dolphins barn?

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  • 13-02-2021 8:07pm
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    TonyTheShifter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5 ✭


    Which would you prefer? Dolphins barn, or Sheriff Street?


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    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,619 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Dolphin’s Barn, for me. Wouldn’t want to run the risk of having a green light put on me in the other place.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    Kermit.de.frog
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    Neither?


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    Omackeral
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    Sherriff Street 1991 looked gorgeous

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0p8e1MUC0E


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    TonyTheShifter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5 ✭TonyTheShifter


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Sherriff Street 1991 looked gorgeous

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0p8e1MUC0E

    Pretty sure those flats are long gone though.


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    Samsonsmasher
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    Did Fungi stop there for hay?


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    Kermit.de.frog
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    Find Fungi


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    thenightman
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    Dolphins Barn isn't bad these days, certainly not like the 90s anyway when my nanny would lock herself into her house once it started getting dark cos of the addicts, her door bell was stolen at one stage even by the feckers. Rialto is a lovely area beside the barn that (had) a few nice pubs and shops in it & area in general is handy as feck for town/luas.


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    omeara1113
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    Neither


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    Richard Hillman
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    Sherriff Street 1991 looked gorgeous

    Jesus and there was me thinking Sarajevo was the most run down place of the early 90s.


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    DellyBelly
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    Christ what a terrible choice... Not sure what I'd choose.. Maybe dolphins barn as its being redeveloped but christ I'd really have to question what happened my life if I lived in either place..

    No doubt we will here but the people who live there are the salt of the earth type..


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    suicide_circus
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    Dolphins Barn is absolutely grand


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    [Deleted User]
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    thenightman wrote: »
    Dolphins Barn isn't bad these days, certainly not like the 90s anyway when my nanny would lock herself into her house once it started getting dark cos of the addicts, her door bell was stolen at one stage even by the feckers. Rialto is a lovely area beside the barn that (had) a few nice pubs and shops in it & area in general is handy as feck for town/luas.

    That reuben st run is a pit with the local kids and a few families

    Pity because lots of decent families on the st but no way id recommend anyone go near the place without their eyes wide open


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    TonyTheShifter
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    That reuben st run is a pit with the local kids and a few families

    Pity because lots of decent families on the st but no way id recommend anyone go near the place without their eyes wide open

    Used to walk down there heading for the Fatima Luas stop. Never had any trouble, though it was certainly felt like an “eyes in the back of your head” type of place.


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    Doctor Roast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 325 ✭✭Doctor Roast


    Dolphins Barn, I did delivery work around the city for a number of years and I've seen a fair few incidents around the Sheriff street area compared to Dolphins barn.


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    artanevilla
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    Sheriffer, Northsider for life.


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    RobbingBandit
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    The morgue


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    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    There are two Sheriff Streets. Upper and lower, and they are on opposite ends of the spectrum.


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    Hangdogroad
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    In which town are these two areas located?


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    John_Rambo
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    Sherriff Street 1991 looked gorgeous

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0p8e1MUC0E

    That video is always trotted out when Sherriff St. is mentioned on Boards.ie. It was shot was when they used the flats for the movie "The Boxer" with Daniel Day Lewis before they were demolished. Everything from the set was stored there too, from burned out cars to fake life size bomb victim corpses. I lived there then and it wasn't that bad.


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    Omackeral
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    John_Rambo wrote: »
    That video is always trotted out when Sherriff St. is mentioned on Boards.ie. It was shot was when they used the flats for the movie "The Boxer" with Daniel Day Lewis before they were demolished. Everything from the set was stored there too, from burned out cars to fake life size bomb victim corpses. I lived there then and it wasn't that bad.

    Literally in the title of the video that it's for a film but it claims its for In The Name of the Father. Would make sense with all the IRA graffiti in it.


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    John_Rambo
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    Literally in the title of the video that it's for a film but it claims its for In The Name of the Father. Would make sense with all the IRA graffiti in it.

    The flats were destroyed in the late 90's, In The Name Of the Father was filmed in 91, The Boxer was filmed in 97, just before the flats were destroyed. The Boxer film centers on the life of a boxer and former Provisional IRA volunteer Danny Flynn and the Sherriff st. flats and the surrounding area were used as a set for the movie with a lot of IRA graffiti and murals.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    In which town are these two areas located?

    There’s always one.


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    Richard Hillman
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    John_Rambo wrote: »
    That video is always trotted out when Sherriff St. is mentioned on Boards.ie. It was shot was when they used the flats for the movie "The Boxer" with Daniel Day Lewis before they were demolished. Everything from the set was stored there too, from burned out cars to fake life size bomb victim corpses. I lived there then and it wasn't that bad.

    Ah right. That makes a lot of sense. And Jim Sheridan is from that neck of the woods.


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    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,602 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Batrachotox wrote: »
    There’s always one.

    There's lots of people that don't know what exists outside their hometown. For Hangdogroad, both areas are in the Capital of Ireland, Dublin city. They'd be considered "rough" areas with social problems.


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    dd973
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    These areas shouldn't be lionised as 'tough', 'hard' or 'rough'.

    They're just s**t and full of a***holes apart from the poor people stuck in them who deserve better in terms of environment and life chances.

    I never know why Ireland is always so high up on the HDI index, you don't see these sort of dives in Norway or Switzerland or the underclass we have here.


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    MrMusician18
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    Sherriff Street 1991 looked gorgeous

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0p8e1MUC0E

    It's hard to believe it used to be a bigger ****in kip than it is now.


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    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,602 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    It's hard to believe it used to be a bigger ****in kip than it is now.

    That's a movie set. Try not just concentrate on the pictures and videos, read the words and sentences on the thread before commenting.


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    Guy:Incognito
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    In which town are these two areas located?

    Clonmel


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    SouthWesterly
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    Sheriff st. The name makes me feel like there's law and order there.


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    John_Rambo
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    SouthWesterly wrote: »
    Sheriff st. The name makes me feel like there's law and order there.

    I know, there's a certain western feel to the name that evokes law or lawlessness to it. They were all name after civic offices and concepts. Mayor Street, Guild Street, Harbourmaster Place, Commons Street and Sheriff street.


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