O'Connell Street Dublin. What the fook like

n!ghtmancometh · 13-07-2018 08:29AM

Anton Wonderful Robin wrote: »

O'Connell St is a cesspit festering with addicts & drug dealing. Best avoided.

It really isn't. Yesterday for example, it was full of Spanish students laughing and getting photos at the spire, a tour of German oaps admiring the gpo as a tour guide told them about its history, and loads of teenagers milling about around Penny's.

It isn't perfect, but to describe is it as "a cesspit full of drug addicts" is ridiculous, and the sort of stuff you'd expect to find sheltered folk saying on the comments section of the journal.ie

lawred2 · 13-07-2018 08:33AM

Conservatory wrote: »

What I like is how the addicts sit on the statue right at o Connell bridge. Greeting the tourists with their beauty. I seen one of them roaring at an Asian looking girl last week that it was her fault her kids were up there. I’m not sure what the Asian girl did but I looked at her to show her I wasn’t happy with her putting people’s kids up there.

what?

lawred2 · 13-07-2018 08:39AM

sonofenoch wrote: »

Pedestrianisation was the ruination .....this is how it was in it's glory, could be a foto from any major city like Paris or Rome

and they'll be doing the same to Dame street and anywhere else the lefty liberals can get their mitts on

that looks horrible

lawred2 · 13-07-2018 08:40AM

harr wrote: »

Why can’t they do something like this Tarragona in Spain ...was here a few weeks ago and it was lovely

it is lovely - but that entire stretch would be covered in beggars and junkies in no time were we to do it here..

oh and overweight Guards strolling along eating ice creams of course

murpho999 · 13-07-2018 09:22AM

Anton Wonderful Robin wrote: »

O'Connell St is a cesspit festering with addicts & drug dealing. Best avoided.

Pkiernan wrote: »

Junkies

Omackeral wrote: »

Not if you're a drug dealer or addict.

Taytoland wrote: »

It's a big dump but then so is Dublin, so it's to be expected.

Hector Bellend wrote: »

To clean the street properly you must start with the human scum that has ruined the street in the first place.

McDermotX wrote: »

Kip

These are the typical anti Dublin comments left on these type of threads by people who are probably never in Dublin.

O'Connell Street can certainly do with improvements but walk down it any day and it's full of tourists, shoppers, workers and students etc.

It's vibrant and busy.

People should stop giving the impression that it's dangerous or dominated by junkies when it's not the case.

Outlaw Pete · 13-07-2018 09:30AM

murpho999 wrote: »

These are the typical anti Dublin comments left on these type of threads by people who are probably never in Dublin.

Well, one of the users you quoted is/was a bouncer in Dublin and another is a prison man officer warden guard person in a Dublin prison.

So that's at least two who are regularly in Dublin. The place is an awful mess to be fair. Some serious sandblasting needed at the very least.

lawred2 · 13-07-2018 09:40AM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Well, one of the users you quoted is/was a bouncer in Dublin and another is a prison man officer warden guard person in a Dublin prison.

So that's at least two who are regularly in Dublin. The place is an awful mess to be fair. Some serious sandblasting needed at the very least.

and that f**king Quirkey's tarp abomination - how is that still there?

there needs to be some sort of penalty for sitting on such prime land and doing sh!t all with it..

murpho999 · 13-07-2018 09:50AM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Well, one of the users you quoted is/was a bouncer in Dublin and another is a prison man officer warden guard person in a Dublin prison.

So that's at least two who are regularly in Dublin. The place is an awful mess to be fair. Some serious sandblasting needed at the very least.

So that makes them authorities on Dublin and the people on O'Connell Street?

Prison Officers and Bouncers: They regular deal with the nice people of Dublin alright.

Grayson · 13-07-2018 09:52AM

walking along the notrthside of the quays last night and the footpath was grand. Got to woodquay where there's trees and it's sticky as fcuk.

Chinasea · 13-07-2018 11:24AM

The trees are about the least most offensive thing on O'Connell Street. Jeez leave them alone. Just clean the paths now and again. Please.

seachto7 · 13-07-2018 11:50AM

harr wrote: »

Plenty of scum in Spain as well...but I have seen them ran off it, surely on our capitals Main Street the guards should have a zero tolerance approach..

A different type of scumbag.

Outlaw Pete · 13-07-2018 12:26PM

murpho999 wrote: »

So that makes them authorities on Dublin and the people on O'Connell Street?

Prison Officers and Bouncers: They regular deal with the nice people of Dublin alright.

Dude, you said:

murpho999 wrote: »

These are the typical anti Dublin comments left on these type of threads by people who are probably never in Dublin.

I'm just pointing out to you that some of the users you mentioned actually live in Dublin, I said nothing whatsoever about them being authorities on the place.

dfx- · 13-07-2018 12:28PM

murpho999 wrote: »

These are the typical anti Dublin comments left on these type of threads by people who are probably never in Dublin.

O'Connell Street can certainly do with improvements but walk down it any day and it's full of tourists, shoppers, workers and students etc.

It's vibrant and busy.

People should stop giving the impression that it's dangerous or dominated by junkies when it's not the case.

O'Connell Street is ok and it's a shining beacon in comparison to the state of its adjoining streets and nearby streets.

A lot of tourists come from similar places, graffiti and liquid/food spillages on busy streets are not shocking or depressing. Tourists are perhaps not as sheltered and precious as some (want to) think.

Permabear · 13-07-2018 12:40PM

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acai berry · 13-07-2018 12:58PM

Clery's - [and the GPO] - really held that street together. Clery's is such a sad loss!

corner of hells · 13-07-2018 01:00PM

acai berry wrote: »

Clery's - [and the GPO] - really held that street together. Such a sad loss!

Don't tell me the GPO is gone now ?

acai berry · 13-07-2018 01:03PM

corner of hells wrote: »

Don't tell me the GPO is gone now ?

Sorry for confusing post. Maybe I should edit the original. Will do. I know you're just joking, corner of hells.

AMKC · 13-07-2018 03:42PM

EdgeCase wrote: »

The big issue was they picked the wrong paving colour. They’ll always look bad as it’s a single colour, grey.

The same mistake was repeated on the repaving of grafton street.

I aagre its awful dull the paving and has no character whatsoever. Only advantage being women can now walk on Grafton street while wearing heels safely without having to worry about twisting on angle or breakin a foot or worse falling.

acai berry wrote: »

Clery's - [and the GPO] - really held that street together. Clery's is such a sad loss!

I agree Cleary's was a terrible loss unfortunately it did not move with the times. It was stuck in the past and did not have enough customers coming to sustain its business so its now gone.

I like the idea of an Ikea store there. Sure its not Cleary's but its not a bad idea and could do well there.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 13-07-2018 03:49PM

Years of ignorant co. councillors making ignorant decisions totally based on money have ruined many parts of Dublin, O'Connell Street included.

BoJack Horseman · 13-07-2018 03:50PM

Using "like" as punctuation.

Why?

corner of hells · 13-07-2018 03:53PM

AMKC wrote: »

I aagre its awful dull the paving and has no character whatsoever. Only advantage being women can now walk on Grafton street while wearing heels safely without having to worry about twisting on angle or breakin a foot or worse falling.

I agree Cleary's was a terrible loss unfortunately it did not move with the times. It was stuck in the past and did not have enough customers coming to sustain its business so its now gone.

I like the idea of an Ikea store there sure its not Cleary's but its not a bad idea and could do well there.

I work near Clerys , I think the plans for it included bars , cafes and various retail units along with a rooftop development.

TallGlass · 13-07-2018 03:57PM

Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but Grand Canal Square is literally cover in ****, bird ****. It's disgusting and the fúcking stains all over the place. The tourists must think we don't clean anything.

acai berry · 13-07-2018 04:02PM

I think it would take a leader with a huge ego, such as the Donald Trump, who would look on O'Connell Street as a reflection of himself, to do anything about it. Things were looking promising a few years ago, when they changed the road surfaces and planted the trees. They seem to have dropped the reins since then.

seachto7 · 13-07-2018 04:13PM

TallGlass wrote: »

Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but Grand Canal Square is literally cover in ****, bird ****. It's disgusting and the fúcking stains all over the place. The tourists must think we don't clean anything.

Can't understand why they didn't build a park here the first day instead.

TallGlass · 13-07-2018 04:17PM

seachto7 wrote: »

Can't understand why they didn't build a park here the first day instead.

Tell you why.

Development company. Less green space the better for them, cost them less to look after it.

What amazes me, is they want to do this at college green. They should do as you said at college green, put some grass down and a few trees.

13-07-2018 04:25PM

murpho999 wrote: »

These are the typical anti Dublin comments left on these type of threads by people who are probably never in Dublin.

I'm rarely in Dublin. That's certainly true, I haven't previously posted to the thread, and I can add that O'Connell St, was manky dirty when I was up there recently.

There shouldn't be a requirement for me to live in Dublin, before I can make such an observation. Dublin is the capital, not some third tier manufacturing city. Considering the amount of money spent on "beautifying" the place, surely they can clean the footpaths without my shoes sticking to the ground... and collecting of the rubbish.

People should stop giving the impression that it's dangerous or dominated by junkies when it's not the case.

Would you spend any amount of time there during the late evening or night? I've been warned by friends living in Dublin. Are they wrong to suggest that it is dangerous>?

NiceFella · 13-07-2018 04:29PM

Grafton Street ain't too good either. Taking my daily left turn up onto it last week and I thought I took a wrong turn and landed in slum India.

Ger Roe · 13-07-2018 04:31PM

I used to be a Dub citizen, but have been living further south for over 25 years now. I have to say anytime I am in the city centre area now, I come home angry. The place is a mess - dirty and tacky, absolutely no doubt about it.

Apart from the general cleanup aspects being debated here, there is hardly a square meter of footpath anywhere in the city that doesn't have an uneven heap of tar beat into it with a shovel. The pedestrian surface of O'Connell bridge is a trip hazard of moon landscape proportions.

It all looks like DCC and the Gardai have given up and we don't have any environmental policies to implement, and no laws are being enforced.

But, sure the tourist stats are up apparently, and that's all that matters. If they come to see us when we do F all about encouraging them, sure why would we bother trying to improve anything?

Personally, I don't go to the city much these days, nothing there to attract me in and I don't like the general vibe there anyway. I am over 50 yrs old and can remember that the debates about how to improve the situation have been going on since forever. The problem is nothing has been done and the situation is now much worse that it ever was.

nullzero · 13-07-2018 05:08PM

Tis Yourself? wrote: »

Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

Lugs Branigan 2.0

wakka12 · 13-07-2018 07:38PM

Ger Roe wrote: »

I used to be a Dub citizen, but have been living further south for over 25 years now. I have to say anytime I am in the city centre area now, I come home angry. The place is a mess - dirty and tacky, absolutely no doubt about it.

Apart from the general cleanup aspects being debated here, there is hardly a square meter of footpath anywhere in the city that doesn't have an uneven heap of tar beat into it with a shovel. The pedestrian surface of O'Connell bridge is a trip hazard of moon landscape proportions.

It all looks like DCC and the Gardai have given up and we don't have any environmental policies to implement, and no laws are being enforced.

But, sure the tourist stats are up apparently, and that's all that matters. If they come to see us when we do F all about encouraging them, sure why would we bother trying to improve anything?

Personally, I don't go to the city much these days, nothing there to attract me in and I don't like the general vibe there anyway. I am over 50 yrs old and can remember that the debates about how to improve the situation have been going on since forever. The problem is nothing has been done and the situation is now much worse that it ever was.

I don't get why they can't just send a letter to all the businesses on Oconnell Street and tell them what type of signage is permitted on it, its an architectural conservation area (lol) so they could easily order businesses to change their shopfronts to be in compliance with it.So what gives? Why have they never done it? Im only 22 but as long as I can remember there has always always always been discussions to improve the street and make it a world class plaza but as you say nothing has changed or if anything its declined

I wonder do nice places like ranelagh have enforced rules about signage or is it just chance?

O'Connell Street Dublin. What the fook like

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