Grumpy Moore Street Traders

Thelonious Monk · 01-03-2020 07:30PM

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 · 01-03-2020 07:42PM

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 · 01-03-2020 07:47PM

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 · 01-03-2020 07:51PM

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

Jonybgud · 01-03-2020 08:27PM

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 · 01-03-2020 09:56PM

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 · 01-03-2020 10:07PM

Worked in Fyffes in Smithfield year ago and the women would go through boxes of out of date stuff at the skips and pick out what wasn't totally rotten and sell it so they were getting their produce for free.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 · 01-03-2020 10:13PM

[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 · 01-03-2020 10:17PM

Ye still would though

elperello · 01-03-2020 10:17PM

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 · 01-03-2020 10:19PM

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

Which is why nobody with sense shops there.

PCeeeee · 01-03-2020 10:22PM

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 · 01-03-2020 10:23PM

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...

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mcgragger · 01-03-2020 10:25PM

[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. · 01-03-2020 10:27PM

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 · 01-03-2020 10:27PM

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

elperello · 01-03-2020 10:29PM

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 · 01-03-2020 10:30PM

fryup wrote: »

example A...

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

L1011 · 01-03-2020 10:32PM

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 · 01-03-2020 10:38PM

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.

JohnnyFlash · 01-03-2020 10:40PM

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.

Dublin CC is far nicer than it was. People are getting nostalgic about a place that never existed. The smog, the boarded up shop-fronts, the shïthole pubs - that was the reality in the 70’s and 80’s.

PCeeeee · 01-03-2020 10:41PM

L1011 wrote: »

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.

A magnificent answer. Thank you. I was just wondering tho. ðŸ˜€

DesperateDan · 01-03-2020 10:43PM

Exactly, I was walking around between christ church and temple bar one day last week and was surprised at how nice it was since the last time I was there (few years). Lots of interesting places to eat, museums, cool little shops, felt like a different place all together

growleaves · 01-03-2020 10:43PM

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.

There's still some of it about.

But generally its being turned into a generic over-clean city for yuppies. Overcrowded and utterly sterilised.

Collie D · 01-03-2020 10:52PM

growleaves wrote: »

There's still some of it about.

But generally its being turned into a generic over-clean city for yuppies. Overcrowded and utterly sterilised.

I agree with you to a point but “over-clean” is not an accusation I’ve ever heard about Dublin before.

whisky_galore · 01-03-2020 10:57PM

growleaves wrote: »

There's still some of it about.

But generally its being turned into a generic over-clean city for yuppies. Overcrowded and utterly sterilised.

The streets and not a few of the natives should be sterilised.

KungPao · 01-03-2020 11:01PM

growleaves wrote: »

There's still some of it about.

But generally its being turned into a generic over-clean city for yuppies. Overcrowded and utterly sterilised.

You make it sound like Dubai.

It’s certainly not clean and sterile. Walking dead on every corner, robbing and pissing on the street. Then stumbling onto the luas while shouting at anto on the platform, that’s he’s a fooking bollix etc.

Dublin CC, particularly the north, is disgusting. O’Connell, Abbey St, Talbot st, de state of ih.

I don’t mind it so much, but sterile it ain’t.

riclad · 01-03-2020 11:42PM

Yeah certain parts of the city are sterile, and gentrified,
the north inner city is not sterile .
If you want to see sterile go to japan tokoyo.
Alot of the stall,s in moore st are empty,unused .when those old woman retire will their children take over , or will the old street market disappear .
It will be just,2 euro store,s ,chinese restaurants and mobile phone shops .

MarkY91 · 02-03-2020 12:03AM

Imagine a tourists first sight as they turn away from the spire is a 3rd world ****hole of a street with people that look like they could play the cast of a prison movie.

Absolutely embarrassing.

Ray Palmer · 02-03-2020 01:28PM

Moore Street has always been a mess. Somebody suggesting the street is very, very clean is not looking at the same street.

I went to film there in the late 80s as I had a lend of a video camera. They suspected I was from revenue or social welfare gathering evidence. After the 2nd punch to the back of the head from behind they tried to steal the camera.

Luckily there were 2 of us and we were able to fight back enough to get away. Gardai didn't want to know and said we were stupid for going there with a camera.

There was no way 2 long haired hippies were gather information for revenue or social welfare.

Grumpy Moore Street Traders

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