Dublin Tourist Traps & Scams

Beechwoodspark · 24-06-2020 11:48am

Losty Dublin wrote: »

I had a few run in's with this bucko. Seems to live in Kimmage/Crumlin/Drimnagh area as he hangs around the bus stops of routes that serve these areas or sometimes down Rathmines or at Superquinn Sundrive.

Said fella tried it on with me one day and I told him to F off. Tried it again the next day, I told him again to F off. Happened once or twice and again I bollocked him out of it. For a while he avoided me but played it on big time with a few old dears one day so I roared at him told him to beat it and not to harass anybody again.

About a week later on O'Connell Street I saw him and he was at it again, pointing and begging. By chance two Gards were passing by so I got their attention. He tried the same trick on with one of them; the other one knew better and let a roar at him as she made a reach for her handcuffs. All I can say is that Helen Keller would have surely admired his sudden recovery of the power of speech that day....

So to make matters worse he can actually talk when the pressure is on??

anplaya27 · 24-06-2020 11:52am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

So to make matters worse he can actually talk when the pressure is on??

Most Deaf people can actually talk. Theres nothing wrong with our vocal cords, just our hearing. We just sound different than hearing as we have never heard a spoken language. The majority of Deaf use Irish Sign Language which is their first and native language.

English would be a second language due to the disparity, as one is visual, one is oral. Shouting at a Deaf person is just pointless tbh as we still cant hear you. What makes ye think we can? Makes me laugh when people do this. So if they're reacting to shouting theyre certainly not deaf.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 11:56am

murpho999 wrote: »

This often gets mentioned but if I go there, I know i'm going to pay more , maybe about €1 a pint.
So for the night I'll pay €10- 12 extra to be in bars that can have good music and atmosphere.

When you go you see plenty of people enjoying themselves so it's not that bad and every city had a touristy area that you pay more.

Good music and atmosphere? 50000 decibels of American Pie and Red Moon Rising in your ear while crushed into bewildered looking tourists. Whatever you're into I suppose.
I can't even walk past the likes of the Oliver St Whatever without cringing.
There are some good cafes and restaurants in Temple Bar but I can't think of one bar I like, maybe that Duck place, but the prices are ridiculous.

gourcuff · 24-06-2020 12:00pm

the problem most people have is its a small city on a wet rock on the edge of europe charging south of france prices, it makes no sense to people - obviously with fdi and huge net inward migration and internal migration dublin is no longer the city of the commitments, but the price gouging is extraordinary compared to other small peripheral European cities..

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 12:02pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

EDIT... Just had a look back and you've literally hundreds and hundreds of posts on boards.ie about Dublin, Dubliners and your hatred of them!!! Bloody hell, there has to be a story there, what happened??

I'd say he was fiddled by a Jackeen in a Liverpool jersey drinking a can of Carling in a Debenham's fitting room as a child, after being dragged up to Dublin in December to do the shopping by his Ma.

CrankyHaus · 24-06-2020 12:04pm

Got to love how threads about Dublin bring out the absolute spacers still harbouring a grudge over that time a D-Reg car took their parking space at Quinnsworths back in 1992.

At least Pintman Paddy Losty is only winding people up with his routine.

Woke Hogan with his diatribes about filthy Dubs diluting ze purity of ze Irish race would be better off saving his manifestos for a book. He could call it "My Struggle" or something like that.

Bio Mech · 24-06-2020 12:10pm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Got to love how threads about Dublin bring out the absolute spacers still harbouring a grudge over that time a D-Reg car took their parking space at Quinnsworths back in 1992.

At least Pintman Paddy Losty is only winding people up with his routine.

Woke Hogan with his diatribes about filthy Dubs diluting ze purity of ze Irish race would be better off saving his manifestos for a book. He could call it "My Struggle" or something like that.

Lads people like Woke Hogan are all thats wrong with Boards. Whether they are trolling or genuine, either way there a massive chip on shoulder complex. Just hit the ignore button like I did. I only know hes been posting his usual bitter minded nonsense from other peoples posts now. ah nice the worlds a little bit now.

CrankyHaus · 24-06-2020 12:19pm

Bio Mech wrote: »

Lads people like Woke Hogan are all thats wrong with Boards. Whether they are trolling or genuine, either way there a massive chip on shoulder complex. Just hit the ignore button like I did. I only know hes been posting his usual bitter minded nonsense from other peoples posts now. ah nice the worlds a little bit now.

You're probably right. I just have an aversion to the ignore button because I think it's healthy to have my views challenged and I'm afraid of creating an echo chamber.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 12:21pm

I'd also rather be British than whatever Woke Hogan identifies as.

vandriver · 24-06-2020 12:25pm

gmisk wrote: »

It does....most people use free now which is a rip off.....but you can use Uber at least in Dublin.

It's the same price,exactly.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 12:28pm

It's neither a tourist trap nor a scam really but the fact that if you fly into Dublin after about 11pm, your only option is to stand in a taxi queue for up to 90 mins sometimes if you're not getting a lift. It's ridiculous.

Woke Hogan · 24-06-2020 12:29pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I'd also rather be British than whatever Woke Hogan identifies as.

There's nothing wrong with being British, I've lived in the UK myself. My point was that people from Dublin are more British than Irish in their habits, and that they don't represent of what a "real" Irish person is like.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 12:34pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with being British, I've lived in the UK myself. My point was that people from Dublin are more British than Irish in their habits, and that they don't represent of what a "real" Irish person is like.

So my mate from Mountmellick who lives in Laois and works for Dell (from home) is more Irish than me how exactly? We do the same things and like the same things mostly.
What's a real Irish person?
How is a bloke in Kerry who watches the premiership and works for a multinational any more Irish than me?
I agree with you on many other issues on boards but your Dublin thing is just plain weird.

2lazytogetup · 24-06-2020 12:35pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

It's neither a tourist trap nor a scam really but the fact that if you fly into Dublin after about 11pm, your only option is to stand in a taxi queue for up to 90 mins sometimes if you're not getting a lift. It's ridiculous.

been a while since ive been in dublin airport, but i imagine the aircoach still runs around the clock.

Woke Hogan · 24-06-2020 12:37pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

So my mate from Mountmellick who lives in Laois and works for Dell (from home) is more Irish than me how exactly? We do the same things and like the same things mostly.
What's a real Irish person?
How is a bloke in Kerry who watches the premiership and works for a multinational any more Irish than me?
I agree with you on many other issues on boards but your Dublin thing is just plain weird.

I don't know your "mate" (English slang) and I don't know you either. I'm speaking generally from observing people I have met from Dublin across decades of living in Ireland.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 12:41pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I don't know your "mate" (English slang) and I don't know you either. I'm speaking generally from observing people I have met from Dublin across decades of living in Ireland.

Everyone says mate now in Ireland I'm afraid. Could you enlighten me on the behaviours that we don't do in Dublin that you do in wherever you're from that makes you more Irish?

gourcuff · 24-06-2020 12:42pm

aversion to the irish language, sports, etc would be strongest in the pale, second city of the empire syndrome etc.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 12:44pm

gourcuff wrote: »

aversion to the irish language, sports, etc would be strongest in the pale, second city of the empire syndrome etc.

Is that why they won the GAA cup or whatever 5 times in a row?

KaneToad · 24-06-2020 12:45pm

Losty Dublin wrote: »

I had a few run in's with this bucko. Seems to live in Kimmage/Crumlin/Drimnagh area as he hangs around the bus stops of routes that serve these areas or sometimes down Rathmines or at Superquinn Sundrive.

Said fella tried it on with me one day and I told him to F off. Tried it again the next day, I told him again to F off. Happened once or twice and again I bollocked him out of it. For a while he avoided me but played it on big time with a few old dears one day so I roared at him told him to beat it and not to harass anybody again.

About a week later on O'Connell Street I saw him and he was at it again, pointing and begging. By chance two Gards were passing by so I got their attention. He tried the same trick on with one of them; the other one knew better and let a roar at him as she made a reach for her handcuffs. All I can say is that Helen Keller would have surely admired his sudden recovery of the power of speech that day....

I've had numerous encounters with this chancer over the years. I must look like a mug. Haven't seen him for the last while. Have been approached by him dozens of times.

beachhead · 24-06-2020 12:45pm

Agree with posts by PintmanPaddyLost and Woke Hogan.Cud do without the wokers do.I know one person who took Dunnes jeans to communist Soviet Russia and they paid for the holiday.

Woke Hogan · 24-06-2020 12:50pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Everyone says mate now in Ireland I'm afraid. Could you enlighten me on the behaviours that we don't do in Dublin that you do in wherever you're from that makes you more Irish?

I already posted some examples earlier in this discussion. It's well documented that Dublin was the centre from which the British ruled Ireland for centuries and that "Dubs" assimilated their habits much easier than the rest of the country. There's no way I would ever recommend a foreign tourist visit Dublin when most of the rest of the country is so much more representative of Ireland proper.

gourcuff · 24-06-2020 12:50pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Is that why they won the GAA cup or whatever 5 times in a row?

Dubs used to say real dubs dont play GAA, it was seen as an irish thing not a dublin thing, the big sport in the anglo irish areas was rugby, in poor areas it was soccer.

calling a sport by the name of the organisation (GAA) is a real imperialist hangover, the english used to deride irish customs, language and games as backward, that mindset still exists in the pale.
.
if you call it football the dubs ask 'do you mean gah'?

they hate the term soccer.

when they go over to old trafford once a year they put on a fake manchester accent..

Woke Hogan · 24-06-2020 12:52pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Is that why they won the GAA cup or whatever 5 times in a row?

That's mainly thanks to the disproportionate funding Dublin gets from the GAA compared with any other county in the rest of the country. Why? Because the GAA was worried that people from Dublin would prefer to play "foreign" games such as soccer, rugby, cricket etc. It's a perfect illustration of my point.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 12:53pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I already posted some examples earlier in this discussion. It's well documented that Dublin was the centre from which the British ruled Ireland for centuries and that "Dubs" assimilated their habits much easier than the rest of the country. There's no way I would ever recommend a foreign tourist visit Dublin when most of the rest of the country is so much more representative of Ireland proper.

You mustn't know many people from Dublin, or the rest of the country, because everyone seems pretty much the same to me, with varying accents. And your recommends aren't getting very far because the place overflows with tourists in normal years.
I think you need to get out more and open your mind a little. Peace.

D3V!L · 24-06-2020 12:57pm

ShyMets wrote: »

Haven't seen him around in while. He approached me a few years ago looking for money and got very aggrieved when I told him to bugger off.

He lives in Drimnagh, I used to see him at the bus stop. He was chatting away on his phone one day at the stop.

CrankyHaus · 24-06-2020 1:00pm

gourcuff wrote: »

Dubs used to say real dubs dont play GAA, it was seen as an irish thing not a dublin thing, the big sport in the anglo irish areas was rugby, in poor areas it was soccer.

calling a sport by the name of the organisation (GAA) is a real imperialist hangover, the english used to deride irish customs, language and games as backward, that mindset still exists in the pale.
.
if you call it football the dubs ask 'do you mean gah'?

they hate the term soccer.

when they go over to old trafford once a year they put on a fake manchester accent..

To win the All-Ireland 5 times in a row means nothing if one does not use the right words to describe it :pac:

This thread is the gift that keeps on giving.

Next they'll probably be saying Dublin's many Gaelscoileanna don't teach the right kind of Irish or something.

Incidentally the only place outside actual Gaeltachts that I've ever encountered Irish spoken conversationally in public is in Dublin.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 1:03pm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

To win the All-Ireland 5 times in a row means nothing if one does not use the right words to describe it :pac:

This thread is the gift that keeps on giving.

Next they'll probably be saying Dublin's many Gaelscoileanna don't teach the right kind of Irish or something.

Incidentally the only place outside actual Gaeltachts that I've ever encountered Irish spoken conversationally in public is in Dublin.

True I hear it among the middle classes of Clontarf and Raheny often. I also went to a Gaelscoil, but I don't think it makes me any more Irish than daoine eile.

corner of hells · 24-06-2020 1:07pm

gourcuff wrote: »

Dubs used to say real dubs dont play GAA, it was seen as an irish thing not a dublin thing, the big sport in the anglo irish areas was rugby, in poor areas it was soccer.

calling a sport by the name of the organisation (GAA) is a real imperialist hangover, the english used to deride irish customs, language and games as backward, that mindset still exists in the pale.
.
if you call it football the dubs ask 'do you mean gah'?

they hate the term soccer.

when they go over to old trafford once a year they put on a fake manchester accent..

Them "Dubs" must have robbed your capitals .

24-06-2020 1:10pm

There's a few Traveler women who beg in town who are nearly in tears while doing so. Usually around Dawson, Grafton and Wicklow street.
They actually live quite near me and i see them regularly getting out of taxis with bags of groceries, etc.

Complete chancers !

na1 · 24-06-2020 1:14pm

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Uber doesn't exist in Ireland.

There are uber-like taxi services in Ireland though. I wouldn't call the name, but I used at least one of them

gourcuff · 24-06-2020 1:25pm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

To win the All-Ireland 5 times in a row means nothing if one does not use the right words to describe it :pac:

This thread is the gift that keeps on giving.

Next they'll probably be saying Dublin's many Gaelscoileanna don't teach the right kind of Irish or something.

Incidentally the only place outside actual Gaeltachts that I've ever encountered Irish spoken conversationally in public is in Dublin.

Ah kid you completely miss the point.

Dave McWilliams writes about it here, have a little read.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/david-mcwilliams-we-have-witnessed-the-d%C3%BAn-laoghaire-isation-of-ireland-1.3674049

CrankyHaus · 24-06-2020 1:30pm

gourcuff wrote: »

Ah kid you completely miss the point.

Dave McWilliams writes about it here, have a little read.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/david-mcwilliams-we-have-witnessed-the-d%C3%BAn-laoghaire-isation-of-ireland-1.3674049

I don't think you read the article yourself, beyond maybe skimming the headline over your hang-sandwich, because it's point is the absolute antithesis of your Dublin = British prejudice.

punisher5112 · 24-06-2020 1:30pm

Drug addicts going around with a sob story they're pregnant and need money to eat as they're starving....

Yet they're housed, given free travel, welfare money, clinics and other agencies that provide with food and other essential basics.

Necro · 24-06-2020 1:33pm

Mod:

If you all can't discuss the topic without making sweeping generalisations or attacking other posters then this thread will be closed. It's an interesting topic, stop derailing it with the above. Thanks.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 1:33pm

Deleted User wrote: »

There's a few Traveler women who beg in town who are nearly in tears while doing so. Usually around Dawson, Grafton and Wicklow street.
They actually live quite near me and i see them regularly getting out of taxis with bags of groceries, etc.

Complete chancers !

Is that the mother daughter combo that live out in Finglas direction? They've been at it for years, scammers.

JimmyVik · 24-06-2020 1:36pm

Did anyone mention the woman in stephens green who has been trying to get her bus fare together for the last 10 years.

gourcuff · 24-06-2020 1:37pm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

I don't think you read the article yourself, beyond maybe skimming the headline over your hang-sandwich, because it's point is the absolute antithesis of your Dublin = British prejudice.

oh god 'hang sandwich' - how narrow minded.

Read the article again kid, he talks about dlrs recent gaelic games success as originating in ireland rather than dublin.

"The CAO winners
The rise of hurling in coastal south Dublin can be traced back to the free education of the 1960s. The primary force of the cultural takeover of south Dublin has been the emergence of a rural professional class that has come to dominate Dublin’s professions"

"Yet in the past few years, a great blurring has taken hold, where these old distinctions have melded into something else. Dalkey, formerly home of retired majors and colonels of the British armed forces, stomping ground of Protestant chroniclers of the relationship between Ireland and England, Shaw and Synge, has become the cradle of Irish hurling. Dalkey’s Cuala GAA club have been All-Ireland hurling club champions for two years running. How did that happen?"

"We have described the Dún Laoghaire-isation of the countryside, but what about the reverse takeover, the “culchification” of Dún Laoghaire?

In 1979, there was always a big local sporting final on St Patrick’s Day for the schools rugby final in Lansdowne Road, where the sons of the local merchant class showed their true skill and, more importantly, character on the playing fields.

Had you told us back then that a Dalkey team would be All-Ireland hurling champions, we’d have laughed at you.

Yet, on St Patrick’s Day 2017 and 2018, legions of locals left deepest south Dublin, decked out in the red and white of Cuala, for Croke Park to cheer on a hurling team sponsored by that pillar of south Dublin financial capitalism, Davy Stockbrokers. Yes, you are reading right.

When you open your eyes, you see this cultural transformation everywhere".

SuperGrover · 24-06-2020 1:42pm

Trigger Happy wrote: »

No, I am not a tourist. But my elderly uncle and his wife were when on a trip to ireland last september. Charged them €50 for a 6 minute ride.

Your aunt's a hooker?

JimmyVik · 24-06-2020 1:42pm

murpho999 wrote: »

Wow, do you generalise much.

How can there be more irish people in places like West Cork and Kerry compared to the most populated part of the country?

There's not junkies everywhere as you claim and I've been in Dublin with plenty of tourists (had foreign family visitors over) and they all love going to Dublin for pubs, museums, Phoenix Park, architecture etc.

It's only your blinkered hatred of Dublin that shows in your post.

There are junkies everywhere in Dublin.
Choc full of them. Anywhere within 3km of the city center is full of the walking dead.

retalivity · 24-06-2020 2:11pm

JimmyVik wrote: »

Did anyone mention the woman in stephens green who has been trying to get her bus fare together for the last 10 years.

This the same woman sobbing for at least 6 years at the old phonebox outside eurogiant next to the shelbourne? She must be able to buy her own bus at this stage, coining it daily from tourists coming out of that hotel walking down to grafton st.

JimmyVik · 24-06-2020 2:14pm

retalivity wrote: »

This the same woman sobbing for at least 6 years at the old phonebox outside eurogiant next to the shelbourne? She must be able to buy her own bus at this stage, coining it daily from tourists coming out of that hotel walking down to grafton st.

"excuse me sir. I wonder would you spare a euro so i can get the bus home."

Spanish Eyes · 24-06-2020 2:21pm

I fail to see why anyone needs to beg in this country. We are a very generous people towards those in need.

HAP, get a house, medical card, free education, child allowance etc. Asylum seekers fed and sheltered etc. Those who were let go for Covid were paid. Evicitions stopped. The country is a beacon of light in so many ways, but a lot of people do not see how well we do towards others less fortunate.

Lots of charities looking after the 200 or so homeless (won't go to shelters, sleep on the streets), people.

Free food in many places including Father Kevins. And so on and so forth.

The unfortunates are those who fall through the gaps, but not the beggars we see every day. Sorry now it is not necessary and is mostly either for drugs or for professional beggars from places like Romania. That's it.

Hangdogroad · 24-06-2020 2:33pm

The Turks Head bar and their rip off prices.

AndrewJRenko · 27-06-2020 9:43am

na1 wrote: »

There are uber-like taxi services in Ireland though. I wouldn't call the name, but I used at least one of them

The Unique Selling Proposition of Uber - to use your own car as a part-time taxi - doesn't work in Irish legislation. If you want to provide taxi services in Ireland, you need to meet the same licence and vehicle requirements as all taxi services.

John_Rambo · 27-06-2020 4:38pm

Expensive pubs aren't traps or scams, they're just expensive.

The prices are on the wall.

McHardcore · 27-06-2020 4:39pm

that goddam whiskey museum

ILoveYourVibes · 27-06-2020 5:25pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

Expensive pubs aren't traps or scams, they're just expensive.

The prices are on the wall.

It depends ....many cheat on measures etc .

Or they do a deal with other pubs on prices.

murpho999 · 27-06-2020 6:01pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

The Turks Head bar and their rip off prices.

That you simply don't have to go into or pay.

It's not a trap.

CrankyHaus · 29-06-2020 3:49pm

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

It depends ....many cheat on measures etc .

Or they do a deal with other pubs on prices.

"Cocktail special offer; 2 for €10".
Disclaimer: "Cocktail" may in fact be several litres of kia-ora and sugar with a dash of alcohol, stored under the bar for the last week.
And if you complain we'll kick you out.

riclad · 30-06-2020 11:29pm

You have to pass an exam and get your car tested and fit a fare meter so uber does not work in Ireland like it does in the USA.
Every week I get people asking me for a euro,
they ask any adult, its not limited to tourists.
High prices in pubs is not a scam,
No one forces you to go to a pub, you can buy cans for a few euro. If you pay 5 euro for 1 Rose you are an idiot.
Of course a bus is cheaper than using a taxi

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