Why can't O'Connell Street in Dublin be more like Dame Street and Grafton Street ?

Should take the spire away. It’s there over 20 years and not a person would miss the thing. It’s the most bland pointless piece of street art / decorative street architecture. Can’t interact with it, can’t go in it, up it, bland as hell to look at. The way it’s lit at night is completely dull and ineffectual. Ironic to call a spire pointless but it pretty much is.

...pack yourself up with drink and drugs, and you d be surprised what you can do with that thing!

What methadone clinics ?

...am i right in saying theres many clinics on the north side of the city, relatively close to o'connell st?

Not quite O'Connell St but did anyone see this from last Friday on Talbot St? Like one of the kids trying to kick your man, who I'd say is Brazilian, must be all of 10 years old. How do we create these kinds of humans in this day and age with all the wealth in this country?

Fair play to the big guy for standing his ground.

i don,t think the council can decide what shops go in a particular street, thats up to the cost of rent ,consumer demand ,the level of traffic ,tourists go to temple bar, middle class customers go to shops on the south side or to shopping centres

Thats bollix.

Thts a laughable solution actully. I dont know what they are called but they "Concerned for dublin city brigade" managed to get Ann Summers to leave Oconnell street too. Despite it being the classiest thing on the street.

Put garda up and down the street. That will improve things a bit. Not cycling past, but actually on guard. That would help.

Looking at fixing O'Connell Street is misunderstanding the issue in the first place. You can pour €1bn into it and it will be €1bn down the drain, because nobody wants anything to do with that drug hole. That whole north side city center area is a problem. All the streets stemming off O'Connell and within 1km radius of it need offices, work places, apartments to bring regular people, not tourists, and O'Connell street being at the center of it and a vital link for transport will improve.

What stores set up there is supply and demand, you should be happy to see low value commercial set up shop there because clearly no business that could pay better wanted anything to do with it.

Cos it's the northside ! And our southside literary crew get bridges & monuments ! Where as Brenda'n Behan gets a strip of council gaffs named after him ! Discrimination. I tells ya !

Nevermind trashy shops , I witnessed a young fella run for his life into penny's, chased by a dozen toe rags all dressed in the blanch 3 peice , with despicable young women recording it all ! Sadly our gardai can't lay a finger on them otherwise the likes of GSOC could have their job , it's so wrong & what the tourists must think of us !