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Grafton Quarter

  • 13-11-2019 4:09pm
    #1
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,219 ✭✭✭✭


    Gerrup the yard with that crap. Not alone were the lights turned on the 10th November, some wonks put this up.


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  • #2
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,219 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Below:


  • #3
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Just, no.

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  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    You know what they call a Grafton quarter with cheese in France?


  • #5
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,575 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Saw this on Twitter earlier....

    "Quarter" indeed, peak notions....


  • #6
    Simmer down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Simmer down


    Visit the Grafton Quarter. Where Burger King is only a stones throw away from Mc Donalds.


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  • #7
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,219 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Morkeshing exec-Well this seems to be going down like a lead balloon. I know, let's get some no-mark "influencers" down here tagging their inane Instagram posts #GraftonQuarter


  • #8
    w/s/p/c/
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭w/s/p/c/


    Poor Henry Street only has "Welcome to Dublin One" on their lights!!

    Grafton Quarter, what a load of bulls*it!


  • #9
    Simmer down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Simmer down


    w/s/p/c/ wrote: »
    Poor Henry Street only has "Welcome to Dublin One" on their lights!!

    Grafton Quarter, what a load of bulls*it!

    Henry Street "Do you wanna buy a Quarter"


  • #10
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,219 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Simmer down wrote: »
    Henry Street "Do you wanna buy a Quarter"

    Nah, just a one-er please


  • #11
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,036 ✭✭✭✭neris


    w/s/p/c/ wrote: »
    Poor Henry Street only has "Welcome to Dublin One" on their lights!!

    Grafton Quarter, what a load of bulls*it!

    but Henry street has the culture & real Dubs. "wrapping paper 5 for a euro", cheap knock off aramani perfume that salt of the earth Bernie from the flats sells from her pram thats been passed down from generation to generation, the Arnotts window, the pick pockets & shop lifters,


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  • #12
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users Posts: 12,988 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    The process of turning Dublin into America continues.


  • #13
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,458 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Mr.S wrote: »
    I really don't get the fuss around this.

    Grafton Quarter has been on DCC tourist maps for a few years now, it's not exactly a new thing.

    It promotes the area, what's the harm? It's not like they are renaming Grafton Street.

    Can't understand all the outrage myself either. These terms have been used on tourism literature and so on for ages now.

    These lights are also funded by businesses in the vicinity of Grafton Street, not just those on the street itself. It's not that surprising that they have been pushing for 'Grafton Quarter'.

    Dublin Town businesses, who are funding the lights, are divided into the Creative District, Dame District, Grafton Quarter, Talbot District and Dublin One.

    Dublin City Council and its councillors (some who notably have been jumping on the social media bandwagon by criticizing this) are delighted to be saving hundreds of thousands of Euro by making businesses pay for the lighting.


  • #14
    lfen
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭lfen


    Little to be worrying about if this kinda thing gets your goat!


  • #15
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,219 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    lfen wrote: »
    Little to be worrying about if this kinda thing gets your goat!

    Many things can get on one's goat, simultaneously. Hard to grasp I know but some people are multifaceted.


  • #16
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,564 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    This has notions written all over it...

    ...every five buildings in a given city is labelled as a "quarter" these days. Galway has a "Latin Quarter"

    Fact is - Grafton St is pretty much a shadow of its former self. Practically no high end independent retailers now, all chain stores, mobile phone shops and fast food outlets.


  • #17
    NasserShammaz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    What a pile of shi#t. No doubt the arseholes who came up with this boll#x think its brilliant...

    Some PR marketing Dickheads got their heads around a table and this is what they delivered.

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


  • #18
    NasserShammaz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Morkeshing exec-Well this seems to be going down like a lead balloon. I know, let's get some no-mark "influencers" down here tagging their inane Instagram posts #GraftonQuarter

    I think there was a "Team" of part time or wannabe influencers employed on the rebrand. It stinks of that level of vacuous stupidity


  • #19
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Can't understand all the outrage myself either. These terms have been used on tourism literature and so on for ages now.

    These lights are also funded by businesses in the vicinity of Grafton Street, not just those on the street itself. It's not that surprising that they have been pushing for 'Grafton Quarter'.

    Dublin Town businesses, who are funding the lights, are divided into the Creative District, Dame District, Grafton Quarter, Talbot District and Dublin One.

    Dublin City Council and its councillors (some who notably have been jumping on the social media bandwagon by criticizing this) are delighted to be saving hundreds of thousands of Euro by making businesses pay for the lighting.

    Sorry, but I shall be beholden to no one in my unfair sniggering at 'Talbot District'.


  • #20
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,499 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Don't see the problem. Destination Marketing has been very very successful in the country. I remember being guffawed and sneered by locals at when the Wild Atlantic Way was first mooted.

    Look at it now. They're tagging it in their social media and are very very boastful about their WAW.

    Other cities and countries can forge ahead with this sort of marketing with confidence and aplomb, but there's a real fear and lack of faith among some Irish people. Anything "cool", or mainstream European is mocked at as having "notions" or being "American"!! Same happened when Dublin's Chinatown was mooted, hecklers and snipers sniggering behind their keyboards.

    It's a good way of sectioning up the city from a tourist (non commuter, not local) perspective.


  • #21
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Don't see the problem. Destination Marketing has been very very successful in the country. I remember being guffawed and sneered by locals at when the Wild Atlantic Way was first mooted.

    Look at it now. They're tagging it in their social media and are very very boastful about their WAW.

    Other cities and countries can forge ahead with this sort of marketing with confidence and aplomb, but there's a real fear and lack of faith among some Irish people. Anything "cool", or mainstream European is mocked at as having "notions" or being "American"!! Same happened when Dublin's Chinatown was mooted, hecklers and snipers sniggering behind their keyboards.

    It's a good way of sectioning up the city from a tourist (non commuter, not local) perspective.

    It's marketing of the traditional Christmas lights ffs


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  • #22
    ra0044
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭ra0044


    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    It's marketing of the traditional Christmas lights ffs


    Christmas lights that are paid for by the businesses in that area to encourage people to come in to the city to shop.

    Christmas lights have always been about marketing really. Make everyone happy and jovial. Build a bit of Christmas cheer blah blah blah. Oh and while you are hear spend a load of money.

    If the council or Bord Failte want to spend public money on them and make them culturally significant or highlight the buzz word of the day by showing diversity, understanding, building a multi something environment etc they can. People will then moan about the waste of tax payers money.

    I like the lights and just ignore the bits I don't. Much like how I ignore bits of the city I don't like and concentrate on what I do


  • #23
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,281 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Is the Nollaig Shona Duit sign def gone? Please say no :(

    I take the little ones into dublin every Christmas and that’s one of the “highlights” we look out for


  • #24
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,281 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Sorry now but Nollaig Shona Duit was a simple, festive, welcoming and uniquely Irish Christmas message.

    I can’t believe they’ve gone and got rid of something that was a unique selling point for dublin and Ireland in general.


  • #25
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,724 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    "Quarter" and "Hub", two of the most hackneyed words in urban areas these days.
    If a tourist or shopper can't find Grafton St without it being "Quartered", fvck them.

    Xmas stinks of commercialism enough without a clichéd morketing exercise in neon lights.


  • #26
    Culchie_85
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭Culchie_85


    Bizarre thing for people to be moaning about.

    The names are used to promote tourism and give distinct characters to different parts of Dublin City.

    They're not forcing you to use the names.


  • #27
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Sorry now but Nollaig Shona Duit was a simple, festive, welcoming and uniquely Irish Christmas message.

    I can’t believe they’ve gone and got rid of something that was a unique selling point for dublin and Ireland in general.

    I did like that sign.

    I've no really issue with the quarter thing but why did it have to result in the other sign being jettisoned?


  • #28
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    What Dublin desperately needs is more bloody tourists.

    I noticed that when I got off the Luas at Connolly and walked down towards Parnell and third to use a restroom


  • #29
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,199 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    If a tourist or shopper can't find Grafton St without it being "Quartered", fvck them.

    It's not just Grafton Street, that's kinda the point.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #30
    Hoboo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    Bambi wrote: »
    What Dublin desperately needs is more bloody tourists.

    I noticed that when I got off the Luas at Connolly and walked down towards Parnell and third to use a restroom


    Apart from comedic talent, you could also do with a map.


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  • #31
    MarkY91
    Registered Users Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    The Grafton quarter sign is grand. It's just a little sad to see the nollaig shona dhuit sign gone. It's been there as long as I remember.


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