Phibsborough - The Trendy New Quarter?

limnam · 22-09-2018 11:32pm

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

What's wrong with Rathmines?

Charity shops and a really sh|t shopping center, pretty much phib!

limnam · 22-09-2018 11:36pm

mick malones mauser wrote: »

Famous Phibsboro residents
James Joyce...wrote the odd book or 2
Brush Shiels. Told Phil Lynnot to go home and practise his guitar playing before throwing him of his band Skid Row.
Ronan Collins..RTE, ex showband drummer
The Memories ...showband famous in the 60s
Harry Boland...sidekick of Michael Collins until they took opposite sides in the Civil War
Feel free to add

Anto and Deco....Two scobes....

Jeff2 · 22-09-2018 11:38pm

limnam wrote: »

Charity shops and a really sh|t shopping center, pretty much phib!

Traffic fumes would be much the same in both.
No where near as bad as years ago but bad all the same.

mick malones mauser · 22-09-2018 11:41pm

McMoustache

" a decent population of country folk "
There was always a fair amount of culchies living in flats in Phibsboro, Nurses and Guards and Prison Officers all had major employment nearby. Every house in Cabra Park seemed to be divided into bedsits back in the 70s .
So if Phibsboro can survive that it can survive the hipsters with their silly beards and fair trade coffee (brewed from coffee beans hand picked by lesbian goatherds from Bolivia)

limnam · 22-09-2018 11:44pm

mick malones mauser wrote: »

(brewed from coffee beans hand picked by lesbian goatherds from Bolivia)

Unless an animal has chewed them and sh|t them out first.

I'm not buying.

AllForIt · 23-09-2018 12:22am

wakka12 wrote: »

I agree sometimes but sometimes gentrification is good and is a very much needed change to a ****ty area that people call character but I don't see how dangerous and poor is character

Couldn't agree more.

Pero_Bueno · 23-09-2018 1:31am

It has Dalymount park there.

It's a sh*thole.

JupiterKid · 23-09-2018 1:36am

Phibsborough got a McDonalds in 1983, a full 6 months before Rathmines did...

And even further back, in 1972, Phibsborough had the very first international fast food outlet in Ireland - KFC in the shopping Centre.

...so there!!!:p:pac:

Vita nova · 23-09-2018 10:37am

mick malones mauser wrote: »

McMoustache

" a decent population of country folk "
There was always a fair amount of culchies...

Charming!

Edgware · 23-09-2018 10:51am

mick malones mauser wrote: »

McMoustache

" a decent population of country folk "
There was always a fair amount of culchies living in flats in Phibsboro, Nurses and Guards and Prison Officers all had major employment nearby. Every house in Cabra Park seemed to be divided into bedsits back in the 70s .
So if Phibsboro can survive that it can survive the hipsters with their silly beards and fair trade coffee (brewed from coffee beans hand picked by lesbian goatherds from Bolivia)

Just as well the country folk moved in and raised the standards. The resident smog rats would prefer to maintain it like a tenement with some real oul Dub "characters" i.e. the local piss heads

ToddyDoody · 23-09-2018 11:38am

JupiterKid wrote: »

I see Time Out magazine have decreed that Phibsborough - basically the Rathmines of Northside Dublin - is one of its top 50 trendy hot new urban quarters...(it's No 27 out of 50)

Link:
https://www.timeout.com/coolest-neighbourhoods-in-the-world

Is that where all the cool people go?

mick malones mauser · 23-09-2018 11:44am

I see our provincial pals have woken.
Look lads and ladies if you detest Dublin that much why not start a thread about Portlaoise or Mullingar or whatever god forsaken one horse towns you grew up in.

Billy Mays · 23-09-2018 12:02pm

mick malones mauser wrote: »

I grew up in Cabra.

mick malones mauser wrote: »

I hate bow ez
C'mon de hoops

Not cool

mick malones mauser · 23-09-2018 12:08pm

Billy Mays
If Bohs were playing in my back garden I would close the curtains

ToddyDoody · 23-09-2018 12:08pm

mick malones mauser wrote: »

I see our provincial pals have woken.
Look lads and ladies if you detest Dublin that much why not start a thread about Portlaoise or Mullingar or whatever god forsaken one horse towns you grew up in.

Ahhh being denounced from on high.

mick malones mauser · 23-09-2018 12:10pm

Billy Mays
Growing up in Cabra in the 60s lots of young lads supported Rovers.
Bohs at the time were an amatuer team who weren't very good while Rovers won the cup every year...or so it seemed

Billy Mays · 23-09-2018 12:12pm

mick malones mauser wrote: »

Billy Mays
If Bohs were playing in my back garden I would close the curtains

A Cabra man supporting Rovers

For shame

edit

Ah I see, a glory hunter

mick malones mauser · 23-09-2018 12:18pm

Toddydoody
All are welcome, I bear no ill will to my rural compatriots who make the traumatic journeys from their desolate home place to seek fame and fortune in The Fair City. Indeed many thousands of them have assimilated fully and even toned down their provincial accents and indeed have raised children here. These immigrants have greatly enhanced our city and are arguably responsible for the success of the Dublin team in the Native games. However many more have a dreadful chip on their shoulder and are to be seen in places like Copper Face Jacks wearing their Offaly Gaa tops moaning about Dem Dubs and what an awful place they find themselves forced to live.
Well why not rail against the ecomomic system that causes this migration and not against the place that gives them shelter from the storm

mick malones mauser · 23-09-2018 12:23pm

Billy Mays
A decision made at 6 years of age
You could call it Glory Hunting of course.
I went to Dalymount every 2nd Sunday to see Bohs play whoever because I was too young to get the bus/buses across the city to see the glorious hoops until I was about 10.
There weren't many people supporting Bohs in those days
By the 70s Bohs had turned professional and enjoyed success while Rovers declined. Crowds increased at Dalymount and decreased at Milltown but I kept up my pilgrimage to see the glorious hoops.
Glory hunter indeed

ToddyDoody · 23-09-2018 12:31pm

This bit, the social bit, you can keep.

mick malones mauser wrote: »

Toddydoody
All are welcome, I bear no ill will to my rural compatriots who make the traumatic journeys from their desolate home place to seek fame and fortune in The Fair City. Indeed many thousands of them have assimilated fully and even toned down their provincial accents and indeed have raised children here. These immigrants have greatly enhanced our city and are arguably responsible for the success of the Dublin team in the Native games. However many more have a dreadful chip on their shoulder and are to be seen in places like Copper Face Jacks wearing their Offaly Gaa tops moaning about Dem Dubs and what an awful place they find themselves forced to live.

This bit, the money bit, I'll take.

Well why not rail against the ecomomic system that causes this migration and not against the place that gives them shelter from the storm

Edgware · 23-09-2018 5:58pm

mick malones mauser wrote: »

Billy Mays
Growing up in Cabra in the 60s lots of young lads supported Rovers.
Bohs at the time were an amatuer team who weren't very good while Rovers won the cup every year...or so it seemed

Ah the Hoops
also known as "the Cup specialists"

Teyla Emmagan · 23-09-2018 6:53pm

We were brought to the shopping centre in Phibsborough on a school tour once. It was the height of sophistication, most of us had never been in a shopping centre before.

Cienciano · 23-09-2018 7:33pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

nah, doesn't come close

The Crumlin Shopping Centre, a beacon of hope in a world slowly slipping into darkness.

Southside is better in every way. Even their comically bad shopping centres are funnier

4ensic15 · 23-09-2018 9:16pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

A prison sorry 2 are right next to it ????? I'm lost.

There are 3 prisons there at least.

Phibsborough - The Trendy New Quarter?

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