Tell me you're from Dublin without telling me you're from Dublin - I'll start!

[Stephanator]

These statues in everyone and their nanny's windows.

Spicebag

Dublin is such a dump.

I only saw the Dice Man once afaik. Must have been Bastille Day coz I'm pretty sure he was Marie Antoinette that day.
The Kylemore and Arnotts for a bit of grub after shopping. Maybe a drink I'm Madigans or some quiet little spot like that. Where would you all go for de shnakey pint?

Apparently it goes back to the tenements, where each family would put a different statue in their window - once they had their own house, they'd put them in all the windows as a status symbol saying they owned the whole house

Go hang your bollix off of them!

Why comment on a thread about Dublin then?

Oh no!

Because it's good to be realistic.

Dublin city has got worse and worse. So many people in Ireland say that.

Crime. Smell of piss everywhere . Fights. Druggies everywhere.

People crammed onto busses. People screaming and arguing on the buses.

The Dart is always delayed

Might take a while as Press Up Group (site developers) are in trouble.

Belfield?

Yep. Thom McGinty!

I had six excellent months there.

I remember the Pink Elephant but it had an alligator outside the door - I could never figure that one out. The Pod. Excellent fun. An amazing greesy spoon that served sausage sangwitches with brown sauce (😁) and steaming hot mugs of tea until around 4 in the morning.

Jurys (?) after "the match".

Dublin was amazing for me - people would actually talk. The people there seem to connect with each other over the smallest interaction, and then go off on their way. It is unlike anywhere else in that regard. There is an intimacy between strangers.

Also - Irish humor (and most of them seem to have the ability to be funny) outclasses our humor I think.

Refusing to pay 50 pence to see U2 play at the Dandelion Market at Stephen’s Green because “who would pay to listen to the guys my friends went to school with” 😂

Indeed. Arts building.

@Marblesbackagain I do actually love Taytos I have some in the crisp cupboard, so I should have put kings and Taytos. X

Happy culchie shopping day everyone!

@Stephanator - that’s so interesting about the statues in the windows. My mother always hated anything in the windows as she used to say it made the house look like a tenement! Now I get it. (And both she and my Dad came from tenements.)

@BarbaraHoward - it was clean the house for Christmas in our house. My mother would have us all spend our day off school deep cleaning the whole house. No Christmas tree until that was done!

Lol @Peridot1 that's exactly the plan in our house today.

"You're not going into town today, are ye mad ?
It'll be jammers."

December the 8th.

Gone are those days.

This is more 'how to tell me you're from Ranelagh without telling me...'

Real locals pronounce Ranelagh RENelagh - only non-locals say RAN-elagh, I know that for sure because some of my family go back generations there - long before 'D4' was invented - and it was always RENelagh.

I was really hacked off that the Luas didn't bother to ask the locals how to pronounce it before recording their station announcements😠

And before anyone says 'But it's written RANelagh, I would draw your attention to Boolavogue, Youghal or Leicester. Or indeed, as a tourist once asked me directions to: Dun Lagayra

Dorset Street doesn't sound like Dorset in UK. It is pronounced Dor Sett, emphasis on the last syllable.

@andIsaid

I agree completely, the way people interact is quite special

@MarieDeGournay - you know the way Brooklyn Beckham is called Brooklyn because that’s where he was conceived? My Dad said I’d have been called Ranelagh! 😂. My parents rented a flat there when they were first married. Then they moved to the north side.

@Havalona - that’s very true. My mum was brought up near there and my grandmother went to a hairdressers there for years.

@Connebert Blast from the past! Saw it just the other week. It’s had a slight makeover 😊

Was the greasy spoon May’s Cafe? Right across from the Bleeding Horse pub? Many an early morning was spent there after a night on the tiles! It’s long gone now.