I was in Swiss over the Bank holiday weekend, for the first time, Zurich as the hub. I am not going to make comparisons and demean Dublin, what I will say, with the country be awash with money, we deserve so much more from our politicians and councils. we really do.
Hard to disagree these days tbh
Surprised it to someone so long to pick up in that video. He stayed on Talbot St and walked around north inner city. Probably not the best advertisement for the city. He couldn’t get over the amount of rubbish, vape and mobile phone shops around the area.
That’s a fierce mild take.
I’m always surprised as the push back this gets when it’s completely through.
I like to travel around the world and the most baffling part is the hoops people jump through in order to justify why Dublin, and to a wider degree Irelans, is so shit.
If you compare it to Paris, Berlin, Rome etc your told those countries are too rich and have too big a population to be a fair comparison.
If you compare it to Andorra your told its too small population wise to he a fair comparison.
If you compare it to Edinburgh or Glasgow your told the UK has too much money for it to he a fair comparison.
If you compare it to Athens your told the city is too old for it to he a fair comparison.
Just any hoop or excuse thrown out, even contradicting themselves, to justify why everything is a shit show here.
What didn’t he like about it?
Where’s the lie?
Dublin is good if you know where to go. The best places are outside the city centre.
Under current Governance both state and city it has been destroyed. The fruits of our economic success are not reaching the streets in a meaningful way.
He’s 100% spot on.
To enjoy “Dublin”, you have to go outside Dublin. West, to Phoneix Park. North, to Howth. South, to Killiney Hill or Bray Head. All gorgeous spots.
But the city centre? One of the worst of a major city Europe.
It’s not our fault, we were poor. But we should be improving it now.
He’s not wrong. It’s actually so embarrassing and shocking how much of a dirty, broken, bottle neck and boring kip Dublin is. I’ve never seen so many drug addicts in such a small space, a lot of it is just a drive through for ppl to the suburbs.
Honestly Dublin has a lot of potential but is very let down and kinda neglected. A lot of main streets have a terrible smell of piss and shit off them, places that alot of tourists would be, have a lot of rough characters loitering around EG Connolly station, Busaras and even O Connell, small things like lack of bins leading to a lot of trash on the ground. Plus, it is very expensive for what it is.
Dublin might be the most depressing, run down, poorly equiped capital city in the EU.
Anyone any argument otherwise?
The nice thing about Dublin is that it has some great suburbs/villages to visit (howth, Ranelagh, Drumcondra and such) and easy access to the Wicklow mountains and plenty of beaches and hikes. The city center itself is fairly shit if we are being honest and it’s a shame very little has been done to really improve it over the years.
Compared to other european capitals dublin does not come close to the standard. Its an eyesore and for any tourists that see it i dont blame them for thinking the gaffs shite
I was home recently for a quick visit and it was shocking how filthy the city was. Like every single street and place we went to looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in decades
It’s depressing what a kip dublin city is now 😕 I love being irish and have great pride in it, I just feel ashamed that tourists land in our capital city and this is what they’re basing the whole of Ireland on 😩
He walked from Busarus to Talbot. Then got a luas to Bluebell and back to Smithfield and then walked back to Talbot along the Luas line.
Anybody who follows that route will hate Dublin and prob get assaulted as well.
He may have been too direct, but he didn’t lie
God forbid taxes actually benefitted the tax payer.
I kind of struggle to defend any Irish City these days to be honest!
In fact I think Irish tourism isn’t that far from falling off a cliff our cities are filthy and squeeze every last cent out of tourists. We overcharge and serve basic cuisine that pales in in comparison to most countries. Need to get somewhere? Oh well the train only goes to a few spots and you’ll need a pricey taxi to get to the others places and the train will be way slower than what you’re used to and we don’t have any late night buses where you’re staying so again pricey taxi. Oh and watch out as you may be killed by some 15year thug while drinking the most expensive Heineken you’ve ever had in your life in Temple Bar!
Need a police officer? Good luck trying to find one!!
Hospital? Be prepared to miss your flight you’ll be waiting in A&E all weekend!
ATM’s?? They only have English and Irish language so go f$$k yourself if you speak Spanish/Chinese/ French/ Indian
We’re building a hugely bad reputation this guy isn’t the first influencer to have bad things to say about visiting Ireland and these influencers would you believe, HAVE INFLUENCE over peoples opinions.
Was in Krakow Poland recently. Puts us to shame bigtime .. Somethings very wrong here
Well he isn’t far wrong to be fair 😂.
I happened to walk by Temple bar on Saturday afternoon and the place was filthy. Litter everywhere and the smell of piss was literally eye watering. Disgusting.
We should take this feedback seriously. Some people get personally offended when negative things are said. You can’t deny – there is a lot to improve on.
Well i looked at the whole video its 3 hours long . He starts in Belfast and loved it . Then gets a bus to Dublin and gets off at Store st and the first thing he says is wow the smell of piss . He stayed on Talbot St in some low rate over priced room then has something to eat on Parnell St. Now I’m a very proud Dub but this is the worst 2 places to be having first time visitors to yhr city. The lack of investment and lack of policing is the issue here . Dublin is a working gritty city I’m good with that. But what is the DCC doing when was thr last time these places where power washed I’d say never so Dublin isn’t the problem is the tools sitting in there offices in DCC robbing a living waiting for there pension to kick in . We deserve more from these people.
This is a good thing. We need more of this to be honest because embarrassment seems to be the one thing that will get our authorities to actually do their jobs.
Lived there for many years, loved it for the pubs and nightlife but let’s be honest it really is in a bad state, the amount of drug addicts and run down parts is shocking. Awful for a visitor
Need more of this, put pressure on to do something about it, from council and government.
It takes an outsider for this whole sub to agree that Dublin is shit, but any time I have left a comment of this opinion, I am downvoted to oblivion
He’s right. Anything Dublin had ever going for it has been stripped away by either incompetence or greed. It used to have a vibrant live music scene which wasn’t supported properly. All the good clubs gone. Streets are very dirty, junkies everywhere. Few museums are not well run. On top of that really expensive
He’s right. It’s a shit hole and certainly doesn’t reflect our supposed economic wealth. Same goes for the rest of the “Big” cities in the Republic
It is and we should do better but it’s been turned over to the investment crowd, Making rent too high. Filling the place with hotels and taking any originality, creativity and life out of the place.
Also way too many tourism nic nac shops, it’s like the new star bucks.
Ireland is awash with wealth and money but Dublin is still has dreadful city proper, no decent public transportation infrastructure and lacklustre healthcare, etc etc.
What good is all those big corporation tax breaks and low corporate tax rates and a budget surplus if it all goes unused ?
Dublin and Edinburgh should be pretty comparable really – in fact Dublin has way way more money to spend
Yet Edinburgh is fecking amazing to walk around – although they’ve maybe taken the Disney factor a bit too far
We barely have bins in Dublin, it’s a disgrace how little we get for our tax money.
Yank here, been living in Dublin 5+ years – moved from San Francisco, which has a lot of similar issues. I went to Cahersiveen in Co Kerry recently and was surprised at how great it was.
Wild to me that Dublin is where visitors land first, and likely the last thing they’ll remember. Symptom of money not going to the right places, but it boggles the mind that an island nation *wouldn’t* want its biggest city to impress tourists.
Dublin is supremely transactional. Whilst we are now completely impoverished in terms of nightlife, in the daytime, and by comparison with other cities, everything costs money to do and there are very few spaces where you can just ‘be’.
Can’t say he’s wrong. Well travelled myself and we as a country can learn from other countries and do far better for ourselves.
Every Eastern European capital overpass Dublin right now with infrastructure, public transport, safety and things to do
My canadian fiancé’s parents are in dublin atm pretty well traveled across north America and Europe.
Its first time in Ireland and can’t wait to get out of dublin.
They flew in Saturday and if they had the chance they’d have left it on Monday, if not Sunday.
Dublin is a complete shit hole atm. I agree with him. Most Other European capitals put us to shame.
He’s right in fairness. Priced like Switzerland with the quality of living of Sunderland.
He isnt wrong tho
It is. It’s dirty out. Most Irish cities are because the government don’t allocate enough money to improve the infrastructure or spaces. Then add in the fact they never allow for planning permission outside hotels, it’s just… yeah.
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I was in Swiss over the Bank holiday weekend, for the first time, Zurich as the hub. I am not going to make comparisons and demean Dublin, what I will say, with the country be awash with money, we deserve so much more from our politicians and councils. we really do.
Hard to disagree these days tbh
Surprised it to someone so long to pick up in that video. He stayed on Talbot St and walked around north inner city. Probably not the best advertisement for the city. He couldn’t get over the amount of rubbish, vape and mobile phone shops around the area.
That’s a fierce mild take.
I’m always surprised as the push back this gets when it’s completely through.
I like to travel around the world and the most baffling part is the hoops people jump through in order to justify why Dublin, and to a wider degree Irelans, is so shit.
If you compare it to Paris, Berlin, Rome etc your told those countries are too rich and have too big a population to be a fair comparison.
If you compare it to Andorra your told its too small population wise to he a fair comparison.
If you compare it to Edinburgh or Glasgow your told the UK has too much money for it to he a fair comparison.
If you compare it to Athens your told the city is too old for it to he a fair comparison.
Just any hoop or excuse thrown out, even contradicting themselves, to justify why everything is a shit show here.
What didn’t he like about it?
Where’s the lie?
Dublin is good if you know where to go. The best places are outside the city centre.
Under current Governance both state and city it has been destroyed. The fruits of our economic success are not reaching the streets in a meaningful way.
He’s 100% spot on.
To enjoy “Dublin”, you have to go outside Dublin. West, to Phoneix Park. North, to Howth. South, to Killiney Hill or Bray Head. All gorgeous spots.
But the city centre? One of the worst of a major city Europe.
It’s not our fault, we were poor. But we should be improving it now.
He’s not wrong. It’s actually so embarrassing and shocking how much of a dirty, broken, bottle neck and boring kip Dublin is. I’ve never seen so many drug addicts in such a small space, a lot of it is just a drive through for ppl to the suburbs.
Honestly Dublin has a lot of potential but is very let down and kinda neglected. A lot of main streets have a terrible smell of piss and shit off them, places that alot of tourists would be, have a lot of rough characters loitering around EG Connolly station, Busaras and even O Connell, small things like lack of bins leading to a lot of trash on the ground. Plus, it is very expensive for what it is.
Dublin might be the most depressing, run down, poorly equiped capital city in the EU.
Anyone any argument otherwise?
The nice thing about Dublin is that it has some great suburbs/villages to visit (howth, Ranelagh, Drumcondra and such) and easy access to the Wicklow mountains and plenty of beaches and hikes. The city center itself is fairly shit if we are being honest and it’s a shame very little has been done to really improve it over the years.
Compared to other european capitals dublin does not come close to the standard. Its an eyesore and for any tourists that see it i dont blame them for thinking the gaffs shite
I was home recently for a quick visit and it was shocking how filthy the city was. Like every single street and place we went to looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in decades
It’s depressing what a kip dublin city is now 😕 I love being irish and have great pride in it, I just feel ashamed that tourists land in our capital city and this is what they’re basing the whole of Ireland on 😩
He walked from Busarus to Talbot. Then got a luas to Bluebell and back to Smithfield and then walked back to Talbot along the Luas line.
Anybody who follows that route will hate Dublin and prob get assaulted as well.
He may have been too direct, but he didn’t lie
God forbid taxes actually benefitted the tax payer.
I kind of struggle to defend any Irish City these days to be honest!
In fact I think Irish tourism isn’t that far from falling off a cliff our cities are filthy and squeeze every last cent out of tourists. We overcharge and serve basic cuisine that pales in in comparison to most countries. Need to get somewhere? Oh well the train only goes to a few spots and you’ll need a pricey taxi to get to the others places and the train will be way slower than what you’re used to and we don’t have any late night buses where you’re staying so again pricey taxi. Oh and watch out as you may be killed by some 15year thug while drinking the most expensive Heineken you’ve ever had in your life in Temple Bar!
Need a police officer? Good luck trying to find one!!
Hospital? Be prepared to miss your flight you’ll be waiting in A&E all weekend!
ATM’s?? They only have English and Irish language so go f$$k yourself if you speak Spanish/Chinese/ French/ Indian
We’re building a hugely bad reputation this guy isn’t the first influencer to have bad things to say about visiting Ireland and these influencers would you believe, HAVE INFLUENCE over peoples opinions.
Was in Krakow Poland recently. Puts us to shame bigtime .. Somethings very wrong here
Well he isn’t far wrong to be fair 😂.
I happened to walk by Temple bar on Saturday afternoon and the place was filthy. Litter everywhere and the smell of piss was literally eye watering. Disgusting.
We should take this feedback seriously. Some people get personally offended when negative things are said. You can’t deny – there is a lot to improve on.
Well i looked at the whole video its 3 hours long . He starts in Belfast and loved it . Then gets a bus to Dublin and gets off at Store st and the first thing he says is wow the smell of piss . He stayed on Talbot St in some low rate over priced room then has something to eat on Parnell St. Now I’m a very proud Dub but this is the worst 2 places to be having first time visitors to yhr city. The lack of investment and lack of policing is the issue here . Dublin is a working gritty city I’m good with that. But what is the DCC doing when was thr last time these places where power washed I’d say never so Dublin isn’t the problem is the tools sitting in there offices in DCC robbing a living waiting for there pension to kick in . We deserve more from these people.
This is a good thing. We need more of this to be honest because embarrassment seems to be the one thing that will get our authorities to actually do their jobs.
Lived there for many years, loved it for the pubs and nightlife but let’s be honest it really is in a bad state, the amount of drug addicts and run down parts is shocking. Awful for a visitor
Need more of this, put pressure on to do something about it, from council and government.
It takes an outsider for this whole sub to agree that Dublin is shit, but any time I have left a comment of this opinion, I am downvoted to oblivion
He’s right.
Anything Dublin had ever going for it has been stripped away by either incompetence or greed.
It used to have a vibrant live music scene which wasn’t supported properly.
All the good clubs gone.
Streets are very dirty, junkies everywhere.
Few museums are not well run.
On top of that really expensive
He’s right. It’s a shit hole and certainly doesn’t reflect our supposed economic wealth. Same goes for the rest of the “Big” cities in the Republic
It is and we should do better but it’s been turned over to the investment crowd, Making rent too high. Filling the place with hotels and taking any originality, creativity and life out of the place.
Also way too many tourism nic nac shops, it’s like the new star bucks.
Ireland is awash with wealth and money but Dublin is still has dreadful city proper, no decent public transportation infrastructure and lacklustre healthcare, etc etc.
What good is all those big corporation tax breaks and low corporate tax rates and a budget surplus if it all goes unused ?
Dublin and Edinburgh should be pretty comparable really – in fact Dublin has way way more money to spend
Yet Edinburgh is fecking amazing to walk around – although they’ve maybe taken the Disney factor a bit too far
We barely have bins in Dublin, it’s a disgrace how little we get for our tax money.
Yank here, been living in Dublin 5+ years – moved from San Francisco, which has a lot of similar issues. I went to Cahersiveen in Co Kerry recently and was surprised at how great it was.
Wild to me that Dublin is where visitors land first, and likely the last thing they’ll remember. Symptom of money not going to the right places, but it boggles the mind that an island nation *wouldn’t* want its biggest city to impress tourists.
Dublin is supremely transactional. Whilst we are now completely impoverished in terms of nightlife, in the daytime, and by comparison with other cities, everything costs money to do and there are very few spaces where you can just ‘be’.
Can’t say he’s wrong.
Well travelled myself and we as a country can learn from other countries and do far better for ourselves.
Every Eastern European capital overpass Dublin right now with infrastructure, public transport, safety and things to do
My canadian fiancé’s parents are in dublin atm pretty well traveled across north America and Europe.
Its first time in Ireland and can’t wait to get out of dublin.
They flew in Saturday and if they had the chance they’d have left it on Monday, if not Sunday.
Dublin is a complete shit hole atm. I agree with him. Most Other European capitals put us to shame.
He’s right in fairness. Priced like Switzerland with the quality of living of Sunderland.
He isnt wrong tho
It is. It’s dirty out. Most Irish cities are because the government don’t allocate enough money to improve the infrastructure or spaces. Then add in the fact they never allow for planning permission outside hotels, it’s just… yeah.
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