Dublin/Cork

[Green Tribe]

Yeah, I had a good night out there a long time ago.

Yip, Letterkenny is a good laugh, not far from me either!

[Éanna]

Personally speaking, I hate Dublin. I have friends from there, its not a case of hating someone the minute I realise they're from Dublin or anything, but I just don't like the place. The attitude of "everywhere outside of here is the country", words like "bogger" or "culchie" are just plain irritating and show a condescending attitude that I have found quite prevalent in many Dublin people.

I just don't like the place. I was in Murcia once, didn't like that city either- does that mean I have a chip on my shoulder about Murcia too

[M@ttitude]

Thanks for all the replys, it seems that the majority of the Cork people are just having a laugh coz we have so much in common, like two brothers slagging each other..

Its the simple stuck up their own ar$e people like eire06 that really annoys me, anyone else? Imagine labelling so many people with the knackery and trouble making stick.. who are you to sit in your pretty house in Galway and throw out remarks like that. Snob. And I was in Galway for a weekend 2 weeks ago with my Girlfriend and had a lovely time, still prefer my home though whether or not you think yours is better.

[pete]

I've been living in dublin for more years than i care to remember as they say. I obviously don't hate dublin or wouldn't still be here.

The one thing i've noticed is how few dubs actually left. Supposed to be 50k chinese, must be same again of other nationalities so we at 100k foreigners fro starters. In my office around 50% of people are non-dubs & was at least the same in last job. I'm sure would be similar numbers when meet friends of friends & such. I'd say give it another 5-10 years & dubs will be out numbered in dublin city as they continue to colonise the rest of Leinster.

Worst things about Dublin
- Traffic gridlock (i live close enough to town but i work with someone with 2.5 morning commute )
- Everythings expensive
- Social policy of spreading scumbags around the city. Be better to just dump in 1 corner.
- Snobs

Good things about Dublin
- Non Dubs (only joking)

[aido_b]

Social policy of spreading scumbags around the city. Be better to just dump

Agree with you there ...

I've lived my whole life in the Dublin 7 area Pete and if you think its bad now you had want to have seen it 10 years ago. Having said that the way things are going now it won't be too long before we'll surrounded by scum again.

Also seeing as your from Dublin 7 why haven't you defected to Bohs yet???

[pete]

Agree with you there ...

I've lived my whole life in the Dublin 7 area Pete and if you think its bad now you had want to have seen it 10 years ago. Having said that the way things are going now it won't be too long before we'll surrounded by scum again.

Also seeing as your from Dublin 7 why haven't you defected to Bohs yet???

I wasn't referring to D7 specifically. Not bad where i am but law says can't put barbed wire on walls anymore However i did take the wrong bus on way back from Dalymount & had to get off in the heart of Cabra - walked quicker than usual that night

Bohs could do with all the support they get from what i see. I usually go to most of your european games if around something ilve stopped doing for shel$.

[Green Tribe]

Thanks for all the replys, it seems that the majority of the Cork people are just having a laugh coz we have so much in common, like two brothers slagging each other..

Its the simple stuck up their own ar$e people like eire06 that really annoys me, anyone else? Imagine labelling so many people with the knackery and trouble making stick.. who are you to sit in your pretty house in Galway and throw out remarks like that. Snob. And I was in Galway for a weekend 2 weeks ago with my Girlfriend and had a lovely time, still prefer my home though whether or not you think yours is better.

Miaow!! Miaow!

Hilarious!!! M@ttitude, that was hilarious, but it is all false i'm afraid. Eire06 was not being nasty. Some people said things that you did not react to, so i assume you are just trying to wind the poor girl up, naughty boy, I hope you don't succeed!

[Closed Account 2]

I think deep down lots of people are just jealous of Bray... the whole Dub-Cork thing is just a smoke-screen. In the space of 20 mins you can have a walk along the lovely seafront, do a spot of shopping off Main Street, and then climb Bray Head for spectacular views of the coast up to Killiney and Dalkey. There are few towns in Ireland that have such a mix of things to do, and once they take the trollies out of the Dargle then it really will be top draw.

[M@ttitude]

I think deep down lots of people are just jealous of Bray....

Yeah that must be it, I reckon the world would be a better place if everyone just admitted that they are jealous of Bray!
p.s Bray head 101 is the newest member at the moment! Coincidence or not?

[onenilgameover]

I might be quite an insular person being from Dublin and all but as far as knew people from Cork were all carnival folk that had small hands and smelled like cabbage.

[Eire06]

Its the simple stuck up their own ar$e people like eire06 that really annoys me, anyone else? Imagine labelling so many people with the knackery and trouble making stick.. who are you to sit in your pretty house in Galway and throw out remarks like that. Snob. And I was in Galway for a weekend 2 weeks ago with my Girlfriend and had a lovely time, still prefer my home though whether or not you think yours is better.

Well not everyone can be upper class, there has to be some commoners like yourself to make up the demographic, just lucky they’re all in Dublin, couldn’t handle that riff-raff here..
Thanks for calling my house pretty I have spent ever so much time trying to hire builders and landscapers to come in and do it and it is very hard to find good skivvies these days...
I'm off now for my daily manicure, pedicure (that is getting my nails filed, shaped and painted for both my hands and by feet) and facial.. Please do stay in touch, I do like to see how the lower classes live, oh and next time you save up enough of you wages to come on a holiday please contact me and I will let you stay in one of my costal houses... I do like to give to charity

[joey B]

Well not everyone can be upper class, there has to be some commoners like yourself to make up the demographic, just lucky they’re all in Dublin, couldn’t handle that riff-raff here..
Thanks for calling my house pretty I have spent ever so much time trying to hire builders and landscapers to come in and do it and it is very hard to find good skivvies these days...
I'm off now for my daily manicure, pedicure (that is getting my nails filed, shaped and painted for both my hands and by feet) and facial.. Please do stay in touch, I do like to see how the lower classes live, oh and next time you save up enough of you wages to come on a holiday please contact me and I will let you stay in one of my costal houses... I do like to give to charity

Fecking snob

[Eire06]

Fecking snob

Oh you Donegal ruffians do crack me up..ha ha ha ha ha

[joey B]

As do you Galway air-heads

[Eire06]

As do you Galway air-heads

Ya like totally

[ollie]

a walk along the lovely seafront.

a lovely radioactive sea front you mean.

[rebs23]

We don't hate Dubs! Just pity them!!
I suppose what irritates people from the rest of Ireland about Dublin (not the dubs) is the constant talk about Dublin. (Most of which are patethic trying too hard attempts to show Dublin as a trendy cosmopolitan city) RTE only ever put on Drama, Soaps, Comedy about Dublin or based in Dublin. The news always covers stories about Dublin before the rest of the country. I suppose it's understandable when most of the media is based in Dublin and therefore tend to write about what effects them personally but still please a bit of balance. They are supposed to be our National Broadcaster.

The newspapers and what I call the Dublin lobby always insist that all national institutions are based in Dublin unlike other European countries. The fact that the National Developmnent Plan listed the Govs priorities yet projects in Dublin can jump the list continuosly because they shout loudest and I still have to travel on what can only be described as a Boreen of a road between Cork and Limerick. The Gov wanting to waste our money on a metro for Dublin which by all international comparisons does not have the population density to justify one. Buses are far more efficient.

Dublin really is gridlocked but the solutions being proposed are the ones that are only going to continuosly gridlcok the city. Decentralisation and ensuring that national institutions and projects are located outside of Dublin is the way forward.
2 examples National Stadium why is it being located in Dublin. Surely somewhere in the middle of the country with ease of access to rail and road to the South, North and West and still only an hour awway from the airport.
Dublin Port Tunnell - Why build such an expensive tunnel for trucks using Dublin Port. Surely the more economical solution is to expand Drogheda, Dundalk, Waterford or Arklow ports?

Anyway A message for Everyone
COME TO CORK IN 2005!

[dcfcsteve]

Yip, Letterkenny is a good laugh, not far from me either!

Letterkenny's hardly the most sophisticated night-out you'll ever have, but it's alright as a one-off for a laugh I guess.

But what is it with nightclubs in these country places playing the anthem at the end of the night ?!?! All a bit Hicksville USA/Communist China for my liking. Wouldn't be so bad if most of the people there actually knew the words....

[ollie]

We don't hate Dubs! Just pity them!!
I suppose what irritates people from the rest of Ireland about Dublin (not the dubs) is the constant talk about Dublin. (Most of which are patethic trying too hard attempts to show Dublin as a trendy cosmopolitan city) RTE only ever put on Drama, Soaps, Comedy about Dublin or based in Dublin. The news always covers stories about Dublin before the rest of the country. I suppose it's understandable when most of the media is based in Dublin and therefore tend to write about what effects them personally but still please a bit of balance. They are supposed to be our National Broadcaster.

The newspapers and what I call the Dublin lobby always insist that all national institutions are based in Dublin unlike other European countries. The fact that the National Developmnent Plan listed the Govs priorities yet projects in Dublin can jump the list continuosly because they shout loudest and I still have to travel on what can only be described as a Boreen of a road between Cork and Limerick. The Gov wanting to waste our money on a metro for Dublin which by all international comparisons does not have the population density to justify one. Buses are far more efficient.

Dublin really is gridlocked but the solutions being proposed are the ones that are only going to continuosly gridlcok the city. Decentralisation and ensuring that national institutions and projects are located outside of Dublin is the way forward.
2 examples National Stadium why is it being located in Dublin. Surely somewhere in the middle of the country with ease of access to rail and road to the South, North and West and still only an hour awway from the airport.
Dublin Port Tunnell - Why build such an expensive tunnel for trucks using Dublin Port. Surely the more economical solution is to expand Drogheda, Dundalk, Waterford or Arklow ports?

Anyway A message for Everyone
COME TO CORK IN 2005!

good post.i suppose the luas was put up to ease traffic.regardless of the population density.agree with everything else.
its a real rat race.

[Macy]

Social policy of spreading scumbags around the city. Be better to just dump in 1 corner

Well pete, you should move to Wicklow - they dump all their scumbags in Bray...

I think deep down lots of people are just jealous of Bray... the whole Dub-Cork thing is just a smoke-screen. In the space of 20 mins you can have a walk along the lovely seafront, do a spot of shopping off Main Street, and then climb Bray Head for spectacular views of the coast up to Killiney and Dalkey. There are few towns in Ireland that have such a mix of things to do, and once they take the trollies out of the Dargle then it really will be top draw.