Fun-loving ‘revellers’ in The Turk’s Head , Temple Bar, Dublin last night.
Tramps like us.
Baby we were born to gurn.
When we arrive, the basement is swarming with sweaty, glassy-eyed revellers asking for water. The party has spilled out onto the street, and people I recognise from school and college and Twitter have joined together to share the synthetic joy. Because it’s Dublin, everyone knows each other and is feeling particularly tactile; it’s hard to get up the stairs without being taken down by hugs.
The scaldy guys selling pills at the back of the club are even scaldier tonight, smiling through firmly clenched teeth, their eyes half open under bucket hats. They add to the illusion that we’ve all stumbled into some PLUR-filled, retrograde acid rave universe, a homage to a time we were too young to remember…..
We Went Out in Dublin While People Celebrated the Legal Ecstasy Loophole (Roisin Kiberd, Vice)
Pics: Sarah Meyler
Would be greatly interested in the number of people hospitalised due to incidents last night relative to standard friday nights.
Last night was Wednesday
Oh really, I was off my head, had no idea about time or space…
Yea, I know, but my point would be that last night people would have been out pilling whereas the typical Friday people are out boozing.
You can get ecstasy on draft now Joe!
I agree. Friday night pill fest would undoubtedly be a handier number for the cops/emergency services in comparison with fri night booze fest
Rarely same number of people out on Wednesdays as there are on Fridays
The Internet has devalued journalism to click bait.
Hollow, nonsense. Even red tops would have to say no to these “articles”.
Are these writers paid? Or is it just first to submit with a catchy title and photo get kudos?
Vice has always been attention-seeking and shallow, plus they’re now part owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
They do pay writers (mostly), but not particularly well.
+1
Paid? heh heh.
You’ve just wrote an article, well done.
I thought those photos were some sort of flashback to the 90s.
Me too!
Yep – thought they were me 90s mates.
Which one is Sarah Murphy?
Christ, I’m glad I missed that.
Me too, kinda, but not really :)
God…. I wish I was a bit younger hai ! :)
ah temple bar, so much more to it than gin and 7up
I don’t often feel glad that I’m an aulfella but that photo definitely helps.
Jesus has let himself go.
I thought he WAS the turks head.
Let himself go F**kin Mental!!!
Kids today are really boring and compliant.
Also wear terrible shoes.
Kids will be kids- it’s as sure as death and taxes (in the words of a recently deceased guy, life is purely a question of which gets me first) . Each generation, perhaps has the ‘go to drug’. Perhaps the legal highs and Head Stores are purely accommodating the ‘twenty teen’ generation, who are perhaps enamoured by the 80s and 90s?
nobody who reads vice is gonna know what “scaldy” means
I think they will figure it out from the context.
Some really fake posing going there! Also, is that Hozier in the middle?
I thought drugs kept you thin. Obviously not in a lot of cases.
Boycott Turk’s Head then. Let’s see these middle class free free types party on down their “E” in Fatima Mansions.
Nauseating. Anyone care to name the d*cks in the pic?
I don’t see any overweight people in any of the photos.
“Because it’s Dublin, everyone knows each other….”
Riiiiight
Yeah, I think she nicked that from an article about Monasterevin.
“Off me chops at de Gerard Manley Hops; a summer school of love”
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1630041973881931
Temple Bar is not a bar on Main Street: [“It’s the sort of place that serves two-for-€10 mojitos to office workers in nice shirts and tourists who’ve made it beyond main street’s Temple Bar.”]
People in Ireland aren’t called Colleen
Echo Falls is not a well known wine brand here
Saying something offensive about Catholics isn’t really ‘a thing’ any more.
This piece is tone deaf and pointless.
Bla bla bla… Anyone know where I can get some decent MDMA….