This afternoon.
Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
John Gallen writes:
The welfare office on Thomas St is gone and replaced with a Dealz shop (top). Also, a few yards up the road the other welfare office (above) is being gutted. Dublin 8 is back baby, we don’t need welfare no mo! :)
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if crappy discount shops means being ‘back baby’.
Well done on missing the tone.
In fairness these shops are great for bargains, in fairness to be fair, to be fair
Nothing crappy about them. But i suppose your the guy who’ll pay double the price somewhere else just so you don’t get the filthy germs of the thrifty on you.
I wear a hygiene mask, gloves and ear plugs on occasions where I must use public transport.
+ 1 000 000
Could be sneaky blueshirt rebranding of welfare? Dealz sounds snappy, I’d draw dat labour.
Work full time for 50 squid on top o me dole? DEALZ!
They don’t look like the same buildings. Makes a good spot the difference game though.
You must be part of the post-literate generation. Try reading the caption, above.
I was thinking the same unless they gutted the whole row of buildings (funeral parlour building is at least 1 storey smaller). Wonder how many years between these pics?
They don’t look like the same buildings because they are different ones….re-read the caption
So it’s gone a full circle of sorts. In the ’60s and ’70s this place was Woolworths.
and 50’s
Where they sold Hippy wigs in ’69.
We ‘ave FAILED to Paint it Black….
Love Dealz! Great stuff in there.
And there’s a definite new positive vibe going on in Dublin 8.
That will be the addition of rich people.
The one in Galway is great for CDs of the ‘ 90s and ’00s.
I remember frequenting the Thomas street office for a couple of months during the mid-eighties.
Some of the long established family firms I’d worked for had succumbed to recession.
The black economy failed us all and many friends and siblings emigrated, good times
and all the time property developer scum were building up land banks, just as they are doing now.
It was a particularly grey soul sucking place.
Main St Midleton Cork is ruined with those kips.
My favourite conversation, overheard at the hatch next to me in said Welfare Office back in the 80s went something like this….
So, Mr ******** where exactly did you say you were when you failed to sign on last week ?
Eh…like I said, I was on me holidays….
Really, well according to our records and your parole officer, you were on remand in Mountjoy Prison…..!
Good times…….;)
Dublin 8 is the new Dublin something else.
what recovery?
For politically connected people who hid their money from NAMA and the tax man during the recession. They bought the houses and apartments at the bottom of the market in 2012 and are now sitting pretty, having availed of Fine Gael’s Capital Gains Tax exemption for their property owning friends. Those and tech/IT workers who are in a growth business.
Everyone else is just ticking over, or not at all.
From the Poundland Wiki, who own Dealz.
In February 2013, Cait Reilly, won her case that her local Jobcentre had breached benefit laws by insisting that she work at Poundland to maintain her unemployment benefit payments. The government had to redraft its legislation on the so-called “sector-based work academy” after losing the case. Reilly called her two weeks working unpaid at Poundland “a complete waste of my time”.
Apt?
2 welfare offices on one street?
Jobseeker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEYYI1ii0AU
The “Intreo” office has moved to the big office building on the corner of Cork Street and Ardee Street; formerly occupied by some German online gaming support company whose name escapes me…
Oh,,, now for ya, ta