45 thoughts on “Meanwhile, At DCU

  1. Formerly known as @ireland.com

    I went to DCU. When I lived a 5 minute walk away, I was always late for the first lecture. When I moved to Ranelagh, on the wrong side of town, I was early for the first lecture, after cycling across town.
    Currently, I cycle 28kms each way to work, most days. The lesson is to get a bicycle.

    1. kellma

      You cycle 60Km a day!!! Fair play. That is A LOT of cycling. I think I’m great if I get out for a 5k walk at lunchtime….

      1. Medium Sized C

        You probably shouldn’t compare walking distance to cycling distance and feel bad.
        A bicycle is a machine to make it easier to cover distances.
        There is a reason the cycle in a triathlon is 4 x the run distance.

    2. Spaghetti Hoop

      The lesson after my mowing down and resulting concussion was not to cycle to college anymore.

      1. Turgenev

        The lesson is that Dublin needs to build separated bicycle lanes so the cars, vans and trucks can’t get at you.

  2. Phelem O'Doherty-Mooney

    Summers in Dublin are getting progressively worse with the Spanish students taking over.

    They have the capability of over whelming foot paths & bus stops. We need to act now. For sexy time.

  3. Eoin

    Loads of foreign students have just arrived for some reason. There were about 50 at my bus stop yesterday. I’m nowhere near a college. Dublin Bus decided in it’s infinite wisdom to get rid of the number 14 bus which was the DCU bus to the city. All part of reshuffling the routes under Varadkar. The constituency that DCU lies in tends not to return FF and FG TDs to office during elections (Noel Rock was the first in many years). There’s a theory the area gets passed over as a result. Cancelling the university bus was just seen as another kick for a north side constituency that won’t vote right. Another example of cutting off nose to spite face style politics is the fact that there is no DART/Luas/rail route to the airport from the city.

    1. Harry Molloy

      I get the 14 bus going south some days. The chattering and shouting from the Spanish students makes me want to smash my head through the glass.

      1. DubLoony

        Had an Italian housemate who accused Irish people of whispering all the time.
        We drive them nuts with it.

        1. Cathy

          I frequently castigate my Southern European housemates for shouting all the time but they never hear me

    2. ReproBertie

      “The constituency that DCU lies in tends not to return FF and FG TDs to office during elections”

      That’s not true. Noel Rock is the first FG TD since 1997 but from 1981 to the great 2011 purge FF have had at least one TD in the area and from 1997-2011 2 of the 3 seats went to FF.

        1. ReproBertie

          In 2011 Dublin North West, where DCU is located, returned no FF or FG TD. The 3 seats went to Labour (2) and SF.

      1. Anomanomanom

        Where can I get one of these blueshirts you keep on about. They seem to have mystical powers.

      2. some old queen

        Actually no, it was ‘postponed’ by the previous government in 2009. Irony is if it had to have started a year earlier when it was supposed to, the funding would have been in place and it would be half built by now.

          1. Harry Molloy

            it’s your consistency I love – hammer that message home!

            it’s like when Ben Dunne answered the phone with “Dunnes better value beats them all” for years and years

          2. Nigel

            It can’t be much fun when your castigating of blushirt apologism requires you to do a bit of FF apologism.

  4. Maria

    Dublin Bus say that they are operating their ‘Summer Schedule’ which really means less buses passing me by at the bus stop every morning. Dublin Bus- Keeping the City on its Feet!

  5. Wayne.F

    Metro north is essential for these students who visit for 6-8 weeks a year! Or perhaps EF could work with Dublin bus and transport operators to move their students rather than overwhelming underprepared public transport

  6. Ms Piggy

    I went to DCU in the 90s and still have flashbacks to the evening queues for the 103 on Collins Avenue, especially in winter evenings when the bus would randomly not show up. But that photo is way worse!

  7. Tish Mahorey

    A small and frail elderly man from Phibsoro went missing in the city centre two weeks ago and was found this morning, safe and well in Rathfarnham. He was wearing an orange rain jacket.

    He had gone into town on the bus to get his dentures repaired and was walking past Trinity College when he suddenly got swept up in a swarm of cackling Spanish students. Before he could call for help, he was on the 16 bus, trapped under the seats surrounded by orange backpacks.

    He then ended up getting dragged along and ended up outside McDonalds in Nutgrove Shopping Centre, flailing in distress, his denture-less calls for help being mistaken for the students cackling.

    He has since ended up under the stairs with orange backpacks in a house off Grange Road, on a day trip to Wicklow and a camping trip to Lough Key.

    He managed to free himself this morning when a small break-away group of students noticed him among their belongings and called a Garda for help.

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