This afternoon.
Grafton Street, Dublin 2.
Sauvingon Blanc writes:
The song says “ Grafton Street’s a wonderland ..there’s magic in the air”. Sadly the magic has disappeared, and has been replaced with a thick coating of dirt and grime.
What are Dublin City Council doing about it ? Absolutely nothing. Have they even got a machine for cleaning streets?
It’s the height of the tourist season ..10,000 people an hour walk down Grafton Street. Heads should roll because of the inaction of the Council. Please write to them at customerservices@dublincity.ie
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Dublin in the summer is dirty. Dublin at any time of the year is dirty. Dublin is dirty.
It’s not dirty relatively speaking as a capital
I have seen much much worse
except why do grown adults think it’s ok to put the dirty feet on opposite train and bus cushions ???…now that’s dirty
What if I take my shoes off? I swear my socks are clean, I only changed them last week
please I haven’t had supper yet
There’s a reason Dublin is called Dumpland.
When you’re tired of stepping over vomit and urine puddles you can always count the needles.
Ollie Cromwell, you get the same in most capital cities, the council can’t keep on top of the cleaning the whole time. London’s the same, what’s your point and why are you still here?
Go home.
To Nelly
… now that you’ve voted.
Durty auld town..
There’s nothing that can be done about it. They used the wrong stone. If they clean it today, it’ll be dirty by the end of the week.
In France, shopkeepers scrub the pavement in front of their shops every morning. Not in Dublin, though.
Grafton street’s too wide a street. That happens in provincial France, but not on the Champs Elysee.
Paris and Dublin, so easy to mix up… jay sus.
cackles
So we put a little something on our baguettes in the morning. Much of a muchness.
It happens in Paris too – not on the Champs Élysées, but Grafton Street is no Chancy Lizzie. It’s kind of a matter of pride – by cleaning the pavement in front of your shop industriously, you show that you’re the proprietor. By the same token, the street markets that are ubiquitous in Paris are not independent stallholders as in Moore Street – instead, each shop puts out a stall on the street on the market days (usually twice a week, sometimes more) with goods for sale.
In fact, in Paris water is run through the gutters and along the borders of the streets every morning and evening to clear away any rubbish. http://www.secretsofparis.com/heathers-secret-blog/water-flowing-in-the-gutters-of-paris.html
we ain’t been to the same Paris
It’s the army street cleaners who clean up not the residents or shop keepers or market stall holders
No idea where you live in France but it certainly doesn’t happen in Bordeaux.
Janet, anything to add?
Everyone drops everything at their arse in Paris
sure we pay taxes for it to be cleaned n’est pas..
and shop keepers are doing you a favour to serve you….unless you are a regular ( then it’s love forever )
never mind clean the street hahahahah
Not sure if it still happens, but when I lived there residents used to bring their dogs out for the morning dump, just before the cleaners arrived, so they wouldn’t have to deal with it.
Hey Lush! I was there recently. Beautiful: I really loved it. But very stormy: we were there that day the crops were ruined.
Funnily enough, I did see a few shopowners sweeping and washing the paths outside their businesses and thought that I hadn’t seen that in a very long time.
Why not clean it every week then?
I don’t know – what would you prefer DCC spend their money on: housing the homeless, or endless Sisyphean scrubbing of light grey stone in an effort to keep it clean?
So its not possible to do both?
Well, sure it’s possible. Which of the taxes that you pay would like increased, or which services that you access would you like to cut in order to pay for it?
Nothing can be done about it?
Why not fire the civil servants responsible for choosing and approving the one material they were supposed to ensure to get right?
Such systematic inaccountability is exactly what is wrong and rotten at the core of the Irish state.
The government chickened out and failed to bring in measures to restrict or ban chewing gum in 2005 which would have helped.
They did.. cheap Chinese granite.. impossible to keep clean..
is Irish granite easier to keep clean?
Even the chemical composition of our igneous rocks is superior… Isn’t it great being Irish, all the same?
Exactly
The little brown envelope
We haven’t had any rain in 6 weeks.
Once it rains most of this will wash off.
Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
Alternatively, the store owners could clean the street outside their units?
A bit of civic pride was never bad for business.
Well one would think the exhorbitant rates they pay the corpo might cover that …
Agreed, Robert.
Mostly foreign owned – why would they care.
presumably because a nicer environment is more likely to attract potential customers.
It”s being quite the day for Punctuation domination
An” losing the run of itself
Hasn”t it
Correct. Though the rabblement will get the gist.
Us Grammar Nazis are so Anti-Semantic, huh?
Comma’ ff it
I”m know semi-mantic
…I’m not anti-semantic…I just hate split iinfinitives…
Could you be overreacting just a little? Decapitations because the streets are a bit unsightly?
and people are expected to sleep on that? Disgraceful.
And sure when was the last time you saw gold dust in a lady’s hair down there? Huh?
To the dogs I tell Ye.
That’s Joycean grime. Leave it.
But can they clean up the littering of apostrophes instead?
White Lines Don”t Do It.
Go home
To Dinny
It’s a hard country to keep clean, in fairness.
Someday a real rain will come
Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
You already said that.
Yes and it was stupid the first time too.
love the reference man :-)
For anyone that was interested in the so-called Belfast rugby rape case, Spotlight, tonight on BBC1 NI, conducts an experiment to find out what people understand by consent. Should be interesting.
Dirty dubs
YOU LOVE IT ;)
Go home.
like a racehorse in a pigsty
Go home ‘Harry’
one of my homes is in Dublin, should I go to my holiday home? I plan on being there for August anyway, my French has been getting rusty
Any one of your ‘homes’ will do, Harry – you are no longer even faintly amusing.
not trying to be pal, you’re being aggressive to someone on the internet, no need for that. troll.
That line of thinking worked out well for Pee Flynn. Keep it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ORNfD8e_sk
It’s been like that ever since they relaid it a few years ago. Made a hames of it.
I was coming from the airport yesterday and the taxi through the North City from Dorset St through Grangegorman / smithfield and the quays – my god Dublin is a scruffy, dirty, bet down looking kip.
+2018
In fairness – the cobblelock that was there before also got dirty – especially when there was a long dry spell.
http://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-litter-warden-rubbish-1462351-May2014/
(ignore the rubbish) see how dirty the bricks are.
Go de flip home….
I notice that my previous heartfelt plea to other posters to return to the little slices of Paradise from whence they came, and leave Dublin to us natives, mysteriously disappeared. Strange days indeed – a Dubliner cannot even venture an opinion, in Dublin.
Have you had a drink there Shakey
All the time, Frillser, me proud beauty – but my remark is valid. My earlier post WAS deleted. As for ‘Harry’ below, I’m not even going to bother.
but you did bother :-)
that sentiment doesn’t come from nowhere, upsetting as it is for me I am now questioning your sincerity. I mean, I’d hate to think you were an asshole
Oh, I suppose I’ll have to ;-/ It is a matter of debate, ‘Harry’ as to who is the greater asshole – that is for others to decide. Ne’re mind, the World Cup starts on Thursday so you won’t hear from me for a month :-D
for what it’s worth, i think you’re both great fellows
“send dem all home”
the mask slips
No-one from Dublin talks the way that you talk…
Go home to the wonderful slice of Paradise you hail from, and leave this poo-y City to the people who were born there. Then you will have nothing whatever to complain of.
NOW you post it – after I complain about its non-appearance?!? Oy vay.
Those time stamps seem ta” suggest t”was there all along
Ya silly oul’ fart ya
XXX ;-)
To be fair to him Frilly, it wasn’t there earlier, when he was saying it wasn’t there, it wasn’t.
The silly oul” fart must be in quarantine so
Or maybe I”m the silly oul'” fart
It happens
Neither of yous are silly aul farts, whichever moderator/dictator was on last night, got a bit overzealous ;-)
The Shinner Lord Mayor is too busy bearing fraternal greetings to Hamas etc in Gaza to bother with stuff like this.
Yes Jake, never mind FFGLAB who lorded over it..
They should hose down Grafton Street once a day – then hose down litterbugs.
Wrong stone, government/public procurement model, lowest price wins, this is what you get, it was filthy as soon as it opened.
Weren’t they supposed to seal it when it was done to prevent it getting this dirty? Also, are the side streets going to be redone?