96 thoughts on “A Better Dublin”

  1. Ina.

    Rid the city of Fine Gaelers and Blueshirts. That’d improve the city a lot. Also, get rid of people who are in IBEC or who subscribe to IBEC’s philosophy. DCC could turn them into manure, and use it to fertilize those areas of Ireland with poor soil.

  4. Andy Moore

    Toilets , please ?? Seating was also a personal issue on my last visit on Monday . No seating & constant movement actually can kill the spirit of a City .

    3. Rob_G

      Loads of seats on the boardwalk – ended up occupied most of the time by junkies; I think that this is why DCC are reluctant to provide seating.

  5. Panty Christ

    High visibility policing

    More public seating areas

    Removal of those Stonehenge boxes and luas junctions

    Flat whites for €2

    1. Boj

      The reality will be:
      Less visibility policing

      Less public seating areas

      Addition of those Stonehenge boxes and luas junctions

      Flat whites for €20

  7. millie st murderlark

    Better public transport. Reliable, well-run and inexpensive, and a night service that operates throughout the week and not just for the drunken masses at the weekend. Our public transport is an absolute disgrace. A new Luas isn’t going to change matters.

    Oh and high rise apartments and housing would be good too. But maybe I’m just stating the obvious.

  8. Martin

    – More green spaces
    – Less scumbags on the Luas/Bus
    – Better Cycle lanes

    I don’t live in dublin but recently had a go on Dublin bikes for first time, Dublin is not a very enjoyable place to cycle!

    1. Worlds Biggest Ranter

      But where would we get all the primary school teachers and nurses! I suppose we can do without the Mayo hole diggers now that we’ve bigger, faster Eastern Europeans with better English to do the job. Still Coppers would go bust! Oh and we’d have no Gardai asking you “is dat your veh-ha-kal” Nah better to hang on to them and attempt somehow to tame them if only to ensure a slightly less incestuous gunner eyed population beyond the ditches.

      1. SOQ

        Yes it is, the third largest in Ireland after March 2019 if projections don’t take a sharp turn.

    3. Spaghetti Hoop

      I actually don’t mind the culchies, once they respect the place. They are perfectly entitled to live and work in their capital city. But if they start shyting on about how great Bally-go-holymary is and how they hate the city then they should go back to where they came from.

  15. Worlds Biggest Ranter

    Visa requirements for freedom of movement of North side Dubliners to other parts of the city. Maybe a Berlin style wall of sorts!

  17. ros

    Free Heroin for addicts, removing the criminal element altogether and treating it as a health problem.

  18. scundered

    same thing as everyone has been saying for years, get rid of the scumbags polluting our most famous streets, the problem needs to be addressed with a fresh approach, make our streets a bit safer, more cops on the ground too

    1. Rob_G

      The main problem is that around Tara St and Amiens St, there are several homeless hostels and methadone clinics in a very small area.These should be moved out to Bluebell industrial estate or the end of the docks, away from schools and businesses, IMO.

    1. Lyle Lanley

      Well, sir, there’s nothin’ on Earth like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car monorail!

  22. Mingman

    In no particular order:
    1) Outright ban on Sandwich boards/planters cluttering the footpaths.
    2) Ban on cars.
    3) Fix the drug/homeless problem.
    4) More open spaces for people to relax without having to spend money.
    5) Make waste collection “free” so that people are not incentivised to dump (more for the suburbs maybe).
    6) Sort out the dog poo hooligans.
    7) Fix all the other stuff too.

    1. JunkFace

      They would have to invest in the poor Communities, with education, how do be independent and stop relying on handouts. It seems like there are generations in Dublin without any self respect. Its getting worse too, with the drug addiction. Less scumbags seems to be the most popular request.

      1. anne

        You can’t be independent without some sort of advantage in life..you just take it for granted because that’s been your experience.
        Self respect is secondary to people when they’ve no hope.

        Here give her a listen –
        https://youtu.be/7nRg6Q7oww8

        1. Andrew

          What advantages do you speak of? Plenty of people from the same circumstances go on to live fulfilling lives and contribute to society.
          Education is free, healthcare is free if you have a medical card.
          Infantilising people is not the way forward and welfare dependency is just that.

          1. anne

            Advantages like the right address, right accent.. not living in poverty. Those sort of advantages.

            Yeah plenty do…& plenty don’t. People need a leg up.. Opportunities, in conjunction with a minimum income.

  24. small ads

    Build council housing – nice designs with big vertical windows and lots of light and space. Make it mixed housing like the French HLMs so that it doesn’t become a series of ghettoes. Build parks and playgrounds and shopping zones within walking distance of each estate.
    Build the Greater Dublin Area Cycle Network – https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Written_Report11.pdf
    Build Japanese-style high-rise automated bicycle parking in many places.
    Remove onstreet parking for cars, buses, trucks and vans.
    Police the onstreet loading bays so that they’re used for actual loading and unloading, not parking up while the driver gets a meal.
    Build many, many more parks.
    Put plenty of seats around the city where people can stop and chat.
    Change the model of litter bins to the European-style ones where the plastic bag in a cage is easily removed and replaced.
    Renationalise bin collection.
    Free heroin for registered addicts and treat addiction as a health problem, obviously.
    Free herons for everyone else. And an egret for me.
    Make it illegal to sell loans to vulture funds.

  31. Louis Lefronde

    A giant statue of Gulliver…. the city needs a real landmark and I’m tired of listening to whining lefties….

    3. Nigel

      Gulliver was the creation of one of the greatest SJWs who ever lived, whose very name is used to denote the degree of savagery in a particular work of satire but ok.

      1. Andy Moore

        I remember the Macnas ”Millunium” 1988 project well . I saw it on a practise float @ the Claddagh one morning !!

  32. Custo

    Footpath clutter needs to be looked at.

    Imagine being a wheelchair user anywhere around Sth William St.

    Or the tiny path beside Pmacs that’s now been claimed by the pub as their own. While Thomas House have been told by the corpo not to have their 2 tables outside despite the fact that the path is about metres wide.

    Basically try to make the city less of a dump.

  33. thefatlad

    – More visible policing
    – Transport police (not just roid’d up security guards with no powers of arrest)
    – Sort out O’Connell St (we should be proud of it but its a kip)
    – Better bike lanes in the city centre
    – Massive fines for not picking up after yer efff’in’ dog
    – MASSIVER fines for going through on red lights (this has become a serious problem in the last few years and is rampant)
    – Canal and Liffey clear up weekly
    – Ban scrotes walking around with one hand down their jocks

    2. Rob_G

      ANPR cameras at certain junctions, especially around the Luas lines. Automatic fines for everyone breaking a red light – cut down on the Garda overtime bill also.

  34. Kevin

    A small complaint but no amplified buskers. No problem with busking but the amps feels like cheating.

  36. Spaghetti Hoop

    Junkies. Get rid of them and their zombie clinics from the city centre. They are a menace to tourists, to businesses, to young kids, to everyone.

  38. missred

    It’s very telling how everyone is suggesting solutions to long term problems like housing etc, when I get the impression it is being asked by the OP about littler things for the city. I applaud this as it’s what we really need.

    My own two cents: stop killing off Dublin nightlife and selling places off to developers to create more unnecessary hotels. It’s becoming a city for tourists not locals.

    1. Janet, I ate my avatar

      the only trees that can survive high levels of pollution are plane trees, which cause most humans respiratory problems

      1. Janet, I ate my avatar

        They are popular with town planners as they are deciduous, pollution-tolerant, quick-growing and well-shaped. They provide welcome shade in summer, reduce the urban heat-island effect, improve local ambience, and even add a European touch to Australian cities.

        But plane trees are also blamed by residents for provoking nasal, throat and eye symptoms. In Sydney, this led to the “No more plane-trees” action group whose aim was to raise awareness and lobby councils to substitute new planting with less irritating species. The issue became politicised between residents and councils, and was fuelled by the fact that accurate and locally-relevant information on the health risks posed by plane trees is scarce.

  42. Stan

    Liberalise the licensing laws so that temporary event licences and personal licences as in the UK become avaiable. That way, you can sell drink at your theatre show/ gig/ performance art piece as long as you can convince the cops you’re a good egg. Takes the monopoly on licences away from pubs, and means you can hope to make a bit of money on yr show or at least a smaller loss.

    Also later opening in general, late night coffee shops.
    And, given how much fun it was cycling around Dublin this weekend, a few car free Sundays mebbe?

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