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Are there any real Dubliners who live in D8? G-entrification central by blow-ins who use the eircode provided and have no sense of history, community, or intention to stay.
Ah yeah
Up around Maryland, Donore, definitely
Of course their is. The liberties is slowly being killed, but there is still loads of us here
Love all the little cottages off Meath St. Met some lovely folks round there when I worked up in Dublin 8. Course that was a good few years ago now but it was like finding a hidden Dublin I thought didn’t exist anymore.
It really is the best part of Dublin. I’m 34 years living here. I can see it slowly being destroyed.
What exactly is being destroyed?
I see only improvements – e.g. Weaver Park, The Tenters, the co-op style food markets, crafting, street furniture and facades, local enterprise support, homegrown produce, community clubs etc.
First of the tenters, in no way whatsoever has it been improved, there wasn’t much wrong with that area anyway. Weaver Park is a good addition yes, but then look closer abundance of transient accommodation, student and hotels. Prices for accommodation sky rocketing unless your lucky enough to have a corpo house, locals who have lived years here now can’t afford rent or afford to buy. So the community is being killed.
Well I lived off Cork Street myself
On Fingal Street from 93 to early 05
And worked in the Coombe itself after that
It has seen enormous changes
That all started when the Cork Street road scheme commenced, and it got designated Urban Renewal Relief ( thanks to Ted Crosbie and Vicar Street getting in on the MTV awards)
The whole area has definitely lost something
And while I miss it
I can’t help admire the improvements
And wish I was still down there
‘Locals’ can’t afford to live there because the area is gradually becoming somewhat nice. If these locals want to live close to their mothers, they will need to get jobs that will pay them enough money to live within 1km of the centre of the capital of one of the richest countries in the world; otherwise, they will have to make compromises in choosing where they live – same as the rest of us, really.
That’s some huge assumption you are making there. I never mentioned anyone’s mother. I’m talking about people who work in the area and could afford the rent to live here. Now we have dog box 1bed apt renting for 1400+, but yeah screw the community that made the liberties what it is. Not all locals are living in corpo houses, I know people who after renting the same place for 10 years now can’t afford anywhere near the area.
Actually, your post mentioned ‘locals’, it didn’t mention ‘people working in the area’. Locals face the same problems as anyone else trying to rent currently, unfortunately.
“… but yeah screw the community that made the liberties what it is”
– the liberties was a kip! The fact that it is (incrementally) no longer a kip is down to the fact that people other than the families who have been living there for generations are starting to move in.
The liberties was never a kip and that’s just a fact, of course it had problems everywhere does, actually I won’t continue commenting on your comment, it’s way snobbish to give any real reply to
Ah yeah – things were much better when we had the batch bread, and when the liberties was a heroin-ridden kip…
You clearly don’t know the area or live here because it hasn’t been like that in over 20 years, long maybe. And batch bread is clearly the best bread.
I used to work around there 10-ish years ago; I remember sympathising with colleagues after their cars had their windows smashed, and being offered heroin on several occasions.
Last time I heard about it in the news, tourists were being robbed at gunpoint, and this certainly wasn’t 20 years’ ago; gentrification cannot come fast enough for the kip.
Hahaha bitterness of not living here is strong in you. I’m 34 years here and that robbery is the first of its kind I’ve heard of, so once off is hardly epidemic now. And crime is every where, in every area and I’m sorry you were offered drugs, maybe you look the type. But if you don’t live here you can’t comment because you are clearly talking bull poo.
Yes, I bet that there are all of those public meetings about drugs and anti-social behaviour because of that one robbery last year…
Where are “all” these meetings. I can literally feel your bitterness through the phone.
I don’t know, I don’t follow the goings on in Dublin 8 that closely. Contact your local councillor, I’m sure there will be one taking place soon.
Then how do you all these meetings happen. You just look foolish now.
Sorry how do you know….
Wow, look at this interesting map:
https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.4112008!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpg
That’s a nice map, not sure what it’s meant to show me though. No context to it.
Poor old rob is a charter member of the fellowship of the miserable.
ask, and you shall receive:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/anti-social-behaviour-used-by-gangs-to-control-parts-of-south-dublin-research-1.4111448
I’m not subscribing to read complete garbage, well I’ll have to assume it’s garbage.
You can knock off the guff now, you’re out of core hours. Time for more free food before that weary commute….
somebody needs to tell them St Catherines Church is in Meath Street not Thomas Street