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We don't have to just accept the Garda kicking us off of one of the only safe spaces for students in all of Dublin City Centre. There are uncountable other spaces that would actually benefit from Garda presence, like Busáras which hasn't seen a Gard in 100 years despite being across the road from a Garda station.

Similar examples include O'Connell Street and Westmoreland Street.

Garda need to find something more useful than harassing srudents to do. There's plenty of crime about, its actually hard to miss it, hard to walk around feeling safe anywhere *except for* Drury Street over the last couple of years, which has been an excellent space for students. Provide more bins, businesses can suck it up or move and shut up.

Edit one of probably many: 2 replies saying the students should move but not the businesses. Excellent advice! Now please help me understand by answering A) Where to? everywhere else in DCC is unsafe. B) Why do you love businesses more than thousands of real people? Even those businesses benefit from exploiting the work of students as their entire staff base, which is another aspect of the issue. I know you can't convince everybody, I just wish some people would think a little bit more...

Love you all. Love eachother. Don't let them monetise and police Drury!!!

TLDR: Capitalism has taken enough, and will take as much as we let it. Don't let them forcefully commercialise having fun with your friends. Stand for what you believe in.

But their names can not shared because of their age. The amount of free pass people get under 18 is unacceptable and outrageous. Not only that self defence is considered illegal when these animals are basically trying to kill you in the day light. Unbelievable.

So many murders in Dublin recently...

This is absolutely heartbreaking and disgusting. When are these teenage crimes ever going to stop??

Hello ! I am a new-ish student to Dublin and have been settling in nicely but I have one question that my friends / colleagues have not been able to really answer or know how to answer, I had been informed of the recycling bottle and can scheme and thought I understood it but it has confused me a bit so they recommended asking you guys instead !

So far I have only returned at local shops (not big shops like Tesco or Supervalu) and I get a receipt with the amount back but they said to put it towards my total when I am buying items?

E.g. I buy bread for 1.50€ and have 0.50€ on the receipt, so I pay 1€ for the bread. I have been collecting the bottles I use after seeing friends do it, instead of just returning one bottle / can, but this doesn’t seem to be the case? I usually pay with card, so could this be a reason why I wouldn’t get physical money back? One of my big issues is my local shop is not somewhere I would shop from too much (just a lot out of my budget, convenience pricing) and getting a receipt back could help but I would rather my money go towards my food shopping weekly or such.

I’m so sorry about this being a long post, I am just a little confused and it seems my friends are a little bit too 😅 any help is very appreciated !

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Hello,

I am going to Dublin in June and among all the visits I have planned, I want to the check book stores and wanted to know which one were the best one both in used and new books for the ambiance and the books they proposed.

Thanks in advance

I made a dumb mistake and left my duffle bag on a corner in the grass when I went for a jog and it disappeared within minutes.

Is there a chance it'll turn up? Any suggestions, advice or leads are welcome.

Idc about anything in it but my house keys :(

Mr Middleton garden shop is closing down :(

Hello people,

I’ve seen this discussion been brought up a couple of times on this sub-Reddit but considering time has passed since it was last asked, I’m wondering what everyone’s experience has been living in East Ballyfermot, particularly around Landen Road.

Looking at houses, East Ballyfermot is one of our best options. Close to both our families and also very central to town and the Pheonix Park which is quite important for us.

We’re more so wondering about the overall living quality of east Ballyfermot and what people’s positive/negative stories have been.

We’ve generally gathered that East is actually quite nice, matured and slowly but surely beginning to gentrify but we just were looking for any locals opinions on the matter!

Thanks.

I was hoping someone would have an idea/experience with this. I booked tickets for Katseye in September for my niece and her friends (they are 10-11). I ended up getting standing tickets as the seated ones were over 300 euro. It's only later that I saw standing is 14+. Does anyone know are they very strict on age? These tickets are all we can afford but I'd hate to turn up and be turned away.

This is quite literally a rant but I feel like I am going to lose my mind with the transport in Dublin. I’ve posted before and was met with some agreement but also stuff like “well actually the data shows bus use is up 7% etc so the new spine system is actually a success, ensures buses show up and generally on time, and if some people suffer with less direct routes for the greater good that’s just how it is”.

It is literally taking me anywhere from 1hr - 1.5hrs for a roughly 10-12km journey (yes I’m planning to start cycling but that’s not the point - I shouldn’t have to do this as a last resort)

I used to be able to get a bus from Crumlin / kimmage into Dublin in 25-30 mins. It is at minimum ~45 mins with the route changes as nothing is direct. Ok fine, so I try to use the new spine connection system and get off at different stops for different buses. But so many of them are literally not showing up, leaving an extra 10-20 minute wait, or so late you fail to get your connecting bus. I could maybe tolerate this if the buses actually felt like they were fucking moving but I measured the speed they’re going - literally anywhere from 15 - 30km (if you’re lucky) max. Now I’ve seen this fact met with “it’s to keep them on schedule”. Ok sure - but they’re barely ever on time or simply don’t show up. This literally happened today with two separate bus routes.

I am genuinely at my wits end. How are we so shit at the basics in this country. How do we tolerate paying so much for everything and getting this in return. I’m in the office 5 days a week. I’m spending at minimum 80 euro a month for the pleasure of what I can only describe as a social experiment designed to test the point at which I’m going to go absolutely mental.

Surely this cannot go on for the next 5-15 years? What are we doing here? It’s absolutely embarrassing as a country. I’m not asking for perfection here but come on

Garda chopper been hovering over Darndale for the last 30 minutes. Do we have any boots on the ground knowing what’s going down?

It’s so strange that of all places it happens right here! Any idea why?