The monthly newspaper “TOTALLY DUBLIN” has published in March 1984 the 200 reasons to stay in Dublin, so on its November issue they wanted to upgrade this article for the new generation and they published the “200 reasons not to leave Dublin”. The EazyDublin team has chosen the 15 best from the newspaper…
1. O’Connell Street Statuary
From Charles Stewart Parnell wearing two overcoats to William Smith O’brien, whose plinth calls him traitor in English and a martyr in Irish, the centre ofO’Connel StreetisIreland’s great kilometer of public art.
2. The Spire
Say what you want about it cost, its pointlessness or its phallic connotations; theMonumentofLightgaveDublina recognizable skyline.
3. Pints of Guinness
Wait for it. Watch it swirl around. Grow a moustache, so that when it’s finally settled, you can dip it into the creamy head, sip ad then give your opinion on the pint in the specific establishment in which you’re sat. There is a difference, you insist.
4. Rugby
InIreland, our teams are proud, manly warriors staring the best in the world in the face with no shame. Elsewhere they do not know whatRugbyis.
5. Temple bar
Ok sure, it’s often teeming with tourists, but at least they’re all kept in one place.
6. Grafton Street before Christmas
It’s full of country folk and confused parents, no doubt, but only the hardest of heart could deny a certain beauty on the glint of the draped lights through foggy breath as couples walk arm-in-arm. Ahem
7. Trinity College
Forget about the book of Kells. Turn left before the Dining Hall in front Square for a tiny cemetery full of ghosts, or ask permission to see St. Patrick’s Well, Gaelic Ireland’s third holiest site, in the Provost’s garden. Or just drink cans at the Pav.
8. Phoenix Park
Walk your dog, g deer-spotting, play football or Frisbee, roll down the Pope’s Cross while shouting “such happiness I have never seen”, hang around the American embassy until men in sunglasses move you on. The possibilities are endless
9. Stephen’s Green on sunny day
For centuries, tired city folk have taken to the grass in Stephen’s Green to rest and take in the warmth. There is no better feeling.
10. Dublin Castle
Started in 1204 on the orders of King John, famous for being mean to Robin Hood, the castle is where most of the important matters inDublin’s history happened. Its gardens, on the supposed site of the pool after which Dubhlinn is named, are quiet and strange in a nice way.
11. Croke Park
This country has an 82.000 seats stadium devoted to a set of sports that your primary school teacher used to play at the highest level. Appreciate that.
12. Dublin Football team
It took a very long time, but we did indeed win the Sam Maguire this year. To turn your back on your countrymen in their year of jubilation would be treason.
13. Dublin bikes
The city swapped some advertising space for them, now there’s shrewd thinking.
14. Taxi driver conversations
Ok, these are usually terrible, but there is one taxi driver inDublingenuinely mad at the bassist from Aslan for pretending to be psychobilly in Comet Records in the 80s. Ask about it in every taxi you’re in until you find him.
15. Jedward
They might be lunatics, but they are our lunatics.
The EazyDublin Team added 3 other reasons:
1. The word “Grand”
Whatever it is, it doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to be barely of sufficient quality to be fit for purpose. It’ll be grand!
2. The Nitelink
Probably one of the only night buses in the world where you can be united in a chant with every single passenger on the way home.
3. The view towards the docklands at night
From the right angle, the lights on the new bridge, the conference centre and he ferris wheel look postcard-perfect.
Another one! From the male part of EazyDublin Staff 😉
THE GIRLS ARE SO PRETTY!!
Though apparently susceptible to fever, the women of Dublin celebrated in the songs of old for their lovely visages. The men are probably handsome too.
