WE’VE RECENTLY BEEN describing the glories of Cork and Galway.
But let’s face it: there’s only one real capital. Here’s what every proper resident knows:
1. Like it or hate it, the smell of the Guinness brewery means home.
2. Donuts from the stand on O’Connell Street are one of the wonders of the world
3. This is the perfect way to say ‘No’
4. Temple Bar is a useful containment area for tourists and newcomers
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5. This.
6. Coppers is for people from the country… but everyone still somehow ends up there
7. Summer is coming when the streets fill with lost groups of French and Spanish exchange students.
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8. If you want poems, Pat Ingoldsby will sell you a book of them on Westmoreland Street
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9. This is the best name for our city’s light-rail system
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10. Beshoffs is for tourists. Burdocks is the real fish and chips.
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11. The absolute best time to see Dublin is with the sun setting over the Liffey
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12. Every Dubliner has one pub which they KNOW serves the city’s best Guinness.
But they’re all different.
13. On a sunny day, don’t try and find a seat at The Barge
Just get cans and sit along the canal instead!
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14. This will ALWAYS be Lansdowne Road
No matter how much money insurance companies throw at it.
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15. The Iveagh Gardens are way nicer than Stephen’s Green
16. If you swim at the Forty Foot, there will ALWAYS be a wrinkly old man who stays in longer than you
17. Seeing the Poolbeg towers from the plane is a great feeling
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18. And finally, everywhere more than 15 minutes outside the city is ‘down the country’
No matter what direction it’s actually in.
