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A CALLER TO Liveline today highlighted the often stark contrast between the reality of life in Dublin city and the picture presented in a glossy new video created to promote the capital.
The caller, Aisling, who lives in the Netherlands, said she had spoken to a group of Dutch tourists who told her a story of encountering two people having sex on the city’s boardwalk, near O’Connell Bridge, “at four o’clock in broad daylight”.
What struck the tourists most was that other people in the area were just going about their business ”they couldn’t see what was going on right next to them or maybe they did…”.
“As liberal as the Dutch are, with their red light districts in Amsterdam, they said at least in Amsterdam they close off the curtains and you don’t see what’s going on.”
The tourists were “stunned” Aisling said, adding that she herself was “embarrassed”.
“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I was just sort-of shocked in silence.”
The boardwalk area along the Liffey has long been a trouble-spot for drug use and anti-social behaviour in the city.
Today’s tale of “broad daylight” sex comes just days after a new tourist logo was launched for Dublin with the tagline ‘A Breath of Fresh Air’.
Liveline presenter Joe Duffy, who recently said the city centre area was “an unadulterated kip” that had been “taken over by pound shops” pointed out that the boardwalk area also made an appearance in a new video unveiled today to tie-in with that initiative.
As it runs through the attractions of the city, the video also highlights Dublin’s close proximity to the mountains, the sea and other natural beauty spots in the course of its 80-second runtime.
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What extra Cork to Dublin flights ????.as we’ve no scheduled flights to there as it is !!!
@John O’Driscoll: He hasn’t a clue really. Populist request…… Extra trains and buses are all that’s needed. At least they will leave you close to Croke Park
WOW, he really has his hand on the pulse of what is happening in Cork
It’s 2 hours up the motorway…
@Richard K: hmmm… it’s 2 hours from Naas my guy. Welcome to the city.
@Richard K: 2 hours driving from some parts of West Cork and you are still In the county of Cork.
Has Tommy lost the plot?? He was complaining a few weeks ago about the price of match tickets. There haven’t been Cork to Dublin flights for years!!
I think Thomas will get a telling off from mary lou over this one…a bit like the helicopter to the Galway races
Jaysus, All Irelands for over a hundred years, the same distance, similar ground capacities and now you want to fly to Dublin. Travel like you always did or stay at home and moan that you wasted your ticket because you couldn’t get a flight. Proper fan indeed. Up Cork, Up Clare.
Actually, drive up to Shannon, lol.
There was another Cork TD or Senator on last week, wanting the motorway tolls to be eliminated next Sunday…Jesu* wept !!
@John Manahan: Actually a good suggestion to help traffic flow. Especially with both counties traffic on the same road for part of the way. Would only have to leave them open for a couple of hours in the evening. Operators aren’t dependent on those kind of bonanzas.
Just after the local elections, sinn fein said that they need to listen to the people more…
Should a party not exist because of certain principles and ideas that makes up its ethos, and people vote on which party best represents their thoughts, rather than each party bending and twisting trying to muster votes from each side.
Fianna fail and fine gael are no better..
We end up with parties that don’t really stand for anything, left or right leaning
What an extremely sad man he is.
Welcome to another climate change denier. God be with the good auld days when they’d set off walking on Wednesday to be there for the match. Notions, that’s what it is, flights how are ye!
Flights from cork to dublin? La de da. Nothing wrong with the aircoach.
The Coveney posse shud be able to fit a few of the loyal in down the back
If O’Leary was any good he would sort out a few flights for it.
@Padraig: If the GAA were any good they’d give the 2 participating counties a bigger share of the tickets.
@Padraig: It ain’t his job Pádraig!
Sorry!!
Far more important things for a TD to be doing me thinks
It’s great to see people who haven’t been to games all year can fly back after securing a ticket
Lots of places to go in ireland if you want to see people fighting with sticks.
He’s right about going to Croke Park. Men actually walked to the match along the railway tracks. One man would cycle 30- 40 miles in limerick to play in in a match. The country was impoverished for many years after the founding of the state. People emigrated never to return. It’s seeing the past through rose tinted glasses. My family would get parcels from America. Swiss family Robinson was an amazing book I read in the 1950s. Another version of the wild geese after WWll it was. We had no political leaders until people like lemass took up the reins. Everything changed then. Sport was an incredibly unifying force. I met a Canadian sports commentator in Portugal once. He said “don’t tell me, don’t tell me “. I was just after flying from Dublin where I saw the hurling final.
Maybe rail line from the airport aswell.
No climate worries for that weekend put on 10 extra flights another waster
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