We’ve a feeling a lot of folks will be feeling awfully thirsty this evening, so if you’re heading out you’ll need to pick a city centre pub with ample seating. But where oh where can you find such a haven? Where can you escape the noisy, chair-stealing crowds in this busy city? One of these […]

8 years ago

When the sun shines we always see photos coming in from the Barge but it seems that yesterday the crowd had moved down to Portobello bridge. There were bags of cans everywhere and a crowd so big that it resembled some sort of music festival. The crowd was 10 deep from early on… View this […]

8 years ago

Yep. It’s finally happened. We’ve found our complete and utter perfect dream home. The only slight issue? It’s on sale for €1.5 million.  Yes, it’s WAY out of our budget. But where there’s a will there’s a way. We’re gonna be lighting a hundred candles every evening, playing Lotto seven days a week and scoping […]

8 years ago

First off, can we just say how grim it is that the cheapest apartments in Dublin city centre-ish we could find on Daft.ie are all priced over 1k a month? You’d have to be either willing to spend half your salary on rent every month or be lucky enough to have an other half to […]

8 years ago

The weekend is nearly here and by the sounds of things the sun will be sticking around Dublin which can only mean one thing – people chilling out by the Grand Canal around Portobello.  Great craic is generally had whenever crowds descend on the area but sometimes things get a little bit, shall we say, […]

8 years ago

As Dublin rental prices continue to climb upwards, (much to the dismay of, well, everyone) the size of the accommodation seems to be getting smaller and smaller.  At the start of May, average rental prices in Dublin increased to €1,875 per month, making them €430 a month more expensive than at the last peak of the […]

8 years ago

When you first glance at this cottage, it looks absolutely tiny… and you’ll probably wonder why it’s selling for €495,000. However, one look inside will show you that it has been extended and re-modelled into a gorgeous two-bedroom house that we want to move into right now. Image: Sherry Fitzgerald The living area looks spacious […]

8 years ago

Long gone are the days of hmm-ing and haw-ing over whether to go to “the Italian” or “the Indian” for dinner on a Saturday night; the problem right now is trying to choose between the 40 or so really, truly super restaurants in the city centre. Which let’s face it, is probably the most wonderful problem anyone […]

8 years ago

What’s rare is beautiful and sunshine in Ireland during the summer is something that happens very seldom but is absolutely gorgeous when it does.  And, it’s no secret that there’s only one place to be in the capital when that small yellow thing is in the sky. ‘The Barge’ has given us some fantastic moments. […]

8 years ago

Feeling like an impromptu getaway? WOW Air has your back.  Their latest sale launches today and sees mega cheap flights from Dublin to Iceland, SEVEN (!) American cities and Canada. We’d be flying with them every single week from now ’til autumn if we could.  The airline announced €49.99 flights from Dublin to Iceland and […]

8 years ago

The Journal reports that residents at Portobello and Harold’s Cross were apparently ‘barricading roads’ in order to protect the area from drinks urinating and leaving behind rubbish during the Bank Holiday weekend.  As images taken this morning reveal the shocking amount of rubbish and empty cans left behind, many on social media are lamenting the […]

8 years ago

There’s nothing worse than trying to decide where to go for a lovely morning coffee in the sun in Dublin — most places are either built for indoor sipping or the outside area is in the shade. Noshington Cafe, a little paradise right in the middle of Dublin 8 that serves some of the most […]

8 years ago