That’s right. You read correctly. In the same way as we look back at the 1980s and laugh at their haircuts, fashion choices and technology, people in 30 years’ time will be looking back and doing the exact same about us. Worse again, we’ve documented even more content – meaning there’ll be more to laugh […]

10 years ago

If you’re familiar with the name of this website, then you’re probably aware that we kinda have a thing for Dublin. So we’d like to take a moment and consider just what makes this city so damn great. Here are 49 things about this city that make us go YES! 1. When the weather is […]

10 years ago

As the Kids Go Free scheme kicks off for its second year, children from the age of four to 18 can avail of two whole weeks of free public transport services starting this Monday, July 6. According to The Herald, holders of child Leap cards will be able to travel for free on Dublin Bus, […]

10 years ago

You’ve probably seen the headlines over the past week warning that cars are to be banned from large chunks of the city centre. Dublin City Council made the announcement in its new Dublin City Centre Transport Study that would see big changes in how private vehicles access the city centre. Understandably, people who drive into […]

10 years ago

With the season five finale of Game of Thrones fast approaching, we took it upon ourselves to speculate what the world of Westerns would be like if it was all moved to our wonderful capital city. Potential spoilers lie within. 1. The Starks would have a very different motto. Instead of “Winter is Coming,” the […]

10 years ago

Food, glorious food! There’s always top nosh available in this fine city – however glorious weather is something we can only boast about during a very select time of the year. So what better way to combine those two wonderful things than to head to an outdoor market? Outdoor markets are admired by food lovers […]

10 years ago

Forbidden Fruit‘s a bit of a beauty really, you get all the fun of a festival without having to trek an hour or two down the country and you can tumble into your own bed every evening. Taking place over three days this year, instead of two, we’ve drawn up a nifty little list of […]

10 years ago

While the mechanics of Irish dating tend to pivot around drinks and more drinks, the opportunity to experience someone’s company in both sobriety and sunlight has its perks. What to do in alcohol’s absence, however, is the ultimate quandary. This week, warm weather rumours have started to surface and we thought, ‘where could Dubliners go […]

10 years ago

Wander through town on a Friday night and the streets are aglow with neon signs and a scurry of heels. Beyond the thoroughfare meanwhile, where Netflix and clicking kettles insulate nights in, jostling tends to be reserved to the couch: prizing a remote away from a flat mate or lunging into a bag of crisps. […]

10 years ago

This video condenses last Saturday in Dublin into just one minute and lets you relive it. Posted by YOU4REEL.com on Vimeo, the video takes you from the LUAS around St Stephen’s Green and on a tour of the city centre, allowing you to forget for 60 seconds that it is in fact Monday again.

10 years ago

Construction of a new LUAS track line has begun on O’Connell Street this morning. The roadworks will mean the extension of the ban on cars travelling through College Green from 7am to 7pm on weekdays during the construction’s initial stage, allowing for the movement of buses and taxis only. Due for completion in 2017, the […]

10 years ago

A new website is trying to map vacant spaces around Dublin in order to put them to some use. Reusing Dublin asks its users to share information about the location of the capital’s unused spaces in order to identify opportunities for using the city more efficiently for the benefit of the entire community. How it […]

10 years ago