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Charming provincial backwater or thriving, multicultural metropolis? Traveller Asha Gill hooks up with a six-pack of Dubliners to find out why everyone’s talking up the Irish capital as Europe’s hottest ticket.
She meets:
Christian Kötey – an artist putting a dash of paganism back into Halloween by building the biggest wickerman the city’s seen in a thousand years.
David McSavage – a sharp-tongued busker who reclaims cruising on the Sniffy Liffey in the name of pleasure seekers and takes Asha blind driving in the Wicklow Hills.
Iris Meehan - burlesque performer by night, urban cowgirl by day, Iris gets a full body makeover at the wrong end of a spraygun and takes Asha into a subculture of horselovers on a highrise urban estate.
Lorcan Collins – an Irish historian and raconteur who brings the city’s past to life. Asha gets an insight into a Dublin uprising that lands her in a damp, dark cell at Kilmainham Gaol.
Tina Akinola-Jinad - the organiser of The Most Beautiful African Girl in Ireland beauty pageant –takes Asha to a church so raucous they built it on an industrial estate so no-one would be disturbed by the commotion.
David Bassett – a young entrepreneur with an adventure company that gives Dublin’s city slickers a day out in the country that they’ll never forget.
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