dublin

#8 it's not only young Irish people who can't speak a word of Irish, i don't know anyone of my parents generation that can speak Irish apart from one relative who lives in Meath gaeltacht!!!!

Dublin is incomparable to any capital city in the world. It pales into significance to other capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid etc. It has no Irish culture about it, the only really "Irish" things are the odd O'Carrolls shop. Pubs/Restaurants are way overpriced. There's not really all that much to do and see. I'd spend a night there and then head off to the Wicklow mountains!!!

I've thought about this a bit and as a Dub it can seem mad that people come from all corners of the world, paris, new york, rome etc to see dublin.... why!!??

Not because of the architecture, the authentic old bars etc. even though that's part of it, it's the atmosphere of a small town in a city, the way people seem to vaguely know everyone else ... a family type feeling, the spontaneous banter between strangers, the friendliness .... that's still here and quite unique to dublin, whether your irish born, nigerian, chinese or jamacan. We're to small to divide into totally distinct regions of the city so everyone is part of it all. In fact dublin just gets better the more nation/city grows with other nationalities.

Re restaurants, Indian-The Kyber, Chinese (near grafton st.|)- Charming Noodles, hope house(parnell st.) European all around steven's green, american too, italian of note, da pino-parliament st, pies,mexican- food count liffey st. , turkish-zytoon-parliament st. all reasonable, kyber maybe a little more fancy and expensive but worth it.

Dublin rules!