There are nice areas on the North Side.
There are bad areas on the South Side.
That's the difference.
Price of food and drink in Dublin
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There are bad areas on the South Side.
That's the difference.
Sssh. We need to keep that narrative going to deter Southsiders from crossing the Liffey and pushing up prices of houses, food and drink etc etc
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The "divide" has always been much more nuanced and local. But leaving aside the city centre, once you get to the inner and outer suburbs it's largely a proximity to the coast thing. If you drew an M50-shaped semi-circle just inside the current one, starting at the airport and winding around just west of Terenure you would eliminate a lot of the massive-scale so-called "less desirable" areas - Tallaght/Clondalkin/Blanchardstown etc. That's not to say there aren't pockets of nice areas within those neighbourhoods - and the reverse.
Dey can look down whatever dey like, it's still DNS - a simple geography ting, righ'?
That looks like good value.
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"A pint of Guinness in The Duke is €6.50."
I said IPA.
"According to d'inter-web the Deliveroo price for fresh cod and chips from Leo Burdocks Christchurch (the real one) is €16.50"
It was Temple Bar
"It seems that they did, yes."
The price of the fish and chips was displayed but not the beer.
"A pint of Guinness in The Duke is €6.50."
I said IPA.
"According to d'inter-web the Deliveroo price for fresh cod and chips from Leo Burdocks Christchurch (the real one) is €16.50"
It was Temple Bar
"It seems that they did, yes.
"The price of the fish and chips was displayed but not the beer.
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I know, but subsequent posts mentioned Guinness.
Ah well then.
I'm always happy to pay a little extra to price out the riff-raff.
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Remember this is the industry whose employment numbers keep rising, yet pleaded for a handout in the run up to the last general election, in the form of a 4% VAT reduction. Fine Gael duly delivered, with a nod from Fianna Fáil, in the budget, giving us four years to forget before the next election.
That 4% reduction costs about €700m per annum. If the industry was charging the same 23% VAT most of us have to charge, it would contribute about €2.5bn per annum to the exchequer. That’s one (overpriced) children’s hospital every year.
Remember, this is the industry which, in large part, pays the minimum wage and relies greatly on the hidden subsidy of the bank of Mummy and Daddy - i.e. employing teenagers and college students.
Anyone who lives in Dublin has seen it become a giant gastro-pub over the last decade.
There’s money in hospitality, it seems, and perhaps now more than ever.
D.
Ps. Much of the rubbish spoken by FG politicians in justifying the VAT reduction centred on small town rural restaurants and cafés needing it to survive. In my experience, and some in the business I’ve spoken to have agreed, it’s because pubs have greatly upped their food game in the last twenty years and stolen their lunch.
That 4% reduction costs about €700m per annum. If the industry was charging the same 23% VAT most of us have to charge, it would contribute about €2.5bn per annum to the exchequer. That’s one (overpriced) children’s hospital every year.
Remember, this is the industry which, in large part, pays the minimum wage and relies greatly on the hidden subsidy of the bank of Mummy and Daddy - i.e. employing teenagers and college students.
Anyone who lives in Dublin has seen it become a giant gastro-pub over the last decade.
There’s money in hospitality, it seems, and perhaps now more than ever.
D.
Ps. Much of the rubbish spoken by FG politicians in justifying the VAT reduction centred on small town rural restaurants and cafés needing it to survive. In my experience, and some in the business I’ve spoken to have agreed, it’s because pubs have greatly upped their food game in the last twenty years and stolen their lunch.
Agreed.
They'd waste it somewhere else instead, probably on pay rises or reducing class sizes or some other such nonsense. I'm delighted that they are building the hospital, and the metro, and I don't care how much they cost. Infrastructure, infrastructure and more infrastructure; sewage, water (yes, from the Shannon), roads, trains, power stations etc. Bring them on.
Most minimum wage jobs are done by people living in middle and higher income households. That's always been the case.
Agree 100%