isadub.com » Smithfield http://isadub.com/blog based on a true story Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:44:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Prancing Horse http://isadub.com/blog/2007/05/02/prancing-horse/ http://isadub.com/blog/2007/05/02/prancing-horse/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 20:11:48 +0000 isadub http://isadub.com/blog/2007/05/02/prancing-horse/ Prancing Horse

]]> http://isadub.com/blog/2007/05/02/prancing-horse/feed/ 0 Gone fishing but not for votes http://isadub.com/blog/2007/04/11/gone-fishing-but-not-for-votes/ http://isadub.com/blog/2007/04/11/gone-fishing-but-not-for-votes/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:46:24 +0000 isadub http://isadub.com/blog/2007/04/11/gone-fishing-but-not-for-votes/ I’m heading away for a few days to catch the last of the sun but I thought I’d leave you with these two pictures I took on Manor St in Dublin 7.

The election is definitely on!

Anti Fianna Fail 1

Anti Fianna Fail 2

]]> http://isadub.com/blog/2007/04/11/gone-fishing-but-not-for-votes/feed/ 0 Cosmopolitan Smithfield http://isadub.com/blog/2007/04/10/cosmopolitan-smithfield/ http://isadub.com/blog/2007/04/10/cosmopolitan-smithfield/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:00:17 +0000 isadub http://isadub.com/blog/2007/04/10/cosmopolitan-smithfield/ Smithfield reflections Nov 2006 I was down in Smithfield today with 30 minutes to kill. So I bought a newspaper and looked for somewhere to sit and read it for awhile. There are few or no seats in Smithfield square. What was the idea behind blocking off a huge square to traffic and putting nothing in it. And people are surprised when the place is dead at night? Surely the empty space is not reserved for the once-yearly ice rink?
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I knew I shouldn’t have but I sat on a wall near the Children’s Court. After a few minutes, a Dublin man approached me and asked if I spoke English.

He didn’t look too bad but I’ve lived in Dublin long enough to know what was coming next, so I said, ‘Yeah, but I don’t have any money‘. He nodded ok and wandered off to ask other people for money. Weird.

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