The Temple Bar area of downtown Dublin had become Europe’s new Sunset Strip: Monte Carlo with shamrocks. I’m sure I saw Bill Clinton in that bar across the road.”It was like a boutique form of racial profiling. “Poverty didn’t disappear just because Dublin was going through a process of embourgeoisement,” he says. In the city’s exclusive Dublin 4 area south of the city centre the average house costs almost €900,000. He lives in County Mayo and is disturbed by what he saw in Dublin two night ago.

Source: The Herald November 24, 2023 19:48 UTC