The state of Rosie Hackett Bridge in Dublin City Centre

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  1. The James Joyce bridge is every bit as bad, still had the plastic bag covering the bin from Plastic Joe’s visit until about two weeks ago….and the bang of piss off the bench is unreal.

  2. I was in Barcelona recently, which has a bigger population, is more densely populated, has more tourists, has less rain, and a 30 billion lower GDP, and nowhere was it dirty as Dublin.

  3. Corporate Ireland loves glass and white granite and brushed steel and absolutely refusing to keep any of it clean.

    Has anybody ever even SEEN a power-washer being used in Dublin?

  4. Bridge… water, flows, under? Long suction pipe with a power washer… not using fresh drinkable water.. but I doubt people will give two shits about it as long as it looks clean

  5. Owen Keegan probably too busy planning a white water rafting facility for himself, couldn’t be arsed doing his fucking job. The man nearly ruined Dun Laoghaire and is now doin his best fuck up town even more. How someone so incompetent got to such a high position is astounding.

  6. Galway is apocalyptically filthy at the moment. You’ve nearly to leap between parts of the street that aren’t smeared in piss, vomit, shit and Christ knows what else. City councils doing the absolute bare minimum, as usual. It’s not hard to hose the place down once a week.

  7. Our cities are sadly very ugly, dereliction everywhere, litter too, dirty streets like the photo there all over the place, junkies and scumbags hanging around on every corner too, the architecture is not one bit pleasing to the eye either, just a very shabby and gritty look.

  8. Even Grafton, O’Connell and Henry street look rotten, they need a proper clean, 6am with the power washer. State of the place is awful and can only get worse if left unaddressed

  9. That granite was an absolutely awful choice of paving for the city center. Henry St and Grafton St are much the same.

    It just absolutely absorbs everything and is very stubborn to clean even with a power washer. My back was broke doing it weekly outside our smoking area/beer garden. You’d to throw warm soapy water over it leave it sit, scrub it with a yard brush and leave it sit, then power washer it, then rinse and repeat again to get it fully clean. 3-4hrs every week on a tiny 20x20ft section never mind a full street a few km long.

  10. Disgrace. The benches too, a lick of Ronseal would work wonders. And the DCC can borrow my Karcher if they want.

  11. It’s the same all over – was down in dun Laoghaire yesterday and in town today, and all this lovely paving is covered in grime and dirt. Really selling ourselves as a tourist hotspot.

  12. The problem is a lack of accountability. This same problem exists across our public sector.

  13. “What’s the point in cleaning it if it’ll just get dirty again?” – Dublin City Council, probably.

  14. Dublin is extremely dirty city. Other day I wanted to lock my bike next Penneys/GPO and the stench of piss was unbearable. My lock is bit finicky so it took like 30 seconds to lock it but I almost vomited twice.

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