{"id":44286,"date":"2025-09-05T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44286\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:30:11","slug":"best-things-to-do-in-dublin-and-top-things-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44286\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Things to Do in Dublin (and Top Things to Avoid)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The best things to see, do, and eat in Ireland\u2019s storied capital.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Dublin, I took the city for granted. When I returned after years of living abroad, however, I discovered a new appreciation for my hometown. For a small city, it wears so many different hats. It\u2019s historically rich, with medieval castles, cathedrals, and Georgian townhouses built on land once settled by Vikings. It\u2019s creative, with music, art, and culinary scenes that continually push boundaries. It\u2019s hedonistic, with a globally unrivalled pub culture. It\u2019s ever-changing, with an increasingly international population bringing a new lease of life. It\u2019s the people that make the city\u2013there\u2019s an atmosphere of goodwill here that I find infectious. I\u2019m lucky to call it home. Here are my tips for the best things to do in Dublin, plus the must-try restaurants, top hotels for any budget, and a few things to avoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best things to see, do, and eat in Ireland\u2019s storied capital. Growing up in Dublin, I took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[33263,9,10,13,14,6,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,33261,33262,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-44286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-best-of-ireland","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-travel-tips","23":"tag-trip-ideas","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}