The ould triangle going jingle jangle/All along the banks of Temple Bar
The thump of full beer kegs on jute bags filled with cork and made in Nottingham by a company called Murphy & Son. All That Glit – Frank McNally on the ancient origins of a slippery wordA taped backing track doing the Viking Roar for tourists too polite to do it themselves .The man who keeps saying: “Stand clear! Luggage doors operating.”
Two eejit drivers getting thick with each other and debating the rules of the road at length with car horns.The reassuring quack of ducks in St Stephen’s Green.Someone singing, “Grace, just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger” 20 times a day on Grafton Street. Foghorn voices having arguments from one end of a street to the other, while perforating the eardrums of anyone unlucky enough to pass them at the wrong moment.The “whoosh” of that e-powered Deliveroo cyclist you didn’t see as he shot by within centimetres of your nose at 30 miles an hour.The satisfying double “ping” of a bike returned safely to its station.People talking about crack .
Actual snippet of conversation heard recently in the park behind Christ Church. First woman: “Then she gave me her pipe to finish – she was lightin’ a new one for herself. So I told her, ‘Ye can shove that up yer gee’.” Second woman: “Fair play to ye. I’da said the same.”The cheerful ding of a Luas tram as it politely draws the attention of pedestrians to its approach.
The angry honk of a Luas tram as a pedestrian with earphones makes a last-minute decision to cross the tracks, oblivious..Tour guides talking about Oscar Wilde or Brendan Behan as if they used to know them personally.
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