The seagull has landed
In Grafton Street on Monday – the hottest day of the year so far – I was a transfixed by a beautiful female voice singing Dirty Old Town .
I’m not talking about mere litter here. I’m talking about the accumulated spatters, spillages, and general effluvia of everyday life. During most of the year, these are regularly removed by the municipal street washing system known as rain.Simon’s swansong – Frank McNally on the passing of a much-loved Dublin café
On Dame Street at the weekend, I was struck by the juxtaposition of a dozen or so people sitting outside a pub, calmly drinking, while beside them on the footpath a similar number of crazed seagulls enjoyed an early bird special – a newly put-out food refuse bag, which they were fast reducing to flitters.
It was, in fairness, a big croissant. It was also rather good. But it cost a shocking €6.50, which you wouldn’t pay for a croissant in the poshest Paris boulangerie. To rewrite Kavanagh, it looked like someone had finally managed to bake tartsplace to be in Dublin. But so it seemed on Saturday night, when hundreds of cool young people congregated there to eat and drink and talk, mostly in the open air.
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