Hipsters are finally concerned about globalism’s destruction of Dublin after the news that the Bernard Shaw pub is to cease operation but not everyone is upset.
Drivetime heard from Cllr Mannix Flynn who said that there was a living community in t…
Hipsters are finally concerned about globalism’s destruction of Dublin after the news that the Bernard Shaw pub is to cease operation but not everyone is upset.
Drivetime heard from Cllr Mannix Flynn who said that there was a living community in the Charlemont flats nearby who were harangued, hassled and disregarded by the clientele of the bar whom he described as hipsters as "they weren't cool."
Flynn said that not everybody was in agreement with the type of noise that the local people had to put up with.
"In those 13 odd years, they managed to antagonise and make the area hostile for the local community who lived in Charlemont flats."
"They're the ones who set themselves up in the neighbourhood and thought for some strange reason everybody was going to enjoy the noise and people said 'no'."
"They refused point blank to negotiate with the local people and when they were leaving Body Tonic, they didn't even thank the neighbourhood for 13 years of noise."
Cllr Flynn also said that the statement that there's a closure or an attack on the cultural life of Dublin "is very, very far-fetched indeed".
"The idea that they marched into an area that was closed down and uncool and unhip and horrible and they walked in and saved the area is absolutely insulting. "
"...given the fact that we have a crisis in our in our city with homelessness, we have a crisis in our city with drugs, and here we have a load of glampers who decided to camp themselves into the area and undermine the local community."
Cllr Flynn compared the disappointment over the bar's closure as "basically a row with a load of fleas in a wig." He said the The owner of the bar has not renewed the license and it was as simple as that.
However, a regular who drank at the Bernard Shaw called Emmet Condon held a different view.
He claimed that the Bernard Shaw provided "cultural output in a DIY sense that is not being looked after in other areas of Dublin".
He said similar cultural output was ..
