{"id":249237,"date":"2026-01-17T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249237\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:07:09","slug":"listen-back-cavan-native-asks-the-question-what-has-oconnell-st-in-dublin-to-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249237\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Back: Cavan native asks the question what has O&#8217;Connell St in Dublin to offer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Co Cavan man says Dublin&#8217;s O&#8217;Connell Street is lacking what other European city centres have.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Gaffney posed the question on social media what has the main thoroughfare has to offer in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>He says when you think of other European cities, the centres are bustling and full of high standard retail outlets. The Cavan man who lives in Dublin says after 6pm O&#8217;Connell Street is empty and there is an air of danger from the lack of people around.<\/p>\n<p>Dublin City Council said last week they are to spend \u20ac3.8m on a dedicated unit for the &#8220;rejuvenation&#8221; of the city centre in response to the riots over two years ago that &#8220;deeply affected the city&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dublin&#8217;s north inner city has been plagued by petty crime and allegedly unsafe streets for several years. Darren who is a comedian says walking down O&#8217;Connell Street after 8pm and there is almost no premises open except for a couple of takeaways. Darren spoke to Ronan Gargan on the Wider View today about what he believes is a lack of amenities in the capital&#8217;s main street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Co Cavan man says Dublin&#8217;s O&#8217;Connell Street is lacking what other European city centres have. Darren Gaffney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-249237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}