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The morning after: This is what Temple Bar looked like first thing today

The cleanup begins…

Updated at 12.50pm

THE SAINT PATRICK’S Day festivities are over for another year in Dublin.

The cleanup got under way early today – and Dublin City Council says most of its work will be completed by early this afternoon.

This is what Temple Bar Square looked like around 6.30am this morning, following last night’s celebrations…

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Here’s what it looked like just down the road outside the Temple Bar pub, just a few hours earlier…

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Overflowing litter bins posed major problems for staff in the Temple Bar area, according to the Council.

“St Patrick’s Day is and was by far the busiest day of the year for the Waste Management Services Division with a reported 500,000 people viewing the parade alone in fine weather conditions,” the Council said in a statement to TheJournal.ie.

Sufficient additional staff were in place in the city centre including Temple Bar however it was very difficult to service litter bins in some locations due to the volume of people on street.

Staff have been working hard today to complete the cleanup, the statement added.

As the images below from the Temple Bar Company show, the efforts of local businesses and Council staff are already paying off.

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    Feb 2nd 2020, 9:20 AM

    Is ‘droch ula’ not a viable option (meaning ‘bad apple’)?- Just sayin’

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    Feb 2nd 2020, 1:56 PM

    Vlad the Impaler is widely agreed to be the figure stroker based his Dracula character on . Vlad the inmpalers father was Vlad of dracul. More likely to be derived from this I would think .

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    Feb 2nd 2020, 8:58 AM

    On the Dracula issue, you would not be likely to use ‘blood’ (fuil) in its genitive form (fola) in a phrase like this. ‘Drochfhuil’ is a long way away from sounding like ‘Dracula.’

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    Feb 2nd 2020, 4:37 PM

    In my humble opinion, Dracula is one of the best 19th century gothic novel ever to come out of Ireland. The Hollywood versions of the book go nowhere near instilling the intrigue, fear and horror characters suffer in the book. Anyone who has not read the book themselves should do so. You’re in for a great read.

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    Feb 2nd 2020, 9:33 AM

    There is always the vague but unprovable possibility that Irish phonetics leached into Stoker’s linguistic vocab. But I suspect he just thought it sounded ‘Transylvanian’.

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    Feb 3rd 2020, 8:16 AM

    Is it notable that the Roman name for York was “Eboracum”? Is the Irish name derived from the Latin, or could it be that the Roman name was a Latinized version of the original Celtic/Briton name?

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