Shamim de Brún
Food and Drink Journalist at District Magazine
Writer at CHAR Magazine
Wino*WhiskeyWizkid*Champagne Socialist*BraBurning Truth Seeker*MyViewsAreMyOwn
Articles
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1 week ago |
lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún
On a humid afternoon this weekend at St Peregrine’s GAA Club Blanchardstown, west of Dublin, thirty camogie players took the field not in the sport’s traditional skorts, but in shorts. They weren’t in war paint or waving placards but they may as as well have been. The Kilkenny and Dublin senior teams had shown up for a Leinster semi-final in what is standard kit in almost every field sport: a jersey and a pair of shorts.
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1 week ago |
lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún
It has been 10 years since Dublin City Council handed the world’s richest mouse a free pass to the Spire Into a Giant Lightsaber and didn’t even ask for lunch money. It was December 2015. The Force Awakens was about to drop, and Disney, a company worth hundreds of billions, wanted to light up the Spire on O’Connell Street like a massive lightsaber to promote the film. A kind of galactic branding Christmas lights bonanza. They got the green light. And they didn’t pay a thing.
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2 weeks ago |
lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún
For months now, regular passengers have faced delays, confusion, crowding, and rising fares. At the core of the problem is a pattern all too familiar in public transport systems: big-picture ambition undercut by everyday mismanagement.What happened in Dublin over the past six months could be poor planning or bad luck. Maybe its partly both, but it’s also textbook example of how neglect, opaque decision-making, and uneven investment unravel public systems that cities depend on.
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2 weeks ago |
lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún
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2 weeks ago |
lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún
Remember 2007? Every Irish Leaving Cert oral exam was essentially a panic attack punctuated by shaky mentions of “cúlú eacnamaíochta.” Now, the discourse is back but 2025-ified. Instead of being pumped into us via well meaning language teachers, this time it is fuelled by TikTok sleuths dissecting every minor inconvenience as proof we’re already in another economic apocalypse.
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A 24 hour bus is not functional if it is too full by the second city centre stop to let anyone on @TransportForIr1
My Babe and I sometimes do this thing where we read our Google search history to each other and laugh. It endears me every time he reads something silly about hiking or fish or titanium. He is forever surprised by how off kilter mine are. It's such a fun thing to do over coffee
Is there anything worse than when the bathroom on the train is OOO? Yes, when you walk to the other end of the train and it's also OOO and you still have an hour till your stop
