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Dubliners are fiercely proud of their city, and while DUBLIN is the Republic of Ireland’s capital it is quite apart from, and can be dismissive of, the rest of the country – one Dublin wag once remarked with characteristic caustic humour that “the only culture outside Dublin is agriculture”. Over the past decade, as young people from rural Ireland and all over Europe, gravitate toward the city to share in the wealth, not experienced since Dublin’s much celebrated Georgian heyday, this urban/rural divide has started to wane. As a result Dublin exudes the style and confidence of any cosmopolitan European capital – most apparent at night when Dubliners party with a panache verging on the reckless. Dublin’s economic upturn is impacting on the city’s rapidly changing urban landscape too, with restaurants, cafés, bars and clubs opening in abundance, and Dublin’s famous pub scene is now matched by an equally celebrated club scene. On the downside, however, its reputation as one of the party capitals of Europe has attracted droves of “alco-tourists” who arrive in the city for booze-fuelled weekends; they have become such a problem that some areas of the city, such as Temple Bar, have actually banned stag and hen parties.
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