The Phoenix Park is not the largest urban park in Europe after all (1 Viewer)

[pete]

Oh never mind.

 

[Space]

No the estate is just outside a gate.

 

[Space]

President?

 

[Anthony]

Now you're going to tell that this isn't the lad of a thousand welcomes, or we're not the best football supporters in the world.

 

[ann post]

And that Dublin isn't a european hub / city

 

[Space]

The welcomes are strictly for tourists who spend lots of money and leave.

 

[Lili Marlene]

THE PRECEDENT

President?

There's a few caretaker cottages (this article says 40 families). Trivia: the President has to ask them for permission to move in.

 

[pavlos]

There are some lovely old buildings in the park alright, I'd say they're feckin' freezing in the winter though.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Moscow and St Petersburg are in Europe. Asian Russia is bigger but without most of the major cities.

I read a big book on the history of Europe a couple of years ago (actually I read most of it and have stalled at some point around the French revolution) and most of the first chapter was given over to saying why there is no definitive definition of Europe. Geographical, political, and historical definitions are all different and depending on the sources, they are even different within each of those categories. Russia is both within Europe and outside it, it's the Schrödinger's cat of Europe.

 

[nooleen]

Now you're going to tell that this isn't the lad of a thousand welcomes,

i love that lad of a thousand welcomes, he's a great guy

 

[pete]

"Céad Míle Fáilte" Roche, they call him.

 

[rettucs]

I think he's a prick

 

[therealjohnny]

Now you're going to tell that this isn't the lad of a thousand welcomes, or we're not the best football supporters in the world.

The most highly educated young people...

 

[lelectro]

forest. inna city. moose ?

 

[Space]

forest. inna city. moose ?

huh?

 

[rettucs]

wasn't phoenix park where that Swedish House Mafia gig happened/was meant to happen?

would never have happened if the gig was in a proper park.

 

[ernesto]

wasn't phoenix park where that Swedish House Mafia gig happened/was meant to happen?

would never have happened if the gig was in a proper park.

A public park where they make money from a private event, pretty Fucking shoddy behaviour from the council

 

[Diddles]

Always thought it was the largest walled park.

 

[rettucs]

Always thought it was the largest walled park.

I always thought it was the largest walled park that begins with P and ends with X and that's in a city and is beside a chocolate factory.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

O'Connell St is also not remotely the widest main st in Europe.