Dartmouth Square

Lovely little park in the middle of the city.
Dartmouth Square is extremely dog friendly, which makes me very happy.
There are 4 gates around the park, but atm only one of them is being kept open, which is great, I find easier to manage the dogs not getting out of it.
In the summer there are yoga classes, it’s open to everybody, starts @11am and you only pay € 5, this money helps the locals to maintain the park clean and tidy.

Mercifully open to the public again after a four year long tug-​of-​war between Dublin City Council and a property speculator who, if disparate reports are to be believed, expressed a desire to convert the park into either a car-​park or a tile store!
Hopefully this secluded green space, surrounded by classy red-​brick Victorian domestic architecture, will remain open to all well into the future. Sitting as it does close enough to the central business district to be accessible to those working close to the Grand Canal, Dartmouth Sqaure feels like a very different, and infinitely more pleasant place. When’s the last time anyone said that about a car park or tile store?