Dubliners celebrate O’Connell Street facelift

TO some, the plastic signs of the fast food joints and the chewing-gum stained pavements signified that little had changed.

But to Dublin’s older residents, the shining Spire, the sound of the Luas bell ringing and the Oriental Plane Trees showed the city’s main thoroughfare has come a long way.

The newly scrubbed-up Daniel O’Connell, Jim Larkin and Parnell were joined by hundreds of the city’s residents of all nationalities to celebrate O’Connell Street’s facelift.