‘Talbot Street is known as Tablet Street now’: Will a €2m makeover be enough to turn things around?

Talbot Street in Dublin has got a reputation for antisocial behaviour. Is enough being done to make it a better place to work and go? Photograph: Alan BetsonTalbot Street has always been a key artery through the centre of the city, originally anchored at one end by the Italianate entrance of Connolly Station andat the other.

At Gerry Keane Paint and Wallpaper shop, Billy Corr says he has worked at this premises for 51 years. “I was here when the bomb went off,” he says, referring to the 1974 loyalist bombing on the street. Talbot Street is bisected by Gardiner Street, Moland Place and Store Street. I cross over and back several times before realising that even for a city where many people tend to jaywalk everywhere, virtually nobody pays any attention to the pedestrian lights, nor the oncoming traffic. People simply walk out in front of whatever is coming down the streets that lie perpendicular.

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