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Dublin 4 is a postal district of Dublin, Ireland including the suburbs of Sandymount, Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, Ringsend and Irishtown on the South side of Dublin. Street sign in Dublin, displaying name of the street in Irish and English, with postal district number. ... Sandymount (Dumhach Thrá in Irish) is a seaside village/suburb in the district of Dublin 4 in Ireland. ... Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Dublin Ireland, is named for the bridge spanning the River Dodder on the south side of the city. ... Donnybrook (Irish Domhnach Broc, meaning Church of [Saint] Broc) is a district of Dublin, Ireland. ... Ringsend is a suburb of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. ... Irishtown is a district of Dublin, Ireland. ... The Southside (Taobh Ó Dheas in Irish) is not an official administrative area but a colloquial term. ...


The headquarters of the national broadcaster RTÉ, the RDS, Merrion Centre, Dublin, University College Dublin, Lansdowne Road stadium and a number of foreign embassies to Ireland are all located in Dublin 4. The Dublin 4 area is fixed by the Irish postal authorities. Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ; Irish for Radio and Television of Ireland) is the national publicly-funded broadcaster of Ireland. ... The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) was founded in 1731 by members of the Dublin Philosophical Society in their Trinity College Dublin rooms as the Dublin Society. ... University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin - more commonly University College Dublin (UCD) - is Irelands largest university, with over 20,000 students. ... A DART train passes under the Lansdowne Road Rugby Football Stadium and over the level crossing as it enters the station of the same name. ... A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one nation state present in another nation state to represent the sending state in the receiving State. ...


'Dublin 4' or its abbreviation, 'D4', is sometimes used as a pejorative adjective to describe an Irish liberal elitist attitude, based on the perceived opinions and characteristics of some residents of this area. Elitism is a belief or attitude that an elite — a selected group of persons whose personal abilities, specialized training or other attributes place them at the top of any field (see below) — are the people whose views on a matter are to be taken most seriously, or who are alone...

The Minister — and no offence is meant — may live physically in County Wicklow but she has a Dublin 4 mentality.

—Hugh Byrne, TD, Dáil Éireann Debate, 15 February 1983 Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Wicklow Code: WW Area: 2,024 km² Population (2007) 114,676 Website: www. ... Hugh Byrne (Irish: ; born September 1943) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. ...

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Street sign in Dublin, displaying name of the street in Irish and English, with postal district number. ... Ross OCarroll-Kelly is a fictional character created by Irish journalist Paul Howard. ... West Briton (Irish: Seoinín) (adjective West British) is a derogatory term for an Irish person who is alleged by the user of the term to have sympathies towards Britain. ...

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Dublin is a major cultural centre in Ireland and the origin of many prominent artists and writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Brian O'Nolan, Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, and Roddy Doyle.
Dublin postal districts reflect the North/South divide, with odd numbers being used for districts on the Northside, e.g: Phibsboro is in Dublin 7, and even numbers for ones on the Southside, e.g: Sandymount is in Dublin 4.
Dublin Airport is the most important airport in the republic and the bulk of passenger traffic travels through the it, with it having regular services to other airports in Ireland, Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa.
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Dublin is served by a single terminal airport approximately 10km north of the city, although a second terminal is proposed.
Dublin Bus also offer substantially cheaper standard services to the centre and further afield in the southern suburbs, but these are non-express, infrequent, and take a rather circuitous route to and from the airport.
Dublin has two main train stations: Heuston, in the west of the city centre, serves much of the west of the country and Cork while Connolly in the north-east centre of the city serves the east coast, Belfast, suburban commuter services "DART", and Sligo in the west.
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