It’s a spring evening with light lingering in the sky when men spill out of the city centre mosque after their Friday prayers. Office workers are milling around the area’s pubs for a quick one before getting the train home. All around, people are chatting in different languages; Romanian, Somali, Arabic, Hindi and Portuguese. And there’s a delicious waft of spiced kebabs in the air.
This is a happy multicultural scene that could be playing out in almost any city in the world but has only relatively recently become commonplace in Dublin, most notably on Talbot Street, right in the heart of Dublin’s north inner city.
Bookended by Connolly Station on one side and Marlborough…