No to Lisbon

Far be it for HostelBloggers to stir up the muddied waters of politics (like religion and money, our mothers always told us not to talk about it in ‘polite society’), but this was pretty much the first thing that struck us when we arrived in Dublin.
Speaking purely as travelers in Europe, we’ve always rather applauded anything that brought the continent closer together. But then again, we almost certainly don’t understand the bureaucratic ins and out of it…