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  • Renowned Italian Restaurant opening in Ireland 

    Renowned Italian Restaurant opening in Ireland 

    A restaurant known worldwide is opening in Dublin this month. Gloria Osteria already has restaurants in Barcelona and Milan. The chain is owned by the Big Mamma Group.  

    The restaurant had been rumoured to open in Dublin since the start of this year, and the news was confirmed on July 6 when they made an Instagram specifically for the Dublin location. Since September, they have been posting videos of the food they will be serving when it opens. They have also posted three videos about some of the chefs that are involved, as well as a video talking about Parmigiano Reggiano (parmesan).  

    Gloria Osteria Dublin is set to open Nov. 27 on 41 Westmoreland Street, right in the middle of the city.  

    Outside of the building where the public can see a sneak peak of the restaurant. Photo credit: Zita Fox

    According to the Big Mamma website, they are a French restaurant group formed in 2015. It was founded by entrepreneurs Victor Lugger and Tigrane Seydeux. They opened their first restaurant, Mamma Gorda, in the South of France in April of 2015.  

    They have said it was with the opening of East Mamma in Paris that they cemented themselves in the Italian restaurant world properly. Before opening they made the effort to transport ingredients from Italy and started making their own pasta. They also mentioned how they found an antique roaster to make their own coffee.  

    The restaurant is known for its authentic Italian food and elegant 1970s interior design in all their restaurants. The Dublin location will seat about 180 guests. It will also have a private dining room that can seat 22 people.  

    One of the construction workers on site said, “We’ve been working hard every day to make the restaurant as nice as possible. Hopefully the hard work pays off, and we get it done soon.” 

    TheCity had the chance to have a quick look into the building and from the quick glance we can see the burgundy design within. In the middle of the room, we can see a huge chandelier with marble steps leading up to it. If they are taking inspiration from the other Gloria Osteria restaurants then Dublin can expect to see a lot of mood lighting with funky but fashionable furniture sourced from Italian markets throughout. There will be a huge marble bar that will supposedly sit under 700 used bottles.  

    Just outside the building, TheCity can see they are almost ready for the big opening night as they are starting to bring in plants and flowers to help bring the place to life.  

    The name Gloria Osteria is most likely derived from Italian. Gloria translates to glory and osteria is a traditional place to enjoy food and wine in Italy. Therefore, the name is a play on words and loosely translates to glorious Italian food; some may say this is the perfect name for the restaurant as that is what it’s known for. 

    The original restaurant opened in Milan in 2023 with the Barcelona one opening just last year. Adding Dublin and Paris to the list of places this month, Gloria Osteria is only growing bigger every year. 

  • Commuter Volumes remained high in November

    Commuter Volumes remained high in November

    Landscape Photography of Cars

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    Damien Dunne reports on November’s commuter numbers, after the government requested people to work from home.

    Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) released figures earlier this month that showed the amount of vehicles on Irish roads was within a percent of pre-pandemic numbers. 

    The figures show that the number of commuter traffic barely reduced, even after the Government asked people to return to working from home in mid-November.

    Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, TII Communications Manager Sean O’Neill said “there has been a shift in traffic movements. In the full cycle of a day we are only down about 1% on the national network

    “Right across the country there is a minor decrease in the percentage range of about 2-3%, but we still have a lot of traffic out there right now. We don’t see a massive decrease. If you look at the time of travel, between 7am and 10am, those are the peak times in the morning and those are the times when, more than likely, people are going to work”

    On the 1 December, the TII’s National Road Traffic Report Showed there were 21,347 cars on junctions 6 and 7 of the M50, compared to 23,453 on the 11 November.

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    Graph shows a marginal dip in road users on the M50 junctions 6 & 7 on above dates

    Near Dublin Airport, on junctions 1 and 2 of the M50, 18,848 cars were recorded on December 1 compared to a figure of 20,266 on the 11 November.

    The National Transport Authority (NTA) also published figures that showed a marginal fall in passengers when comparing the 11 November (655,000) to the 25 November (637,000).

    Iarnród Eireann saw a dip of 10% in passenger numbers between the 11 and 25 of November, with Dublin Bus passenger numbers falling from 331,000 to 314,000 on the same dates.

    The run up to Christmas will likely see these figures increase, as people travel over the festive period.

  • Save a Bro this Movember

    Save a Bro this Movember

    November means Movember and this year Megan O’ Brien spoke to three people about how they are getting involved.

    The Movember Foundation raises funds and awareness for men’s mental health, prostate cancer and testicular cancer and now more than ever, we need to get the conversation going.

    For more information you can head to http://www.movember.com.

  • The Dublin Beatles Festival

    The Dublin Beatles Festival

    Strangely, the Beatles managed only one visit to Dublin in their entire career. Credit: National Library of Ireland
    Strangely, the Beatles managed only one visit to Dublin in their entire career. Credit: National Library of Ireland

    The Dublin Beatles Festival will kicked off on the 7th of November for four days of Beatle mania.

    The Festival’s  aim is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of single performance that The Beatles performed in Dublin on Thursday 7 November 1963 at the Adelphi Cinema, Middle Abbey Street.

    The event consists of 20 bands performing over 6 different venues, plus a variety of other Beatles related events.

    Tickets range from €5 to €25 euro for the various different events that are taking place over Dublin city.

    To celebrate the Beatles festival we have complied a list of what we at The City HQ consider the top ten greatest Beatles song of all-time.

    No:10 – I Saw Her Standing There

    No:9 – You Never Give Me Your Money

    No:8 – Rain

    No:7 – I Want You (She So Heavy)

    No:6 – Let It Be

    No:5 – Here Comes the Sun

    No:4 – I Am the Walrus

    No:3 – Twist and Shout

    No:2 – Come Together

    No:1 – While My Guitar Gently Weeps

  • Twitter to be Wall Street’s hottest tech debut since Facebook

    Twitter to be Wall Street’s hottest tech debut since Facebook

    The online social networking and microblogging site is to flood the stock market next month when its shares will be made available on Wall Street.

    The popular website, launched in 2006, has an estimated net value of between $12 billion and $15 billion.

    Twitter is set to go public in November and is proposing to list under the trading symbol TWTR.

    But what is the significance of this event?

    Well, Twitter’s imminent release of shares to the public will be celebrated as the biggest coming-out party since Facebook and Wall Street’s largest exchanges are battling it out to host it.

    The microblogging site is expected to go public on November 15
    The microblogging site is expected to go public on November 15

    The company is believed to make its shares public before the American holiday Thanksgiving, in late November.

    Overseeing Twitter’s trading and listing the firm’s shares translates to additional revenue at a time when the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Exchange are caught in a downward spiral and struggling to keep up with changes in trading technologies.

    Massive prestige and added investment will be undoubtedly awarded to the one who manages to host the biggest tech debut of the year, and also gives the winner an edge in reeling in other IPOs (Initial Public Offering), especially in the coveted realm of social media.

    The website’s founding investor Evan Williams is estimated to net more than $1 billion from the floatation on Wall Street.

    Williams used his profits from selling a previous business to Google to take an early and considerably risky gamble on Twitter in its early stages.