YESTERDAY, DUBLIN GOT an official Snapchat story.
For the uninitiated: this means that users of the site could upload photos and video from Dublin, and Snapchat collected the best into a package. People all over the world could then watch it from the ‘Stories’ tab.
It also meant that Snapchat users got a new set of filters.
So what ended up in the story? Well, it was basically the most Irish thing ever.
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We started off with a bit of ‘early morning’ Irish dancing:
Before moving on to the important topics of pints:
GAA:
Craic:
And Molly Malone:
Much of Ireland was collectively mortified.
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There was a feeling that, eh, stereotypes may have been at play.
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And that the real Dublin might look a bit different.
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On the flipside though, it DID make Dublin look lovely in the sunshine:
And people around the world were loving it so much, they were threatening to immigrate.
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