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I’d like for Dublin to get a bit safer, when you’
re going out and stuff, it’s not the safest city. Police it a bit better, more guards, because they always have a load on Grafton Street but never on Henry Street or areas that need it more. Gillian - DCU student and part-time worker at Cat and Cage My New Year’s resolution is to give up nicotine. Hopefully, I’m going to have my last nicotine pouch at twelve o’clock on New Year’s. And then also I’m trying to get up earlier in the morning, especially on weekends when I’m not working, they’re my two New Year’s resolutions. Gemma - Kennedy’s Bar, Drumcondra I work in Yellow Brick Road, I’m the shop manager here. We want to update our website. It’s old, and it needs to be a bit more user-friendly so that’s our big focus for the upcoming year. Vickie Nielson In 2025, I’m planning on taking a life drawing course, because I realised that I really like drawing people, and I want to learn to be better at that. This year, one of the goals I had starting in September was to do more artistic things, because that makes me happy. Susie - Article (Powerscourt Townhouse) I want to learn a language because I’ve been doing Duolingo for ages, been doing Swahili and German. I keep going through the Duolingo loop of getting vaguely competent and dropping it. I don’t know Irish… I’d like to be able to know more than recognize a word. I’d like to learn Swedish… the pronunciation is crazy and not many speak it so it’s kind of a flex. Rory - Warhammer It’s a little cliched but I would love to go to the Cliffs of Moher. Florencia, Hanley’s Cornish Pastries Next year, I’d love to see more opportunities for small businesses and more opportunities from Dublin City Council for pop-ups. I want to keep going with the Revival Market and grow it, and all the other markets that’ve been such a great help to us, along with the Temple Bar Company which has been fantastic. I’d also like to see a lot more artist spaces pop up, that gives people the opportunity to do workshops and be a collective together. Stephen Kavanagh - Fat Pup Illustration My New Year’s resolution is to quit smoking and to be kinder to myself. Saoirse - Fable Bakery To paint more. I need to take more time to do it. I have a style of painting that involves a lot of colors, shapes, people, and animals so it’s very nature-involved. Nela - Fable Bakery Something that I would like to do in 2025?… probably learn another language and try to travel a bit more. I already speak Spanish and English, but I want to learn French a little bit. Youssef - Castle Tea Rooms My resolution this year is to set stronger boundaries for myself, stand up for myself without being rude to people, but also keeping firm on that kind of, being strong and not being too polite when I don’t need to be. Hayley - Irish Whiskey Museum In the music world, I’d like a bit more of the underground scene being recognized. Especially with jazz musicians, there’s some phenomenal guys in there that would, if they were to be snatched up and recognized and put on the big stages, because it’s becoming more popular. Putting those little bars on the big stage. And just a bit more of an interaction between Irish acts and English acts coming and going, having a few more of our homegrown acts being brought around and toured around England, so whenever Ireland sneezes England catches a cold. Sam Martin - Jazz Drummer What I’ve been doing in the last few years is, instead of having a resolution, I decide what I’m leaving behind in 2024 and not bringing with me to 2025. So it’s the opposite but the same thing, so leaving people behind that I don’t need and that are just not good for me, and then the same for things in life, just leaving behind what I don’t need and what’s bad for me. So it is the opposite, but it’s still something with the New Year. I haven’t thought about [this year] yet, but I know that I’d like to write them down on a piece of paper, and then look at them one last time on New Year’s Eve and just leave them behind. Julia - Irish Whiskey Museum Probably to let more time out of the business and enjoy what Dublin has to offer. Went to a concert on the weekend and I had a really good time with all my friends, so probably do more stuff on the weekends and enjoy life a bit more. Kumayl Vazir - owner of Nawal Sweets on Camden Street 26