Horseboys of Dublin

Horses have always played an important part in Irish culture and life. Even to this day, there are families keeping their horses and ponies in transformed car garages right in Dublin’s city centre, next to the busy main streets. While these families use the horses to offer tourist carriage tours during the day, they also care for their animals and take them out to groom them and to play with them in their spare time. However, this way of life is more and more threatened by local politicians and foreign investors who want to build new buildings in the city centre. Thus, it remains to be seen how long the men and their horses will remain a feature of Dublin‘s cityscape.