Very quiet house in Finglas East, ~40 min away with a bus from the center of Dublin. There's no other way to get around, so if you're not using your own car or constantly calling a taxi, you have to get used to the Dublin bus system (!! get a Visitor Leap Card from the airport or the city center before you arrive !! Otherwise you have to pay in coins (!) every time you take the bus, they don't take bank notes, so enjoy carrying around 3€*persons*number-of-rides in your purse).
As other reviewers have already stated, the house is very old and "tired" indeed. In fact I think the host should invest money ASAP into this property to keep it from falling apart. Stuff keeps falling down and needs to be re-attached to wherever it came from, the kitchen utensils are pretty old and worn down, the shower is very confusing and has no real water pressure to speak of (1 of the 2 showers doesn't really work). There are 3 toilets, but one of them (the one in the master bedroom) isn't really doing a great job at flushing, so we stopped using it. There are 0 toilet brushes, so pray that your travel companions don't eat the wrong things. There's a TV in the living room, but it's a very old one without HDMI, so if you hoped you could watch some Netflix with your friends or plug your Nintendo Switch in, nope, sorry to be the bearer of bad news. There's another TV in the master bedroom, but it's so small it's basically useless. There's a room declared "private" in the house that's full of garbage - we know because the door of that room stood wide open when we arrived (we closed it, of course, but man, that place is a dump lol).
Unfortunately, the place lacked what I thought was commonplace for most Airnbnbs today: A document that explains basic stuff and quirks of the house so that you don't have to bother the host with text messages about everything.
Here are a few things we learned the hard way (I hope that future guests read this and might be spared some of the confusion we felt):
1) You close all doors to the outside by turning the key around and moving the door handle UP (!). I never encountered such a door on my travels, but all of the doors in this property worked like this so I assume that's an Irish/UK thing. I hope I can spare someone the frustration of not knowing why doors won't close when you turn the keys around.
2) When we arrived the gas boiler was off, which we didn't know because we simply didn't expect it. So of course the heaters didn't work and the house was cold as ice. After some trial and error and pushing buttons we finally managed to get everything running, but that's definitely a thing that needs to be explained beforehand if guests arrive in the cold season.
3) The shower in the bathtub is slightly confusing, to put it mildly. You might try to move the knobs first, but you cannot move them and nothing happens. Then you turn around and see "oh, there's another shower on the other side of the tub" and you start moving buttons and knobs there, but also nothing happens. Then you finally get the explanation from the host that you have to pull a string in front of the bathtub to "activate" the whole thing and *then* you can start using the shower.
So in short:
Pro:
- very spacious if you travel with only 2-4 people
- multiple bathrooms
- bus stop just around the corner
- very quiet neighborhood
- that's one comfy couch to chill in
Con:
- no documents on site to explain stuff (host didn't come by either and took hours to respond to pressing questions)
- old and tired house and furniture, needs investment ASAP (our biggest gripe with the whole experience)
- the TV is pretty much useless nowadays
- the "garden" is pretty much useless as well
- beds are pretty hard (I was fine with it, but others might not)
It was okay for our purpose (staying north of Dublin to attend an event in Blanchardstown), but otherwise I cannot really recommend it.