This place was super clean (new floors, new windows, new paint, nice comfy mattress with a pile of pillows & a cloud-soft duvet to fall into after a day of walking until your feet hurt. The little fridge & tea/coffee service was great to have in-room & there was a shared full kitchen in the building (bring your own supplies, easily gotten from the wide range of stores within a couple blocks--Tesco practically next door, Lidl & Aldi couple blocks away, for treats M&S food hall couple more blocks near the mall area, and there's even a fresh farm street market).
Personal touches--Gillian covered my gluten-free food needs for breakfasts which was awesome--Dublin seems to run on pastries + coffee in the mornings and I can't have either one. There was a welcoming bottle of wine when I arrived & the fish-n-chips restaurant downstairs also makes excellent banana splits for late-night snacking. No, the room doesn't smell like a fish place. The luas train runs on the street right in front and there are "modern" hotels across the street where there is usually a taxi waiting if you don't want to walk somewhere. The special airport bus stops on O'Connell about 3 blocks away. There is a transit hub with multiple bus stops on the next block. Super convenient location at a good price. We had a glitch with someone in the bldg smoking & it came through the fan duct in the bathroom (it's a no-smoking building) so I can't give a perfect rating but really that's the only thing that didn't work out. 4.9 out of 5 stars. I'd stay here again.