Gabi & Tomas were very good communicators and kindly allowed us to leave our baggage prior to actual check-in, rather than have to lug it around the city all day. Their third-floor apartment in an old Liffey-side building is close to both the main railway station and the city centre. Smithfield–a once very run down area of the city, has seen massive re-generation with some nice restaurants, coffee shops and arthouse cinema–is just two minutes away. As airbnb superhosts ourselves (shameless self-promotion) we were very happy to stay in a place run by the people who live there unlike so many of the airbnbs in Dublin now run by 'corporations' which seems to fly in the face of the original ideals of the company.