Starbucks in Dublin

Oh, aren't we lucky. Starbucks has opened in Dublin. When I first visited the US over a decade ago the coffee shop seemed exotic and I even brought some beans home and preserved the packet as a souvenir. Then Brighton, my home town in England, started to get them; and then when I returned to the States they were all over shopping malls and motorway service stations. And now we have one just a stone's throw from Trinity College in Dublin. Hurray! Actually, no, go back home Starbucks. Dublin has superb coffee houses all over the city. Far better than what you offer. Starbucks helped regenerate coffee drinking in America, where people accepted any black, hot fluid with caffeine as coffee, but Dubliners have long since learnt to relish good coffee without any help from Fourbucks. It's not that it's a bad company or uninteresting. It's certainly not Macdonald's. It's just sad to see queues of people lining up to buy Starbucks when so many other cafes around the city have better product and nicer environments to enjoy it in. It's the time's plague when companies like this seek to dominate the world. Local is good; global is bad.