16 snaps of Dublin looking all kinds of sexy, taken by you

By now you'll be familiar with our whopper 'Thank God it's Friday' competitions. Friday just gone was a particularly splendid giveaway, having been given the opportunity to send one lucky winner along with their pal of choice for an evening of frivolity and food at one of Dublin's finest hotels, The Merrion. If you're after a spot of Afternoon Tea, this place takes the biscuit. To be in with the chance we simply asked you to share your snaps of Dublin in all her wondrous glory, via Instagram and Twitter (#Merrion #LovinDublin), and boy did you deliver.

Below we've put together just a selection of your wonderful posts, ones that caught our eyes in particular and ones that make us smile, smug in the knowledge that this ride of a city is where we call home.

And of course, at the end, you'll find the lucky f*cker winner who gets to go live it up at The Merrion.

'Til next Friday!

PRETTY GAFFS

@LovinDublin #lovindublin for beautiful views such as this #merrion pic.twitter.com/EWIw8M3S3k
— Jasminka Griffin (@jasminkagriffin) March 1, 2014

EVEN THE GRAFFITI MAKES US SMILE

The lovely northside. #LovinDublin #merrion pic.twitter.com/z3iDEpJAAr
— Nassir (@_Nassir) March 2, 2014

SHE LOOKS WELL AT SUNSET

2012 Dublin summer time. #Merrion #sunset #lovindublin @LovinDublin pic.twitter.com/mc0hi8mIeH
— Alan Lynam (@Alan_Lynam) March 2, 2014

THE BRIDGE YOU LIKE TO PHOTOGRAPH MOST

#LovinDublin (my home city); not one I get to visit enough. Stay at The #Merrion next time w/ @LovinDublin? Dreamer. pic.twitter.com/2qlBpjCuDI
— Paul Gallagher (@MrPGallagher) February 28, 2014

MORE GORGEOUS SUNSETS

I'm #lovindublin because it looks so darn good when the sun is going down #merrion pic.twitter.com/CAM0B2vCO3
— Holly (@hollym2311) March 2, 2014

THE CHIMNEYS AT CLONTARF

#lovindublin #merrion Clontarf on a crisp Spring evening. Beautiful. pic.twitter.com/1TolfnytHG
— Keith Duff (@kdtemplecourt) February 28, 2014

BRILLIANT IN BLACK AND WHITE

@LovinDublin #lovindublin #merrion view from Hanover Quay pic.twitter.com/Dm9wU1ip9A
— Stephen Kane (@oilte) February 28, 2014

NEVER TOO COLD FOR ICE CREAM ON GRAFTON STREET

@LovinDublin @MerrionHotel #LovinDublin #merrion On a sunny day Grafton Street's a wonderland, with magic in the air pic.twitter.com/414nX1mh19
— BB (@MrBrianBennett) February 28, 2014

TRINITY IN ALL ITS GLORY

2012 trinity college #Merrion #lovindublin @LovinDublin pic.twitter.com/WD96Dov7vB
— Alan Lynam (@Alan_Lynam) February 28, 2014

BUT IT'S ALWAYS THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE IT

It's the people that make this city what it is #lovindublin #merrion
Dame Lane in the Spring pic.twitter.com/hB9skHuCaP
— Richie McCann (@richie_no_t) February 28, 2014

ROSIE AND JIM

LOVELY LIFFEY

DUBLIN'S BACK GARDEN

WATERFALLS IN DUBLIN, WHO KNEW

TRANQUILITY CITY

The Winner - 'SURE YOU'D THINK YOU WERE IN SPAIN'

So the winner of the competition and heading off to the lovely Merrion Hotel is this little beauty.