I note what you say about holding your head high, KT, but on looking up kilt and Dublin on a search engine this was one of the first hits I came across, which certainly suggested Dublin might not be a safe place to go kilted.
http://www.irishabroad.com/news/iris...ncer-17Feb.asp
Lord Laird, has been hit with a flood of stories about his creative use of government funds.

They included Œ4,000 in taxi fares, for trips between Belfast and Dublin and Belfast and Derry.

When asked about them Laird, who would cheerfully go unrecognized in any town in Ireland, said he took them for security reasons as he wore a kilt in Dublin and was worried that he would be attacked.