Whats the worst area in dublin?

I lived in darndale for about 14 years,no ameneties one or two shops, large young unemployed populous & people living in each others pockets,really its like a f_ckin social expiriment, a human rat maze,i havent lived there in years but id have no problem walking through it ,& aparently its "quitened down" somewhat - not making excuses if anyone wanted to see how a community can be destroyed by (local) government inaction & bad planning they should take a look at Darndale.
its not the worst place in town now but its probably in the top ten.

"scumbags out there that are gonna be piled into other areas now"

same thing happened in coolock/darndale /belcamp during the early 80's when they demolished the inner city tenement housing.The inner city scumbags just pushed the envelope as far as anti social behavior was concerned & all the local scum rose to the challenge!
i used to think my next door neighbours were scum until they moved out & a gang of Summerhill urban pikeys moved in.
I think there are many kips around dublin .Personally a regular Nearby bus service lessens the blow for me,If i should ever need to visit one of these neighborhoods its always nice to be out of there within 15 minutes.

rainbow kirby wrote:

Parts of Tallaght... Jobstown and Killinarden. And the area around Dolphin's Barn/Inchicore. And Ballymun.

I grew up in Tallaght & never had a problem [except for 1 situation ... long story]!!

But, Jobstown definately would get in my top 3 of dodgy areas in Dublin ... My fiancee is from Jobstown & I hated driving up there [did it for 5 years until she moved to Navan] ... I remember being interviewed by the Gardai after a guy was murdered 4 doors from her house, because I had left her house to go home about 10 mins before his time of death ... Scary :eek:

nevernev wrote:

This is true but to avoid confusion i am sticking with bad areas for scumbags. Pearse Street used to be terrible and now in the last few years they have upgraded it to really bad!

I live in the Pearse Street area and until recently very few places would beat it for scumbag-ism.

There are two huge sets of flats Pearse House and Markievicz. Pearse House must have over 20 blocks of flats all joined in a circle (I'd actually say there's more than 20). The flats are now used for most film's and ad's that want to show the rought parts of Dublin (film: "Inside I'm Dancing" and the ad: Eric Cantona "Euromillions ad were the most recent). Markievicz is slightly smaller but still bloody huge.

These two sets of flats are next to each other and put it this way, a poor student wouldn't get away with living there. Other flats around the area are Leo Fitzgerald, St Andrews court, Macken Street (this is actually a nice set) and more. The place is full of them.

It has really calmed down now as all the scumbags are older and the younger generation spend their weekends getting barred from pubs. Come Hallowe'en there was no place in Dublin like the Pearse Street area. Every single scumbag in the area would go to the fire (and there was up to 1000-2000 of them ranging from ages 8-108). This fire was enourmous, hundreds of monsterous tires. Every year there would be robbed cars at the fire and the place would be ransacked.

I could go on forever about Pearse Street. The thing about it was, its a big area but everyone around here calls it Pearse street even though most places aren't on Pearse street. Whenever something was in the paper on the area it was in the papers as the City Centre so nobody knew it was this place.

Actually, talking about Halloween. Only 3 years ago the guards and corporation came to take a few tires away as there was too many. The wheels on the police vans were all punctured and the corporation got nothing. The police must have been really riled up as the riot squad came back to the fire at around 3 in the morning and started attacking anyone in sight. They had a talk about it on RTE radio the following morning but they just called it Erne Street as that is where the fire was.

So basically, if this place was put under one big name like Tallaght, Summerhill or Ballymun it would be up there with the top scumbag places in Dublin.

Landser the skanger/hoe renting the house next to me seems to think its completely acceptable to live her entire days in Pyjamas. What a lazy cnut!!!

HJ Simpson wrote:

Landser the skanger/hoe renting the house next to me seems to think its completely acceptable to live her entire days in Pyjamas. What a lazy cnut!!!

Don't mince your words... tell us what you really think of her

(Suprised no ones mentioned Quarry Vale)

Darendale,dolphins barn,jobstown,inchicore

would in my opnion be the 4 roughest areas in Dublin

then in regards to decent areas with scumbags
Firhouse,Crumlin,Ballyeogan,Whitechurch
(all on the southside....weird)

Then in regards to areas with the most criminal godfathers present
Terenure,Rathgar,Rathmines
They get rich forget their roots and live in the creme de la creme of areas.

jonnybadd wrote:

Donaghmede is bad enough now but with all the affordable housing scheme,houses being buiilt every scumbag and his junkie grannie will be moving in. Going to be complete cowboy country in a few years

Luckily enough for me I live down the road in Baldoyle and I have to agree with you Donaghmede is getting rougher though I still wouldn't nowhere near say Donaghmede is the roughest place in Dublin. I know alot of cool people in Donaghmede and the majority are great people but there is a rough minority around there and it is growing. Last night I was walking through the Donaghmede shopping centre up to McDonalds and there was a bunch of 13-14 year olds grabbing glass bottles out of the recycling deposits and smashing the bottles all over the car park. i'd say there was alot of flat tyres in ther car park this morning. When I walked past the c**ts I accidentaly kicked a bit of broken glass over to them. That pissed them off and soon they were throwing bottles in my direction as I was walking away. Luckily I was with a group of mates but if I was on my own I fear something could have happened. This is just one of many examples I could say for many parts of the northside. Bottom line is I don't like walking around at night on my own.

Anyway the place I think is most dangerous in Dublin is the alleyway next to the UCI in Coolock. A bloke aged 17 was murdered there a couple of years ago and still to this day there are scumbags hanging around there never up to no good.

Worst place in Dublin? Ballymun.

Tusky wrote:

The most dangerous street in Ireland is o connell street followed closely by Dorset street and some street in Limerick. This is from an Irish Times survey about a year ago. O Connell street is only dangerous at night though and even then Ive never had a problem.

O Connell st ain't the worst of em. Although saying that, my sister was mugged there yesterday. Dorset St is an absolute sh!it hole. I've to walk it every day to go to college. Parnell St is another kip. They've cleaned it up a bit around the Ilac Centre end, with the new Jurys hotel, but the Gardiner st end is dodgy. I used to have to get my bus home from there and its as dodgy as hell. Also Kings Inn St beside DIT Bolton St isnt the nices area after dark. Theres always cars being broken into and dodgy fu<kers hanging around

popinfresh wrote:

I live in Blanch. Right beside "da duff". I don't know much bout the rest of dublin but I reckon Corrduff and Fortlawn are the worst in blanchardstown. Either them or Carpenterstown (You have to live in Blanch to get that)

As a young un i lived in one of the rougher hoods of Blanch, tbh the general rule is anywhere south of the shopping centre is relatively good, everywhere north east and west until you reach Dunboyne-ish is very rough, bar little enclaves of Corduff and Mulhuddart like Brookhaven and Warrenstown. Id say Warrenstown will stay alright, but the affordable housing areas will prolly see some trouble in the future

I think Blanch can be assesed in its pubs-to-violent-deaths/links to organised crime ratio
lets see
Brookwood Inn Corduff. At least one fatal shooting a year or two ago. Im sure someone must have been killed there in its Corduff Inn days, iirc someone was stabbed to death in the chipper too (great chipper i might add despite this, do some great fish and chip/burgers/whatever )
Budabar- 2 murders in as many years
The Shanty- its seen some trouble in its day, unsure of death rate. Did John Gilligan used to own it? Been a non fatal shooting or two i think
Dolly Heffernans- My dad brought some mate from the country there one night not long after he had moved to Dublin. The ensuing riot meant there was no return visit


I know Cavan very well and Id rate their scum perhaps slightly higher than Dublin. Fair enough, there is less of a guns and heroin problem, but they are some hard kunts alot of them
Longford is even worse :eek:

I dunno why, but I always feel a bit nervous when I do be on that rough estate near Sandyford industrial park at night(i know people out there). Dunno why,i never feel a bit going through anyhwhere in Blanch, this place just gets me for some reason, odd that

Ballybrack is another scobe island surrounded by poshies. I know some uberscum from there