Whats the worst area in dublin?

cournioni · 30-03-2005 9:31pm

stevenmu wrote:

PORNAPSTER wrote:

Worst I've seen was Dunsink Lane...

Yeah, worst place in the country easily. There's a few places around I'm not happy going into at night but that's the only one I'm not happy going into during the day. Even the scumbags seem to steer clear of it for f* sake.

Yeah I know, we went up there quite a few times (my gran was in the hospital in that area for a while, not sure what its called) and I've seen washing machines on the middle of the road and a microwave being thrown across it along with numerous bonfires along the way. We went up there one night and there was a crowd of people on the middle of the road, causing us to slow down. I just reached for the locks on the door and looked straight ahead! :eek:

nlgbbbblth · 30-03-2005 11:05pm

DublinWriter wrote:

I'm expecting the Roddy Doyle novel about cheeky, but lovable smak-heads anyday now.

yeah - the "salt of the earth" :rolleyes:

Usually called this by people that get their house featured in the Irish Times/random property section. A house that has it's own individuality/style (no uniform houses on estates for these people) and is located in a trendy but rough area of the city where the "neighbours are lovely" and the locals are "the salt of the earth" and are "grand once you get to know them" :rolleyes:

gurramok · 30-03-2005 11:56pm

Slunk wrote:

Valley Park I take it? Its gotten worse since you left I tell you, sure if you check the hearld tonight, a few inocent people got shot by accident sunday with a sawn off shot gun. The place is a right kip.

Jayzus, you don't know your geography.
That area was Abbottstown, home of the ATM gang which is half mile from Valley Park.
Its odd, i live in Valey Park and it certainly is no kip.

Kernel · 31-03-2005 12:13am

nlgbbbblth wrote:

yeah - the "salt of the earth" :rolleyes:

Usually called this by people that get their house featured in the Irish Times/random property section. A house that has it's own individuality/style (no uniform houses on estates for these people) and is located in a trendy but rough area of the city where the "neighbours are lovely" and the locals are "the salt of the earth" and are "grand once you get to know them" :rolleyes:

Well, seriously speaking, the reason why Doyle portrays these people in his novels is perhaps because they are the only type of Dublin people with an original and unique character (whether it be good or bad). All the rest of us are just EU work drones after all, and not worth writing about.

Caesar_Bojangle · 31-03-2005 12:37am

ranDom_tAsk wrote:

boards.ie after midnight can be quite rough !

POTM tbh

shane0312 · 31-03-2005 8:55am

I heard Dalkey can be a bit rough after sundown?

bluto · 31-03-2005 9:01am

I dont knoe bout anyone else but i think D4 has gotta be the worst part ofteh city all the rugby heads, the yeas and girls who wanna see you bank balance before going out. Give me the ballymun flats anyday

Duckjob · 31-03-2005 9:30am

Surprised nobody's mentioned Tyrellstown in D15. Was thinking of buying a property up there last year, but went up there late one night to check it out and didn't like the vibe I got. Nothing I could put my finger on but I felt like I shouldn't have been there at that time.

This came up in conversation over a pint with a mate sometime after, and he was telling me about a mate of his that bought a property in the same development. Apparently, on average, a car got nicked from the estate a least once a week.

Having said all that, the only time my car ever got stolen it was from a quite residential area of Ballsbridge.

Jip · 31-03-2005 10:09am

Wow, a car being robbed only once a week :eek: I'm sure cars are stolen from D4 and so on a more regular basis than that ! One car a week is not bad at all for a large area.
I presume you're talking about the new development in Tyrrelstown beside Hollystown golf course ? That's probably one of the quiter areas in all off D15.

Duckjob · 31-03-2005 10:25am

I forget the name of the development, but it was just across the bridge over the N3 from Blanch shopping centre.

That's a car a week from that one estate/development, which would only be a fraction of the size of all of D4. Seemingly the area was like a magnet for local scum.

Jip · 31-03-2005 10:32am

Ah, Castlecurragh ! Strangely, you're not the first person I've come across to mix the two up. Yip, it seems to be a bit of a magnet alright for local scum from outside of the development, pity really but I'm sure the people live in the area itself are decent enough.

iregk · 31-03-2005 10:49am

I tell you two areas you wont hear mentioned quite often, but monkstown is a kip, a friend works in the helth center out there and just two days after they got their astro pitch installed it was set on fire!!! honestly who sets an astro pitch on fire?

plus as soon as the lights go down dun laoghaire is one of the worst kips in ireland!!! i know many a taxi driver that work for a company close and none of them will go in once its dark...

Pinkchick03 · 31-03-2005 10:56am

What parts of Inchicore - or just all of Inchicore? Seems safe enough to me .... (only rent there!)

Anywhere at night is dodgy imo! Esp if you're a woman! City centre at night I'd say is the worst though

Duckjob · 31-03-2005 11:00am

iregk wrote:

plus as soon as the lights go down dun laoghaire is one of the worst kips in ireland!!! i know many a taxi driver that work for a company close and none of them will go in once its dark...

Well I do some work for a company in Dun Laoighre and I have noticed a lot of toothless drunken hobos shouting and trying to get money off you as you walk the street, but they struck me as harmless enough. Due to their cider-saturated brains, you'd probably be halfway down the street before their hand would start to make any intended stabbing motion.

LFCFan · 31-03-2005 11:03am

Duckjob wrote:

Surprised nobody's mentioned Tyrellstown in D15. Was thinking of buying a property up there last year, but went up there late one night to check it out and didn't like the vibe I got. Nothing I could put my finger on but I felt like I shouldn't have been there at that time.

This came up in conversation over a pint with a mate sometime after, and he was telling me about a mate of his that bought a property in the same development. Apparently, on average, a car got nicked from the estate a least once a week.

You're talking about Castlecurragh. It is having all that trouble because it is beside Mulhuddard/Ladyswell/Drumheath (absolutly disgusting place). I live in Tyrrelstown and believe me, it's one of the quietest, more friendly areas of D15. We even have a community website which has lead to some social occassions for residents, holloween parties for the kids, a football team and we now have a great town centre (just about to open). The only problem I've had in 3 years there is trying to decide what colour to paint the living room

My top 5 worst areas would be:

1. Dunsink area around Finglas - Need I say more. Use to drive through there going to and from work. They should just bomb the place some night!
2. Mulhuddart/Ladyswell/Drumheath - Mainly because I've seen first hand what it's like and it ain't good. eg. one field beside it has 9 burnt out cars currently residing in it.
3. Parnell Street (Gardiner St. End) - Have to get the bus from there and the amount of scum coming out of the pubs there is rediculous and I've yet to see 1 Garda walking around there. Last week I witnessed 3 skangers beating the heads of each other which spilt out onto the road and then they tried to nick a shovel and brush from a road sweeper to do more damage to each other. When this failed 2 of them nicked the bin/barrow yer man was pushing.
4. Edenmore - Some fcuker tried to rob me when I was going to the video store there (this was back in the 80's when I lived in Donaghmede and video stores were scarce). I was only 9 at the time but fast

so got away from him.
5. Corduff - Again, because I've seen it first hand so I'm slightly biased but you can only comment on what you know.

gazzer · 31-03-2005 2:02pm

Ah, Castlecurragh ! Strangely, you're not the first person I've come across to mix the two up. Yip, it seems to be a bit of a magnet alright for local scum from outside of the development, pity really but I'm sure the people live in the area itself are decent enough.

Ive lived in Castlecurrah for over two years now and i love it... ive never come across any trouble at all.. maybe i am one of the lucky ones but i live in the part that is right beside Dromheath

ClareBear · 31-03-2005 3:30pm

I lived in the Gardiner Street area for 2 months last year and that was fun! Though the people I lived with were worse scumbags than the locals. God it's good to be gone out of there, I'll never forget it!

Kernel · 31-03-2005 7:01pm

ClareBear wrote:

I lived in the Gardiner Street area for 2 months last year and that was fun! Though the people I lived with were worse scumbags than the locals. God it's good to be gone out of there, I'll never forget it!

Share a story or two there Clarebear.

Who were the scummers you lived with? What did they do? Why did you find gardiner street a kip?

jazoo · 31-03-2005 7:56pm

i grew up in finglas west and in the eighties it was really rough , great place to grow up .But now i've moved to the south side Crumlin so i guess it was from bad to worse , but i much prefer to live in these so called working class areas rather than d4 d6 because everyone who lives in these areas are just not with they live in bubbles not in the real world . The rugby heads and co would'nt last a couple of hours in these areas {the real world} dublin is becoming full of people who are selfish and sad.

LFCFan · 31-03-2005 8:08pm

jazoo wrote:

i grew up in finglas west and in the eighties it was really rough , great place to grow up .But now i've moved to the south side Crumlin so i guess it was from bad to worse , but i much prefer to live in these so called working class areas rather than d4 d6 because everyone who lives in these areas are just not with they live in bubbles not in the real world . The rugby heads and co would'nt last a couple of hours in these areas {the real world} dublin is becoming full of people who are selfish and sad.

I'd rather live in an area of sad selfish people then people who will rob me and beat me up

Slunk · 31-03-2005 8:17pm

gurramok wrote:

Jayzus, you don't know your geography.
That area was Abbottstown, home of the ATM gang which is half mile from Valley Park.
Its odd, i live in Valey Park and it certainly is no kip.

I was talking about the general finglas area. Plus, if your referring to the gun incident being on abbotstown, you are partly right. Was on abbotstown road/rathoath avenue area.I too am from the area so I doubt Im wrong

nlgbbbblth · 31-03-2005 8:22pm

LFCFan wrote:

I'd rather live in an area of sad selfish people then people who will rob me and beat me up

well said

someone was bound to say that they preferred skangers to rugger buggers.
:rolleyes:

do they genuinely believe it to be the case or are they being PC/right on for the sake of it?

A Dub in Glasgo · 31-03-2005 9:16pm

Born and bred in Ballymun, through the '70s and '80s. Great fun it was. I will never forget the '10 past 4 on the Hill' finger pointing in the Comp

Everyone I knew were 'salt of the earth' people as well

The Real B-man · 31-03-2005 9:32pm

Everywhere are scummers you no when tracey wins the lotto they move to a lovely private estate in glasnevin!!!!!!

Piste · 31-03-2005 10:25pm

Um, would someone mind explaining to me what 'salt of the earth' means? Is it just a euphamism for 'Friendly old neighbourhood scumbags' or what?

A Dub in Glasgo · 31-03-2005 10:27pm

http://www.freesearch.co.uk/dictionary/be+the+salt+of+the+earth

Piste · 31-03-2005 10:30pm

Ah so I take it people here were being sarcastic then.

StupidLikeAFox · 31-03-2005 11:02pm

Can we not just skip the lot and say Dublin is a ****hole?

ando · 31-03-2005 11:37pm

jonnybadd wrote:

Yeah i agree with that. I used to live in Raheny, and while Raheny isnt a bad place in itself, its surrounded by Killbarrick, Edenmore, and Donaghmede who frequently meet in the 'neutral ground' of Raheny for gang wars

ah Killbarack is nowhere near as bad as it was about 7 yrs ago (me remembers 'the commitments'). I live between Raheny and Killbarack and since the Flats were knocked down at killbarack Dart station a few years ago, the scum level has reduced a lot

eirebhoy · 12-04-2005 5:50pm

eirebhoy wrote:

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.

Just to add to this. A lad was shot dead today in Lucan. He originally lived 20 yards from my house and his family still live there but all the news reports just say he's from the city centre...

The fella is actually decent btw. Far from being a scumbag. He was recently involved in a mini-feud with another family and he hit one of them. A lot of people seem to think thats what its over but I doubt it. I know the other family that was involved and I doubt they'd go that far.

I have a feeling why he was shot but I'm certainly not going to say it on a forum so soon after the incident.

Civilian_Target · 12-04-2005 7:05pm

I live in Mulhuddart - and was expecting it to be rougher TBH. Its not a particularly nice part of the world, and I won't be going for a drink in Michael Graces in Corduff any time soon, but its a whole lot safer than some other places I've lived in, and I've never felt overly threatened.

I'd say Thomas St. and the Coombe are still fairly rough...

Dub13 · 12-04-2005 7:17pm

eirebhoy wrote:

I have a feeling why he was shot but I'm certainly not going to say it on a forum so soon after the incident.

You should not say it anytime.

Kernel · 12-04-2005 8:44pm

Civilian_Target wrote:

I live in Mulhuddart - and was expecting it to be rougher TBH. Its not a particularly nice part of the world, and I won't be going for a drink in Michael Graces in Corduff any time soon, but its a whole lot safer than some other places I've lived in, and I've never felt overly threatened.

I'd say Thomas St. and the Coombe are still fairly rough...

In Thomas Street and the Coombe, things are only rough if you are not from around there, in Mulhuddart, they hate everyone! Total kip, full of skangers from the Shanty all the way to the Westies' favourite shopping mall, blanchardstown shopping centre. That river at the shanty smells like **** as well.

Great spar in the village though.

tom-thebox · 12-04-2005 8:55pm

Abour Hill.

SpAcEd OuT · 12-04-2005 9:08pm

Dublins funny in a way I went up to my mates who live in west finglas and didnt notice any trouble,I was walking through Malahide the other night and saw someone getting their face kicked in,I also remember a few months back on me way to a mates in Templelogue walking through Rathgar seeing a huge amount of pikeys (maybe 15-20) hitting some elder lads coming out of the bookies.

Crumlin deserves to be mentioned alot more than it is,ever been up around sundrive park at night? :eek:

Kernel · 12-04-2005 9:11pm

SpAcEd OuT wrote:

Crumlin deserves to be mentioned alot more than it is,ever been up around sundrive park at night? :eek:

just when I'm buying my drugs. Crumlin isn't as bad as it used to be, the older an estate gets the calmer it gets - people buy the houses from the corpo and then it gets too expensive for skangers to buy.

When they move all the corporation/council houses out to Meath/Kildare/Lucan, we can all enjoy the great capital city again.

Infini · 12-04-2005 10:23pm

Dunsink Lane.

Cat O'Nine Tail · 12-04-2005 11:06pm

To anyone who says that Ballymun is a 'bad' area of Dublin, let me ask you this: have you ever lived out here?

I do, and have done for the past seventeen years, on and off. And as I type this, there are no robbed cars screaming up and down the road, no gangs of sucmbags fighting, no crowds of people sitting out drinking. In fact, its so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.

There's times where I feel safer walking around Ballymun at night than I would walking down O'Connell Street. My boyfriend, who's originally from Bray, says he feels safer here than he does in a 'nice' area like Bray.

Don't judge the 'Mun if you've never spent any length of time here.

tom-thebox · 12-04-2005 11:22pm

ffs get out you Munnar!!!

just kidding

tom

John R · 12-04-2005 11:42pm

Cat O'Nine Tail wrote:

There's times where I feel safer walking around Ballymun at night than I would walking down O'Connell Street. My boyfriend, who's originally from Bray, says he feels safer here than he does in a 'nice' area like Bray.

Don't judge the 'Mun if you've never spent any length of time here.

Who ever said Bray was a nice area???

pickarooney · 12-04-2005 11:43pm

It's true though, on any of the few occasions I've been in the 'mun it was eerily quiet, kind of like that scene with the sniper in Full Metal Jacket.

I wonder how many non-Dubliners are reading this and taking it all at face value - downtown Grozny wouldn't hold a candle to Dublin by the sounds of it

Worst pub in Dublin? Has that been done before?

rabbitinlights · 12-04-2005 11:59pm

jobstown - had a very scary bus journey through there. not a very nice place

Pyr0 · 13-04-2005 1:04am

Cat O'Nine Tail wrote:

To anyone who says that Ballymun is a 'bad' area of Dublin, let me ask you this: have you ever lived out here?

I do, and have done for the past seventeen years, on and off. And as I type this, there are no robbed cars screaming up and down the road, no gangs of sucmbags fighting, no crowds of people sitting out drinking. In fact, its so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.

There's times where I feel safer walking around Ballymun at night than I would walking down O'Connell Street. My boyfriend, who's originally from Bray, says he feels safer here than he does in a 'nice' area like Bray.

Don't judge the 'Mun if you've never spent any length of time here.

I find a bad area to walk around when your fifteen like me would be the gap in the wall leading to Old Town road...A good few scumbags would hang around ..I've been attacked twice around there coming back for lunch from school.....

But most of the time the "Mun" is pretty decent.....

foxybrowne · 13-04-2005 1:13am

Donabate is fairly sh1te.

Superman · 13-04-2005 1:13am

got lost in inchicore on a bicycle one night!
a lot of 'eds round there had to watch.
but just kept a low profile and got out of there!
generally most areas are bad if your looking for touble/look rich/have a nice car/are a girl.

condra · 13-04-2005 2:48am

Ballymun is nothing like it used to be. I live beside it. At the foot of ballymun as such heheh. Its pretty run down and theres plenty of scum about. But its actually safe enough to ramble about during the day as long as youre not wearing a bowler hat and a laptop.

Of the places Ive been in Dublin, here is my all time top 5 **** holes:

At 5:
Hell on earth- its Thomas Street!

at 4:
Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pregnant- its FINGLAS!

at 3:
Go there- youre darned if you do and youre lucky if you dont- its DARNDALE!

at 2:
Two men enter, one man leaves- its DOLPHINS BARN!

And at number 1:
There is something in the air tonight, and it smells like heroin and piss- its SUMMERHILL!

RuggieBear · 13-04-2005 6:28am

Cat O'Nine Tail wrote:

My boyfriend, who's originally from Bray, says he feels safer here than he does in a 'nice' area like Bray.

Don't judge the 'Mun if you've never spent any length of time here.

depends where in Bray... The old fasseroe estate would have put anywhere in the country to shame in its day...think at one stage i heard something like 35% of all the Heroin addicts in Ireland lived in that estate around 1990.

As for Ballymun, one of my best mates grew up there and he says it's a bit rough ...admitedly he hasn't been there for a couple of years now.

Cat O'Nine Tail · 13-04-2005 7:24am

Who ever said Bray was a nice area???

My BF is from the Wheatfield area of Bray, just down the road from the Oldtown estate. The first night he came out to Ballymun, he said he'd been expecting robbed cars and snipers.

I find a bad area to walk around when your fifteen like me would be the gap in the wall leading to Old Town road

I live facing that gap, on Shangan. There's not that many scumbags there now, and most of the time(in my experience, anyway) if you don't mind them, they usually leave you alone.

Unit00 · 13-04-2005 8:59am

Clondalkin

cournioni · 13-04-2005 8:59am

Tha Gopher wrote:

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:

Totally agree with that.

Whats the worst area in dublin?

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