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Whats the worst area in dublin?

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  • #252
    Armen Tanzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭Armen Tanzarian


    If he ever lived in or visited Dublin and all he saw was sh1t, he must have had his head up his ass


  • #253
    Superman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    yeah I agree every flower has it roots in a pot a of dirt


  • #254
    Superman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    except water lillies but you get the idear


  • #255
    Kernel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    Superman wrote:
    well i was going to say the opposite , he's able to judge the situation from outside the box!

    Probably came up for the day and got mugged on Gardiner Street, or else just believing all the media hype. Anyone who says that Dublin doesn't have nice areas to live in is clearly wrong. There's a reason why house prices are so high in Dublin. If nobody wanted to live here, then they would be cheaper. And also why we got flooded with so many tourists.


  • #256
    Superman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    Dublin is grand if you know it and don't go to purposely dodgy places, like the other morning when I ended up on gardiner street at 4am and there were 2 lads, sportsweared to the max, perched at opposite corners whistling in code to each other, possibly one of the most ghetto moments i've ever seen.
    Kernel wrote:
    why we got flooded with so many tourists.
    Rich cultureless american's trying to adopt our culture because there grandad's cat was Irish- but thats a diffrent story!


  • #257
    causal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭causal


    Superman wrote:
    Rich cultureless american's trying to adopt our culture because there grandad's cat was Irish- but thats a diffrent story!
    Do you mean to say:
    Rich cultureless Americans trying to adopt our culture because their grandads cat was Irish, but that's a different story! :p:D

    As for the worst area of Dublin - Governement Buildings! :D


    causal


  • #258
    Superman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    not sure what all the bold letters about but by the smileys you lopok lika ya agree :)


  • #259
    causal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭causal


    I was highlighing the irony in you slagging the "cultureless Americans" with your poor spelling and grammar ;)
    Nothing personal or condescending intended, it was just funny :)

    causal


  • #260
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I dont get this, how do ye decide in your mind what the biggest kip is unless youve lived in em all? Seems to be based on word of mouth, or just drving through from a lot of people


    For example I grew up in the flats in ballymun and could never figure out how people thought it was bad, but when I used to go with me mates to o'devaney gardens to buy...erm... things (mates lived on the NCR) we were always dead nervous. For years I reckoned that o'devaney gardens and oliver bond were the biggest kips in dublin despite the fact i only paid passing visits to em and nothing ever happened to me there.

    Im far more wary of walking through the city centre at night than most "kips". Especially now that there's large swathes of depopulated office blocks/retail areas etc.


  • #261
    John2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭John2002


    What's the general consensus on Dundrum? I haven't seen it mentioned.


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  • #262
    causal
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    It's fine, no longer a quiet mature suburb - now it's a bit more bustling with young people - thanks to the Luas and a lot of apartments and the new centre.

    causal


  • #263
    Superman
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    yeah dundrum is a real pass through place before the shopping centre you'd only ever stop there if you were passing through.
    Milltown is a far worse place, It has literally zero entertainment value , theres absolutely nothing to do there!


  • #264
    Djddd1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Djddd1


    Anyone mention Bayside? That is though and I had to cycle through it at 4 in the morning. Seen a group of lads they gave chase and I ended by hiding on the tracks, While they try to find me/rob a bike.


  • #265
    minimiss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭minimiss


    as far as i can tell ... ballymun coolock/town - sheiff st etc on d northside .... dolphins barn/certain parts of tallaght - west tallaght esp(fettercairn,kiltalown,jobstown,killarden, donomore and knockmore, around the square) and some of clondalkin neilstown, killmahurick, wheatfield ...
    although u can walk around these places if u are with people known in the area i think .. an i hav mates/relatives from these areas so no offense to anybody...
    drumcondra is not rough, dundrum and any where east south is certainly not rough ... i used to live in crumlin and although not posh i would feel safe enough walking up d crumlin rd afterdark ...


  • #266
    padser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭padser


    personally i dont think anywhere in dublin is quite as bad as kilkenny. Iv been there a couple of times and think its just the dodgyiest area ever.


  • #267
    EvilPixieOne
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    dundrum is anything but rough and milltown is alright as its easy to get places from there and its close to ranelagh. some parts of the city centre I wouldn't like to be around after dark, clondalkin, bray, cabra has gangs of kids roaming all night, crumlin does too though


  • #268
    Rb
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    EvilPixieOne wrote:
    dundrum is anything but rough and milltown is alright as its easy to get places from there and its close to ranelagh.

    I agree, there's nothing rough about either places.


  • #269
    morlan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭morlan


    Funkstard wrote:
    Dubliners think they don't like Dublin, but they are more attatched to it than they will ever realise

    This is true. I hated Dublin and moved away for two years because of it. Now I'm back and I love it more than ever.

    Dublin does have a lot of bad areas like any city, but I think it's seen as an overall kip because of the grey, industrial-like, 60's - 80's, sh!te architecture all around the city and suburbs. There are areas that look pretty awful, but don't necessarily have a higher crime rate than more aesthetically pleasing areas :)


  • #270
    JungleBunny
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    Has to be Sheriff Street.

    Fairly scary being around that area at any time of day.

    Have a read of this:
    sherrif street.doc


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  • #271
    samurai kebab
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭samurai kebab


    I think seán mcdermot street would be the worst road in dublin but for areas finglas and dublin 1 would be the worst(there could be worse but i used to live in finglas and i have family in both these areas and in a lot of other holes around the north side).

    Darndale isn't as bad as some of you are making it out to be.I live in Baldoyle:D and although not the worst i wouldn't want to walk through moyclare or seagrange if you didn't know anyone but i know all those people so its ok for me.Anyone have any opinions about baldoyle please share.
    I have also noticed that donaghmede is becoming worse again nowhere near the worst but it,baldoyle,kilbarrack and bayside(not as bad as the other 3) are all getting worse

    Finally to the guy who said sutton is pretty bad that is a joke of a statement anything bad that has ever happened there is to do with people from other areas and not people from sutton there all just posh and harmless

    Also an honurable metion should go to harmonstown which hasn't been metioned yet


  • #272
    condra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,849 ✭✭✭condra


    This thread is getting silly.
    So many people saying things like "yah I saw this like, total scumbag, hit this guy in Donnybrook, so like, its a bit rough there"
    Basically, sheltered twats who dont know the meaning of the term "no go area" ..
    Unsubscribing..


  • #273
    billstraighten
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    foxrock...its full of coke heads who think there mad going around jumping on people


  • #274
    Dub13
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    samurai kebab wrote:
    Also an honurable metion should go to harmonstown which hasn't been metioned yet


    That has to be a Joke....:confused:


  • #275
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    samurai kebab wrote:
    Darndale isn't as bad as some of you are making it out to be.I live in Baldoyle:D and although not the worst i wouldn't want to walk through moyclare or seagrange if you didn't know anyone but i know all those people so its ok for me.Anyone have any opinions about baldoyle please share.

    I do hope you're kidding about Seagrange - I grew up there. There's never any hassle in Seagrange. The worst you'd get would be a drive-by knitting incident.

    Moyclare on the other hand is another story - remember that contract killing a few years back? It was always rough from when it was built in the early 80's.
    samurai kebab wrote:
    I have also noticed that donaghmede is becoming worse again nowhere near the worst but it,baldoyle,kilbarrack and bayside(not as bad as the other 3) are all getting worse
    The trouble in Donaghmede is due to an element coming from Edenmore not wanting to p*ss on their own doorsteps.


  • #276
    melekalikimaka
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    billstraighten wrote:
    foxrock...its full of coke heads who think there mad going around jumping on people


    yeah but not in their own area so its still a damn sight better than alot of places in dublin


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  • #277
    samurai kebab
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭samurai kebab


    i meant seagrange park because of all of moylclare goin down and robbin people and about seagrange i can name more than a few familys from there which you wouldn't want to annoy although i dont know what age you are so i wouldnt know what timeframe you would have grown up there but when they used to have the flat roofs they were pretty bad


    and yes i was serious about harmonstown small yes but makes up for it with the scum walkin round it i saw a 6 year old wit a joint there yesterday walkin down the road wit a knife clearly visible comin out of his pocket


  • #278
    Royale with Cheese
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    Reading this thread would make you think Dublin is an absolute warzone. Every city is going to be dangerous, be thankful it's not America and we don't have mass guncrime. I'm from Shankill which has been mentioned in this thread a couple of times and it's not dangerous. There's a huge council estate that I wouldn't venture too far into late at night but that's where the train station is so I walk through it alot and have never even been hassled once. In any city you have to be somewhat cautious as there are always criminals and people you'd want to avoid about.

    Now I live in Cologne and have to say I do feel safer here but in Germany they have a large social problem with so many Turk's living here and I do believe the Turkish areas are less than desirable but I live nowhere near them. A friend from Berlin tells me about the Turkish areas there and it sounds like a very serious problem.


  • #279
    vasch_ro
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    EvilPixieOne wrote:
    dundrum is anything but rough and milltown is alright as its easy to get places from there and its close to ranelagh. some parts of the city centre I wouldn't like to be around after dark, clondalkin, bray, cabra has gangs of kids roaming all night, crumlin does too though


    I worked as a policeman in Sundrive Rd covering Drimnagh/Crumlin/Dolphins Barn,
    moved to Dundrum station last year and its a different world , different job !!:)


  • #280
    Martel
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭Martel


    I've got some experience of some of Dublin's areas.

    Ringsend/Pearce Street - Lived on the Ringsend Road during the summer with my girlfriend, and it really isn't all that bad. Only problem I had while living there was the day I moved out, some little sh*t heads threw stones at the car while we were loading it up. I often walked, in the dark, from the City Centre to Ringsend, no problems, though the area between Pearse Street Station and the Apache Pizza had me on full alert. All the new developement seems to have calmed the place down, most of the people there seem to be foreign students and young business people.

    Ballymun - Not as bad as it used to be, I'm in DCU and have spent some time around the area and I have relatives involved in the regeneration project. It certainly ain't good though, people who say "I live there, it's fine" usually have little experience of elsewhere. Young scum around the Ballymun entrance to DCU can be an issue, seen a guy getting smacked around there by a shell suit wearing rubber head and even the kids are trouble. And the buses are mad sometimes, had ten (no exageration) guys smoking dope in front of me one day (my head was spinning by the time I got off the bus), and the bus evacuated another day cause some scum bag started punching the light fittings, girls were screaming and there was blood all over him and his "mot".

    Coolock/Darndale - Darndale is one of the few areas in Dublin I just wouldn't go to, spent alot of time in surrounding areas, and the burnt out cars , kids of wrecked horses and ambush-tastic lane ways kept me away.

    Blancherstown - My cousin moved there and was mugged twice within a 1 month period I think, but that was walking through lanes at night IIRC, seems an okay enough place during the day using the roads.

    Killester - Lived there for 15 years, not a bad old place, only problems I had involved going into Donnycarney, which was like 20 metres away, what a difference 20 metres makes.

    Raheny - Nice enough area, but it's surrounded by some pretty rough places, Killbarrack, Edenmore, etc etc.

    What really gets on my nerves is when people say they'd take scum over posh twats any day. I lived in Clontarf for a year, the relief! The constant feeling of safety was great. Even if people from there do seem kinda smug I don't care, smuggness never kicked my ass.


  • #281
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    I lived on Parnell Street ( the Marlborough Road end) for about a year. Dodgy area but i never had any hastle. Except one night there was a running riot between the Guards and A big gang of scobies. The Guards used my car (which was the only one parked on the road) for shelter agin' the missles. All i could do was watch helplessly from my car


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  • #282
    mickybo
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    Kevo wrote:
    Bray can be a bit dodgy at times. Havent had any trouble lately though. Shankill isnt the best either, loads of Spaniards get beaten up there every summer.


    i heard bray was really posh and is it bray in wicklow.


  • #283
    melekalikimaka
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    bray is dodge


  • #284
    Royale with Cheese
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    mickybo wrote:
    i heard bray was really posh and is it bray in wicklow.

    Can't help but laugh at this sentence. Just where did you get this info from?


  • #285
    dr zoidberg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭dr zoidberg


    mickybo wrote:
    i heard bray was really posh
    lol7eh.gif


    As already stated, most of Bray is in Wicklow but a few of the estates are in Dublin. Besides, someone said Leixlip already...http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2547452&postcount=60
    the syco wrote:
    Not in Dublin, but all the scumbags act as if it were; Confey. 80% full of scum. the other 20% are nice people.
    I can't disagree with that, except to say that it's not just the Confey side of Leixlip. Confey just has the reputation, it's like the whole Northside-Southside thing. And it's not as high as 80% scum, I would say 67%.


  • #286
    RuggieBear
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    Bray is fine...besides a couple of estates.


  • #287
    joejoem
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    Bray is grand, its just a big place with a few knacker holes. I would have thought Darndale would be one of the worst places in Dublin?


  • #288
    dr zoidberg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭dr zoidberg


    Yeah, that's the thing about it, Bray is a town of 30,000 there's inevitably going to be a lot of scumbags but the proportion of scum is probably the same as everywhere else. Same way I feel about Tallaght and Blanchardstown really. Tallaght's bigger than Galway city ffs, there's obviously going to be some dodgy areas.

    It's too difficult to say what the worst area in Dublin is really. TBH I haven't visited most of the so-called "dodgy" places so I couldn't comment. But a fella I know who lives in Coolock says its pretty bad. The inner city is quite rough in places as well.


  • #289
    morlan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭morlan


    Ah Bray! It gets a terrible hard time, but it's a lot better than most of the kips in Dublin.

    It's been a running joke for as long as I can remember. Mention to someone that you're going out to Bray.. "Oooo, hate that".

    Bray is a little depressing at times though.


  • #290
    mchurl
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    not a big fan of bray but there are some nice areas


  • #291
    samurai kebab
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭samurai kebab


    I'd say bray is about the same as Raheny i mean I wouldn't worry walkin through either in general but theres still places like edenmore in Raheny and i'm sure theres places like that in bray but generally its not bad.

    BTW whats Kilmore like as an area my neighbours are moving there and I was just curious.


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  • #292
    GallicProphet
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    I live there and I love it. Havent ever had any problem. In my opinion you are much safer walking around Edenmore at any time of the day or night than in City center. Unless you are looking for trouble that is...


  • #293
    mikelmessi
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    Bray is no worse than other places. What gives it a bad rep is all the scummers with ghettoblasters and taches etc who come out on the Dart to play the 'slots' at the weekend and to live it up in the beer gardens on the seafront during the summer.


  • #294
    snickerpuss
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    Feel quite glad that most people picked darndale and not coolock where i live (even though i could walk to darndale in about 5 minutes),
    Coolock is a bit dodgey at night what with the stolen cars and whatnot, but during the day its grand, i've never had any hassle.
    I didn't think donaghmede was that dodge and one of my friends lives in the grangemore estate place.


  • #295
    Trevko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭Trevko


    jobstown in tallaght maybe.


  • #296
    raheny red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭raheny red


    Inchicore,Drimnagh,Darndale,Ballybough very bad areas!!

    However the Liberties is an absolute kip!!:mad: :mad:


  • #297
    raheny red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭raheny red


    GallicProphet

    I live there and I love it. Havent ever had any problem. In my opinion you are much safer walking around Edenmore at any time of the day or night than in City center. Unless you are looking for trouble that is...

    I'm also from Edenmore. I live on the drive. Whereabouts are you living in Edenmore.


  • #298
    mickybo
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    no one said anything about cabra.


  • #299
    gaf1983
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    guy i know lives in neilstown said it's worse than fallujah at times but he's never been to fallujah so how the hell would he know


  • #300
    GallicProphet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭GallicProphet


    Reheny_red, I live on Edenmore avenue... Have you noticed all the House-Appartments type buildings going up on the corner gardens ? going up like mushrooms...


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  • #301
    raheny red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭raheny red


    Yeh it's getting out of hand alright. Wouldn't mind living on a corner then selling the house and the land and making a small fortune for yourself tough:p

    Springdale motors was knocked down and there is gonna be apartments put in place their as well.

    Also, (I think) Joey's hosp. is getting knocked down for a good few houses but |I'm unsure about this one.


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