Dodgiest street in Dublin City?

brain damaged

Ok ,
so heres an intresting post..

In the city , in your opinion whats the dodgiest street to walk down?
Is there one that you always fear walking down?

any personal storys would be apreciated..

For me it has to be be either Sheriff st. or Temple st. both nightmares of a place tbh. :eek:

neacy69

I reckon Lambe alley or Meath Street. My GF lived on both of these during her tenure in NCAD and between junkies, dealers and dodgy looking characters selling what appeared to stolen stuff they were both pretty bad

copacetic

neacy69 wrote:

I reckon Lambe alley or Meath Street. My GF loved on both of these during her tenure in NCAD and between junkies, dealers and dodgy looking characters selling what appeared to stolen stuff they were both pretty bad

what was she working at exactly that involved 'loving' on the streets??

jesus_thats_gre

Lived maybe?

InFront

Thomas Street has always been pretty dodgy in my experience. And in terms of late night brawls or attacks or blood being spilled, Dame Street can be surprisingly bad.

mikemac

Ballybough Rd. Dodgy residents and even dodgier non-nationals. You spend a lot of time dodging untagged bin bags and I've a host of other complaints.
I get depressed just walking through it every day. Hate the place. :mad:

spurious

Temple Bar on a Saturday night when it's crowded with Dublin's finest, tanked up and looking for a row.

I'm always aware all it would take for it all to kick off would be one person stumbling into another. I hate it.

Bluetonic

spurious wrote:

Temple Bar on a Saturday night when it's crowded with Dublin's finest, tanked up and looking for a row.

I'm always aware all it would take for it all to kick off would be one person stumbling into another. I hate it.

Why do you go there? Wouldn't it be best to avoid a place you hate.

Kintarō Hattori

The main street in Crumlin. I have never witnessed so many emergency vehicles on a daily basis. Never!

ballooba

micmclo wrote:

Ballybough Rd. Dodgy residents and even dodgier non-nationals. You spend a lot of time dodging untagged bin bags and I've a host of other complaints.
I get depressed just walking through it every day. Hate the place. :mad:

Ballybough Rd is fine in my experience, and I'm a soft southsider. Don't judge a book by it's cover.

admiralofthefleet

thomas street and the surrounding area scare me at nite

spurious

Bluetonic wrote:

Why do you go there? Wouldn't it be best to avoid a place you hate.

Exactly, I rarely do.
The OP asked was there a street I would fear walking down and yes there is, Temple Bar, for the reasons I outlined.

irlirishkev

brain damaged wrote:

For me it has to be be either Sheriff st. or Temple st. both nightmares of a place tbh. :eek:

Temple Street? Off Dorset Street? I'm surprised to hear that. It's safer since the Temple of Sound closed surely.. I've lived in the area for three years and have yet to see any trouble..

Ballybough road/Summerhill Road is a bit iffy. I used to walk home from the gym through there three times a week. Mostly it was okay, but sometimes you'd get rocks hurled in your direction.. Not nice.

lightening

brain damaged wrote:

For me it has to be be either Sheriff st

What part exactly. Lived very close by for years, found it grand.

Temple Bar? Its a popular tourist area, nothing dodgy about it at all!

ANXIOUS

eo980 wrote:

The main street in Crumlin. I have never witnessed so many emergency vehicles on a daily basis. Never!

God dam childrens hospital and gardai station lol

potty pete

brain damaged wrote:

Ok ,
so heres an intresting post..

In the city , in your opinion whats the dodgiest street to walk down?
Is there one that you always fear walking down?

any personal storys would be apreciated..

For me it has to be be either Sheriff st. or Temple st. both nightmares of a place tbh. :eek:

It's gotta be Thomas Street for me. Filthy place. Always unmentionables knocking around there. I never feel safe walking down that street.

Only about a month ago I was saying to this girl, who lives near Old Kilmainham, that I'm not gone on the street at all. She rubbished it, saying I was paranoid. So we decided an experiment was needed. We drove down to the off-licence to pick up some booze making observations as we went from her house. The first thing we came across was kids with sticks smashing them off cars and shop windows. I was satisifed upon proving my point to her on seeing this. Wasn't much, but an example nonetheless. Five minutes later we entered a spar. While we queued there was this absolute scumbag in there hassling the folks behind the counter. He eventually got around to me accusing me of skipping the queue, spouting vitriol and whatnot. This was all in the space of 10 minutes.

I don't live near Thomas street at all, so I don't know what it's generally like, but those two incidents gave me a pretty good insight.

A few years ago, my mate was witness to a rather strange incident. He thinks it was involving undercover cops. He was walking up on the opposite side of vicar street when out of the blue some guy was running across the street in his direction with a gun in his hand. My mate nearly soiled himself. The guy with the gun hopped into a car and drove off. He maintains he was an undercover cop, but who knows.

He was also 'held up' with a needle. Just dropped his wallet and legged it, completely shaken.

Dub13

ballooba wrote:

Ballybough Rd is fine in my experience, and I'm a soft southsider. Don't judge a book by it's cover.

Over the last couple of years on Ballybough Rd/ Parnell Street some major serious headline crime has been committed.A sample,a man killed by a stolen car,Chinese gang fight resulting in the death of one man,crack been sold to a journalist,the seizor sisters incident,two separate body's found in the canal,the love ulster thing.I am sure there is more but thats just of the top of my head.

Yore ma's street

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