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  • 02-10-2008 1:43am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭


    Attention DCU students.

    stfu_lg.gif

    The local residents here (Albert College/Wadlei) have tolerated occassional noisey crowds over the years but this year the noise levels are getting just a little bit uncomfortable.

    As I write this, there has been a lot of screaming and shouting in and around the Ballymun road entrance for the past hour, and at 230am, these kind of noise levels are not acceptable.

    Of course, early October is always a busy time here, and we hope things will quieten down as the year progresses.

    Please, when revelling, bare in mind that elderly people make up a considerable proprtion of the local population, and show due consideration.

    Thanks!


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    womoma wrote: »
    Attention DCU students.

    stfu_lg.gif

    The local residents here (Albert College/Wadlei) have tolerated occassional noisey crowds over the years but this year the noise levels are getting just a little bit uncomfortable.

    As I write this, there has been a lot of screaming and shouting in and around the Ballymun road entrance for the past hour, and at 230am, these kind of noise levels are not acceptable.

    Of course, early October is always a busy time here, and we hope things will quieten down as the year progresses.

    Please, when revelling, bare in mind that elderly people make up a considerable proprtion of the local population, and show due consideration.

    Thanks!

    I was leaving DCU via the Ballymun Road entrance around the time you posted and the noise levels weren't notable. I did not hear "screaming and shouting"... Maybe it was different shortly before or after this? And/or maybe it was just a small group?

    In any case, calling your local Garda station and not posting "shut the **** up" on boards.ie might have being more productive. There were a number of Garda on campus at the time and they could have easily been despatched to sort out any noise / trouble makers.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I know it's a bit stupid to reply at this hour but I just had to agree with monument, at the time stated I was helping carry someone home and the noise levels were fine...there were plenty guards around the area and even outside the hub it wasn't too bad (much better than other times)...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭ding_dong


    wow, im sorry but that is totally the wrong attitude. :| You have put MY back up and im usually so mild mannered.


    I think the noise levels havent been that bad.



    And they are elderly, so shouldnt they be deaf?




    ouch, that was a low blow, sorry XD


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    Wasn't it the Freshers Ball ?

    Its inexperienced first years having a good time at the start of the
    year.

    Its not as if they are going to be doing this every day.*

    Chances are that the majority of them (other than the 20 or so in the Freshers Ball Thread)
    are completely unaware of this forum anyway.

    So in effect you are telling innocent "lurkers" to STFU.

    I live in the middle of Ballymun and listen to this "craic" EVERY night.

    Get over it OP and close your window at night, you wont be hearing
    noise like this other than when large events are taking place.


    *(Well, not the majority of them anyway:D)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭robby^5


    Do something more productive other than telling the tiny minority of DCU students who use boards to stfu and complain to the gardaí (plenty of them around dcu last night) or someone in dcu who can do something about it, I'm sure the SU would happily reiterate to keep to noise levels down if they received complaints.

    Secondly, it's not as if there is anything on the scale of the Freshers ball every night or even every week for that matter, it's like once a month there's an event that big, so really In all fairness let the students have there one night and then be done with it.

    Really if noise is the only major problem stemming from the night then really your blessed there's no vandalism, attacks etc. I also find it quite hard to believe that the noise levels last night were anywhere loud enough to actually keep people awake unless they were up at their pc browsing boards at that time already :)


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    monument wrote: »
    I was leaving DCU via the Ballymun Road entrance around the time you posted and the noise levels weren't notable.

    I meant at least not for after the Freshers Ball or the one or two other events like it across the year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭DemocAnarchis


    Attention womoma,

    stfu_lg.gif

    Events of this scale are infrequent; there are only a handful of balls during the year. Of course freshers are going to be a bit rowdy; its their first ball in their first week of college. If you really have a problem, contact the SU or the gardai, instead of posting here telling us to stfu.

    Thanks! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭condra


    The STFU image was meant in good spirit. Sorry to anyone who took it the wrong way. Perhaps it was a poor choice of image.

    I'm aware that big partys in DCU don't happen often, and apart from a few occassional exceptions, students have generally conducted themselves very well over the years. I was not pointing fingers or making broad accusations.

    The main point of the post was to raise some awareness among some new students and hopefully that has been acompished.

    I didn't expect it would make me popular in the DCU forum. I expect further replies will follow, as of course we all know, the internet is serious business.

    Thanks again for reading.

    Good luck with your studys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭Daysha


    Fair play to ya womona, don't listen to the rest of them. It's a DCU forum after all and you've every right to raise as much awareness as you want on the subject.

    But I am sure that it was just a once off. I don't head back that way when I'm leaving since I'm staying on-campus so I'll never know exactly how bad it gets, but now that all the Orientation and Freshers events are over and done with it should begin to settle down again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭TomCo


    Bloody undergrads, hang the lot of em.

    Postgrads on the other hand.........


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭NiSmO


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭irish_boy90


    TomCo wrote: »

    Postgrads on the other hand.........
    Shoot the lot of em :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭TomCo


    NiSmO wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    "You're not my mammy!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭NiSmO


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭TomCo


    NiSmO wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Ah yeah, and then you had a go on the swings.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭cognos


    womoma wrote: »
    Attention DCU students.

    Please, when revelling, bare in mind that elderly people make up a considerable proprtion of the local population, and show due consideration.

    Thanks!

    A considerable proportion of the population are students - if you want to live in a quiet area, next to a university isn't the best idea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭condra


    I'm sorry the girl i brought into the park would not STFU kicking and screaming... "help me... help me.. i don't know you!" Sorry again
    What night was that? It's just, I was at a fancy dress party recently, dressed up as a girl, but on my way home through DCU some guy dragged me into the park and tried having his wicked way with me. :p
    A considerable proportion of the population are students
    Cognos, with all due respect, that is absolute rubbish. You should check your facts before committing to writing them.

    In Albert College there are about 4 houses in total rented out to students, and only a handful in all of Wadlei. My parents, aswell as most residents in this area, moved here over 30 years ago, when the DCU was nothing more than a building and a couple of prefabs, called NIHE.

    Students make up an almost neglegable proportion of the population in Albert College and Wadlei.
    if you want to live in a quiet area, next to a university isn't the best idea.
    If you want to have a university in the middle of a nice quiet community, be sure the students behave themselves.
    < Both statements sound as daft and conceited as the other. Let's not get silly.

    It just takes a little consideration on behalf of the students, and everyone's happy. It's not asking much really.

    Oh and give us our tennis courts back too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭gamblitis


    womoma wrote: »
    What night was that? It's just, I was at a fancy dress party recently, dressed up as a girl, but on my way home through DCU some guy dragged me into the park and tried having his wicked way with me. :p

    Hope you didn't wake the neighbors... They don't like that sort of thing.:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭cognos


    womoma wrote: »
    < Both statements sound as daft and conceited as the other. Let's not get silly.

    Intentionally so and phrased the same as your statement in an effort to highlight how "daft and conceited" your argument was, sorry you didn't get that.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    deise59 wrote: »
    Fair play to ya womona, don't listen to the rest of them. It's a DCU forum after all and you've every right to raise as much awareness as you want on the subject.

    And nobody said s/he did not have such a right.

    Or at least my post and posts below it were mostly pointing out that it would have been more productive to call the police when the "screaming and shouting" was occurring (or, if they wished, complained after). With the amount of Garda that were in the central section of the campus at the time they could have sent one or two down to the Ballymun Road entrance.

    And talking about productive, saying "don't listen to the rest of them" is a more than a bit silly when s/he is trying to get us to listen.

    Anyway, I think the majority of the posters (and lurkers) looking at this thread aren't the target readers of womoma's request to quite down, and that goes back to the central point made above.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    *Shakes fist at noisy shower of feckers up in DCU.*
    a handful of balls
    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭Creadak


    womoma wrote: »
    It just takes a little consideration on behalf of the students, and everyone's happy. It's not asking much really.

    Yes, I agree with you that the noise can be rather annoying, but its rather infrequent. Like other people have already said, if it really annoys you then call the gardaí, thats your right.

    At the same time though, you cannot expect me to believe that you have never walked home at half two in the morning an not been rowdy or loud, do you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    womoma wrote: »
    If you want to have a university in the middle of a nice quiet community, be sure the students behave themselves.
    < Both statements sound as daft and conceited as the other. Let's not get silly.

    It just takes a little consideration on behalf of the students, and everyone's happy. It's not asking much really.

    Oh and give us our tennis courts back too.

    Now this post I find hilarious considering the little sh1ts that live in the area, most of the time when you hear a late night ruckous it's not the college age folks it's the f*ckwits that should be in bed early on a schoolnight but who's parents couldn't be arsed actually being parents and telling their kids to get in and stop hassling the neighbours.:mad:
    Lived in the area for years and have had, and heard of, FAR more problems involving the local yobs than those renting places to attend the college. Can even remember quite a few instances of local kids coming into DCU, when I was an undergraduate there, and wrecking the place because their wonderful parents weren't bothered what the kids were up to as long as they didn't have to hear about it.:mad:

    Just wait for the upcoming mid-term break and you'll wish the slightly noisy college folk were your main concern, and not "which one of these idiots hanging out on the corner will throw a banger at me?":(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭condra


    Now this post I find hilarious
    Oh, well if you find it hilarious, it must be utter rubbish then.
    considering the little sh1ts that live in the area
    f*ckwits that should be in bed early on a schoolnight but who's parents couldn't be arsed actually being parents

    This sounds utterly snobby and conceited. I shouldn't even humour you with that attitude but I want to explain something.

    I grew up in this area and I can tell you, the vast majority of people in Albert College and Wadlei are friendly, decent people.

    I've seen local teenagers hanging around, drinking, and sometimes making noise, but they have never been paticularly menacing, nor have they ever contributed to the noise levels in a way that compares to local students.

    I've been shouted at by a car full of students, I've had "nicknacks" on my door from local students. I've had students p1ssing in my garden, I've had lost count of the amount of Buckfast bottles aswell as other litter I've seen students throw onto Albert College Lawn or leave at the bus stop.

    I'll concede that there can be noise made by older locals coming from The Slipper sometimes, but most of the teenage "little sh1ts" around here are pretty normal teenagers.
    Pointing the finger at them is pretty lame to be honest.

    Don't bother coming back with "my mate got a box from a local scumbag" because your mate was probably drunk and acting like a d1ck. Unprovoked attacks on students are very rare around here.

    It is quite obvious that many students need to show more respect for the local area, and it's residents, both young and old.
    "which one of these idiots hanging out on the corner will throw a banger at me?
    What do the teenagers where you come from do? Offer you flowers and shower you with confetti?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    womoma wrote: »
    This sounds utterly snobby and conceited. I shouldn't even humour you with that attitude but I want to explain something.
    Gee, yes, how dare I expect to be able to walk from one location to another without having to wonder if some group of lads from the local secondary school will try pick a fight with me because it makes them feel big to pick on people walking alone.:rolleyes:
    womoma wrote: »
    I grew up in this area and I can tell you, the vast majority of people in Albert College and Wadlei are friendly, decent people.
    I can name a few families in the area who are far from such though.
    womoma wrote: »
    I've seen local teenagers hanging around, drinking, and sometimes making noise, but they have never been paticularly menacing, nor have they ever contributed to the noise levels in a way that compares to local students.
    Probably not seen as particularly menacing when you're hiding in your house making daft posts blaming students for all the ills of the area.:rolleyes: FFS only a few years back there was a leaflet dispersed in the area asking parents to keep their kids off the greens due to used syringes!!:eek:
    I'm sure it was the evil students coming into Wadlei just to shoot up.:rolleyes:
    womoma wrote: »
    I've been shouted at by a car full of students, I've had "nicknacks" on my door from local students. I've had students p1ssing in my garden, I've had lost count of the amount of Buckfast bottles aswell as other litter I've seen students throw onto Albert College Lawn or leave at the bus stop.
    I've had the same from local teenagers, pulling over just to lob a firework or shout some stupid comments that they think is clever and funny.
    If students are in your garden doing anything call the gardai, simple as, even if they don't catch them physically the camera network should let them identify which twit it was.
    womoma wrote: »
    I'll concede that there can be noise made by older locals coming from The Slipper sometimes, but most of the teenage "little sh1ts" around here are pretty normal teenagers.
    Pointing the finger at them is pretty lame to be honest.
    Different from your directing blame at the students because:rolleyes:
    The DCU crowd are no worse than from any other college from the stories I hear about the different groups and most of them are in fact teenagers, so either the locals are no better or somehow the large number of teenagers in DCU is somehow abnormal whereas the smaller number in Wadlei and Albert College is miraculously different in spite of some of the DCU students coming from this area.
    womoma wrote: »
    Don't bother coming back with "my mate got a box from a local scumbag" because your mate was probably drunk and acting like a d1ck. Unprovoked attacks on students are very rare around here.
    Mate nothing, I even have female friends who don't drink and still get grief from the local secondry school kids. Don't drink myself either, yet I've been attacked myself simply because I happened to be passing by when the bin they'd set on fire was becoming boring. It's great that parents have taken the time to teach them equality, they'll pick on lone females as readily as lone males.
    womoma wrote: »
    What do the teenagers where you come from do? Offer you flowers and shower you with confetti?
    Like I said before, I LIVE IN THE AREA AND HAVE DONE MOST OF MY LIFE!
    I'm (and even those I'm friends with are) far from alone in terms of my distain of the local youth, know staff in the smaller local shops who are less than fond of them and their behaviour and are more than happy to tell stories of what they've seen and had done to them. The joyriding in the area may have died down a few years back but the general behaviour otherwise hasn't improved much.

    Yes the students should show some consideration for the locals but I just feel that the noise from the odd student night is rather low down on the area's list of problems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭robby^5


    womoma wrote: »
    I've been shouted at by a car full of students, I've had "nicknacks" on my door from local students. I've had students p1ssing in my garden

    How exactly do you attribute these acts to DCU students? Do you know they were definitely DCU students?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭condra


    farohar what age are you? You're acting very childish, I'm starting to think you might be one of the "local yufe"
    I LIVE IN THE AREA AND HAVE DONE MOST OF MY LIFE!
    ..... The joyriding in the area ....
    What area? What joyriding? There has never been any joyriding problem in Waldei /Albert College, which is the area I am talking about, so quit making false accusations.

    If you talking about Ballymun, yes, there are joyriders up there. That is a different area altogether though.

    Anyway, thanks for bumping the thread. My point was to raise some awareness, and I feel that has been acomplished. Feel free to keep bumping the thread, perhaps a moderator will decide to sticky it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭AlanSparrowhawk


    the original post was fair.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭sunnyjim


    You're damn right it was fair.
    I've had the same from local teenagers

    Mate, you're a local - surely to god you can distinguish the locals from the knackers of ballymun.

    I'm laughing here though at some of the things that have happened to you. You must be the biggest heat seeker out there! But seriously, that car thing is usually guys from out of the locality. No one does that in their own area!!

    As for the secondary schools, well that's them for ya. It can be fairly intimidating for anyone when a group of them are causing hassle but these are the same guys who are either in the comprehensive up by the tax office or the ones who are attending Aidens because they got kicked out of the comp.

    I'm not saying everyone in the immediate vicinity of DCU is an angel, but by and large undergrads are the biggest pile of ****wits going. My 3 years in DCU taught me few things, but the biggest was that people moving away from home for the first time + meeting similar types + alcohol = ****wits, acting like bigger ****wits. Anyone can attest to that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    Coming from someone living in the middle of Ballymun, drunken college students are angels compared to what goes on around here.

    No matter what time of the day or night when you walk past a group
    of students in DCU, be they drunk, stupid, first years or "****wits", there
    is no feeling/atmosphere of being attacked/stabbed.

    Branding 4 or 5000 undergrads as ****wits is a bit silly when in this case
    the OP was concerned with a few isolated groups.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    womoma wrote: »
    farohar what age are you? You're acting very childish, I'm starting to think you might be one of the "local yufe"
    Strange that earlier my complaint about the local youth had you defending them as decent people.:rolleyes:
    But nope, mid-late 20's here and just because I disagree with your idolisation of the local teens doesn't make me "childish". I agreed that the students should show consideration for the locals, but, as Shiney realised, I was pointing out that in the grand scheme of things noisy students at night are a blessing compared to the behaviour of most of the local teenagers, so complaining about all the DCU students after one or two loud nights, when we all know that there are a few crazy weeks then it all dies down seems rather silly to me, especially when others have drawn into question just how much noise there actually was.

    Getting OT so taking the rest to PM's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭condra


    Lets please stop confusing Ballymun with Albert College and Wadlei, which were the subjects of this thread, and are in Glasnevin.

    Ballymun is without doubt, a far more troubled area than Glasnevin. It's also half a mile up the road from the area this thread relates to.

    Either way, discussing local teenagers behaviour is beside the point, because the initial point was a light hearted request for students to show due consideration for the local population, during party times.
    It was not an affront to students, or the DCU, or a claim that there are no troublesome local teenagers.

    There are a lot of benefits from having the DCU close by, and I think most of the locals appreciate them.
    Strange that earlier my complaint about the local youth had you defending them as decent people.
    You obviously completely missed my point.
    Also, You didn't address my questions about what area you are from, where all this joyriding goes on. If you are talking about Albert College or Wadlei, you are telling porky pies.
    I wont be humouring you anymore either way, because I get the impression you'll just want the last word regardless. Feel free to "take it to PM".
    And thanks for the bump.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    womoma wrote: »
    Lets please stop confusing Ballymun with Albert College and Wadlei, which were the subjects of this thread, and are in Glasnevin.

    Ballymun is without doubt, a far more troubled area than Glasnevin. It's also half a mile up the road from the area this thread relates to.


    Also, You didn't address my questions about what area you are from, where all this joyriding goes on. If you are talking about Albert College or Wadlei, you are telling porky pies.
    I wont be humouring you anymore either way, because I get the impression you'll just want the last word regardless. Feel free to "take it to PM".
    And thanks for the bump.
    The joyriding used to continue down as far as Mobhi Rd. so you can get off your high horse claiming that it didn't happen in our area, as I'm sorry to break it to you but I'm from Glasnevin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Evangelion


    Holy Crap.

    This is like an agruement between extremeists.

    Lets face it. not every signle student is noisey on the way home, but alot are, and it's those lot that annoy poeple and cause me to hide my car during Balls so they dont rip off the wing mirror again!
    Maybe some locals are noisier, but have to remeber, there's alot more student drinking on any given night.

    Did some one miss a point? Albert College and Wadlei are in Glasnevin, and DCU is in Glasnevin and Whitehall. Nothing to do with Ballymun


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭bangersandmash


    farohar wrote: »
    The joyriding used to continue down as far as Mobhi Rd. so you can get off your high horse claiming that it didn't happen in our area, as I'm sorry to break it to you but I'm from Glasnevin.
    You make it sound like it's a regular occurrence, when it's anything but. There are incredibly isolated incidents, when you would get hardcore scum coming from Finglas or Ballymun for a bit of a holiday. Haven't heard of it happening in a few years.
    farohar wrote:
    Did some one miss a point? Albert College and Wadlei are in Glasnevin, and DCU is in Glasnevin and Whitehall. Nothing to do with Ballymun
    I think the point was that the "local" kids who are apparently far worse than students, aren't really that local.

    The OP has a fair point. DCU is located in a quiet area and the university has expanded rapidly in the last decade. For those who remember the NIHE it's been quite a change. In general I think it's been a good thing for the area, but occasions like Freshers Ball are an exception.

    In fairness it is a minority and the same complaints can be made about students from other colleges. The incidents this year regarding the abuse and assault of Dublin Bus drivers in UCD is a disgrace. I wonder whether this small minority of immature first years, who can't handle their drink, behave the same way when they go back home at the weekend to mammy and daddy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭condra


    Mobhi road - the leafy ghetto. :p


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Evangelion wrote: »
    Did some one miss a point? Albert College and Wadlei are in Glasnevin, and DCU is in Glasnevin and Whitehall. Nothing to do with Ballymun

    Parts of areas that are right beside each other are "Nothing to do" with each other. Right.

    What Garda station would the op being calling?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Evangelion


    monument wrote: »

    What Garda station would the op being calling?

    That would be Santry


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Maybe I'm wrong here but the Santry district station is Ballymun Garda Station? It is also the closest to DCU, isn't it? Is there any other Garda station less than a mile away?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    Evangelion wrote: »
    Holy Crap.

    This is like an agruement between extremeists.

    Lets face it. not every signle student is noisey on the way home, but alot are, and it's those lot that annoy poeple and cause me to hide my car during Balls so they dont rip off the wing mirror again!
    Maybe some locals are noisier, but have to remeber, there's alot more student drinking on any given night.

    Did some one miss a point? Albert College and Wadlei are in Glasnevin, and DCU is in Glasnevin and Whitehall. Nothing to do with Ballymun

    The reason I was mentioning Ballymun was to highlight to the OP how
    bad things are in other areas to point out how students are relatively
    well behaved in comparison.

    When someone is living in an area they get "accustomed" to a certain level
    of noise, people, incidents etc. I'm sure living in the Albert College area is
    quite nice and rarely has any problems. As a result of this, the few times
    a semester that there actually is noise/problems, they are more noticeable
    and in the OPs case more annoying.

    I'm basically saying that its just blown out of proportion considering that
    most of the year there is very little noise. To be honest I don't think
    anyone wouldn't have responded with such hostility if it had not of been
    provoked. Which it was due to the "STFU" icon which removed any dignity
    and validity from the post.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    You make it sound like it's a regular occurrence, when it's anything but. There are incredibly isolated incidents, when you would get hardcore scum coming from Finglas or Ballymun for a bit of a holiday. Haven't heard of it happening in a few years.
    If you read the entire thread:
    farohar wrote: »
    The joyriding in the area may have died down a few years back but the general behaviour otherwise hasn't improved much.

    I think the point was that the "local" kids who are apparently far worse than students, aren't really that local.
    Yes they are, it's just foolish snobbery, IMO, that people think any specific parts of this region are miraculously only occupied by the good kids.:rolleyes:
    Sure, there's some of them who've enough respect to leave folks alone, but there seems to be far more who don't.:(
    The OP has a fair point. DCU is located in a quiet area and the university has expanded rapidly in the last decade. For those who remember the NIHE it's been quite a change. In general I think it's been a good thing for the area, but occasions like Freshers Ball are an exception.
    The OP has complained about something which is
    • little more than a minor nuisance
    • that they know there will be but a few such instances of
    • using a somewhat confrontational image
    • ignored counterpoints from those claiming that they were about the area at the time and did not notice the claimed noise levels
    • and more to the point if the OP was genuinely bothered they would not have used a forum which only a rather small portion of the DCU students will in fact read (looking at the levels of posts it's quite clear that just like when I was an undergrad in DCU only a very small percentage of the student base are active the DCU forums in boards.ie. I only swung by to see if there was much news and got into this.).

    Throw in the suspicious fact that the OP was also up posting at 2am Tuesday morning this week anyway, when nothing major seemed to be happening in DCU that night and I have to begin to suspect it was a complaint just for the sake of complaining.


    Now the wingmirror incident Evangelion mentions would be good reason for complaint and I hope Evangelion did take action with the gardai and campus security in the hopes of finding the person(s) responsible, make them realise such behaviour is not acceptable, and ensure such stupidity doesn't spread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭condra


    Dad:
    Hey can you keep the noise down upstairs, I'm trying to watch the news, thank you.

    Angsty defensive brat:
    Oh my God I hate you. My stereo was at like 5. This thing can go up to eleven. You don't even know the DEFINITION of noise. You make me feel like I'm some sort of psycho delinquent. Get a grip. Get a life. If you hate me that much you shouldn't have had me in the first place. UGH! You are so abusing me. I know my rights.

    Dad:
    Yeah ok, thanks for the bump.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,850 ✭✭✭condra


    Angsty defensive brat:
    I know you are but what am I?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Evangelion


    womoma wrote: »
    Dad:
    Hey can you keep the noise down upstairs, I'm trying to watch the news, thank you.

    Angsty defensive brat:
    Oh my God I hate you. My stereo was at like 5. This thing can go up to eleven. You don't even know the DEFINITION of noise. You make me feel like I'm some sort of psycho delinquent. Get a grip. Get a life. If you hate me that much you shouldn't have had me in the first place. UGH! You are so abusing me. I know my rights.

    Dad:
    Yeah ok, thanks for the bump.

    I dont get it???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭lego


    monument wrote: »
    Maybe I'm wrong here but the Santry district station is Ballymun Garda Station? It is also the closest to DCU, isn't it? Is there any other Garda station less than a mile away?

    Santry is the district Garda station for the area:
    http://www.garda.ie/statlinks/dma.html

    (The Ballymun and Griffith Avenue Garda stations are tiny by comparison, so this should be obvious)

    Historically (A long time before Ballymun even existed in its current form), the Albert College's address was Glasnevin.

    FYI before the high-rise social housing disaster that hit the area in the 1960s, Ballymun was generally considered a mixed posh/agricultural area. All the original residents fled when they saw what was happening to their area at the time.

    http://www.geocities.com/newballymun/BallymunHistory.htm

    http://www.brl.ie/pdf/Ballymun_A_History_1600_1997_Synopsis.pdf

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Agricultural_College

    Despite all of this, An Post are obsessed with labelling the DCU area "Whitehall".


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    lego wrote: »
    Santry is the district Garda station for the area:
    http://www.garda.ie/statlinks/dma.html

    Did you miss the station name given for the Santry district?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭lego


    monument wrote: »
    Did you miss the station name given for the Santry district?

    Ballymun, Dublin Airport, Whitehall and Santry are all under the Santry Garda Station district. This should be clear from the link.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    lego wrote: »
    Ballymun, Dublin Airport, Whitehall and Santry are all under the Santry Garda Station district. This should be clear from the link.

    AGAIN: Did you miss the station name given for the Santry district?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭lego


    monument wrote: »
    AGAIN: Did you miss the station name given for the Santry district?

    There's no Garda station for Glasnevin and the closest stations to that area are Whitehall and Santry(District Garda Station).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Evangelion


    hey right, Santry covers the 4 areas, though its not very clear there.


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