How did Dublin become such a ****hole?

LarrytheLantern

Collected 3 friends of mine from Canada @ the airport last week.
They were keen to see Dublin so we stopped for a quick look around O'Connell Street, and a few drinks & some bites just off Grafton Street, and the obligatory stroll about Temple Bar etc.

Some days afterwards I asked them what was their impressions of our fair city. They seemed hesitant to reply, so I pushed them for an answer.

Eventually they confessed what a dump they thought Dublin was. And how full of scummers the place is.

I was shocked and more than a bit annoyed.

The weird thing is I hadn't seen it myself.

Time to leave methinks!:(

starbelgrade

If it makes you feel any better, it used to be a lot worse 20 years ago.

Awful_Bliss

Hasn't it always been a sh!thole? You should bring them out to places like Dalkey, Killiney, Howth etc. Compared to main Canadian cities, Dublin's a dump.

Absurdum

LarrytheLantern wrote: »

Time to leave methinks!:(

k thx bai

SadieSue

All cities are like that though. You get an impression of them from the net and the news etc... and when you see them up close its different. I'm living in Montreal and its supposed to be one of the nicest cities in Canada.. its a kip! Its like a huge industrial parking lot with highways.

Biggins

Tell them to stop visiting the Dail then for gods sake!

LizT

Dublin forum

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Logical Fallacy

Being Canadian their opinion doesn't count.

Poor Uncle Tom

LarrytheLantern wrote: »

Time to leave methinks!:(

Don't leave James' Gate hit you on the ass on the way out......:D

starbelgrade

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Don't leave James' Gate hit you on the ass on the way out......:D

Is that how you get out of Dublin?

Jeepers. No wonder there's always traffic jams in the big smoke.

byte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAYMJnO9LBQ

IvySlayer

O'Connell Street --> Grafton Street --> Temple Bar does not = all of Dublin.

And Dublin is not a ****hole.

BluesBerry

I happen to think out capital is nice thank you very much

If the canadians don't like it then they can feck of :mad:

Rebelheart

In fairness, Dublin is looking much better now that it was 15 years ago. It is still very, very dirty - but less dirty than it was then.

Dubliners are, by developed industrial economy standards, very very friendly. And helpful.

But the alcohol problem is huge - absolutely huge here. I don't think we, either at City Council level or state level, appreciate the ugliness of the alcohol problem here. St Patrick's Day in, I think, 2006, stands out as extraordinarily ugly in my lifelong experience of Dublin city.

We have to get to grips with that. We just have to.

southsiderosie

SadieSue wrote: »

All cities are like that though. You get an impression of them from the net and the news etc... and when you see them up close its different. I'm living in Montreal and its supposed to be one of the nicest cities in Canada.. its a kip! Its like a huge industrial parking lot with highways.

Yeah but the parts of Montreal that tourists go to are lovely. The parts of Dublin that tourists go to are lovely in parts, but also surprisingly full of junkies, scumbags, and feral children.

starbelgrade

BluesBerry wrote: »

I happen to think out capital is nice thank you very much

If the canadians don't like it then they can feck of :mad:

It's not like Canada has much going for it either.

Poor Uncle Tom

starbelgrade wrote: »

Is that how you get out of Dublin?

Jeepers. No wonder there's always traffic jams in the big smoke.

Yup, didn't you know?

SadieSue

southsiderosie wrote: »

Yeah but the parts of Montreal that tourists go to are lovely. The parts of Dublin that tourists go to are lovely in parts, but also surprisingly full of junkies, scumbags, and feral children.

That's true. There are a couple nice spots.
What we lack in feral children we make up for in homeless people.

IvySlayer

The problems with scum on the street is that the Gardaí have no motivation for arresting them. And they exist in every city.

Every day in the city I see a junkie or a drunk completely out of it, puking in the street and just casuing general nuisance. It is in my opinon that anyone who is so far gone like that, should be locked up in a room for their own safety. Not until they are completely sober/off the drugs no matter how long it takes.

Homeless people should be forced into hostels, so no sleeping on the street is necessary. The government needs to build more homeless shelters.

Absurdum

IvySlayer wrote: »

O'Connell Street --> Grafton Street --> Temple Bar does not = all of Dublin.

And Dublin is not a ****hole.

indeedy


I got jumped on by a junkie on Karl Johans gate in Oslo (you know, the place we are striving to emulate) yet it didn't change my perception of Norway. Maybe that was because their scumbags are a bunch of pussies but still!

Degsy

southsiderosie wrote: »

Yeah but the parts of Montreal that tourists go to are lovely. The parts of Dublin that tourists go to are lovely in parts, but also surprisingly full of junkies, scumbags, and feral children.

Montreal's a shiithole...full of canadians.

Terry

LarrytheLantern wrote: »

Collected 3 friends of mine from Canada @ the airport last week.
They were keen to see Dublin so we stopped for a quick look around O'Connell Street, and a few drinks & some bites just off Grafton Street, and the obligatory stroll about English stag party central.

Some days afterwards I asked them what was their impressions of our fair city. They seemed hesitant to reply, so I pushed them for an answer.

Eventually they confessed what a dump they thought Dublin was. And how full of scummers the place is.

I was shocked and more than a bit annoyed.

The weird thing is I hadn't seen it myself.

Time to leave methinks!:(

FYP.

Red Hand

Dear old dirty Dublin. "De sal' o' de earth, wha?"

southsiderosie

IvySlayer wrote: »

O'Connell Street --> Grafton Street --> Temple Bar does not = all of Dublin.

And Dublin is not a ****hole.

Yes, but those are the areas that tourists are the most likely to see.

I've never seen people selling heroin or shooting up at 9:30am on the Spanish Steps or at the Eiffel Tower or in Plaza Mayor. Yet I saw this DAILY on the Quays in the heart of Dublin.

I love Dublin, but there's a level of social anarchy that you see in its city center in broad daylight that is generally missing from other European capital cities (or hell American cities for that matter).

Red Hand

southsiderosie wrote: »

Yes, but those are the areas that tourists are the most likely to see.

I've never seen people selling heroin or shooting up at 9:30am on the Spanish Steps or at the Eiffel Tower or in Plaza Mayor. Yet I saw this DAILY on the Quays in the heart of Dublin.

I love Dublin, but there's a level of social anarchy that you see in its city center in broad daylight that is generally missing from other European capital cities (or hell American cities for that matter).

In our stew-pot of culture, the scum rises to the top.:pac:

IvySlayer

southsiderosie wrote: »

Yes, but those are the areas that tourists are the most likely to see.

I've never seen people selling heroin or shooting up at 9:30am on the Spanish Steps or at the Eiffel Tower or in Plaza Mayor. Yet I saw this DAILY on the Quays in the heart of Dublin.

I love Dublin, but there's a level of social anarchy that you see in its city center in broad daylight that is generally missing from other European capital cities (or hell American cities for that matter).

Policing is much tougher over there. As stated above, the Gardaí just won't bother arresting scum due to the hassle involved. Courts just give them a slap on the wrist and off they go.

Personally anyone who is drugged up that much on the streets should be locked up for at least a year to help them get off they drug in the first place.

Pighead

Dublins pretty slimy and stinky alright but there's plenty capital cities worse.

Was in Athens a few years back to check out the ancient ruins and wondrous monuments that were all built before the baby Jesus was even born. Was walking through Athens in wide eyed wonder, absolutely agog at the ancient buildings and crumbling ruins until the tour guide told Pighead that this was actually the city centre and nothing to do with ancient Greece. Absolute kip.

Dudess

LarrytheLantern wrote: »

Collected 3 friends of mine from Canada @ the airport last week.
They were keen to see Dublin so we stopped for a quick look around O'Connell Street, and a few drinks & some bites just off Grafton Street, and the obligatory stroll about Temple Bar etc.

Some days afterwards I asked them what was their impressions of our fair city. They seemed hesitant to reply, so I pushed them for an answer.

Eventually they confessed what a dump they thought Dublin was. And how full of scummers the place is.

I was shocked and more than a bit annoyed.

The weird thing is I hadn't seen it myself.

Time to leave methinks!:(

Yes. The impression three tourists have of Dublin means it's "time to leave".

Trevor451

Dublin would be a great city if we could get rid off all the scumbags :cool:

ejmaztec

Dublin became a sh1thole when the Vikings left.

challengemaster

The only people who don't know how shíte dublin is, are the ones who were born and live there.