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Tallaght - officially worst place to live in the State

  • 20-08-2012 11:57AM
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭


    Tallaght is now officially the worst place in the State to own a house, at least from a security perspective. 50% more burglaries were reported there than the next worst area.

    I see the suburbs of Dundrum and Rathfarnham also make the list. Incidentally, they are both around a ten minute drive from Tallaght.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0820/breaking3.html


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Well at least we're the best at something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    Heh, this'll end well!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Bollox!

    Tallaght has its good and bad parts, just like any other place in the country.

    Name me an area in Ireland, any area, and I bet someone could tell you it has a dodgy part.

    I'm not from Tallaght, but I spend a lot of time in and around it, its no rougher than any other place IMO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i lived in tallaght for over ten years and never had anything stolen from me. tallaght is huge. there are nice parts and rough parts. unfortunately the rough parts bring the rest of the place down.

    incidentally, i moved to clontarf recently and within two weeks of living there, one of the cars was broken into.


    EDIT: magicsean has reminded me of at least one thing that was stolen from me. damn him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    I would rather live in Jobstown than Moyross any day of the week.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    Lies damm lies and statistics. Tallaght is of course huge, so of course it has more burglaries.

    But note this comment in the article:
    Garda sources said some neighbourhoods in south Dublin and other mainly middle-class parts of the State have seen burglary rate shigher than general crime rates in those areas.
    That makes Tallaght middle class I think. Particularly when it's mentioned alongside Dundrum and Rathfarnham. Let's face it there's no pointing breaking into the houses of poor people.

    I think there might be connection to the M50 here. Most of the areas mentioned border it.

    My theory is that it's Northsiders coming down and robbing. Bet they don't pay the toll either.:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    Motorist wrote: »
    Tallaght is now officially the worst place in the State to own a house, at least from a security perspective. 50% more burglaries were reported there than the next worst area.

    I see the suburbs of Dundrum and Rathfarnham also make the list. Incidentally, they are both around a ten minute drive from Tallaght.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0820/breaking3.html

    Do the figures account per population of the Garda catchment? No? Seems to me the most populous areas will have the most incidents generally.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    I would rather live in Jobstown than Moyross any day of the week.

    That's not much of a compliment to Jobstown which is one of the worst examples of residential planning I have ever seen. Rows and rows of housing estates - literally thousands of houses with no proper facilities or green spaces. It's an awful eye sore as you drive back from scenic Wicklow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,156 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Bollox!

    Tallaght has its good and bad parts, just like any other place in the country.

    Name me an area in Ireland, any area, and I bet someone could tell you it has a dodgy part.

    I'm not from Tallaght, but I spend a lot of time in and around it, its no rougher than any other place IMO.
    Dalkey, Killiney, Foxrock? Tallagh no rougher than those? Do they have dodgy areas?
    Millions of small villages that have no dodgy area either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    The other article about Ronnie the burgler was more interesting

    Something to watch for
    You just go up to a gaff, knock on the front door and if someone answers say you want a drink of water or water for the car. If nobody answers, just go round the back and get in.
    Must be the new my cat was in your garden mister

    I don’t do old people’s gaffs,
    You never rob from the working class area you’re from; no way.

    Honour among thieves :rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    Very poor journalism; they use the word "rate" when the figures they show are total amounts per garda station. Tallaght has more people than Limerick or Galway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Clondalkin's not on the list? Yay! Suck it Blanchardstown!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭saiint


    My girlfriend lives in
    Fettercairn
    one of the worse places in Tallaght
    have to say if you went into them estates youd see why tallaght has its bad name
    nothing but muppets on every corner, the smell of weed is in the air
    theirs more weed then oxygen
    guarda everywere but do feck all about the kids standing on corners acting mad
    cars burnin around corners you can smell the rubber off the wheels
    drug dealing done in broad daylight in the middle of fields
    i actually know several places where drug dealers hide their stash because thats shows how much control the guarda have on the area
    i could have over a hundred grand worth of drugs in my hand this afternoon if i wanted
    constant shootings,knife attacks , knackers jumping on random people for their phone ( i actually know someone who is going back into the joy in a couple of months ) he actually said to me
    *i go to a park, see anyone walking by me with a nice phone, give them a smack , get their phone and money or what ever they have on them, sell it and save up for money so i can have money in the joy*

    he said one day he hit some fella, the fella start crying , he asked for the poor fellas phone, it was a blockia a really old old phone, he just said to the poor youngfella *heres your phone back dont let anyone hit ya*

    sad fecker haha
    Tallaght is by far the worse area ive ever been to , its like the joy ina way its were all the mad lads go haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Tallaght is bigger than most of the so called citys we have in this country and like every city it has its problems


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    mitosis wrote: »
    Do the figures account per population of the Garda catchment? No? Seems to me the most populous areas will have the most incidents generally.

    Correct. This is a misleading piece of data manipulation which makes no account of population in each Garda station catchment area. Dreadful reporting by The Irish Times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Dalkey, Killiney, Foxrock? Tallagh no rougher than those? Do they have dodgy areas?
    Millions of small villages that have no dodgy area either.

    Tallaght is a big place.

    I'm sure Dalkey and Killiney and even Foxrock have dodgy parts to them. (or at the very least dodgy people living in them)

    To say 'Tallaght' is rough, is like saying Ireland is rough.

    You cant let a small minority of thugs bring down a whole area like Tallaght.

    Does Blackrock have a thug or two living in it? I'd assume it has.
    Cant tar the whole place with the one brush though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Dalkey, Killiney, Foxrock? Tallagh no rougher than those? Do they have dodgy areas?
    Millions of small villages that have no dodgy area either.
    They all do, not so much dodgy areas as dodgy pockets of dodgy people. Dublin 4 has it's fair share of dodgy areas too.

    Even really nice towns and villages have their crime sprees. In one midland small town lately a certain individual got out of prison and immediately there was a spate of burglaries in the town and surrounds. He was caught again along with associates. CCTV caught him. The local CCTV and alarm specialist made a small fortune of late.

    But certain towns in this country are worse than anything you get anywhere in Dublin. But you never hear of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    FatherLen wrote: »
    i lived in tallaght for over ten years and never had anything stolen from me. tallaght is huge. there are nice parts and rough parts. unfortunately the rough parts bring the rest of the place down.

    incidentally, i moved to clontarf recently and within two weeks of living there, one of the cars was broken into.

    Wasn't your moped stolen in Tallaght?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    saiint wrote: »
    My girlfriend lives in
    Fettercairn
    one of the worse places in Tallaght
    have to say if you went into them estates youd see why tallaght has its bad name
    nothing but muppets on every corner, the smell of weed is in the air
    theirs more weed then oxygen
    guarda everywere but do feck all about the kids standing on corners acting mad
    cars burnin around corners you can smell the rubber off the wheels
    drug dealing done in broad daylight in the middle of fields
    i actually know several places where drug dealers hide their stash because thats shows how much control the guarda have on the area
    i could have over a hundred grand worth of drugs in my hand this afternoon if i wanted
    constant shootings,knife attacks , knackers jumping on random people for their phone ( i actually know someone who is going back into the joy in a couple of months ) he actually said to me
    *i go to a park, see anyone walking by me with a nice phone, give them a smack , get their phone and money or what ever they have on them, sell it and save up for money so i can have money in the joy*

    he said one day he hit some fella, the fella start crying , he asked for the poor fellas phone, it was a blockia a really old old phone, he just said to the poor youngfella *heres your phone back dont let anyone hit ya*

    sad fecker haha
    Tallaght is by far the worse area ive ever been to , its like the joy ina way its were all the mad lads go haha

    We still talking about Tallaght or Baltimore from The Wire?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Ah well
    Couldn't care what people say
    I'm proud of where I live ( probably cuz I'm
    Not in the bad parts of tallaght) but all areas have they good areas and bad
    The top end of tallaght is a disgrace tho


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Dave0301 wrote: »
    We still talking about Tallaght or Baltimore from The Wire?

    Hamsterdam :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Dave0301 wrote: »
    We still talking about Tallaght or Baltimore from The Wire?

    I think a lot of people would be surprised at how true to life that show is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,053 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    The biggest areas have the highest figures. What moronic reporting is this?

    I would question why someone would write such a poor article with this heading. They could have used a different title and done some analysis of the figures. I think I would be asking my local politicians to put some pressure on the paper for this kinda crud.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Tallaght is bigger than most of the so called citys we have in this country and like every city it has its problems

    Tallaght has more problems than any city I know in the country. The crime figures back this up. Limerick has a bad rep and it doesn't come close to Tallaght's statistics. Limerick and Derry are roughly the same size and Galway just slightly smaller and while I know Derry is technically a different jurisdiction and I have no figures to back it up, I'd suggest that the crime rate there is much lower aswell.

    I'm not slagging Tallaght off, I know some nice areas there and some lovely people from it, but at the end of the day, the area has an undeniable problem and there's no point in trying to ignore that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    MagicSean wrote: »
    I think a lot of people would be surprised at how true to life that show is.

    Oh I know it's renown for it's realism and that's part of why I like it so much. I've lived in Ballymun and worked in Ballyfermot so can't give too much of an opinion on Tallaght but the description above struck me as something more akin from The Wire!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    MagicSean wrote: »
    Wasn't your moped stolen in Tallaght?

    ha balls completely forgot about that. and it wasn't a moped, it was a huge massive really fast motorbike.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭fran oconnor


    Ah well
    Couldn't care what people say
    I'm proud of where I live ( probably cuz I'm
    Not in the bad parts of tallaght) but all areas have they good areas and bad
    The top end of tallaght is a disgrace tho
    I'm 32 and have lived here all my life, i have seen some bad stuff happan down through the years, but i have also grown up around some very decent people, at this stage i dont think id live anywhere else.

    I dont get the way they do these stats tho, we have one Garda station for the population of a city ffs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    saiint wrote: »
    i actually know several places where drug dealers hide their stash because thats shows how much control the guarda have on the area
    i could have over a hundred grand worth of drugs in my hand this afternoon if i wanted


    You know the exact location of a six figure quantity of someone elses drugs hidden in a field?

    Do you fcuk.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    Random intresting fact - A branch of Domino’s located in the Square shopping centre is the busiest of its 8,000 stores worldwide, apparently selling up to 200 pizzas an hour. The branch is the first in Domino’s 45-year history to hit a turnover of $3m (€2.35m) a year. The chain says that requires 1m pizzas a year or an eye-watering three a minute for every one of the 12 hours a day the branch is open.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    saiint wrote: »
    My girlfriend lives in
    Fettercairn
    one of the worse places in Tallaght blah blah nonsense nosense

    Well I can tell you that the level of education there is at a much higher level than where ever you're from, so at least they have a good chance of making something of themselves instead of planning to rob mystery stashes.


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