Is Dublin really safe? *Read OP for mod warning*

joeymcg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621715#Comment_122621715

He was probably a Dub.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621715#Comment_122621715

It has been noted that the ring leaders tend to have English and dublin accents, jackeens on tour.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621649#Comment_122621649

Again, nothing exclusive to the Capital or other Capitals. Did you hear about the American family that had their house in Galway burnt out for no reason other than a rumour it was earmarked for refugees? Have you heard about other burnings throughout the country from Donegal to Cork? There's loads of them happening.

Dano650

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621813#Comment_122621813

Were Gardai attacked at these protests or shops looted 🤔

Dano650

He probably was a Dub 😁.Weren't some of them from Coolock protesting up in the North

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621892#Comment_122621892

When I said not exclusive to other capitols I meant riots are commonplace in any large European city. Much more common than in Dublin. Frequently police are killed by rioters in Mainland Europe. Indeed when the riot broke out in Dublin many of my foreign friends were surprised that we hadn't really experienced any since the Love Ulster fiasco. In saying all this I don't condemn rioting and have a particular hate for those who try and destroy our beautiful capital.

Augme

Liv8ng in the country is fantastic for those who have a more simpletistic mindset and want a simple life. Not everyone wants to eat in the same restaurant for the rest of their life and who's definition of "art" is watching the local gaa team. Some people see beyond that though, and that's where city life appeals to them.

joeymcg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622419#Comment_122622419

Living in the country in Ireland anyway allows a a lot of people more bang for their buck. So country people can and do go abroad and eat in restaurants on the continent/further afield.

Why spend your holiday money in an overpriced urban environment where you're lucky of you have a garden when your circumstances allow living in the countryside

AllForIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622419#Comment_122622419

It's 2024, not 1924. We have smelly Subways down here in the bog too you know.

Lofidelity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622419#Comment_122622419

What an ignorant comment

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622605#Comment_122622605

I agree. He forgot to add "bog snorkling".

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622605#Comment_122622605

a whole thread devoted to how much everyone hates dublin and its people and you're offended by that lol

The Nal

And "Welly munching".

thereiver

There are people sitting outside some shops with. a cup I think they are homeless. You can't just look at someone and say that's a drug addict .

Lofidelity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622633#Comment_122622633

I'm not talking about the whole thread.

Only your buddy's ignorant, condescending comment.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622419#Comment_122622419

Epic fail there chief but I admire the attempt 🙂

Augme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622462#Comment_122622462

From what I see, most small town country people don't actually go on holiday outside of Ireland, and when they do, they just go to the nearest Irish bar every night of the week.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622562#Comment_122622562

Something to compete with supermacs I guess.

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621468#Comment_122621468

Thats still a small area of the city. The north inner city does have its issues, everyone knows that. But its a small part of Dublin and only relevant if you live there. Otherwise there is no need to go there.

Most of coastal Dublin, which is much larger than the areas you describe, is generally lovely. Never seen a scrambler around there and barely a tracksuit, outside of a gym. :)

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623354#Comment_122623354

Another fail. Have you been drinking Augme? Do you know what year it is?

Dano650

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623404#Comment_122623404

Oh I know there are beautiful parts of Dublin. Malahide, Portmarnock and Howth etc. The Howth cliff walk is lovely on a beautiful sunny day

Dano650

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623354#Comment_122623354

So most small town country people don't holiday outside of Ireland. That must be the dumbest comment of the year. So its only Dubs that mainly holiday outside Ireland and when they do they don't hit the bar every night 🙄

Quitelife

Dublin is probably safer than parts of the country that are going through traveller feuds which are becoming more and more common across Ireland , towns like Longford , Mullingar seemed to have non stop feuds but smaller towns are becoming more and more impacted often in towns with closed or downgraded garda stations .
what’s going on in Charleville Co cork and Kilmallock Co Limerick the last few months wouldn’t be tolerated in any other EU state . People who get everything for free destroying towns for all the law abiding people . It’s only when feuds end up in murder like the carry on at that funeral in Tralee last year that the judges do anything.

Baba Yaga

its not just dublin though,as said above quite a few areas/villages/towns/cities have serious problems…we need more gards,we need all the stations that were closed/down-graded re-opened,we need more prison space and we need more judges that will do their jobs…

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622419#Comment_122622419

Scrotery is an art form too.

ArthurDayne

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622419#Comment_122622419

One of the other things I love about this whole conversation as well is how relative it is. Dublin is the mega metropolis of Ireland of course, and so Irish conversations about rural / town life versus the concrete jungle pretty much centre on Rest of Country versus Dublin. But this tends to ignore the fact that on a global level, Dublin is actually pretty small and even from the very centre of the city you are actually not far from countryside at all. You're a hop on the Dart and a short walk away from the Howth cliffs. Within 30km there are many beaches and mountain / forest walks from Clogherhead in Louth all the way to the Wicklow Mountains. The West Coast is a couple of hours drive away — which in, say, American terms is next door.

Go 30km from the centre of London and you've barely made it beyond the M25 ring road. In many other countries, cities themselves are connected by what are effectively endless urban areas. In global terms, Dublin is more like a big town in a rural setting.

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122624208#Comment_122624208

Yep. My experience from friends & work colleagues is most that live in the north inner city have a negative view of Dublin. Most that live in DLR have a very positive view of Dublin.

People living in other parts of the city are a mixed bag, but still generally depending on whether their area is affluent or not.

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622462#Comment_122622462

Most of Dublin is very accessible to the countryside, beaches and mountains. A rare thing in a capital city.

There are plenty of homes in Dublin with gardens. Some of the best restaurants in the continent are in Dublin.

There are plenty of people in Dublin who eat out locally in restaurants and holiday abroad, multiple times per year. The best of both worlds.

Problem with down the country on that front is that there is obviously very limited choice of restaurants at home.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122624626#Comment_122624626

I've always found Dublin to be just a load of up small towns and junctions that got joined up in the car sprawl era of the 1960s onwards.

For actual city/cosmopolitan planning you have to go back to the expansion of the tram and local train network, but as the car dominance grew those old bones were mostly discarded and now in recent decades trams have been reintroduced as a corrective measure simply to reverse vehicle congestion.

It's interesting to see repeatedly in this discussion how defense of Dublin is centred around "my suburb is grand" which considering how congested Dublin is simply means "my town within the Dublin sprawl is fine", and I get that. But it highlights how Dublin while having townlike communities is still a failure as a joined up city.

So when someone compares Dublin to another Irish urban area they're usually citing their own patch in Dublin and not Dublin city. I had a friend living in Terenure when I was living in Kilkenny and we agreed to meet up at Dublin airport, but it took us about the same length of time on public transport to get there. Both routes had hourly options and we were travelling between the rush hours. My friend only needed to take one bus, whereas I needed one transfer, and yet we both got there in the same time. That's just bonkers for a "city"!

Most of the modern Dublin public infrastructure planning is simply undoing the damage done by car led planning since the trams were torn up.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122624704#Comment_122624704

Don't forget that the only windsurfing possible in Ireland is in Dublin bay, because of all the hot air.

Deebles McBeebles

Can everyone please stop discussing Dublin in this thread about Dublin. It's triggering some of the Dubs.