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

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333804#Comment_123333804

Temple bar has always been more expensive than everywhere else.

Cocaine is all over ireland and Europe, people like cocaine, but I never see fights in town at night these days, I feel like you'd always see them when I first started going out in the late 90s.

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333812#Comment_123333812

Defo more fights in the 90s yeah. Huge groups of lads boozed up on cheap piss. Linden Village and the like.

The Temple Bar prices are quite damaging. Not sure if people fully understand the perception that pub has on the city abroad. Its become some weird shrine post covid.

As for coke, we're the 4th biggest users globally. Really really not good. What a **** drug too.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333847#Comment_123333847

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/11/how-big-is-europes-cocaine-problem-and-what-is-the-human-cost

It's Europe wide. Coke gets old pretty fast alright.

Rocket_GD

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333724#Comment_123333724

I don't get it at all, I paid €14 for a pint overlooking the bell tower in Bruges square. We had one pint each and then left to a less touristy area and it was still €8. You're going to pay silly money in the tourist traps, it's hardly news.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333804#Comment_123333804

The survey doesn't really give much information though, it just says that 24% of males under 25 had reported to have taken cocaine in the last year, that could have been a one time thing or every week, we don't know from that survey.

Dublin this weekend was absolutely gorgeous, suns was shining, all parks flooded with families, thousands of Leinster and Harlequins fans on Sat for the match, streets packed with people enjoying pints in the sun. Was out all day/night on Saturday and didn't see one ounce of trouble.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333865#Comment_123333865

Yeah it was absolutely heaving this weekend. Spent the day by the canal and in merrion square yesterday, just gorgeous. My area had a huge influx of leinster fans. How many were attacked if it's so unsafe? The hysteria is just nonsense, the problem is lots of people are lapping it up.

Rocket_GD

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333847#Comment_123333847

Temple Bar prices aren't damaging in the slightest, it's literally a tourist attraction. Tonnes of young people from England are getting cheap flights to Dublin for day trips just to flock to The Temple Bar and the Temple Bar area and spend the day in the pubs and get the last flight home. It's all over social media.

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333865#Comment_123333865

People still have a right to be pissed off with tourist traps.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333877#Comment_123333877

Yep, cracking atmosphere in Dublin over the weekend. The city was absolutely buzzing, packed with people eating, drinking, touring, and just enjoying the capital. But sure, you’ll still have people insisting every single one of them was in immediate danger!

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123333885#Comment_123333885

Yes have seen that. They dont stay here because the hotels are so expensive.

I've spoken to people from Manchester and Paris in the last month who said they won't be rushing back, as much as they loved Dublin, due to the price of going out for a few drinks and some food.

Of course when I asked where they went out they said "Mainly Temple Bar".

Hopefully Stonybatter, Capel St, Camden St et al can start taking some more tourism without ripping them off.

Rocket_GD

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123334795#Comment_123334795

Ye but also many people don't do city breaks to the same city over and over again as it's literally the law of diminishing returns. I loved Krakow but I wouldn't be rushing back to it anytime soon as I've been there and saw a lot of what I wanted and it was dirt cheap. There's just too many more cities that I'd want to visit.

Temple Bar itself is the attraction, majority of tourists don't want Stoney batter/Capel St if it's their first visit, it's the same as people going to Las Ramblas, not frequented by locals (apart from pick pockets) but flocked to by tourists.

dublinman1990

This video about safety in Dublin from The Irish Mirror came up on my Youtube feed yesterday.

https://youtu.be/5beQRGQH1ZI?si=mzFfw-fbEPnmp4ua

There were some positives from 2 ladies speaking to the reporter in it.

But most of the sentiments from other people talking to him about being safe in Dublin as you would expect were pretty negative. The biggest negatives in it were the night time robberies from young lads on electric scooters, the stabbings, the anti-social behaviour from teenagers etc. But some people were saying that all of those crimes had happened during the daytime hours as well. It doesn't paint a great picture of Dublin at the moment.

If Jim O'Callaghan had the opportunity to watch this video from our own citizens who frequent the capital on a day to day basis; I would have a feeling that he wouldn't be surprised at the comments expressed from them that Dublin is not really in a great place that it was before. There are problems occurring in Dublin that do need to be sorted out asap.

I used to frequent Dublin City Centre with my mam on numerous occasions before Covid. But now since the riots occurred in 2023; I don't go in there anymore. If I went into Dublin City Centre now in 2025; I probably would seize up & have a severe panic attack if someone came up & tried to attack me with a weapon at any time I would go in there.

If other people shared the same sentiments as me about how they would feel about going into Dublin at this point in time; it wouldn't mark me out as being alone when we are talking this worsening situation in our own capital city.

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123336538#Comment_123336538

I probably would seize up & have a severe panic attack if someone came up & tried to attack me with a weapon at any time I would go in there

You'll be alright, chances of anything like that happening are little to none.

Dano650

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Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123336607#Comment_123336607

yeah i was in Brno once in Czechia, not much more people there than Cork but far nicer in every way. Our urban areas countrywide do not compare with central European countries, it's not just a dublin thing, we've a long way to go.

kravmaga

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123211991#Comment_123211991

Well I would not be walking around Dublin city in the usual crime hot spots after dark on my own.

Groups of feral teenagers active on e bikes, scooters, street drinking, shop-lifting is out of control, shops don't bother reporting it anymore so the CSO stats are under reported.

In a city in decline since Covid. You would convince me otherwise that Dublin is a safe city in 2025.

People just don,t feel safe in there capital city anymore.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/only-1-3-people-feel-31468832

dublinman1990

A gun was pointed to a Dublin Bus driver's face in Mountjoy Square on Friday night.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-bus-driver-gun-pointed-31474414?int_source=nba

It happened around 11pm that night when a man came up to the bus to board it when it was out of service. The bus driver at the time of this incident was an non-Irish national. The driver told the man that he had to leave the vehicle which then lead the man to get into a standoff with the driver while pointing the gun to the driver's face.

As you can read from the headline above, the man then said to the driver 'I'll blow your f**king head off'.

A spokesperson for Dublin Bus has said the driver is still recovering from the incident that took place in Mountjoy Square on Friday night. Dublin Bus have also said that the 7/a & the 13 will not allowed to use the Mountjoy Square terminus after 7pm on Saturday evening until further notice. The 7/a & 13 bus routes once leaving Dublin City Centre after 7pm would depart from stops along O'Connell St & Parnell Square East instead.

Get Real

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123373216#Comment_123373216

How do you prevent a randomer doing something so scummy at any time, any place though?

Dont tell me the man, won't have been arrested many times before and have many previous convictions.

Plus "gun". While I'm not downplaying how scummy it is, most likely a pellet gun, and can't blame the bus driver taking X amount of time off for a work related incident.

The only persons fault it is, is the man who did that. And unless we can plant microchips in people's brains to control their minute by minute action, scumbags are going to scum.

Been going to Dublin 5days a week the last 25 years. At different hours. Bar 2020-2021. Nothing has ever happened me. That's not to say what happens people is acceptable. And my time will probably come. But some incidents that last 60seconds can now be witnessed and seen by 100s of thousands of people.

And what it is now is perception. People might read about or see an Instagram post about a young lad on an escooter stealing a phone. Then, they're in town and see a bunch of young lads on escooters. They come home and say town is unsafe. Did anything happen them? No.

Again, I acknowledge there is an increase in scumminess about town. But 1) it's by people who have been dealt with by the justice system before and 2) it's broadcast to a much wider audience so I can view it in my armchair and form an opinion on the place, without anything actually ever having happened to me.

Go to town and head along the street at random times, Northside or southside and record for a week. I'd wager a terribly small amount of all the footage you gathered there'll be a crime happening in it. But it's that snippet that will be viral.

Dublin has many positives. And 100s of thousands come here and give good reviews and feedback. There's videos of same all over social media. But they're not as clickable or viral. And don't have anywhere near the amount of shares or comments to reach the algorithms.

The ones that do reach front of page, it's not as if they haven't been dealt with before. And that's a systemic issue.