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Have you ever been jumped or mugged while walking in South Dublin?

  • 22-05-2017 10:42PM
    #1
    jeanjolie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 484 ✭✭


    Once in a while, I hear awful stories of some lads I know getting assaulted. Knowing that I'm a minority makes me feel luckier. A guy I know in my school got robbed in Stillorgan during daytime. Another group of Spanish lads got jumped in Cabinteely.

    This was surprising, as I always thought that South Dublin areas were reasonably safe provided you weren't too small, female, walking late at night, and or draw attention by your race or clothing.

    Is it just a chance encounter or are there some 'unsafe' areas even in places like Deansgrange or Blackrock? Also heard for some reason that Dun Laoghaire is not 'unsafe' but 'not safe' if you get what I mean. Lots of neighbours of mine have relatives who get burgled 'regularly'.
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  • #2
    HONKEY TONK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭HONKEY TONK


    It can happen on every Street in Ìreland


  • #3
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,455 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    I thought it just happened on the North side.

    I am of course joking.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    Once in a while, I hear awful stories of some lads I know getting assaulted. Knowing that I'm a minority makes me feel luckier. A guy I know in my school got robbed in Stillorgan during daytime. Another group of Spanish lads got jumped in Cabinteely.

    This was surprising, as I always thought that South Dublin areas were reasonably safe provided you weren't too small, female, walking late at night, and or draw attention by your race or clothing.

    Is it just a chance encounter or are there some 'unsafe' areas even in places like Deansgrange or Blackrock? Also heard for some reason that Dun Laoghaire is not 'unsafe' but 'not safe' if you get what I mean. Lots of neighbours of mine have relatives who get burgled 'regularly'.

    What an odd post is south Dublin some sort of fabled place of safety and untold wealth.


  • #5
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Yes in Knockylon and in Tallaght.


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What a ridiculous notion. Muggings, robberies, or attacks can happen in any street of any town in the country; indeed in any country.

    Do you sit thinking up this kind of thing?


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    No, never. Always felt safe in Stillorgan


  • #8
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    This was surprising, as I always thought that South Dublin areas were reasonably safe provided you weren't too small, female, walking late at night, and or draw attention by your race or clothing.

    Is it cos I is black?

    How does someone 'draw attention to themselves by race' some-sort of native dance?

    Good to heat SCD is perfectly save as long as you're white, male and dress correctly.


  • #9
    Beyondgone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    Jake Cuddly Voodoo wrote: »
    What a ridiculous notion. Muggings, robberies, or attacks can happen in any street of any town in the country; indeed in any country.

    Do you sit thinking up this kind of thing?

    Even Dalkey? :eek: Surely you jest.


  • #10
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    mariaalice wrote: »
    What an odd post is south Dublin some sort of fabled place of safety and untold wealth.

    'The legendary 46A'...


  • #11
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Oh and...

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/revealed-crime-figures-show-middleclass-suburbs-hit-by-wave-of-public-order-offences-34244705.html


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  • #12
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,587 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    'The legendary 46A'...

    A drunk on that bus told me how to get rich


  • #13
    cruais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭cruais


    Wow! Generalizing at its finest OP.

    Places are the same world over. You have the good and the bad areas...regardless of the silly north/south side divide

    Use your common sense and have your wits about you.

    Good and bad people everywhere.

    PS I am a Northsider. Ya better watch out, I might mug you. FFS


  • #14
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Collie D wrote: »
    A drunk on that bus told me how to get rich

    I was glad we weren't going too far.


  • #15
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    No.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #16
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Collie D wrote: »
    A drunk on that bus told me how to get rich

    Did you?

    I work in D4 and I have to say the pressure is kept on 24/7. You go for a stroll along the canal to unwind and women are constantly asking if 'I'm looking for business'. Worse than my boss frankly.


  • #17
    gitzy16v
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭gitzy16v


    Yes


  • #18
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Yes, was mugged in Blackrock. Not too far from the Garda station actually. A group of guys came up to me and said "give me your phone". I handed it to them without hesitation, wasnt interested in any trouble. Asked for my Sim Card back and they gave it to me.

    I was only 18 at the time and didnt report it. I probably should have as the Garda probably would have gotten it back in a few minutes.

    I haven't been assaulted in my adult life. A few incidents in my teenage years, one quite badly by the same person that bet up that Autistic man in Bray. Again, I should have reported it to the Garda.


  • #19
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Once, after a match.

    I got charged 6.50 for a pint.


  • #20
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Mugged once in south Dublin and held up in work on one occasion, also south Dublin. Shock horror the second person was actually from south Dublin himself!


  • #21
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Thankfully not.


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  • #22
    riemann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Mugged once in south Dublin and held up in work on one occasion, also south Dublin. Shock horror the second person was actually from south Dublin himself!

    Never been mugged and been in some awful states all over the city. Lucky I guess.

    Poster is correct re South Dublin, feels much safer than the North. Lived in both places, no comparison.


  • #23
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,455 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Beyondgone wrote: »
    Jake Cuddly Voodoo wrote: »
    What a ridiculous notion. Muggings, robberies, or attacks can happen in any street of any town in the country; indeed in any country.

    Do you sit thinking up this kind of thing?

    Even Dalkey? :eek: Surely you jest.

    Worse thing that happened to me in Dalkey was being challenged to a duel. Suffice it to say, I had the last laugh.


  • #24
    jeanjolie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 484 ✭✭jeanjolie


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Mugged once in south Dublin and held up in work on one occasion, also south Dublin. Shock horror the second person was actually from south Dublin himself!

    What did the work hold up involve?


  • #25
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    What did the work hold up involve?

    Threatened with a particularly sharp piece of quiche.


  • #26
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    What did the work hold up involve?

    A guy came into the office and held it to a staff members throat, demanded cash.


  • #27
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    Threatened with a particularly sharp piece of quiche.

    Lorraine?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #28
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Had my bag snatched outside a cafe on the south city centre.


  • #29
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    I was getting off the bus in Templeogue a few years ago. I took my last beer outta my pocket and from nowhere a scummer was trying to start me for it. We had a bit of a scuffle but I got to keep my can and he disappeared as quick as he arrived.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #30
    reason vs religion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭reason vs religion


    mariaalice wrote: »
    What an odd post is south Dublin some sort of fabled place of safety and untold wealth.
    HONKEY TONK wrote: »
    It can happen on every Street in Ìreland
    Jake Cuddly Voodoo wrote: »
    What a ridiculous notion. Muggings, robberies, or attacks can happen in any street of any town in the country; indeed in any country.

    Do you sit thinking up this kind of thing?

    What a trite response, guys. No one thinks it's fundamentally impossible to happen on some streets.

    The North-South dichotomy is obviously false, but in places like Dalkey, Sandycove, Malahide, etc, being jumped or mugged is actually an irregular occurrence!


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  • #31
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    I'm a small woman who has walked late at night in south dublin. I've never been as much as looked at crossways there, or in any other city or town I've been in anywhere in the world.

    Does that mean nothing ever happens to anyone in any town or city? Nope.


    (actually, just remembered one place I was....waterford city. Had to get the bouncers in the bar to get us a taxi because we were being started on for absolutely no reason, myself and another girl. I don't brand waterford for it though!).


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