werenotthere wrote: » few funny looks driving my car through there a few months ago.
gozunda wrote: » Sound like you experienced a classic time slip there
MarkY91 wrote: » I'm not saying it's the most dangerous place but it's just a dodgy place I visited at the weekend..... We went to Belfast from Dublin for the weekend. Decided to find a kebab shop on Google Sunday evening to bring back to the hotel for the girlfriend and i. I seen one on a street called hope street. Which was a 1 mile walk down a long street (the one with the Europa hotel). So after I got the kebabs, I decided to take a route home that's behind the main streets for the craic . I ended up in a place called sandy row( a friend I know from Belfast said wtf was I doing there? She wouldn't even drive her car through it) there was a pub on the corner with union jacks and Israel flags hanging from it and a baldy man with half of his face tattood. I knew I was ****ed if they knew I'm from Dublin so I did a fast walk past the dodgy bastards. The pub had music pumping at about 8pm on a Sunday. I ended up walking down sandy row which had union jacks and murals everywhere. Nothing happened and I never felt in danger but I knew quite well to keep my mouth shut.
Elliot Faithful Ankle wrote: » This thread makes me really want to visit Southill and Moyross just to see what the hype is about. Sounds awful and it seems to be "winning" as the actual most dodgy place in the whole country here, but I'd love to see it for myself to get some perspective!
Irish_rat wrote: » Complete opposite would be freaked out at night living in the middle of nowhere, it feels safer with some neighbors nearby in an urban area.
DickSwiveller Returns wrote: » The bad parts of Limerick are really, really bad. Moyross, Southill, Weston, St Marys Park etc.
Graces7 wrote: » would not feel safe in a city or town.
hatrickpatrick wrote: » Scariest place I've ever personally been is an area near the Guinness factory late at night,I can't remember which road it was (Basin St, Marrowbone Lane and the School/Summer/Braithewaite Street intersection are all possibilities - I had stumbled drunkenly and phoneless out of a house party on New Earl Street around 4am with the intention of walking home to Dun Laoghaire and promptly gotten lost in an absolute maze of apartment tower blocks ) but there was an all out gang battle going on with young lads throwing sh!t at eachother and setting fire to things. To this day I'm not sure if that was their idea of fun or if there was actual hatred towards eachother but it was feckin' terrifying. The main thing going on was people standing on balconies (open access stairwells so I have no idea if they even lived in the buildings or not - a lot of the apartments were boarded up so possibly scheduled for demolition or a facelift?), setting fire to tennis balls and the like, and then trying to bounce them off the ground and hit people standing on the balconies in opposite buildings. Feckin' mad stuff. Never saw any mention of it in the news which made me wonder if it was a regular occurrence and therefore not newsworthy :eek: It was in and around Arthur's Day, so close enough to Halloween but probably not Halloween related, idk. Autumn does seem to be peak "set everything in sight on fire for the craic" season from September onwards, so that might have been a factor. Wouldn't wander around that stretch at night again in a hurry though. This stuff seemed to be going on across several different streets in the same cluster, all within sight of the Guinness building, so it very much seemed like an organised kind of thing. Do 'gangs' of teenage douchebags still do arranged meetups with the express purpose of having fights? Phone was dead hence no Google maps and no chance to call the Gardai. Eventually after running through several streets for about ten minutes trying to get away from the chaos I miraculously ended up on Cork Street, which I was fully familiar with and could figure out my route home from. Serious way to wake up after a session at which you had just woken up from a drunken slumber On a serious note, it also massively pissed me off that this kind of crap seemed to be going on with total impunity. No sign of any cavalry arriving at least while I was there, which sort of adds weight to the claims that certain areas are just "let go" by the authorities, and therefore these marauding gangs of scumbags can just get away with it without any real retaliation. What always struck me was how tranquil Cork Street was once I arrived on it, if I'd been walking home from a gaff party there that night I wouldn't have had so much as a hint that there was major trouble going on just a five minute walk away. I'd always heard that the city centre was like that, with settled and rough areas directly intersecting with eachother, but this was the most bizarre contrast I've come across in my time. ... This was in the Autumn of either 2013 or 2014, so for all I know the place is totally different now. The boarded up apartments nearby would suggest that some kind of revamp was planned for the area.
McGaggs wrote: » timthumbni wrote: » There has never been a heroin problem in Portrush. You might be thinking of ballymena. I was told there was a dodgy housing estate there on the late 90s with a problem.
timthumbni wrote: » There has never been a heroin problem in Portrush. You might be thinking of ballymena.
Oasis1974 wrote: » The countryside is the most dangerous place and those houses in isolated parts. No policing no lighting lack of basic facilities you can get away with murder literally. Animals in fields attacked not just human beings. Wouldn't be caught dead there no pun intended.
DellyBelly wrote: » Any town in Donegal. Good chance of being killed by boy racers. It's like being in deep South in the US. Full of hicks
Stroke Politics wrote: » We holiday in Ireland every year for a week, the only place we will refuse to bring our three children to is Donegal, purely because of driver behaviour and attitude there. Take a listen to this doc on one from a few years ago...
blade1 wrote: » Anywhere near pylons. I reckon those EMF's aren't the best for you.
corner of hells wrote: » As Berryfield Road, Finglas ? Known by the locals a Battlefield Road . It's calmed down a small bit.
fryup wrote: » Heres Johnny wrote: » Phoenix park this day next week will be dangerous, not that a priest will try to bum you or anything but the fact they are building temporary morgue because they are convinced people will die at it. die of boredom? btw - have you got a link to this?
Heres Johnny wrote: » Phoenix park this day next week will be dangerous, not that a priest will try to bum you or anything but the fact they are building temporary morgue because they are convinced people will die at it.
Big Nasty wrote: » Statistically mustn't have heard of Buncranna
Heres Johnny wrote: » Yep was just going to mention Donegal for driving. For a small unpopulated county they have a lot of deaths. And I know for a fact the insurance premiums up there reflect the stats. .
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