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is Darndale that bad??

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  • #32
    Chris_Heilong
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    Very depressing doc, I used to have to walk by this place on my way to school, I have not lived in Coolock for over 20 years but I heard it had gotten better, Guess I heard wrong.


  • #33
    Ray Palmer
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    wexie wrote: »
    Perhaps not but we now know what happens when you put all social housing in one area?

    And it would seem we can't expect corporations to build social housing, aside from the fact I'm not so sure it's something that should be left to 'the market' or done for profit.

    We also know what happens when you put social housing in private developments. IFSC has a running battle with the social housing tenants disregard for other residents.

    I know people who sold their homes and moved because of them.

    To deny the problems with social housing tenants doesn't help. They are a problem because they don't work for what they get


  • #34
    Ginger83
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    What a kip. Imagine admitting you are from there.


  • #35
    jimmycrackcorm
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    wexie wrote:
    No the government should build social housing, they should just do it properly and integrate it with other types of housing rather than building it all in the same place. That's how you create ghetto's.


    All you get from that policy is a small number of people causing havoc in otherwise good private estates

    The real issue is the unwillingness to remove troublemakers


  • #36
    super_furry
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    It's 'colourful'.

    Mostly sh1te-brown and blood red.


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  • #37
    w/s/p/c/
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    My aunt and uncle had a house there for a few years back in the 80's and I remember visiting as a kid, there was nothing to do. They moved out 1990 and he always said it was the best thing he ever did was buying their new house and getting out of there.

    Asking is it that bad? Go there on the lead up to Halloween and on Halloween night and I am sure that will show you how bad the anti social behaviour gets. I lived down the road in Clarehall for 5 years and used to see it up close.


  • #38
    murpho999
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    So many people calling it a kip.

    "Kip" in Dutch means "Chicken". Wonder if that confused the Dutch film makers.


  • #39
    Graces7
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    There is a darndale documentary on youtube.. Watched part of it way back....


  • #40
    Feisar
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    Ginger83 wrote: »
    What a kip. Imagine admitting you are from there.

    Yer from where yer from, nothing one can really do about it.

    It's where you are going that matters.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #41
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    As someone who's worked in both coolock and the largest urban slum in Africa I'd feel safer walking around Kibera at night time that I would walking around Darndale.

    As someone who has served in both the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon I feel safer walking around the streets of Beirut unarmed day or night than I would in Darndale armed to the teeth (as I was in Lebanon).


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  • #42
    Alkers
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    It's improved significantly in the past few years but I'd still have my reservations. Even the lamposts are armoured!


  • #43
    wexie
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    Simona1986 wrote: »
    Even the lamposts are armoured!

    that's a joke right?

    is it? :eek:


  • #44
    Alkers
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    wexie wrote: »
    that's a joke right?

    is it? :eek:

    Loads of them seem to have been recently upgraded to LED but here's a sample old one.
    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4019687,-6.1971834,3a,35.8y,261.91h,102.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjnkWZVUYQOtmsXW6KJGZhA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192


  • #45
    neris
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    Simona1986 wrote: »
    Loads of them seem to have been recently upgraded to LED but here's a sample old one.
    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4019687,-6.1971834,3a,35.8y,261.91h,102.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjnkWZVUYQOtmsXW6KJGZhA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

    the only upgrading the lamp posts in darndale get is a new dublin flag every year before the gaa season


  • #46
    Gravelly
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    Simona1986 wrote: »
    Loads of them seem to have been recently upgraded to LED but here's a sample old one.
    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4019687,-6.1971834,3a,35.8y,261.91h,102.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjnkWZVUYQOtmsXW6KJGZhA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

    Jesus. I've been all over the world, and I have literally never seen that before.


  • #47
    ohnonotgmail
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    Simona1986 wrote: »
    Loads of them seem to have been recently upgraded to LED but here's a sample old one.
    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4019687,-6.1971834,3a,35.8y,261.91h,102.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjnkWZVUYQOtmsXW6KJGZhA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192


    I dont get it. It is a standard metal lamppost that you can see all over dublin.


  • #48
    Gravelly
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    I dont get it. It is a standard metal lamppost that you can see all over dublin.

    With a cage around the lamp?


  • #49
    ohnonotgmail
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    Gravelly wrote: »
    With a cage around the lamp?


    Ah i thought it was the lamppost itself that was "amoured".


  • #50
    wexie
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Gravelly wrote: »
    With a cage around the lamp?


    Ah i thought it was the lamppost itself that was "amoured".

    Well...it could be, it's hard to tell from the outside how a lamppost is doing emotionally

    :pac:


  • #51
    Ipso
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    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Does the Hilton hotel around the corner still disown Darndale and claim to be an airport hotel :D

    It's on the Malahide Road, dear.


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  • #52
    harry Bailey esq
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    Alias G wrote: »
    Are there no ghettos in the Netherlands that he could have profiled?

    He did. Show is called probleemwijk. (Bad Neighbourboods)
    This is from a spin off called buitenwijk. (Bad foreigners/outsiders neighbourhoods)


  • #53
    theteal
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    Simona1986 wrote: »
    Loads of them seem to have been recently upgraded to LED but here's a sample old one.
    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4019687,-6.1971834,3a,35.8y,261.91h,102.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjnkWZVUYQOtmsXW6KJGZhA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

    Is the house behind new or abandoned? Looks decent, be a shame if it’s empty because of, you know, er, being a sh!thole area


  • #54
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Messiah Fancy Rhino wrote: »
    As someone who has served in both the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon I feel safer walking around the streets of Beirut unarmed day or night than I would in Darndale armed to the teeth (as I was in Lebanon).
    That documentary maker is actually from Beirut, and moved to The Netherlands with his family when he was 15 (in 1993). Maybe he had that in mind when he made the programmes in Darndale, Marseilles and Naples.

    Nostalgia, eh?


  • #55
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Simona1986 wrote: »
    Loads of them seem to have been recently upgraded to LED but here's a sample old one.
    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4019687,-6.1971834,3a,35.8y,261.91h,102.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjnkWZVUYQOtmsXW6KJGZhA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

    Where's the blue rope and the car tyre for the swing?


  • #56
    spurious
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    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Is there a subtitled version ?

    You don't really need subs, there is so much English in it.

    It was good they showed a couple of local people standing up to the hands in jocks businessmen, though I dread to think what sort of life the 'rats' (as they called them) have up there.

    The cheek of them wanting a safe and decent place for their kids to grow up/play in.


  • #57
    lertsnim
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    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Is there a subtitled version ?

    Those lads from Darndale are very hard to understand.


  • #58
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    neris wrote: »
    the only upgrading the lamp posts in darndale get is a new dublin flag every year before the gaa season

    And black flags on the anniversary of Bobby Sands death and other IRA gunmen's deaths.


  • #59
    Ginger83
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    Feisar wrote: »
    Yer from where yer from, nothing one can really do about it.

    It's where you are going that matters.

    Eh yer from where yer parents decided to shack up!


  • #60
    LaChatteGitane
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    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    He did. Show is called probleemwijk. (Bad Neighbourboods)
    This is from a spin off called buitenwijk. (Bad foreigners/outsiders neighbourhoods)

    That is not what buitenwijk means. :D Een buitenwijk is just a suburb.


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  • #61
    oceanman
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    neris wrote: »
    the only upgrading the lamp posts in darndale get is a new dublin flag every year before the gaa season
    noting wrong with that..:)


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