Most dangerous and anti social housing estate in Ireland

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

I feel I'm under informed on this. Can we do a nationwide tour of the 100 worst estates and then convene for a vote?

New TV show idea for rte.

Don't know if sprawling apartment complexes properly count as "estates", but the large group of blocks on your left as you walk Northwards along Basin Street are properly terrifying after dark, as is most of the surrounding area. Fights, random verbal abuse of passers by, fires, the place is like a feckin' war zone (or at least it was back in and around 2014-15). Surprisingly quiet during the day for somewhere that goes to utter sh!t at night, such that I used to use it as a shortcut before making the mistake of walking through it on my way home from a sesh.

Another one which comes to mind not too far away form these was Teresa's Gardens on Donore Avenue, I never lived near it myself but some of my friends had a rented gaff directly beside it on Darley's Terrace and let's just say you found out fairly quickly how a lovely two story house could be so beautifully affordable for rent! There was a recording and practise studio down the road (Unit 1) and in the first few weeks of college in 2011, the college eventually had to issue a warning to students to access that studio by the longer route through New Row South and all the way around by Sandford Avenue - people were getting regularly mugged for their instruments when walking past the estate if taking the much quicker route through Donore Avenue. In the house I mentioned, one night comes to mind in which we were heading to a gig, a bass player parked his car outside the house for literally two minutes so he could knock on the door for us all to come outside and get in the car, he stepped into the gaff to help carry instruments out and once we got back outside, the car's windows had been smashed and his guitar was gone.

It's currently in the process of being demolished, but... Damn.

People who've worked with the Gardaí have told me that it was the layout of the place which made it so particularly dangerous as opposed to others - there was only one entrance route in and out of it, between two blocks, and then the rest of the state was laid out in a repeating "T" shape, with only one ingress and egress route straight down the middle. So the Gardaí were apparently terrified of driving fully into it as their cars would get surrounded and they'd have no escape route except back the way they came. As a result, they generally manned an almost 24/7 checkpoint just outside it for the entire time I was in college in the area, but it didn't stop people hopping over the wall onto Eugene Street, with the gap in the wall to hop over unfortunately coinciding directly with my friends' gaff. Total nightmare.

The Nal wrote: »

By a mile the biggest kip in the country. O'Malley Park in particular. Like Ballymun in the mid 90s.

Look at the cut of this.

St mels in athlone was just like that and there would be riots etc https://www.irishtimes.com/news/14-people-remanded-after-riot-in-athlone-1.55573

Limerick Council need to completely raze that to the ground

partyguinness wrote: »

Having grown up in the countryside, my parents large self build detached house is in the middle of protected woodland. We cannot see other houses, own water supply, cannot see or hear other traffic and on a private road. But yet only 15 minutes walk to shop and pubs and main road.

Housing estates are an alien concept to me and generally fill me with horror and confusion that large swathes of the population live if such third world conditions.

And to think city folk like to call us culchies. It is a compliment. You live on a council estate ffs....or some wankly named Celtic Tiger housing estate negative equity ****show.

Oh yeah....(takes giant smug nasal inhalation)..:D

So you live such an isolated existence you don't know what a 3rd world standard is. Have you ever travelled outside of the country and seen how people live elsewhere?

When we call you culchies it is precisely because when we talk to you guys you are clueless if the world outside your subsidised bubble.

You are confused by housing estates! You think they are either all council estates or new builds. The weird thing is there are estates of all types all around the country and hou seem to be unaware of them.

Fine that your parents provided you with that but what have you managed to provide for yourself? You sound no different to a rich kid talking about what they were given as if they did something to get it.

I am quite happy living in an area with multiple options of everything close by. Kids have multiple schools to choose from and options for their future close by

TheShow wrote: »

That was Fortunestown.

Half of the lads were from Jobstown. One lad who lived in Santry which was a long walk in the snow.

They knocked over the Centra in Jobstown that night too.

An Post stopped delivering to Mac Uilliam estate in Jobstown this year. I used to live beside it. Its a total kip.