Gangland Shootings part 4 - Read OP before posting

soiseztomabel wrote: »

The Freewheelers, a bunch of fat lads in waist coats

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I've been meaning to ask someone about this! So Margaret Kennedy Road is essentially the new St Teresa's Gardens from what I can tell, or at least it's the first block in the new estate. I just thought construction wasn't anywhere near finished there yet? On Google Maps it very much still looks like a building site, but I don't know how often those 3D satellite photos get updated?

That was one scaaaaary place back in the day. I used to go to college in the area and I remember naively making a thread here asking why my older relatives kept warning me to be extra careful going to and from friends' gaffs living around that part of the Barn, one of the lads had a lovely two storey gaff just behind Lidl on Cork Street which had absolutely f*ck all rent on it The burglaries started almost immediately after we started hanging out there, and the sound of late night shouting matches and Garda sirens was a multiple-times-every-night kind of thing. Was definitely the kind of place you didn't walk through after dark, no matter where you were trying to get to from Darleys or Eugene St you doubled back up Cork St and around, no way in hell would you walk down that end of Donore after nightfall.

The funny thing is that this was the period directly between the two major feuds in the area - Rattigan v Thompson more or less petered out by the end of the 2000s and Kinahan v Hutch didn't kick off until 2014 or 2015 - and the rest of the area was exceedingly quiet, Cork Street and further up Donore Ave were just full of renting students and house parties at night, but everyone knew you didn't walk down the Cork Street end of Donore to get to the other end, you cut around through Chamber St and Marton Ave. The college actually put out a notice to students about an uptick in people getting mugged for their musical instruments when walking from the Cork St end of Donore to the rehearsal studio at the other end of the Avenue.

People will always say this is a failure of social housing but tbh it always struck me more as a failure of the justice system. Time and again you'd read of people from that enclave being brought up before the courts for violent crime and getting let off with suspended sentences. One of the people who broke into someone's car to steal his equipment was caught and when we Googled it, there were a f*ckload of cases involving him in various newspapers from the previous decade and he seemed to be getting slaps on the wrist every time. Insane. I genuinely don't believe that areas such as this would be such dangerous kips if laws were properly enforced, the vast majority of people living in the area were beyond sound and welcoming, and you'd feel just as sorry for them having to share an estate with gobsh!tes as you would for new people moving to the area and not knowing which estates to avoid.

BingCrosbee wrote: »

Is Finglas as rough an area as I seem to think seeing as there is a lot of anti social behaviour going on. A fellow I once knew, from Finglas died tragically about 10 years ago and I went to his funeral in Finglas. I felt very intimidated then so it must be dreadful now knowing full well the majority are decent law abiding citizens.

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

People will always say this is a failure of social housing but tbh it always struck me more as a failure of the justice system.

Kaisersosay wrote: »

It's pretty clear to see now that the policy of housing hundreds of poorly educated working class families together... a lot of whom were unemployed... in blocks of flats or housing estates... was a disaster. Same issue all around the world.
The Justice system doesn't solve the problem. Look at America for evidence of that. It also costs a fortune to keep people in prison. I read €1500 per prisoner per week in Ireland. You can't lock up everybody.
So you tackle the root cause. Prevention is better than cure.

Awesomeness wrote: »

What's your solution so considering sentences in this country are incredibly easy

Random Account wrote: »

Her kids were with her aswell very sad. Seen it all

Haladmirer wrote: »

Looks to me from spelling that the original whistleblower,aka the monk, is now Phoenix park zoo on twitter
Monk will never get charged

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

I’m just a lad recovering from surgery who’s not at all Garda is the Dublin “edible” scene still blatantly on Facebook gonna need a **** load (thc heavy )

RoosterCogburn wrote: »

Tried a load of them street edibles and theres no way they are legitimate, Ive had the real deal sent from the States through the dark web and theres no comparison, the street ones are just empty packets bought on Wish and filled with synthetic crap and a bit of weed flavouring