DUBLIN IS TOTALLY UNLIVABLE **Mod Warning In Post #671**

A section of the inner city has visible addicts exchanging pills and heroin from my experience. I work on the Southside though and its a different world. Avoid the parts you dont like like any city.

I would agree to an extent i think it has to do with the breed of person that lives in around some of the north inner city, for every kellie harrington theres probably 9 scumbags who dont want to partake in irish society, dont want to partake in education or work no matter what chances they are given. i dont buy this crap of people around there being not given a chance, its bull, theres a large proportion of that cohort that are very insular looking and have a chip on their shoulder and totally ignorant of anything outside of inner city. They actually make the roughest culchie look cosmopolitan.

Yeah it's not as bad as you want it to be, you seem to get off on this stuff, whatever you're into.

You can be flippant about it all you like. It's your capital city. If you are happy with the state of it and it's trajectory then more power to you.

It won't change it's trajectory until enough of the population start caring about it. And enough don't unfortunately.

I'd rather have my eyes wide open to reality than be a robotic apologist for the ills in the country. That's not snobbery.

I don't look down on anyone. I clearly want to see improvements to the city and to stop it's decline which is terminal with the path it's on.

Can you really say when you walk on O'Connell St or Parnell Street or Abbey Street or Henry Street or the boardwalk or wherever that it's fine? That there is no problem here?

Because you are the only one who does not see the serious problems if you are.

so if you were sexually abused and came from a broken home like nearly all heroin addicts do, you'd be fine, there'd be no chance of you going wayward and you wouldn't expect any help?

Can you point to a statistic that confirms that 'nearly all' heroin addicts have been sexually abused?

I'm not able to refute because I don't know but that claim seems remarkable.

I work with homeless addicts , the amount of them have historical trauma is astonishing . Couldn't for the life of me give a you a statistic .

It's unusual to find a homeless\rough sleeping addict without a trauma.

No I can't find one from Ireland, but there's a Dr called Gabor Mate who has done extensive studies with addicts in Vancouver who speaks about this frequently, and there are lots of papers from other countries if you look for them discussing the link between childhood trauma and addictions. Apologies though it's not just sexual, other forms of child abuse too. Just look at the kids in town being screamed at in their faces by their parents, you see it all the time in town, they really don't have much of a chance of being a properly functioning adult. Just imagine having to grow up in those horrible environments and how you might have turned out.

It's also worth having look into trauma as the event and addiction as the symptom.

If you have been raised in a dysfunctional family the chances of it involving sexual abuse is extremely high. Even without that the basic human decency and compassion from people raised in abusive homes is mostly down to never experiencing enough. You might as well be asking them to read an ancient language as asking them to behave the way those without those experience to act.

I went to school with this guy who was an absolute violent bully he had attacked several teachers too. They didn't expel him and he also had the snot kicked out of him several times by people he tried to bully. Didn't change and eventually dropped out in 2nd year of secondary at 14. Nobody missed him and were glad he was gone. Year later in my 20s I see him and he is a complete junkie and mention it to an old class mate. Turns out his mother (alcoholic) died 2 years after he was born. He was way younger than his siblings so by 7 it was just him and his father. His father beat him daily and sexually abused him, common knowledge around where he lived but his father was a raging alcoholic with a long violent history so nobody did anything.

To expect him in that environment to come out a decent human being is akin to saying magic is real. He had no reference points. He was a victim and believed to survive others had to be victims of him. Without any help how would you expect to act the same as somebody raised in a stable household?

Don't get me wrong he needed to be in prison for some time as he was a dangerous person but he needed rehabilitation while there and got none. It isn't like you can put him down like he is a vicious dog that was abused. Do we just lock him up and throw away the key proving his life experience that nobody cares about him as a human?

They're not worse, if anything they're nowhere near as bad, I had a relative killed by two of them in the 90s, totally unprovoked. I remember Dublin being far rougher in the 90s, you wouldn't walk around any of the flats back then, now you can no bother.

I think people see clips on Dublin Live and read stories on the internet and think it's Cape Town, everything has been sensationalised.

I think my quotes were about fast fashion and how damaging it is but whatever

I agree. It's utterly bizarre it was just ignored by the media. If it was a white middle class Irish woman it would have been a totally different story, but it was just a Mongolian cleaner, so sad. He was in court today, I think.

We need a new Capital.

Do you live in Dublin? Where are you from?

I was on Henry street last week too and there was no rubbish. DCC are constantly cleaning there. I see these types of posts on boards.ie about "rubbish everywhere" sometimes on the same day I'm in the city. What time of the day were you there?