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

The Boardwalk is a failure and a no go area for most people now. It's a place for those up to no good to congregate and operate in gangs and numbers.

One easy fix would be to get rid of the benches and just allow coffee/tea stalls with seating reserved for those purchasing same. But you know yourself, the cocky feckers would take the cafe seats and shout and roar and God help anyone who intervenes.

Forget about the effect removing the benches would have on the law abiding citizens because few of them ever sit there anyway, no point, harrassed for money or worse before five minutes are up.

Or just make it a cycleway, no seats, no pedestrians, at least that would serve a useful purpose.

Most Dubs stay away from the boardwalk because they know the issues. Tourists/visitors don't unfortunately and will innocently wander along there. Not only is it dodgy from a safety perspective, it's dreadful image of the city. It's not just about street fights or assaults or uneasy atmosphere - it's the city's reputation as well.

I would agree it's more trouble than it's worth and something should be done. But it's just one thing. There are many things that need to be sorted out right across a good chunk of the city center.

I think it's been allowed decay to a point where I think it's going be very difficult to sort this stuff out at this stage.

We are reaping what has been sowed for decades. The city has never been looked after or run properly.

At a very minimum, the benches should go and the quay walls made hostile for sitting on.

The boardwalk was one of those ideas that are great in theory but terrible in practice. Who'd have thought that loads of public benches and a population of inner city delinquents would result in a no-go area.

boardwalk is a nice idea but it’s from what I can see, never policed. There is zero appetite on behalf of the politicians, judiciary and therefore Gardai to clamp down and fix the antisocial delinquent, zombie scumbag fraternity that just seem to be multiplying year on year...in the city... around the keys and boardwalk is a regular hangout..

when I lived in Paris I could walk the areas around the quays of the Seine from St Michel to Pont Neuf and take in a couple of pubs and never experience the slightest danger or scumbag... imagine going from O’Connell Bridge to Grattan Bridge at 01:00am along the boardwalk.... no thanks.

You can easily spend over €10 for a coffee and pastry in Spain and you can easily spend €4 on a coffee and pastry in Dublin. Depends where you go.

Dublin is far from "un-livable" in the majority of aspects. Accommodation is the killer but then on the other side of it, you have a decent job market and average wage, albeit not decent enough to get near the rising property prices.

We have a lot of green areas. Great amenities. Good public transport (better than a lot of cities across the world). You'd be thinking twice about how bad you think the junkie & homeless situation is if you took a walk through San Francisco. Just have some fecking sense and if you're not looking for trouble it's unlikely to find you here. I've never felt unsafe in this city, whether walking home from town at 3am or into town at 8.

Dublin is a city with the warmth of character and culture to it that I've never experienced in another. It's been **** to see our city walls and canal walk creatives get driven out of the city in recent years by the council, but they'll be back. Dublin will be back. It never really left. It's in the heart and soul of everyone living in it and everyone who's left it. We're all in the shitstorm right now so give the city a break.

Had a good night in the city last night. Great atmosphere, streets were clean and I made it home safely (again).

Can the people who are coming across all this rubbish please take a few shots on their phones or show it to me on google street view?

I know the city was left in a mess by the Cork and Limerick GAA fans on Saturday, but this was cleared up quickly.

Is this you ?

Jesus wept; that video looks really depressing. I can't understand how it's that bad in Philadelphia. Are people like those who would be struggling to stay upright over their knees as a result of all their drugtaking; currently visible on the streets of Dublin City Centre right now as a result of Covid?

Howth and Malahide are plagued with gangs? I'm often in both places and Malahide especially is about as middle class and quiet an area you can get. Jesus Dublin Live has a lot to answer for if this is what you all think lol.

I saw yesterday they took benches from a park in Cork due to anti social behaviour, people on Reddit were saying addicts and teenagers drinking were the cause. It doesn't make me think it's some lawless hellhole down there though.

Howth and Malahide have had issues recently of gangs of feral youth using the DART from other areas.

Here is a slice of what I assume is probably Balbriggan in Malahide. All these lads are off the bus or the DART and I'm told it is now the same every weekend. And that this only really became an issue there in the last 2 years. Actually maybe Darndale/Coolock as they appear to run for the bus.

Wasn't there a young lad beaten to within an inch of his life for his phone just outside the castle a few months back by fellas off the DART?

You assume these areas are somehow protected. They aren't. Nothing has been done in Malahide or Clontarf to my knowledge by gardai or the communities because what can they do?

No it doesn't make me think it's dangerous. It just makes me understand why residents are pleading for the Garda station to be reopened.

We have a society where we are literally paying scrotes to drag up even more scrotes whose future is the scratcher. It's a multiplier effect.

This notion, it's grand they'll stick to their own areas, that's gone years a go.

And with mandatory social housing in new estates it's a moot point anyway.

Dsmn right , I don't want to be out of a job.

I'm not objecting to the rest of your post but the way healthcare is structured in this country is very poor and not many European countries would tolerate system like ours and charges we pay.

Another point about the whinge fest about LPT in someone else's post. 80% is distributed locally and maybe it's time for Dubliners to vote less brain dead councillors than the ones who actually cut LPT than whinge about it's distribution. Dublin could be lovely city but it seems quite clear it's councillors are preoccupied by organising piss ups in Mansion House and discussions when to put up Palestinian flags to worry about how liveable city is. There is absolutely no vision for city there but ideological posturing, why waste more money on them.

Dublin is a lovely city and totally liveable in fact the whole country is. We are one of the most tolerant, open minded countries who welcome visitors and immigrants as can be seen by the high percentage of non-irish born numbers in our census figures. Our citizens enjoy religious, sexual and social freedoms that others dont and our great education system and many sporting activities are available to all equally. It's easy to start and operate a business which is one of the reasons so many MNC's are here and why we have so many work and employment opportunities. Our police force is not armed and our health service has done a great job in rolling out our vacination programme - for free too...

Sure, we have some problems that have become more visible since Covid like litter or graffitti and there are people that game our generous welfare system & others who engage in ASB. In the overall scheme of living a good life in a politically stable country, they are minor issues.

If everything here is as bad as some people feel, then that's obviously not a good way to live.