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

Soooooooo....

I've been home a week now, first time since September of 2020 and have been in and out of the city several times, early morning, during the day, in the evening. Today I did a massive loop around various bits of the city centre, top to bottom, docklands to Parkgate Street, Aungier Street to Parnell Street. Hell, I even went along the boardwalk.

I read this thread before coming back and honestly was wondering what I was coming back to. Could it really have gotton so tragically bad? Should I have armed myself a-la Charles Bronson in a numerically unspecified "Death Wish: Dublin" sequel?

I'm not doubting people's lived experience, and will readily recognise some of the issues noted here as being very real and requiring action, but I honestly think some of it might be a touch overblown. Just a touch. It's not exactly downtown Caracas out there.

I agree that some issues seem overblown. Lots of people dont like Dublin but many more think its great even though it has issues. I lived in other countries and while they were fine, they didn't suit me for the long term. Its a bit like different employers, some suit, some don't. At the end of the day if a person is very unhappy with their job or where they live, it's probably a good idea to reassess the situation - living with any level of stress that can be avoided is better for mental health and general wellbeing imo.

Caracas a livable city, gimme a f*cking break lol

The injection centre wouldn't have helped in the slightest, it just would've served as another degenerate magnet in the city.

All drug services should be moved out of the city, along with the addicts.

I'm not even going to entertain this bullsh*t. Caracas/Venezuela is one of the most dangerous places in the world.

heroin doesn't come from South America, it isn't cocaine addicts you see hanging around clinics in town. Also it's not really consciously participating, it's an illness, do you really think they want to live that sorry existence? Try and put yourself in their shoes, nearly all of them are from absolutely horrible backgrounds and never had a chance.

Seriously man, heroin is no longer widely used, you really haven't a clue what you're talking about. Anyway it sounds like you have no sympathy for people from difficult circumstances, you should try and imagine what it's like.

The biggest influence of drugs going into the inner city areas of Dublin had all kicked off when the old crime boss Larry Dunne had the brought in Heroin into Dublin in the 1980's. There was a documentary about this story on RTÉ One some nights ago. It is the main reason why the visitors who are coming into this city are seeing all of these addicts at the moment who are not able to wield themselves off these drugs in the first place. The supplies of Heroin into Dublin at that time had both created a cycle of generational poverty & perpetual misery being thrown into this community of formerly known innocent Dubliners who probably would never have predicted beforehand that it was going to create such a huge waste of potential among it's own inhabitants.

Heroin in Inner City Dublin effectively created a two-tier society within that small community of harmless people who were influenced by this crowd of ruthless scumbags who went to these people by offering this drug to their own community & who have now reaped the long-term effects of their misery by giving it to them.

It's probably the biggest reason why we are seeing all of the anti-social behaviour along with the teenage gangs in Dublin City as it's still largely in a mess because of the Covid lockdown. We as a society are trying to mend that situation as best we can with all of the preventable measures that are there at the moment to fight off this horrible addiction to this drug & other drugs that are out there circulating around the city before Covid came in to wreak havoc in the city. The big question that we need to ask at this time is; are we doing a good job as a society in trying to tackle the circulation of drugs up to now around the Inner city areas?

Do we need more enhanced measures in place to try & fight off the drugs out of these people's hands in a much quicker way?

Give the Gardai more powers to rid these Vermin from walking the streets of Dublin.

Yes I know a heroin addict and he would just do crack at the weekends on top of everything else. Poor guy is barely hanging on these days, they're all totally strung out on benzos too which are supposed to be harder to get off than H.

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More Gardai , 100% . There's some pretty good city centre Gardai with great empathy towards homeless.

Littering -huge fine and community service.

It was a joke a few years ago with people getting disability allowance , nowadays it's a much more tighter run ship.

State will never build widescale social housing again.It creates a sense of entitlement i.e. " I want social housing because my grandparents , mother , sister all had it "

Nope , let's try and avoid ghettos , you create intergenerational deprivation and poverty , very difficult to address.

Mandatory what.. I take it you mean community service of some description , absolutely and relate to your DSP payment.

No idea what your last point is , but more detox beds , psychiatric support , suitable accommodation etc.

I'll leave the cartel videos to yourself.

lol you should stop looking at Dublin Live, that article is all a result of someone's Tweet. You'll drive yourself crazy!

Look, Dublin Live is a joke. If you're relying on that & FB as a reference to what goes on in your capital you're loosing.

Calm down. You're almost as hysterical as the news stories. Stop panicking and read below.

This is how it is. Dublin is a safe city but it's been badly affected by the pandemic. Tax payers money and our property tax is flooding out of the city to improve other parts of the country. Stop typing yourself in to hysteria on Internet forums and lobby your local politicians to improve the city & to retain the property tax. Lobby them for the metro & transport police that's badly needed.

Well @HerrKapitan; that part of Dublin is quite near to places like Killcross & Ballyogan. I wouldn't be surprised in hearing that any of those people were from there if those sort of scenes was going on in Sandyford.

The government does have an issue here because you'd have to ask is the city a viable proposition atm for visitors/tourism?

Aside from some places on the southside it isn't really.

They'll have to do something to try and clean it up and drive these mostly loitering gangs of youths out.

Schools reopening may help to some extent but won't solve the weekend issues.