Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

Especially in the city centre. Why have such problem people/families living near/in the centre?

I am from Cork and lived in Cork City for many years. I will say that the centre was improved dramatically in the past 10 years. I also lived in Dublin for a few years. I think you might have got the wrong end of the stick- I like Dublin and said so earlier. Of course it was all the usual problems good, bad and indifferent.

Fully agree with this..

There are beautiful capital cities where dropping chewing gum will cost you €1500 and others where dealing drugs of any kind can see you get the death penalty. I have contemp for brutal authoritarianism, but every other city I have lived in or visited has much, much better policing and maintenance in their centres. They are safer to walk through and cleaner with more obviously thoughtful design. Particularly beautiful in my opinion are those that weren't leveled in WW2, Gamla Stan in Stockholm for example, or Amsterdam...

Where there are people there will be social problems, but we can and should do better, not just in Dublin, but in all our cities and towns.

I think that's a fair point and Dublin reminds me of some of the grimer provincial cities in the Midlands and North of England.

Jaysis its like Joe Duffy in here

you can walk down the boardwalks 24/7 and no-one will hassle you , same for OCS or Grafton st. worse that'll happen is someone will tap you for change

fk sake

I was just making the point that London has as bad or worse problems, just we air our dirty laundry in some central parts, and even then it's a very safe city

Dublin is medium size town to London. The two can't really be compared,give it some time,the cultural problems that arise in the UK usually arise here about 20 years later.

The hugely problematic party is north inner city, which you often have to traverse if you are getting train or bus, or LUAS and Dublin Airport. It is hugely uncomfortable at best and sometimes scary. It’s the first part of inner Dublin that tourists see unless they come through Port Tunnel. I sometimes feel that a certain reluctance to build any underground metro in a Dublin is because of political fear of coralling anti-social types there.

It's littered with ghouls. The heroin addicts roaming the streets make things x10 worse imo, especially around Heuston Station.

Scumbags and junkies generally cannot afford to live in the city without our support.

If we want them gone then we have to stop supporting them to live in the city and instead carrot and stick them out far away.

Give the accommodation to people who dont commit crimes, and/or have the means to earn the right to the best locations in the country.

We're shooting ourselves in the foot.

(as are the addicts, but in a different way)