Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

No shortage of keyboard warriors here. If you had any experience you'd know that results are high on the list and are achieved every day. Do not have any high achieving kids connected to your peer group, no athletes, sports achievers, Chief Scouts Awards recipients?

I am talking about sports clubs and scout groups because that's what I'm involved in and that's what you were "wonderfully" sneering at.

Regarding the rubbish? It's a city, in cities there's rubbish because there's lots of people, lots of events, lots of locals, lots of visitors, lots of sports, lots of things going on. It's the same in New York, London, Paris... Where there are no people there is no rubbish.

Now, you're scraping the barrel at this stage, it's Christmas Eve, you're sitting at your computer scoffing, sneering, pissing & moaning with nothing good to say about anything or anyone. I suggest you take yourself a way from the internet and the negativity it brings out in you and talk to some real people. Enjoy..

I work for a homeless service , I love when one of mine gets housed.

When anybody is housed from homeless services an agency called SLI is involved, with particularly chaotic individuals, housing first may be involved especially if certain criteria are reached e.g. historical entrenched rough sleeping and chaotic drug use with a view to providing holistic support covering everything from mental health, physical health , budgeting, living skills and so on.

If its a housing association involved , the individuals may not be as chaotic but might need a significant level of support and may be deemed never capable of living independently.

To be housed as a couple with DCC, you must be registered as a couple , it's not possible to pretend because you will have a history of looking to access accommodation as a couple.

Gardai generally don't get involved, unless there's significant criminal activity.

If anything Gardai are becoming more and more thinking seeing the benefits of having people housed , particularly if they are chaotic rather than having them homeless.

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The lack of an Dublin Airport Rail link is very easy to explain.

CIE wanted and planned one in 1973. Every single political party - up to the very present - never built it. But constantly gave it different names. MetroNorth, MetroLink, DartInterconnector, DART Underground all of which resulted in Irish politicians refusing to build any renamed version of it. Even when they had the money. Added to this a certain element of the Irish Establishment who thinks Manchester (Not the Greater Part) is bigger than Ireland (because Big Jack said so 35 years ago) and anyway only mega cities have Underground Rail. When there are cities the size of Cork all over europe with underground rail systems.

Mind you, I have to laugh at tossers now wanting it, as for years they were the 'buses are enough' vanguards of lore.

Then finally, there is the Dublin NIMBYS who put every obstacle in front of a rail link to the airport only for them to arrive in Amsterdam, Lisbon, Barcelona, EVERYWHERE by plane and get directly onto a train and going. 'Jaysus, this is deadly, we should have this in Dublin'. Having forgotten that they went to war against the idea because the tabloids coached them to fret over 'the little children losing their GAA pitch for a couple of years!'

In fact the reason why Dublin Airport has no rail link is a kind of Irish socio-cultural Hermetic concept of 'As Above, So Below' - being that it is a microcosm of everything wrong about Ireland.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40773486.html

Why O why would the state promote the continued living of families in public housing in inner city Dublin that are involved in repeat criminality?

I am not having a go at those on Welfare at all. Those involved in criminal activitys should be moved well outside the capital and replaced by the law abiding. This may be called punishment by some but no it is sensible policy!

Dublin in general is a very safe city to live in. Im regularly on the luas red line after 7pm and have never witnessed a serious crime on it.

I would love to see more done to deal with junkies and scumbags but this is Ireland and Ireland will always be a soft touch when it comes to crime.

Drugs and lower social classes ruin Dublin.

I can't understand how lower social classes can live anywhere near the CC.

Do their rents not go up like for everyone else where one has to relocate to be able to survive

Is it the case the lower social classes have been given council houses where they are immune from rent increases?

I suspect what I'm suggesting is correct and something has to be done about it. It's not fair.

You have working people living outside of Dublin city for lower rents, travel into the city for work, but people who don't work at all live near the CC. That is an outrageous situation.

He lives here because it still gives him a better life than the places he tells tourists to visit.