Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

Nobody in Ireland is poor, apart from those working on low wages.

Multi generational welfare families are far from poor. I worked in a school in the inner city for 6 years - I know what I'm talking about here.

At the moment at least once a week. Before covid about twice a week but I did work for years in the city centre near Abbey Street which meant I went by Marlborogh Street daily. I knew who the dealers were as did the cops. The problem was every time they moved them they would going to areas where families and kids were so they leave them there instead.

I also lived in North Strand for years and that was quite rough at the time. It really has gentrified a lot since my time there. Lots of professionals living there now. With all the new builds the local population will jump up a lot but the new residents are likely to be well paid. I know north inner city Dublin very well. It is very rough in parts. They should have demolished lots of old corporation properties and moved the residents out that were there rather than repeatedly revamp them for the locals to destroy again. Sean Mc Dermott Street could have been a high end area at one point and provided a lot of money for new social housing further out in better mixed developments

It really doesn't. It is long proven that fear of being caught is the best deterrent not the punishment. If people feel they won't get caught they will commit crimes. Locking people away on the rare occasions they get caught doesn't stop the people they didn't catch.

The problem is that doesn't work for accountants as less people committing crimes makes people think they therefore don't need as much police but that increases crime. People assume well if we lock the people away who commuted the crimes the crimes will stop but ignore the above and the goal is to prevent crime not punish people.

You will never get to a state of equal opportunity and the best you can hope for is a base level of opportunity.

The ravaging of areas by heroin were always overblown. Very small proportion of people were heroin addicts. The issues are much more ingrained within their social demographics. The reverse snobbery of people claiming to be "salt of the earth" is the bigger issue. Doing well in school is frowned upon as are many intellectual pursuits. Even reading a book can be seen as being weird in many a households.

Parents who hated school aren't bothered about making sure their kids go. Even simple social lessons are hard to instill in children because of parents. I remember the principle came in to my primary school class to tell students that spitting on the ground was bad manners and not allowed in school grounds and should never be done while walking to and from school. Then later that day as we are leaving there were parents waiting for their children and there were some spitting on the ground as they normally did. Met the principle later in life and told him this memory and how even as a child I realised that some people were just always going to be ill mannered at the least. He told me that as kids came in on their first days you could pretty much immediately tell which would need more help with acceptable behavior.

When I grew up my house was full of books but some other peoples' houses had none at all other than school books. The internet is actually a big equaliser in term of access but if it is not the done thing in that household kids won't choose to learn for fun.

Some people have no real idea of how to be do anything other than their parents which has lead to generational state dependents who class dealing with social welfare as a job. Kids arrive on their 18 birthdays to sign on is a real thing.

People really don't know how to compare countries and cities. Montpellier has a long history of wealth in a region with a long history of wealth from a country with a long history of wealth. It is the second largest city in a region of a similar population to are entire country but still has the back up of a much larger country.

Economies of scale apply a long with the historical wealth. It is like comparing 2 people of the same age and jobs on the same wages and declaring them the same while ignoring one of them inherited 2 houses in the most expensive parts of the city. I blame the lack of maths understanding from the general public for not understanding. Same as people claiming they pay 50% income tax because they don't understand how they are actually taxed. Most people don't actually know the % of their income tax from their earnings but they will say they pay 50% income tax

the usual suspects out looking to throw everyone into jail and lock away the keys they tried putting people in jail in america and look how that turned out

Hmmm… would there be 100-150 hard core scrotes causing the problems around O’Connell St.

I would suggest that that might be around the number.

Im sure the Gardai have a good idea who they are and what they are up to, illegal cigs, drug taking and dealing, violence, fist fights in broad daylight, roaring into mobile phones, drinking and mugging.

Sean Citizen and Joe Tourist who goes into DCC to relax and enjoy him/her self doesn’t want anything to do with that fcukkery.

Not interested in data showing this ,that , and the divil and all, just want an evening to spend their dosh, relax, enjoy themselves and not have these scrotes in their grill or area.

If they are not able to do that they won’t come near the place and we will have the situation where these scrotes, unless they are tackled, kill the area slowly but surely.

Ignoring them is a non runner, spouting about ‘data’ this and ,data that won’t solve the immediate problem.

People will not go near the place to enjoy themselves, nobody with any sense will set up there and a hard core of around 150 people will turn it into a wasteland.

Its happening at the moment..