Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

LOL!! Hilarious, another night in Gotham City!

I hope you are joking. I live inner city northside and cycled all over throughout the covid gulag days. The centre was like a derelict harbour with the tide gone out. A real zombie landscape

Dublin is grand, it's not a **** city neither is it a fantastic city. It certainly has it's issues - north inner city, public transport and housing (not small issues) - but most people aren't that effected by them. It has a vibrant nightlife, decent food scene compared to a lot of cities of a similar size, an accessible coastline with lots of nice beaches and coastal towns and some nice mountains within easy reach.

Lots of hyperbole from both sides on this thread.

And contains stuff that's nice, as I pointed out

People have been complaining about O'Connell street

Spot on. Like you I'm A Dub born and bred. Lived much of my life overseas and have a love hate relationship with my home town. But its not all doom and gloom. Being a child of the 80s this place has improved dramatically since that dreary period. Improvements to be cheerful about:

• the Docklands; Grangegorman campus; Glasnevin/Botanic Gardens merger and upgrade; ongoing Royal Canal Greenway; Tolka Park, Phoenix Park changes, Islandbridge modernisation, Royal Hospital Kilmainham (minus the crappy art), the GPO museum, Thomas Street area changes (but loads more to do to make it livable), Heuston Station area progress, Boland Mills area, ongoing Portobello improvements, Chapelizard to city centre river greenway, the Black Church again in use, the Dodder walkway cyclepath and flood defences, ongoing development near the Teelings Distillery, St Patrick's Cathedral Park.....to name but a few.

Some areas which have remained static and frozen in time ....or even deteriorated in my view are:

• Mountjoy Sq/NCR area (lived there for years), Phibsborough (pls nuke the shopping centre), Dollymount bridge and walkway, Croppy Acre, whole swathes of the south city such as Pimlico, Donore, Ballyfermot, Bluebell. And not forgetting dear O'Connell St down to Amiens area with the shithole prize going to Connolly Station.

I could rant on but the scale of dereliction/deprivation in Dublin city still to be tackled shows just how low this city had sunk by the late 80s. A borderline failed state which I gladly left behind. Thankfully mostly in the past now along with the drink culture which was so prevalent then.

The only way is up!

As for the scrotes now complimented by imported beggars who cannot be named, for sure the cops beat a hasty retreat (after the Covid checkpoint frenzy) to their offices to fill in their overtime sheets. But the real problem lies with the courts and political class and chatteratti on RTE etc who undermine them all the way. Case in point: I recently saw the cops trying to clean up the park of vagrants near the Mary St (still derelict?) Fruit Market. But what can they do since no sanction or deterrence is ever applied by their overlords? No wonder they look the other way. I don't envy them.

Yeah, ganglands killings aside I guess.