There are some in DL yes, but down by the Seafront or sunday market etc i never see any.
Head round the corner to Sandycove beach and Glasthule village and its stunning on a nice day like yesterday or today. Outdoor cafes and great family buzz.
Lots of other lovely villages in South East Dublin where its very rare you see any undesirables and all the villages have a great vibe to them.
Great variety of shops, bars restaurants and general amenities.
But DCC in D1 are just awful as you say.
I dont know how they keep their job to be honest. They never seem to improve anything in D1.
But we just avoid D1, spend our time and money in the nice parts of the city on the southside and there are a lot of people doing the same.
Dublin is a big place and D1 is a world apart fron D6, D4 etc. couldnt be more different.
But DCC should be doing more for D1.
Loads of junkies in Dun Laoghaire. Always has been.
I really don't know what the city council are doing on the northside. Almost all of the good places are due to private investment. Pubs, restaurants etc.
Look at the cut of this for example. The old burned out SF HQ. How long has it been like this for? 5 years?
No as my OP said, different sites for different types. They'd be separate satellite cities.
We don't all live together in harmony. Having addicts in the city centre for clinics and dealers is doomed for failure. Not legalising drugs is doomed for failure.
Having social housing complexes/flats in City centre is doomed for failure. I don't expect any of this to ever happen by the way. Merely expressing my view of how I think the country should be setup.
If I was the king of Ireland that's the model I'd be looking to follow anyway.
As many have said, D1 is generally very run down and it is worsened by the junkies and over concentration of poor social housing.
but with new hotels going up in D1 and the Clerys & old Debenhams buildings reopening soon, there will be a boost for the area.
Making Smithfield market a fulltime market is also being worked on, but why it takes so long to get it up and running when it housed markets over paddys weekend is a mystery.
D1 aside though, most of south east dublin in particular is lovely.
Thats where id reccomend tourists go.
lovely houses, bars, restaurants, cafes, theatres, sports grounds, sea, harbour, parks and beaches with the mountains on your doorstep.
And not a junkie or scoobie in sight.
Best part of the country bar none.
D1 is like a different city. literally.
Junkies need to be housed in the same area with people on social housing ?
why should people living in social housing have to deal with junkies ?
You start with should they be forced into rehabilitation or holding cells & end with they should be forced to live in a certain area, which is it ?
What do you do with them? Forced rehabilitation? Keep them in holding cells?
Theyre as close to a pointless arrest as you could think. Junkies aren't the issue, they're relatively harmless but obviously an issue/eyesore.
We need areas for specific types of people. City centre should be for tourist, workers and law abiding citizens.
Satellite drug towns with legalisation is what we need for adults who want to use. Same with social housing.
Satellite towns where anyone not part of good society can be housed. They can all run riot. Ring roads is all you'd need to police then.
Anyone trying to get into norm Town needs a day pass or they need to sneak in via bogland and fields.
I know for a fact the Garda are told not to arrest the homeless & beggars & drug users around O Connell street unless they something terrible,
There seen as pointless arrest & it takes the Garda off the streets ,
Garda on the ground hate this & want to get them off the streets but can't go against orders ,
Glass half full or empty? My yardstick is the Dublin I grew up in the 80s when I moved from the suburbs to north inner city. Dublin then was like bombed out East Berlin DDR style. There are still huge pockets of dereliction but at least the trajectory is going in the right direction. The Docklands is the most notable example but there are many pockets of improvement. The leaders of the pack (sticking within the canals) are: Islandbridge, Chapelizard, Stoneybatter/Grangegorman campus, Ringsend, Kilmainham, Portobello, Smithfield, the Guinness area off Thomas St and parts of the Liberties like Francis/Meath St. Still stuck in 80s mode are: the Coombe, Pimlico, Mountjoy to the Five Lamps and beyond to East Wall and Maryland/ Donore to Dolphins Barn.
Irish Rail and the Dart operators are still stuck in 80s mode. There's no shortage of money so why are those antiques still rattling around? Connolly Stn is junkie central. Same can be said for DCC relative to their more effective peers in Rathdown and Fingal CC. Remarkable how DCC and IR rail management are invisible and totally unaccountable.
D1 is grim but "Its a hellhole everywhere bar the leafy southside areas" is not true.
Malahide, Castleknock, Glasnevin, Drumcondra, Phibsborough, Beaumont, Clontarf, Portmarknock, Howth.
then to cheaper more working class spots but central and decent these days, Cabra east, Finglas east, Santry, Marino, Ashtown.
All spots i'd take any day of the week over rural areas, theres a reason people sacrifice so much to be in cities. Understand the rural appeal also but its not for everyone.
the guards need to bring back a bit of of the “Lugs Brannigan” style of policing for the junkies and never do wells types
Always the comparisons with the worst places.
It's very easy to see people dealing drugs in the city centre. Wasn't back one day and I saw a bunch of deals from kids on escooters. It's rough enough.
You are right Dublin has always had a lot of rough areas. I havent seen much if any improvement over the last two decades, yet Ireland and Dublin should be much richer
The DART is decrepit. I guess Dublin bus is the main area of improvement. The LUAS badly mismanaged and iften unsafe, many riders don't even buy tickets since nobody was checking.
The commuters trains old diesels and noisy too. The train stations grotty and badly laid out and connected.
I noticed a lot of provincial towns were much improved over the last decade, my gut feeling is Dublin is vastly underfunded for it's hugely increased population and also versus its economic output.
In los Angeles there's posh million dollar homes. 5 minutes down the street there's
an area with 100s of people living in tents at least in Dublin there's a system where
people can live in hostels rather than on the streets I cycle around Dublin every day. It's very rare to see people using drugs if there's people dealing openly I never noticed it there's a wide range areas in Dublin working class middle class
and areas like ballsbridge where a house can be 700k
Unbelivable, Joe. Unbelivable.
Most homeless people live in the city centre thats where the services are located ,its very rare i see a fight or an argument on the street . I,ve never seen anyone taking heroin, there has always been rough area,s in dublin.Many area,s of dublin are quieter and better than ever, we have the luas, we have new offices being built.theres street cleaners working every day all over dublin. i see no problem with people selling decorations, at xmas for 2 weeks. Every city has junkies and some level of crime ,but i think dublin is generally a good place to live.you need common sense ,if theres 2 or 3 young people hanging round a lane do not go there, turn around,walk the other way homeless people beg ,they are not all junkies.
i see young people walking around with a phone in their back pocket so obviously they feel safe.
the city centre is fairly quiet after 10pm, apart from people going to pubs, clubs or temple bar area.
just google crime new york city or los angeles ,its much worse than dublin
I remember Cabra and Phibsborough to be bad places, and it started to get worse North of Parnell street, but that might have changed.
Marino and Fairview were also always a bit dodgy.
No. A lot of the city is thriving. Most of it actually. Places like Stonybatter, Capel St, Inchicore and Rialto have been transformed. Places southside of the city centre like Camden St are great. But for some reason that north quays and north inner city area of the city is a complete kip. Worse than ever nearly. Pics above are about 30 feet from O'Connell St.
They are probably the children born during the celtic tiger years, when things were good, spending was cheap and easy and nobody had a care in the world.
I think the problem is that their parents are struggling financially and their children realize they have no real future ahead of them. Housing unaffordable within their lifetime, sky high rents, nothing really to achieve.
Some turn their frustration to violence, others are stuck in poorly paid jobs but try to be law abiding.
Is Dublin really that bad these days? ( Sorry to ask, but I've been absent for a while )
Seems I have to conduct my business in the shitholes. I have avoided town for about a year!
jeez...some parts of Dublin have really turned into scobieland,not all of it but enough to make you think 'what the fook is gone wrong?' ive lived in Dublin for about 40yrs and i have to say i dont like what im seeing in the last several years...
Yeah and I know what im getting. But hadnt been that way after working hours for a while and the place has gone downhill rapidly. Its a real dump. Half the shops are closed or boarded up, its dirty and grim.
North Lotts Street and Bachelors Walk/Way should be and could be one of the coolest places in the city.
Look at the fcuking state of this.
Southside was absolutely buzzing last night. Georges St, Dame Lane/Court, St William St, Castle Market et al.
Capel St too but that aside the entire north quays and beyond is a complete toilet.
Jaysus that's terrifying. Not even sure who the lad with the knife was trying to stab there, could easily have gotten either of the two on the ground with those wild swings.
I can't say if its worse or not but crossing the liffey has always been an extreme sport.
Never go into town any more. Have reason to have to go in the next few weeks which I'm not looking forward to. I actually hate it. It might be a good time to get to know Dublin again.
Was out last night. Jesus its grim once you cross over to the northside over the Ha'penny bridge. Really realy grim.
Liffey St, Lotts, Middle Abbey St, O'Connell St etc. Its a sh1thole. Needs looking at asap. The southside/northside divide has never been bigger. In that area of town anyway. North Lotts is basically a dangerous junkie street now. And if there aren't junkies theres gangs of scum.
Caught with baseball bats and pitchforks
arrest - convict - sentence … force the parents hand, make them… parent… they don’t want to be paying for little Kelvin or Kayleigh into their ‘20’s when they can’t get a job due to various convictions..
I’m not up on precise laws but I’m reading a lad 10 years ago was arrested and charged with possession of an article with intent to cause injury.. a baseball bat…
It's getting worse and worse:
I'll agree with half the people here saying the hyperbole of crack being smoked on every corner is ludicrous but I'll also have to point out, of those people calling it untrue, how many of you actually walk with your eyes not on your phone and looking around you? It takes actually looking to notice the bad things going on around you.. If you're so beat into your TikToks and your Instagrams how will you see anything bar the couple of traffic lights you're forced to look at.
It's really bad but it's also not the worst. We've yet to have daily drive-bys and random gun murders claiming childrens lives but we're not far off now.
A lot of people might miss it but Dublin city is dripping with all sorts of beautiful occult/masonic and classical pagan inspired architecture. Places such as the Edwin Lutyens designed 'National War Memorial' is beautifully creepy and its full creepiness is laid straight out in the open. There are loads of really cool Baroque and Palladian style buildings all over the city centre with all sorts of occult and masonic symbology strewn on them. The designs of these buildings work on the basis of utilising the dynamics between light and shadow. You delve deeper into what these symbols and designs represent, you start to see them all over the town and you can spend a fantastic and totally free day walking about the place visiting them too.
I'd say every week? Just cause you don't doesn't mean other don't. I at least go to a restaurant, beach, park, cafe, club every week, others about once a month. Great food restaurants and beaches can be easily found outside the city, but they're not in or near the city and there's more choice of restaurants in a city.
Check this out, get back to me when you've visited all of them.
Most of Dublin 2 is quite nice, the old Georgian squares, around the canal, Baggot St, Leeson st, Ballsbridge, etc. Bizarre how myself and all my friends, cousins etc, grew up on the northside of Dublin and all have good lives now, times were tougher and rougher back in the day too. I think it's a bit rich for you to tell people the draws it does or doesn't have, given so many people are happy and have good lives in Dublin. I have 2 friends who moved back last year from Vancouver, after 5 years, to raise their 2 kids here, as they prefer the life here and now have a place in Phibsborough. This is Ireland, not Sierra Leone.
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