Is Dublin really safe?

It's still a **** part of town. I feel on edge there and I'm pretty relaxed.

If we had a greater supply of social housing, we could move people around and make it more of a mixed area.

It's still the best place for socialising despite the cost of everything. Not much places to socialise in the suburbs.

Belfast has it's merits but lots of dereliction and deprivation. It's much smaller also.

The solution would have been to build apartments that could comfortable house an average family rather than the Liam Carrol shoe boxes of the Bertie bubble era and the short term student accommodation that are all over the city now.

There was never any community focused planning involved and I'm pretty certain that one person responsible for decisions made about the inner city between the north and south circular roads actually lives there. It was always a rent cash cow, if not for students then for payment from the welfare department.

It's essentially a dumping ground.

I agree.

I think it's a worthless comment to say Dublin is 'safe' or 'unsafe'.

it has to be boiled down to which parts of it are unsafe.

Anybody familiar with the North inner city can see the problems themselves, kids dealing drugs on scooters, lot of random homeless and gypsies hanging about day or night. I mean that's the reality. Look at the luas stop at Dominick street, what a dump always alcos and junkies hanging around . It really doesn't feel safe at all especially in the evening.but many of these 'characters' are around in the daytime as well.

Talbot street is well dodgy when it is quiet in the evening . Having to walk up that way to get a train in the very run down looking Connolly station.....and then got on more run down DARTs and old diesel trains with their lack of security guards...not good.

I find it very disappointing how badly the whole area has been managed, the air of neglect . The streets were dirty as well because some areas had only bin bag collection and no wheelie bings until very recently.

There are also suburbs and estates that I just wouldn't want to go into.in the suburbs.

Areas that have been improving overall are Finglas and Cabra notwithstanding the occasional incidents. Probably Crumlin and Tallaght too many of which used to be really rough.

North inner city is main issue now stretching out to East Wall, Connolly st to docklands, to Croke park and the canal there.

Folks should make an effort to say where they actually are talking about.in Dublin. Dublin has always been fairly rough, but unfortunately I feel it is still fairly rough even if supposedly much much richer.

It goes back about a 150 years to the tenements. I agree that more of the flats should be demolished, and social housing distributed to other areas. But hard to do in reality. They seem very slow i.e. Dominic street area

Its the North Inner City that can be dodgy. But as others have said, even that area is generally fine.

The South City Centre is like a different planet though.

Always great buzz around Grafton St environs and much more attractive as an area vs across the river.

If i have visitors I never dream of going over to the north side and all visitors go away thinking Dublin is amazing!

It's safer than Tijuana, Detriot, Caracas...

You can safely walk the streets of Dublin as a government minister with a garda escort.

Course you are

Pearse St area from the river, bordered by Grand Canal Docks (posh) to the east and city centre to the west.

Still a fair bit of social housing around there, but it has gentrified a lot in recent years I would say.

What drug treatment centres would you like to move and to where ?

Im from the city centre with family and friends from both the North and South Inner City , I don’t want to move nor do most of my friends and family .

Or people who know the city and know it's safe. There's lots going on that shouldn't be going on, there needs to be investment, improvements, a metro police force and other measures but to say it's a dangerous city is a joke, an idea perpetuated by people that haven't a clue about Dublin. Millions traverse the city, work in the city, live in the city safely every day.

What drug treatment centre’s?

What your suggesting is gentrification of an area which lets idiots open poxy little cafes , destroys local communities with their ridiculous prices and forces locals out of these areas for over priced housing .Ballymun style ghetto , that’s just a slur .