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Is Dublin really safe? Read OP for mod warning

skimpydoo

Yesterday at 4:20 pm in Eden Quay right by Liberty Hall, a male in their 20's was attacked. The Man who was attacked with a machete needed over 50 stitches and staples.This attack took place in broad daylight in a busy street, so how can the government claim that Dublin is safe? How many more random attacks will we see this year? Is McEntee way out of her depth as Minister of Justice? I think she is.

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Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122529682#Comment_122529682

where are these no go zones?

lmao10

I would be extremely cautious and would flat out avoid being anywhere near the likes of Finglas, Ballymun, Coolock, Neilstown Ballyfermot Crumlin etc at night if I could. Just do a search of those areas and "defendant". The feral scum has always made those areas no go zones. I stick to the main populated areas if I do have to be in those places but I, and everyone else, get extremely nervous and unsettled when a large group of feral scum are near me.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122532073#Comment_122532073

i lived the last 8 years in coolock until i moved closer to town, it seemed fine to me to walk home at night. 3 cousins live in finglas, they're still alive. you're being very dramatic.

lmao10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122532084#Comment_122532084

We all have anecdotes. I was mugged in Ballymun and Finglas and I have a mate who was jumped and given a hiding for no reason in Darndale one night. The kinds of feral scum who were throwing girls under dart trains are the types of scum responsible in each instance.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122532115#Comment_122532115

i mean darndale being rough is hardly news, it's probably the roughest place in ireland, every city has rough estates

lmao10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122532121#Comment_122532121

Yes that's my point. No go zones like that due to feral scum.

Quitelife

north inner city is a very unsafe place day or night , particularly in the evening time

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122533116#Comment_122533116

Has been like that for 200 years.

yagan

I lived in west Finglas for a few years, anyone saying it's safe to walk around at night is delusional.

I've hear east Finglas isn't so bad.

Tenzor07

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122532121#Comment_122532121

Nah you're wrong there, my work mates brother's cousin lives there and says he leaves the house doors and windows open and the car unlocked sometimes, never been robbed in 20 years!

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534495#Comment_122534495

You're just hilarious

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122532073#Comment_122532073

I've walking around Crumlin at night about 70 times in the last year and never seen anything that would indicate any danger

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122533116#Comment_122533116

So unsafe but I'm here on Capel Street and it's very busy. Are we all in danger?

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122535278#Comment_122535278

Capel St is great now isnt it. Stonybatter, Smithfield, Capel St. The kips east of O'Connell St need to be redeveloped the same way.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122535807#Comment_122535807

It's getting better alright, it used to be a permanent traffic jam, already it's hard to imagine cars on the street now.

All the lunatics were unaware of the danger they were in at lunchtime today.

Downlinz

It's reached a point now where my retired parents in their late 60's living in a rural town are too afraid to go into Dublin city centre for a shopping trip even during the day. Both worked there in the 80's, had family in Tallaght so were familiar with working class Dublin back then and have since travelled up multiple times a year for christmas shopping etc but noticed it worsen slowly around the time of the recession with much more visible drug taking and groups of youth with no regard for those around them. Garda presence non-existent.

By the time covid happened and they got out of the habit of travelling there they decided they didn't want to go back. Limerick and Galway feel much safer to them so they're going there instead. They're not sure if they'll ever go back to Dublin again in their lives, which is sad.

I'd imagine since we have a government who deny any of these problems even exist in the first place that the situation there is only going to worsen.

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122535990#Comment_122535990

The irony there being town is far safer now than it was in the 80s and 90s.

Quitelife

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536039#Comment_122536039

O Connell Street. Talbot Street , Parnell Street are not safe and anyone who things they are is either related to Helen Mcentee or a drug dealer who is happy with the disorder .

Quitelife

Keep walking to the bridge at the river and a crew from merchants Quay will sort you out

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536053#Comment_122536053

Show me the stats please.

All those places have been kips for 200 years. But O Connell St is very safe to walk down during the day. In the 80s and 90s there were a lot of muggings.

Drama off the charts here lads.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536053#Comment_122536053

If they're not safe how come they're so busy with people all the time? It doesn't add up. There streets are full of Americans right now, they're everywhere, and everything seems to be going OK.

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536053#Comment_122536053

You clearly never walked those streets 30+ years ago!

CookingGuy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122532084#Comment_122532084

Can I just ask what you get out of trying to gaslight people like this?

Why are you so insistent that there's no problems anywhere and then turning around and saying yeah there's problems but shur everywhere has problems?

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536177#Comment_122536177

I'm the one being gaslit saying it's unsafe for me to go into town during the day. Its mental. Like there are 10s of 1000s of Americans here now for the football, 10s of 1000s more in the, gasp, north inner city for Coldplay, are you saying they're all in danger? It's just nuts.

JP Liz V1

In Palmerstown

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/man-arrested-after-being-detained-29795754

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536053#Comment_122536053

I walk them every week, as do my wife and kids! There's some unpleasantness, there's drug dealing, there's red light breaking, there's litter problems but to say it's not safe is stupid. There's schools, colleges, restaurants, businesses, offices, cafes etc… on them, people work in them they walk to work every day. Thousands of late night staff walk home every day, chefs, nurses, servers etc… How can you say they're dangerous when they're safely traversed so often by millions every day?

You're like the gaslights in Smithfield square.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536053#Comment_122536053

You're like the gaslights in Smithfield square at this stage, trying to convince people that it’s dangerous where they safely go every week.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536053#Comment_122536053

I walk them every week, as do my wife and kids! There's some unpleasantness, there's drug dealing, there's red light breaking, there's litter problems but to say it's not safe is stupid. There's schools, colleges, restaurants, businesses, offices, cafes etc… on them, people work in them they walk to work every day. Thousands of late night staff walk home every day, chefs, nurses, servers etc… How can you say these streets are dangerous when they're safely traversed so often by millions every day?

You're like the gaslights in Smithfield square at this stage, trying to convince people that it’s dangerous where they safely go every week.

ShagNastii

I've just recently moved closer to the inner city and it is impossible not to concede that the place has been over taken by crime and Anti-social behaviour. There is an ever present vibe in the city centre (O Connell St, Talbot St, Henry St and Moore St) now that is utterly grim.

I lived just off O Connell Street just after Covid and I'd often go for a walk at lunchtime. It would be very seldom you wouldn't see a significant incident that would make you say to yourself "This isn't right. Imagine being a tourist seeing this". People openingly injecting drugs, bicycle thefts, vicious assaults and even one day I encountered a stabbing. This was all in broad daylight. Don't even ask me about after dark.

Sad thing is it has been let happen and it won't get any better. It is a cesspit. It is now perfectly OK to loiter, drink, do drugs and litter on Moore Street and O Connell Street. What value do these places now have?

Lillyfae

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536248#Comment_122536248

Just in case anyone missed this, one of the “Dublin is graaaand” bots is glitching. We’ll have him up and running in time for the next daylight assault.