Is Dublin really safe? *Read OP for mod warning*

Is Dublin safe compared to Rio de janero, or sao Paulo?

According to a Brazilian in today's Irish times it is.

Happy now?

It is awful, but if you haven't had better you might never realize that.

No sniping here, you must be confusing me for some other culchie, easily done. We all have the same spud head. I've told you before, I live in Dublin city, which is relevant to this thread.

This thread is about Dublin city and it's level of safety or lack thereof. So, you posting about Cork or whatever, not relevant, take it to another thread. Less of this self-pitying nonsense would be great too…

This thread is just a pile on because dublin is so detested by Irish people not from here.

Weren't they setting places on fire around the country too? But no. Dublin bad. Everywhere else gud.

a whole thread devoted to how much everyone hates dublin and its people and you're offended by that lol

Oh boo hoo, it's a thread about your hometown, get over it. At least John is putting points across and conversing, not wallowing because people have opinions which do not line up with yours about Dublin.

Pitiful is how hell bent you are on making dublin out to be such an awful place to live when you live here yourself. Poor life choices if you ended up somewhere you hate.

Now carry on waiting for the next article to appear about crime in dublin so you can gleefully post it here.

No because I think cork and Limerick are nice places, I just have pointed out there are similar problems in these places too. Ireland has the same issues nationwide just on different scales, either way I wouldn't call anywhere in Dublin or ireland unsafe, that's just hysterical.

You are correct that you'll find unsavoury aspects of towns and cities around, but that inner city core of Dublin has a more concentrated and unchallenged menace.

This is 100% correct. I have never seen it matched. In Ireland or abroad. It's a real shame too because businesses are seeing it and pulling out of the city, like the article I posted last week.

Temple Bar venue says the ‘city is not safe’ after staff member mugged | Irish Independent

This seems to be a common enough view amongst city centre businesses. If it continues, we'll have a husk of a city centre.

Bangalore is busy too, doesn't mean everyone wants to be there.

We can't win so. Not busy it's an empty husk. Busy but no one actually wants to be there. Lol.

You really have a serious obsession with "scrotes"

That north inner city core is a tiny part of the city.

How many times do you need to be told that Dalkey, Killiney, Blackrock, Ballsbridge, Clontarf, Castleknock, Howth and Malahide etc are the polar opposite of the North Inner city and are all superior to any town in the country.

Dublin has both the worst and the nicest places to live in Ireland, but you only ever consider the worst parts, which represent a very small percentage of Dublin's 1.5 million population.

Dublin has huge advantages over other capital cities if you play it right , what other cities are 20 to 30 minutes from the coast, mountains, great cycling , walking etc

I agree with this. I lived in Paris, Brussels and London over the course of the past 15 years and while each of those definitely offered things that Dublin doesn't (not least excellent public transport), I very often found myself yearning to be out in a bit of open country or coast. That's one of the things that brought me back. Yesterday evening I went up to Donabate beach which looked spectacular — this proximity to the more natural world is such a brilliant feature of Dublin that not a lot of our classic Irish diaspora cities around the world have.

There are things to fix in Dublin — but when people are unable to also see what's great about it then I don't see what they have to offer in terms of vision. Improving a city is not just about constantly identifying its failings, but also weighing up what's good about them in order to protect and promote the good aspects in tandem with rectifying the bad.