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

Can you provide the evidence for your claim that "the same thing is now going on"?

I haven't claimed to have abolished anything.

It's always someone else's fault if you use you don't like defending.

Wasn't it an Italian bishop that blamed sexy children for tempting priest? Christian morality me hole.

Correct.

I go up to Dublin regularly to visit TUH. I would not like to be on the red line at night and wouldn't want to be in the north inner city. I'm not a wimp. I live in a town with a bad rep and it is fine. I worked and socialised in Dublin until lockdown. I have lived and travelled all over Europe and been in some very dodgy situations. I feel Dublin has a sort of menacing, unpredictable atmosphere in parts and I feel I have to have my wits about me. That is not a nice feeling to have.

Every big city has its rough areas. That is to be expected but Dublin seems to have got worse since the lockdowns.I often don't feel safe there.

Unless we build more prisons the situation will continue you only go to prison for very serious crimes eg rape and causing serious bodily harm this is not a good way to run a criminal justice system .you could ask the question is any eu city safe what city has no crime no drug dealers no shoplifters car theft or muggers . At least our police are not wasting time arresting people for writing negative things on twitter

I read that gardai have to spend a lot of time doing paperwork before they even go out on the streets I think drug addicts commit crimes because they need money for drugs they are probably not rational enough to think what happens if I get arrested and sent to prison

It was far worse in the 80s and 90s in the inner city though. Standard of housing, standard of living and kids with absolutely nothing to do.

I had friends from Sheriff St as I went to school nearby and the place was like a warzone, an absolutely scary kip in the 90s. You have no idea how far along it has come since then. Same with the likes of Summerhill. Still kips but now people walk around these areas as they would anywhere . The canal greenway at the back of Sheriff St nearby will have all sorts walking on it at night I jog there most evenings. Women on their own, dog walkers, tech workers... you have no idea how out of bounds that area would have been in the past.

Anyway this is a silly thread at this stage some people are just hell bent on wanting Dublin to be a really dangerous place when it just isn't.

I lived in Summerhill briefly, jaysus!!! It was bad in the 80/90s. Loads of drug squats up around the SFX centre, place was falling apart. The new Gardener street flats did take the edge off a bit, but now it's become a law on itself.

The lockdowns only revealed the social rot. Even back in the 80/90s I don't recall whole streets just being closed off on public safety grounds like they are now.

It was a shabby place then, it did have an edge and I've zero nostalgia for it, but today the threat is more concentrated and organised.

I think it looked worse in the 90s. Remember the Hill 16 pub? Surrounded by wasteland after massive clearances.

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I don't know of any streets closed off unless to allow just for foot traffic like Grafton street

In terms of crime dublin is about average in the eu, thousands of people go into dublin every day without anything negative happening to them ,yes we need more gardai but young people have many options now apart from being a garda so its hard to get new recruits

I pass thru o.connell street every week theres usually one or two gardai in the area there's a lot if security cameras in that area it's very busy loads of people around the more people on the street the safer it is .probably one of the safest streets in dublin

Yeah you will see groups of young lads wandering around and one will always have either a single or two crutches, i remember around 2 years ago being outside sheehans just off grafton st and we saw a group of 8-10 lads wandering around obviously looking for trouble with one lad on crutches, around an hour later they went by again with a different lad on the crutches this time.