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

2023 Edenmore Grove Raheny -

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mother-armed-with-cricket-bat-confronted-woman-after-social-media-row-1474476.html

2025 fella from Edenmore Avenue Coolock / Arson - with child and woman inside

https://m.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/dubliner-jailed-for-setting-fire-to-house-while-woman-and-two-young-kids-were-inside/a1279339639.html

2025 - woman from Edenmore gardens Raheny assaults man https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-51-struck-man-in-head-with-traffic-cone-and-threw-knife-during-a-dispute-on-a-dublin-street/a1673976382.html

So many incidents of crime in general particularly noticeable 2019 Edemore Area cat stamped to death and paper beaten

https://m.independent.ie/regionals/herald/feral-gang-stamp-cat-to-death-and-beat-oap-in-row-over-50-drugs/38549782.html#

Ok so no women were attacked in edenmore in any of these stories

one was burned by a fella from Edenmore the other was threatened with a cricket vat by another women. A third woman assaulted a man but in your view it is grand! Ok Edenmore is better than the 80s but there is still a residue of a mindset culture. Takes many generations of that to die off.

in my experience a community is only as good as its weakest link like a sports team. And the weakest links in the socially deprived area is always a different category to those from the. nicer areas. I get the impression you don’t know how the other half live do you don’t even sense the difference. And are quick to jump to any defence.

It is the people that are already here born and bred in Ireland generations of deprevation that are the trouble, Not the asylum seekers that are the problem. Those families who have not socially progressed for generations and would have the mindset to vote Gerry Hutch. With that mindset they keep themselves down. And many of them view asylum seekers as a scapegoat to their problems.

It can be slowly changed through education but it is extremely difficult to break through that minded. In my experience some “working class” who get out of the areas they live in might STILL have massive chips on their shoulders. Begrudging others wanting to get “one up “ on neighbours. It is only the generation after the first upwardly mobile one they start to integrate truly. And the chip on the shoulder becomes lessened.

Yeah like there's still a handful of bogeys living there but saying women can't walk around the place is the level of hysteria people come out with when talking about how safe or unsafe Dublin is.

So what you really mean by all this is you're afraid of people not as well off as yourself?

is Dublin safe is a sort of a general sweeping question that you cannot give a general sweeping answer to. I remember in the 1980’s when joy riding a car theft was rampant in some areas. Like all large cities there are problems and in some areas of Dublin the problems are worst than others it was never utopia.I personally don’t enjoy visiting Dublin, but that’s due to my dislike of big cities and the hustle and bustle. I don’t feel comfortable and that’s a different thing to not feeling safe. If was a female walking alone or an elderly person l may well feel anxious or afraid being on my own in some areas. So it depends on who you ask this question to.

I'm starting to ask myself where does the see-saw tip in terms of this being a scumbag problem not a lack of Gardai problem.

When I look at certain videos doing the rounds, my first thought isn't "Where are the Gardai to stop this?". It is "On what planet do these people think this is OK?".

Major of London Sadiq Khan has conceded that much of this comes with being a big cosmopolitan city. It already has become a day-to-day thing but I'd be sickened if knife culture or anything like it is just something we now have the privilege of having in our capital city and further afield.

There’s people around, but seems a lot quieter to be than ten years ago.
from my perspective, people seem to visit town if they have to go to the office, or if it’s a convenient place for people living around different parts of Dublin to meet.
Otherwise people I know tend to avoid going to town now

Expert on donaghmede now too lol. How do you know anything about the library there? My dad used to bring us there as kids to get books anyway. You just have a problem with working class areas it seems. I'll stop replying to you now because if you genuinely think women can't walk around these places you're deluded or more likely blinded for your absolute hatred of anything dublin. It's fascinating how much the rest of the country hates this city, like our other cities and towns are some kind of utopias…

I can say the exact same about my female partner too, she meets up with her friends in town all the time, and it's not like they're some city hardened girls half of them went to Loretto on the green ffs.

From what I can see the city has never been busier, as to be expected with population rises and a bustling economy. People talk about restaurants and bars closing but new ones seem to be opening all the time too.

I was in town on Saturday night. And the weekend before. Mainly around Camden St. Absolutely rammed. No tables in restaurants. No room in pubs, people everywhere. As busy as it gets. Much busier than 10 years ago.

Yup. More people outside Anseo than inside. All of the restaurants full. Every one of them.

That new Porters busy too. Great to see another bookies gone from town and something good done with the building.

Oh, I even saw women - loads of them - walking around! 🧐

He's just a sneering snob. I bet if he told us where he lives we could dig up crimes that happened there too. But he won't tell us that.

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