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

That's the guy. Need a cut soon. First haircut there was about 94! Another couple of decades I may consider myself kind oldish

And its where the junkies begging outside Tesco and Centra go to smoke their crack pipes when the dealer comes round.

The lane beside Vicar St will be next.

The council cant stop junkie,s or criminals going to a lane to sell drugs or use them ,thats the job of the gardai, the residents or business,s voted to close down the lane ,there,ll be gates on the lane to allow business acess .

Is there a city in europe that has no drug dealers or junkies . our prisons our 110 per cent full right now . they,ll just go to another location to use drugs .

An alley to use when your swanning around.

I was thinking the other day about this post. Less than a year on, I still venture into town a couple of days a week and it has utterly changed. The vibe of menace is certainly no longer there and the place seems a bit nicer, a bit cleaner and really tidy.

There now seems to be Garda all over the place. I generally do a walk from the Grafton Street, across Dame St and TB and then across to Henry/O Connell Street when I'm mooching. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say there are now numerous Garda on every street in the City Centre. If I encounter 50+ Gardai it wouldn't feel strange. I was meaning to ask one of them how it came about and what was the strategy, but didn't as I felt that would be a bit weird.

There are still the usual suspects loitering around places but it isn't as overly noticeable as it once was.

I was in Dublin that day. Devious toastie and cupla deacent pints of murphys. Happy out and talked to some some English families. Delightful. Sun was out, kids having ice-cream, only 47 stabbings.

Quite and lovely day in dcc

Definitely a marked increase in the number of guards, need to be careful on the bike now as likely to stop cyclists for every infraction now, which is a big change

Good for some areas and much needed , but as usual at the expense of other areas ,

areas outside dublin going to total ruin , its now usual for large provincial and county towns to have one car between two or three towns at night ,

places like Ashbourne Wicklow or Kildare town for example have little to no cover at night and arent getting any new bodies as every thing goes to dublin so that there can be a social media post of 20 new people in Kevin street .

Places like that get hopped off most nights by lucky dippers or tool thief's . while operational units like India victor (night time partols of the motorway units ) Uplands (daytime car theft unit) are gone as theres no money , all while a massive wave resignations and retirements is just stating.

drew really fcuked us all

Our cities have never been better and safer. Was in Dublin city centre and it was glorious, had a few delicious scoops in the sun followed by some top quality middle eastern food. Street were packed and there was a real positive buzz. Didn't see any trouble whatsoever which goes to show that the far-right naysayers are only trying to spread their hate and fear.

Rammed today again and the people in kerry and Tyrone (or is it armagh?) jerseys didn't seem too scared they're everywhere.

The amount of English hen and stag dos around town at the weekends lately is mad. I thought we got too expensive for that but I keep seeing loads of them lately.

Did you also raise concerns to your Representative Association when they successfully blackmailed Harris into ensuring that the rosters were to be done in such a way as to have no Roads Policing units in the early hours of the morning?

No?

Then don't be a hypocrite and don't come on here shedding crocodile tears. I'll be here to pull you up on it - and the others who thanked your post.

Just as I thought. You really don't give a toss about the fact that certain areas or units are gone or do without.

If your Representative Association really did give a toss, the rosters would be such that RPU is on duty 24 hours a day. But since I saw no concerns from you around the new rosters then it's clear to me you don't give a toss either.

Again with the crocodile tears too I see.

Really hard to see you point here . im arguing that poor resource and mismanagement is causing a public safety issue

wasn't there a democratic process over rosters ? and agreements and endless endless discussions , of course having a entirely toothless representative organisation that retains the faith of very few

not sure why the weird aggression

Before everyone gets their knickers in a twist about poor resource management in the Gardai, can we all accept that Ireland(government wise) is bad at resource management in every area and department.

We had 3 days of extra hot weather and irish water were urging people not to use hose pipes. In a country where it had been raining non-stop for the previous 3 weeks.

We are literally surrounded by water and there are landlocked countries with bigger Navies.

We have more money than we know what to do with, and instead of doing something significant, we are going to flitter it away on greenspaces. Turning train-tracked areas that we could put trains running on, into cycle lanes.

I'm saying the government and before someone says otherwise, its been pretty much the same government for the last 20-30 years. Same 2 or 3 parties.

I really didnt want to go down this alley, but

"Dublin has the least subsidised public transport of any capital in Europe, yet it is expected to deliver on climate goals and support the country’s workforce."

Luxembourg, Talinn(Estonia) and Belgrade(Serbia) all provide free public transport. So, the above is nonsense.