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

Thank you rocket GD & thelonius for you comments. Believe it or not I was trying to not add into the pile on of Dublin.

But my comment ( which seems to be overlooked) is that ( yes in my opinion*) all urban areas are seeing an increase in antisocial behaviour - not just Dublin. And I can assure you there aint more garda bodies on the ground where I live.

*an opinion which is formed from reading the courtcases of my local papers and pretty much every news outlet in the country on a near daily basis.

personally i just think it's the same as it ever was for the most part, except some parts are safer than they used to be, like around sherrif st etc. i remember the streets being pretty nuts when the pubs closed years ago, you'd always see fights. sometimes i see addicts fighting amongst each other these days but that's all.

Dublin doesn't feel unsafe in the slightest to me, in it basically 5 days a week and while it's nice to see an increased Garda presence, for people that actually matters to, it has always felt safe even before then.

You may answer this as other poster disappears when asked a question, what European city do you feel is safe if you believe that Dublin isn't?

@Rocket_GD Not necessarily 'statistically safer' but Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Cardiff or Edinburgh all seem to have far less of a 'decay' or threatening vibe about them.

All are smaller than Dublin admittedly.

Its all subjective anyway.

The point of my post which you replied to was that the alleged attack was by a cop.

Even yourself agree that by stats Dublin isn't statistically "unsafe" compared to the majority of European capitals. Your perception isn't reality though.

Other poster stated that Dublin has to be unsafe based on an incident. Go to any European capital and these incidents occur frequently.

The difference is they aren't reading the Paris, Madrid, London, Berlin, Budapest, Prague news on a daily basis.

Love the headline!

This is exactly it, I don't live in Dublin but I'm in it most days of the week and never have a problem, i'd see the odd bit of trouble every now and then bur never anything major to turn me off it, I quite like Dublin.

People who want to see bad will see it regardless and will always moan about Dublin even though they have no problem to go there to work, go to games, concerts etc but still moan it's unsafe even though 99.9% of the time nothing will happen to them.

Also word on the grapevine is that the tourist attacked was attacked by a member if his own group or another tourist, not an Irish national, I'm not 100% sure yet so can't say for sure.