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

If I perceive it to be unsafe then I don't feel safe in it.
Whether stats prove it one way or the other doesn't make any difference.
If you had stats saying it's 100% safe I still choose to believe otherwise based on my experiences

You asked what city in europe people consider safe. Ive been in 3 swiss cities multiple times and id 100% feel/consider then safe.

I didnt say they had no crime.

Edit- to add Ifeel safe in Dublin. I socialise in the CC once a month on average. Its got it issues but tis my city.

But the difference between a Basel and Dublin is night and day regarding police presence and general degenerates/junkies.

Ive added an edit to my reply just for full disclosure on my position.

Tell us how you really feel.

A lot on here just seem to have a vendetta against Dublin.

Where you in the city over the weekend at all? Place was absolutely packed with American tourists since Thursday for the college football match, all bar & restaurants packed. Atmosphere around the city was incredible all weekend. 13k wrestling fans on Friday night, 80k for Robbie Williams and 50k for the college football.

No visible trouble, plenty of Garda presence and

A far cry from the "run down scrote infested kip" you wrongly think that it is.

You’re not in the city and you’re getting your info from social media.
No wonder you think Dublin is dangerous if that’s all you’re looking at. What you’re seeing online are groups: addicts (that can barely walk) fighting each other, teens up to no good with each other, and drug activity. Unless you’re an addict, buying drugs, or joining in with antisocial behaviour, you’re not going to be harmed. The more you watch, the more you’re fed, and you just lap it up and regurgitate it here. If you’d actually been in town last weekend you’d have seen a very different Dublin than the one on your phone. Put the phone down and come visit before the summer’s over.. PM me if you want tips on where to go, I’ll sort you out.

I have lived in a lot of Cities in Europe and further…

Dublin is bang average… Stockholm to me was very safe, Paris can be pretty bad… But that is based on my feeling…

Statswise Dublin pretty good…

Would you consider Dublin to be safe?

Yeah, thanks for the invite, but I've been in Dublin (city centre) about 25 to 30 nights this year so far (which is probably more than most of you defending it) - I'll pass.

Enough to have to be there for work...

I am. Loads of it. Wish I could say the same, but hey ho..

Working with high end customers visiting all of the above, over multiple days. Being harassed by the crack zombies and paper cup scrotes every step of the way.

SIck of apologizing to our paying visitors and trying to explain why its such a sh1thole. They are usually very nice, but they are always surprised at the general decay and scumminess of the place.

On the bright side, I've noticed that many of our top agents aren't sending guests there anymore unless they specifically ask. Recent anecdotal info from my colleagues confirms this.

I lived in Dublin from 2011 to 2015, and enjoyed it, but glad to be away from what it has become in the interm.

Every step of the way? I don't think so, did a good few walking tours this summer and while maybe one or two beggars asked for change there was no way that type of hassle. I've also been at a few corporate events for after show gigs in the city, very little experience of what you're describing and the visitors were loving the city.

Either way, no sense of danger from this post.

Looking at your previous posting it seems you simply hate Dublin, have a mild obsession about it, perceive that the city and its residents as lacking authenticity and connection to Irish cultural roots, although you're from the Dublin suburbs, you don't spend any time in the city and I think you're making things up now.

Are you saying its dangerous to walk from the 5 lamps to Henry St? This is something I do regularly as I live near the 5 lamps.

Whenever I travel outside of Dublin to smaller villages and towns I feel that there's a much greater sense if community and pride in the place. People actually seem to care about their place.

Like there are parts of Dublin, around 5 lamps is a great example of this, where dog sh*t all over the streets is pretty much a permanent feature of the place and the people who live there just don't seem to care.

I understand that people can get defensive when it comes to stuff like this. I used to get really annoyed when relatives living outside of Dublin would get into their "Dublin is dangerous" speech because I felt like in some way I was being personally attacked.

The truth is though that Dublin can be a very unpleasant place and if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time it can be a very dangerous city indeed.

The number of wrong places and the volume of wrong times is gradually increasing while people are just in complete denial. "Well, nothing like that ever happened to me!"

I was pretty sick when I had covid for a few days.

You have to understand that it's so weird being told how dangerous where you live is when everyone I know and myself get along just fine here every day, as does everyone that lives around here. The area around 5 lamps has some deprived residents but you are not going to get randomly assaulted.

The presence of litter and heroin addicts is not dangerous.

The contrarions here are the weirdos telling us how dangerous Dublin is when the rest of us carry on with our lives here no bother.

I think people are confusing litter and tracksuits with safety is the problem