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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Cordell


    I won't mention the exact cases as them being before courts and everything, but you had to go 30 years back to find something that doesn't even approach what has happened in the last few hears at the hands of illegal migrants.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    https://www.thejournal.ie/man-raped-daughter-prolonged-attack-mother-jailed-18-years-6850395-Oct2025/

    Can go back a lot sooner to see horrendous cases involving Irish criminals.

    Nationality doesn't mean anything, scumbags are scumbags.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,311 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    This thread really is a master class in confirmation bias, you can set your watch to it.

    'Read something bad in the news? Check the Is Dublin really safe thread for some premium, top tier examples of confirmation bias!'.

    Well done lads, ye never let me down.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,311 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Have you ever been? I have a couple of years ago and it's incredibly jarring how old everyone is. It feels like a society on death's door. Place is full of what should be retired people still working sweeping up, working on trams and lots of other low level work.

    They'd rather do that than allow immigration. It's an extremely xenophobic society, to it's utter detriment. Not something to strive for at all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,796 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    I agree it has always happened, but not on this level by one sector of society. Getting beaten up is not the same as having your throat slit.

    In the past 5 years, 31% of femicides have been at the hands of immigrants. CSO figures for 2022 show 12% of the usually resident population being immigrants. Completely disproportionate.


    For the record I’m not anti immigration, I’d just like to see a safer system in place that detects and stops Romanian child rapists enter the country a week after leaving prison, like the one just deported last week, Vadim Veste.

    But that only happened after he sexually assaulted a woman in a Cork park.

    Too late for an Irish woman. Again.



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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 21,944 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Mod - as per Boards Terms of Use, please do not discuss cases currently before the courts, two posts have been deleted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,268 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    Yeah they could be much smarter and be championing being replaced instead.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,124 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    why does every thread have to turn into an immigration thread ffs



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,124 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    people have been getting stabbed and slashed in dublin forever, i think it used to be worse. that romanian guy is in cork not dublin, is cork unsafe too or just dublin?

    have a read of this - hammer attacks, 4 people stabbed at a ramones gig in cabra in 1980, mayhem at lots of gigs! i've never seen any trouble at a gig myself, i think we're generally more chill nowadays, town was way rougher when the bars closed in the 90s

    https://comeheretome.com/2014/04/14/violence-and-the-dublin-live-music-scene-1977-1988/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    The Japanese should do everything it can to keep immigration low, it's a beautiful culture and they should do everything they can to preserve it.The way it is is something to strive for due to how clean it is and how respectful the people are.

    I'm pretty certain 99% of people come back from Japan feeling we need to be more like them in a lot of ways rather than coming back from Japan with your attitude.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭Toranaga


    The working class heroes didn't turn out in force when the priests and authority figures were sexually assaulting children on a regular basis.

    Need to bring that good Catholic culture back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,057 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    I can’t believe you’d say this, or even believe it, given Ireland’s history with children. From the Industrial Schools to the Magdalene Laundries, from Tuam to the Mother and Baby Homes, from the endemic sexual abuse by Irish men to the repeated familicides across the country.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Cordell


    I can't believe that you use the past evils happened in Ireland to justify current and future evils done by foreigners who should not be here in the first place.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,057 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Who exactly told you that people are justifying current or future evils committed by anyone? . Either that, or you haven’t picked up a newspaper or watched the news at any point in the last 30 years you’re referring to, because what’s been happening recently is no more shocking than the countless tragedies we’ve seen in that time. How many children do you think have been murdered in Ireland over the last few decades? Ana Kriégel, Philip Cairns, Lisa Cash, Christy Cawley, Chelsea Cawley, the Kerry Babies case, the Hawe family murders, Keane Mulready Woods, Jessica McCann, Raonaid Murray, Toyosi Shittabeya to mention a few, surely you've heard of these cases?? And that doesn't cover the horrible child abuse that went on and still does every single day behind closed doors.

    Post edited by Leg End Reject on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,613 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Keane Mulready Woods has no place on a list of victims.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,057 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    I see where you're coming from and I'm aware of his deeds but when it comes to it he was a child, he was groomed in a similar fashion to sub continental African child soldiers and he was subsequently murdered. But I understand your position.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,226 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    Some sad news about the English tourist who was attacked in Temple Bar in August.

    He died in his 40's in a hospital in the UK on Saturday.

    May he Rest in Peace.

    Post edited by dublinman1990 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Quitelife


    There has never been as many people involved in criminality , too few guards .. too few prisons … criminals know they can more or less do as they please . If you kill someone’s you’ll do time but other than that you’ll probably get away with anything these days unless your very unlucky .
    most parts of rural Ireland like county Limerick have only a token garda presence, perfect spots for drug safe houses and burglary gangs and attacking each other in feuds



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Quitelife


    https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/crime-and-courts/1929805/men-armed-with-gun-and-and-slash-hooks-storm-house-in-limerick-town.html



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    Do you know this thread is about Dublin and not Limerick?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Quitelife


    all part of Irelands general deterioration, Dublin is bad but Limerick is a lot worse is my point



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,143 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    FYI, my username has two´l’s. It’s the name of a road in Galway, not a member of the Guinness family.

    Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭exiledawaynothere


    Dublin is by and large really safe compared to many other capitals



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,057 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    FYI did you spell it wrong? I literally live on what was once the Guinness estate in the Capital, have delved in to the history, done a few of those historical walks with actual historians and always thought the title Ardilaun itself comes from Ard Oileáin after the island off the Galway coast that the Guinness family owned.

    From what I can gather, the Ardilaun roads in Galway are similarly spelt like they are in the Capital. With one L.

    And what is your point regarding Dublin and it's danger? Did you delete a post?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,226 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    A man in his 20's has died following an assault in Tyrrelstown.

    It happened in Curragh Hall Crescent at around 10:30pm last night.

    RIP to the deceased.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,908 ✭✭✭nachouser


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    St Patrick's Park. Some brave folks venturing out into the dangerous kip.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,867 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    So import more problems. The UK is having its Magdalen laundries moment with its Pakistani grooming gangs that have been hushed up for decades. Even Khan in London was still trying to keep the London ones quiet but it’s blowing up in the news now. Keep bringing up the past to excuse the issues today I’m sure that will work out fine and ignore certain ‘cultures’ problems.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    Good luck to you trawling across different threads replying to month old posts to post your xenophobic nonsense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,057 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    The Picasso exhibition is on in The National Gallery in the Capital right now. Imported foreign culture that will calm you, make you happier and you could get some nice food afterwards. You'll be glad to know he was born a Catholic.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Cordell


    European Imported foreign culture - being European makes all the difference.



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