dublin is 10th most violent city in europe

utick · 20-03-2008 03:20AM #1

http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=58272-qqqx=1.asp

interesting article based on figures from 2004-2006 places dublin as the 10th highest homicde rate in europe with a figure of 2.4 killings per 100,000. considering the garda figures released for 2007 said dublin had a murder rate of 5 per 100,000 i would imagine we are at worse than number 10 now.

i think the days where when a shoking murder occurs and people say ' well dublin is still one of the safest cities in europe' are gone

dr.bollocko · 20-03-2008 03:22AM

Well yeah. Its a horrible skanger infested hole... I thought we'd been over this!

Rb · 20-03-2008 03:22AM

Pffft, tyvm Finglas.

Run_to_da_hills · 20-03-2008 03:22AM

It beats Limerick

utick · 20-03-2008 03:26AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

It beats Limerick

yeah i think limerick was 7 per 100,000 if i remember correctly, but it has gone from one of the safest places to a lot less safe thanks to appeasement of the scumbags in my opinion

dsmythy · 20-03-2008 03:29AM

utick wrote: »

yeah i think limerick was 7 per 100,000 if i remember correctly, but it has gone from one of the safest places to a lot less safe thanks to appeasement of the scumbags in my opinion

Is it 7? That would make Limerick even worse than Dublin. Not good for them.

ironictoaster · 20-03-2008 03:41AM

Will someone give me some positive news instead of all this negative crap

admiralofthefleet · 20-03-2008 03:42AM

creggy wrote: »

Will someone give me some positive news instead of all this negative crap

tedfest was great

Jesus Wept · 20-03-2008 03:43AM

10/25 = pretty much average. meh.

dr.bollocko · 20-03-2008 03:45AM

creggy wrote: »

Will someone give me some positive news instead of all this negative crap

The STD clinic may call with some positive news!:eek:

Muff_Daddy · 20-03-2008 03:56AM

utick wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=58272-qqqx=1.asp

interesting article based on figures from 2004-2006 places dublin as the 10th highest homicde rate in europe with a figure of 2.4 killings per 100,000. considering the garda figures released for 2007 said dublin had a murder rate of 5 per 100,000 i would imagine we are at worse than number 10 now.

i think the days where when a shoking murder occurs and people say ' well dublin is still one of the safest cities in europe' are gone

Were the 15th safest city in Europe? Let the good times roll I say.
Hey, it could be worse.....at least were not Tallinn.

robby^5 · 20-03-2008 06:02AM

10th isn't that bad really, personally I'd like to know the top 10 and never go to those cities, ever

Terry · 20-03-2008 08:52AM

Dublin is the 37th most dangerous city on the planet.
I, like the Irish Examiner article, don't have any facts to back this up though..

chopperbyrne · 20-03-2008 09:05AM

Negative article about Dublin coming from a paper that used to be called The Cork Examiner shocker!

Mizu_Ger · 20-03-2008 09:11AM

If the government actually put some time, money and resources into this we could eventually be no.1!

LimerickCity · 20-03-2008 09:15AM

Spotted two kids sniffing what appeared to be nail varnish on Abbey Street last week. Passed an hour later and they were still in the same spot.

Had that happened in Limerick they would both have been lifted in a matter of minutes.

Taxi driver stabbed yesterday i believe. Had it happened in Limerick the Dublin based media would have had a field day with it.

Terry · 20-03-2008 09:18AM

I'm going to Dublin in about an hour.
I'm shítting myself.

LimerickCity · 20-03-2008 09:21AM

Terry wrote: »

I'm going to Dublin in about an hour.
I'm shítting myself.

heh heh heh

Stay away for taxi's

Wook · 20-03-2008 09:21AM

Mizu_Ger wrote: »

If the government actually put some time, money and resources into this we could eventually be no.1!

hihi

joe_chicken · 20-03-2008 09:24AM

LimerickCity wrote: »

Spotted two kids sniffing what appeared to be nail varnish on Abbey Street last week. Passed an hour later and they were still in the same spot.

How violent of them.

gazzer · 20-03-2008 10:14AM

Taxi driver stabbed yesterday i believe. Had it happened in Limerick the Dublin based media would have had a field day with it.

The media did have a field day with this story... It was the top headline on all the news reports yesterday and a lot of people they interviewed from the estate stated how bad the area had become.

cabrwab · 20-03-2008 10:19AM

Dammit was just about to point this out!
I say get behind the goverment on this one, get us to number one!

Collie D · 20-03-2008 10:51AM

Statistics can proive anything. It says that Dublin has the 13th highest homicide rate out of 25 cities. Doesn't this also mean that we're the 13th safest city too?

Usual sensationalist ****e

BigEejit · 20-03-2008 11:09AM

Just to stir it a bit; how many of the murdered people were Irish nationals?

oh and Dublin is now and always has been a cesspit.

Collie D · 20-03-2008 11:10AM

BigEejit wrote: »

Just to stir it a bit; how many of the murdered people were Irish nationals?

oh and Dublin is now and always has been a cesspit.

Nice to see you live up to your name. Troll

RastaRed · 20-03-2008 11:31AM

Dublins has gone to ****e for the past couple of years and is now out of control, coke, drink, joke of a justice system, parents that dont give a fcuk all the major reasons why. I had to move 2 years ago, used to live around the corner from where those 2 poor polish guys were murdered, I could see how bad Drimnagh and Crumlin was getting and couldnt bear the thought of my kids growing up around there and worrying about them going to town when they were older.
Down in Gorey now, never going back, hate the thought of going back up to Dublin now when I go out with lads and work meetings

is_that_so · 20-03-2008 11:56AM

Dublin is a port city and has always been rough. I've been told stories of Dun Laoghaire in the 50s that are on par. These things tend to go in cycles. Heard a guy on the radio talking about the English kid who lost his finger -"that it could have happened anywhere, in any modern city".

This type of writing is lazy tabloid trough-feeding that merely serves to fill Whineline and the even more-hysterical late night excrescences.

Of interest to me was a piece on John Fitzgerald - formerly of Dublin now in Limerick in which he talks about what to do to tackle it. Also surprisingly from the Examiner.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=58268-qqqx=1.asp

thelordofcheese · 20-03-2008 12:08PM

utick wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=58272-qqqx=1.asp

interesting article based on figures from 2004-2006 places dublin as the 10th highest homicde rate in europe with a figure of 2.4 killings per 100,000. considering the garda figures released for 2007 said dublin had a murder rate of 5 per 100,000 i would imagine we are at worse than number 10 now.

i think the days where when a shoking murder occurs and people say ' well dublin is still one of the safest cities in europe' are gone

wait, how do you commit .4 of a murder? Give someone two dead legs?

emeraldstar · 20-03-2008 12:37PM

utick wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=58272-qqqx=1.asp

interesting article based on figures from 2004-2006 places dublin as the 10th highest homicde rate in europe with a figure of 2.4 killings per 100,000. considering the garda figures released for 2007 said dublin had a murder rate of 5 per 100,000 i would imagine we are at worse than number 10 now.

i think the days where when a shoking murder occurs and people say ' well dublin is still one of the safest cities in europe' are gone

10th most violent CAPITAL city in Europe - that's a big difference to being 10th most violent CITY in Europe.

Collie D · 20-03-2008 12:38PM

emeraldstar wrote: »

10th most violent CAPITAL city in Europe - that's a big difference from being 10th most violent CITY in Europe

QFT - but 10th out of 25 doesn't have the same effect

Kess73 · 20-03-2008 12:45PM

LimerickCity wrote: »

Spotted two kids sniffing what appeared to be nail varnish on Abbey Street last week. Passed an hour later and they were still in the same spot.

Had that happened in Limerick they would both have been lifted in a matter of minutes.
Taxi driver stabbed yesterday i believe. Had it happened in Limerick the Dublin based media would have had a field day with it.

Not a chance. Bedford Row has kids sniffing on a regular basis every Saturday and they are there for hours on end.

The whole Limerick gets it's bad news shown in a media frenzy is rubbish. Crime is bad in Limerick, certain areas resemble warzones. Crime is also bad in lot's of other areas in Ireland too, but being from Limerick, the news about those places does not register as much with me as when I hear Limerick's name mentioned. We notice bad things being said about where we are from more than other places.

dublin is 10th most violent city in europe

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