Tallaght not as bad as you think

Dudess · 16-01-2011 01:34PM

Some guy I don't know from Tallaght tried to add me on Facebook recently - naturally I hurriedly pressed ignore and washed my laptop.

Johnny Utah · 16-01-2011 02:01PM

"Tallaght not as bad as you think"

LOL

The OP should be the tourism minister for Afghanistan.......

"Visit Kabul this summer.... you'll have a blast!"

HavingCrack · 16-01-2011 02:21PM

I think the main sign of how good or bad an area is, is how comfortable a non-resident would be walking around it, not a person who has grown up there or visits their relatives friends etc.

Using this as a yardstick, most of East Tallaght (village, Kingswood, IT, Belgard Road) would be alright. I don't know much about Aylesbury so I really can't say. Tymon and Old Bawn are quite rough at the edges but I don't think they're as bad as they used to be. I'd be pretty uncomfortable in Kilnamanagh to be honest. Now Killinarden is somewhere I definately would not be going into if I wasn't from the area. The Springfield area is pretty nice from what I can see.

West Tallaght is a place I can honestly say I wouldn't venture into at all. Fettercairn and Jobstown are just areas I wouldn't go near. A mate of mine was working in the Shell garage near Jobstown and got robbed three times in a month. He quit as you can imagine. I also used to play football matches out that way a fair bit and we ended up having to race to our cars at the end of two games after the boyizzz turned up at the side of the pitch and started throwing ****e at us.

RussellTuring · 16-01-2011 03:46PM

mixednuts wrote: »

Do you just ride birds from Tallaght ?

No that was just the one. And you would have too, I'd bet. The other one I was with at the Square wasn't from there.

amacca wrote: »

Wow......intelligent little thugs aren't they....next they will be throwing their wallets and playstations at people.

You should have challenged them to a game of chess.

If they threw a bicycle at me it would be returned to them resembling a wheelchair.

That one was actually hilarious, even at the time. The looks on their faces were priceless. I probably would have chased them off and taken one of their bikes just for a laugh if I'd been on my own, but the people I was with didnt want to stick around for the whole family to turn up.

tallaghtmick · 16-01-2011 04:37PM

NothingMan wrote: »

I completely agree.

Lived in Tallaght all my life. Grew up in Homelawns. It's near Old Bawn but would have a worse reputation as it was near a lot of council flats

it was made look better by millbrook lawns and then the junkie centre arrived and ruined it for both of us :mad:

Mr. Loverman · 16-01-2011 04:41PM

I live in Tallaght. It is a kip.

Rubbish everywhere, scumbag kids allowed run wild, lots of petty crime.

But most amazingly it is still a very expensive place to live:

http://www.daft.ie/searchsale.daft?search=1&s[cc_id]=ct1&s[a_id]=296&s[mnp]=&s[mxp]=&s[bd_no]=&s[search_type]=sale&s[furn]=&s[refreshmap]=1&search_type=sale&s[sort_by]=price&s[sort_type]=d&fr=default

amacca · 16-01-2011 04:45PM

RussellTuring wrote: »

The looks on their faces were priceless. I probably would have chased them off and taken one of their bikes just for a laugh if I'd been on my own, but the people I was with didnt want to stick around for the whole family to turn up.

That always holds me back in these situations too

juicy lucy's and mental eddie's bruddas and cousints could literally be around the next corner

If I thought they were a bit further away, I didn't live in the area and cameras were not working Ireland would see a return to on the spot corporal punishment...at least on my account.

tallaghtmick · 16-01-2011 04:46PM

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

I live in Tallaght. It is a kip.

Rubbish everywhere, scumbag kids allowed run wild, lots of petty crime.

maybe you should clean your house and spank your kids:cool:

Mr. Loverman · 16-01-2011 04:48PM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

maybe you should clean your house and spank your kids:cool:

House is clean, don't have kids.

I live in the Jobstown end of Tallaght. I understand and accept this is the worst part. But it is so huge it gives the whole of Tallaght a bad name.

tallaghtmick · 16-01-2011 04:51PM

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

House is clean, don't have kids.

I live in the Jobstown end of Tallaght. I understand and accept this is the worst part. But it is so huge it gives the whole of Tallaght a bad name.

just incase you think im a knob i was joking but internet sarcasm is hard to get,anyway i know a few people from jobstown and they are lovely its not the area that raises scumbags its the ****ty parents

Mr. Loverman · 16-01-2011 04:53PM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

just incase you think im a knob i was joking but internet sarcasm is hard to get,anyway i know a few people from jobstown and they are lovely its not the area that raises scumbags its the ****ty parents

Ah yeah, I agree 100%. Loads of lovely people in Tallaght. And ****ty parents really **** up kids.

iPlop · 16-01-2011 08:01PM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

NothingMan wrote: »

it was made look better by millbrook lawns and then the junkie centre arrived and ruined it for both of us :mad:

Then the lads above Tony's shop took care of it

CiaranC · 16-01-2011 08:03PM

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

House is clean, don't have kids.

I live in the Jobstown end of Tallaght. I understand and accept this is the worst part. But it is so huge it gives the whole of Tallaght a bad name.

Move then?

tallaghtmick · 16-01-2011 08:08PM

Sink The Banana wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Then the lads above Tony's shop took care of it

ah no no no it wasnt them at all;)

iPlop · 16-01-2011 08:09PM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Sink The Banana wrote: »

ah no no no it wasnt them at all;)

ntlbell · 16-01-2011 08:10PM

Sink The Banana wrote: »

Then the lads above Tony's shop took care of it

:pac:

SOS, great for the easter eggs

dave 27 · 16-01-2011 08:10PM

seriously?! whats the point of this thread? i could say the same about Limerick but not gona waste my time :rolleyes:

123balltv · 16-01-2011 08:17PM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

NothingMan wrote: »

I completely agree.

Lived in Tallaght all my life. Grew up in Homelawns. It's near Old Bawn but would have a worse reputation as it was near a lot of council flats

it was made look better by millbrook lawns and then the junkie centre arrived and ruined it for both of us :mad:

Tymon has a junkie centre they ruin most area's My Aunty worked around that area too you see them in Tymon shopping centre drinking their methadone.

tallaghtmick · 16-01-2011 08:20PM

123balltv wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

NothingMan wrote: »

I completely agree.

Lived in Tallaght all my life. Grew up in Homelawns. It's near Old Bawn but would have a worse reputation as it was near a lot of council flats

Tymon has a junkie centre they ruin most area's My Aunty worked around that area too you see them in Tymon shopping centre drinking their methadone.

i wasnt bragging about having 1

iPlop · 16-01-2011 08:20PM

123balltv wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

NothingMan wrote: »

I completely agree.

Lived in Tallaght all my life. Grew up in Homelawns. It's near Old Bawn but would have a worse reputation as it was near a lot of council flats

Tymon has a junkie centre they ruin most area's My Aunty worked around that area too you see them in Tymon shopping centre drinking their methadone.

Theres one on the belgard road , just up from burger king ,on certain days you'll see brass monkeys all walking up the belgard road to get their Sh!t ,it's across from Jacobs

The_B_Man · 16-01-2011 08:25PM

HavingCrack wrote: »

I think the main sign of how good or bad an area is, is how comfortable a non-resident would be walking around it, not a person who has grown up there or visits their relatives friends etc.

Using this as a yardstick, most of East Tallaght (village, Kingswood, IT, Belgard Road) would be alright. I don't know much about Aylesbury so I really can't say. Tymon and Old Bawn are quite rough at the edges but I don't think they're as bad as they used to be. I'd be pretty uncomfortable in Kilnamanagh to be honest. Now Killinarden is somewhere I definately would not be going into if I wasn't from the area. The Springfield area is pretty nice from what I can see.

West Tallaght is a place I can honestly say I wouldn't venture into at all. Fettercairn and Jobstown are just areas I wouldn't go near. A mate of mine was working in the Shell garage near Jobstown and got robbed three times in a month. He quit as you can imagine. I also used to play football matches out that way a fair bit and we ended up having to race to our cars at the end of two games after the boyizzz turned up at the side of the pitch and started throwing ****e at us.

:P:P:P

Although, being reasonable, I'd say literally every single place in the world has, at some stage, someone walked through it that felt uncomfortable.

tallaghtmick · 16-01-2011 08:28PM

Sink The Banana wrote: »

123balltv wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Theres one on the belgard road , just up from burger king ,on certain days you'll see brass monkeys all walking up the belgard road to get their Sh!t ,it's across from Jacobs

really???ive worked in broomhill for 2 years and ive never seen them......i better go tweak my sniper rifle sight:pac:

iPlop · 16-01-2011 08:31PM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Sink The Banana wrote: »

123balltv wrote: »

really???ive worked in broomhill for 2 years and ive never seen them......i better go tweak my sniper rifle sight:pac:

It's there alright ,in the same place that tile place was that went bust ,just up from the indian take away

Celly Smunt · 16-01-2011 08:52PM

Dudess wrote: »

Some guy I don't know from Tallaght tried to add me on Facebook recently - naturally I hurriedly pressed ignore and washed my laptop.

say's the cork muck savage

Celly Smunt · 16-01-2011 08:57PM

Orando Broom wrote: »

Tallaght is a festering cesspool of lazy, dole scroungers unmarried mothers fleecing the soical welfare system, fatherless, feral scumbags who have an air of entitlement and exist in a consequence free environment. Tallaght is a hotbed of innate criminality.

If the people of Tallaght had any regard for the place (they don't) they wouldn't let the hordes of young thugs wander round in their tracksuits like it was an olympic village. The people of Tallaght don't live they exist.

have you ever been to tallaght?

Leiva · 16-01-2011 08:57PM

Ahh will ya's ever go and fcuk off .

Every area has it's riff raff and scum .

Now im not saying that certain parts of Tallaght are on the same par as our D4 friends , but if you live in a housing estate if it be Tallaght or anywhere in Ireland then your gonna have the pusher , user , thief , scumbag .

They (scumbags)may seem like the majority in certain areas but they are not .
Plenty of decent folk who are the true majority , but brought down by the odd scumbag.
The Council don't help either with their crazy housing schemes .
Take that new estate just off the Fortunestown rd at the top of Tallaght , Mac Ulliamh or some shoite name like that .... Fcuk me what a Kip !
It's gonna be the new mini Ballymun in about 10yrs .The crazy boys in the Council must have emptied a whole housing list into this new build .
Now I'm sure there is also decent folk in this estate but it's a perfect example of a social problem incubation project.
It's taken decades to sort out other social problems in other estates , yet in 12months they have managed to make a problem that will last and last for decades to come.

M

pokerface_me · 16-01-2011 09:40PM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Sink The Banana wrote: »

123balltv wrote: »

really???ive worked in broomhill for 2 years and ive never seen them......i better go tweak my sniper rifle sight:pac:

Its based at the old Glen Abbey factory, Zombies do be walking to it most days up and down the belgard road.

I grew up in Cushlawn and lads it was as rough as it comes and still is. Houses boarded up all over the place, robbed cars every night, Killinarden house for a quiet pint is like the ok coral, your taking your f00king live into your hands unless you know somebody there. I've drank there down the years as i'm from the area and i could write a book on the place. Junkies dying every other week, stepping over bodies to get into the top shop, lads off there cake everywhere. People getting on and off the 65b and 50 bus and not paying their fare, just walk on past the driver known damn well he is not coming after them, unless he has a death wish.

Last incident i heard of happened 2nd January this year, couple of young lads egging houses, threw an egg at the wrong mans house. Went out picked up the little 14 year old scumbag, proceeded to walk around to the next road with the youngfella over his shoulders, arrives at said younglads house, and proceeds to fook him through the sitting room window and lands on the xmas tree in the middle of the window in full view. Aul lad comes out roaring and shouting, gets decked and is told if his son ever looks at his house again he will shoot him and cut his balls off.

All in all a fine neighbourhood.

degausserxo · 16-01-2011 09:48PM

To be fair, every town has its scumbags. With a population of around 100,000, there's obviously gonna be a bigger volume of scumbags than anywhere else.

Liam Byrne · 16-01-2011 10:00PM

degausserxo wrote: »

To be fair, every town has its scumbags. With a population of around 100,000, there's obviously gonna be a bigger volume of scumbags than anywhere else.

Very, very true.

Considering that's about the same size as Limerick City and the amount of ****e that I have to put up with reading about, I'd try to suck it up, OP.......if someone hasn't a clue what they're talking about and slags off your area, just write them off as uninformed bigots.

The funniest one of all was when someone on holiday reacted to us mentioning where we were from with the usual ignorant stereotype phrase......the fact that he was from South Armagh meant that I didn't correct him, and we walked away from the prick and laughed our hole off afterwards at the fact that he thought it "safe enough" to slag us, while we'd have been afraid that he'd pull out an AK47 or a pipe bomb if we'd tried to correct him, which just highlighted which of the two places had the actual worse reputation.

LpPepper · 16-01-2011 10:02PM

Ive lived in Tallaght all my life , Aylesbury to be exact . 15 min walk to the square and luas .. The likes of aylesbury and old bawn are grand , but jesus Killinarden and Jobstown are total **** holes . When you hear of bad things going on in Tallaght its either Killinarden or Jobstown , Aylesbury and Old Bawn are like any another place in Dublin . Houses priced at 3-500,000 but Jobstown and Killinarden are just council estates ..

Tallaght not as bad as you think

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