Tallaght not as bad as you think

Odysseus · 16-01-2011 10:13PM

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:

I work in it, and the clinic in Jobstown, I would love to see some the keyboard warriors here have a go at some of my clients. Like anything else being on methadone does not a scumbag make.

I own fire arms with a quote like above I would be suprised if you did own one, and would more than likely shoot yourself in the foot with one.

SHOVELLER · 16-01-2011 10:33PM

Great atmospheric stadium!

KOH

RussellTuring · 17-01-2011 02:54AM

amacca wrote: »

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.

I probably would have done the same myself a few years ago before I mellowed out. But you can't take it out on them. It's society's fault, you see.

Dudess · 17-01-2011 02:59AM

pmcmahon wrote: »

say's the cork muck savage

:eek:

Too far...

tallaghtmick · 17-01-2011 03:28AM

Odysseus wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Sink The Banana wrote: »

I work in it, and the clinic in Jobstown, I would love to see some the keyboard warriors here have a go at some of my clients. Like anything else being on methadone does not a scumbag make.

I own fire arms with a quote like above I would be suprised if you did own one, and would more than likely shoot yourself in the foot with one.

moderator doesnt get humour :O:O:O shock horror,btw a junkball tried mugging me when i was 16 and i broke his jaw and cheekbone,heroin ****s up bodies as you know and make them weak and without trying to sound like a keyboard warrior im 6f4 and played gaa all my life at least if i do have to defend myself i use my fists not knives

Trog · 17-01-2011 07:52AM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Odysseus wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

moderator doesnt get humour :O:O:O shock horror,btw a junkball tried mugging me when i was 16 and i broke his jaw and cheekbone,heroin ****s up bodies as you know and make them weak and without trying to sound like a keyboard warrior im 6f4 and played gaa all my life at least if i do have to defend myself i use my fists not knives

You must be well hard. I wish I was your freind.

tallaghtmick · 17-01-2011 02:17PM

Trog wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Odysseus wrote: »

You must be well hard. I wish I was your freind.

im not making myself out to be hard so dont twist my words,all im saying is i can defend myself like alot of other people in dublin who arent afraid of intimidation from junkies.

JimmyCrackCorn · 17-01-2011 02:35PM

Lorrs33 wrote: »

I think it's way too late to disperse the stereotypes associated with Tallaght but I'd like to just say that I have lived here my whole life and it is a nice place to live. I hate that it has a bad reputation and it serious pisses me getting slagged about it by people who have never even been here.

It's not as though when you leave Tallaght, suddenly you can flaunt your wallet and your car keys and whatever valuables with the attitude, 'I'm not in Tallaght anymore, I won't get robbed'. No town in Dublin can leave their doors unlocked so why has Tallaght been singled out?

We have the Square and the Luas so it's very convenient. A town shouldn't be judged just because it has scumbags, you're going to get them everywhere. So tell me what it is.

I lived in tallaght for two years. Iv witnessed serious assaults, loads of public order offences, 4 police chases, my car was broken into the night i moved in, burned out cars at least once a week.

Id recommend tallaght to anyone that's why i left.

Ogh and a 96 Honda accord is not flaunting anything when you bought it for 500 euro.

sandmanporto · 17-01-2011 02:39PM

i dont think its bad at all was there the weekend. People are sound and friendly. Dont knw why so many people up their own holes use it as a place to slag just to make themselves feel better about their hometown. Yuppies eh!

tallaghtmick · 17-01-2011 02:44PM

JimmyCrackCorn wrote: »

I lived in tallaght for two years. Iv witnessed serious assaults, loads of public order offences, 4 police chases, my car was broken into the night i moved in, burned out cars at least once a week.

Id recommend tallaght to anyone that's why i left.

Ogh and a 96 Honda accord is not flaunting anything when you bought it for 500 euro.

what part did you live in?

Cantona's Collars · 17-01-2011 02:45PM

Met a few folks from Tallaght on my hols,had the usual stereotypical view at first but found them to be sound,they even travelled down for a long weekend on the lash a couple of months later.Like all places you may take the bad with the good.
Had a funny incident before in Tallaght-was working in the lands overlooking it when some battered up guy came charging through the ditch in absolute tatters."How do I get to Tallaght bud?" was all we got from him as he stumbled past.Found out he had been abducted in Jobstown and brought for a nice drive and 'conversation' up in the hills.

-Corkie- · 17-01-2011 03:07PM

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.

What would you do if I added you??????.:D

Calibos · 17-01-2011 03:19PM

This bull**** excuse for scummers that 'der are no facilities for de youngfella's' wreaks my head. Its often trotted out as an excuse for why certain area's of tallaght became the way they are.

Tell me this. I lived in Firhouse for my entire Childhood. Firhouse is also full of housing estates, had just as much of a dearth of facilities and back in the day was just as far from recreational facilities as areas of Tallaght. Why didn't Firhouse estates degenerate into cesspits of scumbaggery?

ntlbell · 17-01-2011 03:23PM

Calibos wrote: »

Why didn't Firhouse estates degenerate into cesspits of scumbaggery?

Some would say they did.

Dublinman12 · 19-01-2011 02:59PM

What a ridiculous thread....There are a few council housing estates in "Tallaght" that are rough....Kilinarden,Jobstown,Brookfield,Fettercairn....there are nice area's such as Old Bawn,Kingswood,Belgard Heights,Aylesbury and Citywest,Kiltipper,Bancroft.

But because all these area's are classed as tallaght they all get thrown into the same category....

Some people paid mad money for dingy 2 bed duplex's just because they fell into the D14 Rathfarnham area just so they could say they lived in Rathfarnham...when they could have bought a house literally accross the road in Ballycullen for the same price....the only catch was that was that Ballycullen (a lovely area) was in the D24 code and therefore you are thrown into the "Tallaght" generalisation....

Terenure is right beside Crumlin and Drimnagh....and Castleknock is next to Blanchardstown....so it is ridiculous when "Tallaght" is generalised...

HavingCrack · 19-01-2011 06:23PM

Calibos wrote: »

This bull**** excuse for scummers that 'der are no facilities for de youngfella's' wreaks my head. Its often trotted out as an excuse for why certain area's of tallaght became the way they are.

Tell me this. I lived in Firhouse for my entire Childhood. Firhouse is also full of housing estates, had just as much of a dearth of facilities and back in the day was just as far from recreational facilities as areas of Tallaght. Why didn't Firhouse estates degenerate into cesspits of scumbaggery?

It is a bull**** excuse and that's all it is, an excuse for people who can't take responsibility for their own actions.

I know people who visited Malawi where some of the poverty would astound you but they never experienced any crime whatsoever even without security. The people could not have been nicer and friendlier to them. Compared to the huts they lived in Jobstown, Irish council estates would be Beverly Hills.

johnmcdnl · 19-01-2011 07:06PM

Dublin's a kip /thread

TeddyTedson · 19-01-2011 07:11PM

johnmcdnl wrote: »

Dublin's a kip /thread

Not really though is it.

Geminicw · 19-01-2011 11:50PM

I have to agree with OP I am from the country and had only been in Dublin a few times Christmas shopping ect. so myself and few mates decided to go to tallagh for the weekend (one them said its a great spot) at first I was a bit unsure because I had heard it was rough out but I have to say I was a great weekend not one bit of trouble met some of the nicest people over all great crack!!!

backthephilup · 20-01-2011 12:21AM

Geminicw wrote: »

not one bit of trouble met some of the nicest people over all great crack!!!

Typical culchie up in the big smoke 5 minutes an already hittin da rock...will all end in tears
Seriously it annoys me when people make sweeping generalisations about a whole area they have probably never done more than drive through. Visiting The Square does not qualify you as an expert on Tallaght. As someone who has actually lived in Tallaght let me tell you it is an awfull ****ehole largely populated by overfamilliar scumbags who insist on referring to everyone as "bud"
Could be worse though imagine living in Hollyhead?

Odysseus · 20-01-2011 12:51AM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Trog wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

im not making myself out to be hard so dont twist my words,all im saying is i can defend myself like alot of other people in dublin who arent afraid of intimidation from junkies.

Maybe your not, but what I do know is I have dealt with some very serious people over the years, and don't find the need to justify making statements about zeroing your scope.

Most firearms owners in Ireland hated this as it shows the person knows nothing about them. The paperwork and hoops we have to jump through, and people think they are cool or will get a few thanks for "popping" a few drugs drug users, with their rifle. I note you neither confirmed nor denied you own a fire arm. If you make statements like that on a public forum I pray you don’t.

I don't get intimidated easy myself, but I do know that after years of MA training, I'm an ultra runner as well, that there are plenty of drug users out there that may be able to take me down, given the right circumstances.

I doubt you would call anybody you see making their way to Belgard everyday as a junkie to their face, so why the need to do it here? As I have said again and again here being a drug user does not a scumbag make.

d4head77 · 20-01-2011 01:12AM

I'm from a very posh background (I can be honest here in anonymity!). My best friend all my life, who I would trust with my life, is from an area of town (not Tallaght) which, like Tallaght, among the chattering classes who have never even been there, has a brutally bad "reputation". I could not put into words how highly I regard my friend, nor others I know from that neck of the woods, and yet there are more than a few I kn ow wgho live locally to me me and drive his'n'hers SUVs etc etc, who i would not piss on if they were on fire. If anyone wants to designate anyone as scumbags or knackers, my take in this always relates to trust and integrity. I would value my aforementioned friend(s) very far above some of my well spoken, well educated and well paid neighbours. It's all about what's in your heart, isn't it?

bigwillie · 20-01-2011 01:29AM

im from walkinstown and worked in Packard Electric in tallaght for years, most of the people there were from tallaght and were some of the nicest people you will ever meet......... a few dickheads as well:P

tallaghtmick · 20-01-2011 01:50AM

Odysseus wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Trog wrote: »

Maybe your not, but what I do know is I have dealt with some very serious people over the years, and don't find the need to justify making statements about zeroing your scope.

Most firearms owners in Ireland hated this as it shows the person knows nothing about them. The paperwork and hoops we have to jump through, and people think they are cool or will get a few thanks for "popping" a few drugs drug users, with their rifle. I note you neither confirmed nor denied you own a fire arm. If you make statements like that on a public forum I pray you don’t.

I don't get intimidated easy myself, but I do know that after years of MA training, I'm an ultra runner as well, that there are plenty of drug users out there that may be able to take me down, given the right circumstances.

I doubt you would call anybody you see making their way to Belgard everyday as a junkie to their face, so why the need to do it here? As I have said again and again here being a drug user does not a scumbag make.

calm down its a joke ffs,and no i dont own any firearms and i dont plan on it i know how hard you guys work to get a license,fair enough maybe you have met "good junkies" but i haven't,like i said being mugged for a schoolbag was shocking enough but to see a little scumbag called "bucko" bully kids years ago was enough for me.Im not a **** but seeing him face down on the ground makes me laugh but then i see the face on his parents as they shamefully drag him in changes that.

Odysseus · 20-01-2011 02:30AM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Odysseus wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

calm down its a joke ffs,and no i dont own any firearms and i dont plan on it i know how hard you guys work to get a license,fair enough maybe you have met "good junkies" but i haven't,like i said being mugged for a schoolbag was shocking enough but to see a little scumbag called "bucko" bully kids years ago was enough for me.Im not a **** but seeing him face down on the ground makes me laugh but then i see the face on his parents as they shamefully drag him in changes that.

He sounds like he would be a cnut with or without drugs, that's what I'm trying to get you to see. Face down on the ground as in stoned? or put down? I ask as if the former he sounds ripe for a od, out or interest what would your reaction be then?

Dudess · 20-01-2011 02:34AM

Lol at the "I've met a lot of people from Tallaght and they're really nice" responses. No sh1t - "A lot of people in 'really nice' shocker!" :eek:

tallaghtmick · 20-01-2011 02:37AM

Odysseus wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Odysseus wrote: »

He sounds like he would be a cnut with or without drugs, that's what I'm trying to get you to see. Face down on the ground as in stoned? or put down? I ask as if the former he sounds ripe for a od, out or interest what would your reaction be then?

off his face BUT i think he has calmed down in the past year,tbh id feel sorry for his family and daughter but not for him he put the needle in no-one forced him,i apologise if ive offended you but with a bro for a garda and through my own experience i only see/hear the bad side and i do believe that you see the good side also im not sure and hopefully you can clarify this but through programs like your own heroin addiction is down true?

Odysseus · 20-01-2011 10:05AM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Odysseus wrote: »

tallaghtmick wrote: »

off his face BUT i think he has calmed down in the past year,tbh id feel sorry for his family and daughter but not for him he put the needle in no-one forced him,i apologise if ive offended you but with a bro for a garda and through my own experience i only see/hear the bad side and i do believe that you see the good side also im not sure and hopefully you can clarify this but through programs like your own heroin addiction is down true?

I'm not sure what your asking, but some people turn their lifes around, some reduce the amount the use to just being dole day users some just use the programmes to carry on doing what they want.

Balmed Out · 20-01-2011 10:18AM

I always assumed that it was the same as everywhere else some people sound some not.
However I did meet this guy in a hostel one time and he was from Tallaght. What an absolute tosser. kept following us around making stupid jokes and being really really loud and obnoxious. Wouldnt take a hint and f off. After reading some of this thread im kind of thinking they might all be like taht, is it true?

iPlop · 20-01-2011 10:36AM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

calm down its a joke ffs,and no i dont own any firearms and i dont plan on it i know how hard you guys work to get a license,fair enough maybe you have met "good junkies" but i haven't,like i said being mugged for a schoolbag was shocking enough but to see a little scumbag called "bucko" bully kids years ago was enough for me.Im not a **** but seeing him face down on the ground makes me laugh but then i see the face on his parents as they shamefully drag him in changes that.

Don't tell me you know bucko as well ,ffs I lived close to him and often saw him floating down to the shop.And you're right he's a fcuking scumbag.Too many stories about that fella to even get into here

Tallaght not as bad as you think

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