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Tallaght - officially worst place to live in the State

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  • #32
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    saiint wrote: »
    i actually know several places where drug dealers hide their stash because thats shows how much control the guarda have on the area
    i could have over a hundred grand worth of drugs in my hand this afternoon if i wanted
    constant shootings,knife attacks ,

    Fantasise much there, saiint!
    I'd say the only thing you could have in your hand this afternoon is your todger - which will come in handy if that girlfriend you mentioned is as factual as the rest of your bullshít.


  • #33
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,053 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    deccurley wrote: »
    Tallaght has more problems than any city I know in the country.....

    The problem there is you comparing a city which is much for varied in its make up than a massive suburban area. Its going to have radically different problems.

    Which why when looking at figures like this you have to look beyond the pure numbers.


  • #34
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Motorist wrote: »
    Random intresting fact - A branch of Domino’s located in the Square shopping centre is the busiest of its 8,000 stores worldwide, apparently selling up to 200 pizzas an hour. The branch is the first in Domino’s 45-year history to hit a turnover of $3m (€2.35m) a year. The chain says that requires 1m pizzas a year or an eye-watering three a minute for every one of the 12 hours a day the branch is open.

    I'm surprised Domino's only make around €2.35 profit on each pizza considering the prices they charge!

    I remember reading about that before but I think that was around 2006/07. I wonder is it still the busiest in the world??


  • #35
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Motorist wrote: »
    I see the suburbs of Dundrum and Rathfarnham also make the list. Incidentally, they are both around a ten minute drive from Tallaght.
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    You mean Tallaght is a ten minute drive from Dundrum and Rathfarnham...........


  • #36
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    fran oconnor wrote: »
    dodderangler wrote: »
    Ah well
    Couldn't care what people say
    I'm proud of where I live ( probably cuz I'm
    Not in the bad parts of tallaght) but all areas have they good areas and bad
    The top end of tallaght is a disgrace tho
    I'm 32 and have lived here all my life, i have seen some bad stuff happan down through the years, but i have also grown up around some very decent people, at this stage i dont think id live anywhere else.

    I dont get the way they do these stats tho, we have one Garda station for the population of a city ffs.
    Yeah I totally agree
    1 Garda station for the population in tallaght is ridiculous
    I love tallaght don't get me wrong lived here all me life but the scum have destroyed it


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  • #37
    Jarren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,689 ✭✭✭Jarren


    Motorist wrote: »
    Random intresting fact - A branch of Domino’s located in the Square shopping centre is the busiest of its 8,000 stores worldwide, apparently selling up to 200 pizzas an hour. The branch is the first in Domino’s 45-year history to hit a turnover of $3m (€2.35m) a year. The chain says that requires 1m pizzas a year or an eye-watering three a minute for every one of the 12 hours a day the branch is open.

    and your point of random interesting fact is ?


  • #38
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Jarren wrote: »
    and your point of random interesting fact is ?
    Scummers like dominos.


  • #39
    Motorist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    Jarren wrote: »
    and your point of random interesting fact is ?

    Higher-quality diets are associated with greater affluence, energy-dense diets that are nutrient-poor are preferentially consumed by persons of lower socioeconomic status and of more limited economic means. Tallaght also has one of the highest unemployment rates of any area in the country. All of these are correlated. No surprise to see crime is higher there.


  • #40
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    BostonB wrote: »
    The problem there is you comparing a city which is much for varied in its make up than a massive suburban area. Its going to have radically different problems.

    Which why when looking at figures like this you have to look beyond the pure numbers.

    True to a degree, although Tallaght still has it's own CBD, smaller than a city of it's size elsewhere admittedly, but it has the basic makeup of a city of it's own.

    I see your point, but I don't think it validates the figures completely..


  • #41
    CSU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 460 ✭✭CSU


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Scummers like dominos.

    *claps*

    Bravo you flucking idiot.

    +++

    Apart from the odd idiot around Tallaght I have to take my hat off to the council as they keep the place 90% looking great/clean/tidy.

    2c


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  • #42
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    I have to say bollock's to this. I have worked in Tallaght with addicts and some serious criminals for over a decade, and yeah some of this is true or based in truth. However, saving up for when he is in the joy:rolleyes:


    My ex lived in that estate, for years I stayed there no problems. Of course there are lots of drugs, I would be out of work otherwise, but it's not a no go area.


    Tallaght is too big of an area with too many private and council estates with varying degrees of services to generalise on it as a whole. Lots of social problems to be found, however, plenty of decent estates too.
    saiint wrote: »
    My girlfriend lives in
    Fettercairn
    one of the worse places in Tallaght
    have to say if you went into them estates youd see why tallaght has its bad name
    nothing but muppets on every corner, the smell of weed is in the air
    theirs more weed then oxygen
    guarda everywere but do feck all about the kids standing on corners acting mad
    cars burnin around corners you can smell the rubber off the wheels
    drug dealing done in broad daylight in the middle of fields
    i actually know several places where drug dealers hide their stash because thats shows how much control the guarda have on the area
    i could have over a hundred grand worth of drugs in my hand this afternoon if i wanted
    constant shootings,knife attacks , knackers jumping on random people for their phone ( i actually know someone who is going back into the joy in a couple of months ) he actually said to me
    *i go to a park, see anyone walking by me with a nice phone, give them a smack , get their phone and money or what ever they have on them, sell it and save up for money so i can have money in the joy*

    he said one day he hit some fella, the fella start crying , he asked for the poor fellas phone, it was a blockia a really old old phone, he just said to the poor youngfella *heres your phone back dont let anyone hit ya*

    sad fecker haha
    Tallaght is by far the worse area ive ever been to , its like the joy ina way its were all the mad lads go haha


  • #43
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Odysseus wrote: »

    Of course there are lots of drugs, I would be out of work otherwise,.


    You might be if Saiint robs your stash :pac: He knows where they all are apparently.

    No wonder there is so much drug abuse in Tallaght if people can just easily find free multi kilo amounts poorly concealed in the fields.:P


  • #44
    frankled
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭frankled


    saiint wrote: »
    My girlfriend lives in
    Fettercairn
    one of the worse places in Tallaght
    have to say if you went into them estates youd see why tallaght has its bad name
    nothing but muppets on every corner, the smell of weed is in the air
    theirs more weed then oxygen
    guarda everywere but do feck all about the kids standing on corners acting mad
    cars burnin around corners you can smell the rubber off the wheels
    drug dealing done in broad daylight in the middle of fields
    i actually know several places where drug dealers hide their stash because thats shows how much control the guarda have on the area
    i could have over a hundred grand worth of drugs in my hand this afternoon if i wanted
    constant shootings,knife attacks , knackers jumping on random people for their phone ( i actually know someone who is going back into the joy in a couple of months ) he actually said to me
    *i go to a park, see anyone walking by me with a nice phone, give them a smack , get their phone and money or what ever they have on them, sell it and save up for money so i can have money in the joy*

    he said one day he hit some fella, the fella start crying , he asked for the poor fellas phone, it was a blockia a really old old phone, he just said to the poor youngfella *heres your phone back dont let anyone hit ya*

    sad fecker haha
    Tallaght is by far the worse area ive ever been to , its like the joy ina way its were all the mad lads go haha

    That was brilliant.

    I'm from Tallaght, it's not as bad as made out, in saying that it is a massive working-class area, no doubt about that. Above article is grasping at straws though.


  • #45
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Whether or not Tallaght is the worst for crime, I wish people would ditch this politically correct notion that "everywhere has its bad parts". It may be the case that each area has its parts that are "worse" relative to the area as a whole, but that doesn't mean that the "bad" parts of Foxrock are the same as the bad parts of Tallaght.

    This is the same false balance nonsense that gets trotted out in the media for certain scientific debates, and the conclusion ends up being "So the jury is still out on whether gravity exists as a force in the universe". Just because crime exists in different areas doesn't mean that it is evenly distributed across the whole country. Certain areas are crime black spots, there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that.

    On the subject, as mentioned there seems to have been a lack of thought put into the article. Having said that, my parents (who live in Tallaght) were only saying that someone was trying to break into a neighbour's house recently. Better be vigilant these days...


  • #46
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Father Damo wrote: »
    You know the exact location of a six figure quantity of someone elses drugs hidden in a field?

    Do you fcuk.
    He means 6 figure as in €1,000.00


  • #47
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    Tallagh Clondalkin is just like everywhere else, 99% of the area and people are sound, but the 1% scumbags ruin an area for everybody else.

    Tallagh/clondalkin is very self contained. It has everything from shopping districts, theatres, stadiums, nightclubs some people from these area seldom go into town, they don't have to.

    I work over there and they are the salt of the Earth people. I like this stat as I get some playful lackery about been a northside scumbag, so this will be some slagging back in their face.


  • #48
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    very surprised by this as the terrible journalism is usually aimed at north dublin, even though there are more working class 'rough' areas south of the liffey.

    dundrum has bad areas, sweetmount is one
    rathfarnham has holylands
    blackrock has brookfield
    killiney has cromlech fields
    shankill, although its a decent village has shanganagh cliffs
    ranelagh has mount pleasant
    rathmines

    the list goes on. yes, the northside has rough areas but people only ever seem to concentrate on them. south dublin is far rougher


  • #49
    Motorist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    Colmustard wrote: »
    Tallagh Clondalkin is just like everywhere else, 99% of the area and people are sound, but the 1% scumbags ruin an area for everybody else.

    Tallagh/clondalkin is very self contained. It has everything from shopping districts, theatres, stadiums, nightclubs some people from these area seldom go into town, they don't have to.

    I work over there and they are the salt of the Earth people. I like this stat as I get some playful lackery about been a northside scumbag, so this will be some slagging back in their face.

    I agree with you that there are very sound people in Tallaght. Although, I'd say the scum element is significantly higher than 1%, and the remaining percentage has a sliding scale of how law abiding they are. I spoke to one Garda traffic corp member who took an ANPR car out around Tallaght. He said the thing was constantly lit up like a Christmas tree for no motor tax, etc. He had to turn it off.


  • #50
    xylophones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭xylophones


    Colmustard wrote: »
    Tallagh Clondalkin is just like everywhere else, 99% of the area and people are sound, but the 1% scumbags ruin an area for everybody else.

    Tallagh/clondalkin is very self contained. It has everything from shopping districts, theatres, stadiums, nightclubs some people from these area seldom go into town, they don't have to.

    I work over there and they are the salt of the Earth people. I like this stat as I get some playful lackery about been a northside scumbag, so this will be some slagging back in their face.

    highly doubt that its just 1% ruining it, id say the ratio of scumbags to 'salt of the earth dubs' is a lot different to what youre letting on! even being at the luas stop up there is taking your life in your own hands...


  • #51
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Dave! wrote: »
    Whether or not Tallaght is the worst for crime, I wish people would ditch this politically correct notion that "everywhere has its bad parts". It may be the case that each area has its parts that are "worse" relative to the area as a whole, but that doesn't mean that the "bad" parts of Foxrock are the same as the bad parts of Tallaght.

    This is the same false balance nonsense that gets trotted out in the media for certain scientific debates, and the conclusion ends up being "So the jury is still out on whether gravity exists as a force in the universe". Just because crime exists in different areas doesn't mean that it is evenly distributed across the whole country. Certain areas are crime black spots, there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that.

    On the subject, as mentioned there seems to have been a lack of thought put into the article. Having said that, my parents (who live in Tallaght) were only saying that someone was trying to break into a neighbour's house recently. Better be vigilant these days...
    Exactly. I mean where would you rather live, Tallagh or Foxrock? Both have their bad parts me arse.
    Joe Duffy is a fan of this. Always on about what a great place Ballyfermot is. But as soon as he got a few quid he moved out of there to Clontarf.


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  • #52
    sf80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭sf80


    Tallaght's not so bad when you take the populations into account, for example...roughly..

    0.0218 burglaries per person Rathfarnham
    0.0143 burglaries per person Tallaght


  • #53
    saiint
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭saiint


    Dave0301 wrote: »
    We still talking about Tallaght or Baltimore from The Wire?

    youve obviously never been to fettercairn or kilnardin


  • #54
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    But sure we've no facilities here maaaaaaaaan.


  • #55
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Ah sure, at least they could convert the Square into a prison if they were stuck.


  • #56
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Motorist wrote: »
    I spoke to one Garda traffic corp member who took an ANPR car out around Tallaght. He said the thing was constantly lit up like a Christmas tree for no motor tax, etc. He had to turn it off.

    Far be it for him to stop them, eh.:rolleyes:


  • #57
    xylophones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭xylophones


    Ush1 wrote: »
    But sure we've no facilities here maaaaaaaaan.

    theres nutin fer de childredn te do, deey HAVE te hang round de streets!!!


  • #58
    saiint
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭saiint


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Fantasise much there, saiint!
    I'd say the only thing you could have in your hand this afternoon is your todger - which will come in handy if that girlfriend you mentioned is as factual as the rest of your bullshít.

    Fantasise much? haha you havnt been to that part of tallaght then
    keyboard warrior mate thats all you are
    getting personal attacks against me haha you sir are sad, i wouldnt be anywere near tallaght if my girlfriend didnt live their (THATS FACTUAL)
    so if I personaly hurt your butt on regards to tallaght
    well then im sorry for telling it like it is,
    <MOD SNIP>

    now you'll obviously comment on me telling you were it is even though im giving you FACTUAL INFORMATION
    grow up kid
    you obviously live in tallaght
    reason your so butt hurt over it, i mention 2 areas which are in my eyes the worst
    and you cry over it haha grow up kid, dont take things personal cause i dont know you and been honest no one likes a keyboard warrior so lay off the personal attacks pal
    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Well I can tell you that the level of education there is at a much higher level than where ever you're from, so at least they have a good chance of making something of themselves instead of planning to rob mystery stashes.

    planning to rob mystery stashs? haha again you dont live in the area im on about
    read the post above ^^^ anyone who wants to chance their arm may have a go at taking that stash haha ive even givin the full address and details where it is just to prove you wrong mate
    of course your reply will be the same owl bull****

    im not planning to rob stashs, dont know where you got that idea from mate
    i said if i wanted to i could, but im not a scumbag
    so pal grow up mate
    you dont know me i dont know you
    no need for personal attacks ha
    seriously pal grow up


  • #59
    Motorist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Motorist wrote: »
    I spoke to one Garda traffic corp member who took an ANPR car out around Tallaght. He said the thing was constantly lit up like a Christmas tree for no motor tax, etc. He had to turn it off.

    Far be it for him to stop them, eh.:rolleyes:

    There's only so much one person can do on one shift when attending to other priorities. I don't think one garda can correct Tallaghts social problems.


  • #60
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Saiint, I've no idea what made you think posting the location of a drugs stash was appropriate. Don't do it again.


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  • #61
    joseph brand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,540 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    bluecode wrote: »
    Lies damm lies and statistics. Tallaght is of course huge, so of course it has more burglaries.

    But note this comment in the article: That makes Tallaght middle class I think. Particularly when it's mentioned alongside Dundrum and Rathfarnham. Let's face it there's no pointing breaking into the houses of poor people.

    I think there might be connection to the M50 here. Most of the areas mentioned border it.

    My theory is that it's Northsiders coming down and robbing. Bet they don't pay the toll either.:p

    And people of 'no fixed abode'.


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