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What can be done to clean up O'Connell Street ?

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  • #32
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    . Seriously we don't have a problem here

    Some of the nastiest pieces of work I've ever encountered, f**k Dublin, mickey mouse s**thole.


  • #33
    keano25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭keano25


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Y

    I think culchies just love to hate us, we are the man utd of ireland

    You mean once great, but now massive underachievers??


  • #34
    qdawg86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭qdawg86


    The only way to deal with anti social behavior and scumbags in general is to invest in education and nip that behavior in the bud before these kids grown into scummy teenagers/adults........looking down your noses at these people will change nothing. They are a product of our society.

    And once you deal with the behaviour- the areas these people live in won't be "no go areas after 10pm"

    In the mean time, if you don't like a particular area.....f**k off somewhere else :pac:


  • #35
    Jumboman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭Jumboman


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Ive walked up and down that street so many nights/mornings at this stage and its been no different then what happens on Grafton street actually ive had more hassle from knob heads going into Dandelion then ive had from anyone on O Connell street.....


    Just a few weeks back a Scumbag on O'Connell thereated to "smash my face in" because I wouldn't give him a cigarette and I don't even smoke!

    There is no getting around it the street is full of Scumbags.


  • #36
    wall85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭wall85


    qdawg86 wrote: »
    The only way to deal with anti social behavior and scumbags in general is to invest in education and nip that behavior in the bud before these kids grown into scummy teenagers/adults........looking down your noses at these people will change nothing. They are a product of our society.

    And once you deal with the behaviour- the areas these people live in won't be "no go areas after 10pm"

    In the mean time, if you don't like a particular area.....f**k off somewhere else :pac:

    There usually dumb as a brick, and are just scummy from birth. Nothing is gonna change this. You know by the look of them that they are scum.


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  • #37
    RDM_83 again
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    Gongoozler wrote: »
    This Dublin bashing is getting really fcuking annoying, and very fcuking boring. It's nowhere near as bad as people like to make out. I've walked home after every night out through o Connell St and not once have I seen even so much as a fight. Seriously we don't have a problem here

    You don't see much actual fighting on O'Connell street probably because the Garda do break it up fast but if your there as much as you say have you honestly never seen some one throw a dig on O'C street, I really really doubt it!
    Over the years two mates have had random attacks on O'Connell street/on the streets directly beside it, and thats incidents I either saw or saw the aftermath of.

    Have a funny but sort of frightening story about how stuff is just ignored by people in that area. On a friends Birthday he went a bit demented on the caffeinated alcoholic beverages and refused to go home or see sense, our inebriated solution to this predicament, 6 of us grabbed his arms and legs and hoisted him up and started carrying him down the street. Nobody batted an eye about a big gang of men carrying a struggling man literally screaming his lungs out for help, learned two things that night, one that it would be ridiculously easy to kidnap someone, two if your ever in that situation don't be one of the people grabbing the legs as its not fun having someone try and kick you in the head :mad:


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
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    dd972 wrote: »
    Some of the nastiest pieces of work I've ever encountered, f**k Dublin, mickey mouse s**thole.

    Did someone from Dublin ride your missus or something?

    Your last 2 posts seem to suggest a deep seething hatred for Dubs, who shat on your cornflakes?

    I hate Cork, but I don't mouth off about it....


  • #39
    JupiterKid
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    It's the top end of O'Connell Street that's more of a problem than the Liffey end. When are they starting work on the much talked about new shopping centre supposed to breathe new life into Upper O'Connell St?


  • #40
    kowloon
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    Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.


  • #41
    hfallada
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    Go Pearse Street Grada station and when a Garda opens the door between the public and staff area, you can see the whole of O Connell Street on CCTV. The Gardai constantly monitor the street for issues. No city is perfect, even cities that are close to perfection. I have lived in ultra rich and almost problem free Munich(everyone is fit, the public transport is amazing, very few drugs and city is safe). But even at the main train station in the middle of the city, I have seen fights in the middle of the day, almost everyday. I have seen prostitutes picking up clients on the street and even this week I seen someone almost being bottled. But you wouldnt see any of that on O Connell Street.

    Dublin is a pretty large city and really huge considering how small Ireland really is. Its going to have social problems. But its not the third world city, that people make it out to.


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  • #42
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,277 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Jumboman wrote: »
    Just a few weeks back a Scumbag on O'Connell thereated to "smash my face in" because I wouldn't give him a cigarette and I don't even smoke!

    There is no getting around it the street is full of Scumbags.

    Ya it is but there all over the place u could meet them in any part of town. O connell Street can be messy but half the time or even more then that you walk down it without any issues.

    Town is just messy at night full stop but there's many reasons for that it's the same in any big city really.


  • #43
    Jumboman
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    One of the first things they could do to improve O'Connell Street is to get rid of the amusement arcade that acts as a magnet for Scumbags.


  • #44
    djflawless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭djflawless


    hfallada wrote: »
    Go Pearse Street Grada station and when a Garda opens the door between the public and staff area, you can see the whole of O Connell Street on CCTV. The Gardai constantly monitor the street for issues. No city is perfect, even cities that are close to perfection. I have lived in ultra rich and almost problem free Munich(everyone is fit, the public transport is amazing, very few drugs and city is safe). But even at the main train station in the middle of the city, I have seen fights in the middle of the day, almost everyday. I have seen prostitutes picking up clients on the street and even this week I seen someone almost being bottled. But you wouldnt see any of that on O Connell Street.

    Dublin is a pretty large city and really huge considering how small Ireland really is. Its going to have social problems. But its not the third world city, that people make it out to.

    Monitoring is one thing
    Acting on the monitoring is completely different...


  • #45
    Drakares
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    It's fit for a nuclear bomb tbh. The guards don't give a toss, despite the aircoach travelling through from dublin airport with all of the fresh tourists watching the scores of junkies going about their daily junkie business.


  • #46
    policarp
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    Drakares wrote: »
    It's fit for a nuclear bomb tbh. The guards don't give a toss, despite the aircoach travelling through from dublin airport with all of the fresh tourists watching the scores of junkies going about their daily junkie business.

    So is New York, Paris , Amsterdam, London, Singapore to mention a few any safer to spend a day?


  • #47
    qdawg86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭qdawg86


    wall85 wrote: »
    There usually dumb as a brick, and are just scummy from birth. Nothing is gonna change this. You know by the look of them that they are scum.

    That's a ridiculous thing to say.

    Support kids from a young age in getting an education and the social problems will drastically reduce.


  • #48
    .jacksparrow.
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    Draft in former mayor of new York Rudolph Giuliani.


  • #49
    punisher5112
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    qdawg86 wrote: »
    That's a ridiculous thing to say.

    Support kids from a young age in getting an education and the social problems will drastically reduce.
    A lot of these thugs and scum bags have everything handed to them including completely free education.

    A lot of the time is down to family conditions and honestly parents of these thugs need to be held responsible.

    I hate the way society or government to blame does be used. Just bring your kids up properly.


  • #50
    suicide_circus
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    Oconnell st itself is grand.

    The areas which are crawling with addicts are Abbey, Marlborough and Talbot streets, bachelors walk, summer hill, gardiner st, irish life centre, the clinics and hostels around lord edwards st and christchurch, merchants quay, the whole of the red luas line


  • #51
    Gongoozler
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    RDM_83 again wrote: »
    You don't see much actual fighting on O'Connell street probably because the Garda do break it up fast but if your there as much as you say have you honestly never seen some one throw a dig on O'C street, I really really doubt it!
    Over the years two mates have had random attacks on O'Connell street/on the streets directly beside it, and thats incidents I either saw or saw the aftermath of.

    Doubt it all you like, not once seen it on o Connell St. Tbh I can't recall having seen a fight anywhere in the city.

    As for the junkies, I accept that they are there but I barely notice them, never once had a bother from them. Really, if you have a problem with somewhat unsavoury looking characters hanging around purely for that reason, you shouldn't travel to other countries - I've seen hookers hanging around and getting business in Prague, been persistently offered drugs, day and night in both Prague and Lisbon. These were both right in the city centre too. And no didn't have any problems, didn't feel intimidated. Felt a little annoyed with Lisbon as it was so bloody constant.


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  • #52
    cloud493
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    I saw a man bite off another mans ear then put it in his pocket :eek:


  • #53
    Jawgap
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    Easy, move the open and obvious drug dealing that takes place around Marlborough Street somewhere else.


  • #54
    timetogo
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    policarp wrote: »
    So is New York, Paris , Amsterdam, London, Singapore to mention a few any safer to spend a day?



    How about we just worry about Dublin as we live in Ireland.
    I've been to all of the cities you mentioned and I didn't see the walking dead in any of their capital streets.
    I'm sure they have **** holes. They're just not in the main street and most tourists never see them.

    There are a few posters on this thread saying it's not that bad. It's not, but it's never going to get better with that attitude.


  • #55
    Jawgap
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    timetogo wrote: »
    How about we just worry about Dublin as we live in Ireland.
    I've been to all of the cities you mentioned and I didn't see the walking dead in any of their capital streets.
    I'm sure they have **** holes. They're just not in the main street and most tourists never see them.

    There are a few posters on this thread saying it's not that bad. It's not, but it's never going to get better with that attitude.

    Being honest, I don't give a rat's ar$se about the tourists on O'Connell St - I would just like to be able to enjoy the street and the rest of the city centre without having to put up with being hassled by druggies, or listening to their shouted arguments, or watching their slow motion fights!

    Until about a week ago, I worked near O'Connell Street, and was glad to get away from it - it's nice to be able to go for a lunchtime wander without the hassle they provide.


  • #56
    Drakares
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    policarp wrote: »
    So is New York, Paris , Amsterdam, London, Singapore to mention a few any safer to spend a day?
    Ah right. Since it's like that in parts of other cities around the world, we should do nothing about it. Grand sure.


  • #57
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    Try the Dublin City forum OP, please read their charter before posting and do a search for similar threads there.


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