Neighbourhood Watch Merged Thread

liamog · 10-05-2015 2:43pm

Lots of Garda activity on the Ongar Rd, chopper is out and high speed chases going on. Seen cars pulled over and checking boots.

amdublin · 10-05-2015 3:47pm

nikpmup wrote: »

My mother had her bag lifted there a year or so ago. Taken out of the trolley while she was putting her stuff on the belt at the checkout. Security was useless, said they had no CCTV (even though there's a camera trained on each checkout to make sure the staff aren't pilfering from the till)

Am sure your mother knows this now but I would never leave my handbag in the trolley while I am distracted and moving back and forward unloading it. Robbery waiting to happen.

Re. the cctv. As you said it is trained on the till - it literally picks up the till, what is showing on the screen and the money drawer when it opens up, it would not pick up anything around it.

The_Valeyard · 11-05-2015 9:46pm

Lot of helicopter activity in Carpenterstown/Laurel Lodge , no idea what it's about though.

horse7 · 12-05-2015 11:18am

Someone has been busy last night, all the vote no posters on auburn ave, have been painted over in red paint, and you would need a ladder or other item to get yourself up to that height, plus it is a very long road.

jelenka · 12-05-2015 2:16pm

horse7 wrote: »

Someone has been busy last night, all the vote no posters on auburn ave, have been painted over in red paint, and you would need a ladder or other item to get yourself up to that height, plus it is a very long road.

Same in Carpenterstown..

Tiger Mcilroy · 12-05-2015 3:13pm

Somebody crashed into the neighbours car on saturday night around 1:30 - 2:00 am after dropping somebody off in Summerfield Rise only reason i know the rough time was they woke the baby shouting at each other for some reason.

Poor form as they drove off at speed and nobody has come forward leaving a good bit of damage to the driver side door that isnt going to be a cheap fix.

nikpmup · 12-05-2015 10:14pm

horse7 wrote: »

Someone has been busy last night, all the vote no posters on auburn ave, have been painted over in red paint, and you would need a ladder or other item to get yourself up to that height, plus it is a very long road.

Not that I condone vandalism, but driving to work this morning on the Diswellstown Rd it gladdened me to see the no posters painted over

They personally offend and upset me.

exador · 13-05-2015 6:51am

nikpmup wrote: »

Not that I condone vandalism, but driving to work this morning on the Diswellstown Rd it gladdened me to see the no posters painted over They personally offend and upset me.

if someone painted over the YES poster would you have the same attitude... I am not getting into a debate over YES or NO but you should be equally offended regardless of which one is painted over. The word equality is used a lot around the whole debate which is a bit ironic.

Gaspode · 13-05-2015 6:56am

I agree fully with you about the signs exador, and also about not getting into it on this thread. any further chat about posters/referendum should be taken to the other thread on this forum, or one of the many other threads around boards.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 13-05-2015 7:20am

<SNIP>.

jeffk · 13-05-2015 8:08am

<SNIP>

Gaspode · 13-05-2015 8:12am

Please read my post above #2660 - This is the Neighbourhood Watch thread, go find a SSM referendum thread if you want to discuss the ins and outs of the SSM referendum

horse7 · 13-05-2015 10:39am

Agreed, i thought it was obvious the post was about vandalism.

January · 13-05-2015 11:23am

Yes but it's not vandalism in the sense that someone scrawled graffiti on the side of someone's house, which would be a neighbourhood watch issue, but vandalism towards a temporary poster that will be removed after the referendum anyway, which would not be a neighbourhood watch issue.

horse7 · 13-05-2015 7:35pm

Rubbish,if it happens in my neighborhood, its a neighborhood watch issue.

horse7 · 14-05-2015 9:01am

Take note ,if you leave your car parked in park ave area ,around the green,it is liable to be keyed. It seems one of the residents is not happy with people parking there. (Hard to get parked near castleknock villege).

beauf · 14-05-2015 10:12am

Keying a car is scummy thing to do. Should get on to the community Garda to have a word with the residences (association) about that.

I don't understand parking there though. In many years I've always got parking in the village, or Myos. Park Ave isn't even that near the village. I can't understand why anyone would park there to go to the village. Unless maybe they work in the village, maybe it parking for the school drop off or something.

Set up a camera in car. Catch the scumbag doing it.

horse7 · 14-05-2015 10:51am

Gardai informed, not really interested. Strangely printed note left on car, says car has been keyed and garda notified.

beauf · 14-05-2015 11:17am

Kinda makes no sense. Why key a strangers car, in a location where its not causing an obstruction unless...

Its not a strangers car...
Its causing an obstruction...

You're inferring that there's a parking issue. Without saying what it is. No parking in the village doesn't really make a lot of sense. Parking in estates really only causes hassle if someone parks in someone else spot, (real or imaginary) or they use it a commuter car park. Nothing illegal about (unless its an obstruction) but always causes hassle.

Larbre34 · 14-05-2015 11:21pm

Talking to friends off Phibblestown Road, they were warned by their management company today about recent spate of house burglaries in that area, Hazlebury /Rosedale / Phibblestown House, pattern seems to be mid-morning. No vehicle or person descriptions unfortunately.

wildlifeboy · 15-05-2015 3:31pm

I bet the snips are responsible!

Larbre34 · 19-05-2015 11:58am

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/appeal-for-taxi-driver-who-saved-woman-from-serious-assault-31232836.html

ThisRegard · 19-05-2015 12:41pm

Read that earlier. But I wouldn't even go out walking my dogs at that hour.

January · 27-05-2015 8:50am

So some scumbags set the slide in the Millenium Park playground on fire again last night.

Doubt Fingal will rebuild it again since this is the second time it has happened.

eviltwin · 27-05-2015 8:51am

January wrote: »

So some scumbags set the slide in the Millenium Park playground on fire again last night.

Doubt Fingal will rebuild it again since this is the second time it has happened.

Ah no

punisher5112 · 27-05-2015 9:23am

These playgrounds should be fitted with cctv and have proper fencing.

Scum that's all they are.

These are the ones that will always say they have and get nothing and they have nothing to do.

Its funny these are most likely teens that never had any discipline and now they are trying to ban giving a child a slap. Not a punch or permanent pain or damage just a slap when they have done something really bad.

Kids I find these days in a lot of circumstances have no respect for anyone.

dickwod1 · 27-05-2015 11:32pm

January wrote: »

So some scumbags set the slide in the Millenium Park playground on fire again last night.

Doubt Fingal will rebuild it again since this is the second time it has happened.

Someone told me this was on FM104's phone show tonight, I dont listen to it myself.

brainiac · 28-05-2015 9:32am

Anyone have any information on a car burned out on the middle of the road in Elmwood, Hartstown last night? Was quite disturbing to see in the middle of an estate in the early evening. Was removed this morning with charred remains all over the grass.

January · 28-05-2015 12:19pm

dickwod1 wrote: »

Someone told me this was on FM104's phone show tonight, I dont listen to it myself.

I don't listen to it myself but saw some things on Facebook about it.

jeffk · 28-05-2015 10:43pm

Herself was saying it was on Dublin talks on 98FM

Larbre34 · 30-05-2015 9:09am

Registration plates going missing overnight off Phibblestown Road, presumably for vehicle cloning.

If you have screw-in plates, take them off and put panel adhesive on the back as well, unless its on to bare paintwork, in which case make up a mounting board.

Oh, and mind the eye in your head as well or some shytehawk will have that too.

gutenberg · 01-06-2015 6:55pm

According to a post from Cllr David McGuinness, the prefabs next to the gym of Castleknock Community College burned down. Possibly arson, but not confirmed. The photos are pretty shocking.

dickwod1 · 12-06-2015 12:06pm

The electricity went off twice in the last two weeks in Hartstown, The amount of house alarms that went off is crazy - sounded like world war 3 had started, When the electricity got turned back on the alarms were still going off.

The perfect time to rob your house is when your alarm is already going off - Replace the dead battery in your house alarm.

I purchased one from adverts last year for €20, Replacing the battery took 2 mins.

rockatansky · 12-06-2015 4:50pm

dickwod1 wrote: »

I purchased one from adverts last year for €20, Replacing the battery took 2 mins.

Is it legal for the ordinary Joe Soap to do this? I thought it had to be done by a Registered Installer (Home Insurance Policy) or am I thinking of something else? Apologies if I'm wide of the mark.

dickwod1 · 12-06-2015 5:08pm

rockatansky wrote: »

Is it legal for the ordinary Joe Soap to do this? I thought it had to be done by a Registered Installer (Home Insurance Policy) or am I thinking of something else? Apologies if I'm wide of the mark.

Legally speaking I dont know, When changing a dead battery your just swapping the battery connectors from the wasted battery to the new one, Not really "working" on the alarm IMO

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Anybody who's unsure ring a registered installer.

KGLady · 12-06-2015 6:45pm

http://www.thejournal.ie/double-shooting-blanchardstown-2159324-Jun2015/

Well this explains the continued looping of the Garda Helicopter at low altitudes early this evening. Its very upsetting that an incident like this occurs at all - but even worse on a warm sunny evening when there's children out playing on pretty much every residential street. Its a huge concern to hear of this >:(

Howjoe1 · 12-06-2015 6:47pm

KGLady wrote: »

http://www.thejournal.ie/double-shooting-blanchardstown-2159324-Jun2015/

Well this explains the continued looping of the Garda Helicopter at low altitudes early this evening. Its very upsetting that an incident like this occurs at all - but even worse on a warm sunny evening when there's children out playing on pretty much every residential street. Its a huge concern to hear of this >:(

yeah, Blanch seems a rough spot.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 12-06-2015 6:49pm

^ Is that really Blanchardstown though? Seems more Clonsilla, or even Ongar to me.

rockatansky · 12-06-2015 6:53pm

Howjoe1 wrote: »

yeah, Blanch seems a rough spot.

I'm here about 6 years and I don't find it that rough to be honest. Some of the driving you see at the Blanchardstown Centre Roundabout (R121), the T-Junction Mountview, the roundabout at Power City and then onto the Ongar Distribution Road is some of the most dangerous and scary I've ever seen. Something needs to be done about.

rockatansky · 12-06-2015 6:54pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

^ Is that really Blanchardstown though? Seems more Clonsilla, or even Ongar to me.

Are they all not part of the greater Blanchardstown area? Again I'm only a blow in so could be wrong.

KGLady · 12-06-2015 6:56pm

It is Clonsilla, but most of the area gets labelled as Blanchardstown in the media. And its really not a rough area, its the scummy activities of a few people which impact on everyone who lives happily and quietly in the area.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 12-06-2015 6:56pm

rockatansky wrote: »

Are they all not part of the greater Blanchardstown area? Again I'm only a blow in so could be wrong.

I don't know. It used to be Clonsilla and Blanchardstown were two separate areas. If you lived in Clonsilla you didn't put Blanchardstown on your address. Everything's so built up now though that it all runs into one big place. It's just a bit annoying to see Blanchardstown attached to every bad news story when it's debatable whether it's actually in Blanchardstown or not.

KGLady · 12-06-2015 7:02pm

Shelerin Rd connects right into Clonsilla village, but iirc some of the estates near to it (Fortlawn) are classed as Blanchardstown. Ongar is quite a distance from it though!

Straylight · 12-06-2015 7:04pm

Howjoe1 wrote: »

yeah, Blanch seems a rough spot.

I live not too far from where the shooting took place and have been here nearly 11 years. Over the years there have been occasional similar incidents, the vast majority involving one criminal trying to hurt or kill another criminal. There was a spate of attacks a few years back when there were drug gangs fighting with each other, but this wasn't confined to the Blanch area and happened all over Dublin. Since then attacks like this have become increasingly rare, but I have to say that even at the worst of it I never felt anything but 100% safe. I think that the area has an unwarranted reputation for being rough that may have been earned in the past and has stuck. It certainly doesn't seem any rougher than many parts of Dublin I've been in and the road I live in is a very peaceful cul de sac that could be anywhere in the city.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

^ Is that really Blanchardstown though? Seems more Clonsilla, or even Ongar to me.

Shelerin Road is definitely in Clonsilla.

Finglas Incubus · 15-06-2015 4:04pm

Straylight wrote: »

I think that the area has an unwarranted reputation for being rough that may have been earned in the past and has stuck.

That certainly would be my view and experience, I grew up in Blanch and still live in the area. Certain parts of 'Greater Blanchardstown' were particularly rough in the 80's and part of the 90's, verging on no-go areas at night. On the whole, things have quietened down considerably but the 'rough' tag has remained to a degree.

Straylight wrote: »

Shelerin Road is definitely in Clonsilla.

+1. I live close to the scene of the crime and theres a real sense of shock and dismay among residents in the area, nobody wins, least not the family of the man who lost his life in the incident.

JoePie · 15-06-2015 5:33pm

I could see the whole crime scene from my bedroom window. Heard the gun shots. Had I been smoking out the window at the time, I msot likely would have seen it all go down.

Creepy.

chucknorris · 16-06-2015 7:39am

Look folks, who cares if it's Blanch or Clonsilla = it's Dublin 15.

The issue that happened on the Shelerin road didn't start and end on the Shelerin road. Yes, the Shelerin road is technically in clonsilla but as someone else has already pointed out, the areas are physically inseparable (by the locals themselves) and most of these areas, including Hartstown are all in the greater Blanchardstown area.

Where I live, Rusheeney village is not listed as Hartstown, but Clonsilla. It's slap bang in the middle of Hartstown and is effectively bordering Clonee, but i still tell people I'm up in Hartstown.

Just to get back to the point of who cares if it's Clonsilla or Blanch. The lad who was the intended target is based in Whitestown (Blakestown/ Blanchardstown?). The fella who did the shooting, was walking freely around Whitestown just before the shooting, looking for the intended individual.

My point being, regardless of where the murder took place, the reasons for it and where it all stemmed from is related to the entire Dublin 15 area as a whole. The people involved who are well know locally, did not have a dispute in Clonsilla, or Blanch, this has been going on for years with them and it'll affect people throughout Dublin 15.

I just think it's a pointless argument to be caring where the issues is reported to have taken place and who's technically correct and who's technically incorrect as many, many people throughout D15 grew up in one part of it and moved in to another part of it and no longer see the difference at all.

Where that shooting took place was not where it started so i say again, who cares as that whole mess ended in Clonsilla but started in Blanch and the fall out will be one for the greater Blanchardstown area.

beauf · 16-06-2015 8:38am

The worst parts of D15 in general are greatly improved than they used to be. But D15 is vast area. Lots of diversity between different areas in it.

Personally considering how much the media get wrong I don't trust anything that is reported.

DvB · 16-06-2015 10:41am

chucknorris wrote: »

Where I live, Rusheeney village is not listed as Hartstown, but Clonsilla. It's slap bang in the middle of Hartstown and is effectively bordering Clonee, but i still tell people I'm up in Hartstown.

I come across this all the time through work. The areas are in fact clearly delineated through their respective townlands, however, its the residents themselves & people taking it upon themselves to decide where they live that tends to muddy the waters. For example, Hartstown being referred to as Clonsilla is a common one, Its actually not in Clonsilla but most people don't actually care one way or the other as their respective boundaries meet & An Post will deliver post to the hartstown address with or without it being added anyway, until we get our new postal codes its a system that is open to interpretation & is enforced by no one except the LA planning department & then only when it suits them... Some of the addresses iIve seen people claim as their own beggar belief, all based on barony & road names & suchlike.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 16-06-2015 11:11am

The point, Chuck, about where the incident took place is how it's reported in the news. Look at any online report about this and see the comments underneath all pointing the finger at Blanchardstown like it's the worst place in Dublin. A number of years ago Blanchardstown was pretty bad for this type of thing and was in the news a lot for it. Recently it hasn't been and yet people still have this idea about the place. Now maybe it's a case of Blanchardstown being a recognisable place geographically speaking, if they said Clonsilla on the news nobody would know exactly where it was, I don't know. The problem with that is those of us who actually live in Blanchardstown and can't decide to say we live somewhere else get painted with this kind of incident and I for one get pretty sick of getting the same reaction anytime I meet someone new and mention that I'm from here. Would it even be so hard for the news to report it as happening in "the greater Blanchardstown area" rather than just Blanchardstown? I wonder if the reason so many people claim their address as Clonee or Clonsilla is for that very reason.

In terms of Neighbourhood Watch it's irrelevant as it is all Dublin 15 but in wider terms it matters where they report it as.

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