Dublin is an unadulterated kip

awec · 22-09-2015 12:32AM

IMO the area around O'Connell street is a disgrace and not up to the standard the main street in a capital city should be. Fast food, arcades, shitty cheap tacky shops and empty units.

KungPao · 22-09-2015 01:29AM

Dublin probably peaked during the bubble times, but it hasn't fallen that much.

Shops closing like Clery's or Peats is just tough titties really, they lost out as times have changed and they didn't.

Dublin was way worse not that long ago, as mentioned by another poster, half the city was comprised of gravel car parks on sites of demolished buildings in the late 80s early 90s.

It is sad that O'Connell st has died a bit, but when shopping centres and retail parks are all over the suburbs, city centre business is gonna suffer.

moc moc a moc · 22-09-2015 01:49AM

Tarzana2 wrote: »

It's a big city in an Irish context, being a primate city

Eh... all cities are primate cities.

Unless you know of some city populated solely by cats or sheep or some such?

Reiver · 22-09-2015 01:51AM

I propose returning the city to the UK. Failing that, the vikings.

Sofiztikated · 22-09-2015 02:12AM

I lived in Dublin for, oh, 5 years, back in 00's. I go back again in a heartbeat.

Never had a problem with anyone, go back up for a session every couple of months, and still, never have had a problem. Maybe I'm just lucky?

I like Dublin, I like the people. Sure, it's got a few grubby bits, but all cities do.

endacl · 22-09-2015 02:35AM

Dublin's grand. Except for the bits that aren't. Same as <insert place name>.

Tarzana2 · 22-09-2015 02:38AM

moc moc a moc wrote: »

Eh... all cities are primate cities.

Unless you know of some city populated solely by cats or sheep or some such?

I thought this post was a joke. But then there was the inclusion of the confused smiley. Oh dear...

Going by your definition, for a city to be a primate city there can only be primates and no other critters at all.

You were joking. Right? RIGHT?

JustAThought · 22-09-2015 02:57AM

Dublin is riddled with no go streets & council flat areas & the walking zombies & junkies that have been fed on methadone for 20 years . Apart from the few main/trendy streets it is increasingly unsafe to walk or park with anything if value in your car. I watched a scobie father with his son on his shoulders out robbing checking the doors of every car he came to as he went up the line of parked cars on the quays. Im sick of walking alongdide scobie mothers roaring & swearing at their collections of children being dragged along while they push bugaboos draped with pennys bags along O'Connell St.
We need compulsorary residential detox & drug rehab units to get people clean & teach them the social skills their parents didnt & give them a chance for a real future - not drop in shelters faciliting ongoing drug use & crime while they beg til closing time night after night year after year with no help or way out.

You wouldnt walk up or take a shortcut across much of dublin city - in many calital cities you would stroll around looking at the fancy appartments & architeculture - in dublin youre sidstepping pools of piss & vomit & broken paths & humps of tar half piled into random holes. You haven' t a hope.

chrissb8 · 22-09-2015 03:03AM

I don't care what anyone says. The Southside of the city is amazing and has an amazing buzz to it. On the whole it beats the Northside of the city hands down for things to do and places to eat. While I'm at it screw the countryside as well. Have your scenic views (Co.Wicklow is down the road and Howth isn't too bad either) and your "true" Ireland. Whatever that is. Give me sharp Dublin wit and a happening place. Yeah Dublin is rough at the edges but character wasn't bred from comfort and safety.

garrixfan · 22-09-2015 03:07AM

JustAThought wrote: »

Dublin is riddled with no go streets & council flat areas & the walking zombies & junkies that have been fed on methadone for 20 years . Apart from the few main/trendy streets it is increasingly unsafe to walk or park with anything if value in your car. I watched a scobie father with his son on his shoulders out robbing checking the doors of every car he came to as he went up the line of parked cars on the quays. Im sick of walking alongdide scobie mothers roaring & swearing at their collections of children being dragged along while they push bugaboos draped with pennys bags along O'Connell St.
We need compulsorary residential detox & drug rehab units to get people clean & teach them the social skills their parents didnt & give them a chance for a real future - not drop in shelters faciliting ongoing drug use & crime while they beg til closing time night after night year after year with no help or way out.

You wouldnt walk up or take a shortcut across much of dublin city - in many calital cities you would stroll around looking at the fancy appartments & architeculture - in dublin youre sidstepping pools of piss & vomit & broken paths & humps of tar half piled into random holes. You haven' t a hope.

WHERE are these mythical cities? Our mainland brothers cities are literal ****holes, resembling Islamabad more than Europe.

ToddyDoody · 22-09-2015 03:08AM

I don't agree I think its more of an adulterated kip

JustAThought · 22-09-2015 03:08AM

Bray? Dun Laoghaire? Tallaght? Deansgrange? the Clons - Clonshaughlin, Clondalkin, Clonee, Palmerstown, Crumlin - a lot of this city is a total kip. You wouldnt park uour car for a cappucchino anywhere there. Drive on Jeeves. dublin is a dump.

garrixfan · 22-09-2015 03:09AM

Also tbh the derelict grimy aspects of a city can be part of its appeal, Berlin for example.

KungPao · 22-09-2015 03:39AM

JustAThought wrote: »

Dublin is riddled with no go streets & council flat areas & the walking zombies & junkies that have been fed on methadone for 20 years . Apart from the few main/trendy streets it is increasingly unsafe to walk or park with anything if value in your car. I watched a scobie father with his son on his shoulders out robbing checking the doors of every car he came to as he went up the line of parked cars on the quays. Im sick of walking alongdide scobie mothers roaring & swearing at their collections of children being dragged along while they push bugaboos draped with pennys bags along O'Connell St.
We need compulsorary residential detox & drug rehab units to get people clean & teach them the social skills their parents didnt & give them a chance for a real future - not drop in shelters faciliting ongoing drug use & crime while they beg til closing time night after night year after year with no help or way out.

You wouldnt walk up or take a shortcut across much of dublin city - in many calital cities you would stroll around looking at the fancy appartments & architeculture - in dublin youre sidstepping pools of piss & vomit & broken paths & humps of tar half piled into random holes. You haven' t a hope.

Would you prefer strolling around while getting your pockets picked? See the beautiful Barcelona.

Or run over and shouted at by lunatic drivers? See Rome

Or hassled by crack addicts? See San Francisco

Or be beaten up or worse as you are different? See Eastern Europe/Russia

Or be kidnapped and probably end up as a bloody corpse? See South Africa

Or fancy an aul raping or have your head cut off? maybe head to India or the Middle East.

The world is a crazy place. Dublin is grand.

JustAThought · 22-09-2015 03:55AM

Just because other cities that are big enough to hide their no go areas have kippy areas, dosnt mean my Dublin is allowed to have them too. Its too small to avoid them & too nice to have them.

Xenji · 22-09-2015 04:03AM

The tourists are starting to cope on about Dublin as well, sure it still gets plenty and offers some great attractions, but quite a few are avoiding it now due to warnings about getting ripped off, violent attacks and gimmicky shopping, a few publications referring to it as dusty and boring.

The Grow Dublin Tourism Alliance, which I have not heard any more about since last year had planned to rejuvenate the city and make it more aesthetically pleasing to tourists while highlighting more of the hidden gems in the city.

garrixfan · 22-09-2015 04:06AM

Xenji wrote: »

The tourists are starting to cope on about Dublin as well, sure it still gets plenty and offers some great attractions, but quite a few are avoiding it now due to warnings about getting ripped off, violent attacks and gimmicky shopping, a few publications referring to it as dusty and boring.

The Grow Dublin Tourism Alliance, which I have not heard any more about since last year had planned to rejuvenate the city and make it more aesthetically pleasing to tourists while highlighting more of the hidden gems in the city.

You come to Dublin for a day and then get out of it if you are a tourist. You come here to get hammered and party...nobody comes to Dublin expecting ****ing paris or london

Tarzana2 · 22-09-2015 04:11AM

Xenji wrote: »

The tourists are starting to cope on about Dublin as well, sure it still gets plenty and offers some great attractions, but quite a few are avoiding it now due to warnings about getting ripped off, violent attacks and gimmicky shopping, a few publications referring to it as dusty and boring.

What the hell is "gimmicky shopping"?

ToddyDoody · 22-09-2015 04:36AM

moc moc a moc wrote: »

Eh... all cities are primate cities.:

I just wanted to be sure so i googled primate and i must admit, all the monkey photos were really cute.

I'd say for some parts of Dublin, if only it was a primate city (literally) rather than scrote city.

dfx- · 22-09-2015 07:34AM

wakka12 wrote: »

I feel like the only proud Dub on Boards sometimes. I travelled to dozens of capitals and big cities in Europe and I come back loving dublin more after every trip

There are more, but are maybe the quiet minority.

Dublin suffers nationally because the typical 'passer-by' experience of it is Dorset St, O'Connell St, Marlborough St/North Earl St, Luas and Busaras/Gardiner St, Amiens St/Connolly.

There are large portions of the city outside that bubble that are rarely mentioned.

Ignatius in bloom · 22-09-2015 07:50AM

I love Dublin and think it one of the best cities in the world for a wide variety of reasons. But old Joe does have a point. The parts of the city he speaks about are quite historical and should be kept as part of Dublin's heritage and cultural identity. Moore street and Parnell Street being great examples if ever there was an opportunity to have a fantastic and vibrant market that has foods and crafts from all over the world then Moore street is it, a traditional trading street is steeped in sellers and traditions it would make the perfect spot to have a seven day market that sells everything from bananas to Gubbeen cheese or salami. It also has the space to have a covered and heated outside eating and entertainment venue that could be incorporated into the whole marketability of the place thus making it a huge entertainment area of Dublin that is steeped in valuable history. It has massive plans at the moment but the fear really is that it could end up just full of dull British or continental shops that are a bit soulless.

MilesMorales1 · 22-09-2015 09:34AM

I love Dublin, I go to say Belfast quite a lot, and it feels so soulless and lacking any sort of spark. Same with galway or kerry to me. Dublin is far from perfect, but I love it to bits.

newacc2015 · 22-09-2015 09:44AM

Xenji wrote: »

The tourists are starting to cope on about Dublin as well, sure it still gets plenty and offers some great attractions, but quite a few are avoiding it now due to warnings about getting ripped off, violent attacks and gimmicky shopping, a few publications referring to it as dusty and boring.

The Grow Dublin Tourism Alliance, which I have not heard any more about since last year had planned to rejuvenate the city and make it more aesthetically pleasing to tourists while highlighting more of the hidden gems in the city.

Have you visited anywhere else in the last 10 years? Irish prices have flat lined for the last 7/8 years,as the economy is weak. The rest of Europe has been gradually getting more expensive. I think Dublin is signicantly more expensive than most European Cities now. Most of Dublin attractions are free, yet everything in most European Cities has a fee.

Dublin is still safer than nearly all US cities. You arent going to be car jacked in Dublin like America.

MonkeyTennis · 22-09-2015 09:48AM

Just pub-jacked

Cienciano · 22-09-2015 09:53AM

JustAThought wrote: »

Dublin is riddled with no go streets & council flat areas & the walking zombies & junkies that have been fed on methadone for 20 years . Apart from the few main/trendy streets it is increasingly unsafe to walk or park with anything if value in your car. I watched a scobie father with his son on his shoulders out robbing checking the doors of every car he came to as he went up the line of parked cars on the quays. Im sick of walking alongdide scobie mothers roaring & swearing at their collections of children being dragged along while they push bugaboos draped with pennys bags along O'Connell St.
We need compulsorary residential detox & drug rehab units to get people clean & teach them the social skills their parents didnt & give them a chance for a real future - not drop in shelters faciliting ongoing drug use & crime while they beg til closing time night after night year after year with no help or way out.

You wouldnt walk up or take a shortcut across much of dublin city - in many calital cities you would stroll around looking at the fancy appartments & architeculture - in dublin youre sidstepping pools of piss & vomit & broken paths & humps of tar half piled into random holes. You haven' t a hope.

Utter shíte, theres not one street in Dublin that I'd be afraid to walk down. You must lead a very sheltered life, or be agoraphobia if you seriously think that

Penny Tration · 22-09-2015 09:54AM

I like Dublin.

The city needs improving. O'Connell Street has tonnes of potential but is full of gift shops and fast food places, which is sad to see.

I think a lot of people over-exaggerate the junkie problem though.

Yes, there are junkies and plenty of them, but they leave people alone most of the time because they're too strung out to do anything.

It's the aggressive drunks that are the problem.

It's safe enough though. Just say "no, sorry" to beggars and they move on. Don't be wandering around with your 900 euro phone hanging out of your arse pocket or in your hand and you'll be grand.

It needs improving for sure, but Jesus some of you need to get out and experience other cities if you think Dublin is bad. I feel totally safe in Dublin, even at night, whereas I was scared half the time I was in Nice in France because of the amount of aggressive beggars. At least the Dublin beggars (Roma excluded) go away when you say no!

MilesMorales1 · 22-09-2015 09:58AM

Cienciano wrote: »

Utter shíte, theres not one street in Dublin that I'd be afraid to walk down. You must lead a very sheltered life, or be agoraphobia if you seriously think that

I wasn't aware there was any 'no go' areas of Dublin. I'm all over the city centre, and the county in general, and theres not a single place I wouldn't go or a street in CC I wouldn't go down.

There's no city in the world that doesn't have crime, or bad spots, Dublin is no exception. The idea of zombie junkies and dole scrounging mothers is hugely overstated, although it is a problem DCC should deal with.

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-09-2015 10:11AM

Dublin 2015 is a kip:rolleyes:

lawlolawl · 22-09-2015 10:30AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Dublin 2015 is still a kip

Edited for accuracy.

Horrible dive of a place full of deeply unpleasant people.

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-09-2015 10:39AM

lawlolawl wrote: »

Edited for accuracy.

Horrible dive of a place full of deeply unpleasant people.

and where are you from?

Dublin is an unadulterated kip

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