Whats the worst area in dublin?

Basically anything north of the liffey is a total kip, Real no-go areas, I was north of the liffey as a kid once, it made me physically sick.
Theres a real tension in the air, commonly known as "north side aggression".
Whenever I meet foreign visitors I always make a point of telling them this.
The tourist board recommend staying south side aswel.

if Fair City, is loike a true representation of, loike northsoide loife, then how come theres never any drive by shootings and people being mugged"

a how come sum of de peeple talk loike dis & dere brudders or sisters have like a d4 like accent ?

Ok, got to page 3 of this thread and couldnt be bothered reading anymore. Interesting thread tho. I know the southside like the back of my hand, so you can take it that this list is fairly complete (Southside wise anyway).
Most of these will be south/west side, not too familiar with the kips on the northside.

Heres my definitive list in no particular order:

Ringsend - where I grew up and love to bits and would never ever be afraid to walk thru any part, even the park or the flats at any time of day or night, but good god, if u didnt know anyone around there, I wouldnt go near it, ringsend is a hard fckin area. Not so much total scumbags, only hard ****ers that yer better off not messing with. I love it tho, with all my heart

East wall - The general enemies of Ringer and many a time there has been war over tyres for halloween fires. Ive been involved in quite a few. Sherrif st. is probably near the worst part, but its not nearly as bad as it used to be and I would walk around there,but maybe not after dark (although I have done a good few times, robbing tyres )

Pearse st. or Pearser - Very bad at times and another sworn enemy of ringer, particularly Pearse House and Marchevicz. Never really get to see it too much of it anymore due to a feud with a few people in particular, but it is getting so much better due to business and students in the area. Historically Pearser and Ringer have had pitched battles invovling 40-50 or more people, knives, bats, bottles, bed posts, the works. Nasty ****, Ive seen one first hand on ringsend bridge when I was younger, 15 or 20 people had to go the hospital, the rest didnt bother but should have.

Beechill in Donnybrook - Not toooo bad, but it has its moments and is often neglected as a hard area.

The area between dorset st. and sherrif st, around the 5 lamps is dodgy as fook, cant think of the name of it. Near connolly.

O'Connell St at night is fairly bad and I never feel too safe walking down it. Daytime is nearly as bad, but its not as bad as people make it out to be.

Temple St. area - around the temple theatre, those flats are ****in well dodgy, believe me.

The Flats behind stevens green - The name of em escapes me now, but I know em far better than Id like to. Got dragged in there and battered with a motorbike helmet by 2 ***** a few years back, although that was self inflicted (you dont want to know).

Dolphins Barn - Not really as bad as some of ye were making out, there is scum, but they generally dont cause any hassle (not to me anyway).

The Libirties/Christ Church/The Coombe - Can be dodgy, but not really too bad, loads of junkies, but **** them they're only muppets.

Crumlin/Drimnagh - Can be quite bad unless you keep your head down. Got slaughtered to bits one day (4 o clock or so) by a pro boxer and his son (also a pro boxer) becuase my mate hit his car when he tried to knock us down. There was a gang of at least 10 of us, not mates of mine, but proper crumlins heads and yer man didnt give a ****, straight out of the motor and started kicking heads. I hit him a dig, big mistake, got kicked asunder by him and his son then. They only stopped hitting me cos the garda were on the way. But thats just me, but in general, crumlin is a certainately not a no go area, but theres some very hard people there.

Inchicore - Aint nearly as bad as some were making out as far as I know and Ive been around there loads at night and day. Never seems too bad to me.

Now onto the gems:

Neilstown - Absolute ****in kip, nightmare of a place. I hate venturing thru there night or day. Disaster zone.

Killinarden Heights - Same as above.

Jobstown - I see somebody said this place is getting worse, but compared to the one time that me and a mate got the wrong bus out there when we were about 12, its seems almost grand now. Back then, my good god.

Cherry Orchard - Where I currently live. Again, its not as bad as it was about 10 years ago (was actually the worst place Ive ever visited, ever, back then) but its still a dangerous dangerous place. My car got robbed within 3 days of buying it (got it back, rallied to bits an hour later) and theres been at least one or two more attempts on it since then, but I have an alarm/immob now so it aint goin anywhere.Ive only been living out there for about a year, but Ive seen some mad **** since I got there. Cars get rallied every single night and sure yer man was killed for his car a 10 minute walk from where I live. A bloke in my apartments got car jacked outside my door 2 weeks after moving in aswell. Another time the boys tried to rob a car but couldnt move it so they set fire to it in the driveway. Dodgy as fook.

Ballyfermot - I dunno, theres somthing about ballyer I dont like (probably the fact that I have to live there). Most bad areas I can deal with, but ballyer is different. The main street is a nightmare, bogeys everywhere at any time of day. Ive been living in ballyer for nearly a year and I still havent walked the length of it and probably wouldnt either.
Le Fanu park is a no go area completely at night time. Wouldnt go near it if I was paid.

Bawnouge - Similar to Neilstown. Im in belfast at the moment and Ive been driving thru most of the different areas. None are as bad as neilstown and bawnouge.


Now, moving south again:

Ballybrack/Sallynoggin - Mainly just fools that think they're hard, but there is a few genuine psychos out that way that yer better off not messing with. Loads of saps aswell tho.

Rathfarnam - Believe it or not (I know I was suprised), but theres a few little small estates around rathfarnam that are fairly hard. Nothing too bad tho, Id still walk around there (couldnt bring myself to be afraid of a rathfarnian) at any time tho. **** em.

Dun Laoghire - Same as above, few little pockets of dodgy areas, but generally on the whole, theyre just wannabe hard men.

Shankill - Again, theres a few bogeys out that way, one in particular I can think of whos a bit of a nut job. Carrys 2 shotguns in the back of his van 24/7. Dunno if hes locked up yet or not.

Bray - I fckin hate bray with a passion. Theres some right little knackers out there, and thats all they are, knackers. Little bray knackers, smell of em. I absolutely hate the place and Id be quite happy if it burned to the ground.


Think Ive covered most of the southside dodgys there.

Consult this list if yer planning on moving

holly_johnson wrote:

Lived in "Chapelizod" (really Ballyfermot down the end of Sarsfield Road) and nothing would make me go back.. car robbed twice, windows stoned nearly every night, apartment robbed and ransacked (sh1t on the bed etc)

That's where I live now! I haven't had any problems. I quite like the place although the 78A bus can be an interesting experience!

Dathai wrote:

Yeah cabra is legend.I live in a nice little area, not very loud, not very quiet either.Worst that happens is the muppets at the end of the avenue spraying stuff on the wall.

Oh my god i hate Cabra! I live beside there and im sick to death of all the little scum coming down to my area and breakin into cars and hangin around here causing trouble

Samson - Id say yer probably right, although my fear of le fanu comes from some time last summer when I tried walkin thru it. Ive never seen such a gathering of heads in my life, at least 80-100 proper heads gathered over at the little concrete, err, box, over near the ballyer road end. I took a detour off over the pitches to avoid em. Maybe no danger, who knows, but I wasnt walkin thru that on my toblerone I tells ya.
Its probably not like that every weekend, but I dunno, Im an alien around there who knows noone so I just keep my head down in general
My opinion stays tho, the main st. is a bogey strip anytime of day. Maybe its just me cos I dont know anyone and Im not prepared to start makin mates around there, but thats my opinion.

The fact that Walkinstown is quiet does not mean that the drugs were not buried by a drug gang from Walkinstown!!! The fact that a car was stopped in Walkinstown could mean the driver was from Walkinstown. In fact it could have been someone from Templeogue or Terenure why did you say Crumlin etc?????
Do you really believe that there is not a possiblity of a criminal from walkinstown.

In an earlier msg you went on about the house prices in Walkinstown saying they cost between 400K-500K and saying this kept the dole queue out. A lot of the houses in Walkinstown are rented out to people on rent allowance, it's the same in all so called 'private areas' where people on housing lists who cannot get council accommodation will get rent allowance from their local health board. Your neighbours could be on the dole queue, do you know for a fact that all your neighbours are the owners of the house in which they are living.

In my job I deal with lots of asylum seekers/refugees. They can live in some of the more prosperous areas of Dublin but they do not own these houses they are getting rent allowance from a Community Welfare Officer.

I have a friend who is a Community Welfare Officer the worst area she works in is Ballinteer and Rathmines. That's because there are more people from these areas on rent allowance. She says that the best to work in is Ballyfermot.

Everytime something bad happens in Dublin 12 doesn't matter if it's Kimmage, Drimnagh, Perrystown, Terenure(D.12 area), Walkinstown or Greenhills. The media will report that it happened in Crumlin. Thats because the Garda Station for these areas is in Crumlin.


You seem to think that Walkinstown is some sort of Utopia where all the people are nice, The bad people live outside Walkinstown. Just wish you'd wake up from the dream your having.
Oh and by the way there are a lot of council houses in Walkinstown some people on the dole may have got them.

Crimes happen everywhere. It's a fact of life.

I was attacked once about 4 years ago by a 3 kids walking past the Black Church near Dorset Street. One of them had a stick up his jumper they blocked my path told me it was a gun, I just laughed then I attempted to keep on walking they grabbed hold of my jacket I was furious. It was only 7pm I just let a huge scream and whacked my bag at them. Was a bit shaken after that. But life goes on!!!
I'm not saying it's the roughest are of Dublin as I walked past that area hundreds of times over the last 12 years have a friend lives in Broadstone. I never had any other incidents.

I lived on between Dolphins Barn and Rialto for a few years have to say the people in the area are fantastic. The community spirit in the area is second to none.Congrats to all those involved.

whatever you do , don't drink in Killinarden house or the furry bog in whitechurch - You will get shot!

The Scribblestown Road end of Finglas, near the dump, is definitely the worst area than I'm aware of.

As regards West Dublin, depends on the area, some areas fine, others are rough, overall I think it has improved since the onset of the "Celtic Tiger".

the jew wrote:

you mean you guys can actually distinguish between all the bad areas in dublin? lets face it dublin is one big shíthole. this thread is like trying to find the smellier bits on a dogs shít.

the jew wrote:

most definately not from dublin and your wrong it is all bad.

Where do you live, The Westbank?

Kernel wrote:

Well, if you are not from Dublin I am sure you know **** all about areas in Dublin, so your opinion is not necessary in this thread. Thank you, come again.

well i was going to say the opposite , he's able to judge the situation from outside the box!