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What Is the most dangerous place in Ireland?

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    #92
    shane.
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    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Wicklow seems to have its fair share of dumps. Fassaroe is a council estate and a halting site so a recipe for disaster if you ask me, Wicklow Town is rough enough, Arklow is rough and so is Newtown.

    Wicklow town and Arklow? U must be scared of your own shadow


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    #93
    iamtony
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    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/lidl-to-demolish-looted-tallaght-store-1.3418461%3fmode=amp

    Has to be this place.


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    #94
    thebull85
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    Berryfield.


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    #95
    The J Stands for Jay
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    rgodard80a wrote: »
    Walking along a country road from Danny Healy-Rae's local after closing time.

    Or on the M8 when his brother's rushing up to Dublin to answer the questions he hears in his head rather than the ones Miriam is asking him.


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    #96
    DellyBelly
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    Any town in Donegal. Good chance of being killed by boy racers. It's like being in deep South in the US. Full of hicks


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    #97
    corner of hells
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    thebull85 wrote: »
    Berryfield.

    As Berryfield Road, Finglas ?

    Known by the locals a Battlefield Road .

    It's calmed down a small bit.


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    #98
    The J Stands for Jay
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    Most of Antrim?

    The giants causeway? The holiday towns of Cushendun and Cushendall? The caravan parks favoured by pensioners in Portrush? The leafy housing enclaves off the Lisburn Road?

    Yeah....a real no go zone all right.

    Is there still a heroin problem in Portrush?


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    #99
    The J Stands for Jay
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    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Any town in Donegal. Good chance of being killed by boy racers. It's like being in deep South in the US. Full of hicks

    Statistically, Cork is where you'll be killed by boy racers and drink drivers.


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    #100
    timthumbni
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    McGaggs wrote: »
    mfceiling wrote: »
    Most of Antrim?

    The giants causeway? The holiday towns of Cushendun and Cushendall? The caravan parks favoured by pensioners in Portrush? The leafy housing enclaves off the Lisburn Road?

    Yeah....a real no go zone all right.

    Is there still a heroin problem in Portrush?

    There has never been a heroin problem in Portrush. You might be thinking of ballymena.


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    #101
    prunudo
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    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Wicklow seems to have its fair share of dumps. Fassaroe is a council estate and a halting site so a recipe for disaster if you ask me, Wicklow Town is rough enough, Arklow is rough and so is Newtown.

    Must be a while since you were in Newtown.

    As for most dangerous place in country I would say probably the top of the cliffs of Moher.
    Although in reality the biggest risk of death or danger in Ireland is probably using the roads everyday.

    If by dangerous the op means biggest kip and threat of being attacked by scumbags then thats been covered already.


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    #102
    vicwatson
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    Phoenix Park 25th/26th August, enter at your peril


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    #103
    Big Nasty
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    McGaggs wrote: »
    Statistically, Cork is where you'll be killed by boy racers and drink drivers.

    Statistically mustn't have heard of Buncranna


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    #104
    timthumbni
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    To the earlier posts about sandy row in Belfast. It is certainly a unionist area but it is not dangerous per se. The worst areas of Belfast are mostly in republican west Belfast which is full of hoods and joyriders and they torture their own community with anti social behaviour. Aside from that Belfast is a pretty safe city. I would say far safer than Dublin for example which is a bit of a kip nowadays.


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    #105
    tabby aspreme
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    Certain farmyards and fields, in the north Louth, south Armagh area, I would think are still no go areas.


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    #106
    boombang
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    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Any town in Donegal. Good chance of being killed by boy racers. It's like being in deep South in the US. Full of hicks

    Sadly some evidence to support this today:
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/two-dead-three-seriously-injured-after-car-crash-in-co-donegal-1.3600923?mode=amp

    I remember some post defending driving in Donegal is a closed thread recently. They claimed the death rate per km of road in Donegal is in line with the national average. I thought it was a stupid point. The death rate per population in Donegal is quite a bit higher than the national average.

    People seem to think that road deaths are acts of God.


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    #107
    Heres Johnny
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    Yep was just going to mention Donegal for driving. For a small unpopulated county they have a lot of deaths. And I know for a fact the insurance premiums up there reflect the stats.

    Phoenix park this day next week will be dangerous, not that a priest will try to bum you or anything but the fact they are building temporary morgue because they are convinced people will die at it.

    As for kippy towns, every city has them and some rural ones are dumps too. Surprised Athy not mentioned yet, I didn't see it anyway. But not as dangerous as parts of Dublin now where they are routinely shooting.

    Anywhere near a halting site has to be dangerous too, can't trust the traveling folk. Met a girl one night she was trying to impress me she said she was an entrepreneur, has her own home and enjoys traveling. I ran a mile. In hindsight I probably should have went home with her I may have put too much emphasis on the enjoyed traveling part.


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    #108
    fryup
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    Heres Johnny wrote: »
    Phoenix park this day next week will be dangerous, not that a priest will try to bum you or anything but the fact they are building temporary morgue because they are convinced people will die at it.

    die of boredom?

    btw - have you got a link to this?


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    #109
    The Backwards Man
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    Heres Johnny wrote: »
    Yep was just going to mention Donegal for driving. For a small unpopulated county they have a lot of deaths. And I know for a fact the insurance premiums up there reflect the stats.
    .

    Fourth largest county, eighth largest population. Massive amount of cross border traffic, as was the case this morning.

    But sure nothing reduces road fatalities like a good uneducated rant.


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    #110
    The J Stands for Jay
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    timthumbni wrote: »
    There has never been a heroin problem in Portrush. You might be thinking of ballymena.

    I was told there was a dodgy housing estate there on the late 90s with a problem.


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    The J Stands for Jay
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    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Statistically mustn't have heard of Buncranna

    https://m.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/news/cork-is-car-crash-capital-27091521.html

    I can't find it now, but I read an article showing cork had the most drink driving in the country


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    #112
    Heres Johnny
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    fryup wrote: »
    Heres Johnny wrote: »
    Phoenix park this day next week will be dangerous, not that a priest will try to bum you or anything but the fact they are building temporary morgue because they are convinced people will die at it.

    die of boredom?

    btw - have you got a link to this?

    https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/morgue-set-to-be-built-in-phoenix-park-for-papal-visit-37184520.html


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    #113
    thebull85
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    corner of hells wrote: »
    As Berryfield Road, Finglas ?

    Known by the locals a Battlefield Road .

    It's calmed down a small bit.

    It had calmed down, but i think that area along with rest of Finglas is getting bad again thanks the latest generation of absolute scum.


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    #114
    TheRiverman
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    Unfortunately Donegal headline news again this morning following the awful fatal crash in Bundoran last night.Frightening waste of young lives and devastation for families.


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    #115
    Stroke Politics
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    Every county has an edgy area, have lived in Mayo, Galway, Meath, Dublin over the years and the places to avoid all look tysane.

    The only county I consciously avoid as a dangerous place to be is Donegal.

    Beautiful county, and any Donegal people I’ve met over the years are very likeable and responsible people. What is it about the ones that live there that gives it such a bad name.

    We holiday in Ireland every year for a week, the only place we will refuse to bring our three children to is Donegal, purely because of driver behaviour and attitude there. Take a listen to this doc on one from a few years ago...

    https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0804/806861-we-decide-who-lives-or-dies/


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    #116
    Oasis1974
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    The countryside is the most dangerous place and those houses in isolated parts. No policing no lighting lack of basic facilities you can get away with murder literally. Animals in fields attacked not just human beings. Wouldn't be caught dead there no pun intended.


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    #117
    blade1
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    Anywhere near pylons.
    I reckon those EMF's aren't the best for you.


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    #118
    Big Nasty
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    blade1 wrote: »
    Anywhere near pylons.
    I reckon those EMF's aren't the best for you.

    Unbelievable!


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    #119
    fryup
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    Stroke Politics wrote: »
    We holiday in Ireland every year for a week, the only place we will refuse to bring our three children to is Donegal, purely because of driver behaviour and attitude there. Take a listen to this doc on one from a few years ago...

    i think its because of their geographical location, there right up against the border so they can cross two jurisdictions willy nilly acting the maggot, without getting caught


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    #120
    malinheader
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    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Any town in Donegal. Good chance of being killed by boy racers. It's like being in deep South in the US. Full of hicks

    Keep you thinking that. Don't need yous sunday drivers like yous up here anyway.


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    #121
    Graces7
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    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    The countryside is the most dangerous place and those houses in isolated parts. No policing no lighting lack of basic facilities you can get away with murder literally. Animals in fields attacked not just human beings. Wouldn't be caught dead there no pun intended.

    Well I have lived in very isolated houses in the countryside for many many years with no lighting etc and never been afraid etc. The one time there was an issue it was wit h a rather nasty old neighbour and the gardai were there in minutes.

    would not feel safe in a city or town.


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