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How dangerous is Temple Bar?

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    #32
    222233
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    16 is a grand age, get searched going into most concerts for drink and won't get served drink at the concert without ID and probably won't get in anywhere to get drink after the concert unless you are planning on sneaking drink and sitting on a footpath somewhere so as long as your sober and have your wits about you , be grand! If it was a 16 year old planning on getting intoxicated then going to stay in a hostel alone I would feel differently.


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    #33
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    stefanovich wrote: »
    A 16 year old is absolutely not a child. Don't be so patronising.

    Erm... yes, they they are.


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    #34
    stefanovich
    Registered Users Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Erm... yes, they they are.
    A 9 year old is a child. A 16 year old is a teenager who is nearly an adult.


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    #35
    MagicMarker
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    stefanovich wrote: »
    A 9 year old is a child. A 16 year old is a teenager who is nearly an adult.

    'Nearly' being the key word there.


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    #36
    stefanovich
    Registered Users Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    'Nearly' being the key word there.
    A 16 year old who can't manage themselves in Dublin for one night is not exactly competent.


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    #37
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    I get really weird energy vibes from that place on sat nights etc. I would still go occasionally. But still


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    #38
    biko
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    Just carry a knife. Dubs love carrying knives.


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    #39
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    At 16 we were regularly hopping on trains to go to the far ends of the country camping on the edges of random villages - much stranger places than Temple Bar!!

    I'm now feeling very old as that would have been exactly 16 years ago. . . :(



    You'll be fine OP, just don't be falling around drunk and you may even enjoy yourself!


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    #40
    stefanovich
    Registered Users Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    theteal wrote: »
    At 16 we were regularly hopping on trains to go to the far ends of the country camping on the edges of random villages - much stranger places than Temple Bar!!

    I'm now feeling very old as that would have been exactly 16 years ago. . . :(



    You'll be fine OP, just don't be falling around drunk and you may even enjoy yourself!
    Aged 12 I was wandering the streets of London alone and I was fine.


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    #41
    biko
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    stefanovich wrote: »
    Aged 12 I was wandering the streets of London alone and I was fine.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVW3yPCwOfU


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    #42
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    Just a little Samba wrote: »
    Temple bar is fine. Most of the hostels are decent, stay in a single sex dorm, be grand.

    A sex dorm? Surely staying in multiple ones rather than just one would be more fun!


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    #43
    Jon Stark
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    Temple Bar is grand. The only ones that will be robbing you are the pubs, but you're 16 so that won't be a problem. I'm sure.


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    #44
    Bog Standard User
    Registered Users Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    biko wrote: »
    Just carry a knife. Dubs love carrying knives.

    nah limerick people love carrying knives


    dubs prefer syringes


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    #45
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    If you want to see english yobbos in action go down to temple bar any weekend

    they really get my back up the way they carry on


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    #46
    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    I have never found temple bar dangerous ,
    but i heard storys on the radio , of tourists or drunk people getting mugged by drug addicts who hang around the area .
    but i,m male 6ft ,so that may make a difference .
    Just keep your phone and wallet separate ,
    in inside pockets ,
    well hidden from pickpockets .
    And stay sober.
    if you have an expensive phone, don,t use it on the street .
    use it in a shop or a pub.
    people just run up grab your phone and run away .
    This can happen anywhere in the city centre .


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    #47
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    stefanovich wrote: »
    A 16 year old is absolutely not a child. Don't be so patronising.

    Not according to the Children Act 2001

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2001/en/act/pub/0024/sec0003.html#parti-sec3

    Personally think a 16 year old that's copped on will have no issues. Avoid phone / purse / wallet being in display and be aware of your surroundings. Maybe keep a few quid separate in case the worst happens and you have money for bus / train / taxi


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    #48
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    My daughter and her friend were staying in Temple Bar on holidays. When she rang he to check in, I could her them being attacked and kidnapped.
    I got the bus into town and found out that they had been kidnapped by Armenian human traffickers.
    I eventually found the Armenians and killed them all but not before I repeated some choice Armenian phrases which they appreciated.
    I went to a place where you can buy trafficked women and killed loads of people before hopping onto a boat on the Liffey and killing a load of security guards and boss hogg.
    I found my daughter in skimpy underwear. The tramp.
    So yeah, stay away from Temple Bar and any Armenian beggars.


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    #49
    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    Feckin Armenians. They invented the Kardashians!

    P.S Hi Trent!


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    #50
    fleet_admiral
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    circadian wrote: »
    Don't wear heels, the cobblestones would be a nightmare.
    Doesnt stop nuns cycling down them.....


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    #51
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    riclad wrote: »
    I have never found temple bar dangerous ,
    but i heard storys on the radio , of tourists or drunk people getting mugged by drug addicts who hang around the area .
    but i,m male 6ft ,so that may make a difference .
    Just keep your phone and wallet separate ,
    in inside pockets ,
    well hidden from pickpockets .
    And stay sober.
    if you have an expensive phone, don,t use it on the street .
    use it in a shop or a pub.
    people just run up grab your phone and run away .
    This can happen anywhere in the city centre .
    If you are ALONE either male or female it's dangerous. In a group (a sensible group less so).


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    #52
    Peter Anthony
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    silverfeather wrote: »
    If you are ALONE either male or female it's dangerous. In a group (a sensible group less so).
    Why, in what way is it dangerous ? I've never been but was planning on going soon. With the amount of tourists I always thought it would be less dangerous than other CC kips like Talbot st, Abbey st, O Connell st etc.

    At the very least there will be more people around Temple Bar. Alot of other areas are dead at night time which is a bit more unnerving when you run into scumbags.


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    #53
    Egginacup
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    galljga1 wrote: »
    16 is way too young to be staying in a hostel on your own. It was ok when I was 16 traipsing around the country but now that I am 48, 16 is too young.
    Enjoy yourself.

    16 is fine. I went on my own to New York and had a job and a flat in Queens when I was 17. The seediness, the noise, the black and Puerto Rican women. I grew up fast.


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    #54
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,356 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    riclad wrote: »
    I have never found temple bar dangerous ,
    but i heard storys on the radio , of tourists or drunk people getting mugged by drug addicts who hang around the area .
    but i,m male 6ft ,so that may make a difference .
    Just keep your phone and wallet separate ,
    in inside pockets ,
    well hidden from pickpockets .
    And stay sober.
    if you have an expensive phone, don,t use it on the street .
    use it in a shop or a pub.
    people just run up grab your phone and run away .
    This can happen anywhere in the city centre .

    Turn off your radio and you'll be grand.


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    #55
    anncoates
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    The Highwayman wrote: »
    What the hell is a 16 year old child doing staying at a hostel? I

    To cause 'outrage' in AH?


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    #56
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Depending on the gig you may not be allowed in to the venue at all


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    #57
    DrGreenthumb
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    IrishLesbian wrote: »
    I'm staying in a youth hostel for a concert in June next month by myself thats across from Temple Bar and I'm 16. Is Temple bar that dangerous??

    Jusy have your vibrator with you and have it set to stun


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