What you see in Dublin

lawred2 · 12-12-2018 7:39pm

223vmax wrote: »

Must admit I don't go to Dublin often. However on a recent trip there last week I couldn't believe what I saw. Walking from Temple Bar back to Heuston station I came upon a group of 6 or 7 druggies. One of them was sat on his heels with his tracksuit bottoms round his thighs. His hand reached around and he was routing himself out for a baggie of drugs.... Totally honorific! I was only glad I didn't have my young family with me. This got me thinking - others in Dublin on a regular basis must see some awful sights. What have you seen that made you think WTF!!!

Should have got yourself out to Malahide or Howth or Clontarf or Raheny or Glasnevin or the Phoenix Park or Grafton Street or St Stephens Green or Ballsbridge or Blackrock or Rathgar or Ranelagh or Rathmines or Dun Laoghaire or Dalkey or Dundrum or etc etc etc

irishguitarlad · 12-12-2018 7:41pm

Yeah Dublin is not the only place like that op.. Local town drunk in my town picked Up a shnack box left over after a night out the following morning and ate It. He also pisses on the main street with his pants down in broad daylight.

dhaughton99 · 12-12-2018 7:45pm

AllForIt wrote: »

Yeah, was in Dublin for the first time in a long while last month and the moment I exited Heuston station I went straight to the luas only to see 4 junkies standing by the ticket kiosk having a chat. I was so pissed off that the moment I seen them I said forget the Luas and walked into the city instead. What a terrible impression of Dublin this gives when the moment you set foot in Dublin the first thing you see is junkies. I don't know what it is about the Heuston/Luas area but junkies are always hanging around there. There must be radical lefties working in the council who maybe feel the race of junkies have a right to meander around wherever they feel like, for equality sake.

As a dub, this does my head in. Whether it be Hueston or Christchurch, you have this lot out dealing tablets and goofing off and it’s the first thing the culchies and tourists have to see. Guards just leave them be. I think the culchie guards do it on purpose.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 12-12-2018 7:47pm

dhaughton99 wrote: »

As a dub, this does my head in. Whether it be Hueston or Christchurch, you have this lot out dealing tablets and goofing off and it’s the first thing the culchies and tourists have to see. Guards just leave them be. I think the culchie guards do it on purpose.

What about the dub guards?

Dalomanakora · 12-12-2018 7:53pm

Rylie Spoiled Memoir wrote: »

I worked on the door of a rock bar on Aston Quay for 7 years and overwhelmingly tourists would mention the amount of addicts, dealers and beggars.

Myself I see this too, shame really because I love my city.

Many's a time I'd be at that particular bar having a smoke (chatted to you sometimes too!) outside and scrotes would pile around the smokers begging for money :pac: Was offered coke and pills in there more times than I can count too :pac:

Have to say, I've noticed far higher numbers of drunks/drug users out begging on the streets in the city centre the last month than I saw before that. More aggressive ones too tbh.

Spanish Eyes · 12-12-2018 7:53pm

Tourists can go to feck, every city has its blackspots. I'd prefer if the emphasis was on quality of life for residents of the city no matter where they are from, as long as they are law abiding themselves.

Dublin City Council has a lot to answer for. They don't seem to venture out of their eyerie in either City Hall or Wood Quay to walk around and see for themselves what it can be like in some spots. Take around Merchant's Quay for example. Prime spot, Four courts on one side and Christ Church on the other, but no, there is a homeless shelter, a
needle exchange and the area is right dodgy. Now they are putting in a self administering drug centre alongside it.

I am sorry, but I really don't see the logic of placing such centres in the city centre at all. They are after all places where dealing is rampant and there is an air of menace about these areas, and there are many of them dotted around the inner city. But someone might explain it to me.

mikhail · 12-12-2018 7:56pm

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I am sorry, but I really don't see the logic of placing such centres in the city centre at all. They are after all places where dealing is rampant and there is an air of menace about these areas, and there are many of them dotted around the inner city. But someone might explain it to me.

I expect it's about the entire public transport network being pointed there. Hard to expect a heroin user to drive to Monasterevin for his methadone.

dhaughton99 · 12-12-2018 8:12pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

What about the dub guards?

There are no dub guards in Dublin.

cian68 · 12-12-2018 8:17pm

AllForIt wrote: »

Yeah, was in Dublin for the first time in a long while last month and the moment I exited Heuston station I went straight to the luas only to see 4 junkies standing by the ticket kiosk having a chat. I was so pissed off that the moment I seen them I said forget the Luas and walked into the city instead. What a terrible impression of Dublin this gives when the moment you set foot in Dublin the first thing you see is junkies. I don't know what it is about the Heuston/Luas area but junkies are always hanging around there.

I haven't read the whole thread to see if other people caught this but what's going on here? They were standing? and chatting? The cheek of them.

AllForIt wrote: »

There must be radical lefties working in the council who maybe feel the race of junkies have a right to meander around wherever they feel like, for equality sake.

Yes actually. People who are addicted to heroin can take the same public transport you can. Its PC gone mad!

Franz Von Peppercorn · 12-12-2018 8:19pm

dhaughton99 wrote: »

There are no dub guards in Dublin.

Do they all put on the accent then?

Vita nova · 12-12-2018 8:20pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

Cul an tí, Culchie, I don't use it myself because of oversensitivity and Political Correctiveness overloading. But why do you find it so insulting?

That's just one possible etymology; there are at least 3 others that I've mentioned in the past. The fact is that nobody can be certain of the term's origin.

To me and others, it's a synonym for an "unsophisticated country person", and I don't think one can lump everyone from rural Ireland or any other region into that category. Even when used as a joke or term of endearment I don't think it's particularly funny or endearing.

If that makes me sound like a drag then so be it.

Google Definition taken from Oxforddictionaries.com
an unsophisticated country person

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dhaughton99 · 12-12-2018 8:22pm

cian68 wrote: »

I haven't read the whole thread to see if other people caught this but what's going on here? They were standing? and chatting? The cheek of them.

Yes actually. People who are addicted to heroin can take the same public transport you can. Its PC gone mad!

Well, yes they can, as long as they pay. Usually don't have to pay coz they get the free travel scheme.

Spanish Eyes · 12-12-2018 8:33pm

mikhail wrote: »

I expect it's about the entire public transport network being pointed there. Hard to expect a heroin user to drive to Monasterevin for his methadone.

Bring the mountain to mohammed then and keep them out of the city centres :pac:

Sigh, that wasn't meant to be islamaphobic either BTW just a figure of speech, lest some multiculturalist gets into high dudgeon.

Mrsmum · 12-12-2018 8:46pm

What I notice when I go down home to my local country town is all the boarded up shops and what I notice in Dublin city centre is people sleeping in doorways and drug addicts. Both are not good looks, both sad scenes and both need more done about them.

223vmax · 12-12-2018 8:57pm

The thought of a lad fishing a bag of smack out of his hole, fingers covered in ****e to then prepare his fix and inject smack + ****e into his own veins...dreadful TBH. Poor bastard. His buddies around him begging to share the fix.....

Raheem Euro · 12-12-2018 9:03pm

223vmax wrote: »

The thought of a lad fishing a bag of smack out of his hole, fingers covered in ****e to then prepare his fix and inject smack + ****e into his own veins...dreadful TBH. Poor bastard. His buddies around him begging to share the fix.....

"..them drugs you're taking there, they came out of a black man's arse. Out of a black man's arse!...."

Big Joe Joyce youtube 2011

Sycamore Tree · 12-12-2018 9:11pm

Rylie Spoiled Memoir wrote: »

I worked on the door of a rock bar on Aston Quay for 7 years and overwhelmingly tourists would mention the amount of addicts, dealers and beggars.

Myself I see this too, shame really because I love my city.

I have seen Gardai walking past dealers handing over drugs on Talbot St. They looked but ignored.

AllForIt · 12-12-2018 10:36pm

cian68 wrote: »

I haven't read the whole thread to see if other people caught this but what's going on here? They were standing? and chatting? The cheek of them.

Yes actually. People who are addicted to heroin can take the same public transport you can. Its PC gone mad!

Oh don't be so ridiculous. They weren't getting on the luas, they were loitering around there. For gods sake.

lawred2 · 12-12-2018 10:56pm

Why would he need to store it his arse?

All his pockets got holes in them?

Tell me how · 12-12-2018 10:59pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

A seagull viciously attack a German tourist.

A seagull attacked me in Stockholm.
They clearly don't like outsiders.

They'd fit right in on Boards. :rolleyes:

MadDog76 · 12-12-2018 11:11pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

As is Ireland, Europe and the rest of the world......

Arghus · 13-12-2018 1:05am

People getting mad defensive here. I know it hurts when one of us culchies insult the Fair City, it must hurt even more when they kinda have a point.

Dublin is a great place in general, but the level of clear social deprivation you see clearly in your face, especially around the city centre, is on another level entirely to anywhere else in the country. I know there's all sorts of reasons for this - the presence of drug treatment centres in the city centre being one of the key ones - but it never fails to shock me, at least a little bit, even though it's not new to me either at this stage.

Thestones · 13-12-2018 1:16am

I live in south Dublin, very rarely go in to the city centre and if I do I stay in the grafton street/Stephens green area, it feels a lot safer than the north side of city centre, temple bar and heuston area has been dodgy for years. Living in the burbs I don't tend to see any druggies unless of course you go down dun Laoghaire, there is a few down that way too!!

13-12-2018 1:30am

Thestones wrote: »

I live in south Dublin, very rarely go in to the city centre and if I do I stay in the grafton street/Stephens green area, it feels a lot safer than the north side of city centre, temple bar and heuston area has been dodgy for years. Living in the burbs I don't tend to see any druggies unless of course you go down dun Laoghaire, there is a few down that way too!!

Would anybody defend O'Connell St? An absolute kip with an air of menace about it in the evenings. The dark paving doesn't help, with appalling lighting as a result. Disastrous effort at 'regeneration' tbh.

Thestones · 13-12-2018 1:55am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Would anybody defend O'Connell St? An absolute kip with an air of menace about it in the evenings. The dark paving doesn't help, with appalling lighting as a result. Disastrous effort at 'regeneration' tbh.

Your right, I wouldn't go near O'Connell at night, I would avoid that whole part of the city during the day too to be honest, unless there is some specific reason to be there I don't. Last Christmas which was last time I was over that side we were waiting for a bus to go home on the quays, myself, husband and two kids, some scumbag Eastern European approaches asking for money, husband says no, guy gets quite intimidating, luckily my h takes no sh*t, they had some words and eventually the guy walked off. Anyway my point is it was first time in s long time we'd been over here that side and some scumbag tries his luck, probably thought a family was an easy target.

cian68 · 13-12-2018 2:09am

AllForIt wrote: »

Oh don't be so ridiculous. They weren't getting on the luas, they were loitering around there. For gods sake.

God forbid. Look I don't know man if you reckon a deal was going down then yeah guards should be on top of that but people need a place to stand and chat and you not liking the look of them isn't a genuine grievance.

fonecrusher1 · 13-12-2018 2:13am

Dublin city center seems to be a haven for sub human scum. The amount of drug zombies and just general scum bags hanging around the center is unreal. And ive lived in two much much bigger cities abroad with 4/5 times the population. And they didn't seem to have this disproportionate ratio. Weird!

The river absolutely stinks as well.

Apart from that its lovely though.

prinzeugen · 13-12-2018 2:22am

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Dublin city center seems to be a haven for sub human scum. The amount of drug zombies and just general scum bags hanging around the center is unreal. And ive lived in two much much bigger cities abroad with 4/5 times the population. And they didn't seem to have this disproportionate ratio. Weird!

The river absolutely stinks as well.

Apart from that its lovely though.

Smaller cities tend to have people congratulate in one area.

The river stinks because it is a tidal river. Blame seaweed!

John_Rambo · 13-12-2018 11:28am

I think it’s finally dawned on people that Dublin needs to start investing in itself and stop being some sort of ATM for the rest of the country.

There has to be some sort of tax retention. It’s estimated that 10 billion Euro is siphoned out of the Capital to support other counties who’s towns and villages are dying because people refuse to live in them.

All this whilst (as people point out on this thread) Dublin suffers from social deprivation, a drug problem, a lack of policing, bad lighting etc…

Time for the city to start looking after it’s own problems.

dhaughton99 · 13-12-2018 11:33am

lawred2 wrote: »

Why would he need to store it his arse?

All his pockets got holes in them?

I was watching an old SkyOne Road Wars from season 1 last night and a junkie had 2 cops sitting on him, mashing his face into the tarmac and he still managed to sneak his hand around the back to shove a bag up his hole. Like a hummingbird, only the camera caught it.

Sky King · 13-12-2018 11:48am

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

A seagull viciously attack a German tourist.

I'm hoping... nay PRAYING for a seagull cull *polishes shotgun hopefully*

super_furry · 13-12-2018 11:50am

Culchies go home. Dublin for the Dubs.

Kivaro · 13-12-2018 12:15pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

I think it’s finally dawned on people that Dublin needs to start investing in itself and stop being some sort of ATM for the rest of the country.

There has to be some sort of tax retention. It’s estimated that 10 billion Euro is siphoned out of the Capital to support other counties who’s towns and villages are dying because people refuse to live in them.

All this whilst (as people point out on this thread) Dublin suffers from social deprivation, a drug problem, a lack of policing, bad lighting etc…

Time for the city to start looking after it’s own problems.

I'll help pay to build a wall around Dublin.
A really big one.

orourkeda1977 · 13-12-2018 12:17pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Dublin is full of scummers, an inconvenient truth but there you have it.

We call them culchies up here.

realdanbreen · 13-12-2018 12:20pm

Thestones wrote: »

some scumbag Eastern European approaches asking for money, husband says no, guy gets quite intimidating, luckily my h takes no sh*t, they had some words and eventually the guy walked off. Anyway my point is it was first time in s long time we'd been over here that side and some scumbag tries his luck, probably thought a family was an easy target.

Very same ting happened me a few months back.

Except it happened in Nenagh Co Tipp, pop of around 10-15K.!
Oh, and he wasn't eastern European he was a locally produced scumbag.

orourkeda1977 · 13-12-2018 12:21pm

Thestones wrote: »

Your right, I wouldn't go near O'Connell at night, I would avoid that whole part of the city during the day too to be honest, unless there is some specific reason to be there I don't. Last Christmas which was last time I was over that side we were waiting for a bus to go home on the quays, myself, husband and two kids, some scumbag Eastern European approaches asking for money, husband says no, guy gets quite intimidating, luckily my h takes no sh*t, they had some words and eventually the guy walked off. Anyway my point is it was first time in s long time we'd been over here that side and some scumbag tries his luck, probably thought a family was an easy target.

That happens on the south side.

John_Rambo · 13-12-2018 12:23pm

Kivaro wrote: »

I'll help pay to build a wall around Dublin.
A really big one.

That’s all very well and good, but if your wall was to stop the flow of money out of the capital to support the rest of the counties rural Ireland will fall to rack and ruin.

They just can’t survive without the capitals cash flow.

realdanbreen · 13-12-2018 12:27pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

That’s all very well and good, but if your wall was to stop the flow of money out of the capital to support the rest of the counties rural Ireland will fall to rack and ruin.

They just can’t survive without the capitals cash flow.

I think they have some new fangled thing called electronic banking nowadays so your wall mightn't prevent the money going down the country. Anyway those cute hoors could always throw the money over the wall!

John_Rambo · 13-12-2018 12:55pm

realdanbreen wrote: »

I think they have some new fangled thing called electronic banking nowadays so your wall mightn't prevent the money going down the country. Anyway those cute hoors could always throw the money over the wall!

It’s not my wall, I wouldn’t like to see a wall, it contravenes the spirit of the city. Dublin has always welcomed people.

Vita nova · 13-12-2018 12:58pm

Arghus wrote: »

People getting mad defensive here...

I don't think it's surprising given the opening post. It may have raised issues to be concerned about but it was so badly phrased and constructed that it came across as an attack on Dublin -maybe it was- and then invited more people to contribute stories of "awful sights" seen in Dublin. Naturally, the thread descended pretty quickly into the usual name-calling and mud-slinging and here we are.

realdanbreen · 13-12-2018 1:05pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

It’s not my wall, I wouldn’t like to see a wall, it contravenes the spirit of the city. Dublin has always welcomed people.

I don't think the OP sees it as very welcoming!

John_Rambo · 13-12-2018 1:08pm

realdanbreen wrote: »

I don't think the OP sees it as very welcoming!

The very first thing he says is that he doesn't go to Dublin that often. He clearly hasn't a clue about the city and is very quick to make judgements.

fonecrusher1 · 13-12-2018 2:00pm

Kivaro wrote: »

I'll help pay to build a wall around Dublin.
A really big one.

Probably just best to move it due East across the water. To its natural home.

:pac:

Deebles McBeebles · 13-12-2018 2:13pm

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Probably just best to move it due East across the water. To its natural home.

:pac:

Dexit means Dexit!

razorblunt · 13-12-2018 2:16pm

I've been in Dublin twice in the space of a few months now having not been there in about 2 years before that.
I was genuinely shocked at the amount of homeless on Grafton Street at night time in doorways.

Laois_Man · 13-12-2018 2:17pm

Kivaro wrote: »

I'll help pay to build a wall around Dublin.
A really big one.

Make Meath pay for it?

223vmax · 13-12-2018 2:31pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

The very first thing he says is that he doesn't go to Dublin that often. He clearly hasn't a clue about the city and is very quick to make judgements.

Totally wrong. I'm from Manchester. Unless you meant clearly doesn't have a clue about Dublin. All the gear heads in Manc have now turned to spice and are walking zombies about the place. Druggies hanging around on streets in cities wasn't the point. But, all the Dubs suddenly wake up defending the place. It wasn't an attack on Dublin as such - even though in my opinion it is a sh!te hole. My point was as someone who doesn't go to Dublin often to be greeted with that sight wasn't the best. If you walk from Heuston to Templebar a couple of times I reckon you wouldn't have to wait long to see some horrendous sights. Now in Manc and Liverpool (which is also a sh!te hole) you wouldn't walk out of a major train station to be faced with the stuff you do in Dublin. The last time I was in Dublin prior to this visit, there was a gang of lads clutching clear plastic bags (I think just released from prison) with a few bit and pieces in, shouting a bawling clearly high as kites. Generally being very antiscoial and intimidating...

Deebles McBeebles · 13-12-2018 2:42pm

223vmax wrote: »

a gang of lads clutching clear plastic bags (I think just released from prison) with a few bit and pieces in, shouting a bawling clearly high as kites. Generally being very antiscoial and intimidating...

That's not just Dublin to be fair. You just need to look at any welfare office that's in close proximity to a prison. You see some saints and scholars there.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 13-12-2018 2:55pm

God almighty, I could probably say I saw the spire last time I was in Dublin and ye'd chime in "so, I saw a lamppost in Athlone, what's your point? I bet ye didn't even see it, and anyways you wouldn't have seen it from Harolds Cross so...shut up ya culchie"

John_Rambo · 13-12-2018 2:57pm

223vmax wrote: »

Totally wrong. I'm from Manchester. Unless you meant clearly doesn't have a clue about Dublin. All the gear heads in Manc have now turned to spice and are walking zombies about the place. Druggies hanging around on streets in cities wasn't the point. But, all the Dubs suddenly wake up defending the place. It wasn't an attack on Dublin as such - even though in my opinion it is a sh!te hole. My point was as someone who doesn't go to Dublin often to be greeted with that sight wasn't the best. If you walk from Heuston to Templebar a couple of times I reckon you wouldn't have to wait long to see some horrendous sights. Now in Manc and Liverpool (which is also a sh!te hole) you wouldn't walk out of a major train station to be faced with the stuff you do in Dublin. The last time I was in Dublin prior to this visit, there was a gang of lads clutching clear plastic bags (I think just released from prison) with a few bit and pieces in, shouting a bawling clearly high as kites. Generally being very antiscoial and intimidating...

I meant you clearly don’t have a clue about Dublin. Great anecdotes though.

What you see in Dublin

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