Whats the worst area in dublin?

berliner · 22-04-2008 11:47pm

spurious wrote: »

Have you lived in all these areas?

A couple of them yes.What difference does that make anyway.It's my judgement.everyone can make up their own minds.Just ask yourself where would you like your kids to grow up and what schools would you like them to go to and what values do you want them to have.

spurious · 23-04-2008 6:03am

The difference would be that someone who lived in an area might have a more valid opinion on it than someone who saw it on the news or got a bus there once.
As has been said before, this is a pointless thread. I'm surprised it's still unlocked.

berliner · 23-04-2008 10:15pm

spurious wrote: »

The difference would be that someone who lived in an area might have a more valid opinion on it than someone who saw it on the news or got a bus there once.
As has been said before, this is a pointless thread. I'm surprised it's still unlocked.

"Pointless thread"...use your logic and 85% of threads would be locked.For crying out loud most of them are pointless.

Ian38HR · 23-04-2008 10:17pm

Does it explain why there is so many properties for sale (the most in Dublin) in FINGLAS because not too many wants to buy there? Why is that?

gurramok · 23-04-2008 10:44pm

Ian38HR wrote: »

Does it explain why there is so many properties for sale (the most in Dublin) in FINGLAS because not too many wants to buy there? Why is that?

Too expensive?...Is it worth forking out 300k for a house in Finglas, stating the bleein' obvious

Every area has problems selling property including D4, we're in a housing crash after all!

Predhead · 23-04-2008 10:46pm

What a stupid thread. Eh, Ballymun, why not!?! :rolleyes:

berliner · 01-05-2008 10:02pm

Predhead wrote: »

What a stupid thread. Eh, Ballymun, why not!?! :rolleyes:

If it's stupid then why bother contributing? Never understand why people say things like that and then add their two cents worth to something they consider stupid.

PeeDiddyPaddy · 05-05-2008 3:49pm

Any area that the tracksuit brigade run feral is held to ransom by these pleasant civilians and apart from the obvious areas that covers pretty much all of Dublin and Limerick and new to the anti social list Cork by the sounds of tings!

berliner · 06-05-2008 12:17am

if you're looking for a good place to raise your family,advoid council areas and you'll be grand. Finglas,Ballyfermot,coolock...fill in the rest yourself.

gurramok · 06-05-2008 12:17pm

berliner wrote: »

if you're looking for a good place to raise your family,advoid council areas and you'll be grand. Finglas,Ballyfermot,coolock...fill in the rest yourself.

Glasnevin, Chapelizod, Clontarf

The whole city is part of a few council areas, so we avoid Dublin altogether?

Collie D · 06-05-2008 8:57pm

gurramok wrote: »

Glasnevin, Chapelizod, Clontarf

The whole city is part of a few council areas, so we avoid Dublin altogether?

I wouldn't bother arguing with him to be honest...I've given up

arybvtcw0eolkf · 06-05-2008 9:02pm

Collie D wrote: »

I wouldn't bother arguing with him to be honest...I've given up

I wish there was an active Moderator here to lock this train wreck of a thread.

DJDC · 06-05-2008 9:26pm

Personally I'd use the same rule no matter what major city I was living in whether its LA, london or dublin. If more than 50% of the area is made of projects/council houses/local authority housing I'm not interested.

I dont know the exact timescales involved but western govts tried a social experiment in the mid 20th century of removing the city poor from crumbling tenemants and placing them in new estates in suburbs away from the centre.

In Dublin, these estates were concentrated in:
Driminagh, Crumlin, Tallaght, Finglas, Ballymun, Coolock, Shanganagh, Blanchardstown, Clondalkin (I'm sure theres more).

Many of these places are suffering the social consquences of destroying tight knit city communties and placing them in the middle of nowhere just likes what's happened in places like Hackney and the Bronx. Although the Irish estates have so far escaped the racial tensions in these areas.

Call me a snob but many people will agree with me on avoiding 50%+ project areas.

Dub13 · 06-05-2008 9:56pm

Mairt wrote: »

I wish there was an active Moderator here to lock this train wreck of a thread.

I am watching.

punchdrunk · 07-05-2008 10:00pm

Coolocks pretty quiet,far from the worst area!

freeme · 25-05-2008 7:59am

was in rathvilly estate in finglas yesterday and nearly got killed for real by 30 or so kids and adults. horses running loose and. they started shouting abuse at first and then blocked the road out. a resident came out and said if you dont leave now you will die here. as i tried to pass them they blocked the road and i had to drive tru them. this only aggravated them and they chase me beating on the van windows and pulling on the door handles. i rang the guards and they said to come into the station and stay overnight! i drove like a rocket and was really uneasy as i thought they might have followed me by car. couldnt see behind me as mirrors were smashed. took me a good two days to recover though. I feel that no area should be a no go area, but even the guards refused to go in there. when i googled rathvilly later i was shocked to see the list of murders and murderers that had come from there. how do you tackle something like this?

gurramok · 25-05-2008 1:37pm

Nah, Rathvilly estate is a lovely area, nearly 300k asking price for a house says they only want professional couples to live therel

Anyway joking over, what triggered the event freeme?

Peleus · 25-05-2008 6:17pm

heinzes9100 wrote: »

it really pisses me off when people talk like this. people in these areas are really sound. unlike the d4 heads who love themselves WAY too much.

p.s someone reported me by saying "southsiders are stuck up there own arses". i will probably be reported again but whoever does report me is one sad prick. we will see

That is so stupid.

heinzes9100 wrote: »

it really pisses me off when people talk like this. people in these areas are really sound.

heinzes9100 wrote: »

...unlike the d4 heads who love themselves WAY too much...
...someone reported me by saying "southsiders are stuck up there own arses".

If it pisses you off when people insult other areas, whytf are you doing it. you're such a hypocrit.

and why do people always have to bring up Dublin 4. Most of the people that live there are over 50 and just polite people, and as for the young people, most of them are only stuck up because people keep calling them snobs and D4 heads! there are alot more 'D4 heads' in Castleknock, Clontarf, Malahide, Foxrock, Howth, Sutton or Dun Laoighre than there are in Dublin 4. So whoever came up with that name is an idiot. it doesnt even make any sense.

Peleus · 25-05-2008 6:38pm

seamus wrote: »

You'll find that this is the main reason why people want to live in the likes of D4 and Foxrock. It's not about the prestige (though it is for a few people), it's because the areas are quiet, well-kept, well-serviced, close to the city (without being *in* the city) and overall are more relaxed and pleasant places to live than Tallaght or Finglas.

true, i've lived in Sandymount all my life, i've only heard of about two assualts, couple of break ins and one attempted robbery on Tesco

. and probably none of these were done by people from the area. It's quiet, it's calm and relaxed. You do get the odd snob driving around in flash cars paid for by their parents, but to be honest, i prefer that to the groups of scum hanging around abusing, robbing, assualting, and acting hard.

freeme · 25-05-2008 9:43pm

uk reg didnt help. no other reason at ALL

gurramok · 25-05-2008 10:17pm

Peleus wrote: »

true, i've lived in Sandymount all my life, i've only heard of about two assualts, couple of break ins and one attempted robbery on Tesco . and probably none of these were done by people from the area. It's quiet, it's calm and relaxed. You do get the odd snob driving around in flash cars paid for by their parents, but to be honest, i prefer that to the groups of scum hanging around abusing, robbing, assualting, and acting hard.

Sandymount ain't all angels either

.

Remember that murder last year that happened close to Landsdowne Tennis club?(http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0806/spellman.html)

Also the alleged perpetrator of another killing is from Tritonville Rd in sandymount is before the courts on that matter. (http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0421/younga.html?rss)

They ain't all posh folk with D4 accents in Sandymount, alot of working class salt of the earth dubs live down that way (i know a few personally).

Jip · 26-05-2008 10:30am

freeme wrote: »

was in rathvilly estate in finglas yesterday .....took me a good two days to recover though.

You're either talking crap or have a time machine. You were there 'yesterday' and posted first thing 'today' that it took you a good two days to recover ?!?

stovelid · 26-05-2008 1:20pm

freeme wrote: »

was in rathvilly estate in finglas yesterday and nearly got killed for real by 30 or so kids and adults. horses running loose and. they started shouting abuse at first and then blocked the road out. a resident came out and said if you dont leave now you will die here. as i tried to pass them they blocked the road and i had to drive tru them. this only aggravated them and they chase me beating on the van windows and pulling on the door handles. i rang the guards and they said to come into the station and stay overnight! i drove like a rocket and was really uneasy as i thought they might have followed me by car. couldnt see behind me as mirrors were smashed. took me a good two days to recover though. I feel that no area should be a no go area, but even the guards refused to go in there. when i googled rathvilly later i was shocked to see the list of murders and murderers that had come from there. how do you tackle something like this?

I know someone who lived across the road from Rathvilly, and I lived with them for a year or so, about 5 years ago. I got zero hassle there, going to the shops or jogging. I also walked around at night - again, zero hassle.

Assuming you're not a tin roofer, I would say it's a once off.

Peleus · 26-05-2008 4:54pm

gurramok wrote: »

Sandymount ain't all angels either .

Remember that murder last year that happened close to Landsdowne Tennis club?(http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0806/spellman.html)

Also the alleged perpetrator of another killing is from Tritonville Rd in sandymount is before the courts on that matter. (http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0421/younga.html?rss)

They ain't all posh folk with D4 accents in Sandymount, alot of working class salt of the earth dubs live down that way (i know a few personally).

your right, but I live on the merrion side of sandymount (near the other tesco) not in the village. I'm rarely in the sandmount village, but you are right, there are not to many posh people down there. I wouldnt call it dangerours tho.

I was talking about the Sydney Parade Ave/ Merrion road part. I think its called merrion but everyone calls it sandymount, where nothing ever happens.

PS: i used to know mark green, the guy from tritonville road. Strange guy, but alrite.

humberklog · 26-05-2008 5:04pm

Castlenock. Stultifyingly boring. Mondeoman haven of Surreyite wannabes and socceremoms in suvs. It's creepily like Stepford.

greatgoal · 26-05-2008 5:49pm

humberklog wrote: »

Castlenock. Stultifyingly boring. Mondeoman haven of Surreyite wannabes and socceremoms in suvs. It's creepily like Stepford.

wow,what a description,brilliant.

freeme · 27-05-2008 12:09am

yes i have a time machine, doesnt everybody?

helimachoptor · 27-05-2008 10:33am

irishbird wrote: »

i grew up in a council estate and i am not ashamed of it. my parents and i lived in a one bed, rat infested flat until i was four. some people seem to forget what it was like living in ireland in the 70's - 80's - there was absolutely no money or jobs in the country.

My parents no longer live in a council house, they have built a house in an area which would be considered expensive but if anyone asks me where i grew up, i give the council estate name, i am not ashamed of my roots

born in 1982, grew up in mounttown, dun laoghaire, quick snapshop of events that shaped my childhood, Gardai getting a screw driver through the face, numerous gardai cars getting set alight, taxi men, delivery drivers, firemen refusing to enter unless with a gardai escort. A woman held from the balcony of a 4th floor flat while her junkie daughter pleaded with the other junkies not to drop her.

In saying that I wasn't sheltered I seen a lot of **** go on but mammy kept me on a tight leash and let me know when I went beyond on the line. Also a few of the lads around the area were in primary school and many years later one of them saved me from probably getting killed (or at least a massive kicking). Thankfully they've knocked the blocks of flats down now and it is nowhere near as bad as it used to be.
Now I live in Tallaght which isnt as bad as i feared!

Gaspode · 27-05-2008 1:37pm

humberklog wrote: »

Castlenock. Stultifyingly boring. Mondeoman haven of Surreyite wannabes and socceremoms in suvs. It's creepily like Stepford.

I object to that. We are not a mondeoman haven at all. We're a Mercman haven.....;)

humberklog · 27-05-2008 2:14pm

deswalsh wrote: »

I object to that. We are not a mondeoman haven at all. We're a Mercman haven.....;)

And within your objection there in lies the proof of my pudding. It isn't the name/make nor model of car it's the mentality behind the wheel.
Yours was a classic castlenock response. Routed deeply in the psychology of the "making obvious my notions of superior class pretentions through material goods". I rest rest my case m'lord the defendant is holding the smoking gun.
Castlenock....Guilty as charged!
We sentence you to a life time of mowing your lawn, petty murmerings (just loud enough that your neighbours can hear you over your saccatour clipping the rose bush) about the price of private education and only feeling truely manly during the summer months when bar-b-q seasonkicks in and you can wear your 'I'm the chef' apron.
Take'm down.

Stab*City · 27-05-2008 5:03pm

mountjoy prison is pretty rough..

Gaspode · 27-05-2008 5:21pm

humberklog wrote: »

And within your objection there in lies the proof of my pudding. It isn't the name/make nor model of car it's the mentality behind the wheel.
Yours was a classic castlenock response. Routed deeply in the psychology of the "making obvious my notions of superior class pretentions through material goods". I rest rest my case m'lord the defendant is holding the smoking gun.
Castlenock....Guilty as charged!
We sentence you to a life time of mowing your lawn, petty murmerings (just loud enough that your neighbours can hear you over your saccatour clipping the rose bush) about the price of private education and only feeling truely manly during the summer months when bar-b-q seasonkicks in and you can wear your 'I'm the chef' apron.
Take'm down.

And we have ruggermums here not soccermums! Bloody cheek of you!

Seriously though I thought it had been established conclusively many pages back that Castleknock was the worst area by virtue of the fact that Dunsink Lane is in Castleknock?

humberklog · 27-05-2008 8:05pm

deswalsh wrote: »

And we have ruggermums here not soccermums! Bloody cheek of you!

Seriously though I thought it had been established conclusively many pages back that Castleknock was the worst area by virtue of the fact that Dunsink Lane is in Castleknock?

I missed that one! The place is moving up in my estimation!
Ruggermums indeed...That hole your digging is getting bigger.

mehfesto2 · 27-05-2008 8:22pm

D4 perhaps? Looks lovely, granted, but try spend a day there without seeing:

1. Large Buck Teeth on young men
2. Overly Fake Tanned Person
3. Blond in a mini cooper (extra points if spotted w/ sunglasses on head)
4. *****ty little dogs
5. Young lads with collars up
6. Men wearing Pink
7. Jumpers wrapped around shoulders
8. Men in unnecessarily large Jeep
9. Ugg Boots
10. Old woman looking like she's smelling something fonkay in the air.

Hell to many a normal, decent person. Couldn't live there if you paid me.

Pepe LeFrits · 27-05-2008 8:27pm

mehfesto2 wrote: »

Couldn't live there if you paid me.

Lucky for us!

Peleus · 27-05-2008 10:31pm

mehfesto2 wrote: »

D4 perhaps? Looks lovely, granted, but try spend a day there without seeing:

1. Large Buck Teeth on young men
2. Overly Fake Tanned Person
3. Blond in a mini cooper (extra points if spotted w/ sunglasses on head)
4. *****ty little dogs
5. Young lads with collars up
6. Men wearing Pink
7. Jumpers wrapped around shoulders
8. Men in unnecessarily large Jeep
9. Ugg Boots
10. Old woman looking like she's smelling something fonkay in the air.

Hell to many a normal, decent person. Couldn't live there if you paid me.

I've seen more Ugg boots in Castleknock, Phibsboro and Chapelizod than i have here. The only thing on that list i regularly see/annooys me are the old posh stuck up women. There are quite a few of them and they really piss me off. And men wearing pink, that look has been passed on to the skobies.

DarkGod · 15-06-2008 4:45pm

Would Ratoath, Ashtown be a rough area to live in? Im looking to live in the royal canal park and im wondering if the area surrounding it is dangerous. I'm going up there tomorrow to view an appartment so any quick advice would be appreciated, Thanks!

BraziliaNZ · 16-06-2008 2:12am

are UGG boots considered posh? I don't mind them really. Those boat shoes that they all wear on southside, I can't understand that phenomenon at all. I mean they look CRAP. Why did they choose a shoe that looks CRAP to be part of their posh uniform??!

geurrp the yard · 16-06-2008 2:35am

Mr.S wrote: »

all the things you listed can be seen anywhere in Dublin...

Cant say ive seen jacinta from dolphins barn
driving around in her mini cooper unless its robbed.

Gavin "shels" · 16-06-2008 2:58am

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

are UGG boots considered posh? I don't mind them really. Those boat shoes that they all wear on southside, I can't understand that phenomenon at all. I mean they look CRAP. Why did they choose a shoe that looks CRAP to be part of their posh uniform??!

They cost €100 odd afaik.

Gavin "shels" · 16-06-2008 2:59am

geurrp the yard wrote: »

Cant say ive seen jacinta from dolphins barn
driving around in her mini cooper unless its robbed.

:rolleyes:Ye because Dolphins Barn is a horrible place. And all Jacinta's are like the above.:rolleyes:

Fecking live down the road from Dolphins Barn for my whole 17 year life and walked through it many a time without any hassle.

hunter164 · 16-06-2008 11:51am

hahahahahah Gav defending all the Jacintas are we?

whiskeyman · 16-06-2008 12:48pm

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

are UGG boots considered posh?

Gavin shels wrote: »

They cost €100 odd afaik.

The €100 pair ones would be posh.

It's the cheapo versions ya can probably pick up in Pennys for peanuts that wouldn't be...

Gavin "shels" · 16-06-2008 1:21pm

I was on about the Dubes that BraziliaNZ talked about "Those boat shoes that they all wear on southside, I can't understand that phenomenon at all. I mean they look CRAP. Why did they choose a shoe that looks CRAP to be part of their posh uniform??!"

keen · 16-06-2008 3:49pm

So it's the price tag that make them posh and not the look of them?

keen · 16-06-2008 4:44pm

Mr.S wrote: »

The same way a 200€ pair of jeans is posh, while a 5€ penneys pair aren't

A pair of air max are worth more then €100 but these aren't considered posh so there has to be more to ugg boots then how much they cost that give them there status as posh.

here.from.day.1 · 16-06-2008 4:53pm

Has Darndale gotten a mention?

keen · 16-06-2008 4:55pm

here.from.day.1 wrote: »

Has Darndale gotten a mention?

Yes.

barbados · 16-06-2008 5:05pm

I live in Belcamp which is right beside Darndale and the majority of the people are sound, its not the prettist, site but it doesn't bother me i don't think anybody can judge an area unless they have lived in it.

As the saying goes,

It's not where you live, it's how you live!!!!!!!!!!!

here.from.day.1 · 16-06-2008 5:08pm

keen wrote: »

Yes.

Well +1 then. (Its probably not the worst but its the most recent in my head.)

Whats the worst area in dublin?

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