Woman stabbed near IFSC

boombang · 22-01-2021 9:44am

I used to live near Pearse St. Not as rough as Sheriff St, but I think some of the same issues apply. I believe there's little challenge to low level crime which then empowers teenage boys to progress into more violent crime unchecked.

ThunbergsAreGo · 22-01-2021 9:55am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Not pointing any fingers but trains from Balbriggan go to Connolly Station in the heart of the IFSC #justsayin

I really hope you aren't being serious. There is no description of the attacker at all.

LuasSimon · 22-01-2021 9:59am

Valresnick wrote: »

Ok fair enough but endless dole, free housing, free health, suspended sentences, no accountability for anything they do isn’t exactly encouraging people to better their lives is it ? This life support provided by the government has to stop if you give nothing but misery and trouble back to society.

Justice in this country is broken from top to bottom.

Criminals know that , the law is only for the law abiding.

Mad_maxx · 22-01-2021 10:02am

DraftDodger wrote: »

Social housing isn't free and social tenents are taxpayers just like private house dwellers.

Its free for welfare lifers

begbysback · 22-01-2021 10:06am

LuasSimon wrote: »

Justice in this country is broken from top to bottom.

Criminals know that , the law is only for the law abiding.

Nonsense, Ireland is one of the safest countries in the world. People will commit crime regardless of how harsh or soft a judicial system appears to be.

Doctors room ghost · 22-01-2021 10:13am

Any pond rat caught carrying a knife should get a minimum 5 year sentence with none of it suspended. The justice system is a farce.
If they are leaving home carrying a knife they are premeditating a crime and are willing to use a knife. If there was a 5 year sentence available for carrying a knife it would deter some of the pond rats arming themselves.

Thelonious Monk · 22-01-2021 10:13am

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

I really hope you aren't being serious. There is no description of the attacker at all.

It's a joke.
The IFSC is a strange place, I've spent a lot of time there and you have modernity and wealth and lots of tech workers living there but you also have one of the roughest estates in Ireland right in the heart of it too.

Samuel T. Cogley · 22-01-2021 10:13am

begbysback wrote: »

Nonsense, Ireland is one of the safest countries in the world. People will commit crime regardless of how harsh or soft a judicial system appears to be.

They will, but we have a relatively small cohort of people with dozens if not hundreds of convictions who should not be in a revolving door system. They should be locked up long term and rehabilitated.

Ireland may be safe overall but there are some very dodgy areas which have essentially been abandoned by the Gardaí. The only reason there's not more issues is most people are smart enough to avoid them*.

*And I am in no way blaming the poor woman in this instance.

Samuel T. Cogley · 22-01-2021 10:15am

Fred Cryton wrote: »

Can anyone else think of a place, not just in Ireland but in Europe, where every store and pharmacy in the area has to have full time security.

Assuming a wage of around €20k, that means the locals must have been robbing and/or shoplifting more than €20k per year from EACH of these businesses in order to justify the wage of the security guard.

I seem to remember certain parts of Edinburgh that probably wouldn't even bother opening those services it was so dangerous.

22-01-2021 10:16am

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Any pond rat caught carrying a knife should get a minimum 5 year sentence with none of it suspended. The justice system is a farce.
If they are leaving home carrying a knife they are premeditating a crime and are willing to use a knife. If there was a 5 year sentence available for carrying a knife it would deter some of the pond rats arming themselves.

The scary thing is there are probably loads of young ones now carrying knives thinking they need one to protect themselves from the other guy with a knife. London is testament to how bad things can get.

D3V!L · 22-01-2021 10:25am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

It's a joke.
The IFSC is a strange place, I've spent a lot of time there and you have modernity and wealth and lots of tech workers living there but you also have one of the roughest estates in Ireland right in the heart of it too.

I've worked there for 4 years now in a very prominent building which has views right up the IFSC. I've seen lads pushing scramblers up the road first thing in the morning past the Teslas, Porsches and high end saloons. There is drug dealing outside our door and random abuse gets handed out to people minding their own business and going about their working day.

The locals are at odds with the professionals that work in the area. The contrast between have and have not is too much for them.

Potatoeman · 22-01-2021 10:55am

The picture on the independent is just outside the EPIC Irish emigration museum in the IFSC, there would usually be people around if the pubs were open there. They have ‘excellent quality CCTV” as it’s a privately managed area. I imagine they will show this to Dublin Gardai first to see if any of them recognise him. I would say they will, this wouldn’t be their first crime.

DraftDodger · 22-01-2021 11:19am

Deleted User wrote: »

If your landlord gives you 200 a week, and politely asks for 30 back to pay for the rent, it's free.

If you live in social housing the housing isn't free. You pay rent to the local authority.

Thelonious Monk · 22-01-2021 11:19am

D3V!L wrote: »

The locals are at odds with the professionals that work in the area. The contrast between have and have not is too much for them.

Well in fairness the fancy apartments are given to locals on social there too, so they should really count their blessings.

Thelonious Monk · 22-01-2021 11:21am

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

I seem to remember certain parts of Edinburgh that probably wouldn't even bother opening those services it was so dangerous.

I lived in Edinburgh for a year, I can't remember any parts of the city centre that were particularly dodgy. They didn't seem to have the ring of flats/social housing around the city centre that we have in Dublin.

22-01-2021 11:22am

DraftDodger wrote: »

If you live in social housing the housing isn't free. You pay rent to the local authority.

If you are totally welfare dependent for your income and rent a dwelling then payment of said rent DOES NOT come from income you have earned.

DraftDodger · 22-01-2021 11:24am

begbysback wrote: »

Nonsense, Ireland is one of the safest countries in the world. People will commit crime regardless of how harsh or soft a judicial system appears to be.

Exactly. I sometimes think people complaining about Ireland Dublin in particular have never travelled or explored the world. Iv'e ridden my motorbike half way around the planet and visited more places than i can remember. Dublin is like Disneyland compared to a lot of cities in south America or even parts of Europe tbh.

retalivity · 22-01-2021 11:24am

DraftDodger wrote: »

If you live in social housing the housing isn't free. You pay rent to the local authority.

A token amount, 'That you can afford'.
From your dole.
Which is free.

DraftDodger · 22-01-2021 11:26am

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

If you are totally welfare dependent for your income and rent a dwelling then payment of said rent DOES NOT come from income you have earned.

I live in a half social half private estate and the vast majority of social tenants are working. Social housing is not free.

22-01-2021 11:30am

Valresnick wrote: »

And probably not a guard to be seen !

I worked in the IFSC for 2 years. Never a guard ever in sight, meanwhile there were scrotes doing wheelies up and down the street outside places like Bank of New York. Possibly a bike belonging to an employee of one of those establishments. People getting harassed going in and out of work was commonplace. It's an embarrassing place to work as an Irish person, especially when you have visitors from the UK or US.

Who thought putting the IFSC spitting distance from Sherriff Street without stationing a few guards around was going to be a good idea?

22-01-2021 11:33am

DraftDodger wrote: »

I live in a half social half private estate and the vast majority of social tenants are working. Social housing is not free.

Well of course if you are working then it stands to reason that the rent paid for social or private housing is not free even if your income is topped up by social welfare allowances.

But, if the only reason you have money in your pocket is because the state welfare department provides you with all of that money and then you give a percentage of that money to a state housing department then all you are is a go between between the two departments. It never cost you anything.

Thelonious Monk · 22-01-2021 11:34am

Deleted User wrote: »

I worked in the IFSC for 2 years. Never a guard ever in sight, meanwhile there were scrotes doing wheelies up and down the street outside places like Bank of New York. Possibly a bike belonging to an employee of one of those establishments. People getting harassed going in and out of work was commonplace. It's an embarrassing place to work as an Irish person, especially when you have visitors from the UK or US.

Who thought putting the IFSC spitting distance from Sherriff Street without stationing a few guards around was going to be a good idea?

In fairness, there's nearly always a squad car outside Noctors, but they just seem to sit there doing nothing.

givyjoe · 22-01-2021 11:37am

Deleted User wrote: »

I worked in the IFSC for 2 years. Never a guard ever in sight, meanwhile there were scrotes doing wheelies up and down the street outside places like Bank of New York. Possibly a bike belonging to an employee of one of those establishments. People getting harassed going in and out of work was commonplace. It's an embarrassing place to work as an Irish person, especially when you have visitors from the UK or US.

Who thought putting the IFSC spitting distance from Sherriff Street without stationing a few guards around was going to be a good idea?

Worked just off Talbot street for a while, same story, Store Street station round the corner yet non stop trouble and guards rarely around. A constant presence needed there, but there wasn't.

beakerjoe · 22-01-2021 11:44am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

In fairness, there's nearly always a squad car outside Noctors, but they just seem to sit there doing nothing.

Ah Noctors... a fine establishment.

22-01-2021 11:51am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

In fairness, there's nearly always a squad car outside Noctors, but they just seem to sit there doing nothing.

Noctors is on Sherriff Street and not part of the IFSC. Why is there never and I do mean never any around Mayor Square which as well as various finance companies also has the National College of Ireland?

Thelonious Monk · 22-01-2021 11:53am

Deleted User wrote: »

Noctors is on Sherriff Street and not part of the IFSC. Why is there never and I do mean never any around Mayor Square which as well as various finance companies also has the National College of Ireland?

Well why are there never around anywhere in Ireland really? It's not specific to IFSC.

Thelonious Monk · 22-01-2021 11:54am

beakerjoe wrote: »

Ah Noctors... a fine establishment.

I was in it years ago, it was karaoke night lol

marieholmfan · 22-01-2021 11:57am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I don't think cracking down hard on junkies (not a nice term) solves anything. Heroin addicts need help, not batons.

Strongly disagree.

There are two models and only two.

[1] Medicalisation which means giving them heroin
[2] Chinese/ South East Asian style zero tolerance which means the death penalty for traffickers.

I would strongly favour option 2 but there may be something to be said for option 1.

beakerjoe · 22-01-2021 12:00pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I was in it years ago, it was karaoke night lol

Celtic Symphony on repeat aye.

Mimon · 22-01-2021 12:00pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Well why are there never around anywhere in Ireland really? It's not specific to IFSC.

It's as if the want to avoid doing any real police work. Easier to drive around in the squad car and not have a clue what is going on in the street. They need to bring back beat walking.

Thelonious Monk · 22-01-2021 12:01pm

marieholmfan wrote: »

Strongly disagree.

There are two models and only two.

[1] Medicalisation which means giving them heroin
[2] Chinese/ South East Asian style zero tolerance which means the death penalty for traffickers.

I would strongly favour option 2 but there may be something to be said for option 1.

Yeah well thankfully the vast majority of people in civilised societies wouldn't go anywhere near option 2.

22-01-2021 12:02pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Well why are there never around anywhere in Ireland really? It's not specific to IFSC.

Well I know that, but the huge amount of money that comes into the exchequer from that one small area, you would think someone in government might want to maintain it.

Mimon · 22-01-2021 12:03pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I don't think cracking down hard on junkies (not a nice term) solves anything. Heroin addicts need help, not batons.

True, not the Gardai's job to provide addiction services but the Gardai should be in areas they hang out so that innocent people are not subjected to harassment etc.

22-01-2021 12:05pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Well in fairness the fancy apartments are given to locals on social there too, so they should really count their blessings.

You would think. However it seems it leads to even worse social problems when something is given for very little or nothing. It brings a psychology of entitlement without repurcussion.

Just look at Island Key apartments. Lots of issues there. I'm don't think we are dealing with the issues in the area well at all. Just papering over cracks.

I've worked in financial districts globally. Anti social wouldn't be tolerated whatsoever and they would be well policed. It's terrible optics in an area that has been the real driver of our economy's success.

...Ghost... · 22-01-2021 12:15pm

DraftDodger wrote: »

Social housing isn't free and social tenents are taxpayers just like private house dwellers.

DraftDodger wrote: »

If you live in social housing the housing isn't free. You pay rent to the local authority.

I thought the first time you said it, you were cracking a joke. The majority of social housing tenants who take everything from the state, give nothing back to society and who make more little people who will most likely follow the same path.

There are some social tenants who for whatever reason in life were given a social dwelling by the council and who then got their sh!t together and got a decent job, leading to a higher portion of their income being paid on rent. I welcome that and I don't have a big problem with it. However, it's a hard pill to swallow when you and your partner are working your @sses off everyday to pay the mortgage and put food on the table only to have a dole scrounger move in next door and pay about 2% of what you pay from their free money.

I get the whole "greater good" argument, but there is nothing fair about it and the kids being raised by many of these dysfunctional people are not being helped when they see they don't have to work for anything....unless it's a nixer, or a crime.

beakerjoe · 22-01-2021 12:21pm

Mimon wrote: »

True, not the Gardai's job to provide addiction services but the Gardai should be in areas they hang out so that innocent people are not subjected to harassment etc.

Heroin junkies dont need batons, but they deserve them when they try rob or harass or attack people in broad daylight.

Thelonious Monk · 22-01-2021 12:23pm

She's in a serious condition i just read. What kind of monster stabs a woman in her 40s? How could you be that desperate for something?

10000maniacs · 22-01-2021 12:24pm

JCX BXC wrote: »

So, nobody cares that a woman was attacked, it's about the identity politics of who did it that mattered?

It should be all about identity. A full description and photofit of the suspect should be issued to help track down the person at large.
In a normal non snow flakier than flaky society, this is what would happen. And this is what should happen here.

...Ghost... · 22-01-2021 12:24pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

She's in a serious condition i just read. What kind of monster stabs a woman in her 40s? How could you be that desperate for something?

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2021/0122/1191364-dublin-witness-appeal/

the sprog of someone living off the state

beakerjoe · 22-01-2021 12:27pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

She's in a serious condition i just read. What kind of monster stabs a woman in her 40s? How could you be that desperate for something?

A scummer with no accountability. Propably isnt his first crime, wont be his last.

If hes underage he will get a slap on the wrist as do all underage kids unless they kill someone.

...Ghost... · 22-01-2021 12:29pm

beakerjoe wrote: »

A scummer with no accountability. Propably isnt his first crime, wont be his last.

If hes underage he will get a slap on the wrist as do all underage kids unless they kill someone.

he is a teenager. see link above. they caught him

beakerjoe · 22-01-2021 12:32pm

...Ghost... wrote: »

he is a teenager. see link above. they caught him

Well thats some good news, it says teenager but is he 17, 13, 19??? but how many people think Justice will be done?

There appears to be zero accountability for youths in Ireland.

22-01-2021 12:35pm

If he is a teenager his punishment will be a harsh talking to, for sure.

22-01-2021 12:40pm

Deleted User wrote: »

If he is a teenager his punishment will be a harsh talking to, for sure.

Plus he'll get the warm blanket of anonymity.

If I get caught not paying my TV license and i get a day in court, my name goes in the paper, but a scumbag can stab a woman and remain anonymous.

10000maniacs · 22-01-2021 12:43pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0p8e1MUC0E

This was it in 1991? Jaysus.

Off topic, but it's the great legacy of the late Tony Gregory that we don't have to look at images like that anymore.

...Ghost... · 22-01-2021 12:46pm

beakerjoe wrote: »

Well thats some good news, it says teenager but is he 17, 13, 19??? but how many people think Justice will be done?

There appears to be zero accountability for youths in Ireland.

17 or under, as it says he is a juvi. I'm not a bit surprised by this at all.

Hard life, yada yada, disadvantaged, blah blah, mental health, so fcukin what.

thegetawaycar · 22-01-2021 12:47pm

DraftDodger wrote: »

If you live in social housing the housing isn't free. You pay rent to the local authority.

This comes up every single time there is a topic where social housing gets mentioned.

Based on the fact DCC can't seem to collect what's owed to them with arrears at ridiculous levels and that in the area involved a very large percent would be welfare recipients then it's essentially free housing as you are paying (if you bother) with tax payers money.

No amount of telling the world that people pay rent to the L.A. for social housing changes the above. Everyone knows that in theory the L.A. should be paid rent, until this is automatically deducted from welfare/wages it will remain something challenged.

Mad_maxx · 22-01-2021 12:49pm

DraftDodger wrote: »

If you live in social housing the housing isn't free. You pay rent to the local authority.

its free if the source of the rent is welfare

Samuel T. Cogley · 22-01-2021 12:53pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I lived in Edinburgh for a year, I can't remember any parts of the city centre that were particularly dodgy. They didn't seem to have the ring of flats/social housing around the city centre that we have in Dublin.

No it's more outside the city. Jesus cant think of the name of the place not too far from Saughton that was pretty grim.

Edit Broomhouse

22-01-2021 12:56pm

Here’s hoping she pulls through.

The issue of juveniles carrying knives needs to be addressed urgently. Don’t let what’s happened in London happen here too.

Woman stabbed near IFSC

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