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St. Donaghs Road, Donaghmede

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  • 09-03-2010 10:52pm
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    Posy
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    Looking to buy a house around North Dublin and I can see a few houses on Daft in my price range in Donaghmede. They all seem to be on St. Donaghs Road and I've heard a few bad things about that part of the area. If anyone has any opinions they'd be appreciated.

    Thanks. :)


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    FUNKY LOVER
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    its not the best of roads,but it used to be a lot worst in the 80s and 90s.id keep looking.


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Keep looking, and if the house is down by the DART station end of the road price a house in Beirut instead.


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    Posy
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    Hehe, thanks! ;)


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    Degsy
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    Not a good road..full of scumbags and a crossroads between the worst elements of donaghmede and killbararack..for some reason donaghmede has never really matured,the kids coming from there seem to have a chip on thier shoulder and often go out of thier way to be as idiotic as they can.


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    WindSock
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    You're from Donaghmede, aren't you Degsy?


















    ;)


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    getmeoutofhere
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    Ah come on. I live on St.Donagh's Road. Myself, my husband and daughter are respectable people and very hard working..........HOWEVER..........don't buy here if you can avoid it! ha! Seriously. Total kip. Biggest mistake we ever made and now can't move out. Neighbours are total skanks (apart from three houses). STAY AWAY! Don't make the mistake we made.


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    Gaspode
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    Agree with above, it's rough especially near the Dart station.


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    sdanseo
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    Did door to door sales on this road once. Not something I'll ever do again.

    Handy as a rat run, that's where anything halfway good about this road begins and ends.


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    WindSock wrote: »
    You're from Donaghmede, aren't you Degsy?

    I don't know how I missed Degsy getting owned first time round!.


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    donaghs
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    Depends what your used to. Some people will cross the road at the sight of a hoodie in a tracksuit. Best advice is to have a walk around and see what you think. I'm in Kilbarrack, but never noticed the train station end being any worse. There's often kids playing football on the green, and I've never heard a word out of them when walking up to the shopping centre. Unlike plenty of kids in other places.

    It is an old council estate, which is enough to put some people off.


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    donaghs
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    Got an Express diesel train to Howth Junction yesterday evening, and walked rest of way home. Was thinking about this thread.

    No drug dealers or bad people around (never seen anything illegal going on there ever). Perhaps some of the people who moved away from the area have a lot of bad memories from the 70s and 80s? A bit like anyone who lived near a place like Ringsend in the 80s.

    Never noticed the train station end being worse, if anything better? e.g. there are a lot more commuters and people coming and going from different places like Carndonagh and Verbena. It's main route for people coming from the shopping centre and the surrounding estates to get the Kilbarrack Rd and the Coast Rd. The other end is closer to Milbrook and the Donahies which I've no interest in visiting.


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    stateside
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    I'm in the US looking at bing's aerial map of St.Donagh's Rd.. Can anybody tell me how the street is numbered like every 5th driveway? This is my first post and I want to compare the real estate pictures with their location. Thanks.


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    Degsy
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    stateside wrote: »
    I'm in the US looking at bing's aerial map of St.Donagh's Rd.. Can anybody tell me how the street is numbered like every 5th driveway? This is my first post and I want to compare the real estate pictures with their location. Thanks.

    :confused:


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    sushisushi
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    I used to spend a lot of time commuting in and out of Howth Junction and the main issue I'd see would be the fact that all of the roads around there are full of commuters' cars during the day. There is a half-assed car park on the other side of the station, but it's in an industrial estate, so lots of people prefer to park on the side with the houses, because it's safer, particularly at night. Some of the residents seem to be really sick of this and have traffic cones out, etc., so it might be something to bear in mind if you have more than one car to be parking.


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