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Tallaght not as bad as you think

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,139 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Rocket19 wrote: »
    Psssssssh. What's with everyone and thinking the rocket thing is dirty. Psssh.

    i never said dirty, I said rocket :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Tallaght is a huge suburban area, and I kid you not there is talk of making it a city in the future, like all sprawling suburbs it has its problems,no better no worse than a lot of similar places.Haven'T got a problem going there what so ever, any part of it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭Rocket19


    listermint wrote: »
    i never said dirty, I said rocket :P

    Ha! Touché.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭Banjaxed82


    Heard on the radio the Dominos Pizza in Tallaght is the most profitable branch IN THE WORLD per head of population. Nice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,778 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Lorrs33 wrote: »
    A town shouldn't be judged just because it has scumbags, you're going to get them everywhere. So tell me what it is.

    Scumbags!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    realies wrote: »
    Keith in all fairness there are still parts of the six counties that would make kabul look like a good tourist destination.
    I don't agree. Its lovely up here.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    My former servant boy came from there, a jolly sort but always had his eye on my gold framed picasso.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    My former servant boy came from there, a jolly sort but always had his eye on my gold framed picasso.

    Sounds more like you had your eye on his.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I'm really getting fed up of this' working class/salt of the earth people are so much friendlier and more helpful than middle class people' attitude.
    And it's bloody patronising too - "Ah in fairness, most people I know from Finglas are salt of the earth". What the hell does "salt of the earth" mean? Sounds really condescending.
    My brother lived in Ringsend, old-skool inner city Dublin, up to recently and had initially expected it to have a lovely sense of community etc but found it really unfriendly and clannish - not "rough", nothing like that, an overall nice area, but unwelcoming to blow-ins. "Stuck-up" he said, which is normally something you'd associate with posh people. Now he's moved to Dundrum and expected it to be awfully snobby and way more unfriendly, but it's actually a lot friendlier.
    The vibe of an area is determined by varying stuff, not just "social class".
    Rocket19 wrote: »
    I'm in ucd and went to a party before with one of my friends from my class. She lives on the northside of Dublin and I was staying her house. Honestly, some of her friends were absolutely obnoxious to me. Constantly mimicking and slagging my accent, making fun of me, etc. We were in the taxi and I asked how much it was gonna be each and one of the girls goes "why the hell are you asking, aren't you from foxrocccck". And another girl goes (totally serious) "we usually wouldn't hang about with someone like you".

    The point was though that it wasn't in a funny' slagging way. It was in a genuinely bitter nasty way and one point my friend actually took me into the bathroom and was apologising to me.
    Yeah, I know that people from areas with a bad rep can get an awful, unforgivable doing, but in other contexts middle-class people (not snobby twats) are seen as fair game.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭lifelongnoob


    ive been to tallaght...it is as bad as i think but not as bad as clondalkin


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭James T Kirk


    Had a pint or three in Clondalkin village last night. Used to socialise there quite regularly several years ago.

    It was fine then, and it was fine last night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 690 ✭✭✭Lorrs33


    This is one of the funniest posts I've ever read. Obviously written by a pure bread scumbag. Very difficult to read as it is so illegible but basically saying Tallaght is a grand place just as long as you're not from there and find yourself there for whatever reason..then your fuc.ked.....the irony!

    Fair play bumper, at least ye knackers have a sense of humour..

    "pure bread scumbag"? This from an eejit who can't even spell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 645 ✭✭✭chicken fingers


    I agree, Tallafornia is a lot better than the grey towns, sectarian estates, backward attitudes and economic black hole that is northern Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Rocket19 wrote: »
    So agreed.

    I'm from a pretty 'posh' area of Dublin and have, on a few occasions, come across this.
    I'm in ucd and went to a party before with one of my friends from my class. She lives on the northside of Dublin and I was staying her house. Honestly, some of her friends were absolutely obnoxious to me. Constantly mimicking and slagging my accent, making fun of me, etc. We were in the taxi and I asked how much it was gonna be each and one of the girls goes "why the hell are you asking, aren't you from foxrocccck". And another girl goes (totally serious) "we usually wouldn't hang about with someone like you".

    The point was though that it wasn't in a funny' slagging way. It was in a genuinely bitter nasty way and one point my friend actually took me into the bathroom and was apologising to me.
    Funnily enough, it was only (of few of) her girl-friends that were nasty to me. Pretty much all the guys were really nice.

    I want to point out also that I don't have a horribly 'd4' accent or anything like that.
    I just thought "God, I would never be that obnoxious". And honestly, where I'm from, I don't think anyone would ever treat someone from the northside (I know i'm generalising) like that. Admitedly, they might say it behind their back (which is arguably worse), but I've never seen such outright bullying when it comes to accents/backround.
    I'm sure the irony of the fact that discriminating against you based on perceived class was an act of snobbery was lost on these morons.

    However, as northsider living on the northside I naturally have a fair few northside mates. Some of these go or went to Trinity and UCD and have told me about cliques of stereotypical southside rich kids who'll have absolutely nothing to do with anyone who hails from a particular side of the Liffey. It certainly does work both ways; I guess one's more inclined to pick up on prejudice when it's levelled against them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Omg Clondalkin is far worse than Tallaght, I don't know one person from Clondalkin who isn't a scumbag!

    It's sad though because It's just my generation, I'm sure the elderly in these places are lovely people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭Sean Quagmire


    Clondalkin is not that bad. I can tell you the other ****eholes of dublin are far worse, i.e tallaght, crumlin and the whole of the northside.

    Clondalkin village is a great place to have a few pints. the scanger population is very low and the pubs have good standards.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Clondalkin is not that bad. I can tell you the other ****eholes of dublin are far worse, i.e tallaght, crumlin and the whole of the northside.

    Listen to the Clondalkin head giving it the large wan on boards :rolleyes:
    the scanger population is very low and the pubs have good standards.

    Lol. I can't believe you're refering to Clondalkin in the above quote !:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    Im blaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeden booooooooouuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrsten for a h'Yooiyt!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭Sean Quagmire


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Lol. I can't believe you're refering to Clondalkin in the above quote !:D

    Go into any clondalkin pub on the weekend and count how many people you see in tracksuits / stripy tops/ baseball caps or looking like their about to take a bat to you for 'looking at them'. you wont find any little toe rags like that. All the pubs have been refurbished over the last few years and are a pleasure to drink in.

    I cant say the same for any other suburb in Dublin.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Go into any clondalkin pub on the weekend and count how many people you see in tracksuits / stripy tops/ baseball caps or looking like their about to take a bat to you for 'looking at them'. you wont find any little toe rags like that. All the pubs have been refurbished over the last few years and are a pleasure to drink in.

    I cant say the same for any other suburb in Dublin.

    Nine times out of ten when I drive into Clondalkin there's always guards about...they're there for a reason. I'm not been judgemental but I am stating a fact. Don't get me wrong - I have a few friends in Clondalkin and they're sound (some of them) but the stuff they get upto I wouldn't really be into! Most of them are boy racers who intimidate other drivers...hang out in the local estates performing rings and whatnot.

    If I told my parents I was going to Quinlans or somewhere on a night out - they'd freak! Understandably so...as I said it's all about it's reputation and Clondalkin defo doesn't have the best one going...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭partyndbs


    kip full of scobes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    partyndbs wrote: »
    full of scobes

    Nothing wrong with a Subaru they are expensive


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Nine times out of ten when I drive into Clondalkin there's always guards about...they're there for a reason. I'm not been judgemental but I am stating a fact. Don't get me wrong - I have a few friends in Clondalkin and they're sound (some of them) but the stuff they get upto I wouldn't really be into! Most of them are boy racers who intimidate other drivers...hang out in the local estates performing rings and whatnot.QUOTE]

    are they from bawnouge?i agree clondalkin is pretty much the same as tallaght it has its really rough estates but generally decent ones aswell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Nine times out of ten when I drive into Clondalkin there's always guards about...they're there for a reason. I'm not been judgemental but I am stating a fact. Don't get me wrong - I have a few friends in Clondalkin and they're sound (some of them) but the stuff they get upto I wouldn't really be into! Most of them are boy racers who intimidate other ...hang out in the local estates performing rings and whatnot.


    Wow, your fairly deluded to be honest, im not even from Clondalkin but have a fair few friends from that area, like any area of Dublin or even the precious countryside of Ireland - it has its bad elements.....

    I have seen the guards the odd time, not as much as your making out, and im still to see these "boy racer" lads throwing cars about the place, I think its sad that you try tarring one area with a brush because a couple of people you are associated with are into "performing rings" or whatever it is these lads get up to....

    Anyway back on topic, Tallaght is the same, has bad areas, it has good areas, like anywhere, not all these people are "scummers" like a lot of you seem to think....

    And this is coming from someone who went out with a girl from Tymon north for over 3 years!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭Star Bingo


    it must be fairly grim if it is producing samaritan bands like Bipolar Empire, maybe snow patrol will fúck off now


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Dudess wrote: »
    My brother lived in Ringsend, old-skool inner city Dublin, up to recently and had initially expected it to have a lovely sense of community etc but found it really unfriendly and clannish - not "rough", nothing like that, an overall nice area, but unwelcoming to blow-ins. "Stuck-up" he said, which is normally something you'd associate with posh people. Now he's moved to Dundrum and expected it to be awfully snobby and way more unfriendly, but it's actually a lot friendlier.
    The vibe of an area is determined by varying stuff, not just "social class".

    .

    hell yes! I lived in ringsend for three years and a very cold place to people who havent been there for generations. they were so clannish they called one lad 'the foreigner' because he was from pearse street


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Fieldog wrote: »
    Wow, your fairly deluded to be honest, im not even from Clondalkin but have a fair few friends from that area, like any area of Dublin or even the precious countryside of Ireland - it has its bad elements.....

    I have seen the guards the odd time, not as much as your making out, and im still to see these "boy racer" lads throwing cars about the place, I think its sad that you try tarring one area with a brush because a couple of people you are associated with are into "performing rings" or whatever it is these lads get up to....

    Anyway back on topic, Tallaght is the same, has bad areas, it has good areas, like anywhere, not all these people are "scummers" like a lot of you seem to think....


    It's common knowledge pal.

    And I never painted everyone from Clondalkin with the same brush, in fact I said a lot of people who I know from Clondalkin are sound but at the same time a huge population of them are trouble makers.

    It would have a lot more problems than somewhere like Sutton/Howth/Malahide, that's a fact. Welcome you to debate it though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭readyletsgo


    Whats a Tallaght?
    Not on my raidar, and never will be I'd say! Bahahaha!


  • Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭MardiB


    hell yes! I lived in ringsend for three years and a very cold place to people who havent been there for generations. they were so clannish they called one lad 'the foreigner' because he was from pearse street

    I live in Ringsend, just off Barrow srteet and find the exact opposite to be the case. My neighbours couldn't be more friendly, welcoming and helpful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    I like the place, tbh. Been there for the day twice and fonce for a couple of nights. Was grand both times, never really felt in any danger. I'm guessing I got the watered-down version of Tallaght though, as I didn't venture much further than the Square or Tallaght Stadium.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Tallaghts reputation is based on a ridiculous generalisation (bit like the ones one hears about "Dublin 4" in reverse)

    Its a big place FFS. Bigger than Limerick. Naturally its going to have dodgy parts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Tallaght is massive so of course theres going to be pockets of areas that aren't as nice as others,it's normal!

    Clondalkin has improved lots over the last decade or so as well,and the village especially is absolutely grand,never any trouble unless you specifically go looking for some,like anywhere I spose!

    Our estate used to be fairly rough too but has calmed down lots since we moved here in the 90's,though it has taken a backward step in the last few weeks with the local shop being held up twice!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    Clondalkin is not that bad. I can tell you the other ****eholes of dublin are far worse, i.e tallaght, crumlin and the whole of the northside.

    The only places I'd realistically say are worse than Clondalkin on the Northside are Finglas, Ballymun, Sheriff and Darndale. The majority of suburbs on the Northside would be considered a better area than Clondalkin which has had plenty of problems with crime, drugs and all that other shíte people are talking about in the thread. A smaller version of Tallaght is probably the best description.

    It's like all "bad" areas in Dublin, most are nice people who are good craic to be around but it's a couple of dickheads who ruin the area's reputation. I know people from the "worst" areas who are bang on and people from the "best" areas who are bang on, I also know people from bad areas who are complete and utter ***** and the same can be said for the good areas. I've come across pure knackers who I wouldn't want to spend a minute around and I've come across these D4 clics of dickheads who wont associate with you simply because you're from the Northside, well fúck them anyway because they're usually pretentious twats. Bad people come from all areas, but most people in bad areas are still good people. Who gives a fúck about the area, just judge the people you know living there and whether you like them or not.


  • Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭A.Tomas


    Anyone who thinks Tallaght is the definition of scangerdom are way behind the times. Maybe when it was born in the 70's it got a name because it was in Dublin, but not aul' romanticised inner city Dublin with "characters"
    (i.e. drunks) or gurriers (i.e. scanger kids).

    As has been pointed out several times, there are scangers everywhere, just more in some places and even more in some parts of places.

    Still though, the more Poles and co we can get living here in Tallaght the better.:D



    Want to make it the best place in Dublin! One word vigilantes...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    scumbags everywhere..tallaght is no differant sure even blackrock throw out scumbags.
    The nightlife in tallaght is quite good with a range of pubs and clubs. yes its rough in parts but sure where isnt these days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    the whole of the northside.

    WTF is it with Dublin people* and their ridiculous generalisations about people on the opposite side of the Liffey ?


    * No need to point out the Irony


  • Registered Users Posts: 866 ✭✭✭RussellTuring


    Clondalkin is not that bad. I can tell you the other ****eholes of dublin are far worse, i.e tallaght, crumlin and the whole of the northside.

    Clondalkin village is a great place to have a few pints. the scanger population is very low and the pubs have good standards.

    Here leave the Northsiders alone. At least they're not boggers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    i dont understand why everyone thinks the northside is full of scum theres places out southside thats just as bad. the more you head towards bray the worse it gets. places like loughlingstown, dun laoghaire,ballyogan, stillorgan etc. ffs even killiney has scumbags


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    ricero wrote: »
    i dont understand why everyone thinks the northside is full of scum theres places out southside thats just as bad.

    Leinster House for Instance :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Muff_Daddy


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    I don't know one person from Clondalkin who isn't a scumbag!
    Cheeky_Gal wrote: »
    a lot of people who I know from Clondalkin are sound

    So what is it then?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭Sean Quagmire


    my crack about the northside was tongue in cheek lads :pac:
    There are bad spots everywhere, maybe i dont see clondalkin as rough because I know the place inside and out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    ricero wrote: »
    i dont understand why everyone thinks the northside is full of scum theres places out southside thats just as bad. the more you head towards bray the worse it gets. places like loughlingstown, dun laoghaire,ballyogan, stillorgan etc. ffs even killiney has scumbags
    Yep, real ghetto spots there. :pac:

    In fairness, yeah, you can get lowlives everywhere, but overall areas are gonna be nicer places to live in than others.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Dudess wrote: »
    Yep, real ghetto spots there. :pac:

    In fairness, yeah, you can get lowlives everywhere, but overall areas are gonna be nicer places to live in than others.

    You obviously haven't been out that way much.

    dun laoghaire and shankill for special mentions absloutle heroin hot spots over the last 10 years I wouldn't rare a dog in them never mind kids.

    You're right tho, kiliney might be pushing the boat out a bit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Dublin is apparently 'odd' in that you get rough spots in the middle of otherwise affluent areas. (apparently, don't know whether thats entirely true or not).


  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭Tallaght Saint


    Tallaght is fine. It's a huge place with a massive population and could be a city if it wasn't a part of greater Dublin. You're always going to have dodgy parts. Every city in the world has them. Clondalkin is fine too.

    People need to cop the **** on and stop making generalisations.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    ntlbell wrote: »
    You obviously haven't been out that way much.

    dun laoghaire and shankill for special mentions absloutle heroin hot spots over the last 10 years I wouldn't rare a dog in them never mind kids.

    You're right tho, kiliney might be pushing the boat out a bit.
    What I'm saying is: despite spots, there's no way those are "rough" areas overall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Omg Clondalkin is far worse than Tallaght, I don't know one person from Clondalkin who isn't a scumbag!

    It's sad though because It's just my generation, I'm sure the elderly in these places are lovely people
    :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Dudess wrote: »
    What I'm saying is: despite spots, there's no way those are "rough" areas overall.

    That's like saying Ballymun is not "rough" over all

    Shankill is as rough as it comes as is dun lao, they're up there with the rest of them.

    if not, can you explain the difference?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    I say we take off and blast the place with piss from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Dudess wrote: »
    Yep, real ghetto spots there. :pac:

    In fairness, yeah, you can get lowlives everywhere, but overall areas are gonna be nicer places to live in than others.

    you would be surprised by the some of the scum in around the shankhill and bray areas there some proper dodgy spots. beleive me killiney dart station and along the beach go there at night time on a weekend and be prepared for trouble


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