Dodgiest places in Ireland

af_thefragile

What is the dodgiest place in Ireland you've visited?

A couple of weeks ago I was driving in Dublin and had to make a U-turn so I turn into this alleyway and was it dodgy! The sidewalk was covered in remains of what I can presume were burnt cars, the buildings had these mesh grills covering the windows and this barb wire like fence over the walls, it just didn't feel like a happy place to spend the afternoon so I quickly turned around get out the heck out of there!

So what's the dodgiest place you guys have been to in the country??

Pottler

Took the kids on a tour of leinster House. Well Dodgy. Shady deals being struck round every corner, I'd no confidence we'd get out without being mugged.

not yet

Your gaf....

Madam Marie

Easily..

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dj jarvis

af_thefragile wrote: »

What is the dodgiest place in Ireland you've visited?

A couple of weeks ago I was driving in Dublin and had to make a U-turn so I turn into this alleyway and was it dodgy! The sidewalk was covered in remains of what I can presume were burnt cars, the buildings had these mesh grills covering the windows and this barb wire like fence over the walls, it just didn't feel like a happy place to spend the afternoon so I quickly turned around get out the heck out of there!

So what's the dodgiest place you guys have been to in the country??

yea , that group of 10 year old look well dodgy , you are lucky you escaped with your life

eth0

af_thefragile wrote: »

What is the dodgiest place in Ireland you've visited?

A couple of weeks ago I was driving in Dublin and had to make a U-turn so I turn into this alleyway and was it dodgy! The sidewalk was covered in remains of what I can presume were burnt cars, the buildings had these mesh grills covering the windows and this barb wire like fence over the walls, it just didn't feel like a happy place to spend the afternoon so I quickly turned around get out the heck out of there!

So what's the dodgiest place you guys have been to in the country??

Any place in Ireland with a 'sidewalk' is well dodgy

123 LC

Dublin

Remmy

Drumcondra, loike omg.

Pottler

eth0 wrote: »

Any place in Ireland with a 'sidewalk' is well dodgy

It's easily done, you make a few wrong turns and bang, you're in the Bronx. Sat-nav has a lot to answer for. OMG, Northside, reverse, reverse!

dodderangler

Outside of any spar or centra or chipper after school

admiralofthefleet

Dolphin House, Dolphins Barn, south Dublin. Absolutely notorious

Ghandee

Let's all see who can slag Dublin the most, blah blah blah.

(thinly veiled is so last week)

Biggins

Shankhill (up North, in case there is another elsewhere in Ireland by similar name).
Was stupid enough at one stage (during troubles) to walk through it at night.
I must have been off my stupid head. Was full of youthful bravado - in truth I was probably an idiot!
It was well dodgy - or at least felt that way!

Ghandee

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

Dolphin House, Dolphins Barn, south Dublin. Absolutely notorious

Yeah, that place is so rough, even the dolphins have to go round in pods.:D

crazy cabbage

Dodgiest place in ireland = afterhours

af_thefragile

Ghandee wrote: »

Let's all see who can slag Dublin the most, blah blah blah.

(thinly veiled is so last week)

Well there's Southill in Limerick...
http://goo.gl/maps/JjSbN

Raekwon

Delmege Park, Moyross, Limerick

/thread

admiralofthefleet

Biggins wrote: »

Shankhill (up North, in case there is another elsewhere in Ireland by similar name).
Was stupid enough at one stage (during troubles) to walk through it at night.
I must have been off my stupid head. Was full of youthful bravado - in truth I was probably an idiot!
It was well dodgy - or at least felt that way!

the shankill here has some fairly rough spots too, especially shanganagh cliffs

bokkenspiel

Aladdin's cave in clonakilty (quite the tourist attraction, must see if you are ever there)

Pottler

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

Dolphin House, Dolphins Barn, south Dublin. Absolutely notorious

Yup - renovated a house right beside there, was there for 8 weeks working. Oh the fun. Fist fight on day 1 with a "character who dropped in to see us", my nads used to tighten as we rounded the turn to the house, I actually came to dread it as every day was grief day. But, if you come from there, I'd say it's grand, just not the place to be a builder. I also did work on student accomodation down in Limerick City, rough bit, Foreman said "floor it as you leave the site Pottler, ok". First time I wondered why, second time I floored it. As did everyone else. Hailstones comes to mind. Little shaggers were all only 10 and 11 as well.

Fight_Night

Dolphins barn, some council estate. Saw an old woman getting jumped. I was 10/9 and from a fairly sheltered middle class background so I pretty much shat my pants.

Fight_Night

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

Dolphin House, Dolphins Barn, south Dublin. Absolutely notorious

That's the one, very very rough.

Where To

Biggins wrote: »

Shankhill (up North, in case there is another elsewhere in Ireland by similar name).
Was stupid enough at one stage (during troubles) to walk through it at night.
I must have been off my stupid head. Was full of youthful bravado - in truth I was probably an idiot!
It was well dodgy - or at least felt that way!

Shankill's not the worst in fairness. I used to have a regular run to Mount Vernon of the Shore Road, that was always 'interesting' in the middle of the night in a DL car :pac:

cloptrop

The george pub on georges street . They all speak in a funny high pitched voice and the bingo callers are men dresseed as women . Stay away from the toilets .

My name is URL

Skellig Michael

bullets

The Chicken Hut Limerick on a Saturday night. anytime.
http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=Delmege+Park,+Moyross&hl=en&ll=52.682192,-8.656728&spn=0.00107,0.00327&sll=52.682368,-8.656945&sspn=0.008559,0.026157&oq=Delmege+Park,+Moyross&hnear=Delmege+Park,+Moyross,+County+Limerick&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.682193,-8.656729&panoid=BNjKV5t95NfI21VxMp5eSA&cbp=12,135.99,,0,4.06

~B

SEPT 23 1989

I hung around some very dodgy areas as a teenager but the only trouble i really had was in so called middle class areas with young blokes from very respectable homes who were "acting" like scumbags

m.j.w

Where To wrote: »

Shankill's not the worst in fairness. I used to have a regular run to Mount Vernon of the Shore Road, that was always 'interesting' in the middle of the night in a DL car :pac:

Im from the north myself and was gonna post the exact same thing. worked in houses in both shankill and mount vernon and would have to say I was ****ting myself in Mount Vernon. The entrance is fairly inimidating and as far as I remember there is only one way out. Worked there for a day and would never go back

Wee Willy Harris

Was surprised that my area didn't fugure in the crime hotspots because it really does seem criminality is the pop culture nowadays. They must be taking it elsewhere

Far as I can see the only thing theyre sharp at is criminality, and it's in sharp contrast to how slow they are at everything else tbh. No wonder my brother fled to canada, dawned on him his friends were total plebs sometimes it really dies have to dawn on us but I grew up before scangers broke; thank fook. Still, almost fell into it which would have been just criminal

Pottler

af_thefragile wrote: »

What is the dodgiest place in Ireland you've visited?

A couple of weeks ago I was driving in Dublin and had to make a U-turn so I turn into this alleyway and was it dodgy! The sidewalk was covered in remains of what I can presume were burnt cars, the buildings had these mesh grills covering the windows and this barb wire like fence over the walls,it just didn't feel like a happy place to spend the afternoon so I quickly turned around get out the heck out of there!

So what's the dodgiest place you guys have been to in the country??

I have to ask AF, how long does it usually take you to do a U-turn?

WoollyRedHat

The cliffs of Moher, defintely, if you fall off them, you're dead... that's well dodgy.

Zebra3

Ardoyne.

admiralofthefleet

cloptrop wrote: »

The george pub on georges street . They all speak in a funny high pitched voice and the bingo callers are men dresseed as women . Stay away from the toilets .

what do you do if you need a piss. ive drank there and im straight, good pint of guinness.

WhatNowForUs?

not yet wrote: »

Your gaf....

your ma.

I took a wrong turn up in East Belfast onto a cul de sac whilst in a D reg car. The place may not have been dodgy but the situation was.

this was a good few years ago.

Lapin

/Thread.

The Jammy dodger

Enda Kenny's Office

kylith

Again, near Dolphin's Barn. Took a wrong turn shortly after I moved in and we found ourselves in a cul de sac. Immediately the car was surrounded by kids who pelted it with rocks, we got the hell out of there PDQ.

I've lived in the area for years now, and it's mostly grand; there's just a couple of dodgy streets.

The Jammy dodger

kylith wrote: »

Again, near Dolphin's Barn. Took a wrong turn shortly after I moved in and we found ourselves in a cul de sac. Immediately the car was surrounded by kids who pelted it with rocks, we got the hell out of there PDQ.

I've lived in the area for years now, and it's mostly grand; there's just a couple of dodgy streets.

ah yeah its just every now and again someone gets stabbed.

:pac:

Hazys

Killinaspick, Co. Tipp...dodgy to enter if you are a member of the latino community

Where To

Lapin wrote: »

/Thread.

I use the Sandy Row to go to the bus station or the Europa all the time, never had an ounce of bother on it.

EdanHewittt

The Big Smoke

areyawell

Tipperary, the people there are fair odd. Like the hospital in one flew over the cuckoos nest

EdanHewittt

Any place where the pub is empty (on a Friday night) and there's only one Lone-Ranger type sitting there at the bar...

Queue a gang of yoofs waiting for you outside with a syringe full of aids, who the lone ranger conspired with.

kylith

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

ah yeah its just every now and again someone gets stabbed.

:pac:

There's not lakes of blood, more like the odd puddle.

kowloon

Ghandee wrote: »

Let's all see who can slag Dublin the most, blah blah blah.

(thinly veiled is so last week)

Thinly veiled 'thinly veiled is getting a bit old' post.
I agree.

EdanHewittt

kowloon wrote: »

Thinly veiled 'thinly veiled is getting a bit old' post.
I agree.

<thinly>I love the phrase. Shame about the skobes who never use it in day-to-day life though. </veiled>

senorwipesalot

Myself and two other lads got lost and broke down in a South Tipp reg car on the Shankhill in the early 90"s in the middle of the night.
We were on our way to the ferry to Scotland for work and got water in the carburetor of our Renault 5.
We just sat there bracing ourselves for the beating of our young lives when after what seemed like forever the car suddenly decided to start again.

Then to top it off on the way home a few weeks later we broke down at a British army checkpoint. FFS.
In fairness to the soldiers they gave us a push start after searching us and the car.
Fairly dodgy part of Ireland at the time.

MackQ

af_thefragile wrote: »

Well there's Southill in Limerick...
http://goo.gl/maps/JjSbN

"Castle Oaks View" - sounds so sophisticated - the irony!

What on earth went so badly wrong in this place...?

BillyMitchel

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

Dolphin House, Dolphins Barn, south Dublin. Absolutely notorious

15 years ago id agree but not now, it wouldn't even come close. The drug problem is not even in the same league as it used to be.

Some places of neilstowns are pretty bad and kushlawn (sp) and fethercairn (sp) in tallaght. Not been to many other rough places to comment.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Certain parts of Roscrea, 'the heroin capital of Tipperary' are quite bleak. The thing I found with the people involved though is that if you keep out of their way no harm will befall you. They're smart in that regard, they don't want to draw any unnecessary attention to their business.

toodleytoo

Pottler wrote: »

Yup - renovated a house right beside there, was there for 8 weeks working. Oh the fun. Fist fight on day 1 with a "character who dropped in to see us", my nads used to tighten as we rounded the turn to the house, I actually came to dread it as every day was grief day. But, if you come from there, I'd say it's grand, just not the place to be a builder. I also did work on student accomodation down in Limerick City, rough bit, Foreman said "floor it as you leave the site Pottler, ok". First time I wondered why, second time I floored it. As did everyone else. Hailstones comes to mind. Little shaggers were all only 10 and 11 as well.

I think I know where you're talking about in Limerick, is it the accomodation for Limerick Senior College and LSAD? Right beside St Mary's Park? Lovely place to be working I'd say