keeper road/brickfield park

marask · 07-06-2014 10:12pm #1

Hi
We're about to move to a house on keeper road, I am pretty happy with the area and all, but occasionally hearing the usual 'its dangerous, dodgy'.. etc. making me doubt the decision to move there.
Is it really that bad? Don't know the actual street, only lived on galtymore before..
And currently living just off Mountjoy square park (having no issues with).
Thanks
M

zega · 07-06-2014 10:27pm

House on it shot up not so long ago,avoid.

marask · 08-06-2014 1:01pm

Thanks for opinion, but you are judging whole d12 based on this, I looked I up and it happened on the other side which used to be the 'posh'part of d12..
One of recent carjacking happened in ballsbridge, not saying it's the same thing, but..things like that could happen anywhere?
I was more interested whether the area is similar to other parts of the city. As I mentioned we live off Mountjoy and before lived at five lamps, which some would considered no go areas..

cozski · 09-06-2014 4:19pm

zega wrote: »

House on it shot up not so long ago,avoid.

Yes, it's well known that almost every person living in or around this area is involved in a whole plethora of unsavoury and illegal activities. Generally it's ingrained into 'them' before birth. A kind of pre-natal conditioning that's very hard to reverse. It's not unusual and tends to affect people from all walks of life, irrespective of social background, class, gender, etc. But for some this pre-natal conditioning works in the opposite way. They develop tendencies towards activities that are positive and in no way unsavoury, particularly to house buyers. Examples of this can be found in places like Terenure, Raheny, Clonsilla, Cherryfield, etc. Do not avoid these areas. Unless you cant 'afford' to ingratiate yourself to them and in that instance... well, Good Luck.

Chah · 11-06-2014 8:11am

zega wrote: »

House on it shot up not so long ago,avoid.

Yeah cos were always getting shot at. I live on galty. No problem living on keeper rd

olly_mac · 12-06-2014 8:08am

I lived near Brickfields for a few years. Like everywhere, it has it's upsides and the downsides. I had great neighbours, and there was a sense of community. On the obverse side though, the actual "Park" was a magnet for anti social elements, especially at weekends, and more-so on bank/public holidays. Teenagers from all over would congregate, drink, set fires etc. There could be the odd incident on the road too when they were entering or leaving the park.

The worst thing to happen to us sharing the house though was having a few wheelie bins stolen; the main source of fuel for the "party fires" in the park.

Danye · 12-06-2014 4:42pm