The trouble with the Custom House

MJohnston

Here's the inevitable result of a bunch of people clamouring for the guards coming in and "moving people on":



The problems of homelessness and addiction in Dublin need to be dealt with higher upstream rather than simply putting a pretty face on things. To listen to some of you, you'd almost forget that these are actual people living here, people that society has washed their hands of. I would hate to see Ireland continue down that road - it might lead to a spotless city center, but there would be a massively poisonous underbelly.

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hfallada wrote: »

Dublin city has never been better. Streets like Capel Street are no longer seedy streets. Dublin City has social issues like any city in Europe. Even spotless and heavily policed Munich has its fair share of drug addicts and prostitutes working on the streets( never seen that in Dublin).

LOL

Are you for real?? What planet are some people on, this is why the problems are never addressed.

"Dublin has never been better" lol, at least you put a smile on my face today anyway

carlmango11

MJohnston wrote: »

I would hate to see Ireland continue down that road - it might lead to a spotless city center, but there would be a massively poisonous underbelly.

So let's just have the poisonous underbelly in our prime commerical, financial, historic and tourist district! That's way better!

Seriously, moving the problem doesn't mean pretending it doesn't exist. It just means one of the most important parts of the nation isn't swarming with addicts.

MJohnston

carlmango11 wrote: »

So let's just have the poisonous underbelly in our prime commerical, financial, historic and tourist district! That's way better!

Seriously, moving the problem doesn't mean pretending it doesn't exist. It just means one of the most important parts of the nation isn't swarming with addicts.

Who said it was better? It's a pretty sucky situation, but the better approach is not to relocate it (here's the tragic endpoint of that), the government, councils, or whoever is responsible need to stop it happening. And guess what? It'll even have the beneficial side-effect of removing all those "swarming addicts" by rehabilitating them!

hfallada

Esel wrote: »

Parnell Square was a slum up to recently? I must have missed that... Capel Street used to be seedy? Seriously?

Well one side of it is completely modern Apartments and other bits are fairly run down office blocks or the abandoned school, that no longer safe to be used as a school. If you walk two mins to Mountjoy Square, the area is considerable worse.

Half of Capel Street until few years ago was either head shops, betting shops and sex shops. The signs of not the most desirable area. Most of them are gone and replaced with pleasant restaurants, cafes etc. Plus no one ever lived over any of the shops.

Any one who thinks people is worse than ever, needs to look at old tv footage of the 1980s and 1990s. Dublin was rough then. You couldnt walk into Temple bar without the risk of being robbed. You commonly saw windows smashed in cars to rob bags in the backsuit( havent heard of this happening in years). Also Car jackings were fairly common(doesnt happen often either). Dublin is safe for a medium sized city. Does it have far more crime than the rest of Ireland. Yes, as its a big city