What Is the most dangerous place in Ireland?

vicwatson

Phoenix Park 25th/26th August, enter at your peril

Big Nasty

McGaggs wrote: »

Statistically, Cork is where you'll be killed by boy racers and drink drivers.

Statistically mustn't have heard of Buncranna

timthumbni

To the earlier posts about sandy row in Belfast. It is certainly a unionist area but it is not dangerous per se. The worst areas of Belfast are mostly in republican west Belfast which is full of hoods and joyriders and they torture their own community with anti social behaviour. Aside from that Belfast is a pretty safe city. I would say far safer than Dublin for example which is a bit of a kip nowadays.

tabby aspreme

Certain farmyards and fields, in the north Louth, south Armagh area, I would think are still no go areas.

boombang

DellyBelly wrote: »

Any town in Donegal. Good chance of being killed by boy racers. It's like being in deep South in the US. Full of hicks

Sadly some evidence to support this today:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/two-dead-three-seriously-injured-after-car-crash-in-co-donegal-1.3600923?mode=amp

I remember some post defending driving in Donegal is a closed thread recently. They claimed the death rate per km of road in Donegal is in line with the national average. I thought it was a stupid point. The death rate per population in Donegal is quite a bit higher than the national average.

People seem to think that road deaths are acts of God.

Heres Johnny

Yep was just going to mention Donegal for driving. For a small unpopulated county they have a lot of deaths. And I know for a fact the insurance premiums up there reflect the stats.

Phoenix park this day next week will be dangerous, not that a priest will try to bum you or anything but the fact they are building temporary morgue because they are convinced people will die at it.

As for kippy towns, every city has them and some rural ones are dumps too. Surprised Athy not mentioned yet, I didn't see it anyway. But not as dangerous as parts of Dublin now where they are routinely shooting.

Anywhere near a halting site has to be dangerous too, can't trust the traveling folk. Met a girl one night she was trying to impress me she said she was an entrepreneur, has her own home and enjoys traveling. I ran a mile. In hindsight I probably should have went home with her I may have put too much emphasis on the enjoyed traveling part.

fryup

Heres Johnny wrote: »

Phoenix park this day next week will be dangerous, not that a priest will try to bum you or anything but the fact they are building temporary morgue because they are convinced people will die at it.

die of boredom?

btw - have you got a link to this?

The Backwards Man

Heres Johnny wrote: »

Yep was just going to mention Donegal for driving. For a small unpopulated county they have a lot of deaths. And I know for a fact the insurance premiums up there reflect the stats.
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Fourth largest county, eighth largest population. Massive amount of cross border traffic, as was the case this morning.

But sure nothing reduces road fatalities like a good uneducated rant.

The J Stands for Jay

timthumbni wrote: »

There has never been a heroin problem in Portrush. You might be thinking of ballymena.

I was told there was a dodgy housing estate there on the late 90s with a problem.

The J Stands for Jay

Big Nasty wrote: »

Statistically mustn't have heard of Buncranna

https://m.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/news/cork-is-car-crash-capital-27091521.html

I can't find it now, but I read an article showing cork had the most drink driving in the country

Heres Johnny

fryup wrote: »

Heres Johnny wrote: »

Phoenix park this day next week will be dangerous, not that a priest will try to bum you or anything but the fact they are building temporary morgue because they are convinced people will die at it.

die of boredom?

btw - have you got a link to this?

https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/morgue-set-to-be-built-in-phoenix-park-for-papal-visit-37184520.html

thebull85

corner of hells wrote: »

As Berryfield Road, Finglas ?

Known by the locals a Battlefield Road .

It's calmed down a small bit.

It had calmed down, but i think that area along with rest of Finglas is getting bad again thanks the latest generation of absolute scum.

TheRiverman

Unfortunately Donegal headline news again this morning following the awful fatal crash in Bundoran last night.Frightening waste of young lives and devastation for families.

Stroke Politics

Every county has an edgy area, have lived in Mayo, Galway, Meath, Dublin over the years and the places to avoid all look tysane.

The only county I consciously avoid as a dangerous place to be is Donegal.

Beautiful county, and any Donegal people I’ve met over the years are very likeable and responsible people. What is it about the ones that live there that gives it such a bad name.

We holiday in Ireland every year for a week, the only place we will refuse to bring our three children to is Donegal, purely because of driver behaviour and attitude there. Take a listen to this doc on one from a few years ago...

https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0804/806861-we-decide-who-lives-or-dies/

Oasis1974

The countryside is the most dangerous place and those houses in isolated parts. No policing no lighting lack of basic facilities you can get away with murder literally. Animals in fields attacked not just human beings. Wouldn't be caught dead there no pun intended.

blade1

Anywhere near pylons.
I reckon those EMF's aren't the best for you.

Big Nasty

blade1 wrote: »

Anywhere near pylons.
I reckon those EMF's aren't the best for you.

Unbelievable!

fryup

Stroke Politics wrote: »

We holiday in Ireland every year for a week, the only place we will refuse to bring our three children to is Donegal, purely because of driver behaviour and attitude there. Take a listen to this doc on one from a few years ago...

i think its because of their geographical location, there right up against the border so they can cross two jurisdictions willy nilly acting the maggot, without getting caught

malinheader

DellyBelly wrote: »

Any town in Donegal. Good chance of being killed by boy racers. It's like being in deep South in the US. Full of hicks

Keep you thinking that. Don't need yous sunday drivers like yous up here anyway.

Graces7

Oasis1974 wrote: »

The countryside is the most dangerous place and those houses in isolated parts. No policing no lighting lack of basic facilities you can get away with murder literally. Animals in fields attacked not just human beings. Wouldn't be caught dead there no pun intended.

Well I have lived in very isolated houses in the countryside for many many years with no lighting etc and never been afraid etc. The one time there was an issue it was wit h a rather nasty old neighbour and the gardai were there in minutes.

would not feel safe in a city or town.

timthumbni

McGaggs wrote: »

timthumbni wrote: »

There has never been a heroin problem in Portrush. You might be thinking of ballymena.

I was told there was a dodgy housing estate there on the late 90s with a problem.

Dhu varren maybe.? Anyway there maybe some people on heroin in Portrush but there is no problem with it as such. Not like Edinburgh and Dublin for example....

gozunda

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Scariest place I've ever personally been is an area near the Guinness factory late at night,

I can't remember which road it was (Basin St, Marrowbone Lane and the School/Summer/Braithewaite Street intersection are all possibilities - I had stumbled drunkenly and phoneless out of a house party on New Earl Street around 4am with the intention of walking home to Dun Laoghaire and promptly gotten lost in an absolute maze of apartment tower blocks ) but there was an all out gang battle going on with young lads throwing sh!t at eachother and setting fire to things. To this day I'm not sure if that was their idea of fun or if there was actual hatred towards eachother but it was feckin' terrifying.

The main thing going on was people standing on balconies (open access stairwells so I have no idea if they even lived in the buildings or not - a lot of the apartments were boarded up so possibly scheduled for demolition or a facelift?), setting fire to tennis balls and the like, and then trying to bounce them off the ground and hit people standing on the balconies in opposite buildings. Feckin' mad stuff.

Never saw any mention of it in the news which made me wonder if it was a regular occurrence and therefore not newsworthy :eek: It was in and around Arthur's Day, so close enough to Halloween but probably not Halloween related, idk. Autumn does seem to be peak "set everything in sight on fire for the craic" season from September onwards, so that might have been a factor.

Wouldn't wander around that stretch at night again in a hurry though. This stuff seemed to be going on across several different streets in the same cluster, all within sight of the Guinness building, so it very much seemed like an organised kind of thing. Do 'gangs' of teenage douchebags still do arranged meetups with the express purpose of having fights?

Phone was dead hence no Google maps and no chance to call the Gardai. Eventually after running through several streets for about ten minutes trying to get away from the chaos I miraculously ended up on Cork Street, which I was fully familiar with and could figure out my route home from. Serious way to wake up after a session at which you had just woken up from a drunken slumber

On a serious note, it also massively pissed me off that this kind of crap seemed to be going on with total impunity. No sign of any cavalry arriving at least while I was there, which sort of adds weight to the claims that certain areas are just "let go" by the authorities, and therefore these marauding gangs of scumbags can just get away with it without any real retaliation. What always struck me was how tranquil Cork Street was once I arrived on it, if I'd been walking home from a gaff party there that night I wouldn't have had so much as a hint that there was major trouble going on just a five minute walk away. I'd always heard that the city centre was like that, with settled and rough areas directly intersecting with eachother, but this was the most bizarre contrast I've come across in my time.

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This was in the Autumn of either 2013 or 2014, so for all I know the place is totally different now. The boarded up apartments nearby would suggest that some kind of revamp was planned for the area.

Sound like you experienced a classic time slip there

toshr

Used to live in Phibsboro 10+ years ago, and liked walking home from a dewey nite out, rather than queueing for hours for a cab, not once while passing the so called North Inner City was i intimidated or threatened. It's what u make it...

Irish_rat

Graces7 wrote: »

would not feel safe in a city or town.

Complete opposite would be freaked out at night living in the middle of nowhere, it feels safer with some neighbors nearby in an urban area.

Irish_rat

DickSwiveller Returns wrote: »

The bad parts of Limerick are really, really bad. Moyross, Southill, Weston, St Marys Park etc.

Yup and living about 15 years in Limerick I've never been or ever want to see those places. Hyde rd another kip. That said I know there is a lot of genuine people living there but the scum bring everything down

r93kaey5p2izun

This thread makes me really want to visit Southill and Moyross just to see what the hype is about. Sounds awful and it seems to be "winning" as the actual most dodgy place in the whole country here, but I'd love to see it for myself to get some perspective!

Graces7

Irish_rat wrote: »

Complete opposite would be freaked out at night living in the middle of nowhere, it feels safer with some neighbors nearby in an urban area.

lol.. when I tell folk I live ON AN ISLAND they really freak out!

They would feel trapped; I feel safe. One day last autumn a storm blew up and I got stranded.. there was a narrow gap to get back between storms and the sweet deep sigh of relief when we landed on the island..

and I have a good lock and a good dog anyways..

Graces7

Elliot Faithful Ankle wrote: »

This thread makes me really want to visit Southill and Moyross just to see what the hype is about. Sounds awful and it seems to be "winning" as the actual most dodgy place in the whole country here, but I'd love to see it for myself to get some perspective!

go visit the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal who work in the worst of it with the young folk.

EmmetWhitey

MarkY91 wrote: »

I'm not saying it's the most dangerous place but it's just a dodgy place I visited at the weekend.....

We went to Belfast from Dublin for the weekend. Decided to find a kebab shop on Google Sunday evening to bring back to the hotel for the girlfriend and i. I seen one on a street called hope street. Which was a 1 mile walk down a long street (the one with the Europa hotel). So after I got the kebabs, I decided to take a route home that's behind the main streets for the craic . I ended up in a place called sandy row( a friend I know from Belfast said wtf was I doing there? She wouldn't even drive her car through it) there was a pub on the corner with union jacks and Israel flags hanging from it and a baldy man with half of his face tattood. I knew I was ****ed if they knew I'm from Dublin so I did a fast walk past the dodgy bastards. The pub had music pumping at about 8pm on a Sunday.

I ended up walking down sandy row which had union jacks and murals everywhere.

Nothing happened and I never felt in danger but I knew quite well to keep my mouth shut.

Just so you know ... there are no pubs on Sandy Row .... :p:p

keano_afc

The womb.

werenotthere

rathkeale in limerick.... few funny looks driving my car through there a few months ago.

Graces7

gozunda wrote: »

Sound like you experienced a classic time slip there

sounds quite literally like... hell.. and I never use that word lightly,

Taytoland

You southerners really are soft. Some of the posts on this thread are hilarious.

werenotthere

werenotthere wrote: »

few funny looks driving my car through there a few months ago.

Oh dear God, the humanity! :rolleyes:

diusmr8a504cvk

Any decent books on the gang feuds in Limerick?