Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

Well you'd be wrong ,

Oxford street is crime ridden but that is no surprise with the amount off foot fall that happens there daily .

Champs -ELyess is the same & has had all kinds of problems form terrorist attacks, to violent crime & armed robberies ,A few years ago it was 2nd most likely place to be pick pocketed in Paris (not sure right now)

My point is all big City have problems & ours are pretty tame in comparisons to other big ones, its just because we live here we notice them more,

Some good points there in fairness.

Its our ‘Main Street’ because people perceive it to be our Main Street.

Not for its facilities and commercial value .

Whats needed is to re establish it as an area which lives up to its designation.

Not getting your point there , my friend

I did edit!

Still don’t get your comment on spelling , could you expand?

while we are in the mood it’s ‘rein in’ you know, like the horse…reins….. got it?

You know well what the boy is on about.

You’d do much better if you cut out that crud.

I didn’t have anything to do with the chicken comment?

gen z going on about how awful dublin is they dont know the half of it. dublin in the 80s was full old buildings falling down,empty buildings ,parts of the city looked like a war zone, this was before the 90s when developers started to build modern office buildings and expensive apartments . ireland is now in the top 20 countrys if you go by wealth ,investments .eg its regarded as a rich country .some people seem to love criticizing dublin, as if theres no homeless people or junkies in berlin or london.We are still in the eu, meanwhile britain is falling into economic chaos due to the decision to leave the EU

look on youtube dublin in the 80s ,dublin docks , it looks awful compared with the modern city we have now

Never understood the generation letters, so googled it. I'm generation x. I like the letter x.

I agree with you, but it was normal at the time. In someways I think they have it harder in the social side of the house now.

Bad enough trying to figure crap out 30 years ago without having mobiles.

If people don’t accept that there is a problem then it will never improve. You won’t see junkies hassling people or homeless people begging on the Champs-Elysee, I walked down it 2 weeks ago. There’s a visible police presence too which is sorely lacking in Dublin.

When you look at the state of Dublin, the quays are a disgrace of dereliction, low maintenance and lack of pride. The buildings are dirty and grimy. Newer apartment blocks are falling apart, The streets are dirty and full of litter. There are empty sites from demolished buildings, half renovated and abandoned projects. O'Connell street has had a lot of focus since the RTE program, but it's not just O'Connell street. Absent landlords, developers hoarding properties, lack of overall strategic planning, lack of investment in public space, eroding of amenities. Even a simple walk through Dublin city looking for a public toilet highlights how bad a city it is. Eye sores everywhere, the old Carlton cinema site, the Ormond Hotel site, Moore street, Moore lane, Henry lane, North Lotts, Bachelors lane to name a few - all these places are a disgrace in a supposed major city.

The drugs and begging menace, that is a social issue separate from the physical condition of Dublin.

Maybe the Garda & powers are happy to have them in & around O'Connell street,

As i said the street isn't really used for anything these days anyway & is a big open wide area so easier to keep an eye on the,

Much better to have them there than up on Grafton street / Dawson /Wicklow street or the other street that people actually use,

Every major City has problem area's in the City centre ,

Unfortunately it what people do ,

I know, you're obviously intelligent. But there's people that look around them and think the earth is flat.

every city has junkies and beggars ,the thing that annoys me is random person coming up to me and asking for a euro, if a beggar wants to sit down with a cup in front of asking for money thats ok. i have never found any beggar remotely threatening . most of the time you cannot tell a homeless person from a junkie, unless they are obviously under the influence of drugs . its easy to avoid junkies stay away from back streets ,lanes where they hang out.

That's the problem in a nutshell, they all live a stones throw from O'Connell Street. In other cities living that close to the city centre would cost an arm and a leg.

Saw a guy get kicked unconscious on oconnell Bridge at 8.30pm earlier. Started with a row outside o'carrolls then proceeded to the road. The guy being attacked was knocked to the ground then the attacker kicked his head like a football for another 20- 30 seconds. Few jumps on his head for good measure. Traffic stopped on the quays while this happened, by standers and tourists looking on agog. Eventually someone grabbed the attacker and restrained him, the guy attacked motionless on the road. He seemed to come around but it was a vicious and sustained attack. On the main street in out capital City. Not a single guard to be seen.

since i've been in London this time round, there have been stabbings on oxford, an attempted car jacking recently, kids ransacking shops etc. the east side of oxford st is full of **** american candy stores and phone accessory shops, on a par with our own o'connell st. the selfridges end is nice enough though.

Paris and London have social housing right in the centre of the city too. Soho even has social housing flats and you see loads around the Southbank and Waterloo and even in Chinatown. I used to think social housing in the middle of a city centre was only a Dublin thing but you see it everywhere here in London, even in really posh places like St. John's Wood and Notting Hill.

London Fields in Hackney. Very desirable area nowadays but it's still full of loonies around the park. Last week I saw armed police with machine guns jumping out to arrest a guy waving a knife around. I really think the hyperbole around Dublin is crazy, an addict asking you for some change is a product of a society and if you're concerned about it then focus on fixing society not brushing these people under the carpet elsewhere.

Funnily enough yesterday around the corner from here a homeless bloke with a Dublin accent asked me for change while I was having a coffee outside somewhere, felt bad for him as I rarely have cash on me these days so couldn't help him.

I think you're reaching a bit there Dyr, most foreigners I know pay a lot more tax than you do. Regarding the O'Connell quote, I'm sure he wouldn't like his words to be misrepresented & twisted like that. You sound like the tyrant in this case! You're the classic British National front boy "lord of the land", the native that wants it all for himself! "Get rid of those Johnny Foreigners.... Britain for the British!!"