Cork City - anti social behaviour etc... what's being done?

Appalling behaviour.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41115244.html

I've heard that was between two feuding traveller families from the Mahon area. The two factions met each other outside the courthouse, and the whole thing spilled further down Anglesea Street, until they ended up having their little scrap right outside the main Garda headquarters in Munster! None of the guards inside could be arsed enough to do anything about it though!

Sometimes it's more prudent to let these things play out rather than get stuck in. Can't blame them really, not like they'll get any back up from powers that be if things go pear shaped.

Deflection from the question asked.

Do you know something about the identy of this man?

If not, why are you ascerting that he is a member of the travelling community?

Oh, right.

You've said enough.

(and don't, for one single moment, try to suggest that I have in any way condoned the behaviour in question, or any animal abuse - that would be merely more deflection)

Spent a few days in Cork. As usual, pubs, cafes, shops and restaurants are all great, once you get off the street. The streets come across as having deteriorated further, a few examples from 3 days below.

Walked from college of comm to patrick street in the morning, it was as bad as I've ever seen it. I counted 22 people lying on the street, looking zoned out of their heads. Puddles of vomit, and other bodily excretions, broken glass, rubbish, broken eggs. At one point I thought, maybe I should look up higher , rather than at the ground to avoid stepping in god knows what, but the floors above the street are rotting as well.

I walked the railway line between atlantic pond and rochestown. Some development is done, More eggs and glass smashed , looks like thrown from the bridges, fresh ugly graffiti on the newly cleaned and developed areas. Came up off the path at the petrol station on the blackrock road to buy something, their ATM has a "broken due to attempted theft" sign on it, it's visibly smashed. The shop assistant there told me a few of the houses nearby had break-ins recently when I asked have robberies increased.

Taxi to the airport, taxi driver had dressings on his face, he told me he had been attacked by a passenger refusing to pay 2 nights ago.

"you know who", followed by "Let's not be coy about it".

Couldn't make that up. 😁😂🤣

Go on, say what you want to say. Clearly, the mods don't take action on blatantly discriminatory comments in this forum (provided they are directed at a particular ethnic group). Why are you worried?

I made no comment about this fight. I responded to the "definitely a traveller", comment about the unidentified person abusing the dog. That was blatantly stereotypical discrimination.

My other reference was to the hilarity of the, "you know who", followed by, "Let's not be coy"!

Fair play, you weren't coy.

Reading comprehension fail at the second sentence I'm afraid, back to school with you. :p I said it was 3 examples. not ALL. If I listed all, I'd have a few thousand words going.

However, I partly agree, yes, dublin and new york are even shlttier shltholes. Amsterdam and London are in far better shape than Cork though. There is no "nice" part of Cork anymore.

If your goal is to see Cork become the filthiest, up there with the big names, it would need to be a city in the first place. We're just a mucky little dot.

Also, regarding "nice" part of Cork, how about Mardyke? No?

Couldn't have said it better myself!!

You'll still get your house broken into or your bike stolen just as easily in South East Dublin though. And I agree on the "more restaurants, nightlife etc" angle, but that's just a scale thing.

I don't think you're quite comparing like with like, by comparing Cork city centre with Dublin's leafy suburbs. You could live in Greenwich and have a wonderful London experience, or live out in Williamsburg and have a lovely New York experience, or maybe live in Blackrock and have a lovely Cork experience, but we're not really talking about comparisons of leafy suburbs. Well I wasn't anyway.

City centres... you're going to get anti-social behaviour proportionate to the scale of the city basically. Cork's small, so the scale of the anti-social behaviour is small. There's security with sub machine guns on the street in Amsterdam at the early hours of the morning guarding the weed cafe's, while queues of zombies stand around outside...Cork's generally pretty tame I'd be inclined to say. Because it's small.

A decent sentence for once. We need to see more of this from the courts. Over three hundred previous convictions between the two of them. Nasty, dirty and horrible bstards.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41135104.html

7pm on Grand Parade.

Not even shocking anymore unfortunately.

That it is within a rough group was my first thought too.

I’ve been reading the news reports and interviews on the students killed in Nottingham recently. The locals mention that feeling of small comfort or safety when you assume that stabbings in the news are within a drug-gang or group of homeless people as usual. It’s natural to do it I suppose. But in Nottingham it has spilled over into dead passers-by.

In my head, I keep remembering last week when I walked past that centra with my kids at around 7pm , we had gone into town to get some new clothes after school and they wanted to go to McDonald’s. It looked too rough for me, we went home instead.

The poor man attacked on the Grand Parade has passed away may he RIP. Our once fine city is in bit of a sad and sorry state at the moment. The Gardai, the city council and the justice system in this country really have failed us badly imo.

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/man-stabbed-cork-city-centre-27141871

RIP

I'm afraid that the only conclusion I can take from this post is that you think criminal/antisocial behaviour is somehow genetic?

If that is the case, I fear what your proposed solutions might be!