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

It's a tricky one to deal with. There are some deterrent solutions, but they just move them around.

Current policy around drug misuse is an abject failure. It has been given half a century to work and the problems are worse. Anyone advocating for this policy and action to continue is dangerously blinkered, imo.

The health led approach is proven to reduce harm from drug use and even, longterm, reduce drug use. I don't understand why people continuing to push the prohibition view have to be listened to. There is a trove of evidence that their policies make matters worse, it isn't a matter of opinion. However, we seem to form policy based on how people "feel", as opposed to on evidence!

Drew harris didnt give much hope to city traders when he was here last week.

Christ lads last evening was an eye opener for me. I rarely go out in the city but was meant to meet a friend there last nite but he cancelled last minute so decided to have a stroll around. Great buzz around Grand parade, Oliver Plunkett St but around Daunt Square and Paul St very sketchy. I was walking past Subway on Paul St and ducked into that tiny side street to take a call and some guy offers me a blowjob for 50 quid. Mad stuff. This was half 7.

I offered him a bigmac and some nuggets but it was rejected. All jokes aside that's mad stuff. The city does need a clean up. Especially that part of it. The knackers sitting around there out of there minds was crazy to look at

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/delivery-rider-fights-cowards-who-27327255...

https://www.thejournal.ie/stolen-car-gang-togher-and-northside-cork-6112282-Jul2023/...

Scum attacking deliveroo riders is a serious problem in Dublin. It seems to be more of a rare thing in Cork though. Hopefully it stays that way. I'd say there's an element of racism behind it as well, seeing that most deliveroo workers are foreign nationals. That's the motivating factor behind the attacks on them in Dublin imo.

1. To what benifit?

2. One of the areas is named in the link you copied.

3. There is a difference between not doing something and "refusing" to do something. I mean, who did they refuse? You?

There was a Whats app vid doing the rounds of some fellas beating the crap out of each other on barrick st.

I see some knuckle draggers have torched a school in Balincollig!

Burning down buildings earmarked for accommodation while crying about a housing crisis doesn't make much sense to me.

These people are really starting to give the city a bad name now. It's high time that the powers that be do something about this.

The loonies really have crawled out of the woodwork post covid! People have a right to protest, no matter how ridiculous their particular cause is, but harassing and abusing the staff at the library as well as barricading it is not on. With these actions these people have rendered their right to protest as null and void.

I think it’s gone a bit beyond starting now though, eh?

Lads, it’s years this is going on. Some of us could see this only getting worse week by week. Small things, lack of basics like cleaning, dereliction, no social support and way too few gardai really builds over time to the current mess.

Take a look back at the start of this thread and the ones predating it. It would be funny if it wasn’t so eyerollingly ridiculous how some posters told sporina and those of us who saw the place was going downhill , that it was only a state of mind, we were aging, or mentally ill somehow to notice this, and nothing was out of the normal.

Nowhere to park other than:

• Grand Parade Multistorey,
• Grand Parade Surface Car Park,
• Merchant's Quay Multistorey
• Carroll's Quay Multistorey
• North Main Street Multistorey,
• City Hall Multistorey,
• Paul Street Multistorey,
• St Finbarr's Multistorey

as well as the Railway Station and the Park & Ride and various on-street spaces.

Turn on Neil or 96fm and you will thinking the city centre is south central in the 90s, its not great but the reality is its not that bad. I'm living in the centre 15 years I've never really had any hassle, raised kids there. A lot could be done, their is a visible heroin and homeless problem but its not exclusive to Cork.

Sounds like the boiling frog.

Or maybe we just have different standards of acceptable.

Just a bit of ould heroin is it? The odd beheading. No bother, carry on.

Could you quote where a poster called for An Gardaí to go in cracking heads at a peaceful protest?

Which protest is this, because i sure wouldn't consider what's happening to the staff at the library to be a peaceful protest.