Enough is enough? Dublin north inner city crime

Why is nothing being done? Because the so-called Minister for Justice thinks it's more important to obsess over pandering to the wokerati with her hate speech bill.

We badly need a new Minister for Justice.

much easier to spend their time introducing hate speech legislation to criminalise those that say mean things

tackling real crime would be hard... plus doesn't come with pats on the back from NGOs

You can't really blame her, she is not responsible for the day to day running and management of AGS. There is one man responsible for that. Unfortunately, he seems to be losing young recruits like noones business, and older guards are retiring, most not staying till 60 anymore.

They need uniforms on the streets, lots of them. But most gardai are now in specialised units, away from the public. There will be less in November, when the uniform frontline units go back to the pre covid roster. Currently there are 4 stretched units, working 12 hour shifts. In November, they will return to 10 hour shifts over 6 days, resulting in the need for 5 units.

So, what was 4, will be stretched to make 5.

really!? she sets the agenda!

and her agenda is hate speech

On the Dublin is a kip thread I have often stood up for the place but ever since the pandemic it really is a horrible place . And it’s not the Dubs fault , the government don’t give a **** about its own anymore . Not enough guards on the streets because there’s not enough funding for them , not enough prisons built to lock up the scum so the lads with 200 convictions keep the legal aid merry go round tipping over and everyone living in Dublin 4 / 6 / south is happy and doesn’t have to concern themselves with this nonsense .

As long as we can get a pat on the head from Europe and refugees and asylum seekers take up all our housing and tourist accommodation , then who gives a **** about things like crime on our streets ? Dublin is a kip and the rest of the country will follow because our leaders are corrupt , incompetent pricks with no sense of responsibility towards the Irish people

easy for governments these days to be unaccountable when you have people who think like this

law and order party 😂

Again, we are basically allowing teenage scum to do what they want with no repercussions. The fly around on robbed bikes that they steal in broad daylight, attack people when they fancy and half the time film stuff and post it on Tiktok for likes (not even bothering to hide their stupid heads in many cases). What other way did the liberal 'they have no faciliteez' heads think this was going to go.

Services havent grown in line with the economy and population.

Dublin city center is obviously just going to get worse and worse if they keep cramming more and more into the same space. But they cant seem to break the cycle of 'everyones in dublin so lets locate it in dublin' ... which is a great idea if its 1970 and every 3rd family has 1 car.

But it doesnt work any more and as a result going into the city is just asking for stress. Dodging food bikes, junkies, muggers and buses.

The 'no life beyond the m50' attitude is largely to blame.

And thats why i avoid the kip.

Helen McEntee lives in the arsehole of Meath. She couldn't be more further detached from the Dublin goings on.

She has be ministerial car ferry her around. And this was is the exact same for other cabinet ministers - they don't really know Dublin as they never walk around it.

I met Paschal Donohue going into Jervis centre one day and he lives in Drumcondra - probably the closest to seeing the problems.

Definitely needs a huge uplift in Guards.

I genuinely dont think she’s up to the job. Minister for Justice is one of the toughest roles in government. She has no track record of the sort of hard-nosed capabilities that such a position requires. She has never shown the sort of independent thought or brain-power you’d expect from someone holding such a top level position. As a result she seems completely focused on her few NGO-approved policies and is unable to deal with pressing issues as they arise.

I’m not a fan of Simon Harris, but at least when he was acting in the role he seemed interested in tackling actual crime

Unfortunately urban crime (although more prolific) will never get the attention that the darling media rural crime gets.

Currently the capital is haemorrhaging money to subsidise the rest of the country and welcoming in every destitute from the everywhere in the country and further afield, the money is being pumped out and the problems pumped in. The city needs to invest in itself, we need a metro police & we need Metro North.