Enough is enough? Dublin north inner city crime

Is part of the problem that nobody really gives a sh%$e about Dublin City Centre? Especially the north side of it and O'Connell Street.

Country folk generally think it's a kip. Same with Southsiders and other suburbs. The majority of people who live there are probably foreigners who wouldn't have any attachment to the place, and renters who'll only stay there a short time. People are totally focused on their own county or locality; there doesn't seem to be any believe that it's their city or our capital.

It just seems to be accepted that it's a dangerous kip; that it always has been and there's no desire to change that.

Several towns around where I live ruined by Dublin scobes in the last 2 decades. Give me asylum seekers any day over the hand down the trackie bottom feeders.

I walked down the length of O'Connell St from Wasabi on Dorset St with my Mrs a few weeks back on a Wednesday evening. The plan was to go into Meagher's and then get the train home from Tara.

By the end of it she was terrified

Incident 1: 10 lads bateing the shite out of each other and some fella getting kicked in the head on the ground just beside the Garden of remembrance. In fairness an undercover Hyundai showed up but they were outnumbered.

Incident 2: Open, drug dealing outside the Gresham between a man and a woman, all the gear dropped on the ground and then vitriol was from the woman

Incident 3: Two scramblers with lads with no helmets and girls on the back doing loops of the traffic island in the middle of O'Connell up to the Spire followed by guards in a transit. It was like something out of Benny Hill. Tourists looking on astounded. They tore off then down Aston Quay.

She was terrified and just wanted away from the area. I despair for what is happening the city.

They had 20 gardai protecting an EMPTY building in Ballybrack yesterday. Shows the priorities of our Justice Minister.

Thinks with her heart rather than her head; the total opposite of what you want from a Minister for Justice.

It's very bizarre - listen to Paschal Donohue on the stand with Eamon Dunphy.

He is way to conservative with spending that money. He thinks the surplus is not going to be there is the next couple of years and is basically putting it in the rainy day fund.

I think he is getting the balance wrong and needs to spend at least some of it now - what type of kip will the country be on the current trajectory?

Ireland is being let go to rack and ruin under this Government.

I guess these vicious attacks weren't "hate crimes", since it was just spur-of-the-moment scumbaggery?

Dunno if we can get serious about tackling crime. With the NGO-industry and fellow traverllers ("there's no facilities") ready to condemn more robust policing and heavier sentences.

We need to build a big new 3,000 place prison,, and start filling it..

We have the money,, just don't let any person involved with New Children's Hospital anywhere near it...

Arrest the whole group and hand them over to the Americans to charge and imprison them for attacking a American citizen.

This is the heart of the problem few mention and the social housing stock is being added to all the time as well as ever more McVerry slums. What do people expect the result to be?

Got off the Luas at Dominick near Parnell Square during the week. i got off Luas earlier than planned because two scrotes were vaping and blowing it in other commuters faces knowing everyone was afraid to challenge them. I couldnt be looking at them

Went to tap my leap card & some fellow injecting his leg at the Card tap terminal, walked down O Connell street loads of scumm everywhere begging and scooters flying up and down the pavement with drugs.....

Most of the country is turning that way. Any half decent sized town is full of feral kids doing as they please as they know theres no consequences. Career criminals roaming every byroad and bog road robbing houses, not even bothering to go 1km before breaking in to the next. Drugs are rampant everywhere. But this country, especially in spheres of influenece, is jam packed with sjw's and goody goodys who ensure there will never be accountability for any of them, only a bleedin heart sob story. In 15yrs we'll be worse than britain and everything that was Ireland will be gone.

People can make excuses about poverty etc but it's mostly ****. These people just want to be bad it's like a lifestyle choice to them and it's everywhere throughout the island. Plenty of scum from all sections of society here. I wasn't exactly flash with cash in my younger days and yet my son decided on an extremely high level career and our social and educational structures here allowed that to happen so there's no excuses about lack of educational opportunities. A lot of these scum were never thought about how to get on in life and mind their own business, it's somewhat cultural too, 'Oh he/she are not like us so that gives us the right to annoy/rob/harass/gossip about them'.

I lived in an extremely mixed neighbourhood before and virtually all the extreme criminality was perpetrated by our own. Despite the Polish/Africans etc consuming an equal amount of drugs/alcohol, it was our own that stirred all the trouble and consistently ruined everyone else's fun, scum.

As for Travellers, I haven't read every post here, I've had a tough week, but in fairness they normally feud amongst themselves an if you treat them equal, just a simple "Hello, Lads", they normally won't bother you.

Another thing I've noticed if you have the misfortune of living near scum is it kills them if they don't know your business and they will do very annoying things to get your attention, jealous c*nts.