Enough is enough? Dublin north inner city crime

I read somewhere that one of Leo's first tasks when he visited Ukraine was to apologise to a Ukrainian actor who got attacked on a Dublin street while working in the Gaiety theatre. The city centre has been dire for many years now. I don't know how the local population live with it.

So Jim O'Callaghan actually gives us some facts around the shortfall in Gardai recruitment, whilst McEntee continues her Iraqi Minister of Information routine.

Plus ça change.

A Mayor of Dublin elected by the people with actual single handed power and control of what happens in the city would bypass all of that

if someone were to run on the ticket of cleaning up the city and giving it back to the law abiding vast majority they would be a shoe in

Owen Keegan is as useful as a chocolate teapot as city manager.

Amongst all these problems he actually had the audacity to propose a 19 million euro outdoor White Water Rafting centre at George's Dock and think it was actually going to work. This was born out of a personal interest and he wasn't far off getting it through.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/man-behind-dublins-23m-white-water-raft-project-is-veteran-kayaker/38763521.html

It would never have worked with the feral scum about the place and would have been a white elephant and huge sums

The same man opposes gathering data on derelict sites and buildings. Again - what is the interest?

Like these are the types of clowns running the city.

Unfortunately this is what happens when people are promoted way beyond their ability and for no other reason than optics and party politics.

McEntee as Justice Minister is something that should never have happened in the first place. She is someone who spends more time grandstanding in the media about woke nonsense, importing more problems to keep the NGO lobbyists busy and funded and then legitimising it with citizenship ceremonies, and is far more concerned with trying to legislate for hurt feelings than tackling the growing criminal elements at all levels - resulting in Gardai (understandably) saying "feck this" and leaving the force. But the problem there also is allocation of resources and optics - constant tweets about their latest speeding busts on motorways but rarely about about far more serious crime.

The worst thing is this woman may make Taoiseach yet - wait and see, and just like Leo V before her it'll be hailed as a shining example of how far we've come while the country slides further into the abyss.

Here is the response from a GP cllr, Janet Horner:

https://twitter.com/TonightVMTV/status/1682159986879676416

• Policing is not the only solution
• More resources for sports and youth programmes
• More resources for creative outlets
• This happens more when school is not in session
• Give young people alternative ways to spend their time

Yet again, over and over, the socialists imply that the criminals have no agency, that the criminals were somehow forced to do these crimes by society's inactions.

We spend millions on all sorts of youth work / social work / sports.

More spending on that will not affect these criminals, as they are criminals, by definition they don't care.

This cllr never mentioned that the solution might involve these young people and their parents from choosing to stop committing crime, and deciding to join society like the rest of us.

You think a directly elected mayor would make a difference when it comes to law and order? This isn't the US. A mayor here will never have the power to finance, resource and direct the Gardai etc.

Quite simply, there aren't enough Gardai. We'd need to triple or quadruple the size of the force, and that's not realistic. And even if we had a force 4 times the size it is currently, individual Gardai are operating with their hands tied behind their back when dealing with teenage scum. The scum get a slap on the wrist if they get caught and if they do something very serious, jail doesn't seem to be a deterrent. It's like par for the course.

Warning. Nonsense shyte talking below.

I'm not calling for this but this would be a good deterrent. Once you get ten convictions, the punishment will be two broken legs. And for every further conviction you get, two more broken legs. Eventually the person will stop committing crime or will be unable to commit crime because their legs will be fcuked.

That's the only language that feral scum understand.

These scrotes need to realise you have to work for things if you want them.

They have it to easy, free house free money etc etc

If they had to actually go out and work they might stay out of trouble.

Heard social justice Ireland who are another waste of time advocating for the same social welfare rates for 18-24 year olds as the rest.

Absolutely bonkers anyone that age isn’t working with the labour shortages at the moment.

Sure here’s €225 to an 18 year old to scratch their hole all week in a free house with all the free trimmings.

God, some of these elected officials really are so detached from reality and exist in a completely different world to the rest of us.

I'd be interested to see what their Facebook feed is like. They seem so far removed.

Like these little scumbags are looking to express their creativity or participate in flowering arranging classes. Tone deaf idiots that are detached from reality. The families they come from are probably given more things than basically anybody on planet earth for sitting on their holes. What else do they want?

A quote from your article "when criminals in Norway leave prison, they stay out".

There is the difference. Norway sends their scumbags to prison. We don't.

Single biggest issue here is there are insufficient suitable places of detention available, meaning our judicial system lacks deterrent and is failing to protect its citizens. That manifests itself in inappropriate, lenient or absent sentencing, resulting in the same people with huge numbers of previous conviction being brought repeatedly before the courts. Unless and until we start locking these sort up when convicted, we can continue to expect more of the same.