Enough is enough? Dublin north inner city crime

With crack becoming now evermore popular a good deal of these tweakers is it are now indulging in their very public “excercise routine” with no fear of being carted off to the looney bin. Hong Kong has Tai Chi in the public square we get this sh!t

This is it, it's the truth of the matter. People aren't stupid, they can see the practically intraversible mountain before them.

Lots pointing out that people can work themselves out of it. That certainly applied in the past, but everyone has to recognise that the probability of that scenario is rapidly shrinking.

It's not that it's a new phenomenon, it's that it's a drastically worse version.

There's no point talking about something you did 20, 30, 40 years ago. It's a different game now.

There's so much to say about the impoverishment of opportunity. Yes, there is access to education. But if a teenager wants to, and can, attend the likes of trinity, how do they afford accommodation?

Equally, there's not much point talking about "good" jobs, because that's ignoring the scale of "average" and "not so good" jobs. How do you afford average housing on an average job? You can't. That's that.

And you certainly can't say they have free houses for life so they should be happy. Nobody ever thinks like that, least of all teenagers or other young people. They want to better themselves, they want to have freedom. Someone stuck in the same place cradle to grave is no good proposition.

Housing is intrinsically linked to relationships, family, opportunity. With housing gone up the chimney, so does the rest go.

Again, nothing new under the sun here, its the new extent to which this social immobility has grown, that's what I'm highlighting as a reason for more and more people just giving two fingers to society. Not an excuse, a reason.

Look at a what an average job is paying in Dublin, look at the rental costs of the filthiest overcrowded place to rent in Dublin. Doesn't work out.

And it's growing across the country. And crime is going to grow with it because its a near hopeless situation to get out of if you play by the rules.

I'm not surprised in the least. And I won't be surprised either when this problem grows out of the bottom of society and into the middle too.

I have no solutions to offer, it's rotten to the core. But I'm not going to pretend that some average young person has a lot of opportunity. That's the root, and no amount of guards or judicial changes or prisons is going to make it disappear.

I started reading on the first page and skipped to the this one.

I notice there are a number of people Thread Banned as this is a very emotional subject.

I am Irish myself and have the knowledge to stay away from the inner city.

Not going to rant and rave or think too hard about this issue as it is depressing and sad.

However I think it's time we warned people entering this country about the dangers even if it damages tourism.

If we cannot keep visitors safe I don't think we deserve them or their business.