Another random person hospitalized after unprovoked attack in Dublin city center

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FG didn't stop Garda recruitment. The Garda College was closed in 2009 Under FF and re-opened in 2014 under FG.

Dublin is the capital city. However those who have the power to make it a better place appear to have little or no connection to the place as a living city. The City Manager does not live in Dublin, the next incumbent should be obliged to live in the North Inner City for six months straight and the South Inner City for another six months - all expenses paid if necessary. Get a feel for the place. It's all very fine arriving on your High Nelly and sliding into the Wood Quay Bunker only to re emerge in the evening and head out of the city. Plans, maps and traffic CCTVs do not give an accurate picture of what is going on out there on the ground.

I realise that DCC do not police the place, but they are responsible for the look of it and how it works. Pavements in bits, traffic is mad, gratings (the old ones with glass in them) all broken and unrepaired, derelict buildings all over the place. Big eyesores right in the centre. The Fruit Market was mooted about ten years ago maybe less as the food mecca of Dublin. What has happened? Nothing. The Ormond Hotel is in ruins for the last ten years or so, opposite the City Manager's Office, still an undeveloped eyesore. Supervised injection centre? Yep up the road from Wood Quay in sight of Christ Church and the Four Courts. Planning permission was refused, but has been granted on a temporary basis subject to review. Will it be reviewed and if not working out closed down? I very much doubt it.

The Garda Commissioner has power over all Gardai in the State. He appears to favour a "paper based" view of how the Garda should operate rather than an "on the ground" view, so resources have been piled into fraud and other specialities. Nothing wrong with that, but there has to be a balance for our capital city now. He is another boss who has no connection with Dublin. Same for the Minister for Justice. The City Councillors are just looking out for their own little patches, the overall picture is what should be important though and built upon. An elected Mayor with adequate power (must be a Dub born and bred and feck the monikers of racist or whatever, it is vital), but some powers that be do not want it to happen.

If I don't shut up now I never will. I am so disappointed with Dublin, and have been for many years. I could see the writing on the wall for the place years ago. It's such a shame for the city I really love, but don't like very much anymore.

You f**king know these little scumbags are from the same families that were out blocking traffic because they think refugees are getting more free stuff than them

Time to get real

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DCC don’t care.

No one cares in this country anymore.

People who are meant to be looking after vital services and the running of the country don’t care.

There is zero accountability.

Just look after yourself and your family as no one else will.

I have no idea if it was an assault or somebody with drug issues, it's just not nice to see this.

73K posts, nough said.....you should have been a politician....lol

Plenty of Gardai WANT to be hiding away doing paperwork instead of doing a bit of hard work.

Yeah I would have thought that street was ok. Lots of people around too. The woman was either American or Canadian from her accent. At the risk of offending Canadians :)

Didnt see one garda on my walk from Rathmines down through harcourt street, grafton street, nassau street on to pearse station. If that was a similar area in London there would be police everywhere along your walk.

I would have assumed the same thing. Once over the southside of City that it is a lot safer than the Northside, I have often walked around from Trinity college up to Stephens Green, usually at night and not been bothered. I wouldn't say the same walking from one end of O'Connell street to the other. I suppose it shows you can't let your guard down anywhere in the city.

D2 is not always the safest.

It was very rough before Stephens Green Shopping Centre was built.

In more recent years a guy I was walking with was punched in the face on George's Street by a teenager. Friends of mine had stones thrown at them near the housing estates next to Stephen's Green.

A journalist was punched to death on Camden Street a few years ago.

There have been stabbings near Grand Canal Dock, and that's near where black American actors coming out of Grand Canal Dock Theatre were accosted by teenage racists recently.

What's happened, it seems, is what I call imperfect gentrification.

In NYC, South London and other places they move in rich people to gentrify certain areas and quietly, hypocritically and un-officially eject the poor people (sometimes poor black people but ssssh!!!), usually by pricing them out but there are other methods too - such as re-locating "project" housing.

Here we bring in fancy shops and apartments and well-to-do people to gentrify D2 and... that's it. Social housing of low-income people in the heart of Dublin remains.

As I said to a friend of mine when we were walking in Grand Canal Dock, you could pay €400,000 for one of these apartments and for the privilege of getting stabbed on your doorstep. What a bargain.

Everywhere has less well off people in society, its only really ireland and the UK where the kids seem to be as disruptive though, although even after years of living in the UK ive never seen anything as bad as some irish kids.

I think it's just down to culture really. Inner city dubs and other shithole areas just have a culture of getting up to no good, fighting, smashing things up and going against any kind of authority. They've always been like this.

I really don't know how it can be changed.

When that guard car got rammed you'd people on here arguing the same about facilities, people just posted lists of all the stuff in the general area.

A facility of Ultimate Hell Week would be a good start. Get your man Goggins and his ranger wing buddies to run these little scumbags into the ground, terrorise them for a few weeks until they learn some respect and manners.