Another random person hospitalized after unprovoked attack in Dublin city center

I don’t know about a caption but turning up to a work commitment as a government minister yet dressed like she is on her way to Costa to meet a pal for a latte and a muffin, odd, not very professional..not very ministerial

Yeah but TV and internet mean all these phrases are bobbing about in our heads.

Prominent Irish people even use baseball metaphors despite being unfamiliar with baseball: "Out of left-field", "lets touch base"

... because that worked out so well last time!

So what’s her opinion? Previous poster said when she was asked what specifically she meant beyond the “there’s no facilities” platitude, she had nothing to offer.

Sure we’ll take the other posters word for it that in her opinion there’s no facilities. What I was pointing out is that having grown up in Finglas, left school early, made something of herself and still living in Clontarf, she’d have an idea of what she’s talking about, as opposed to the characterisation Northernlilly was trying to portray of her that she knew nothing.

That isn’t any different to Finglas 50 years ago tbh.

There’s plenty of youth crime in rural Ireland nowadays as there was 50 years ago, it just doesn’t get as much media attention because, well, it’s rural, and media tends to be more focused on urban crime, and especially crime in Dublin, though for a while Limerick City had the dubious reputation placed on it by Dublin media of ‘Stab City’, a name which it was undeservedly associated with for nearly 40 years.

Your sentiments aren’t new either, the same sentiments have been expressed of every successive generation, and it’s basically bullshìt really. I see no reason to sugarcoat it for you seeing as you’re able to dish it out.

This sums it up. It's not a lack of facilities or flowering arranging classes as the little turds have no interest in that. They have access to more stuff for free than basically anybody on the planet. It's that their shoitebag parents who are given everything for nothing in reward for sitting on their holes all day can't be bothered raising their kids as they are incapable of doing anything useful.

The state of Dublin is now being talked about on the other side of the world

It's Covid's fault

https://www.newstalk.com/news/covid-to-blame-for-dublin-crimewave-irish-youth-foundation-1492404#Echobox=1690804949-2

Maybe we should be looking at America for answers, bigger prisons, longer mandatory sentencing,and and give the Gardai the tools to deal with the dregs of society who can't or don't want to live in a civilized society

Dublin people have more space than ever. Until the tenements were cleared in the last century, a large family would share two rooms in an almost derelict Georgian house.

Now large families are very rare, and it’s the norm for people, including in what we’re “working class” areas to have their own bedroom. The houses which replaced the tenements have their own gardens. The apartments which replaced them have open spaces (unlike most privately rented apartments).

These areas tend to more public ally funded “community centres” and similar facilities. Going into the city centre looking for fun and trouble has always had an appeal for badly raised kids. But in recent years they’ve been pushing against the societal boundaries of acceptable behaviour, and discovering that the boundaries aren’t really there anymore.

We've failed at everything else .

The attackers will serve a few months at the most and have nothing to fear from the court and they know it.

I wouldn't be looking towards the madness that is the US, but how about some of our closer European peers? I could see French and Spanish police battering the likes of this scum off the streets.