Another random person hospitalized after unprovoked attack in Dublin city center

Ha! We will need to wait until an American tourist actually dies in an attack.

A few Garda "days of action" Operation Such-and-Such until things calm down and then its quietly dropped until the next attack and the cycle repeats itself.

I think it's the keyboard drama queens that aren't spending any time in the city centre and are afraid of their own shadows

there have been tourists killed in cities around the world that i still consider really safe - amsterdam, sydney, lisbon... you could find tourist murders in the news for pretty much any city out there

I know. They are starting to remind me of flat earthers now. Fierce denial in the face of overwhelming evidence. Refusing to even contemplate that its possible that anyone else could ever believe the earth was round.

overwhelming evidence of what? that bad things happen in the world? tourists are killed in many cities in random attacks. do you think amsterdam is unsafe for example? many here have said they felt safe there but there have been many tourists attacked there and even murdered.

Merchants Quay has become comically bad, particularly at The Riverbank.

You'd be amazed what I see cycling by there every day. And I'm just whizzing passed in a few seconds.

A few weeks back there was a brawl that had literally spilled out onto the road and I'd to slalom between people rolling around on the ground fighting.

You also get absolute space cadets riding e bikes and scooters the wrong way up the cycle track there. I'd one absolute scrote come at me head on riding a scooter at insane speed and almost had a head on collision.

I used to whizz past it on the 79/79a and it always had an element of drug users etc but yeah, it's on another level the past while.

I know there is a hostel used by tourists just past where the MQI building is I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy tbh.

You’ve taken posters to task before for attempting to provide anecdotal evidence in support of their argument, yet you’re relying on it here when you’re expecting that your anecdotal evidence should mean something. There’s no sleight of hand going on, I explained earlier that a comparison is necessary in order to guage what anyone considers dangerous when clearly we have very different views on what any of us consider would qualify DCC as dangerous.

For what it’s worth for example, I knew San Fran had an issue with open defecation, which is why I inquired of you earlier about whether or not your single experience was indicative of a trend, because I know it’s nowhere near the levels of open defecation in India (and they’re not the worst offenders), and it’s not anywhere close to San Fran. So should anyone be concerned? I would say not really.

I’d say the same of the levels of antisocial behaviour in DCC - is it something ordinary people need to be in fear of when going about their business in DCC? The answer as far as I’m concerned is obviously not. Clearly you feel differently, so the only way of determining whether or not the claim has any merit is to have quantifiable, credible evidence, rather than just media reports, from outlets peddling misery and fearmongering.

No assaults outside of dcc?

I'll be the first to admit that I don't go to every corner of the city centre but I've been going to the same areas all my life and I see no difference in antisocial/addiction.

I'm on both sides of the liffey, I go to Dublin games and rugby games. I don't wander down alleys tho.

All in allI feel as safe as one can. I'd always have my wits about me no matter where I am. But its not Gotham city.

Haven't a clue, but if there is then you're welcome to start a thread on it.

Three English blokes got battered at 10 o'clock on a weekend night in the middle of the busiest part of Temple Bar by a gang of scrote teenage drug dealers though. Hardly nervous Nelly's. It highlights the main issue we have here, scumbag teenagers can and will do whatever they want.

I'm reminded of it every time I drive through Ballymun and see them flying around on robbed bikes without a care in the world, so it gets annoying when people apologise for the little turds behaviour.

well by that measure anywhere where there are assaults is unsafe no? what cities are actually safe?

not barcelona

not la coruna

not berlin

etc. etc. etc. you can find attacks on tourists in pretty much any city outside of a few perfect places like oslo and vienna and the likes.

now you'll all say it's me going "oh everything is fine there's attacks elsewhere", but i've been to these 3 places and never felt unsafe for a second, nor do i ever feel unsafe in dublin. policing needs to be improved in dublin but bad things happen everywhere, and no matter what we do in dublin they will continue to happen to some extent.