Shooting in main street blanchardstown

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/1224/1423651-man-critical-after-shooting-at-restaurant-in-dublin/

Apparently this was in Brown’s restaurant? This is shocking stuff

Few videos online, yep seems to have been Browne's steakhouse alright.

Shooting in Finglas as well

https://x.com/mick_o_keeffe/status/1739036281487687739?s=46

Scary for all those people trying to enjoy a nice Christmas eve.

Shocking stuff. And the worst news for a family to receive at any time of year, let alone Christmas...

Is Blanch that bad or is the bad element a very small minority?

A friend of mine is moving to Corduff, he's not Irish and I said it's fine if you keep to yourself.

I know people from Blanch and they said it's fine but I don't know what area they live.

Yeah that's my impression but it does obviously have a bad element, albeit it's small and possibly shrinking.

The mother of the gun man has put up a gofundme for €7000 funeral expenses. It got to over €600 but is now closed. Unbelievable stuff..

Although I know it can't happen, it's a shame we can't triage these animals to the back of the hospital queues and let them bleed out in the waiting rooms.

I'd say the corduff boys would **** themselves in gaza

That's my impression of Blanch.

Extremely multicultural with lots of Eastern Europeans, Asians and Africans but still a small minority of criminality.

Will it be another "hero" funeral like the one where the three lads drove the wrong way up the road and were killed, and the tools of their "trade" were displayed in the church?

In this case they won't be able to display the gun as it'll be in the evidence locker.

Whoever was responsible doesn't deserve even the slightest hero worship, especially for taking a gun into a restaurant and traumatising for life anyone who was inside and had nothing to do with any criminal squabble.

Who said that?

Do better than the Tory Daily Fail please.

No Irish media outlet is reporting what you suggested.

No fatal shootings in 20 years.

To my knowledge nobody actually hit by a bullet since that triple shooting circa 2010.

But please. Do go on.

If an American ghetto hit Corduff's crime rate the mayor would be made Pope.

Well a look on property price register shows little recent below the 300k mark. There's bidding wars there never mind gang wars.

It's not 1993 any more. Half the council houses are sold off, and nowadays with HAP and long lease rental and the like you can find yourself living beside absolute headers after dropping 400k in Littlepace, Clonee, Tyrellstown/ Hollystown etc.

Why, out of interest?

Despite the national hyperbole crime has generally never been lower in the modern era.

Fair enough. Personally I'd rather buy an affordable reasonably spacious ex council in D15 then what I see these lunatics doing, dropping 400 to 650 on a tiny cottage or a 2 bed 30s corpo because it's situated in D4 or Terenure.

Man charged...

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/12/30/man-22-charged-with-murder-of-tristan-sherry-25-in-blanchardstown-restaurant-on-christmas-eve/