Is Dublin really safe?

I'll make it easier, name an EU city that's cheaper for a young Irish person to live and study in.

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Even Denmark offers bursaries if you work part time. You'd actually get a degree and be in profit in many instances.

I head in to that area the odd Saturday along with thens of thousands of others. I usually hit the book shop, maybe Banba with the kids, the butchers for some cheap cuts you can't get elsewhere, Asian market for the weeks cooking, maybe M&S food hall for some goodies, Arnotts, etc… then off to one of the amazing Asian cheap restaurants in the area if I haven't gone to Brother Hubbards already. Capel street is just brilliant.

I was in last Saturday & the GAA fans bursting out of their jerseys, skipping all the really good eateries and heading straight to McDonalds and Supermacs before heading home straight after the match. You really don't know what you're missing.

I used to live and work north inner city, and match were the safest days just by shear numbers. The pandemic left no hiding spaces.

"Every other European city is just as bad".

I don't like this line of reasoning either. Why should we accept mediocrity?

Here’s some interesting up-to-date stats. According to this Kharkiv in Ukraine is safer than Dublin

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People in this thread are fcuking touched. Yes, Dublin has its skeevy areas, as do all cities, but some of the comparisons here are actually hilarious. Some of you seem to think you're talking about Juarez or similar.

I've lived in Dublin my entire life, bar a 7-year interval in a mid-sized commuter town. Probably saw more trouble there in that period than I've ever seen in Dublin. By pretty much every global standard going, Dublin - and every city in Ireland - is incredibly safe. Employ a modicum of cop-on and you're almost guaranteed to be grand. I (female, alone) walked from Abbey St to the top of O'Connell St at about midnight on Saturday night, felt perfectly safe. Commute by bus regularly around there. Yes, there are a lot of "characters" about but have I ever felt unsafe? No. My resting bitchface probably helps, but who knows?

We hear *so * much more about incidents in the (any) city centre these days simply because of social media and the 24-hour, almost real-time news cycle. Perception and optics are almost impossible to counter, but Dublin and Ireland are incredibly safe places by any objective measure.

They are not used as deflection, they are used as a way of showing how stupid a small minority of people living outside Dublin are. Most of Dublin is very safe. Some areas like Dublin 1 have big issues with minor crime but that doesn't make the whole County unsafe.

But it isn't foreigners who cause the vast majority of problems in the city centre and never has been, as much as you'd like that to be the case.

I had a close call with a Russian drone whilst walking down Talbot St last week so I'd well believe it.

Was walking down Henry street yesterday saw a woman with a microphone and a load of tourists (about 20 of them sounded American as i was walking past).

Two junkies were already hassling them for money as i was walking past. about 20 meters up the road there were another two pointing at them, scoping out their next victims i suppose. And another 50 meters up the road there was a full on fight with about 6 young lads kicking the crap out of each other.

I dont know if the tour group turned around after the first lot, but I hope they did.

This is a fair comment.

A lot of people's negative perceptions of Dublin stem from the OConnell St/North inner city area. Which is certainly one of the poorest areas of the entire city.

It is odd that this part of the city centre has been allowed to rot for so long and there is never any major plan to invest in mixed housing developments/regeneration projects.

That said, Dublin is a big place and there is simply no reason to go to that part of the city centre if you dont want to.

Contrast the north inner city with south coastal Dublin; and its a different world. The south coastal parts of the city are far and away the nicest areas in the country.

Dublin has the best and worst areas in Ireland. Its easy to avoid the worst areas & if you do, Dublin is a fantastic place to live.

I agree with you that more should be done about the problems in the north city centre.

My point was about people living in Dublin and how it is a different city entirely if you live in the nice areas.

I wouldnt live anywhere else in Ireland personally, but I never spend anytime in the north inner city, so my perception of Dublin is very positive.

Yes, its very bizzare that the govt have never cleaned up the north inner city; dispered the treatment centres, built new homes to purchase etc and replicated what works so well around Grafton St on the south side.

All cities have dodgy areas of course, but Dublin is the only place i can think of where they plonk a dodgy area right in the city centre.

Thankfully the southside of the city centre around Grafton St is much better and is generally very nice. Thats the only area I personally would take visitors, if they wanted to visit the city centre.

Dublin has everything you need outside of the city centre though, so no real reason to head over the canals. Plenty of great bars, restaurants, Shops, parks, theatres and cinemas etc away from the city centre and in parts of the city that are nice, safe places to be.

That said, it is a shame that the north city centre is not what it should be; considering Irelands wealth, which is massivley Dublin funded.