Is Dublin really safe?

As did I. What injuries and harm did you incur during non match days?

The problem with the northside is threefold.

First there is the preponderance and increasing saturation of social housing and hostels in a relatively small catchment. This inevitably increases the number of people with either social issues or parents struggling with dysfunctional youth living in the area.

Second is the addiction centers. If you're going to pack these in the city center the result should be obvious for the area to any right thinking person. The anti social elements converge like flies on **** in the area and you get the result everyone in there sees everyday.

Third the public realm is terrible with lots of dereliction but this is an outcome of the first two because no one will properly invest in the properties when the place is turned in to a kip.

The annoying thing is this is all basic common sense and yet no change of course.

There is no strategy to fix these problems I'm aware of. They can be fixed but the authorities can't be arsed.

They do have a big problem though because it's the center of the capital city so when tourists and locals get assaulted or are victims of crime that will lead to more decline, less visitors, damaged reputation and less money.

Hi SharkMX the question wasn't aimed at you, however I've seen fights, a stabbing, harm and abuse in lots of places. The worst case of one human harming another in Cobh. Have you come to much harm or injury in Dublin?

100%, it's just not good enough. You need only go from O'Connell Street to Parnell Street and it instantly starts getting shabby and dilapidated in places. Why not identify these areas and bring in some incentives like fast-tracked planning or tax breaks to get them re-developed?

Absolute rubbish! I'm in Dublin 31 years, and as a woman let me tell you it is exactly the same for women now as it was then.

Any abuse I have ever received, or worse, has always been from Irish men.

Import more what, men?

Bit OTT reaction there 😉

Irish cities are following the American planning model but in medievil cities, so we get the worst of both.

I was in Dublin on Saturday for a gig, the amount of dodgy looking groups around everywhere was scary, the smells and rubbish were awful too

The gig was great

I always enjoyed trips to Dublin, Grafton Street which I would consider posh more expensive shopping district has changed, we held tight to our handbags

The smell of weed was rampant everywhere even in shops

Tablet Street 😬

Dublin city is a sh!tehole, end of. i wont be convinced otherwise. Its way way worse than late 80' & 90's.

they can do what they want with tablet street, spend 2 million for what - why not just employ more genuine cops on the beat with the money, instead of wasting money on poxy murals and coffee shops and plants or knows what, meh…

Again the government choose to avoid the actual issue and skirt around it with a dog & pony show. They are reducing traffic into the city more and more, may they die on this word, because its killing the city. Its barely recognisable now. Footfall is falling, so businesses will be dependent on footfall and public transport.

there are a lot of other small businesses not just hotels that depend on footfall, and US tourists in particular, they are feeling it, i know this for a fact. Not to mention ppl visiting from elsewhere.

Most european city's, cops will react, they have battons and will use them and proper order if needed. all these do gooders here say thats too harsh - wake up ffs. Wait until you're on the receiving end of being knifed, robbed or whatever, you might change your "the world is a lovely place" tune.

and as of today, two tourists assaulted last week, separate incidents, one had his face slashed.

last year, but still…..two tourists in a hotel lift were jumped and assaulted, grim reading ! in a hotel ffs ?!

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-pleads-guilty-to-frenzied-attack-on-american-tourists-in-hotel-lift-1637879.html

i ride motorbikes, you cant park anywhere ( even locked ) without it being stolen seat slashed or "keyed", scum going around with knives and bars now at free will, nobody to stop them. theyve even got the nerve to take ppl on when challenged. I had an incident, two of them sussing me out at lights in the city 2 months ago, 4pm, but i got off the bike i was on instead of being a lame duck, but i was ready and had my bases covered, as always when i go into the city or through it. after they tore off on a robbed motorbike with balaclavas on, i spotted the cops across the road at the other junction, in full view, cops didnt even react, lazy ***ks. But this has spread beyond the city center, thuggery and intimidation etc. free reign.

the media will report only a snippet of whats going on, they're under instruction to paint a rosy picture. riots had *** all to do with the way the city is now, thats just wanton thuggery and full blown lets just wreck the place attitude….…

more prisons, harsher sentences etc, only way. but no they wont, thats the right way, but not the irish way.

im aware they aint allowed to pursue if the priiks are not wearing a helmet, doesnt stop them being involved. Great help they are.

but you can be sure if i brought the the two toerags down as such, it would be my door they will knock on. but that wont stop me defending whats mine, regardless.

aside from the motorcycle theft, this is just a sideline in the very long list of misery these cause around the city.

I remember the Bacon reports were spurred the fact that the tradition nurse/garda combo could no longer afford to live in Dublin in the 90s. Anyway talk of affordability in the city were replaced boom mania and the acceptance of commuting as a solution.